BOARD OF HORTICULTURE 95 



CENTRALIZED PACKING 



Centralized packins is hound to come. It is interesting to note that this 

 year the Oregon Growers Cooiwrative Association lias paclied over 95 per cent 

 of its fruit in centralized packing plants. This generally means clieaper packing, 

 more careful supervision, better inspection, and on the whole, hetter results. 

 The more we centralize the grading and packing of our fruit, the better it will 

 be for the good name of the State. 



COLD STORAGE 



When we look over the acreage of fruit in sight for the next ten years, and 

 realize the tonnage which this acreage is to prwluce, and at the same time find 

 there is one small cold storage plant at Ashland, two of limited capacity at Med- 

 ford, and a forty car cold storage plant at Eugene, it is enough to make us 

 shudder. The State of Oregon must have within the next five years a string of 

 cold storage plants which can handle our fruits to advantage; otherwise the loss 

 is going to be terrific. By cold storage. berries, cherries and Bartlett pears can 

 be held much longer than otherwise would be true and hundreds of cars of our 

 apples could be held until the market is right to receive them. 



CANNERY FACILITIES 



Ten years ago we were having meetings to see how we could get horticultural 

 products plants and especially canneries in our state. We have seen fifty estab- 

 lishments come to Oregon, and the problem has been in the past year or two to 

 give these plants sufficient tonnage. We have reached, however, the third stage 

 of development. namely, the tonnage within a year or two is going to be greater 

 than the present facilities and we must encourage the building of more canneries 

 and other horticultural products plants in the State. 



THE CHERRY 



One of the outstanding features of cherry production this past year has been 

 the marvelous crops produced in orchards which were properly pollinated. No 

 longer can any one get up in a meeting and claim there is nothing in pollination. 

 When one Visits such orchards as M. H. Harlow's at Eugene, and John Thramer's, 

 and sees the wonderful yields which these people secui*ed, and realizes it is due 

 very largely to good pollination, there is no longer any doubt on the subject. 

 Cherry orchards which do not have proper pollenizers in them, should be budded 

 and grafted over this winter, and a sufficient amount of pollenizers put in. In 

 planting new orchards, one-third or one-fourth of the trees could be devoted to 

 pollenizers. The Long Stemmed Waterhouse seems to be in a class by itself for 

 such purposes, especially for the Royal Anne. The Waterhouse is Itself a splendid 

 cherry, being accepted by the canneries. and while at a lower price at times than 

 that paid for Royal Annes, still it is more productive. It is Interesting to note, 

 also, that the cherry growers who have made the money this year are the fellows 

 who tili their orchards, who prune their trees, and who occasionally spray. 



That old neglected orchard is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. and that 

 cherry trees respond to tillage and pruning in the same way as is true of an 

 apple or a pear tree. We are lecoming more and more aware, also, that it Is 

 essential to choose the' best of soll for cherries. as it is only on good soils, or soüs 

 in which the fertility is carefully studied. that one can expect the best results 

 in cherry production. The cherry orchards of the future are going to be on 

 mazzard roots ; they are more resistant to gummosis, and seemingly are much 

 more resistant to drouth conditions than any other stock which we have used. 



