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BETTER FRUIT 



August, 19 1 9 



eluding all marketable apples pro- 

 duced by the growers. Prices for the 

 different varieties are reported to be 

 as follows: Rome Beauties, Jonathan 

 and Grimes Golden, $1.75 to $2; Wine- 

 saps, Spitzenbergs and Yellow New- 

 towns, $2 to $2.25; Delicious and 

 Winter Banana, $2.50 to $3. Never 

 before in the history of Yakima Val- 

 ley have contracts for apples been 

 made earlier than August or Sep- 

 tember. 



M. L. Dean, of the Washington state 

 division of horticulture, is authority 



for the statement that apple prices are 

 on an exceptionally satisfactory basis 

 from the producing standpoint. "It 

 is astonishing the prices that apple 

 growers are being offered," says Mr. 

 Dean. "The lowest grades of Winter 

 Banana apples are bringing bids of 

 SI. 60 a box, while extra fancy grades 

 have brought bids of $2.90 and for 

 some packs Eastern bidders have gone 

 as high as $3.10. Apples from the 

 Northwest are very much in demand 

 in Eastern markets and Washington 

 farmers are flooded with offers." 



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According to reports from Top- 

 penish, Wasli., Dick Hart of that place 

 sohi his entire apple and pear crop 

 last week to the Richey-Gilbert Com- 

 pany of Yakima for .$2 a box straight 

 through the orchard. Mr. Hart says 

 he feels that he received a good price 

 for the fruit of his forty acres. 



C. H. Sproat, of Hood River, re- 

 cently sold his apple crop estimated 

 at 12,000 boxes to Dan Wuille & Co., 

 an English apple exporting firm, for 

 an average of better than $1.75 per 

 box for all grades and varieties. Later 

 sales there, it is reported, were on a 

 basis of 25 cents a box higher than 

 this price. 



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The Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Grow- 

 ers Canning Company which, early 

 this year, announced that it would 

 commence operations in Oregon now 

 has in the course of construction at 

 Albany the first cannery unit of its 

 contemplated structures. The new 

 building has a floor space of 96x208 

 feet which is being laid in concrete. 

 It is being constructed of wood in rus- 

 tic design, two stories high, and the 

 boiler room will be 30x30 feet and 

 will house a 125 horsepower boiler. 

 The site for the new cannery is on a 

 three-acre tract acquired by the com- 

 pany between the Willamette River 

 and Water street in East Albany and 

 was selected on account of its ad- 

 jacency to shipping sidings. The can- 

 nery is expected to be completed in 

 time to handle the large tonnage of 

 wild evergreen blackberries in that 

 district this year. 



Large acreages of the cultivated ber- 

 ries have been contracted for future 

 delivery and it is expected that the 

 berry tonnage in this district in the 

 near future will be a large one, as the 

 alluvial soil in the river valleys there 

 is especially adapted to berry 

 growing. 



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