April, IQ20 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 35 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 

 Owing to the fact that pear growers in the 

 Rogue River Valley, Oregon, are being offered 

 .$45 per ton for their pears for canning pur- 

 poses this year the California Pear Growers' 

 Association is advising the Oregon growers not 

 lo sell at that figure as indications are that 

 canning pears will bring a much higher price. 

 A telegram recently received at Medford from 

 California advised the local Chamber of Com- 

 merce that buyers in the latter state were 

 offering .^S.'i per ton for the same stock that 

 they were trying lo buy in Oregon for $-15. 

 It is freely predicted at Medford that canning 

 pears will sell for §100 per ton before the 

 season is over. 



The fact that several million pounds of the 

 1919 crop of prunes remain unsold is causing 

 operators in the prune industry considerable 

 uneasiness, according to newspaper reports. 

 This large amount of holdover stock is ex- 

 pected to affect the price of the new crop of 

 prunes. 



A fruit ranch sale of interest recently took 

 place at Medford, when Lieutenant O. V. Mor- 

 row purchased Brookhurst, the large place 

 formerly owned by E. B. Pickel, near Med- 

 ford. The ranch, which consists of 153 acres, 

 60 acres of which are in pears, 6 acres in 

 apples and the rest in barley and alfalfa sold 

 for .$45,000. The entire acreage is under irri- 

 gation and is considered one of the best pro- 

 ducing fruit farms in the Medford district. 



According to E. M. Harvey, research man 

 for the Oregon Agricultural College, who has 

 been inspecting orchards in the Willamette 

 River and Rogue River Valleys to determine 

 the extent of the damage winter injury from 

 frost, the damage is comparatively slight. In 

 a recent statement Mr. Harvey says: "Greatest 

 injury is noticed in the lower and central sec- 

 tions of the Willamette Valley. In these sec- 

 tions the damage was due to the fact that 

 trees have not properly reached a dormant 

 state of growth and were thereby more sus- 

 ceptible to injury from frost. The Upper 

 W^illaniette Valley and Columbia Basin came 

 through almost intact as the trees were in a 

 better state of dormancy." An optimistic view 

 of conditions in Southern Oregon is held by 



Professor Harvey. Only a few isolated trees 

 show fatal injury. No extensive damage is 

 reported from the commercial orchards of the 

 Umpqua and Rogue River Valleys. "In the 

 Willamette Valley the discoloration of cam- 

 bium tissue on south side of trees just above 

 snow line caused alarm to fruit growers. This 

 discoloration has cleared away in many cases 

 and a vigorous growth has set in which would 

 indicate the ultimate recovery of the trees." 



Although the orchards in the Hood River 

 Valley were hit a little by the severe cold 

 weather in December, reports from that section 

 are to the effect that strawberries came through 

 in good shape and a fine yield and an early 

 crop is now expected. Buyers for canneries 

 are already reported to have been in the Hood 

 River Valley offering 14 cents per pound for 

 canning berries. 



The Umpqua Valley Fruit Union located at 

 Roseburg, which is winding up its apple 

 shipments for the 1919-1920 season has shipped 

 150 cars of apples. The acreage of apples 

 coming into bearing in this district is fast 

 increasing and the next few years will see a 

 large tonnage being shipped from this point. 

 The plantings in this district are in fine condi- 

 tion and the apples being produced are of 

 most excellent quality. 



That the fame of the loganberry has reached 

 Canada was shown in a recent purchase at 

 Salem of 40,000 tips which will be set out 

 in British Columbia. The tips were bought 

 by L. Chelvally, superintendent of the Borden 

 Milk Company's plant at Sardis, B. C. Mr. 

 Chevally, who owns a large acreage near that 

 place will set part of it to loganberries. 



Fruit growers in Lane County, near Eugene, 

 are contemplating setting a large acreage to 

 strawberries. The section that has been picked 

 out for the new planting is known as Lower 

 Fiddle Creek, where the soil is said to be 

 especially adapted to this berry. In order to 

 give the fruit growers of this district better 

 transportation facilities the county authorities 

 are preparing to build several miles of high- 

 way to reach the railroad direct. Canning 

 berries in the Eugene district brought as high 

 as 15 cents per pound last year. 



The Phez Farms Corporation, a company 

 connected with the Phez Company of Salem. 

 is setting out 30,000 strawberry "plants this 

 spring. The planting is being don-- on a large 

 acreage recently acquired in what is known 

 as South Bottom. The varieties being set oin 

 are the Wilson, Trebla and Ettersburg^ 



The Hood River cider and vinegar plant 

 recently completed its apple crushing opera- 

 tions for the season. The season's run was 

 the heaviest in the history of the plant, the 

 amount of fruit made into cider and vinegar 

 approximating 10,000 tons. 



Reports from Salem, the center of the logan- 

 berry industry, are to the effect that buyers 

 are offering still higher prices for these ber- 

 ries for the coming season. Offers of 15 cents 

 per pound were recently reported from that 

 section with only a few contracts made at this 

 price. The high figure is said to be due to 

 the fact that the crops in many of the berry 

 fields will be cut down by the injury from the 

 freeze in December. 



Britt Aspinwall, one of the heaviest pro- 

 ducers of loganberries in the Willamette Val- 

 ley, reports having received orders for 500,000 

 plants this spring. The orders for these plants 

 have come from all sections of the Pacific 

 Coast and although the price has jumped to 

 §50 per thousand, buyers are reported to be 

 eager to buy them even at that figure. 



The Phez Company of Salem, recently con- 

 tracted for an acreage of strawberries from 

 the place of C. W. Swallow, near Oregon City 

 for $160 per ton for 1920 and $140 per ton 

 for the crop in 1921. Several other contracts 

 of this character are reported to have been 

 made in the Oregon City district. 



The announcement is made that Frank Moore 

 of Walla Walla, Wash., who owns an apple 

 orchard in the Upper Hood River Valley will 

 soon commence the construction of a modern 

 packing plant and storage house to handle 

 his increasing apple crop. The building will 

 be constructed of concrete and will be thret 

 stories high. In the upper story there will 

 be accommodations for the help needed at 

 harvest time. 



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