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There is bin money iu inakiny cider from cull fruit, windfalls 

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Pacific Coast Representativea 



THE BERGER & CARTER CO. 



17th and Mississippi Sts., San Francisco, Cat. 

 Pacific Building. Seattle, Wash. 



October 



The (ifowers' Lciigiie of Wunatchee 

 has adopted a resolution which will 

 require every packer to be registered. 

 To register a packer must call at the 

 ollice of the I>eague and show refer- 

 ences as to his ability and deposit a 

 registration fee of Jfl.dO. Through this 

 system the League believes it will be 

 able to keep a line on poor packers 

 and improve the Wenatchee apple pack 

 very materially. Selling agencies and 

 shippers operating in the Wenatchee 

 district have promised their support to 

 this system, which assures it of being a 

 success. 



The bibby, McNeil Cannery at The 

 Dalles, Oregon, has done an extensive 

 business this year, hi addition to put- 

 ting up an immense (piantity of cher- 

 ries from The Dalles, Hood River, Yaki- 

 ma and surrounding territory, they 

 have put up a large amount of pears, 

 buying 20t) carloads from the Yakima 

 district alone. 



The Hood River Co-operative Cream- 

 ery. — The fruitgrowers of Hood Piver 

 several months ago organized and have 

 been operating successfully a co- 

 operative creamery which has proven 

 very profitable to the fruitgrowers and 

 a very satisfactory side line in connec- 

 tion with growing fruit. 



Southern Oregon apple crop and 

 pear crop are reported very light this 

 year on account of frosts and exceed- 

 ingly dr\ weather. It is stated by some 

 who have visited this district that the 

 shipments in pears anil apples will 

 probably be around 3(10 carloads. 



J. D. Adams, member of the Growers' 

 League of Wenatchee, attended the bi- 

 ternational Ajsple Shippers' convention 

 at Chicago and is reported as feeling 

 optimistic about the prosjject of good 

 prices on apples in the year 1915. 



11 is reported that Fred Olds of the 

 Wenatchee district has contracted his 

 apjjle crop, consisting princijjally of 

 King Davids and .lonathans, damaged 

 considerably by hail, at -SLOI) per box. 



G. W. Coburn of Wenatchee Fruit 

 Growers' Association and J. F. Scgrue 

 of the Cashmere Union attended the 

 International Apple Shii)i)ers' Conven- 

 tion in Chicago in August. 



The New York Central Railway 

 oflicials report in Iflll they shipped 

 out of Western New York 2(),(i3!) cars 

 of apples. 



Sunmer, Washington, cannery i)ro- 

 cessed a ipiantity of cherries this year 

 for Ihe first time on the maraschino 

 method. 



The ten-ycar-avcrage apple crop, ac- 

 cording to the I'nitcd Slates govern- 

 ment report is 17(),(I0I1,(III0 bushels per 

 vear. 



The (^zark i)eaeh cro]) is reported to 

 have amoimted to one-half million dol- 

 lars this season. 



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