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BETTER FRUIT 



August, igig 



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In an annoiuu-eincnt tn the raspberry grow- 

 ers President W. H. ranllianius of the Sum- 

 ner and Puyalliip (Wash.) Cooperative Can- 

 ning Company told them that the mnnagt'inent 

 had already booked for sale this year 08,000 

 cases of jam contnining 21 jars each and ex- 

 pects to sell 100.000 eases before the manu- 

 facturing season closes. The amount to be 

 received for this output is estimated at $1,000.- 

 000. and the growers have authoried the offi- 

 cers of the canning company to spend $70,000 

 in advertising to make its brand of jam known 

 in the markets of the world. The company 

 put into cold storage $1'>0,000 worth of straw- 

 berries which will be manufactured into jam 

 and asked the growers to furnish twice that 

 amount of raspberries. 



be shipped from the Walla Walla district, 

 which last year shipped only 130 cars. Half 

 of the Walla Walla shipment will be Rome 

 Beauties. 



Prospects are that Grant County will double 

 up on its apple crop this year according to 

 Horticultural Inspector Darlington, who says 

 that it ought to ship 400 cars as against 200 

 cais last year. 



'em three times a day and got up in the night 

 for an extra meal." 



Wenatchee Valley is said to have suffered 

 many thousands of dollars worth of damage 

 this year owing to the fact that the railroads 

 failed to supply sufficient cars during the 

 cherry shipping season. 



According to the latest estimates, Wenatchee 

 will be the banner district in the production 

 of apples in the state of Washington this year. 

 The crop at Wenatchee now promises to be 

 9,400 cars, 2,800 of which will be Winesaps, 

 1,700 cars of Jonathans, 1.300 cars Baldwins, 

 900 cars Spitzenbergs, and 800 cars of Rome 

 Beauties. The Yakima district is estimated at 

 8,000 cars and the Spokane section at 500 

 cars. One thousand cars it is expected will 



Early peaches and apples as well as apri- 

 cots commenced to move in the Wapato dis- 

 trict about the 12th of July and good prices 

 are reported to be ruling. The fruit crop on 

 the Indian reservation in that district this 

 year is reported to be a good one. 



The Sumner (W^ash.) Index remarks: "The 

 Pruit Growers' Association received a message 

 from Spokane, 13 years ago, saying, 'Send all 

 the raspberries you have.' Spokane couldn't 

 use all of our berries now if the residents ate 



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The first raspberries sliippcd 15 years ago 

 from the Puyallup district averaficd $1.50 per 

 crate. Tills year the marketing price was 

 $5.00. 



The Shoenberg-Pepper Company, wliich re- 

 cently opened a frnit handling establishment 

 at Yakima, is contemplating building a ware- 

 house at Zillah that will be 75.\150 feet and 

 is to be finislied in 15 days. C. R. Wood, 

 former county horticulturist, is associated with 

 the new firm, wiiicli was induced to locate 

 in Zillah by the Zillah Community Club. 



The state of Washington ranks sixteenth in 

 the amount of acreage devoted to strawberries 

 for this season. Last year it was the eight- 

 eenth state as to amount of acreage. There 

 is now planted in this crop 895 acres as 

 against 870 acres in 1918. Last year tlie total 

 production amounted to 118 cars, while this 

 year's production was in the neigliborhood of 

 125 cars. 



Last year the apple gi-owers of Eastern and 

 Central Washington spent $75,000 in advertis- 

 ing their apples. This year $500,000 has been 

 appropriated for this purpose. 



The Sampson-Olivcr-Gamble Co., which will 

 enter the fruit handling field in tlie Grand- 

 view district, is building a new warehouse 

 which will be ready for the apple shipping 

 season. The new firm is headed by E. E. 

 Sampson, of the E. E. Sampson Company of 

 Yakima. W. W. Camble will be manager of 

 the Grandview business. The apple crop at 

 Grandview this year is estimated to be be- 

 tween 1,500 and 2,000 cars. 



Horticultural Inspector Miller of Yakima 

 county estimates that the entire fruit ship- 

 ment from that county this year will be 

 about 1.3,510 cars, divided as follows: Apples, 

 7,500 cars; pears, 3,000 cars; peaches, 2,500 

 cars; prunes, 200 cars; cherries, 60 cars, and 

 miscellaneous, 250 cars. 



M. L. Dean, chief of the Division of Hor- 

 ticulture of Washington, announces the ap- 

 pointment of Chas. L. Robinson to be horti- 

 cultural inspector at Yakima in place of H. 

 L. Miller, resigned, and C. A. Noren to be 

 inspector at Prosser in place of Luke Powell, 

 who has also resigned. 



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