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Fruit Industry Paragraphed 



The New Yoi'k coiniiiissioncTs will 

 enforce the new federal barrel law 

 during 1916 very vigorously. A law is 

 created because it is believed to be 

 good. This is not always true, but 

 there is no question but what tlie 

 apple-barrel law is a spleniliil law for 

 the fruitgrower. If it is enforced in 

 the State of New York and other states 

 it will undoubtedly prevent a lot of cull 

 apples from going on the market, on 

 which the grower usually loses money; 

 and more important than this, these 

 cull apples, which have been marketed 

 for many years in the past, spoil the 

 market by filling it up with unattractive 

 and uninviting fruit, repelling the 

 buyer and unnecessarily overcrowding 

 the market with unsalable stuff. We 

 say to the New York commissioners: 

 "Enforce your laws, and when you 

 do it you will be helping the fruit 

 industry." 



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Mr. Horace \\. Day, of Sgobel & Day, 

 after making a tour of California and 

 the Northwest, reports in an interview 

 given out by the press, published in 

 various newspapers, that the California 

 Bartlett pear crop will not exceed (i(i 

 per cent of last year, and that the Bed- 

 ford pear crop sutfcred severely from 

 frost also. From information obtained, 

 Mr. Day says he understands that 

 Hood River did not sulfer from the 

 frost. Mr. Day gives the very interest- 

 ing statement that deciduous fruits, in- 

 cluding pears, will bring much more 



money tliis season than for some years 

 past. Mr. Day, when interviewed in 

 May, stated that the condition of the 

 apple crop was problematical, for the 

 reason that at time he was unable to 

 (k-termine definitely the amount of 

 damage done to the crops in the North- 

 west. He believes, however, that prices 

 will depend upon two factors largely, — 

 the amount of tonnage and the methods 

 of marketing. 



The Columbia Highway between the 

 City of Portland and The Dalles is now 

 open. The roads from The Dalles 

 going east are in good condition for 

 country roads, so that Easterners who 

 want to visit the great Northwest will 

 find it pretty satisfactory going all the 

 way across the continent. The road 

 from Portland to California is also in 

 number one condition. Toui-ists who 

 have traveled all over the world say 

 there is no roadwa>- anywhere in the 

 world that has scenery anywhere 

 approaching either in grandeur or mag- 

 nificence that along the Columbia River 

 between the Citv of Portland and Hood 

 River. 



The new fruit standardizing law for 

 tlie State of California will be operative 

 and effective for the year IfllG. This 

 law has been printed in several lan- 

 guages, so that all foreigners engaged 

 in the fruit business in California will 

 be able to read it. It is the intention to 

 carry on a very vigorous enforcement 

 of the law. 



Supplies for tlie fruitgrowers will 

 come high this year. Boxes cost more. 

 Paper costs more. Spray costs more. 

 In fact about everything that goes into 

 tlie production of a box of apples both 

 in growing and harvesting costs the 

 fruitgrower more money this year. 

 Tlie trade will please take the hint. We 

 need the money. We must live. Every- 

 thing we have to buy, to eat or wear 

 costs more, therefore the fruitgrower 

 sliould get more money for his fruit 

 tills \ear, and with the business pros- 

 perity existing at tlie present time, and 

 the severe loss occurring in many fruit 

 section, reducing the C|uantity, there is 

 every reason why the fruitgrower 

 should be able to secure better prices. 

 Co-operation at this end of the line is 

 all right. The associations are doing 

 good work, but the fruitgrower wants 

 a little c()-o|)eration from the fruit 

 dealer, and more particularly from the 



fruit retailer. 



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On account of weather conditions 

 and frost the fruit crop of Sacramento 

 Valley has been materially reduced. 

 Among the varieties of fruits suffering 

 severely are apricots, peaches, pears, 

 prunes and grapes. While it is difTicult 

 to determine definitely the loss from 

 various sources it may be stated that 

 the loss will be somewhere near 50 

 per cent. 



California reports a very heavy dam- 

 age from frost and loss on grapes, 

 amounting to $.oOO,(IOO. In the Sacra- 

 mento Valley the loss is estimated at 

 80 per cent; Marysville, 30 to 60 per 

 cent; Florin district, 30 per cent; Lodi, 

 30 per cent ; in Yolo, very little. 

 Marysville section suffered from severe 

 frost, damaging the tomato and potato 

 crops very extensively, the damage cov- 

 ering Yuba, Sutter and Butte Counties. 



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