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Show I 111 IT AM) VEGETABLE CANNING INDL'STRV. The Pacific coast and irrigated land states are the natural home 'of the fruit and vegetable and sea food canning industry. These industries now represent investments in-vestments of millions and are third in the number of people employed in producing supplies. Probably ten thousand acres of additional ad-ditional fruit and vegetable tracts will be planted in these states this year for the canneries. This is a very conservative estimate esti-mate but it means a large increase in production and the only limit is the supply of labor to harvest. Canneries and the production of raw material to supply them involves the question of distribution of seasonable sea-sonable labor. These industries thrive best in and near good sized towns and smaller cities, where family labor is available in large numbers. There is no such thing possible for a number of years as an oversupply of canned fruits and vegetables, at present prices. |