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Show NOT EVERY ONE CAN LIVE IN CALIFORNIA But you can bring the finest California Cali-fornia produces direct to your door with ? two cent stamp. All this is due to the progessivc spirit of the California Fruit Products Co., of Col-'on, Col-'on, California, who, afcr a careful investigation convinced themselves ihat there are thousands of families in the rural districts of the United States who use little or no California fruit because they cahhot secure it readily or what they can buy is high priced often unclean and last year's crop. Although almost everything else imaginable has been sold direct, no one had ever thought of, or had the requisite business energy and push, to offer the people an opportunity of buying California products direct and .at a nominal cost delivered free. The California- Fruit Products Co. made their initial test of selling direct last season and met with phenomenal success; suc-cess; in fact, they shipped their dried fruit, which was the only thing they offered, to every State in the Union, also Mexico. This fruit was packed in so lb. boxes, five kinds in a box. This season they put up their dried fruit in 2 lb. cartons, 25 cartons or 50 lbs. to the case, assorted, so as to make it more convenient for a few families to club together. They have also added canned' apricots, pcachc3, pears, plums; two dozen cans to the case, assorted. Pure extracted honey made from the blossom of the orange and sage, the finest flavor in the world; also soft shelled walnuts and almonds. They pay the freight. Few realize the immensity of the fruit industry and other products of the soil of California, and1 many will be surprised to learn that last season's products amounted to 5,560,000 cases or 133,440,000 cans of fruit, valued At ten' million dollars; raisins 140,000,000 pounds; dried fruits 254,375,000 lbs.; prune, , 180,000,000 pounds; oranges, 30,000 cars, $20,000,000; olives, 750,000 gals., $425,000; olive oil, 200,000 gals., $500,000; walnuts, 14,000,000 pounds, $1,750,000; celery, 3000 oars; cabbage, 500 cars; cauliflower, 350 cars; beet sugar, 163800,000 pounds; butter, 5,-000,000 5,-000,000 lbs.; grain yield, $50,000,000. The bulk of the mustard is raised m California. In Santa Barbara County 3000 acres are devoted to it. The output of canned fruits of Col-ton, Col-ton, California, equals about 2,000,000 cans for this season, with a large quantity of dried fruit, honey and nuts. |