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BETTER FRUIT 



November, igig 



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ciod at the dryer. They are realizing from 

 .l;2no to ,^300 an aere from this year's crop. 

 Se\eral yoiinn orchards have been set out and 

 others wiM come to bearing next year. 



The I.ibby, McNeill & Libby cannery at Yak- 

 ima in its seasonal report says this year it 

 handled 565 carloads of fruit, for which it 

 paid the growers .$205,000, prices ranging from 

 .S2,330 for a carload of cherries to *50 for a 

 like amount of pumpkins. There was an ap- 

 preciable increase in the amount and variety 

 of produce used. The cannery is taking 100 

 larloads of pumpkins. In every case tlie 

 growers were paid more for their products 

 than required in the original contract. 



Apple shippers of Yakima consider the Bos- 

 ton health authorities' attitude against apples 

 showing spray entirely unreasonable, and are 

 unwilling to concede that there is any possi- 

 bility that the spray used could be deleterious. 

 Formerlv all fruit was wiped, but it was dis- 

 covered "the fruil kept better if this was not 

 done, and hence the custom was dropped. 

 Yakima shippers will take the ease up direct 

 with the Boston authorities, who are reported 

 to have rejected and forbidden the sale of a 

 carload of apples shipped by the E. E. Samson 

 Company. On account of the extra severe 

 battle waged against insect pests this year a 

 larger percentage of fruit was rolled out 

 marked by spray. 



IDAHO. 

 Payette County had the banner apple exhibit 

 at the Idaho State Fair and carried off 50 per 

 cent of the prizes. This county won the first 

 prize for its collective exhibit and secured 

 individual prizes that totaled |300. 



Those Idaho growers who were enterprising 

 enough to provide apple storage houses this 

 year are now said to be richly repaid, owing 

 to a car shortage. It is said that as a result 

 of this condition fully twenty-flve more stor- 

 ages will be built before another fruit harvest- 

 ing season rolls around. 



In the Southern Idaho district many defec- 

 tive apples are reported as the result of failure 

 to spray. Frosts in May are also said to have 

 cut down the Southern Idaho crop. 



S J Klepfer, inspector for the Bureau of 

 Markets, Department of Agriculture, announces 

 that permission has been obtained from the 

 authorities of the States of Wisconsin and New 

 York to ship worm and scab infected apples 

 from Idaho to those states for manufacturing 

 purposes only. 



A Boise fruit broker has announced that he 

 will take unlimited offerings of infected apples, 

 barring decayed only, at $25 a ton f.o.b. ship- 

 ping station for shipment to Wisconsin. 



The Idaho Horticultural Department is wag- 

 ing an unusuallv vigorous campaign against 

 infected, poorly graded and poorly packed 

 fruit. Twenty-five inspectors are at work in 

 the fruit growing communities watching the 

 marketing of this year's crop, with the inten- 

 tion of raising the standard of Idaho fruit to 

 the highest possible level. 



Inspector S. C. Vanderburg states that the 

 South Idaho orchards in the Boise and Payette 

 Valleys, Canyon County and the Twin Falls 

 district will have between 3,000 and 3,500 car- 

 loads of apples. 



MONTANA. 

 The Bitter Root Cannery at Stevensville, Mon- 

 tana, had a very successful year. Peas were 

 the main crop canned. A total of 35,500 cases 

 of peas were canned off about 375 acres, and 

 enough seed is on hand to plant the same acre- 

 age next year. The pea acreage is contracted 

 for by the cannery, which furnishes the seed 

 for the growers and pays them for the return 

 of the seed in the fall at the rate of three cents 

 a pound green or five cents a pound dry- '» 

 addition to the peas 1,000 dozen gallons of sour 

 cherries and 500 cases of string beans were 

 canned. Sour cherries are a success in the 

 Bitter Root Valley, and between the regular 

 market and the cannery all of the sour cher- 

 ries raised can be sold at a good price. 



Potatoes have proven to be a very profitable 

 crop in Montana this year. While some areas, 

 especially in Western Montana, yielded a total 

 of ten or twelve tons per acre, and even more 

 under the most favorable conditions, the aver- 

 age would not fall below five or six tons. The 

 price earlv in October was around $1.50 per 

 sack, but jumped to ?1.80 the middle of the 

 month. 



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