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BETTER FRUIT 



May, ipip 



loose, friable, warm condition which is 

 necessary to promote nitrification I can 

 see no otlier alternative than to resort 

 to the light application of nitrate of 

 soda. 



More Fruit Acreage to be 

 Planted in Hood River 



AN increase of nearly 200 acres of 

 orchard acreage will be made in 

 the Hood River Valley this year, al- 

 though no new tracts of large area will 

 be planted. This is in striking con- 

 trast to the conditions in the Hood 

 River Valley during the past four years, 

 where there has been a decrease in 

 acreage owing to the fact that tracts not 

 adaptable to fruit are being grubbed out. 

 It is stated that although growers de- 

 sire to plant more heavily than the 

 program now announced, that they 

 could not do so on account of a short- 

 age in nursery stock. The new orchard 

 plantings at Hood River will be largely 

 pears on account of the large profits 

 made by pear growers during the past 

 year. The promising outlook for apples, 

 however, is also causing many growers 

 to consider larger acreages and it is 

 expected that next year, if labor con- 

 ditions become normal, that there will 

 be a heavy planting of apple trees. 

 These plantings, it is said by orchard 

 men at Hood River, will have to be 

 made in the Upper Valley, as they esti- 

 mate that there is less than 500 acres of 

 land in the Lower Valley now left that 

 is adapted to successful tree growing. 

 Indications also point to a much heavier 

 increase in the strawberry acreage in 

 the Hood River district during the next 

 year or two. 



The acreage now available for the 

 heaviest plantings in the near future 

 will be made on a 2,000-acre logged-off 

 tract south of Dee in the Upper Valley, 

 which is being offered to growers in 

 10-acre tracts. 



Government Activities 



Among other things that the Bureau 

 of Markets is taking up is the investi- 

 gation of foreign markets for fresh and 

 dried fruits in order to assist the fruit 

 shipper in reconstructing the former 

 substantial trade that the United States 

 had with Europe, and also to develop 

 export outlets in other directions. Bul- 

 letins relative to this work of the 

 Bureau of Markets will be issued in the 

 near future and will contain the re- 

 sults of fruit - market investigations 

 recently completed in the Far East and 

 Australasia. 



The Bureau also plans to continue its 

 experiments in the physical handling of 

 fresh fruits and vegetables in transit to 

 overseas countries with a view to mak- 

 ing an improvement in the methods of 

 stowage and a reduction of the ex- 

 tensive loss incurred from deterioration 

 while the fruit is on the steamers. 



The Bureau of Crop Estimates places 

 the total season's crop of apples for 

 1918 at 58,203,000 barrels and the com- 

 mercial crop at 20,959,000 barrels. 

 Nine per cent of the total crop and one- 

 fourth of the commercial crop was 

 placed in cold storage. 



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