November, ipip 



Charles R. Crewdson, a leading Wenatchee 

 orchardist, makes the statement that fruit 

 growers of the Wenatchee district have lost 

 $20,000,000 by not advertising their apples dur- 

 ing the past seven years. Mr. Crewdson says 

 that every grower in the Wenatchee district 

 could V. ell afford to give 3 per cent of his gross 

 returns to an advertising fund to be used 

 throughout the year, instead of spending a 

 small amount in this way about Christmas 

 time. 



The 1919 blackberry pack of the Puyallup 

 and Sumner Fruit Growers' Association totaled 

 96,000 cases and was sold before the canning 

 season was closed. The payroll for the plant 

 for August was ^628,000. 



White Salmon reports an unusually heavy 

 apple crop this year. It is stated that practi- 

 cally all the trees in the orchards there had U 

 be propped to carry their big load of fruit, 

 which is of fine quality. 



In honor of the prune, which is the greatest 

 crop in Clarke County, it is proposed to name 

 one of the leading streets there Prune Boule- 

 vard and to plant prunes and walnuts alter- 

 nately along the thoroughfare. 



Eighty-one Japanese farm 6,800 acres, or ap- 

 proximately one-tenth of the irrigated area of 

 the Yakima Indian reservation, according to 

 figures from the records of the United States 

 Indian Irrigation OfTice. These Japanese prac- 

 tically control the reservation melon output. 



By giving a bond that cull apples will not be 

 used for any other purpose than for by-prod- 

 ucts, the Interstate Commerce Commission will 

 allow Washington shippers to dispose of their 

 defective fruit outside of the state. It is said 

 that this action will allow growers to get from 

 $8 to $10 moi-e per ton for their culls than 

 they would receive if they sold them locally. 

 In some sections of Washington $15 per ton is 

 being paid for packing house culls and $12 for 

 windfalls. 



The Washington Dehydrated Food Company 

 of Yakima is erecting a new plant and expects 

 to handle 2,000 tons of cull apples this season. 

 It is reported also that this company plans to 

 erect a dryer at Grandview. 



The apple tonnage from Underwood is ex- 

 pected to be about 100 cars and will be handled 

 by the Underwood Fruit Growers' Association. 



Five thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one 

 cars of fruits of all kinds had been shipped 

 from Yakima up to October 1. 



Cashmere growers are congratulating them- 

 selves on the fact that they now have a drying 

 plant which is taking their cull fruit, in addi- 

 tion to providing a substantial payroll for a 

 number of local people. 



Fearing the operations of the I. W. W. in en- 

 deavoring to influence the harvesting forces in 

 many of the Northwest apple growing districts, 

 residents at Grandview considered the matter 

 of reorganizing the Home Guard to guard 

 against such a contingency during the past 

 month. At Hood River, Oregon, prompt action 

 by the authorities nipped a proposed I. W. W. 

 campaign in that section in the bud. 



While a shortage of boxes was feared early 

 in the season in Washington and other North- 

 west states, later reports were to the effect that 

 the supply \Nas equal to the demand. Growers 

 who \\aited until late to order their supplies 

 are the only one who are now said to be 

 experiencing any difficulty in getting boxes. 



According to Fred Eberle, manager of the 

 Yakima Horticultural Union, apples in that 

 section are showing a loss in culls of from 

 15 to 50 per cent, due to scale and worms. 

 High winds just before the apples were picked 

 shook hundreds of tons of fruit from the trees, 

 Mr. Eherlc states, rendering them only fit for 

 the cider mill. 



Washington shipped 282 carloads of apples 

 to eighteen different cities October 14. Idaho 

 shipped 101 carloads to eight cities. The total 

 for the Inland Empire was 1,110 carloads. 

 Between l.flOO and 1,200 persons are now en- 

 gaged on the 1919 apple crop in Spokane Val- 

 ley. Varieties now moving are Jonathans, 

 Wagencrs, Delicious and Grimes Golden for the 

 most part. No serious car shortage has oc- 

 curred as yet. 



The .\llen Evaporating Company's plant at 

 Elberton, Washington, has commenced opera- 

 tions. This year's prune crop is the best the 

 growers have had for years and the price is 

 higher. Growers are getting $50 a ton deliv- 



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