May, 1920 



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A novel way in which the Rupert Canning 

 Company encourages and cooperates with fruit 

 growers who do business with this company is 

 to have them meet at the plant of the company 

 located at Newberg once each year and have a 

 "berry and small fruit growing school." The 

 school lasts several days and experts in fruit 

 and vegetable raising instruct and advise the 

 farmers. The company turns a portion of the 

 cannery into a large social hall and cafeteria 

 and the farmers are the company's guests 

 while attending the school. Much benefit has 

 been derived by both the cannery and the 

 farmers by reason of the school. 



Thirty enthusiastic fruit growers represent- 

 ing all parts of Josephine County met recently 

 at Grants Pass, Oregon, when a county-wide 

 fruit program of the farm bureau was taken 

 up and the goals set for 1920 approved. The 

 question of organizing a county fruit growers' 

 association was referred to a committee with 

 instructions to formulate plans of organiza- 

 tion to be presented at an early date. The 

 meeting was presided over by Clyde E. Niles, 

 president of the Farm Bureau, who spoke in 

 general of the necessity of the various com- 

 munities getting together on fruit problems of 

 county-wide interest. The Farm Bureau fruit 

 program of work for 1920 by organized com- 

 munities was presented by the county agent. 

 The program of work as outlined was endorsed 

 and W. T. Beed pointed out the necessity of 

 close cooperation on the part of the fruit men 

 in working out the adopted program. The 

 matter of perfecting a county organization of 

 fruit growers to consider problems of local 

 interest and those not handled by the state 

 organization was discussed from various 

 angles. The committee appointed consisting of 

 \V. T. Reed, Douglas Wood and C. H. Eisman, 

 will formulate plans of organization and pre- 

 sent same in the near future. The matter of 

 preferred stock in the Oregon Growers' Asso- 

 ciation was presented by Mr. Niles and a 

 number of the fruit men present signed up. 

 J. O. Holt, packing manager of the Oregon 

 Growers' Association has been in Grants Pass 

 and has discussed plans for the construction of 

 a packing plant. 



WASHINGTON. 

 According to an estimate made by District 

 Horticultural Inspector E. G. Wood of the 

 Walla Walla district, most of the peach trees 

 in that section were winter-killed. Apricot 

 trees largely met the same fate while sweet 

 cherries were injured to the extent of 33 per 

 cent of the planting. The only part of the dis- 

 trict to escape damage was a small belt along 

 the Snake River between Bishop and Almota. 

 Damage to apple trees is reported as spotted. 



Unless H. M. Gilbert, one of the oldest or- 

 chardmen in the Yakima Valley is mistaken the 

 apple crop in that section will be one of the 

 largest in its history this season. Mr. Gilbert 

 made this statement recently after an extended 

 investigation of the valley. 



A survey made recently in the Kennewick 

 district shows that there is fully 100 acres 

 more under irrigation in that section this year 

 than last. 



The total amount received in Yakima County 

 for fresh and dried and canned fruit for the 

 past season was over $22,000,000. 



A five-acre orchard located near the city of 

 Wenatchee, highly improved and on which 

 there is a modern dwelling recently sold for 

 820,000, according to the Wenatchee Advance. 

 The property belonged to George Scheidemantl 

 and for a long time has been one of the show 

 places at Wenatchee. Owing to the intensive 

 methods used the yields from it have been 

 very heavy. 



It is estimated that apple boxes will cost 

 Yakima growers SI, 000,000 more this season 

 than last. Twenty-five to 28 cents is being 

 asked for apple boxes and 22 to 25 cents for 

 pear boxes. The opening price last year was 

 13 cents with 22 cents at the peak of the 

 season. 



Papers filed at Walla Walla reveal the sale 

 of the Baker-Langdon orchard, a 000-acre tract 

 of apple trees in bearing to the Stanton Invest- 

 ment Company, composed principally of Ohio 

 capitalists. The price is .$1.0.''.n,000. The or- 

 chard was planted about eleven years ago and 

 is the biggest commercial orchard in the val- 

 ley. John W. Langdon will retain an interest 

 in the company and continue as manager, it 

 is announced. The company intends to con- 

 struct a big cold storage warehouse this year 

 and make other improvements. Production of 

 the orchard this year is estimated at not less 

 than 300,000 boxes and within five years at 

 7.50,000 boxes or 1000 carloads of boxed apples. 



Stanley Armstrong, formerly stale horticul- 

 tural inspector in Spokane, has been appointed 

 district field representative of the Northwestern 

 Fruit Exchange in the Walla Walla territory. 

 In establishing a Walla Walla office, the ex- 

 change will serve shippers throughout the 

 region including Kennewick on the west, Lew- 

 iston and Clarkston on the east, Columbia 

 points and Oregon on the south and embracing 

 all of the Walla Walla, Milton, Freewater, 

 Waitsburg, Dayton and Touchet districts. 



Northwestern fruit growers rallied in defense 

 of their standard apple box when it became 

 known that a congressional committee was 

 likely to adopt the bushel basket as the stand- 

 ard for the United States. Eastern growers 

 who market their apples in barrels are de- 

 clared to be behind the move which would 

 have a tendency to discredit northwestern 

 boxed apples in the eastern markets. M. L, 

 Dean, state commissioner of agriculture at 

 Olympia, wired the agricultural bureau of the 

 Spokane Chamber of Commerce as follows: 

 "House bill 12,350 proposes to standardize 

 apple boxes. We have insisted upon the recog- 

 nition of the northwestern standard and that 

 any subdivision like a half-box or multiple 

 like a box and one-half must be figured on the 



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northwestern standard. The department of 

 agriculture favors a standard on the dry bushel 

 basis with a provision that the northwestern 

 box shall not be illegal. This creates double 

 standards and makes the present box a side 

 issue. The committee is inclined to the dry 

 bushel basis. Suggest you wire your congress- 

 man, insisting on the northwestern standard 

 only." The Bureau, the Spokane Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Company and the Earl Fruit Company 

 immediately dispatched wires east urging ac- 

 tion along the line suggested by Mr. Dean. 

 As a result the bill for the new container was 

 killed. Last year Idaho, Washington and 

 Oregon produced 29,014,000 boxes of commer- 

 cial apples as against a total for the United 

 States of 73,200,000 bushels. 



Joseph Di Giorgio of New York, president of 

 the Earl Fruit Company of the Northwest, and 

 known in the east at the "American Banana 

 King," will be in Spokane next month on an 

 annual tour of inspection of his apple and 

 other interests in the Northwest. While in 

 Spokane Mr. Di Giorgio will discuss with offi- 

 cers of the Palouse Corporation plans for the 

 establishment of a dehydrating plant in Spo- 

 kane County to handle cull apples. He is 

 loaning the corporation $75,000 this year. The 



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CONSULTING 

 HORTICULTURIST 



PROFESSOR W. S.THORNBER 



Formerly 



HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE 



AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Later 



DIRECTOR OF THE EXTENSION SERVICE 



OF THE 



STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON 



WILL ADVISE with fruit-growers upon all horticultural 

 problems, including selection and preparation of orchard 

 lands; propagation and care of nursery stock; planting and care 

 of young orchards and small fruit plantations; the control of 

 codling moth, San Jose scale, blight and other orchard pests; the 

 preparation of lime-sulphur at home and the mixing of other 

 sprays; economical orchard management; the irrigation and 

 fertilization of orchard lands; the use of cover-crops and grass 

 mulches; the pruning of fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, bushes 

 and vines; the renovation of old or neglected orchards, top- 

 working or replacing of poor or unprofitable trees, and the 

 examining and the working out of practical management plans 

 for large orchards and orchard companies. 



If your orchard has not been a financial success, and you 

 wish to determine its possibilities or you wish to improve your 

 orchard, reduce your losses and increase your returns I will 

 assist you in working out your problem. 



WRITE FOR TERMS 



W. S.THORNBER 



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