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Northwest Notes from Here and There 



OBEOON 



The Newberg High School has organized an 

 agricultural dcpartnient and in future will 

 nuike it part of the regular course to those 

 desiring to take it. Plant husbandry is being 

 taught the first year. Oliver F. Kilham, direc- 

 tor, states that the doparlment will appreciate 

 the cooperation of advertisers in Better Fruit 

 in placing the Newherg High School on their 

 mailing lists for literature of any kind that 

 will be of interest to the school. 



A very interesting and valuable bulletin on 

 pear harvesting and storage was recently is- 

 sued by the division of horticulture of the 

 Oregon Agricultural College. The bulletin was 

 compiled by Prof. C. I. Lewis, A. E. Murneek 

 and C. C. Gate. It can be obtained by apply- 

 ing to the college. 



The most interesting and largely attended 

 horticultural show which has been given by 

 the Oregon Agricultural College took place at 

 the college during the early part of November. 

 In addition to the fruits of Oregon, there were 

 shown horticultural exhibits from many other 

 states, and the exhibits whicli were divided 

 into four sections, included the products of 

 pomology, floriculture and olericulture, as 

 well as horticulture. 



A large membership in the Oregon Growers' 

 Cooperative Association is expected to result 

 from a mass meeting held at Medford recently. 

 Several hundred Rogue River valley fruit- 

 growers were present and gave evidence of 

 their interest and approval of the plan to 

 form a local association which will be affili- 

 ated with the statewide organization. 



The Umpqua Valley Fruit Union, at Rose- 

 burg, will become a part of the Oregon Grow- 

 ers' Cooperative Association, January 1. The 

 matter was decided at a recent meeting of the 

 Roseburg concern when its members voted to 

 sell its plant to the Oregon Growers' Associa- 

 tion. 



A recent census of the farm acreage of 

 Marion county shows that section of Oregon 

 to have a much larger acreage of fruit than 

 was generally supposed. The figures are as 

 follows: Apple trees bearing, 2124; apples 

 non-bearing, 507; cherry trees bearing, 512; 

 cherrv trees non-bearing, 456; peach trees 

 bearing, 319; peach trees non-bearing, 44; 

 pear trees bearing, 433; pear trees non- 

 bearing, 191 ; prune trees bearing, 6611 ; 

 prune trees non-bearing, 1695; walnut trees 

 bearing, 257; walnut trees non-bearing, 

 421; loganberries, 1922; blackberries and rasp- 

 berries, 324 ; strawberries, 386 ; other fruits 

 and nuts bearing, 97; other fruits and nuts 

 non-bearing, 61. 



Altogether there are 188.850 acres in Marion 

 county producing agricultural and horticul- 

 tural products. 



The announcement is made that Grants Pass 

 orchardists will have a much larger supply 

 of water next year than was possible this 

 season. This is being made possible by the 

 construction of many more miles of main and 

 lateral ditches by the Grants Pass Irrigation 

 District. Much of the new territory to be irri- 

 gated is set to apple trees, the owners of 

 which have heretofore been handicapped in 

 the development of their orchards by lack of 

 moisture. 



The first shipment of Oregon apples to the 

 Philippine Islands in any quantity was made 

 recentlv when 4.000 ho\Ps of Hood River fruit 

 was loaded out of Portland for Manila. 



Robert C. Paulus, manager of the Salem 

 Fruit Union, who is this year marketing over 

 300 cars of \Yillamette valley apples in addi- 

 tion to handling the tonnage of the Salem 

 institution, has again proven his ability in 

 marketing fruit to the best advantage. Mr. 

 Paulus sold the Rartlett pears of the union for 

 $85 per ton, and obtained from 72 to 75 cents 

 per pound for dried loganberries. The prunes 

 which he is handling it is stated will average 

 the growers better than 18 cents per pound. 



The activities of the Phez company, which 

 has its headquarters at Salem, Oregon, but 

 also operates plants in Washington, and pro- 

 duces loganberry and apple juice drinks, as 

 well as large quantities of jellies and jams 

 will greatly extend its activities next year. 

 This company is one of the heaviest adver- 

 tisers of Northwest fruit products on the 

 coast. Up to the present time its demand for 

 small fruits has been far greater than the 

 supply, and it is now conducting a campaign 

 to induce greater plantings of bush fruits in 

 both Oregon and Washington. 



With a huge banner on each car an English 

 apple exporting firm recently shipped 25 cars 

 of apples from Hood River in box cars, owing 



to the fact that it was impossible to obtain 

 refrigerator cars. Each car was supplied with 

 a heater and fuel, and several men were sent 

 with the train to sec that the fruit was prop- 

 erly ventilated or heated as the temperatures 

 enroute required. The fruit was shipped to 

 London. _____ 



It is now estimated that 5 per cent of the 

 apple crop in the Hood River valley was hit 

 by the severe frost which visited that valley 

 during the latter part of October. Part of 

 this 5 per cent was only slightly frosted, but 

 the Hood River Apple Growers* Association, 

 to be on the safe side, issued a bulletin to 

 the growers instructing them not to pack out 

 the frosted apples with those which were 

 picked before the frost occurred. Many of 

 the Hood River growers instead of packing 

 the frostrd fruit sent it to the cider and vine- 

 gar manufacturers. 



WASHINOTON 



A rapid development of loganberry plant- 

 ing in Western Washington counties is noted 

 by M. L. Dean, chief of the division of hort- 

 iculture of Washington. During the past sea- 

 son the canning factory at Chehalis paid 

 growers $75,000 for small fruits, Olympia con- 

 cerns paid out over $300,000. In the Puyallup 

 valley the yield of blackberries was 7,000,000 

 pounds, 90 per cent of which were put up by 

 the canneries at Puyallup and Sumner. The 

 yields of other berries in this section were 

 loganberries, 240,000 pounds; raspberries, 7,- 

 200,000 pounds; strawberries, 3,800,000 pounds. 



A carload of melons that were shipped out 

 of the Yakima district this year was a record 

 breaker for size. None of the melons weighed 

 less than 30 pounds, and a majority of them 

 weighed 50 pounds, according to the horti- 

 cultural inspector in that district. 



A Rome Beauty apple that weighed 1^ 

 pounds was recently exhibited at Prosser, 

 Wash. It was grown by H. E. Robinson. 



Growers of Winesap apples, in some sec- 

 tions of Washington, had the unusual ex- 

 perience this year of having the fruit drop 

 from the trees in large quantites before it 

 could be picked. Several reasons were ad- 

 vanced for this, one of them being that irri- 

 gation was stopped too early, causing the 

 fruit to ripen too fast. 



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