April. 1920 



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the Ninthwest Fruit Growers* Exchange and 

 indivkhial capitalists. The plan is to form a 

 new company to absorb the present Arctic 

 Cold Storage and Warehouse Company, an es- 

 tablished concern of many years' standing, 

 with its miscellaneous cold storage business, 

 consisting of butter, eggs, beef and other food 

 products. This will be Unit C in the tinal 

 plant. The building will be of reinforced 

 concrete, four stories, with a foundation cap- 

 able of bearing four more stories later. It will 

 be modern in machinery and equipment and as 

 first constructed will have a capacity of 800 

 carloads of apples at one time in addition to 

 other products. When four more stories are 

 added its apple capacity will be 1000 carloads. 

 There will be 45,000 square feet of space to 

 each floor and a total of a million and a half 

 cubic feet of space. It is proposed to start 

 work on the building so that it will be com- 

 pleted in November. This territory produces 

 20,000 cars of apples annually, but shippers 

 cannot consign to Seattle for cold storage be- 

 cause of the back haul rates. 



The Price Manufacturing Company of Yak- 

 ima, is the name of a new company which has 

 taken over the manufacture of the Price fruit 

 sizer and other packing house equipment. The 

 members of the new firm are A. W. Richter 

 and C. A. Palmer. Mr. W\ G. Price, who was 

 the inventor of the apple sizing machine that 

 bears his name will be retained by the new 

 company in an advisory capacity. Mr. Rich- 

 ter, who is president of the new concern, is 

 a graduate of Cornell University, having 

 specialized in mechanical engineering. Mr. 

 Palmer is a graduate of Wliitman College and 

 has been instructor in chemistry and physics 

 at the Yakima High School for several years. 



In commenting on the outlook for the fruit 

 crop in the State of Washington for the com- 

 ing season, M. L. Dean, chief of the division 

 of horticulture of the Washington State De- 

 partment of Agriculture, summarizes as fol- 

 lows: "It is impossible to tell the exact extent 

 of winter injury to the stone fruits and bush 

 fruits until growth starts. Hence, pruning 

 of the soft fruits should be very carefully 

 done so as not to destroy any prospective 

 fruit buds. Reginning with District No. 1 in 

 the vicinity of Walla Walla, our present ob- 

 servations are tbat along the Snake River 

 territory, there will probably be about a 50 

 per cent crop of peaches and apricots, cherries 

 running from 75 per cent to 90 per cent. In 

 the vicinity of Clarkston there is little evident 

 damage at the present time. In the Walla 

 Walla section proper, there is not enough 

 damage to perceptibly affect a normal crop. 

 In the second district in the vicinity of Spo- 

 kane we find some damage to pears and cher- 

 ries, but no serious injury to apples. In the 

 Kettle Falls country, Stevens County, the tem- 

 peratures ranged below 20 and these is con- 

 siderable damage in sight, especially to the 

 stone fruits; pears are injured somewhat in 

 that territory. In the third district, the lower 

 S'akima country, the injury is spotted. There 

 are places where the cherries and peaclies 

 seem to be practically all killed, with some 

 blackening of the pear wood and evident in- 

 jury to the bud, but in other places the dam- 

 age is very slight and there is a promise of a 

 50 per cent crop. The apples do not show 

 any serious injury." 



IDAHO. 



The addition of an entomologist, an assist- 

 ant dairy specialist, and an assistant in rodent 

 control to the staff of specialists of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho Extension Division is an- 

 nounced. These, with the sheep specialist. 

 whose employment was announced a little 

 more than a week ago, will bring the number 

 of specialists to twenty-three. Resides these, 

 the federal predatory animal inspector for 

 Idaho has taken <)nices with the extension 

 staff and will work in cooperation with ex- 

 tension w orkers. Claude Wakeland of I-'ort 

 Collins, Colorado, who has been assistant 

 state entomologist for Colorado, is the new 

 extension entomologist. He will begin his 

 Idaho employment April 1. He will take up 

 the fight against the alfalfa weevil, the codling 

 moth, the grasshopper, cricket and other in- 

 sect pests. One of liis methods of fighting the 

 weevil will be to demonstrate the use of a 

 power sprayer on a Ford auto truck, a system 

 which has been employed in Colorado. Propa- 

 gation of parasites to destroy tlie weevil aiso 

 will be undertaken. Other extension special- 

 ists who will be coiniected with the horticul- 

 tural work of the University arc: 1". B. Hitch- 

 cock, soils specialist; E. R. Rennetl, Meld hor- 

 ticulturist; B. F. Sheehan, field agronomist and 

 state seed commissioner; C. R. Ahlson, assist- 

 and field agronomist; Jessie C. Ayres, state 

 seed analyst; Claire Hobson, assistant state 

 seed analyst. 



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