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BETTER FRUIT 



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Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



ORF.GON. 

 The Ashland section has had the most pros- 

 perous year in fruit In its history according 

 to A. C. Briggs, manager of the Ashland Fruit 

 and Produce association, a cooperative market- 

 ing concern. The association did a business 

 of 8150,000 during the past year and recently 

 has bought a property adjoining the present 

 ■warehouse in order to extend its operations. 

 The new directors recently elected are J. H. 

 Dill, .V. S. .\. Peters, J. M. Wagner, J. H. San- 

 der and S. J. Evans. 



One hundred and twelve cars of apples sold 

 by the Umpqua Fruit Union netted the growers 

 of that district an average price of .51.65 per 

 box. the selling committee of the union recently 

 reported. 



High grade Oregon apples were recently sell- 

 ing for more in Portland than they were in 

 San Francisco, according to a statement made 

 by Walter R. Woolpert, manager for a large 

 apple handling concern in the northwest, who 

 says that Spitzenburgs were selling in Frisco 

 for 13.50 per box when they were bringing 

 $4.50 in Portland. 



At the request of Senator McNary, D. F. 

 Fisher, government plant pathologist at We- 

 natchee, it is reported will be sent to the Will- 

 amette valley. Oregon, to investigate damage 

 reported in "that section to walnut and prune 

 trees. Senator McNary has an extensive walnut 

 orchard in that district. 



The Ideal Orading Machine Co., with head- 

 quarters at Hood River, is busy completing 

 15 apple graders which are to be shipped to 

 New Zealand, Tasmania, and .\ustralia. It is 

 expected to ship the graders in time to reach 

 their destinations for the coming apple har- 

 vesting seasons in these foreign countries, 

 which comes on in April and May. 



The strawberry acreage in the Hood River 

 district will be largely increased this spring. 

 Ten logged-off tracts that were recently pur- 

 chased there from the Oregon Lumber com- 

 pany will be set to pears, with berries be- 

 tween the trees. On the west side of the val- 

 ley, F. B. Mercer will set out 200,000 straw- 

 berry plants of the Clark seedling variety. 



Clatsop county is going in for strawberries 

 on an extensive scale this year for that sec- 

 tion. Over 50,000 plants have been set and 

 many more have been ordered for planting. 



Loganberry patches in the Eugene district 

 it is now reported were not injured as badly 

 as was first thought and this is said to apply 

 also to the other sections of the Willamette 

 valley. Recent investigations show that the 

 vines are developing buds under the influence 

 of warmer weather. 



At the annual meeting of the Oregon Grow- 

 ers' Cooperative association, which was re- 

 cently held, the following were chosen as offi- 

 cers of the association: President, W. E, St. 

 Johns of Sutherlin; vice-president, H. M. Har- 

 low, Eugene; secretary-treasurer, Seymour 

 Jones, Salem. St. Johns, Harlow and Jones, 

 together with E. W. Matthews of Amity and 

 B. W. Johnson of Monroe, constitute the exe- 

 cutive committee of the association. M. O. 

 Evans, formerly w ith Swift & Co., was selected 

 as field manager of the association in place of 

 Earl Pearcy, who resigned to become manager 

 of a large orchard property in the Willamette 

 valley. Isaac D. Hunt, who had been presi- 

 dent of the temporary organization declined 

 the office of president for the coming year on 

 account of his health which will necessitate 

 his being out of the state considerably during 

 the coming year. Plans were discussed at the 



meeting for the erection of six large packing 

 plants to be located at various heavy fruit 

 producing points in western and southern 

 Oregon. 



County Agricultural Agent Fluharty of Wasco 

 county, reports serious injury to peach, apri- 

 cot and cherry trees in that district from the 

 freeze, although the heavy snows proved a 

 great saving to many trees. 



Returns from the apple crop in the Hood 

 River valley for 1919 are expected to reach 

 .^1,500,000 and pear returns will reach $175,000. 

 Cull apples were sold to the value of $225,000 

 although 70 per cent of the crop is reported to 

 have graded out extra fancy. It is estimated 

 that §500,000 was paid out for labor in har- 

 vesting and packing the Hood River apple 

 crop. The Hood River Apple Growers' asso- 

 ciation handled 1,500,000 boxes of the total 

 crop. 



The Earl Fruit company, which bought the 

 box factory of the Klamath Manufacturing 

 company some time ago, for which it paid 

 $700,000, has assumed charge of the plant. The 

 output of the factory will be used by the com- 

 pany to supply its various packing plants 

 throughout the northwest with fruit boxes. 



Although it is estimated that there are now 

 800 power sprayers in the Hood River valley, 

 growers in that district are reported to be 

 making extensive purchases of this kind of 

 orchard apparatus for the coming year. The 

 demand there for automobiles and tractors is 

 also said to be heavy. 



The Kings Products company, which was 

 the pioneer institution in establishing dehy- 

 ration of fruit and vegetables in the north- 

 west, and has plants at The Dalles and Salem, 

 has shipped an immense tonnage of their prod- 

 ucts for eastern consumption during the past 

 two months. The wholesale trade is reported 

 as being favorable to handling these products 

 owing to the great saving in freight charges 

 over canned goods. 



The Oregon Growers' Cooperative associa- 

 tion, which controls 16,000 acres of fruit in 

 Oregon, has opened a national campaign for 

 a name. K hundred dollars is offered for the 

 first prize, and fifty dollars for the second 

 prize, for the best suggestion for a brand 

 name. The Oregon Growers' Cooperative as- 

 sociation will sell all kinds of fruits, such as 

 apples, prunes, pears, cherries, berries, wal- 

 nuts, and dried and canned fruits. The name 

 must be one which can be applied to all. 

 Since the association is a statewide organiza- 

 tion, the name must not be localized, but 

 must be appropriate to the entire state. The 

 contest will clost April 1. All names should 

 be sent in to C. I. Lewis, organization mana- 

 ger. Masonic Building, Salem, Oregon. A short, 

 catchy name is preferable to a long one. Such 

 names as Sunkist, used by the orange growers 

 of California, Sunsweet, used by the prune 

 growers, and Skookum, used by the apple 

 growers of the northwest, are good. Later an 

 additional prize will be offered for the best 

 design to go with the name. The contest is 

 open to all, regardless of age, sex, or locality. 



WASHINGTON. 

 What is claimed to be the first full ship 

 load of apples ever shipped from the Pacific 

 coast to an Atlantic port was scheduled to 

 leave Seattle about the middle of January. 

 Fifty cars of the cargo were secured in the 

 Wenatchee district, 150 cars from the North- 

 western Fruit Exchange, and the rest from 

 other shippers, and is being sent through the 

 Panama canal. It is stated that if the experi- 

 ment is a success that the United States Ship- 



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 ings of fruit steamers from the Pacific coast 

 next year, sufTicient to handle from 1,000 to 

 2,000 cars of apples. The initiatory work in 

 starting this movement was taken up by Ar- 

 thur M. Geary of Portland, at the request of 

 Knglish apple importing iirms. In order to 

 get cooperation Mr, Geary recently spent a 

 month in the east conferring with shipping 

 board oflicials and others who could aid in 

 the matter. It will cost 70 cents per box to 

 land the fruit at New York or about the same 

 as the railroad charge. 



At a recent meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Washington Growers' Packing corpora- 

 tion, a cooperative organization of fruit grow- 

 ers organized along the lines of the Oregon 

 Growers' association, L. F. Russell was elected 

 president; Fred Brooker vice-president and 

 Henry Crass, secretary. M. J. Newhouse, who 

 was formerly county agent of Clarke county, 

 and a member of the Washington State Col- 

 lege staff has been selected as business mana- 

 ger. It is expected that the new organization 

 will handle a large share of the fruit crop of 

 Clarke county and nearby territory this year. 



E. S. Robertson, horticulturist of the exten- 

 sion service of the Washington Stale College, 



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