June JpiQ 



BETTER FRUIT 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



Reports from Centralia state that the 

 Puyalkip and Sumner Fruit Growers' 

 Canning Association, which recently 

 took over the Lewis County Canning 

 Association, has been closing contracts 

 with berry growers in that district at 

 12 cents per pound for strawberries and 

 8 cents per pound for loganberries. In 

 some cases these prices are reported to 

 have been made on five-year contracts. 



apples have been made this early in the 

 season at a specified price. 



Offers of six and one-half cents per 

 pound for Royal Ann cherries from the 

 canners are reported in the Yakima 

 district. This price is one and one- 

 quarter cents higher than the maximum 

 reached last year. The cherry crop in 

 the Yakima country is said to give 

 promise of being very heavy. 



From Seattle comes the information 

 that representatives of apple buyers in 

 the Fast and of English importing 

 houses have already begun their canvas 

 to secure Northwest fruits. These East- 

 ern buyers are said to be offering $2 

 per box for extra fancy Jonathans and 

 .$1.75 for Winesaps. 



Walla Walla prune growers are ex- 

 pecting high prices. The damaging of 

 the Idaho crop, which is said to have 

 been very extensive, is expected by 

 Walla Walla growers to boost the price 

 of the Washington crop very materially. 



After a 10,000-mile trip, taking in 

 practically all the important fruit job- 

 bing centers of the United States, W. L. 

 Dow, of the Dow Fruit Company, re- 

 ports a greatly increased demand al- 

 ready for Northwest boxed apples. 

 These demands, Mr. Dow says, are com- 

 ing through retail dealers. 



According to F. B. Martin, Northwest 

 Field Manager of the Earl Fruit Co., 

 apple growers in Oregon and Washing- 

 ton will receive fancy prices for all 

 fruit this year. Mr. Martin also says 

 cherries will be high as well as peaches. 

 He predicts that fancy pears will sell 

 readily at $3 per box. 



The demand for nursery stock 

 throughout the Northwest is now the 

 heaviest in years, despite the fact that 

 prices for stock are the highest ever 

 known. Nurserymen say that the 

 planting of a very large area to orchard 

 this spring has created this exceptional 

 demand. 



In the Wenatchee country rumors 

 have been in circulation for some time 

 that buyers are already negotiating for 

 next fall's apple crop. It is stated that 

 tentative offers have been made and in 

 some cases agreed upon. However, the 

 only actual otfer that is known to have 

 been made was one put into effect by a 

 local firm, which is said to be entering 

 into contracts with growers for Jon- 

 athans and King Davids on a basis of 

 $2 per box for extra fancies and other 

 grades in proportion. This is the first 

 time in the history of apple growing in 

 the Wenatchee Valley that contracts for 



The grape crop, which is one of the 

 leading fruit industries at Grants Pass, 

 is said to have come through the frost 

 period in fine shape and predictions 

 there are now for a very heavy yield. 

 Other fruit in the Grants Pass district, 

 it is stated, also give promise of a good 

 yield. 



One of the new fruit by-product 

 plants that is attracting considerable 

 attention was recently completed at 

 Wenatchee. It is known as the Shepard 

 Product Plant and expects to use 400 

 cars of apples during the coming sea- 

 son. The industry which the Shepard 

 Company will engage in is the manufac- 

 ture of concentrated fruit bricks. The 

 history of the development of the fruit 



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brick is an interesting one. Mrs. Shep- 

 ard, while in the East, noticed that the 

 apple butter left on the sides of the 

 barrels dried up, but remained in per- 

 fect condition indefinitely. Later she 

 began to experiment and the result was 

 what is known as the "fruit-brick," or 

 concentrated fruit. The product has 

 become popular and the demand for it 

 is said to be greatly on the increase. 



The cranberry industry in Oregon, 

 which is principally confined to the 

 Astoria district, is rapidly becoming of 

 importance. An extensive acreage is 

 already in these berries, and more was 

 planted this year. One grower at 

 Astoria last year sold 1,000 barrels of 

 cranberries for $9,000, or $9 a barrel. 

 For several years Astoria cranberries 

 had a number of reverses in the busi- 

 ness until they learned the proper 

 methods of cultivation, but they are 

 now making a big success of it. 



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