May, 1922 



BETTER FRQ IT 



Page Twenty-five 



Advertising Plans 



From nearly every section of the Pacific 

 Northwest comes word that the growers are 

 this spring raising special funds to be ex- 

 pended in the advertising of the North- 

 west's boxed apples. Wenatchee growers 

 propose a fund of $250,000. Hood River 

 and Yakima districts and the Idaho State 

 Horticultural Association all have under 

 consideration plans for such a fund, or have 

 actually arranged to collect one. The 

 need and value of such concerted advertis- 

 ing has been made apparent. Far-reaching 

 benefits are sure to result if the grower? 

 do not lag in this good work. 



WASHINGTON 

 T?EPORTS from Wenatchee are to the effect 

 that several hundred acres of new orchards 

 and berry fields will be set out in that district 

 this season. On Kinds just brought under irri- 

 gation in Grant County there will be heavy plant- 

 ings of peaches and apricots, with strawberries, 

 loganberries and blackcaps as fillers. In the 

 Tonasket-OroviUe section many apple trees are to 

 be planted, with apricots and smaller fruits as 

 fillers. 



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According to report of Henry Huff, dis- 

 trict horticultural Inspector stationed at Puy- 

 allup, the total value of fruit and vegetable crops 

 in the district in 1921 was $2,161,849. Local 

 canneries and plants used 7,701 tons of fruits and 

 780 tons of veget.ables. Fruit shipments totaled 

 4,853 tons and vegetable shipments 3,996 tons. 

 New acreages this spring are to aggregate 600 

 acres of raspberries, 185 acres of evergreen black- 

 berries and 150 acres of loganberries. 



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yV/^ENATCHEE'S special committee on apple ad- 

 vertising will recommend that a fund of at 

 least $250,000 to be obtained through an assess- 

 ment of 2 cents a box and subscriptions of 

 shippers and business men, be raised this season 

 to be spent through a capable advertising agency. 

 .After details of the proposal have been announced 

 a referendum will be taken among the growers to 

 make sure they approve so large an expenditure. 

 The committee which framed the plan Is com- 

 posed of John R. Peters, O. B. Shay, John R. 

 Everett, J. M. Wade and Edwin Smith. 



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A NNOUNCEMENT is m.ade that M. L. Dean 

 has resigned his position as head of production 

 and inspection department of the Wcn- 

 atchee District Co-Operative Association. Dean, 

 who is secretary of the Washington Stite Horti- 

 cultural Association, held his position with the 

 co-operative association a little more than a year. 

 He was formerly with the State Department of 

 .Agriculture. 



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r^ A. HUNTLEY of Yakima has been made hor- 

 * ticultural inspector in Pacific county, where he 

 will particularly look after cranberry problems 

 and production in the bogs of the county. For 

 some time he has been doing work for the state 

 department of agriculture in Thurston county. 



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■pOR THE FIRST time in two years the Van- 

 couver Prunarians will stage a prune harvest 

 festival this year, according to unanimous vote at 

 a recent meeting. Business conditions ha\'e so im- 

 proved it is felt that the affair can again be made 

 a big success. 



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pRUNE, POT.ATO and strawberry growers of 

 Clarke county, affiliated in the Washington 

 Growers' Packing Corporation, have been so well 

 pleased with last season's results that new mem- 

 bers are daily being signed up, according to Man- 



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DISPLAYS 



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Pox-tland., Oregon 



ager E. J. Newhouse. Eighty per cent of the 

 prune growers are members, and 90 per cent of 

 the county's strawberry crop is handled by the 

 association. 



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TT has been announced at Montesano that an 

 active pear planting campaign will be waged 

 this summer and fall by the Montesano Packing 

 company. W. C. Mumaw, the manager, is also 

 urging the planting of more Montmorency cher- 

 ries. 



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A BOUT THE middle of April the green aphis 

 pest showed rapid spread around Chchalis, ac- 

 cording to Deputy Horticulturist Albert. He pre- 

 dicted that this season will be one of the worst 

 yet experienced with this pest and began a cam- 

 paign of spraying to eradicate it. 



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TTNUSUAL AMOUNTS of spray materials and 

 fertilizer have been purchased by growers of 

 Clake county this spring. Coupled with the fact 

 that special attention has been given to pruning 

 this must be taken to indicate that orchardlsts 

 and farmers are taking better care of their trees. 



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T W. EGAN is having 14 acres of loganberries 

 •^ * planted on a tract of 15 acres near Walla 

 Walla, it is reported. He will interplant potatoes 

 in the tract this year. 



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'T'HE LARGEST strawberry planting reported 

 from the upper valley at Yakima for this sea- 

 son has been made by William Lee, who has put 

 out five acres berries of the Nick Ohmer va- 

 riety. Mr. Lee's ranch is at Naches. 



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"TV A. McDonald is said to be setting out ten 

 acres of pears at Donald. He is planting 

 the Rartlett and Winter Nells varieties. 



OREGON 



TJTlGHLY Important experiments in cherry pol- 

 lination arc being conducted in Wasco county 

 this season by Professor C. E. Schuster of Oregon 

 Agricultural College. He will have a corps of 

 assistants and will be aided by County Agent 

 Jackman and Horticultural Bureau Chief Nelson. 

 The experiments arc expected to produce data 

 on the problem of cherry pollination tliat y<!'\\\ be 

 of far-reaching benefit to growers and experts of 

 the nation. 



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A L. PAGE has sold his cast-side orch.ird at 

 ■^^' Hood River to R. Starkell, former Walla 



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 .'Appearance and mar- 

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Notethe" blolch" or- burn" off2 'I'i"'''' '°' ^^l''^^'. 

 the lead on th,s apple l^fd" spray 



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ToppenlBh, Was bin gi; on. 



Salesmen everywhere. More wanted. 



Walla fruit m;in. The price for the lO-acre tract 

 is given as $9,500. Mr. Page immediately pur- 

 chased from Russell A. McCullay a neighboring 

 ten acres of bearing orchrud for $10, .^00. F. H. 

 Kingdon has bought the lO-acre tract of A. E. 

 Digman, on Neal Creek and Albert and Herbert 

 Krussow have acquired an adjoining ten acres from 

 W. F. Laraway. 



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According tr. decision of the state supreme 





court the grower members of the Salem Fruit 



