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Oregon Berry Crop 86,000,000 

 Pounds 



The rapid strides that the berry in- 

 dustry is making in Oregon will soon 

 place it on an equal basis as an income 

 producer with prunes and apples. Ac- 

 cording to a recent compilation of 

 figures 86,000,000 pounds of berries 

 were produced in Oregon last year. Lo- 

 ganberries lead with 41,000,000 pounds, 

 blackberries came next with 26,000,000 

 pounds and other berries were pro- 

 duced as follows: Strawberries, 7,000,- 

 000; raspberries, 6,000,000; gooseberries, 

 4,000,000; and currants, 2,118,000. The 

 valuation placed on the total berry pro- 

 duction in the state was $5,960,000. As 

 the value of the 1918 apple crop is 

 placed at $6,100,000, the value of the 

 berry crop almost equaled that of Ore- 

 gon's leading fruit industry. The value 

 of the berry of 1918 exceeded the value 

 of the Oregon prune crop by nearly 

 $2,000,000, the prune industry realizing 

 some $4,100,000 for the 1918 crop. 



It is anticipated that the quantity of 

 berries produced in the Willamette Val- 

 ley in 1919 will break all previous rec- 

 ords, and it is within the bounds of 

 possibility that the 1919 production will 

 more than double that of 1918, in itself 

 a record crop. 



BETTER FRUIT 



June igiQ 



Frost Damages Northwest Fruit 



While some damage has been done in 

 the Pacific Northwest to fruit by frost 

 crop conditions at this time throughout 

 this section are reported as good. In 

 the Yakima Valley apples and prunes 

 suffered some damage. Winesaps in 

 the lower Yakima Valley were hit to 

 some extent, but the loss is not re- 

 garded as very serious. The prune crop 

 in this district sustained the most 

 damage. 



The heaviest damage by frost in the 

 Northwest is reported from the Boise 

 and Payette Valleys in Idaho. In both 

 the latter districts prunes, cherries and 

 apples were hard hit by low tempera- 

 tures. In the Payette Valley the freeze 

 is reported to have been particularly 

 hard and the fruit crop to have been 

 almost destroyed. 



In Oregon, conditions are reported as 

 very favorable, frost having done little 

 if any damage. The weather in that 

 state has been very favorable to pol- 

 lenization and all tree fruits set heavily. 

 Some dropping of early fruits is re- 

 ported from a few counties. 



In California, fruit has been slightly 

 damaged by insect pests, such as cater- 

 pillars and red spiders. In Nevada the 

 fruit crop is reported to be in good 

 condition. 



$15.00 a Barrel for Apples. 

 Kansas City, during the past month, 

 reported the highest price ever received 

 for barrel apples in that section. A 

 number of carlots were sold there at 

 $15.00 per barrel. The variety of apples 

 sold were Willow Twigs, which, al- 

 though grown to some extent in the 

 Northwest, are not raised in sufTicient 

 quantity to be of any commercial im- 

 portance. 



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SAN FRANCISCO 

 P O Rjr L A N D 

 SEATTLE 



LOS ANGELES' 

 HONOLULU 

 F R_ E S N O 



Strawberry Growers 

 Attention! 



We will take contracts for entire output 



of Strawberry Patches. Write or phone 



before contracting for the season. 



Henry Weinhard Plant 



Manufacturers of Weinhard Otial'ty Beverages 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



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