August, ipip 



BETTER FRUIT 



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Advices recently received from the Atlan- 

 tic Conference Lines are that apple freight 

 rates on steamers sailing from New York, 

 Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore to Liver- 

 pool, London, Hull, Manchester and Glasgow 

 during the coming season will be 85 cents per 

 box and S3 per barrel for ordinary stowage 

 and SI per box and $3.50 per barrel on re- 

 frigerator stowage. 



commercial production !)>■ a large margin. 

 The west as a whole produced its laigcst 

 crop or 29,000.000 boxes as compared with 

 21.309.000 boxes in 191S and 25,089,000 boxes 

 in 1917. 



production is limited, will ship, it is estimat- 



I'll, 35 cars. 



The annual convention of the International 

 Apple Shippers' Association will be held at 

 the Hotel Phister in Milwaukee, Wis., August 

 12-15. Among other important matters to be 

 taken up it is expected that the question of 

 increased freight rates on fruit will be dis- 

 cussed at length at this meeting. \V. L. Wag- 

 ner, of the firm of G. M. H. Wagner & Sons, 

 is chairman of the committee of arrangements. 

 It is expected that the Northwest will be rep- 

 resented by a good sized delegation. 



The Vegetable Growers* Association of Am- 

 erica will bold its annual meeting at Detroit, 

 Michigan, September 9 to 12. This organiza- 

 tion is composed of many of the leading vege- 

 table growers of the United States and Can- 

 ada. The attendance usually exceeds five hun- 

 dred and it is expected that this year there 

 will be a larger number than ever before. 



In the Pacific Northwest the stale of Wash- 

 ington will lead in the production of apples 

 with a crop that is now estimated at 19, .'00 

 cars as compared to 17,000 cars in 1918. The 

 total apple crop in Oregon for 1919 is esti- 

 mated at 3,930,000 boxes as compared to 

 2,013,000 boxes in 1918. In Idaho conditions 

 there now indicate that this state will ship 

 1,000 cars this year or 500 cars in excess of 

 the bumper crop of 1017, giving Idaho the 

 largest apple crop in the history of the state. 

 The crop in Utah is estimated at 175 cars or 

 80,000 boxes less than the crop of 1918. The 

 estimate for the crop in Montana is about 450 

 cars, most of which will be shipped from 

 the Bitter Root Valley. The California crop 

 is now expected to be about 3,072,000 boxes 

 as against 3,381,000 boxes in 1918, and the 

 crop in New Mexico is estimated at 600 cars. 

 The Colorado crop is estimated at 3,100 cars. 



fi:achz:s. 



A 50 per cent decrease in the commercial 

 peach forecast for New York, Michigan and 

 Ohio during the month of June is the salient 

 feature in the July special peach report for 

 the United States. The heavy drop in the 

 northern peach belt was due to peach leaf 

 curl and brown rot in New York, peach leaf 

 curl in Michigan, and decreased acreage and 

 peach leaf curl in Ohio. Conditions have been 

 generally unfavorable in all three states. 



Brown rot has caused considerable loss 

 among early varieties in the Middle West, par- 

 ticularly in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. 

 The conditions in the Western States continue 

 favorable and almost a full crop is forecasted 

 for the regions west of the Rocky Mountains. 

 California has prospects for a bumper crop. 



The July report indicates a total crop of 

 30,082,000 bushels for the United Slates as 

 compared with 20,797,000 bushels last year, or 

 44.0 per cent increase over the light crop of 

 1918. 



FEABS. 



Report of Apple, Pear and Peach 

 Crops for July 



AFFIiIIS. 



A sharp decline in the condition of the New 

 York apple crop during June is the principal 

 feature of the special commercial apple re- 

 port released by the Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 mates on July 9. The condition of the com- 

 mercial apple crop for the United States as 

 a whole now indicates 24,454,000 barrels as 

 compared with 24,584,000 barrels in 1918. New 

 Y'ork state now promises less than one-third 

 of last year's production. The New England 

 states have very good prospects, while the 

 Middle Atlantic regions, including Pennsyl- 

 vania, Maryland, the Virginias, New Jersey 

 and Delaware, have on the whole about 20 

 per cent less than last year. The Middle West, 

 particularly Missouri, shows an increase over 

 1918. 



The very heavy production of boxed apples 

 largely offsets the light crop in New York. 

 Washington will probably lead the states in 



A heavy pear crop in California and the 

 Pacific West generally, contrasted with poor 

 conditions in such important pear states as 

 New York, Michigan, Illinois, New Jersey 

 and Delaware, is the most important fact 

 brought out in the special commercial pear 

 report. The figures given apply only to that 

 portion of the total crop which moves to 

 market in carload and express shipments or 

 by truck. The total commercial pear pro- 

 duction for the United States is now estimated 

 at 7,691,000 bushels as compared with 7,589,- 

 000 bushels last year, or 1.3 per cent increase 

 as compared with 1918. 



A Practical De-Webbing Device. 

 Drive tacks or small nails into a 

 large spool or block of wood. Mount 

 same on end of long bamboo or other 

 pole— the longer, the better. Thrust 

 into the web and turn slowly. The 

 projecting tacks or nails will engage 

 and '*wind up" the web, which may be 

 scorched, burned or plunged into hot 

 water or crude petroleum. 



California, which is the greatest pear pro- 

 ducing state in the United States, it is esti- 

 mated will have a crop this year of 4,000,000 

 bushels as compared to 3,814,000 bushels in 

 1918. Fifty per cent of this production is 

 usually canned or dried and 50 per cejit 

 shipped fvesh. The Washington crop of pears 

 promises to be in the neighborhood of 1,560,- 

 000 boxes or 260,000 boxes more than last 

 year, while Oregon is estimated to produce 

 575,000 boxes or 70,000 boxes in excess of 

 1918. The shipment from Colorado is expected 

 to be 500 cars, while Utah, where the pear 



Insect Banquet Costs $500,000,000. 

 The American Forestry Association, 

 through its president, Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, estimates the annual loss from 

 insect pests in the United States to 

 orchard and forest trees as approxi- 

 mately $500,000,000, which does not 

 include losses to foodstuffs from ro- 

 dents, in field and storage, or from de- 

 structive plant diseases. 



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