| Summary: | A Bountiful Pack. A Bountiful Pack THOSE who look for the cheerful things will be interested in the report of the salmon canners. The American pack in 1934, now being marketed, not only was one of the largest in the history of the industry but the quality of the fish and the canning skill were excellent. In the grape-growing industry it sometimes happens that favorable sunshine and growing conditions produce a vintage crop. Not always, however, does abundance go hand in hand with quality. Canning skill can be controlled by man. Annual conferences or clinics are held to improve workmanship and give to the industry the benefits of improvements. Scientists have attempted to work out the life history of the salmon but they have been successful only in a moderate degree. Although it is known that pink salmon come back to the streams where they were hatched after an absence of two years and that the red salmon return after four or five years, nobody knows where or how they spend the intervening time. It is still a mystery to the salmon packers. Occasionally it happens that the two-year cycle coincides with the four or five-year period. When this occurs, we have seasons of abundance. That is apparently the explanation of the heavy pack of 1934. The statistical record of last year is interesting. The total for the season was 8,361,990 cases or more than four hundred million pounds. It exceeded the pack of 1933 by more than two million cases and in all probability was greater than the catch will be this year. Bumper crops are not produced every year.
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