September. iQig 



Speed the day when fruit and pro- 

 duce crooks will be ordered to beat 

 it out of New York on a one-way tick- 

 et. — Fniit Trade Journal. Yes, and 

 out of every other spot on the globe 

 that fruit is shipped to. 



From present advices a jackrabbit 

 drive will be a small affair compared 

 to the hunt for ladybug beetles this 

 fall. The campaign to secure these 

 insects has been mapped out over a 

 wide area and the offensive against 

 aphids will be renewed with vigor 

 next spring. 



The fact that Oregonians eat such 

 large quantities of California walnuts 

 when Oregon grows so many fine nuts, 

 stirs the ire of Colonel Dosch of the 

 Oregon State Board of Horticulture. 

 Better to have them eat California wal- 

 nuts than no walnuts at all, Colonel. 

 The appetite is there, making a good 

 basis to work on. 



It is not generally supposed that figs 

 will grow in the Northwest. And yet 

 A. A. Quarnberg has two fig trees on 

 his place near Vancouver, Wash., that 

 are loaded with fruit that will mature. 

 Is Quarnberg a wizard, or is it the 

 climate? 



That strip of land at Cape Cod, 

 Mass., is no longer the only habitat of 

 cranberries that are fit to grace the 

 great .\merican dish of roast turkey. 

 Pacific Coast berries are plenty good 

 enough, if not a little better, thank you. 



What They Are Doing in 

 California 



The 1919 wiiic giapc crop of California is 

 estimated to have a value of $12,000,000. 



In his advice to orchardists on tree planting 

 Commissioner Wren of the California State 

 DeDartmrnt of .\i?riculture recently said: 



"There exists this season a strong demand 

 for, and a big shortage of, nnrsery stock. 

 Prices are high, and from all indications the 

 nurserymen will be unable to fill all orders. 

 I would therefore urge all who intend to plant 

 next year to place their orders at once. .\nd. 



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while the prices of slock are high, I believe 

 one should not defer planting on that account. 

 \ matter of a few cents per tree does not 

 compare very favorably with the returns of a 

 season when that tree gets into bearing." 



California nurserymen are advised that op- 

 portunity is knocking at their doors in the 

 way of propagating much of the nursery stock 

 that is needed in the I'nitcd States. Many 

 nurserymen there are said to have been quick 

 to see the possibilities of the future in this 

 direction and have made large plantings. It 

 is claimed for California that it can grow any 

 kind of crop or fruit that is produced in the 

 United States. 



Reports from Tuolumne County indicate the 

 largest crop of apples in the history of the 

 county. In this region especial attention has 

 been directed to the codling moth and spraying 

 operations. 



Date specialists and growers at Indio are de- 

 vising plans for a new packing house to take 

 care of this rapidly increasing industry. 



Prof. A. L. Levett, state entomologist for 

 Oregon, stationed at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, Corvallis, was a visitor in California 

 last month. Prof. Lovett was reviewing the 

 pear thrips situation in California, particu- 

 larly with regard to control methods which 

 may be applicable against the pest in Oregon. 

 He made an extensive survey of the pear 

 orchards in Santa Clara and Contra Costa. 



G. A. Nehrhood of Paso Robles has placed 

 orders for 276,000 trees for the coming season 

 for himself and the Associated Almond Grow- 

 ers of Paso Robles. This is the biggest order 

 so far this year for any county. It is made 

 up of almonds, 70 per cent; prunes, 25 per 

 cent, and the remaining 5 per cent are mixed 

 fi'uits. 



The following notice will be interesting to 

 apple growers in other states in showing how 

 California enforces its apple packing regula- 

 tions. The notice was issued by the State 

 Department of Agriculture and says: Begin- 

 ning Monday, July 28, only apples bearing the 

 state standard stamp or conforming to the 

 requirements of the 1917 Standard Apple Act 

 can be removed from transportation company 

 terminals by consignee. All others will be 

 returned to the shipper or removed to a cold 

 storage plant and held until shippers conform 

 to the required grade and marking, after which 

 apples will be delivered to original consignee 

 with a statement of storage, transfer and re- 

 packing charges, if any, to be deducted from 

 sales account to shipper. The law plamly 

 states that the end of the boxes bear the name 

 and address of packer or shipper, the variety 

 and grade of apples, net weight or number of 

 apples in the box and the date packed. These 

 simple requirements were intended to adver- 

 tise California apples, facilitate handling in 

 transportation and by the trade, and to pro- 

 tect all parties concerned. Neatly marked 

 boxes lend to appearance and appearance adds 

 to value. • 



During the 1919 season California will ship 

 to the markets of the world about 25,000 car- 



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loads of deciduous fresh fruits, and while the 

 cherrv shipments probably will not reach 

 morethan 275 carloads (fresh), this amount 

 with the canned cherry output makes the 

 cherry crop one of the most successful and 

 remunerative crops of the state. 



Reports indicate that the 1919 crop of Cali- 

 fornia peaches will total 10 per cent greater 

 than the record yield of 1917. It is expected 

 that about 12 per cent of the crop will be 

 shipped as fresh fruit and the balance will be 

 dried and canned. 



Citrus growers of Riverside are now in- 

 stalling a new type of orchard heater that 

 promises to give better service than was pos- 

 sible with those used in the past. 



The first shipments of the California apple 

 crop commenced to move about August 15. 

 The variety shipped was what is known 

 as the Skinner Seedling. Bellefleurs and Yel- 

 low Newtowns, which comprise the greater 

 part of the California crop, move considerably 

 later than this earlier variety, but are mar- 

 keted much earlier than the winter varieties of 

 Northwest apples. 



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