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BETTER FRUIT 



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Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 



MEDFORD \\\\\ have this year the largest 

 and bfst quality pear crop in its his- 

 tory and this fact is said by growers there 

 to "be due to better facilities for irrigation. 

 The Bartletts and D'Anjous are particularly 

 fine and will ripen early. Fruitmen at Med- 

 ford are optimistic in regard to the future of 

 that district and say that from now on it is 

 bound to be very prosperous and to develop 

 rapidlv. Medford will ship between 700 and 

 800 cars of pears this year and about the same 

 number of cars of apples according to late 

 estimates. 



The National Fruit Company, organized in 

 Oregon with a capitalization of $50,000, has 

 established its headquarters in Portland. The 

 officers are John F. Sugrue, president; Ken- 

 neth McKay, vice-president and general man- 

 ager, and J. H. Conn, treasurer. Mr. Sugrue 

 was formerly manager of the Cashmere 

 (Wash.) Fruit Growers' Union. Mr. McKay 

 was connected with the Fruit Growers' Ex- 

 change at Hood River and Mr. Conn until re- 

 cently was with the United States Bureau of 

 Markets. The new company will operate in 

 all of the states of the Pacific Northwest, on 

 an f. o. b. basis for eastern dealers. 



The Rogue River Valley Canning Company 

 which had been in the hands of a receiver 

 for some time, has changed hands, the new 

 owners being S. S. BuUis and E. T. Skewis, 

 who are now operating it. The price paid 

 for the property which is said to have in- 

 cluded 30 acres of tomatoes, was §5,000. H. 

 W. Hoke, former manager for the old com- 

 pany, is in charge of the plant. 



The Hood River Apple Growers' Association 

 recentlv signed a five year contract with C. 

 W. McCullagh, sales manager of the associa- 

 tion, agreeing to pay him a salary of $8,000 

 per year. The salary of A. \Y. Stone, execu- 

 tive manager of the association, was increased 

 from §3,000 to $4,000 per year. 



P. J. O'Gara, formerly plant pathologist at 

 the Medford Experiment station, was a recent 

 visitor in the Rogue River Valley. Mr. O'Gara 

 is now connected with the American Refin- 

 ing and Smelting Company of Salt Lake, Utah. 



The total number of cars of strawberries 

 shipped from the Hood River district this year 

 was 98. Eighty cars of this total was shipped 

 by the Hood River Apple Growers' Associa- 

 tion and 18 cars by the \V. R. Woolpert Fruit 

 Co. The demand for fresh berries at Hood 

 River this year was so great that canners ex- 

 perienced great difficulty in securing fruit. 

 Prices received ran from $4.50 per crate for 

 the first car to .$3.94 at the end of the season. 

 \r\ average price of $4 per crate was main- 

 tained and is believed to have set a new na- 

 tional record in strawberry marketing. Hood 

 River expects to market between 1,500,000 and 

 2,000,000 boxes of apples this year — its largest 

 crop. 



The Mosier and Dufur sections are booked 

 for an apple crop of 350 cars this year while 

 the Milton-Frcewater district is expected to 

 ship 500 cars or twice the number it shipped 

 last year. 



Oregon is expected to harvest a $40,000,000 

 prune crop this vear, the largest part of which 

 is grown in the Willamette Valley. The apple 

 production of the Willamette Valley for 1919 

 is placed at 500 cars, or twice as many as 

 last year. 



The Bear Creek Orchard, one of the largest 

 commercial orchards in the Rogue River val- 

 ley, is now in the possession of the Rosenberg 

 Brothers, who recently acquired title to it 

 through the settlement of the estate of their 

 father. The orchard comprises 240 acres, two- 

 thirds of which is in apples and the balance 

 in pears. 



Loganberries have now reached a degree of 

 production in the Grants Pass district where 

 the demand for pickers exceeds the local sup- 

 ply of help and growers arc forced to import 

 pickers from the outside. Although the acre- 

 age in loganberries at Grants Pass is not very 

 extensive as vet as compared to that in the 

 Willamette valley, it is rapidly growing. 



The fruit tonnage produced in the Salem 

 district is the greatest in Oregon and one of 

 the largest in the Northwest. While prunes 

 lead in the amount of tonnage, loganberries, 

 cherries, strawberries, raspberries, blackber- 

 ries, walnuts, apples and pears are also pro- 



duced in very large quantities. In fact, Salem 

 may now claim the distinction of being the 

 Queen City in Oregon fruit production in the 

 state. 



season the case will be tried and the money 

 awarded to the parties to the suit who win. 

 The case grew out of the fact that a slip is 

 said to have been attached to each grower's 

 contract stating that the company would pay 

 the open market price at the time the berries 

 were delivered. 



The Hood River Canning Co. was successful 

 in securing a large quantity of cherries dur- 

 ing the season which has just closed. The 

 company made its record day's run, putting 

 up more than 10,000 cans in 24 hours. The 

 price paid for cherries was 8 cents and 104 

 people were employed during the busy season. 



In an injunction suit brought by the Kings 

 Products Company, a fruit drying concern of 

 Salem, Oregon, to force loganberry growers to 

 deliver their fruit at a contract price of SVa 

 cents instead of selling it in the open market 

 at a higher price. Presiding .ludge Bingham 

 rendered a novel decision. He ordered the 

 growers to deliver the fruit at the price men- 

 tioned, but directed the drying company to 

 place on deposit with the county clerk the 

 difference between 51/2 cents and 9 cents, the 

 amount that the berries were selling for in 

 the open market. At the close of the berry 



With headquarters at Roseberg, the Over- 

 land Fruit Company has been organized and 

 will grow and market fruit and otherwise en- 

 gage in the fruit business. The new concern 

 is a stock company. 



Recent investigations by the Experiment Sta- 

 tion of the Oregon Agricultural College in the 

 big cherry orchards at The Dalles, which have 

 failed to produce, although the trees were 

 found to be in fine condition, are said to 

 show that the shortage of fruit was duo to 

 lack of pollenization. Bings, Royal Annes 

 and Lamberts were planted in solid blocks. 

 On the advice of the experiment station ex- 

 perts it is expected that the condition there 

 will be remedied by topgrafting a number of 

 trees in each orchard to the Waterhouse or 

 some of the other varieties of cherries which 

 will act as pollcnizers. The Dalles district 

 produces cherries second to none in Oregon. 



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Orchard and 

 Packing House 

 Supplies 



Hardie Fruit Ladders 



Best practical design. Made of clear well seasoned 

 spruce. Each step trussed. A fruit ladder you can 

 depend on. 



Portland Picking Bag 



Made of heavy canvass. Cuts cost of picking. Does 

 NOT tire the picker. A safe receptical for your 

 fruit from tree to lug box. 



Giard Box J^ailing Form 

 and Stand 



Enables any one to make accurate boxes with ease 

 and rapidity. A time and labor saver that will 

 interest you. 



You can cut your "FROM TREE TO BOX" cost by the use 

 of Hardie goods. Our orchard supply circular describes 

 these devices fully. Write for it. 



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55 North Front Street Portland, Oregon 



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