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BETTER FRUIT 



November, 1919 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 

 The announconicnt >vas made at Salem re- 

 cently that the Steward Products Company, 

 wliich will manufacture Havoring extracts, pie 

 Oiling, egg substitutes, apple butter, baking 

 powders and many other articles, adds another 

 institution which will be a help to the fruit 

 industry in that city. The new firm will em- 

 ploy about twenty-five people at the start and 

 expects to commence operations as soon as the 

 equipment can be installed. 



The Minto prune orchard, one of the largest 

 in the Willamette Valley and located five miles 

 from Salem, was sold recently for |30,000. 

 The new owner is George W. Shand of the 

 Salem Iron Works. 



The using of a large tonnage of grapes by the 

 Phez Company at Salem this year for jams and 

 jellies will, it is believed, result in greatly 

 stimulating the grape industry in that section. 

 The fact that Ibis company is utilizing 110 tons 

 of giapes this year is causing the planting of 

 a number of additional vineyards in that 

 section. 



A labor shortage in many of the apple grow- 

 ing districts in Oregon was reported during the 

 month. In some of these districts a large num- 

 ber of pickers arrived in the various towns 

 with the expectation that they could make from 

 $6 to $8 per day. When they found that they 

 were unable to do this many of the pickers 

 refused to work. 



Mosier orchards, it is reported, will be 

 greatly enlarged if growers there can obtain 

 the stock. The largest planting will be made 

 In prunes if orchardlsts in that section can get 

 the nursery stock. 



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A large acreage, it is reported, will be planted 

 in berries in Clatsop County next spring. The 

 varieties to be set out will include loganber- 

 ries, blackcaps, strawberries and Cuthbert 

 raspberries. 



The record shipment of fruit from the Rogue 

 River Valley is predicted for this year. It is 

 stated that 1,000 cars of fruit will be shipped 

 from this section before the 1919 season closes. 

 Buyers of fruit for dryers and cider plants are 

 active there and have bought many tons for 

 these purposes. 



The prune harvest in the Willamette Valley 

 was completed about October 5 and the crop 

 is reported to have averaged about 85 per cent 

 of normal. In some sections the crop averaged 

 only 50 per cent, while in others it is reported 

 to liave been above normal. 



Horacio Parada and George Silva, two Chil- 

 ean citizens, recently spent a month in the 

 Hood River district studying the methods used 

 there in growing and packing apples. Mr. 

 Parada recently took a two years' course in 

 horticulture at Stanford University and Mr. 

 Silva entered the Agricultural College at Pull- 

 man, Washington, this year for the same pur- 

 pose. According to these visitors, Chile is 

 going into the orchard industry on an exten- 

 sive scale. 



The Hood River Apple Growers' Association 

 has just secured 200 feet of additional frontage 

 on the railroad and it is stated that the asso- 

 ciation plans a large development in fruit by- 

 product manufacture next spring. 



The packing plant recently opened at Rose- 

 burg by the California Packing Company cor- 

 poration is said to be the largest of its kind in 

 the Northwest and is modern in every detail. 

 It is equipped with a restroom and other com- 

 forts and conveniences for its employes. Rose- 

 burg now has three fruit packing plants, the 

 other two being those of the Drager Company 

 and the H. S. Gile Company. 



The Eugene Fruit Growers' Association has 

 been successful in exporting apples so far this 

 year. Several carloads have been forwarded to 

 England at top prices and others it is expected 

 will soon be sent across. According to J. O. 

 Boll the prune crop in the Eugene district this 

 year was about 50 per cent of normal. 



Indications now point to at least 20,000 acres 

 of Western Oregon orchards being enrolled in 

 the new Oregon Growers' Cooperative Associa- 

 tion. Many large orchards are reported to have 

 been signed up recently and many new mem- 

 bers were secured during the State Fair at 

 Salem. The output from the orchards already 

 secured is expected to run between 500 and 800 

 cars. Arrangements are being made by the 

 association to equip the community packing 

 houses that it will control next year with the 

 most modern appliances and equipment. 



The adjustment of the British railroad strike 

 was welcome news to Northwest apple growers 

 who had sold their crops to British importers. 

 The settlement of the strike is reported to have 

 resulted in a much better tone in the foreign 

 market already. 



T. B. Evans & Son are reported to have taken 

 a crop of 5,000 boxes of tomatoes from five 

 acres of land near Dillard this year. The fruit 

 brought a price of more than 40 cents per box. 



WASHINGTON. 

 Through the initiative of the Northwestern 

 Fruit Exchange many of the leading apple 

 shippers and organizations in Wenalchee, Yak- 

 ima, Hood River and the Spokane districts 

 have raised a fund of $50,000 which will be 

 used in advertising Jonathans to Eastern and 

 Middle Western consumers. The campaign is 

 already under way in the leading magazines 

 and newspapers of the country. 



The new apple evaporator recently opened at 

 Selah has a capacity of thirty to forty tons of 

 green fruit per day and employs about seventy- 

 five people. The plant represents an invest- 

 ment of $65,000. 



A shortage of cider presses is reported from 

 Clarke County, Washington. The last one in 

 that district was sold on October 9 and no new- 

 stock was in sight. 



Lyle, which hasn't figured very strongly in 

 the "apple growing game heretofore, will ship 

 fifty cars of apples this year. 



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