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BETTER FRUIT 



March, ipso 



"Year 'round — it serves 

 tvillingly and worthily—" 



Universal Bushel 

 Shippin^Packa^es 



Every day in the year the Universal 

 Bushel Shipping Package guarantees 

 the grower that his fruit and pro- 

 duce will reach the market in a 

 splendid condition — bringing the 

 highest price. 



The sturdy center post running from 

 bottom to cover in the Universal 

 Bushel Shipping Package permits 

 fruits and vegetables to be stacked in 

 cars, trucks, or cold storage houses, 

 without injury to contents. 



Send for sample with this center post and 

 cover. Send only 25c in coin or stamps to 

 cover part of mailing expense. 



Package Sales Corporation 



106 East Jefferson Street South Bend, Indiana 



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Apple Seeds for Sale 



Washington Dehydrated Food Co. 



Yakima, Washington 



Everything lor the Garden 



1920 160-page Catalog Free 

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What They're Doing in California 



The plant Intrncluction Stalion of the United 

 .Slates Dcpaiiment of Agriculture at Chico is 

 iMiKagcd in sending out 225,000 plants, shrubs, 

 and trees of all kinds to nui-serymen and 

 other ngrieultinalists interested throughout the 

 country. These plants have been gathered 

 from all parts of the globe and propagated at 

 the Chico station. They are now being sent 

 out for trial to other parts of the country. No 

 charge is made for these plants but the Chico 

 stalion sends them out only on orders from 

 the Department of Agriculture at Washington, 

 D. C. 



There are 15,000 tractors operating on Cali- 

 fornia fai'ms, according to L. ,1. Fletcher of 

 the California Tractor and Implement Associa- 

 tion. They have displaced 150,000 horses, he 

 estimates. 



Many young fruit trees are being set out in 

 F.l Dorado County, principally Bartlett pears, 

 prunes, plums, apples and peaches. Three 

 water users' associations have been organized 

 in El Dorado County for the purpose of secur- 

 ing better service from ditch companies. A big 

 output of box shook and lumber is expected 

 from this county this year. The lumber enter- 

 prises are getting their plants into shape. One 

 firm, putting out box shook, has bought 1000 

 acres of pine timber on Plum Creek. 



A project has been evolved to make use of 

 the abandoned road houses "which line the 

 main highways throughout California and to 

 turn them into fruit stands where ranchers 

 can place their products on display to be sold 

 to motorists who pass the places where they 

 formerly stopped for liquid refreshments. The 

 plan \\ill be taken up at once by the automo- 

 bile association and steps will be made to in- 

 terest the ranchers in the project. At many 

 places already the children of the ranchers 

 may be found lining many of the highways 

 peddling fruits and flowers to autoists. 



Thirty-five dollars per ton is the price being 

 offered for the coming season's wine grapes, 

 in portions of the Sacramento Valley. It is 

 planned to dry the grapes. 



The value of 1919 soil and oil production 

 for Orange County just compiled totals ?77,- 

 152,500. The Orange County walnut crop just 

 harvested totals $5,750,000 in value; the orange 

 crop (90 per cent Valencias) represents a value 

 of .?12,000,000 for 1919 and the lemon crop was 

 worth ?3,500,000. 



Fig growers of California are the latest to 

 take steps toward perfecting a cooperative 

 marketing association. The proposed organi- 

 zation will include gro\\ers who ship both 

 dried and fresh tigs and will embrace all sec- 

 tions of the state where figs are grown. The 

 headquarters of the organization will be at 

 I'resno. 



The dried persimmon is the newest dried 

 fruit to be commercially packed in California. 

 After experiments lasting three years a process 

 for drying pei'sinimons has been perfected and 

 they will be put on the market for the first 

 time this year. The fruit is dried without 

 additional sugar and when thoroughly pro- 

 cessed is said to have the combined flavor of 

 the date and the fig. 



Raisin growers of California are jubilant 

 over the success attained during the past year 

 in drying raisins by the de-hydrating process. 

 They now feel that the safety of the raisin crop 

 no longer depends on the weather. During the 

 past year raisins that were only partly dried 

 before the early rains came were taken to de- 

 hydrators and turned out as the finished prod- 

 uct, without loss in quality. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growing 



Among the fruitmen from the Northwest 

 who were in attendance at the meeting of the 

 Western Fruit Jobbers at San Francisco were 

 W. E. Nelson of the Wenatchee Northern Ware- 

 house Company, D. L. Oliver, of the Clarke- 

 Oliver Apple Company of Wenatchee, Wash- 

 ington, W. F. Gwinn, J. Curtis Robinson and 

 ,1. B. Adams of the Northwestern Fruit Ex- 

 change of Seattle, C. W. McCullagh, sales man- 

 ager of the Hood River Apple Growers' Asso- 

 ciation and R. H. C. Wood of Portland. Mr. 

 Wood reported on his return that dealers were 

 of the opinion that the price of apples must 

 come down before they can be moved to the 

 best advantage of both grower and dealer. 



During the past mouth advices from the East 

 were to the effect that the fall in foreign ex- 

 change has greatly reduced the export ship- 

 ments of dried fruits. Should this situation 

 continue long it is expected that the reduction 

 in foreign shipments will atfect prices very 

 materially for domestic consumption. With the 

 exception of raisins the market for other dried 

 fruits such as prunes, peaches, pears and 

 apples is reported dull. 



As a result of the quarantine established on 

 foreign nursery stock by the United States 

 Agricultural Department the amount of stock 

 requiring inspection by state officials has been 

 greatly decreased. Action recently taken by 

 the department is expected to further extend 

 the quarantine, making the shipments still 

 more limited. 



Clinging to his faith in the Ben Davis apple, 

 Louis Erb, one of the largest growers in the 

 Ozark district of Missouri, says that notwith- 

 standing the opinion of an unthinking public, 

 this apple is just as good as it used to be. He 

 opines that the Ben Davis has been decried by 

 all sorts of people who don't know a good 

 apple when they see it or taste it and that it 

 will hold its own with other varieties in the 

 future. In winding up his eulogy of this much 

 abused apple Mr. Erb states llal-footedly that 

 no matter what may be the case elsewhere the 

 Ben Davis is the best variety to grow in Mis- 

 souri. 



Replying to a recent rumor that the selling 

 agency of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative 

 Association was to be assigned to the North- 

 western IVuit Exchange, C. I. Lewis, organiza- 

 tion manager of the growers' association em- 

 phatically denied that such was the case and 

 asserts that the organization will have its own 

 sales force and will sell its output under its 

 own brands and through its own connections. 

 Mr. Lewis stated that Robert C. Paulus, sales 

 manager of the organization at the time the 

 rumor was afloat was in the East, making 

 selling connections and that the entire force 

 was engaged in working out the original policy 

 of the organization to harvest, store or ship 

 and sell all the products that would be 

 handled by the association under brands that 

 would make Oregon fruits a household word 

 everywhere. 



The national prohibition law, which makes 

 the sale of fruit juices containing more than 

 one-half of one per cent alcohol unlawful, it 

 is feared will deal a death blow to the cider 

 making industry which flourished this year 

 as never before and resulted in securing for 

 growers a much higher price for their cull 

 apples. Managers of cider making plants state 

 that unless the law is modified, cider such as 

 the public wants to drink cannot be manu- 

 factured. Due to the fact that prohibition 

 stimulated the consumption of cider greatly, it 

 is figured that 60 per cent of the 1919 cull 

 apple crops in many orchard districts were 

 utilized in making this beverage. 



H. F. Davidson of Hood River, an extensive 

 grower and handler of Northwest apples, calls 

 attention to the fact that one of the most seri- 

 ous things confronting the sale of Pacific Coast 

 apples is that cars which are being used in 

 connection with a heater service have a style 

 of heater that is generating a gas that gives 

 the apples an unpleasant flavor. He says 

 that many consumers of Northwest apples are 

 complaining of the apples being flavored with 

 coal oil smoke and are discriminating against 

 them in favor of Eastern fruit. He advocates 

 that either the heater service must be changed 

 or some other method provided for transport- 

 ing Pacific Coast apples so that they will ar- 

 rive at their destination in the best condition. 

 The car shortage he emphasizes has resulted 

 in a loss to growers and shippers of such a 

 large sum that it would be sufficient to con- 

 struct a large number of refrigerator cars. As 

 a result of this shortage Northwest apples 

 were very much delayed in getting into con- 

 sumption and consumers resorted to other 

 fruits. 



Robert L. Ringer, for three years in charge 

 of the Portland office of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Markets, recently resigned to accept 

 a position with the Federal Farm Loan Bank 

 as farm loan appraiser in the Oregon district. 

 As head of the Portland office of the Bureau of 

 Markets Mr. Ringer rendered efficient service 

 to the fruit growers and shippers of the 

 Northwest and his retirement is to be regretted 

 as is also the announcement that the service 

 is to be discontinued in this district. 



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