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BETTER FRUIT 



October. 



OREGON. 

 Claiming ihp record for BnitlctI ppar prices 

 in Oregon. Medford during the month of Sep- 

 tember reported the sale of a car of Bartletts 

 at $5.20 per box. Another car from that dis- 

 trict sold for $5.00 per box. 



Although the early rains caused some loss to 

 prune growers in the Willamette Valley, the 

 damage was not heavy, and the Oregon prune 

 crop IS expected to be very good. Growers 

 have been warned by the prune handling con- 

 cerns to separate the damaged prunes from the 

 perfect fruit in order to keep up the grades. 

 ine damaged prunes will be marketed sen- 

 arately. "^ 



«rn^nnn .1" J,**''".""^'. '° ^^"'^ P''*"' costing 

 160,000, the Hood River Apple Vinegar Com- 

 pany now- has what is said to be the largest 

 and best equipped cider and vinegar making 

 plant on the Pacific Coast. 



Ten cars of fresh prunes shipped from the 

 .hosier district, it is reported, will return to 

 prune growers of that section an amount that 

 will give them an average of $1,000 per acre 

 for their crops. The prunes were sold for 

 $100 per ton. f. o. b. shipping point. One 

 1!'°,^'^'" flBures his returns from two acres at 

 $1,100 per acre. 



According to Earl Percy, secretary of the 

 Oregon Growers' Cooperative Associa"tion, the 

 demand for fruit and nut products is increas- 

 ing rapidly and the average housewife no 

 longer considers these foods as luxuries. This 

 is said to be particularly true of walnuts 

 which formerly were in demand largely at 

 Christmas time. This is no longer the "case 

 and walnuts are now being used very generally 

 throughout the year. 



The Himalaya berry is being put forward as 

 a fine berry to grow in Oregon. It is a berry 

 somewhat like the Evergreen blackberry, 

 ripens about the first of August, continues 

 bearing until October, and is a very heavy 

 bearer. 



During the month the prices for Oregon ap- 

 ples was generally well maintained, but buying 

 was somewhat less than during the month of 

 Vo"?)?'l' .1"}^^ "■^"'^ "ported running from 

 J 'i.*,°. P-'^ P"""" ^°^' 'he latter price being 

 for Delicious. 



Prune picking commenced September 15 

 near Dallas, where the fruit was said to have 

 been practically unhurt by the early rains 

 Tlie prices for picking were about the "same as 

 those paid last year. 



Low temperatures prevailed in the Medford 

 district during the early part of Septenilier 

 where the pear picking was on in full blast 

 Later the weather warmed up and the near 

 harvest went on briskly. 



During the past year the King's Products 

 Company distributed $125,000 in salaries in 

 $525 OOo""^ district and paid out for products 



Reports are to the effect that the Flame 

 Tokay grape crop at Grants Pass matured in 

 good shape and that the output will be of fine 

 quality. The first car of Winter Banana apples 

 from the Grants Pass district this year sold 

 for $3.81 per box on the New York market. 



The Multnomah County Fair and Land 

 Products Show, held at Gresham, September 

 15 to 20, resulted in a good collection of ex- 

 hibitors of stock, land products and farm im- 

 plements. The fruit exhibit was somewhat 

 limited owing to the fact that only early ap- 

 ples were available. The racing events "were 

 unusually good but the attendance throughout 

 the week was not as large as it should have 

 been. 



Hood River held its county and fruit fair 

 September 19 and 20, and many fine exhibits 

 of fruit were on display. In fact, the fruit 

 display was one of the best ever made in the 

 Hood River Valley. 



The annual packing school conducted at 

 Hood River by the Hood River Apple Growers' 

 Association had an initial attendance of 70 

 the largest number that has ever attended the 

 school on the opening day. A feature of the 

 course were lectures every day on grading and 

 packing apples by experts. 



George Sykes, who has spent considerable 

 time studying fruit packs, is this vear intro- 

 ducing a new system of packing apples The 

 apples are laid on cardboard patterns in which 

 slits are cut. The system, it is said, makes a 

 tight pack. It has proven popular with the 



Salem during the past two months is re- 

 ported by the Daily Capital .lournal of that 

 city to have been the reddest, juiceiest spot in 

 Oregon. This comment was called forth by 

 the fact that the Phez Company and other 

 plants there were putting up thousands of gal- 

 lons of loganberry juice and thousands of 

 cases of jams, jellies and cans of small fruits. 

 The Rupert Company also had a very success- 

 ful season and reports a large output at its 

 various plants. 



The Oregon Growers' Association reports a 

 greatly added membership to its ranks during 

 the past month. Wherever meetings have been 

 held many growers have voluntarily joined the 

 association while the propaganda conducted by 

 the association's managers is bringing in 

 others who are not able to attend the meetings. 



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trade, in that the apples are immediately on 

 display when the top of the box is removed. 



dervais claims the champion berry picker 

 of that section. Her name is Miss Esther 

 Gleason, and in one day Miss Gleason picked 

 157 pounds of Evergreen blackberries at 4 

 cents a pound, netting her $6.28 for her day's 

 work. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Harry Shotwcll ranch, near Monitor, has 

 a good example of what can be done in taking 

 care of orchard help during the fruit harvest- 

 ing season. Mr. Sholwell has erected six small 

 houses, each containing a kitchen and sleep- 

 ing room, furnished with a bed, stove and 

 other conveniences. These are to be occupied 

 by families who will have charge of the pick- 

 ing and packing of the apples on his twenty- 

 acre orchard. 



A Wapato rancher, who rccenllv paid .$19,000 

 for a fruit ranch, expects to harvest enough 

 fruit from it this year to more than pay the 

 purchase price. 



The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' 

 Association has disposed of 95,000 cases of 

 canned berries this year. The association now 

 has plants at Albany, Oregon, Wenatchee and 

 Chehalis, Washington, in addition to the one 

 at Puyallup. 



After being located at Toppenish for 22 

 years, Richey & Gilbert, the well-known Wash- 

 ington fruitinen. recently moved their head- 

 quarters at Yakima, where they have just com- 

 pleted a large and modern warehouse. 



According to figures recently published by 

 the government, Grandview will this year pro- 

 duce an apple crop as large as that of several 

 of the New England states combined. The 

 whole state of Ohio this year, it is said, will 

 not produce as many apples as the Grandview 

 section. 



A peach measuring llj inches in circum- 

 ference and weighing IJ pounds was on ex- 

 hibition recently at Wapato. The peach was 

 sent to Kansas City to be exhibited there. 



The harvesting of Selah's Jonathan crop 

 commenced about September 22 and the pick- 

 ing of other varieties was commenced in the 

 early part of October. 



The last Bartlctt pears to be accepted by 

 shippers under the contracts entered into with 

 the growers were loaded out at Yakima on 

 August 16. A special train of 50 cars was 

 made up and shipped east. This time limit 

 docs not apply to Bartletts raised on the hills, 

 which are from ten days to two weeks later 

 than those in the valley proper. About 500 

 cars of pears will be shipped from the Yakima 

 district this season, totalling in value $750,000. 



Work on the season's run of Bartlett pears 

 began on August 19 at the Libby, McNeill & 

 Libby cannery, when a crew of 300 started. 

 The cannery expects to handle a minimum of 

 500 boxes daily, and will use 150 tons of pears 

 weekly during the season. Manager R. C. Tur- 

 vin says the pears were in better condition 

 than he has ever seen them in the Yakima 

 valley, and anticipates no difficulty in having 

 them keep until the end of the run. 



An utter collapse of the market for summer 

 fruits was threatened during August because 

 of the shortage of sugar existing tJiroughout 

 the country, according to reports received at 

 Yakima. As a result the price of pears 

 dropped from •'?2 to $1.75, though practically 

 all the crop has been sold. Peaches that were 

 contracted for at $1 a box early in the season 

 dropped to 50 to 60 cents and buyers were not 

 eager to buy at those prices. 



Washington's commercial apple crop this 

 season will total 21,300 cars, an increase of 

 5,050 cars over the 1918 crop, according to 

 estimates issued recently by the federal bureau 

 of crop estimates. The combined apple ton- 

 nage of Idaho, Oregon and Washington is esti- 

 mated at 30,328 cars, an increase of 11,296 

 cars over the 1918 yield. 



Topping the market for this or any other 

 season, as far as known in the Yakima dis- 

 trict, is the price of $3.25 a box, in the or- 

 chard, for 2,500 boxes of Delicious apples 

 reported to be paid to Sanderson Brothers for 

 the fruit in their orchard this season. Tliey 

 sold the entire crop of 25 acres at a price 

 which will bring them .$10,000. the amount 

 they paid for the place when they acquired 

 the ranch five >"ears ago. 



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