November, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 23 



WASHINGTON 



TOURING the height of the packing scaeon in 

 ^'^ the Wcnatchee district apples have been roll- 

 ing out at the rate of from 150 to 200 cars a day. 

 The shippers hope to maintain shipments at the 

 rate of 200 cars daily during the first half of No- 

 Tcmber. Even then, it is estimated, there will re- 

 main about 8000 cars to be stored, with capacity 

 for only 4000 cars. Consignments by water for 

 Atlantic and European point*, forwarded via Se- 

 attle, may aid in cutting down the surplus. 



AAA 



npHE Valley Fruit company has leased the 

 ■^ Luther dehydrating plant at Walla Walla, 

 idle for two years, and will handle cull apples 

 Manager Frank Shields stated the company was 

 actuated by two things — to make a market for 

 growers' culls and to furnish work for the un- 

 employed The plant will handle ten tons of 

 green fruit a day The company Is working 185 

 persons at its packing plant In Walla Walla 

 and 35 in Its warehouse on the state line Its 

 payroll Is now $10,000 a month 



AAA 



"DY-PRODUCTS plants In the vicinity of 

 Yakima are reported as running night and 

 day to take care of cull apples which have piled 

 up in warehouses of the dehydrators and can- 

 neries. There are seven Buch plants at Yakima. 

 In running at capacity this season they will 

 use 15,000 tons of culls and give employment 

 to 800 men and women over a priod of four 

 to six months. The price of culls opened at 

 $10, as announced by the Libby, McNeill & 

 Libby cannery, but later dropped to $8. At that, 

 several of the plants have refused offering? be- 

 cause unable to handle them. 



AAA 



A RECORD price for apple land for the Okano- 

 gan Valley, and probably for all of north cen- 

 tral Washington, was said to have been established 

 when Dr. H. B. Clough sold his orchard of 19.2 

 acres to Oscar C. Erlckson for $35,000, a price of 

 $1876 an acre. The trees are mostly Johnathans, 

 Winesaps, Stayman and Delicious. Erlckson held 

 a four-year lease on the orchard and is reported to 



have received $12,000 for this year's crop, conser- 

 vatively estimated at more than 6000 boxes. 



AAA 



/^OMPLAINT was made at Spokane that un- 

 ^^ employed men refused 30 cents an hour for 

 apple picking in the Spokane valley when the 

 jobs were listed at the city free employment 

 bureau 



AAA 



T^HE harvest festival held in Washougal, Octo- 

 ber 10, was attended by the Prunarians of 

 Vancouver and members of the Washi^igton 

 Growers' Packing corporation, 



AAA 



TN the orchard of Mrs. Lucy J. Isaac, at 



Okanogan, Wash., the first of October* thieves 

 stole more than 250 boxes of Winter Banana 

 apples. The fruit was picked, hauled away, props 

 replaced under the trees and the orchard gone 

 over with a spring-tooth harrow to obliterate 

 the tracks. 



AAA 



A RECORD has been made by the prune or- 

 -^chard of B. O. Case, in the Fruit Valley 

 district, south of Ridgefield, Wash. This five- 

 acre orchard comprises 565 trees, which produced 

 16 1/3 tons of dried fruit, or 32,667 pounds of 

 prunes. This Is an average of about 58 pounds 

 of dried fruit to the tree. The prunes were 

 unusually large, the major portion being 30-40s. 

 Trees in the Case orchard are planted 1 8 feet 

 apart, which is much closer than the average 

 orchard Is set. 



AAA 



'yWENTY-FIVE girls, expert apple pickers and 

 packers, were brought to the Spokane district 

 by the Palouse corporation, to handle the 150,000 

 boxes of apples from the corporation's orchards. 

 It was estimated thst the girls would average net 

 earnings ranging from $150 to $200. 



A A 



T^HE Cherry Hill ranch at Sunnyslde, owned by 

 F. K. Spaulding & Son, during the 1921 sea- 

 son produced on 12 acres a record fruit crop. The 

 owners are said to have marketed 45,000 pounds 

 of cherries, 70,000 pounds of pears, 10,000 pounds 

 of plums, 3000 pounds of prunes, 42,000 pounds 

 of peaches and 40,000 pounds of apples. 



A inew prodnaet foir the OiTtordist 



%M 



A SPRtADER for ORCHARD SPRAY? 



prepared CasemSproido.' 



Qi. pronounced superior by E^cperts 

 after complete tests c«>Etficient 

 & EconomicalotAskyoui* dealer 

 or write to us -£ot circulai*ci&, 



CALIFORNTLV CENTRAL CREAMERIES 



42^ BATTERY STRELT 

 3AN FRANCISCO 



740 TERMINAL STREET 

 LOS ANGELES 





Fnilt trees biiddei! from bearing orch- 

 ards. Apple, Pear, Clierr^'. Peach. Plum, 

 I'rune, Apricot, Quince, Grape Vines, 

 Shrubbery, Plants, Raspberries. Black- 

 berries, Logans, Dewberries. Asparajnis, 

 Rhubarb, Flowerinp Slmibs. Roses. 

 Vines. Hedge, Nut and Shade Trees. 

 Carriage paid. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



WASHINGTON NURSERY CO. 



I Toppeuish, Washington. 



Salesmen everywhere. More wanted. 



