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tional warehouses and receiving sta- 

 tions along the line of the Ml. Hood 

 Railroad this summer. 



The announcement is made that the 

 Richey & Gilbert Company will remove 

 their hcadeiuartei-s from Toppenish to 

 Yakima. The company will retain its 

 warehouses at Toppenish and Sclah. 



H. F. Davidson, formerly president of 

 the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, 

 and now engaged extensively in the 

 apple exporting business in New York, 

 arrived at his home at Hood River re- 

 cently. After a short trip over the 

 apple-growing districts of the North- 

 west, Mr. Davidson will go to England 

 during the sununer to study conditions 

 there and make new connections for 

 the coming apple-shipping season. 



In a recent inspection of the orchard 

 conditions in the Grants Pass district 

 A. C. Allen, member of the State Board 

 of Horticulture, reported that he found 

 conditions very favorable there. In 

 speaking of the amount allowed the 

 Board of Horticulture by the state, Mr. 

 Allen said that it was only allowed the 

 small sum of .$12,000 for two years, 

 nearly half of which amount is neces- 

 sary for fixed expenses. This, he stated, 

 left but .$400 per year for each commis- 

 sioner to take care of the expense in 

 his whole district. In contrast to this 

 small amount for the big and important 

 fruit industry in Oregon, Mr. Allen 

 called attention to the fact that about 

 .$150,000 was appropriated by the legis- 

 lature for the sport fisher and the fish- 

 ing industry in the state. As an ex- 

 ample of the value of the State Board 

 of Horticulture to Oregon he told 

 about it having accomplished one thing 

 alone which was worth thousands of 

 dollars to the state — the prevention of 

 the tuber moth from gaining a lodg- 

 ment here while California was over- 

 run with this pest and the potato in- 

 dustry seriously crippled. 



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eently. "The season of 1916 was a very 

 early blossoming season, for many pear 

 trees as well as apple trees were in full 

 bloom during the month of March. The 

 data on hand shows for the season of 

 1917 that the pear buds were separating 

 in the cluster from the 10th to the 

 loth of April, and were in full bloom 

 from April 15 to May 1. 



"For the season of 1918, the records 

 show that the fruit buds were sepa- 

 rating in the cluster the first of April 

 and that some pear orchards were in 

 bloom by the first of April." ' 



Owing to the "coming back" of the 

 apple industry at Wenatchee a wonder- 

 ful transformation has taken place 

 there in the last two years in the way 

 of lifting mortgages. Four years ago 

 there were less than 1 per cent of the 

 orchards at Wenatchee that had not 

 been covered with a mortgage, while 

 today 20 per cent are entirely free. The 

 records also show that of those still 

 encumbered, hundreds of second and 

 third mortgages were lifted last year. 



May. IQIQ 



The importance that has of late been 

 directed to having bees in or near or- 

 chards is resulting in a wide movement 

 among fruitmen to help the beeman and 

 also in a campaign to start the keeping 

 of more bees in all orchard districts. 

 At Hood River a movement has been 

 started to secure legislation for the pro- 

 tection of bees. While no laws can be 

 secured in Oregon until the legislature 

 convenes two years hence, orchardists 

 arc starling a campaign of education 

 to assist in the passing of such laws 

 when the lime arrives. 



The value of farm vegetables in 1918 

 on the farms of the United Stales was 

 $1,246,000,000, or 7.6 per cent of all 

 farm crops. Fruits were raised to the 

 value of $638,000,000, or about AVi per 

 cent of the farm crops' value. 



J. S. Crutchfield, of the big fruit- 

 handling firm of Crutchfield & Wool- 

 folk, with headquarters at Pittsburg, 

 made a tour of inspection of the North- 

 west apple-growing districts during the 

 past month. Mr. Crutchfield in an in- 



According to County Agricultural 

 Agent Gate the blooming period for 

 almonds, apricots, plums and peaches 

 in the Medford district was a month 

 later than usual this year, but apple 

 blossoms were out about on schedule 

 time, although considerably later than 

 in 1916 and ten days later than last 

 year. 



"From the records kept of the blos- 

 soming dates of various fruit varieties 

 for the past three years, we find that 

 this season compares very favorably 

 with the seasons of 1917 and 1918," said 

 County Agricultural Agent Gate re- 



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