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BETTER FRUIT 



June. 1920 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON 

 To reduce the cost of packing applis this 

 year the Hood River Apple Growers' Associa- 

 tion has decided to discontinue having fruit 

 wrappers printed. The saving to be effected 

 by this change it is estimated will be $15,000 

 to the members of the association. Apple 

 packing paper will cost the association this 

 year $150,000. 



Reports from Cove are to the effect that the 

 cherry yield in that district is very promis- 

 ing. While the freeze last winter did some 

 damage a yield of 50 per cent is expected from 

 old trees and 100 per cent from young trees. 

 As in other districts the freeze affected old 

 trees more seriously than young ones. 



Roseburg is believed to have had the dis- 

 tinction this year of reporting the first ripe 

 strawberries grown in Oregon. On May 7 two 

 growers reported berries that were ready for 

 the table. 



The 1919 prune crop at Dallas was cleaned 

 up recently by the shipment of nine cars to 

 Eastern markets. During the latter part of 

 the season the packing plant at Dallas pro- 

 cessed 3,600 boxes of prunes daily. 



Plans were recently put on foot in The 

 Dalles to re-flnance the Kings' Products Com- 

 pany, which operates dehydrating plants in 

 the above named city and also at Salem and 

 Portland. To bring this about a meeting was 

 held by the Chamber of Commerce of The 

 Dalles which agreed to endeavor to float $150,- 

 000 worth of the stock of the company. Salem 

 is being asked to take a like amount of the 

 stock while Portland interests have agreed to 

 furnish the rest of the capital required. The 

 total amount Involved in the re-flnancing of 

 the company is $1,000,000. 



Frost .iamage in the Medford district this 

 year was reduced to the minimum. Although 

 growers in that section had their smudge pots 

 ready there was very little use for them. Re- 

 ports liom Medford state that prospects for all 

 fruit is promising although the crop is not 

 expected to be as large as that of last year. 



The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' 

 Canning Company, which had been competing 

 with other firms for loganberries in the Salem 

 district, recently announced that it had temp- 

 orarily withdrawn from the field, owing to 

 the high prices being asked by growers for 

 fruit and also on account of the soaring prices 

 of sugar. 



WASHINGTON 

 Profiting by the experience of growers in 

 some of the other districts in Washington, 

 Yakima County has organized a spraying dis- 

 trict comprising 1,000 acres of land and has 

 employed an inspector who will devote all 

 his time to spraying problems. To pay the 

 expense each member of the district has agreed 

 to pay $1.00 per acre for the work. 



the matter of financing the crop state that they 

 look on the situation as very promising and 

 will be able to handle all legitimate requests 

 for loans. 



Dan Wuille &. Company, the English apple 

 exporting firm which already has extensive 

 connections for the marketing of apples in 

 Oregon, will erect warehouses in that state and 

 in Washington this year which call for an 

 expenditure of $100,000. The warehouses are 

 to be built at Underwood, Washington, at 

 Odell, in the Hood River Valley and at New- 

 berg, Oregon. 



The first Oregon strawberries to be put on 

 the market at Salem sold for 35 cents for a 

 12-ounce box. They were of the Oregon vari- 

 ety which was originated near Salem. 



The Perham Fruit Company, located at 

 Grandview, has authorized work to be begun 

 on a cold storage plant at that place which will 

 have a capacity of 250 cars. The plant will 

 cost $100,000 and will be 125 by 150 feet, two 

 stories high and basement. 



A report from the Mabton district says that 

 warmer spring weather shows that few of the 

 soft fruit trees were killed in that district by 

 the freeze last winter but that the crop will be 

 light. 



The White Salmon Valley, one of the earli- 

 est berry districts along the Columbia River, 

 shipped its first berries May 12. The berries 

 brought $12 a crate. Kennewick, which usually 

 ships the first strawberries from the Columbia 

 River district is reported to have been one 

 day behind White Salmon this year in making 

 its first shipment. 



Selah reports that the pear crop in that sec- 

 tion will be heavier than was at first expected, 

 the freeze last winter not having done as much 

 damage as was at first thought. 



Reports from the Wenatchee district is to 

 the effect that the fruit crop in that section this 

 year will be as large, if not larger than that of 

 last year. Local bankers who are looking into 



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It is estimated that canners in Washington 

 will get more than one-half of the strawberry 

 crop of that state at prices running from 15 to 

 20 cents in the field. Canning berries at Ken- 

 newick have been sold for 15 cents, in West- 

 ern Washington for 18 cents and in the Puget 

 Sound country for 20 cents. At the present 

 time canners have been forced to reduce their 

 offers owing to the sugar situation. 



To relieve the car shortage situation in the 

 Wenatchee district this year it has been pro- 

 posed to utilize the Columbia River and ship 

 by boat. To do this an expenditure of $35,000 

 it is stated would be necessary to open a chan- 

 nel through the rapids below Wenatchee. By 

 doing this the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 

 Railroad could be reached by a comparatively 

 short trip on the river. 



A report from the Yakima Valley says that 

 while pear trees in that section showed a mass 

 of bloom, the blossoms dropped off quickly, 

 causing growers to believe that they were 

 blighted. Other districts in Washington re- 

 port a similar condition and it is now expected 

 that the pear yield generally in that state will 

 be extremely light. 



The Duddy-Robinson Company of Yakima, 

 has taken out a permit to erect an $80,000 cold 

 storage \\arehouse, on which work will begin 

 at once. H. C. Nead has been given the con- 

 tract. 



"The fruit industry of the Northwest already 

 is paying its full share of the revenues needed 

 by the railroads. If it can be established that 

 such is not the case, the fruit growers are 

 ready to carry their additional share, but the 

 increase should be a horizontal one, based on 

 cents per hundred pounds, and not a percent- 

 age increase. Treat fruit as wheat, lumber 

 and cotton were treated." This statement sums 

 up the attitude of Northwestern growers on the 

 proposed 25 per cent increase in freight rates 

 on fruits as expressed at the Portland confer- 

 ence, according to C. J. Webb, secretary of the 

 North Pacific Fruit League. A 25 per cent in- 

 crease means an increase of 12V2 cents in the 

 freight bill on every box out of the Northwest. 

 On eastern apples, it means two, three or four 

 cents. It is declared that Northwestern apples 

 now are virtually shut out of some eastern 

 markets until the eastern apples are sold be- 

 cause of the rate discrimination. 



A definite decision has been reached by the 

 Wells & Wade Fruit Company to construct 

 one of the largest and most modern fruit ware- 

 houses in the Wenatchee district this summer, 

 in time for the fruit shipping season of the 

 fall. It will have a storage capacity of 200 

 cars of apples. The building will be arranged 

 so that it can be equipped as a cold storage 

 warehouse later. 



The Skookum Packers' Association has set 

 its goal this year at 10,000 cars of apples, as 

 against 6000 in 1919, according to P. H. Parks, 

 general manager of the Association. Its mem- 

 bership now includes 35 cooperative fruit ship- 

 ping organizations and large growers of the 

 Northwest, of which the Spokane Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Company is the largest. "We believe 1920 

 is going to be a great year for the cooperative 

 organizations," says Mr. Parks. "The cash 

 buvers were hard hit last year and are going 

 to 'be wary this season. The growers realize 

 that some of their fruit last year was sold for 

 more than it was worth and they do not expect 

 that condition to continue." 



A deal has been consummaled for the pur- 

 chase of all assets of the Cashmere .\pple 

 Company by A. H. Hohlke, principal owner of 

 the Bohlke Fruit Warehouse Company of Dry- 

 den. Mr. Bohlke takes over the two modern 

 warehouses owned by the Cashmere Apple 

 Company at Cashmere and Wenatchee, also 

 real estate contracts covering some of the most 

 productive and highly improved bearing or- 

 chards in the Wenatchee Valley. The consid- 

 eration was $185,000. 



,J. W. Wickers, manager of the Highland 

 Fruit Company of Kennewick, is reported to 

 have closed a" deal for the sale of his 1920 

 apple crop at prices that are an advance over 

 those recei^'cd last year. 



IDAHO 



.Vpple trees in the Boise Valley of all de- 

 scriptions are reported to have blossomed 

 heavily and good crops of this fruit are now 

 anticipated. A good yield of cherries and 



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