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APPLE PRICES h.ivf been tending upward in 

 cistern buying centers, though wintry weather 

 at many points in mid-February stopped movements 

 to some extent and made the market^ a little 

 iiuiel. Shipping agents have found much of encour- 

 agement In the market situation. In fact, most 

 of them see no reason now, they say, why north- 

 western crops should not clean up in entirely sat- 

 isfactory manner, at acceptable prices. They are 

 thus cleaning up, as a matter of fact. 



At the New York auction February 18, Wash- 

 ington and Oregon apples sold as follow;: 



Twenty-three hundred and ten boxes Ncwtowns, 

 extra fancy, large to very large, $3.25 @ 3.35i 

 •mall to medium, $2.90 @ 3.20 i very small, $2.2'! 

 @ 2.75; fancy large to very large, $2.80 @ 3.05; 

 Seven hundred .ind ninety boxes Sp'tzenbergs, 

 extra fancy, medium to large, $2.50 @ 3, few 

 high as $3.15; small to very small, $2.20 @ 2.50. 

 Thirty-eight hundred and twenty boxes Newtowns, 

 extra fancy, large to very large, $3 @ 3.3 5; 

 medium, $2.65 @ 2.80; small to very small, 

 $2.10 @ 2.55; combined fancy and cull, all 

 si«s, $2.40 @ 2.65. 



Government reports on boxed apple fhpments 

 for the month of January, 1922 and 1921, car- 

 lot shipments, respectively, compare as follows: 

 California, 126 to 106; Id..ho, 130 to 238; Ore- 

 gon, 467 to 260; Washington, 2,045 to 1,123; 

 other states, 88 to 87. Total shipments this Jan- 

 uary were 2,856, compared with 1,814 in J muary, 

 1921. 



Boxed apple shipments of the season, up to 

 February 1, are reported by the government to 

 hive been 48,280. This compares with car-lot 

 shipments of 29,936 to the same date a year ago. 



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,N FEBRU.^RY THIRD, the 1300th car- 



Io.id of the 1921 crop of boxed apples 

 hid been d'spatchcd from Wenatchee, leaving 

 about 1800 cars in storage in north ccntr.il Wash- 

 ington, according to estimates made by the Great 

 Northern railroad, the district horticulturist and 

 the Wenatchec Valley Traffic Association. It is 

 expected that if the price of Winesaps advances 

 there will probably be from 500 to 1000 cars 

 more sent out. 



According to figures compiled by shippers, the 

 apple crop of north central Washington for 1921 

 will return the growers about $16,500,000. It 

 it confidently stated by shippers that this yield 

 of $500 per acre for every acre in orchard is the 

 highest returns secured from any agricultural or 

 horticultural land In the United States for 1921, 



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PRUNES are selling somewhat better in the 

 East. Peaches and apricots arc both 

 high and scarce so neither are in serious compe- 

 tition with prunes. Encouraging orders have 

 been coming to the big associations and a result 

 has been the packing out of a number of carload 

 shipments. Earlier predxtions th.t the Nnrth- 



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TOURING the first week of January, 220 cars 



"^ of apples, 18 cars of onions and 10 cars 



of potatoes were shipped from Yakima Valley. 



This brought apple shipments for the season up to 



9,301 cars and the total of all fruit shipments 



to 13,585 cars. 



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"TXPORT APPLE shipments from Portland 

 ^ for the 1921-22 season exceeded 400,000 

 boxes. One week's shipments aggregated 175,- 

 000 boxes. It is freely predicted that as the buying 

 power returns in European countries and as ship- 

 ping facilities are improved, apple exports through 

 the Portland terminal will far exceed last season's 

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'yOTAL APPLE shipments frniii Hood Ri\cr 



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$3,000,000, or close to $1.50 a box. From cull 

 apples the growers will realize $100,000. Returns 

 from other crops were estimated as; Strawberries, 

 $90,000; pears, $55,000; cherries, $75,000, and 

 from potatoes, $45,000. 



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