December, 191Q 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growing 



Gerald Da Costa, of London, who has been 

 receiving Hood River apples for sale in Eng- 

 land for the past nine years writes Bettur 

 Fruit that the market for Pacific Northwest 

 fruits is ruling high at the present time. Mr. 

 Da Costa savs that two cars of California 

 Cornice pears in half boxes recently sold in 

 London for 20 to 24 shillings a box, and that 

 a car of D'Anjou pears from the Rogue River 

 valley sold for 32 to 36 shillings per box. 

 Oregon Newtowns, according to Mr. Da Costa 

 are expected to bring around 20 shillings a 

 box. 



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J. A. Campbell, assistant director of tlie 

 horticultural division, Department of Horti- 

 culture, of Wellington, New Zealand, was an 

 interesting visitor at the office of Betieb 

 Fruit recently. Mr. Campbell was in the 

 Northwest studying the methods in use by 

 fruitgrowers, and frankly stated that the Aus- 

 tralian states expected to become keen com- 

 petitors of the Pacific Northwest in the Euro- 

 pean fruit markets, and also to make an at- 

 tempt to establish markets for fruit in the 

 United States. 



Tasmania recently shipped 40,000 cases of 

 jam to this country, and it is reported tliat 

 other shipments will follow. 



Two large bears were recently killed in a 

 Hood River orchard. The animals had been 

 feeding on the fruit for some time, causing 

 considerable destruction to the trees. 



Of the 2,000,000 boxes of apples shipped 

 out of the Hood River valley this year, it is 

 estimated that 1,900,000 of them were hauled 

 to the valley shipping points in motor trucks. 



The California Walnut Growers' Association 

 sold 23,000 tons of walnuts within 36 hours 

 after the opening prices were announced, and 

 within three days had to decline orders aggre- 

 gating 93 carloads more, despite heavy im- 

 portations of nuts from abroad. The associa- 

 tion put on a nationwide advertising campaign 

 tlirough the national journals to reach the 

 consumer. 



According to historical data which is said 

 to have recently come to light, the first apple 

 harvest in the United States took place on 

 Governor's Island in Boston Bay. The docu- 

 ment states tliat on October 10, 1639, ten fair 

 pippins were picked and brought to Boston. 

 If latter day slang has been prevalent in those 

 days there would be some doubt as to whether 

 this statement referred to apples or damsels. 

 In view of the straight-laced methods of both 

 conduct and speech at that period however, 

 we will have to conclude that it was apples 

 tliat were picked. 



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