January. ip30 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 21 



Northwest Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 

 Figures obtained from the packing houses 

 at Roseburg, Oregon, indicate that the prune 

 crop of Douglas county this year will total 

 7,000,000 pounds. The prices received by the 

 prune growers of this section this year were 

 the highest on record although the crop was 

 not as large as in some former years. 



Learning that frozen apples were being 

 shipped from some points in Oregon during 

 I he past month the railway administration 

 look steps to protect the roads against claims 

 for damages for the transportation of this 

 class of fruit. To secure information in re- 

 gard to these shipments inspectors w^ere 

 placed at the shipping points by the rail- 

 roads. 



A tractor demonstration that caused a good 

 deal of interest was held in Hood River dur- 

 ing the month. Demonstrations of plowing 

 and orchard cultivation were made by small 

 models. Many apple growers who are con- 

 templating the purchase of these machines in 

 the spring were in attendance. 



While the extreme cold weather which hit 

 Portland about the middle of December, lasted 

 the apple trade was almost entirely suspended. 

 Shippers were warned that they would make 

 shipments at their own risk. The situation 

 during the cold spell in the Pacific Northwest 

 was similar to that in the Portland district 

 and apple shipments in this territory were 

 pretty generally tied up. 



Under the direction of Prof. R. V. Wright, 

 Hood River is this winter having a short 

 course in agriculture. Prominent fruitgrowers 

 and representatives of the Hood River Experi- 

 ment station are assisting Professor Wright 

 in the work. 



Newberg made its entr^' as an apple ship- 

 ping center this year by marketing 100 cars 

 of apples, a part of which were sold for ex- 

 port to England and the Scandinavian coun- 

 tries. To handle the rapidly growing crop 

 in this section a large cement block apple 

 warehouse and packing plant is now in use. 

 The packing plant contains all the latest 

 apparatus including power graders and grav- 

 ity conveyors which facilitates moving the 

 crop rapidly. On this account Newberg grow- 

 ers were able to market their apples early 

 and experienced very little dimculty from the 

 car shortage. The varieties grown in this 

 district are the Spitzenberg, Newtown, Jona- 

 than and Wagener. 



Medford about wound up its shipment of an 

 800 car apple crop December 15. While this 

 section has experienced some damage from 

 the cold spell it is stated that not over 20 

 cars of frui; were frozen and these were in 

 the storage houses of the owners on their 

 orchard properties. Prices for apples in the 

 Medford district this year have been more 

 than sntisfactory. 



A box nf apples of the Red Cheek variety 

 found in a cellar in Portland which was re- 

 cently being cleaned had been there since the 

 winter of 1917. The apples were in a good 

 state of preservation and are causing Oregon 

 growers to again call attention to the long 

 keeping qualities of Oregon apples. The fruit 

 was grown at Mosier. 



Investigations at Hood River where the 

 temperature dropped to 27 below zero led to 

 the belief that little damage was done by the 

 Decciiilier freeze to apple orchards although 

 it is feared that the peach trees in that section 

 were injured. 



Stanfield marketed a crop of apples this year 

 that is expected to return grow ers S7.i,000. The 

 varielies produced in this district are Rome 

 rSeauty, .louathan and Winesap and .50 per 

 cent of the crop was packed out as extra fancy. 

 The Stanfield Growers' Association shipped 

 •I.") cars of the crop. 



Besides the large shipment of apples mar- 

 keted by the Dufur Orchard Company which 

 owns one of the largest single orchard tracts 

 in the world, other growers in that district 

 are reported to have shipped nearly 20 cars of 

 apples each this year. The Dufur Orchard 

 Company's holdings which came into bearing 

 for the first time on a commercial basis this 

 year yielded ."500 cars of fine fruit. 



A report from Salem is to the effect that a 

 cannery at Albany has offered the loganberry 

 growers of Marion county 8 cents a pound for 



their next year's crop of fruit. The offer 

 is said to cany with it the guarantee that the 

 purchasers will meet any advance in the mar- 

 ket price above the 8 cent quotation. 



The membership in the Oregon Growers Co- 

 operative Association which has been grow- 

 ing rapidly is reaching into all parts of the 

 state. Contracts with the organization now 

 include a fruit acreage of over 15,000 acres. 

 Salem growers alone have come into the asso- 

 ciation to the extent of over 3,200 acres while 

 over 1,000 acres of prunes in the northern 

 part of Yamhill County will be controlled by 

 the organization. 



At the recent rate hearing held in Portland 

 to consider the increase in freight rates on 

 apples it was stated that the new rate means 

 an increase to apple shippers of $96.37 a car 

 on fruit shipped to Chicago. The testimony 

 submitted by the representatives of the fruit- 

 growing industry in the Northwest was to the 

 effect that the new rate is discriminatory and 

 should therefore be reduced. 



W^ASHINGTON. 

 Eifteen million dollars is the estimated re- 

 turn to growers of the Yakima Valley for their 

 1919 apple crop. The total income iii this val- 

 ley this year from all agricultural products is 

 estimated at $40,000,000. The return from 

 fruit and other products of the soil in the 

 Wenatchce district is estimated at 120,000,000. 



The Skookum Packers' Association is under- 

 stood to be contemplating the construction of 

 a warehouse at Spokane to carry several hun- 

 dred cars. 



At a recent luncheon of the Spokane Cham- 

 ber of Commerce a feature was the introduc- 

 tion of Rainier apples for all present. The 



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