March. 19Z2 



WASHINGTON 



A T THE annual meeting of the Yakima P'ruit 

 Growers' Association, President H. O. James 

 waj re-elected and the other officers named are 

 these: E. D. Knight, vice-president; W. B. 

 Armstrong, secretary; L. A. Cooper, assistant- 

 secretary; C. H. Swigart, treasurer and general 

 manager. The association now has a membership 

 of about 275, with 3500 acres of fruit. 



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/^VER ADVANCES on the 1920 apple crop 

 brought the Spokane Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation into the hands of a receiver recently. 

 The association was organized in 1914, and owned 

 1 1 warehouses in the Spokane Valley, Stevens 

 County and Benton County. J. A. McMillan of 

 Grcenacres, the receiver, has announced that he 

 expects to sell all holdings of the association. 

 .'Assets are estimated at $250,000, and it Is said 

 the 1200 stockholder-members will sustain little, 

 if anv, loss. 



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TZ'ENNEWICK seems assured of a fine new 

 prc-cooling and storage plant, as a result of 

 conferences recently held by officials of the 

 ^'aklma Fruit Growers' Association, with which 

 tlic Kennewick growers are affiliated. The plan 

 is that local men interested assist In the financ- 

 ing by subscrbing for 8 per cent second mor- 

 gage bonds. 



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/^FFICERS elected to serve the Edmonds 

 Growers' Association this year were as fol- 

 lows: L. E. Keeton, president; George Addy, 

 vice-president; J. J. Robinson, secretary; A. B. 

 Lewis, treasurer. Co-operative purchase of spr.ty 

 m.ttcrlals and seed potatoes was agreed upon. 



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'\/'lCE-PRESIDENT Robert H. KIpp, for 12 

 years manager of the Wenatchee Red .'^pple 

 Company, has announced his resignation frf>m 

 that company and from several other organiza- 

 tions. He Is leaving Spokane for Valley City, 

 III., where he has purchased an Interest in an 

 established fruit firm, having 1200 acres In 

 bearing orchard. His resignation follows the 

 selling of holdings of his company In recent 

 months. 



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At THE aonu.il inecting and b.inquct of the 

 TIcton Fruit Growers' .Association, T. W. 

 Tapp was re-elected president. His report showed 

 that last season 37 cars of pears and 296 cars 

 of apples had been shipped from Tieton. An 

 agreement was made that ordinary pruning work- 

 ers should be paid 30 cents an hour. As other offi- 

 cers of the association, J. C. Havner was chosen 

 vice-president and F. T- Straka secretary-treasurer. 



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TPHE Walla Walla Valley Fruit Growers' Asso,, 

 elation, recently organized at the state line 

 and including growers both In Washington and 

 Oregon, elected officers on February 1, at a 

 meeting in Freewater. The directors are: S. A. 

 Miller and Claude Harris, both of Milton, Oregon, 

 A. W. Simmons, Fruitvale, Oregon, C. E. Berry, 

 College Place, Washington, Julius Levy, E. P. 

 Jensen and C. Schwald, all of Ferndale, Oregon. 



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"Deter LEVANDER, Wenatchee district, thinks 

 he hnlds a world's record for production of 

 Delicious apples. From one and one-half acres 

 his crops for the past three years have been: 2215 

 boxes, 1919; nearly 1700 boxes, 1920, and nearly 

 1800 boxes last season. Gross returns for the three 

 years have been $8280, $5100 and $4850, re- 

 spectively. 



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J^IRECTORS for 1922 were recently elected 

 by the Wash'ngton Growers' Association, with 

 he>diuarters at Vancouver. Those elected were 

 Fred W. Brooker, Frank Russell, Henry Grass, 

 I. L. Davles, W. H. Wood, O. C. Bell, John 

 Sourgeon and J. H. Leverett. The htter was 

 elected to the board as representative of the potato 

 growers. 



BETTER FRUIT 



At the annual meeting of the Columbia Fruit 

 Union, West Salmon, held early In February, 

 these trustees were elected: John G. Myers, E. 

 M. Peck, A. R. Haynes, A. E. Gladcr, W. E. 

 Miller, N. P. Mears and C. Warnecke. A res- 

 olution was adopted ruling that only stockholders 

 may hereafter have use of the storage space of 

 the union. 



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On his return from headquarters of his 

 company at Steubenville, O., John W. Lang- 

 don, general manager of the Stanton Investment 

 Company tracts at Walla Walla, announced that 

 his concern will market most of its fruit direct 

 this season. The company has been marketing 

 through the Skookum Packers' Association. 



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TJARRV C. BENSON has resigned as manager 

 of the Cherry Lane Orchard, near Prosser, 

 which position he held for eight years, and will 

 take over management of a large orchard tract 

 in. the Wenatchee district. Cherry Lane Orchard 

 contains 240 acres of highly developed, full-bear- 

 ing commercial orchard. It is largely owned by 

 Northern Pacific Railroad officials. 

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"TRUIT shipments from Sclah in 1921 reached 

 a total of 1,500 cars. This Is an increase of 

 300 cars over shipments of 1920. 



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'T'ltE BOHLKE FRUIT COMPANY, INC., 

 Incorporated in Seattle .In 1920, has sold out to 

 the General Produce Company. The men Inter- 

 ested In the produce company are M. M. Reese, 

 L. E. Brown, and C. T. Moffatt. They will con- 

 tinue business at the old location. 



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/^FFICERS have been named by the Grays 

 Harbor Berry Growers' Association, as fol- 

 lows: J, W. Strijbel, president; C. W. Musgrove, 



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vice-president; C. N. Evans, secretary; W. L. 

 Leonard, treasurer; Lewis Barg, George Wey- 

 gardt and Mrs. M. Berg, trustees, 



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