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BETTER FRUIT 



October, 1921 



a box. A New York firm reported to William Fer- 

 guson of Yakima, that a car of his Bartletts sold 

 in that city for $4.25 to $4.65 a box, and that 

 California Bartletts arc off the market, with a 

 strong demand for Northwest Bartletts. 



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t^IFTY Yakima valley potato growers met re- 

 cently with County Inspector W. B. Meyers 

 and State Horticulturist Close at Toppenlsh, for a 

 demonstration of the grades to be used this year to 

 meet the standard United States grades. According 

 tc the men present the valley crop will average 

 well in the No. 1 grade, as most of the potatoes 

 this season have made a good growth, virtually 

 free from disease. The average No. 1 potato was 

 quoted at $25 a ton on the reservation on Sep- 

 tember 18. 



'T^HE first annual Rogue River Valley Pear Show 

 which was held In the Chamber of Commerce 

 exhibit rooms at Medford was a big success. On 

 the closing day it was estimated that 4,000 peo- 

 ple visited the pear exhibits which told the story 

 of the excellence of this district for raising this 

 fruit. There were 293 plate displays, while the 

 number of pears on the plates totalled 2,500. 



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pRUNE drying during the latter part of Sep- 

 tembcr was greatly hastened owing to the 

 prediction by the weather man that the rainy sea- 

 son was about to set in and would include the 

 whole Northwest region. Another week of good 

 weather and It is expected to clean up the prune 

 drying season in Oregon. 



T^HE two largest sales of orchard property dur- 

 ing the year in the Rogue River valley were 

 announced recently. Colonel R. C. Washburn of 

 Table Rock sold his fine 174-acre Table Rock 

 orchard property to Captain , H. M. Tuttle for 

 $40,000. Fifty-five acres are in orchard, 28 acres 

 of commercial pears and 27 acres of Newtown 

 and Winesap apples, and 40 acres in alfalfa. Cap- 

 tain Tuttle, who is from Nebraska, has been In 

 the United States army service five years. The 

 other sale was that of the Hampton orchard nf 

 50 acres near Medford, owned by Mrs. Bingham 

 of Santa Barbara, Cal., to Eric Wold of Med- 

 ford for $35,000. 



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