February, igso 



in no wise an important one. Willi the 

 development of the cranberry industry 

 in eastern slates, and the improvement 

 of the pack of those sections, the de- 

 mand for the native berries fell off rap- 

 idly and the industry died before it 

 really had much of a beginning. 



Today the growers of Clatsop County 

 are organized into a live association, 

 which they designate the Oregon Cran- 

 berry Growers' Association. This asso- 

 ciation has greatly helped in standard- 

 izing the pack of its members. It 

 markets its fruit through the medium 

 of the Pacific Cranberry Exchange, an 

 organization which also handles the 

 Washington product. Nearly every 

 berry grown on the coast finds its way 

 to tlie market through this agency. It 

 is a 100 per cent growers' affair. Henry 

 S. Gane, a Long Beach, Washington, 

 grower, is the sales manager for the ex- 

 change, and has handled its business in 

 a very successful manner. The returns 

 to the grower have been very satisfac- 

 tory during the entire period of the or- 

 ganization of the exchange. 



The Pacific Coast growers have paid 

 particular attention to the selection of 

 such varieties as will be of good mar- 

 ketable size and excellent keeping qual- 

 ity. One of the varieties which has been 

 irnported originally from eastern sources 

 has done so well that it has been ap- 

 propriated by the growers of Oregon 

 and is now known as the Oregon Jumbo. 

 This berry is of large size and is in 

 great demand by the trade. It is a 

 splendid keeper. Some of the fruit of 

 this variety being placed on the mar- 

 kets of Portland just preceeding last 

 Easter. With this variety the growers 

 feel satisfied that they can meet the de- 

 mands of the most particular trade. 



Unlike other small fruit cranberries 

 are not generally placed on the market 

 immediately after harvesting, but are 

 stored in warehouses until such times 

 as they are needed in the markets. Just 

 before being put on the markets they 

 are run through a mill which takes out 



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WTi-fhotise of the Oregon CiaiiliPirv tlroxM-.s' Association at Allendale, Oregon, located a'oi'g the 

 ma nZraTlroadM the extreme right can be seen the railroad that runs Irom the second floor 



of the warehouse to the bogs. 



the chaff, and removes the small and 

 soft berries. It is the usual practice to 

 run the fruit over sorting tables in ad- 

 dition to the milling process, in order 

 to remove such imperfect fruit as may 

 have escaped the mill. At Allendale, 

 where one of the largest cranberry 

 projects is located, and a modern ware- 

 house built, hand sorting was not re- 

 sorted to this year. The work of the 

 mill being satisfactory. The berries be- 

 ing marketed early in the season, there 

 was but little shrinkage and the extra 

 cost of hand sorting was saved to the 

 growers. In the preceding season, 

 1918, the last run of berries was made 

 on December 17lh. During the after- 

 noon of this day two women hand sort- 

 ers packed 00 boxes of one-third barrel 

 each. The cost of this sorting being 



but 2%c per box. A most gratifying 

 record. The advantage of a good keep- 

 ing variety to the grower can readily 

 be seen. It not only saves him from 

 running up excessive packing house 

 costs, but the saving in fruit alone is 

 in itself a very considerable item. The 

 fruit which is graded out by the ma- 

 chine or by the hand pickers costs just 

 as much to harvest as that which goes 

 in the boxes to the trade. 



While there is a salvage obtainable 

 from soft fruit, which can be used for 

 juice making, still it is much more sat- 

 isfactory to the grower to have the fruit 

 hold out sound until actually ready to 

 be put on the market. A further ad- 

 vantage in having fruit of this variety 

 is in the fact that the fruit is uniformly 

 large, and the percentage of undersized, 

 or so-called pie berries is negligible. 



Combined Bordeaux Oil Emulsion Spray 



By Dr. C. A. Macrum 



Cranberries in the field ready to be taken to 



the warehouse. The large box shows the style 



of crate used for storage and the small one 



the picking bo.\. 



THIS emulsion spray was evolved by 

 Dr. C. A. Macrum, commissioner for 

 the Fourth District of the Oregon State 

 Board of Horticulture. 



If applied as the buds are opening, 

 before the blossoms appear, will control 

 scab, San Jose scale, aphis, leaf roller, 

 red spider, curl leaf of the peach and 

 the copper will be present to prevent 

 the ravage of anthracnose spore when 

 the rains come in the fall of the year, 

 and control the disease in prunes due 

 to the cylindros porum. 



The method of preparation is as fol- 

 lows: Prepare the copper sulphate so- 

 lution in the usual proportions of one 

 pound to the gallon of water, dissolve 

 one and one-half pounds of common 

 glue in one and one-half gallons of wa- 

 ter, slack twelve pounds of lime, or stir 

 twelve pounds of hydrated lime in wa- 

 ter at time of using. Fill a 200 gallon 

 spray tank three-fourths full of water. 

 Pour twenty-four gallons of bluestone 

 solution into the tank, start the agitator 



and add the lime milk slowly until a 

 neutral solution is had. Test with lit- 

 niiK paper to tell when the solution is 

 neutral. Add the one and one-half gal- 

 lons of glue solution. Measure out 

 twelve gallons of the General Chemical 

 Company's No. 1 oil emulsion, or a cor- 

 responding oil emulsion, add a little 

 water and stir until emulsion is started 

 as shown by the mixture turning milky. 

 Pour into the spray tank and add water 

 to make 200 gallons. The agitator must 

 be kept running during the whole pro- 

 cedure. The spray should be applied 

 as soon as prepared. 



The above are the proportions for a 

 200 gallon tank. In making stock solu- 

 tions for a day's spraying the quantities 

 given can be multiplied by the number 

 of tanks required. 



The strength of the Bordeaux can be 

 varied as deemed necessary. The 

 amount of copper sulphate in the above 

 formula is the same as the ordinary 



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