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BETTER FRUIT 



Apple growers, in the vicinity of Selah, ore 

 considering the erection of a common storage 

 plant that will hold 500 to 800 cars of fruit. 

 The lack of storage facilities this year is said 

 to have emphasized the need of greatly in- 

 creased storage. 



Washington's apple crop, November 1, 

 amounted to 19,135,8'JO bushels, based upon 

 a total production which is 89 per cent of 

 that normally produced in a favorable season, 

 according to the report issued by G. S. Hay 

 of the Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

 Last year's production was 16,459,000 bushels. 

 Quality of the crop is 87 per cent, as com- 

 pared with 88 per cent one year ago. 



As the season progresses the magnitude of 

 Eastern Washington's apple crop and fruit 

 yield generally is emphasized. Final esti- 

 mates of the apple crop of the Wenatchee 

 district, including Chelan, Okanogan and 

 Grant counties, indicate a total yield of more 

 than 11,000 carloads, an increase of 30 per 

 cent over 1918. The newer apple districts on 

 the Columbia river show the largest increases. 

 Thus Entiat is credited with 700 cars. Lake 

 Chelan vicinity 625 cars, Pateros 475, Brewster 

 440, Malott 150, Okanogan 300 and Omak 800. 



A total of 10,325 cars of fruit are reported 

 shipped up to November 1 from the Yakima 

 section, of which 5200 have been soft fruit. 

 There is a shortage of cars, but the railroads 

 are credited with accomplishing substantially 

 more this year than ever before in respect to 

 moving the crop promptly. 



Spokane county has shipped 714 cars of 

 apples this season up to November 1, while 

 Stevens county has sent out 145 cars and 

 Lincoln county 91. 



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Portland, Oregon 



The palm for intensive production in Yaki- 

 ma valley has been awarded to John G. Hart- 

 man, who took $11,861 from an 11-acre ranch. 

 The returns were as follows: Pears, $6800; 

 peaches, $3600; prunes, $1295, and small 

 amounts from grapes, plums and cherries. 

 A few years ago this place was in such a run- 

 down condition that it was hardly regarded 

 as worthy of development. 



Becently C. L. Robinson, district horticul- 

 tural inspector, announced a ruling that no 

 frozen apples would be shipped unless mark- 

 ed frozen, and sent direct to by-products 

 plants. The edict destroys the hope of many 

 growers and shippers, that it would be 

 possible to thaw frozen friiit and send it as 

 fancy stuff. Robinson, one of the most con- 

 servative estimators of frost damage, says 

 the order affects at least 300 cars, estimated 

 at a value of $450,000. While inspecting pro- 

 duce from warehouses, Robinson found a crew 

 behind closed doors engaged in packing frozen 

 fruit for shipment. The stuff was confiscated 

 and the proprietor warned that any repetition 

 of the offense would result in court action. 

 All dealers are warned they must pack in the 

 open. 



Tlie apple crop of the Spokane valley is 

 practically completed and the bulk of the 

 fruit is on rail. The estimate of 900 cars 

 seems in a fair way to be realized. Earl 

 Fruit company with packing plants at Otis 

 Orchards and various other points, states 

 that its business is double that of 1918, and 

 that it will pay northwest growers more than 

 $4,000,000. 



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During the apple harvest in the little village 

 of Fruilland, the orchards were filled with 

 the tents of tlie pickers, and even the public 

 school buildings were used to liouse apple 

 pickers. The first week of harvesting, 37 cars 

 of apples were sliipped from Fruitland. 



The Palouse corporation operating a dry 

 land orchard at Fairfield, Spokane county, is 

 reported to have shipped this season 75,000 

 boxes from its 1000-acre tract. The same com- 

 pany operates 300 acres of orchard at Waverly 

 and 500 acres at Meadow Lake in the same 

 county. The packing plant at Waverly is fill- 

 ed and the overlow is being stored in a 

 church. 



During one week 1152 cars of fruit, practi- 

 cally all apples, rolled to market from Yak- 

 ima, Wash. Estimated value of the week's 

 shipments is $2,000,000. Wenatchee and Yak- 

 ima apple shippers have cornered the cold 

 storage space in Spokane. It is stated at the 

 offices of the Spokane Fruit Growers company 

 that space for anoUier box of apples could 

 not be purchased in the city. 



The Wenatchee valley apple crop this year 

 will bring the growers $20,000,000, according 

 to W. T. Triplett. secretary of the Spokane 

 and Eastern Trust company, after a motor trip 

 through Central Washington. "It is estimated 

 that the valley will have 9000 to 10,000 cars 

 of apples this season," said Mr. Triplett. 

 "The valley is so prosperous and there is so 

 much surplus money available that the suc- 

 cessful growers are looking to the Okanogan 

 country, north of them, as their logical field 

 for expansion. The new irrigation projects 

 under way in that section are opening up a 

 vast new apple territory and Wenatchee grow- 

 ers are buying land there." 



Payette has started a campaign to destroy 

 gophers. The plan suggested is to make one 

 day in each week gopher day, and have every- 

 body devote the day to poisoning these little 

 animals. The poison being used is alkaloid 

 strychnine and saccharine, which is put in- 

 to slices of apples and carrots. Enough of 

 this material to cover 40 to 60 acres can be 

 obtained for $2.40, according to the Payette 

 county farm bureau. 



The canning factory, at Payette, had a very 

 successful season, it is reported. Tliere was 

 a good demand, and high prices, for the entire 

 output of the factory. About 100 people were 

 employed during the canning season and 

 $15,000 was paid out for fruit. 



Idaho, like other sections of the Northwest, 

 was seriously hit by the car shortage. At 

 one time one district had 600 boxes of fruit 

 tliat was exposed to the weather on account 

 of lack of cars for transportation. The 

 situation is said now to have been materially 

 relieved. 



What They're Doing in California 



A recent article in the Monthly Bulletin, of 

 California State Department of Agriculture, 

 tells of an ingenious way of attempting to 

 smuggle into that state Florida grapefruit, 

 which is barred from California by quaran- 

 tine laws to stop the importation of citrus 

 pests. The grape fruit was sent by express to 

 Riverside from Chicago, and owing to the way 

 the boxes were wrapped attracted the atteo- 

 tion of the quarantine officer. When the boxes 

 were inspected they were found to contain 

 Florida grape fruit, but were labelled Oregon 

 apples. The grape fruit was found to be in- 

 fected with purple scale. 



The California Prune and Apricot Growers' 

 Association will erect two packing plants in 

 the San Joaquin valley in order to handle 

 next year's fruit crop. One of these plants, 

 which will cost $100,000, and will he con- 

 structed of reinforced concrete, will be built 

 at Visalia, and work on it will be commenced 

 the first of the year. 



The apple shipping season in Northern Cal- 

 ifornia this year was the most profitable in 

 Its history. Owing to the heavy demand for 

 apples last year, old orchards that had been 

 neglected for a long time were pruned, spray- 

 ed and cultivated this summer with the result 

 that several districts that had stopped ship- 

 ping apples, his year marketed many car- 

 loads. 



The University of California, which ex- 

 perimented this year with drying peaches with 

 the pits left in them, is reported to have 

 achieved remarkable success, and opened the 

 way to saving an immense quantity of small 

 clingstone peaches that heretofore had been 

 wasted. The process as described by H. 

 Sevier, foreman of the University Farm at 

 Davis, California, is as follows: Cut several 

 circles around the peach at right angles to 

 each other and allow the pit to remain within. 

 The peaches are then laid on trays, sprinkled 

 with water, put in the sulphur house and 

 sulphured very thoroughly. They are then 

 put in the sun to dry and will dry down from 

 three pounds fresh to one dry. In preparing 

 the peaches for eating they are soaked until 

 they attain normal size and the slits close up. 



The State Department of Agriculture of 

 California, which is being kept busy enforc- 

 ing the new California fresh fruit standardi- 

 zation law, gives three reasons for the abso- 

 lute enforcement of the law that are well 

 worth remembering. They are: 



1. Protection to the grower, who has prop- 

 erly cared for his orchard, and therefore has 

 a first grade fruit to market. 



2. Protection to the grower or dealer who 

 is establishing a reputation for handling a 

 clean product honestly packed. 



3. Assurance to the consumer of receiving a 

 standard product. 



The Pomona Valley Dehydrating company, 

 which is now in full operation, is said to bear 

 the distinction of having the first commercial 

 dehydrating plant for wine grapes in the 

 United States, or in the world, according to 

 S. A. Burrows, its inventor. At the end of 

 the first day's run the plant had handled 10 

 tons of wine grapes, half of which would 

 have been absolutely useless for any other 

 purpose because of their overipe and broken 

 condition, due to rainy weather. 



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