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Show Pleasant Grove News What Local Fruit Growers Need From a Review Subscriber lu Virginia Vir-ginia City, Montana, comes the suggestion sug-gestion thut tho following might bu turned to advantage In this fruit region. re-gion. "Hitter Root vulley men ure experimenting experi-menting with u vacum fruit drying machine. They plan to dry such portion por-tion of thu products of their orchards as cannot bo marketed us fancy grades. The machine removes tho water from the fruit by vacum pressure. pres-sure. Tho cores aro used for elder vlucgur uud thus there is no wn 0 of uny purt of tho fruit. It takes from six to soveu pounds of apples when fresh to make ono poudu of dried. Three pounds of prunes and three and four of cherries, six or eight of strawberries straw-berries make one pound of dried." These new methods should be Investigated In-vestigated by our fruit growers uho llnd themselves in the position of producing pro-ducing the very best fruit In tho United States and yet are unable to market at an ndvantnge because their fresh fruits when shipped aro Ishablu nnd dealers, knowing this weakness, deliberately set about '.o forco tho shippers to sacrifice their good.s. The Review has seen the necessity of the fruit growers developing the publicity end of their buslnosu uud hns thought somewhat of open ig a regular department In this pnpor Tor tho benefit of tho orchnrdlst, through tho medium of which new methods of preserving fruits nnd new sys'ems of marketing might be considered and a gonorul exchange of views takt place. Tho fruit men nro In need of unity or notion and the educational benefits of a publicity campaign, either through the medium of a paper of their own or a column devoted to their Interests In u paper like the Review. |