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AYitli 21,000 ncrcs of fruit sigiioii up hy the 

 Oregon (•rowers' Cooperative Assciciatioii, the 

 management of tlie nri-iinization is now turn- 

 ing its attention to providing the plants nec- 

 essary to handle the tonnage during the coming 

 season. While no announcement has been 

 made as to just where these plants will be 

 located as vet. the ollicers of the association 

 have under consideration tentative plans which 

 are expected to be put into execution shortly. 



An innovation that is causing considerable 

 interest among fruit men in the Medford dis- 

 trict is the announcement of the installation 

 by the liardwell Fruit Company of two box 

 making machines. These machines are the 

 first of this kind to be installed in this district 

 and will have a capacity of 2.000 boxes per 

 day The Rardwell Company is establishing 

 equipment in its plant which it expects to 

 almost entirely ilo away with hand labor in 

 packing fruit.' The equipment consists of a 

 Cutler grading machine, Doig box nailing ma- 

 chine and a Matthews gravity conveyor system. 



WASHINGTON. 

 Fruit growers and others interested in the 

 better transportation of fruit and produce 

 from the Wenatchee district are much encour- 

 aged over the outcome of a meeting recently 

 held at Wenatchee to consider the proposition 

 of building a railroad from that district to 

 Pasco to connect with the transcontinental 

 lines which touch that point. At the meeting 

 which was held under the auspices of the 

 Wenatchee Commercial Club, 2.') per cent of 

 the cost of the road was pledged by Wenatchee 

 citizens. With this amount of the cost of 

 building the road assumed by popular sub- 

 scription it is believed that the remaining 

 amount necessary can be taken care of by 

 issuing bonds. As planned the first link of 

 the road, which would follow the Columbia 

 River would extend from Wenatchee to Bev- 

 erly where it would connect with the Mil- 



5 Great Novelties 



^U CISi crimson Wool- 

 f lower recently intro- 

 duced by ushas succeeded 

 everywhere and proved 

 to be the moat showy gar- 

 dt-n annual. Nothing 

 can Burpass the mass of 

 bloom which it ehows all 

 Summer and Fall. 



We now have three new 

 colors — pink, yellow and 

 Bcarlet, aswellascrimson. 

 All these colors mixed. 

 20 cts. per pkt. 



With earh order we 

 send 1 trial pkt. each of 

 Giant Kochia, most deco- 

 rative foH;ige annual. 

 Salvia Hybridst white, 

 pink. Ptrlped. Bcarlet. plumed, etc.. mixed 

 Japan Iris, new hybrids, all colors. Magniticent, 

 Giant Centaurea, superb for girden or vases. 



And our Big Catalog, all for 20 cts. 

 Big Catalog, free. All flower and ve[.'etal)le sends, 

 bullis plants and new berries. We grow the finest 

 Gl idioU Dahlias, Cannas. lri«es. Peonies, Perennials. 

 Shrubs. Vines. Ferns. Peas. Asters. Pansies. etc AU 

 Bpecial prize strains, and many sterling novelt les. 

 JOHN LEWIS CHILDS. Inc. Floral Park, N.Y, 



BETTER FRUIT 



waukee railroad. Ultimately, however, it is 

 planned to extend the road on to Pasco. The 

 amount considered necessary to liiiild tlie road 

 is .$.'■>, 000,000. It is proposed to raise 9i.')00,000 

 of this amount among the citizens of Northern 

 Washington. 



In addressing a meeting of 200 berry grow- 

 ers recently at Seattle, J. \.. Stahl, horticultur- 

 ist at the Weslern Washington Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, advised prospective berry 

 growers not to put all their fruit in one basket, 

 or in other words to diversify. In this con- 

 neclion Mr. Stahl said: "If I had ten acres 

 of land and was going into berry growing I 

 would not devote it exclusively to one fruit. 

 I would plant a variety. On the gravelly 

 spots I would put in strawberries, in the 

 light soil red raspberries, and in the heavier 

 soils loganberries or blackberries. Occasion- 

 ally, even in this favored country some crop 

 will fail, and if your berry crops are diversi- 

 fied you will fare better." 



In District No. 4, Mr. Darlington reports 

 some damage to stone fruits, apricots and 

 peaches showing the most injury, but he looks 

 for a normal crop of apples. In the Yakima 

 section. District .5, the conditions range about 

 the same as in District No. 3. In some peach 

 orchards we find a very large per cent of live 

 buds, enough to warrant a good crop, while in 

 others the conditions are quite the reverse. 

 Pears were also injured in some parts of the 

 Yakima country, as well as cherries. In the 

 sixth district, the prune section of the state, 

 Mr. Fletcher reports a slight injury to the 

 prune crop, but believes that under favorable 

 conditions we have reason to expect a reason- 

 able crop of prunes. In other counties on 

 the west side, where we find the principal 

 bush fruit interests, there is evidently some 

 injury to the loganberry canes which were 

 left on the trellises, but those which were still 

 on the ground show but little injury. Mr. 

 Huff has reported some damage to the rasp- 

 berry canes, but he cannot tell the extent of 

 it at this time. 



At the annual meeting of the Y'ellow Pine 

 Box and Lumber Company at Yakima, a re- 

 port of the business for last year showed 

 that 1)00,000 fruit boxes were manufactured 

 and delivered and that all preferred stock- 

 holders received boxes at 13 cents a box. The 

 company paid 8 per cent dividends to pre- 

 ferred stockholders, besides making a sub- 

 stantial surplus earning. Between 800,000 and 

 1,000,000 boxes will be manufactured this year. 

 A limited portion of the output is now being 

 sold to preferred stockholders at 23 cents 

 per box. 



Tlie loading of apples in box cars for ship- 

 ment east has been started in the Wenatchee 

 district, and in the opinion of local shippers 

 this method is the only one that offers any 

 hope for moving the crop. Arrivals of empty 

 refrigerator cars continue to be at a low ebb, 

 only about 10 or 12 cars a day being received. 

 Total shipments to date amount to 10,632 car- 

 loads of apples, leaving nearly 1500 cars still 

 to be forwarded. 



April, Ip20 



Plans for four new apple warehouses, to 

 cost from .•?10,000 to S20,(IIKI each, to be erected 

 this year, have been favorably considered by 

 trustees of the .Spokane Fruit drowers' Coni- 

 panv. The company contemplated the erection 

 this summer of warehouses at Orant Orchards, 

 C.reeuacres, Coeur d'Alene and Sunset. The 

 proposed warehouses will have storage facili- 

 ties for 40,000 to 80,000 boxes each. They will 

 be frame construction with fliled walls. The 

 company's experience during the cold spell 

 of last December was thai fruit withstood the 

 extreme weather better in such warehouses. 

 They can be made ready for the 1920 crop. 

 The' erection of a fruit storage warehouse of 

 several hundred cars capacity at Otis Or- 

 chards by the Karl Fruit Company, as an addi- 

 tion to the company's packing and storage 

 plant already there, is being considered. 



Indications are that Yakima cider plants, 

 which annually pav growers of the valley in 

 the neighborhood of .$75,000 for cull apples 

 will go out of business this season and the 

 plants be converted to other uses. Operators 

 declare it is impossible to manufacture com- 

 mercial cider which will not develop an 

 alcoholic content in a short time exceeding 

 the lawful amount. 



A new- cold storage warehouse of four stories 

 and a capacity of 800 cars of apples, in addi- 

 tion to space for the storage of a vast quantity 

 of other perishable food produce, will be 

 erected in Spokane at an approximate cost of 

 ,$600,000. J. W. Turner, manager of the Arctic 

 Cold Storage and Warehouse Company, is 

 heading the project and it is supported by the 

 allied interests of Spokane, including the Earl 

 Fruit Company, the Spokane Fruit Growers, 



G.L.Davenport 



Grower and 

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