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■who recently made an investigation of the 

 damage done by the cold weather in the Yaki- 

 ma valley, is quoted as saying that peach 

 buds were killed in roost of the orchards in 

 the valley, many of the trees probably in- 

 jured and some of them killed. The apricot 

 crop he believes will be cut short, but says 

 that the trees were less injured than peaches. 

 Cherry trees give evidence, according to his in- 

 vestigations of having been severely hit while 



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pears are only slightly injured. Prunes are 

 said to have been hurt but little and apple 

 trees not much injured except in orchards 

 where the trees lacked vigor due to poor soil 

 or other causes. 



C. L. Robinson, district horticultural in- 

 spector in the Yakima district, recently issued 

 a warning to growers there not to pull up 

 peach trees that they thought had been killed 

 by the freeze. Mr. Robinson says that it will 



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not be possible to tell the extent of the Injtiry 

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\ report from Wenatchee is to the effect 

 that claims amounting to $600,000 to $1,000,000 

 for 2,000 to 3,000 carloads of apples said to 

 have been frozen in transit have been present- 

 ed to the railroad administration from that 

 district alone. The opinion prevails at Wenat- 

 chee that these claims will have to be paid if 

 the fruit was shipped under heat in refrigera- 

 tor cars, but that no damages can be collected 

 for fruit shipped in ordinary box cars. 



The aggregate yield of farm and orchard 

 products of the Sunnyside project for 1919, 

 amounted to .n2,678,217, according to the an- 

 nual report by J. G. Heinz, project manager. 

 In the preceding vear the crop return was but 

 $7,218,392. The project totals 90,000 acres. 

 Prunes gave an average net return of $613 an 

 acre. The second highest acreage yield is 

 hops, with 5528 per acre. For the first time 

 in the history of the project alfalfa was dis 

 placed as the most valuable crop grown. In- 

 creased production and high prices placed 

 apples in the lead with a total value of $4,- 

 771,750 for 59,646 tons produced. Hay was 

 second with a value of $3,955,050. 



At the annual meeting of the Peshastin 

 Fruit Growers' association it was decided to 

 build a new cold storage warehouse at Peshas- 

 tin with a capacity of 300,000 boxes of apples. 

 A hotel and boarding house will also be built 

 to take care of 200 persons whom the associa- 

 tion employs efich year. The improvements 

 will cost $100,000. 



The lumber required to make boxes for 

 Washington's 1919 apple crop was sufficient 

 to build 9,660 average country homes, each 

 housing a family of Ave, according to esti- 

 mates given by the U. S. Reclamation Service 

 in the January issue of the Reclamation Rec- 

 ord. The basis for the computation is that 

 five board feet of lumber is required for an 

 average apple box. The reclamation service 

 estimates that the average country home, large 

 enough for a family of five requires 10,000 

 board feet of liunber. The Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 gives the commercial 1919 apple crop of Wash- 

 ington as 19,320,000 boxes. 



IDAHO. 

 Two hundred delegates attended the conven- 

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 recently held at Payette, which proved to be 

 one of the most interesting and valuable meet- 

 ings ever held by the organization. The pro- 

 gram included speakers of note in the fruit 

 growing industry in the northwest as well as 

 from the Idaho State University. The new 

 officers of the society are: President, D. L. In- 

 gard of Payette; vice-president, J. P. Gray of 

 Nampa; treasurer, A. E. Gipson of Caldwell; 

 secretary, I. Lee Truax of Meridian; directors, 

 first district. Professor C. C. Vincent, Moscow; 

 second district, Guy Graham, Fruitland; third 

 district, L. G. Dunn, Bliss; fourth district, J. 

 A. Waters, Twin Falls. Resolutions were 

 adopted bv the association commending the 

 action of the state department of agriculture 

 in carrying on such an extensive orchard in- 

 spection program. 



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