July, 1921 



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A T the annual convention of the Oregon State 

 "^ Bankers' Association at Seaside last month, 

 Vice President Cox, of the National Bank of Com- 

 merce, New York City, made an interesting ad- 

 dress. Mr. Cox said that fruit growers must In- 

 crease the quality and decrease production costs, If 

 they were to show a profit over a period of years. 

 He called attention to the fact that the raisin 

 growers of California had suddenly awakened to 

 the fact that their product was too generally con- 

 sidered as a luxury, and they immediately took 

 steps to correct the situation. The first aim of all 

 growers should be to produce their crops cheap 

 enough to assure their coming in the staple list. 



AAA 



ID L. M.'^NSER, secretary and manager of the 

 • Hood River Fair Association, reports that 

 plans are being laid for the biggest fair in the 

 history of the apple valley next September. More 

 than usual Interest is being shown throughout the 

 valley. 



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"W/'ESTERN OREGON walnut growers have 

 every expectation of a record breaking crop 

 this year, according to Earle Pearcy, president of 

 the Oregon State Horticultural Society, and an 

 authority on nut culture. Mr. Pearcy says that the 

 Manchurian walnut shipped to this country from 

 Japan, without flavor and often wormy, hurts the 

 local demand, for many people do not know the 

 difference between our Pregon grown English wal- 

 nuts of fine flavor and thin shell, and the poor, 

 thick-shelled Manchurians. One who gets the Man- 

 churlans a few times, is going to buy some other 

 nut, and will be lost as a walnut consumer. 



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A NEW grading and apple packing plant will be 



erected at Sutherlin, Oregon, at once, to care 



for some of the big crop expected In the valley. 



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modern in every respect. 



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T'HE Marion county loganberry crop this year 

 is estimated at 10,000,000 pounds, an increase 

 of approximately 30 per cent over last year. Can- 

 neries will handle most of the crop. 



AAA 



TTOOD RIVER'S 1921 strawberry harvest is a 

 thing of the past. Ninety-three cars were 

 shipped in all Instead of the estimated one hun- 

 dred and ten. The fruit was of high quality, and 

 an average price of approximately $2.50 per crate 

 was realized. Cherries are not yielding as heavily 

 as was at first expected, only three cars having 

 thus far been shipped, one of straight Royal Annes, 

 one of Bings and Royal Annes and one of Black 

 Republicans and Bings. There will be perhaps 

 two cars more, mostly Lamberts. 



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WASHINGTON 



An interesting map of the Wikersham quad- 

 rangle has just been published by the geologi- 

 cal survey. The scale is one inch to the mile. 

 This map may be purchased from the Director, 

 United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. 

 C, for ten cents. 



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' I ^HE cranberry district of Pacific county is 

 threatened with serious loss through the black 

 headed fire worm and the end rot, according to 

 Charles L. Robinson, supervisor of the state de- 

 partment of agriculture. After an inspection trip 

 recently made by Mr. Robinson, Professor O. M. 

 Morris of Pullman, Senator E. L. French and in- 

 spector Theo. Albert, a special appropriation was 

 made by the Pacific county commissioners for in- 

 tensive control work this summer. The depart- 

 ment has been fortunate in arranging for P. S. 

 Darlington, inspector of district No. 4 at We- 

 natchee, to assist the growers of Pacific county 

 this summer. 



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A CCORDING to P. R. Parks, manager of the 

 Spokane Fruit Growers' Association, it will 

 cost the growers $ 1.50 per 1 00 pounds to ship 

 apples to Chicago under the 10 per cent freight 

 rate cut. Mr. Parks further stated that shippers 

 were continuing their plans for water transporta- 

 tion, and would do so until the rate came down 

 to at most $1.25. The fruit growers, he said, will 

 not be in a really favorable position until the old 

 rate of $1.00 per hundred pounds comes back. 



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T^HE nineteenth annual meeting of the Pacific 

 Coast Association of Nurserymen will be held 

 at Seattle, July 12, 13 and 14. C. A. Tonneson, 

 secretary, can be reached at the Butler Hotel, Se- 

 attle, the headquarters of the association while in 

 session. Authentic reports of the nursery stock sit- 

 uation for next spring point to a decided shortage 

 in many lines. This means that the early bird will 

 have the best selection. 



'I^HE summer session of the Washington State 

 Horticultural Association will be held in Yak- 

 ima July 26-27, according to M. L. Dean, secre- 

 tary of the association. W. L. Close and the Yak- 

 ima Valley Traffic and Credit Association are co- 

 operating in arranging for the meeting. The po- 

 tato growers of the state will hold a two-day 

 meet following the fruitmen's meeting, to discuss 

 cultural methods and to establish standard grades. 



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'T'HE Yakima valley now expects approximately 

 900 cars of peaches this year, as against 120 

 cars last year. This estimate is a cut from the 

 earlier one of 1500 cars, but is a material increase 

 over a year ago. In 1919, 2,060 cars were shipped. 



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TDANKS of Spokane, New York and Wenatchee 

 have underwritten a loan of from $500,000 

 to $600,000 for the Wenatchee District Co-opera- 

 tive Association. The issue Is of 8 per cent serial 

 crop-moving notes and is a new plan in the North- 

 west for financing co-operative organizations. This 

 loan will enable the Wenatchee District Co-opera- 

 tive Association, which was recently organized, to 

 finance Its members who will require assistance, in 

 boxes, paper, warehousing and cash advances. The 

 association has 457 members, which makes the loan 

 average more than $1200 per member. 



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CKAGIT county, Washington, harvested an 

 exceptionally large strawberry crop. A large 

 share of these berries were placed upon the fresh 

 market at a price which averaged the grower 

 around $1.50 per crate. The Burlington Canning 

 Company in Burlington, Wash., has been taking 

 care of Its strawberry contracts, paying during the 

 early part of the season six cents per pound and 

 later dropping to five cents per pound. The 

 Everett Fruit Products Company, which has con- 

 siderable strawberry acreage under contract in 

 Skagit county, has with the co-operation of the 

 growers been placing strawberries in barrels with 

 the idea of putting these on the market at acme 

 later date. 



AAA 



T S. McINTOSH, deputy agricultural commls- 

 •'• sloncr of the state of Washington, has com- 

 piled figures showing that Washington last year 

 grew 728,759 bushels of pears, more than double 

 the amount grown during 1909. At the same time 

 It produced 1,534,859 bushels of peaches. Ten 

 years earlier 84,500 bushels was the amount of 

 this state's peach crop — showing an Increase to 

 over 18 times the crop of 1909. 



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Xf^RUIT growers and shippers of Yakima will 

 save $56,000 this year on paper alone at two 

 cents less a pound than the price paid last year. 

 It is estimated that fruit wrap will cost the valley 

 growers $375,000 this season, on a basis of 70 cars 

 needed for the season's crop, besides 30 cars esti- 

 mated held over from last year. 



