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BETTER FRUIT 



October, 1921 



Northwest Notes From Here and There 



OREGON 



ClXTY carloads of apples will be the output 

 from Wasco county orchards this season, ac- 

 cording to J. H. Fraser, manager of the Oregon 

 Growers* Co-operative Association in that district. 

 The season for small fruits for which The Dalles 

 country is noted has closed successfully, most of 

 the product being marketed in the Northwest. Two 

 cars of prunes which were sent to London brought 

 $80 and $85 per ton, while nine cars of similar 

 quality, which were marketed in New York, 

 brought $59 per ton. The peach crop, which was 

 marketed from The Dalles this year totalled about 

 15 can. 



AAA 



TN estimating the fruit shipments that 

 would be made from the Medford district this 

 year, Mark Montgomery, local agent of the South- 

 ern Pacific Company, says that the railroad has 

 handled over 600 cars of pears and expects to ship 

 out 1200 more cars of fruit before the season 

 ends. In 1920 the total shipment of fruit was 

 1050 cars. 



AAA 



Clifford C. Ross, manager of The Dalles plant 

 of The Kings Dehydrated Products Company, who 

 was a visitor in Hood River recently, stated that 

 the Kings Company expects to dehydrate 7,000 

 tons of apples this year. The company has re- 

 cently finished dehydrating 675 tons of prunes and 

 1000 tons of loganberries. 



AAA 



A CCORDING to estimates recently made public 

 at Roseburg the prune crop of Douglas county 

 will this year be more than one-third of the total 

 prune crop of the Pacific Northwest. As the eiti- 

 matcB of the prune crop in the Northwest vary 

 from 22,000,000 to 27,000,000 pounds and the 

 crop in Douglas county is said to be approximately 

 9,000,000 pounds, It can be seen that the one- 

 third estimate hits the mark pretty closely. 



A PPLE buyers in the Willamette valley are re- 

 "^^ ported numerous this year and the opportunity 

 to move the crop there is said to be the best in 

 several years. A large part of the apple tonnage 

 in the Willamette valley will be moved this year 

 through the Oregon Growers* Association. 



AAA 



T^HE demand for the early apple crop at Hood 

 River, consisting largely of Kings and Gra- 

 vensteins, was in excess of the supply at good 

 prices. The movement of Bartletts handled by 

 the association totalled over 22 cars, while the 

 shipment of d'Anjous will be over 75 cars. 



AAA 



npHE first car of the Hood River valley's esti- 

 mated apple tonnage of 2,250 cars for this 

 year was shipped a few days ago by the Hood 

 River Fruit Company. The shipment was a car of 

 Gravensteins which was routed to Chicago. 

 AAA 



A REPORT from the walnut growers of the 

 •^ state is to the effect that the industry is 

 growing so rapidly that it is becoming necessary to 

 develop new markets and establish grades. Fifty 

 prominent Oregon growers who recently attended 

 a conference at Salem under the auspices of the 

 Oregon Growers' Co-operative Association decided 

 that walnuts will be sold this year under the Mist- 

 land brand as Jumbo grafted, and as No. 1 and 

 No. 2 grades. In addition to a bumper crop from 

 the older orchards this year a large acreage of 

 new stock is coming into bearing. 



AAA 



A VERY light prune crop and a far below nor- 

 *^^ mal apple crop is the prediction for the Sheri- 

 dan district this year. About 20 cars of apples Is 

 the number placed as the quantity the Growers* 

 Association will handle. Prunes started to come 

 in about the middle of September, but it was only 

 necessary to use part of the dryer, which is the 

 second largest in the state to handle the crop. 



/^NE of the large prune deals of the season that 

 has attracted a good deal of attention was the 

 sale by W. F. Dragcr of Salem of 1,000,000 

 pounds of this year's crop belonging to Indepen- 

 dent growers at Roseburg to Rosenberg Brothers 

 of San Francisco. The sale was on a basis of 9]/2 

 cents for 30-358. 





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Analysis: 



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Potash, 4 per cent 



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 qualities in the fruit, strong wood to bear it, large 



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