November, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 25 



CALIFORNIA 



T AST month a group of California pear grow- 

 •^ ers and experts Interested in pear culture came 

 to study the methods of Professor F. C. Rcimer 

 and otheri In successfully combating pear blight 

 In Oregon. It Is highly probable that on their re- 

 turn they will be able to give California grow- 

 ers some vital pointers on the control of blight. 

 The Tislting party consisted of Horticultural Com- 

 misiloner H. P. Stabler; James Mills, Hamilton 

 City grower and shipper, and Howard Reed and 

 H. H. Wolfskin, pear growers. 



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/^HARGE was made last month by Miss Mar- 

 ^-^ gery Lynch, field agent of the California In- 

 dustrial Welfare Commission, that apple packing 

 establishments of the Watsonvllle district were vio- 

 lating orders of the commission in paying women 

 packers 25 cents an hour instead of 33 1-3 centJ 

 as provided by law. The commission announced 

 that it would send agents to the district to see that 

 the minimum wage be put Into effect, but report as 

 to what was accomplished in this line has not been 

 given out. 



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/"" M. BROWN of the Golden Orange Associa- 

 ^-^* tion began packing apples In the Yucaipa dis- 

 trict near Redlands the first week in October. This 

 was the first time apples have been packed in quan- 

 tity in that district. Mr. Brown said he eipected 

 tt.'handlc 100,000 boxes of Delicious and 150,000 

 b-.ies of Johnathans, Rome Beauties and Winesaps. 



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T ATE in September the first straight carload of 

 strawberries in the history of the Industry 

 there were sent direct to the Atlantic Coast from 

 the Pajaro Valley. It was said these berries were 

 the only ones on the market at the time and v/ould 

 have no competition in eastern markets uniil 

 Florida berries show up. 



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TN a suit Involving refusal of the California 

 Packing Corporation to accept about half of the 

 1920 prune crop of Milos M. Gopeccvic of Lake- 

 port the plaintiff won $20,000 damages. The 

 corporation accepted and paid for about half of 

 Gopecevic's prunes, but when he delivered the re- 

 maining 54 tons declined to take them. 



/Confidence in grapes continues strong in 

 ^^ Tulare county. For the present year it was 

 reported that 4600 acres of new vines were set 

 out. New plantings of all vines In the county 

 reached a new record, the aggregate being 19,542 

 acres, requiring 10,130,639 plants. 



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HPHE fifty-fourth state fruit growers' and farm- 

 ers' convention of California was held in 

 Los Angeles October 24-28. 



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A T a meeting held in Dinuba by 200 growers, 

 "^ shippers and distributors of Emperor grapes a 

 standard high-class pack was established for the 

 crop to be handled in kegs and a minimum price 

 of $4.50 per keg, f. o. b. California, was agreed 

 upon. Arrangements were made to have state in- 

 spectors see that an A-1 quality be maintained in 

 the pack. 



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of San Francisco as high as $135 per ton, 



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ton. Car shortage has checked the shipment of 

 wine and table grapes. Dealers expect the entire 

 raisin crop of this year and the surplus from last 

 season to move at the raisin association's price. 



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npHE Riverside cannery of the California Peach 

 and Fig Growers turned out this season 2,500 

 tons of canned peaches. The market for these, as 

 well as other lines of canned goods, was reported 

 as excellent. 



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IV/rGRE than 100 grape pickers employed by the 

 American Fruit Growers, Inc., went on 

 strike for 40 cents an hour recently. They were 

 being paid 35 cents an hour. 



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