Augvst, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



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T ARGE quantities of strawberries and cherries 

 ■^ have been barrelled this season in the various 

 packing plants in the Willamette valley. The 

 berries were sorted in the same way as they would 

 be for canning and then put into 50-gallon oak 

 barrels and a full sack of sugar poured in each. 

 The fruit is not crushed, but left whole. It is then 

 put into cold storage to be put to various uses later. 

 While this process has been utilized for logan- 

 berries for several seasons it is a new departure for 

 the other small fruits. 



WASHINGTON 

 "Dig red apples will bring at least $17,000,000 

 to 2,000 growers in the Wenatchee valley this 

 year, according to W. T. Clark, who is known 

 as the "father of Wenatchee," because of his acti- 

 vities in putting in the first irrigation system in 

 the valley. Mr. Clark estimates that Wenatchee 

 will produce a 15,000-car tonnage with an average 

 price of $1.50 per box. 



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T R. WILSON, manager of large orchards near 

 *^ * Waverly and Fairfield, is authority for the 

 statement that the average cost of apple produc- 

 tion in the Northwest this year has decreased al- 

 most 30 per cent over last year. Two of the 

 principal items in this decreased cost cited by Mr. 

 Wilson are boxes and labor. Boxes that last year 

 cost 25 cents are being bought this season for 13 

 cents and labor that was receiving $5 per day is 

 this year being paid $3 and $3.50 per day. 



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'T'HE state of Washington produces over 15 per 

 cent of the apples of the nation and has in- 

 creased its yield over 700 per cent during the last 

 10 years, according to a bulletin recently issued by 

 the census bureau. Statistics compiled by the 

 bureau show that Washington's apple crop for 

 1919 was 21,568,691 bushels, while the total for 

 the nation was 136,746,154 bushels. 



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CNIPES mountain, near Sunnyside, Wash., 

 ^ contributed $15,000 worth of cherries to the 

 Yakima valley's quota this season, it is reported. 

 This is the largest crop ever harvested there. Prac- 

 tically the entire tonnage was shipped to Min- 

 neapolis. 



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'C'lGURES at the office of the Spokane Fruit 

 Growers' Company place the Northwestern ap- 

 ple grower favorably this season as to crops and 

 probable prices. While the United States crop is 

 rated at 41.8 per cent of normal for 1921, as 

 against 79 per cent in 1920, the Washington crop 

 for 1921 is rated at 98 per cent of normal as 

 against 85 per cent in 1920. The valley will pro- 

 duce about 75 per cent of the 1920 yield. 



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A N apple export agency for handling We- 

 natchee district apples abroad will be formed 

 by Edwin Smith, formerly manager of the We- 

 natchee Valley Traffic Association. Mr. Smith 

 spent several years with the United States bureau 

 of markets before coming to Wenatchee. 



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THHE Ryan Fruit company announces the pur- 

 chase of the $20,000 brick warehouse of the 

 Sunset Fruit & Produce Company at Wapato. The 

 structure is two stories, has 9,000 square feet of 

 space on each floor, and was built two years ago. 

 H. R. Nosier, manager of the Yakima branch, will 

 be superintendent, while the practical overseeing 

 will be in charge of A. H. Cousins. 



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Y'AKIMA valley's first car of apricots left Sun- 

 nyside July 9, destined for Iowa. It con- 

 tained 800 crates and, according to C. M. Holt- 

 einger, averaged $70 a ton to the grower. 



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'T'HE cherry crop of the Wenatchee district will 

 be less than 75 cars, instead of 125, as previ- 

 ously estimated. The crop will yield the growers 

 about $100,000, against over $250,000 last year. 



* * A 

 Assurances that there would be a supply of 

 refrigerator cars sufficient to take care of 

 this season's apple crop were received at Yakima 



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 Stevens and Lincoln counties, will ship ap- 

 proximately 1225 cars of apples this year, accord- 

 ing to an estimate made by E. B. Kelley, itate 

 horticultural inspector. 



IDAHO 

 A CCORDING to the monthly report of the 

 "^ Idaho co-operative crop reporting eervice, 

 the apple crop for the state fell off 153,000 

 bushels from last month, due mostly to several 

 severe hail storms in Twin F.tIIs and Nez Perce 

 counties. The loss was particularly severe in the 

 Lewiston Orchard district. There was a normal 

 June drop and production is now placed at 3,314,- 

 000 bushels. Last year it was 3,360,000 bushels. 



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t^RUIT and produce shippers in the Rupert 



district have recently written Senator Gooding 



of that state urging federal legislation toward the 



construction of a shipping canal from American 



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