March, 1920 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 42 



survive the December freeze. Th number of 

 these trees, however, is reported as negligible. 

 Even in frost susceptible districts the buds 

 were found to be about as hardy as the sap- 

 wood, both of which were found to be but 

 little injured. 



WASHINGTON 

 The Selah Fruit Growers, Inc., with a mem- 

 bership of 250 growers has taken over the big 

 cold storage plant formerly operated by the 

 Selah Fruit & Cold Storage Company. The 

 plant has a capacity of 225 cars of cold and 

 25 cars of common storage and will be under 

 the supervision of S. M. McKee, president of 

 the growers' association. It is modernly 

 equipped, having been built only two years 

 ago. In addition to the recently purchased 

 cold storage plant the organization owns a 

 large warehouse and an evaporator which this 

 season dried 4,000 tons of cull apples. 



In a contest that was recently waged in the 

 Yakima Valley to determine the largest re- 

 turns in that section from one acre of fruit, 

 C. L. Glidden showed a return of $1,925 from 

 an acre of 12-year-old Bing, Royal Anne and 

 Black Republican cherry trees. In addition to 

 this Mr. Glidden grew $75 worth of other 

 produce on the same acre. Another claimant 

 for the blue ribbon was Warren F. Flagg, who 

 submitted figures showing that he had sold 

 $1,703 worth of Winter Nellis pears from a 

 one-acre tract. It was finally agreed, however, 

 that C. A. Westaby, who brought figures show- 

 ing that he had realized $1,428 from three- 

 fifths of an acre of Bing and Royal Anne 

 cherries and had sold the cherries loose, elim- 

 inating the expense of packing and boxes was 

 entitled to first honors. 



The Perham Fruit Co., has announced that 

 it will enter the Grandview fruit field this year 

 and will build a warehouse there unless it is 

 able to lease suitable warehouse space. 



E. A. Mansfield, who has leased the ware- 

 house formerly owned by the White Salmon 

 Growers' Association at White Salmon, will 

 enter the strawberry handling field in the 

 mid-Columbia district during the coming 

 season. 



The Mt. Adams Farms Co., which has large 

 orchard holdings near Gilmer, Washington, 

 marketed 8,000 boxes of pears last fall that av- 

 eraged $2.95 a box. A large quantity of other 

 fruit was also marketed. The company will 

 build two new packing houses this year and 

 install a large amount of new equipment. 

 Five acres will be set out to strawberries this 

 spring. 



Young prune and walnut trees in the Wash- 

 ougal district are reported to have been se- 

 verely hit by frost during the winter. The 

 trees that were damaged the most were those 

 that had received intensive cultivation late In 

 the fall and had been kept growing by the 

 fall rains. 



A jury at Yakima before whom was tried a 

 suit brought by A. C. Heinle against the Pen- 

 nington Fruit & Produce Co., to enforce the 

 fulfilling of a contract, split the difference be- 

 tween the contending parties and awarded 

 Heinle damages amounting to $1,998, one-half 

 the amount sued for. The contention of Heinle 

 was that he had a contract with the produce 

 company to purchase 20,000 boxes of peaches 

 from him at 75 cents a box and that the .com- 

 pany refused to fulfill the agreement. Between 

 the time of marketing the fruit and the trial 

 of the suit it was claimed by Heinle that an 

 employe of the produce company had obtained 

 the contract and burned it. The defense of 

 the produce company was that the contract 

 contained an optional cancellation clause. 



P. R. Parks of Spokane, general manager of 

 the Stookum Packers' Association, recently 

 returned from a visit to California where he 

 made a study of the operations of the coopera- 

 tive fruit marketing associations of that state. 

 Mr. Parker is strongly urging the growers of 

 Washington to form similar organizations. 



At a recent meeting of the Puyallup & Sum- 

 ner Fruitgrowers' Association the shareholders 

 adopted a resolution to distribute $64,000 in 

 profits and accumulated interest. It is expected 

 that the distribution will be in the form of a 

 10 per cent cash dividend and the balance in 

 stock in the canning company. 



The Wapato Fruit & Cold Storage Company 

 recently awarded a contract for the building 

 of an addition to its plant which will be 

 tOOxlOO feet and will adjoin its present build- 

 ing. The new building will be utilized for 

 packing during the fruit season and for stor- 

 ing boxes and other supplies carried by the 



company. It is the intention of the company 

 also to add cold storage to the upper story of 

 their present plant. 



The annual convention of the Western Wash- 

 ington Horticultural Association which was 

 held last month was marked by a good at- 

 tendance and an interesting program. The 

 speakers during the sessions of the convention 

 were M. L. Dean, chief of the Division of 

 Horticulture in the State Department of Agri- 

 culture; W. H. Paulhamus and George P. 

 Stuart of Monroe, secretary of the association; 

 J. A. Hays of Tacoma; Prof. R. J. Barnett of 

 the Washington State College; John B. Wiley 

 and Arthur Frank of the Western Washing- 

 ton Experiment Station. Robert T. Reid of 

 Bellevue is president of the association. 



In summing up the extent of the frost 

 damage in the Grandview district, District 

 Horticultural Inspector Close says that "cherry 



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