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February, 1 922 



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OKEGON 



'X^HE Cottage Grove cannery Ijst season put up 

 321 tons of fruits and vegetables. Plans are 

 being considered for enlarging the plant, it is 

 reported. The cannery reported earnings of 20 

 per cent on its stock, despite unfavorable condi- 

 tions of the season. 



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"TARLY this year the Apple Growers' Associa- 

 "^ tion issued a oil to its growers at Hood River 

 and other points to begin placing their orders for 

 boxes at once. The bulletin announced that sup- 

 plies of apple and pc.ir boxes were available at 

 once. 



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TTNUSUALLY heavy snowfalls of the winter 

 hive not been particuhrly pleasing to the 

 orchardists of Hood River Valley, but not so with 

 the growers of strawberries. The snows, it Is said, 

 have set the stage for a bumper crop of berries. 



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TfTOMEN of the auxiliary of the Hood River 

 Pn?t, American Legion, were instrumental 

 at Yuletide in sending a lot of Hood River apples 

 and other delcctables to disabled ex-service men in 

 the Portland hospitals. 



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EAR the villngc of Home, bordering on th'- 

 Snake River, W. E. Hall has one of the finest 

 and most dependable orchards In the state. His 

 tract, which contains about 125 acres, Is In a cove 

 that never sustains damage from frost. Last sen- 

 son Mr. Baker shipped 39 cirs of pp:iches, 17 cirs 

 of apples, two cars of grapes, one of apricots and 

 two of asparagus. Ninety acres of his ranch Is 

 set to peaches of the Early Crawford, Elberta and 

 J. H. Hale varieties. He has 24 acres In apples 

 and six in grapes. 



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A C. PETERSON, who had been located at 

 * Dallas for some years, more recently as 

 superintendent of the Oregon-Washington district 

 of the California Packing Corporation, has been 

 transferred to an enlarged territory in California, 

 with headquarters at San Francisco. 



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An INCREASE of $10,140 In value of the 

 apple crop from a 20-acre orchard of 12-ycar- 

 old trees is credited to the demonstration work of 

 Fred Bennlon, county agent of Umatilla county, 

 and Clayton L. Long, extension horticulturist of 

 Oregon Agricultural College. The orchard is that 

 of J. F. Slover of Freewater, where a three-year 

 programme of pruning, spraying and thinning has 

 been conducted by the two experts. 



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T^HE five processing plants at Salem are credited 

 with a new record of production for that city 

 in output of fresh fruit and vegetable packs in 

 1921. The total pack is given as 32,791,232 

 pounds. The aggregate value of the pack Is given 

 as $2,000,000. 



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"DETWEEN 850 and 1000 acres of cover crops 

 were planted in orchards of Lane county. 

 This was the result of a campaign conducted by 

 a horticultural extension committee which urged 

 upon the orchardists this modern means of en- 

 riching the soils of their tracts. 



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■pRED WRIGHT, berry grower at Hubbard, re- 

 cently sold his 16-acre ranch to Mrs. Helen 

 Jones of Portland. Wright created two or three 

 near-stampedes in Portland last summer by at- 

 tempting to put strawberries on the market at a 

 price considerably below prevailing quotations. 



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A MEETING of the North Marion County 

 Berry Growers' Association was held at 

 Woodburn last month. A proposition of President 

 Graves of the Graves Canning Company to take 

 berries on an installment or co-operative plan was 

 received and taken under consideration. 



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A DISH of prunes from a tree 70 years old was 

 recently served at Albany, but the tree in 



question stands in the historic Union Point sec- TN ONE day the Hood River Canning Company 



tion, three miles south of Brownsville. -■- turned out 1000 gallon cans of apples, packed 



under variety labels of the company, for foreign 



IVTARK a. Mayer, owner of one of the largest shipment via the Panama Canal from Portland. 



orchards in the Mosler district, recently a a a 



presented a tract of 60 acres to the State Highway ^^ 



Commission. The land Is on the Columbia River 'T'HE Dufur Orchard Company reported ship 

 Highway and is to be used as an auto camping ment of 194 cars of apples during the 1921 



ground. season, from its orchards at Dufur. 



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