August, I pip 



Crops on 700 acres of Yakima Valley land 

 were ruined when vandals blew up the stand- 

 pipe of the irrigating system in that section. 

 To save the trees in one orchard tract belong- 

 ing to the Union Orchards Company the ap- 

 ples were stripped from the trees. The or- 

 chard is estimated to have had a crop of 

 12,000 boxes on it. 



A report from Yakima, Wash., says the 

 Libby, McNeill & Libby cannery interests 

 have announced a boost in contract prices 

 which will mean the payment of about $00,000 

 to Yakima orchardists. The increase is over 

 $20,000 on pears alone. When the cannery 

 was established there long-time contracts were 

 made. The price of cherries was boosted 

 from 4 cents a pound to 7 cents on contracts. 

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to $35.00. Cling peaches are to bring $3.'i, 

 in comparison with the original contract price 

 of $20. The raise is made voluntarily by the 

 cannery, which said the growers could not 

 pay the present prices for labor and make a 

 profit without greater compensation. The 

 cannery has completed the installation of a 

 maraschino cherry machine, and expects to 

 turn out 500 barrels of this delicacy. At the 

 peak of the season the cannery will employ 

 500 workers. 



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tion this fall and that it will have about half 

 the capacity of the firm's Yakima branch, 

 which cost $200,000. 



Never in its history has there been so much 

 improvement going on at one time as is now 

 the case in the Selah Valley according to the 

 local paper in that section. Hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars arc being put into new 

 homes, substantial warehouses, packing sheds 

 and barns and the money to pay for it is all 

 coming from fruit, this authority asserts. 



H. L. Geary, of Spokane, secretary of the 

 Fruitgrowers' Agency, has completed a tour 

 of the fruit growing sections of the North- 

 west and expresses the opinion that the fruit 

 yield will be about normal. 



The Heights Packing Company, a coopera- 

 tive company composed of orchardists in the 

 Underwood district, is enlarging its plant, 

 which has been equipped with a power grad- 

 ing machine. This company expects to han- 

 dle 22,000 boxes of apples this year. The 

 entire apple output from the Underwood dis- 

 trict this year is expected to be close to 100 

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The Spokane Fruit Growers' Company, 

 which was planning to build several apple 

 warehouses in the Spokane Valley, has de- 

 layed their erection owing to an unexpected 

 decline in the expected production this year. 

 One of these warehouses will be erected at 

 Grecnacres. This company is spending $450,- 

 000 for apple boxes and $125,000 for wrapping 

 paper this year. 



Y'akima county lost its second district hor- 

 ticultural inspector within six months when 

 H. L. Miller, who came two months ago from 

 Walla Walla, left for Spokane to become as- 

 sistant manager of the Skookum Packers' 

 Association. Miller's predecessor, C. B. Wood, 

 left to join the Schoenburg Pepper Company, 

 while H. E. Waterbury and F. H. Desellem, 

 in service before Wood, are also working for 

 private fruit concerns. In addition to Miller, 

 four chief deputies, John A. Webber, J. W. 

 Vaughn, F. A. Kelly and C. E. Flickenger, all 

 have gone with private fruit businesses. Men 

 say that they can not afford to remain in 

 the state's employ at the wages now paid. 



The Growers' Service Company will erect a 

 new apple warehouse in the Buena district 

 50x100 feet. The building will be of substan- 

 tial construction, modernly equipped, and is 

 to be ready for the early fall fruit shipping 

 season. 



Libby, McNeill & Libby are expected to 

 enlarge their operations in the Inland Empire. 

 The firm has had a large cannery at Yakima 

 for some time and has recently acquired a 

 three-acre site at Buena, Wash., in the heart 

 of the orchard section of the lower Yakima 

 valley. The section produces a huge tonnage 

 of fruit, especially peaches and pears. It is 

 reported the Buena cannery will be in opcra- 



The yield of cherries in the Inland Empire 

 was be"low normal this season, but as prices 

 advanced sharply the producers probably re- 

 ceived at least the normal returns from or- 

 chards. In the Lewiston, Idaho, section the 

 price of packing cherries was around 12 cents 

 and canneries and packing houses operated at 

 extra pressure to handle the fruit. The Tri- 

 State Fruit Concern employed 100 persons and 

 on one day turned out 3,000 boxes of Bings 

 and Lamberts. Pickers received 1% and 2 

 cents per pound. Bings brought 30 cents per 

 pound on the Spokane retail market. The 

 Oregon Packing Company employed 200 per- 

 sons in its Lewiston branch. 



The advent of July saw the strawberry 

 season practically finished in the Inland Em- 

 pire, the cherry crop almost cleaned up and 

 the raspberries and blackberries coming on 

 the market freely, while the apple producers 

 were beginning to shape their plans for the 

 fall season in anticipation of a good normal 

 yield. 



The American Fruit Growers, Inc., is ap- 

 parently preparing to operate on an extensive 

 scale in the Spokane district, Washington. It 

 has obtained two more orchards in the Yakima 



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