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standard of grading used by any great 

 number of growers over the state. 



Necessity will in time force the wal- 

 nut growers to organize. It has been 

 the history of co-operative organization 

 that growers have refused to organize 

 until necessity, in the form of several 

 years of disastrous returns, has forced 

 the individuals to join hands in the 

 formation of an efTicient sales organiza- 

 tion. Indications are now that the wal- 

 nut growers of Oregon will enter the 

 big co-operative fruit growers' associa- 

 tion that is being organized and secure 

 the proper marketing facilities for their 

 rapidly-growing output. 



Northwest Fruit Notes from 

 Here and There 



Yakima Valley Fruit Growers who have 

 made a success of dehydrating apples are now 

 experimenting in drying pears. They have 

 commissioned Ira D. Cardiff of the Washington 

 Evaporated Fruit Company to go to California 

 and investigate the most improved methods of 

 drying pears. 



The Hood River Canning Company announces 

 that it will make a departure from the usual 

 custom in handling cherries of the Royal Ann 

 variety. Tliis year a large part of the cherries 

 to be handled by this company will be packed 

 in barrels. Members of the company say that 

 they are satisfied cherries marketed in this 

 way will find a ready demand. 



The Wittenberg-King Company of Portland, 

 which has made a marked success in dehy- 

 drating fruits and vegetables, has recently in- 

 vaded the Warren, Oregon, district and con- 

 tracted for 100 acres of strawberries for four 

 years. Fruit growers in this section are re- 

 ported to be well pleased with the deal, as it 

 secures for them a stable price for several 

 years. 



High prices for fruits are now reported in 

 the Yakima Valley. The going price for cher- 

 ries during the past month was raised by 

 degrees to 13 cents a pound and a large num- 

 ber of sales in big quantities were made at 12 

 cents. One grower reported the sale of his 

 Ring cherries at 16 cents. It is said that $2 

 per box has been offered in the Yakima dis- 

 trict for .Jonathans, orchard pack. Prices of 

 peaches will run up to 80 cents per box, while 

 pears are being bought at $50 per ton, accord- 

 ing to these reports. 



Lane County, Oregon, owners of Evergreen 

 blackberries until recently had refused to con- 

 tract their crops. Last year was the first time 

 that a crop in that district was generally har- 

 vested. More than ?72,000 was realized from 

 the fruit which had been allowed to grow 

 "wild. In 1918 the crop was harvested by Uni- 

 versity of Oregon students and high school 

 girls, who picked over 900,000 pounds of these 

 berries, which were canned. 



Under the direction of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, a survey of farm and orchard 

 conditions is now being made in .Tackson 

 County, Oregon. The survey is being made by 

 Miss Anne McCormick, who states that she is 

 meeting with cordial co-operation from the 

 rural residents of the community. 



A complete soil survey is now being made in 

 Josephine County, Oregon, by Mr. Kocker of 

 Washington, D. C, and E. F. Torgeson of the 

 Oregon Agricultural College. While the work 

 is said to be progressing as rapidly as possible 

 it will take three months more to complete the 

 task. When finished, the different soils of the 

 county will be classified in the individual 

 sections. 



Reports from Grants Pass, Oregon, are to the 

 effect that that district has gone safely through 

 the frost period and that the grape crop, which 

 was at first thought to be damaged, promises 

 to be the largest in several years. In fact, a 

 bumper crop of fruit of all kinds is expected 

 in the Grants Pass district. 



Believing that the climate and soil of the 

 Marshfleld and Astoria districts of Oregon are 

 well adapted to the growing of fruit, particu- 

 larly the growing of berries, the Chambers of 

 Commerce in these places have made arrange- 

 ments with prospective growers to market their 

 crops and they are planting a large acreage to 



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