Report of W. K. Newell. 19 



As was to be expected, owing to financial conditions, prices have 

 not rnled as high as during last season, though at all times fairly 

 remunerative and at many times very good indeed. For a time it 

 seemed as though apple prices must be low, owing to an apparent 

 determination on the part of the Eastern buyer not to buy but to 

 attempt to force consignments. But one Xew York dealer, more 

 enterprising than the rest, broke in and bought heavily, since which 

 others have followed suit and many large sales have been made at 

 good prices. No difficulty is anticipated now in marketing the entire 

 crop to good advantage. Growers should take great care, however, 

 to pack nothing but good fruit; send the culls to the cider mill or 

 the pig trough. Too many second grade peaches were put on the 

 market this season. 



Cherries were discouragingly low in price owing to the hesitancy 

 of the cannerymen to buy as freely as usual. The Lane County Fruit 

 Growers' Union, with commendable business sagacity, hired the local 

 canneryman to put up their crop for them. Later they were able to 

 sell at a price which leaves them a fair profit on what otherwise 

 would have been certain loss. Quite large quantities of cherries were 

 dried also. Whenever prices are unsatisfactory for the fresh fruit 

 they can be handled in this way and some profit made on the crop. 

 There is no reason for cherry growers to become discouraged. 



An interesting feature of a trip to the Grande Honde Vallev was 

 to find at Cove, on August 31, cherries still l>eing picked for 

 shipment fresh and for drying, and the next day at La Grande, 

 twenty miles across the valley, picking second-crop Clarke strawberries 

 beautifully ripened and in sufficient quantity to warrant picking for 

 market. 



Each year shows an improvement in spraying methods and better 

 results obtained. In the leading apple and pear growing districts 

 the codling moth is becoming so reduced in number that it seems 

 possible it may in time be exterminated. It is already safe to reduce 

 somewhat the number of sprayings in these localities. 



Apple tree anthracnose still continues to be a serious disease and 

 must be fought diligently by spraving thoroughly each year as soon 

 as possible after the crop is gathered, with a strong bordeaux mixture. 

 In an orchard treated by Professor Cordley, where this disease was 

 ver}'' bad three years ago, careful search this fall fails to show any 

 new disease spots whatever. 



The lime-sulphur spray was used quite extensively last spring for 

 treatment of scab. Owing to the very peculiar weather conditions 

 which rendered the foliage very tender at that time, and also to 

 the fact that it is difficult to test exactly the strength of the diluted 

 spray, some injury was done to the foliage by the earlv sprays. But 

 in very fewMnstances was there any real damage done, and certainly 

 much good was accomplished in controlling the scab. Our new spray 

 bulletin will contain directions for more carefully testing this spray, 

 and its use can he continued with good results. 



