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BETTER FRUIT 



May, 1922 



Union who contrnctcd in 1917 to deliver their 

 lng:inbcrrio8 to the Phcz Company must comply 

 with terms of that contract. Numerous growers 

 broke the five-ye.ir contract when more attractive 

 prices than those stipulated were offered by other 

 buyers. 



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(\^ APRIL 14 the berry growers of the Gresham 

 district held their second scries of field meet- 

 ings, visiting the yards of numerous growers for 

 a study of production method? and practices. 



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lyjORK THAN 4,(11)0,(100 pounds of fruit was 

 liandled by the Producers' Canning and Pack- 

 ing Company at Salem, during 1921, It was shown 

 by the annual report recently submitted to stock- 

 holders. A substantial profit was passed Into the 

 building and Improvement fund. G. W. Needham 

 was elected a director to succeed K. D. Kugel. 

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T W. HICKS, former Oak Grove orchardist and 

 •'* for a number of years on the inspection force 

 of the Apple Growers' Association, has been ap- 

 pointed temporary deputy fruit Inspector in Hood 

 River county. He now has charge of nursery 

 stock inspection and will officiate during the 

 strawberry- season in case a county Inspector Is 

 not named by that time. 



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T R. ACHESON, who has been serving as dlrec- 

 * tor of sales of the Hood River Canning Com- 

 pany, particularly in the East and abroad, returned 

 recently from a tour of the United Kingdom. He 

 spent a month in England and Scotland and found 

 business conditions fast Improving there, he re- 

 ported. 



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According to Dr. c. a. Macrum of the 



Mosier Fruit Growers' Association, there will 

 be extensive plantings of Blenheim and Clinton 

 apricots at Mosier this season. Oothcr plantings 

 will Include a considerable acreage of plums, cher- 

 ries and pears. 



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At pine GROVE, In the Hood River district, 

 J. C. Porter, ex-dlrcctor of the Apple Growers' 

 Association, has sold 27 acres of orchard to George 

 T. Gallagan and L. E. Ireland has sold 27.7 acres 

 to F. M. Peugh. The purchasers already owned 

 orchards In the same section. 



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T^HE APPLE Growers' Association at Hood 

 River has re-elected all Its old officers, as 

 follows: E. W. Birge, president; R. J. Mclsaac, 

 vice-president; C. King Benton, secretary. 



CALIFORNIA 



/Conditions in E1 Dorado county have proven 

 highly favorable for cherry growing and acre- 

 ages there are rapidly expanding. Heavy plantings 

 of trees have been made In Pilot Hill and Cool 

 districts, most of them above the irrigation 

 ditches. The growers plow the land twice each 

 spring to provide a soil mulch. 



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•T^HE MINIMUM wage for women in the fruit 

 canning and packing Industries of the state 

 was recently fixed at $15 a week. This is a re- 

 duction of $1 a week under the minimum scale 

 that prevailed last season. 



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TjNDER PROVISIONS of the new laws on 

 fruit and vegetable standardization strawber- 

 ries may be sold In California only in standard 

 baskets containing a dry pint. Under no circum- 

 stances may the old half-pint basket be used. 



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TN NUMBER of nurseries California leads the 

 country, with 540. New York, ranking next, 

 has 359. New York has 5288 acres devoted to 

 nurseries, containing stock valued at $2,310,253. 

 California has 4080 .icrcs on which the stock is 

 worth $2,920,458. 



i^ONSTRUCTION of a new temporary Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture building in Sacramento 

 at Tenth and L streets, Is being rushed and it is 

 said there will be great advantage In having all 

 units house together In the new quarters. 



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TTNDER the urging of Theodore D. Ur- 



bahns of tlie bureau of pest control unusually 

 careful spraying against the peach moth and peach 

 leaf curl is said to have been done this spring in 

 most peach sections of the state. 



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TJY way of guarding the chestnut Industry 

 which has had a favorable start In the state, 

 the state quarantine guardian Is attempting to 

 keep out all shipments of trees coming from 

 eastern states where chestnut bark disease is preva- 

 lent. The disease is said to have wiped out the 

 industrv in many eastern sections. 



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■T^OTAL SHIPMENTS of cherries and peaches 

 from California to the east in 1921 were 

 slightly greater than In 1920. Cherry shipments 

 showed the greatest increase there having been 

 665 carloads as compared with 494 carloads in 

 1920. Peach shipments increased from 3,107 

 carloads to 3,333 carloads, while apricots decreased 

 from 312 to 284 carloads. 



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■piFTY ACRES of Bartlett pears are being 

 planted in the Upper Sutter Basin district by 

 Perry HIatt, together with ten acres of cherries. 



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T^HE TERRA BELLA peach growers have 

 completed arrangements for marketing this 

 season's crop through the California Canning 

 Peach Growers' Association, organized recently. 



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TN NAPA county an observation experiment In 

 wh'ch 28 varieties of prunes are to be pro- 

 duced on one orchard, has been arranged. The 

 object of course Is to learn which varieties do the 



best. 



IDAHO 

 T ETTUCE growers of Idaho have organized 

 and have adopted standard grades for their 

 product. Except for slight changes the grades 

 correspond to those of California. W. S. McBir- 

 ney was elected president of the growers' body 

 and A. C. Saxton was named secretary. 



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TDRUNE growers of the Boise valley district have 

 formed a corporation to take care of the mar- 

 keting of their crop. Last season the valley shipped 

 about 100 cars of green prunes, of wh'ch more than 

 50 cars were handled by the growers' association. 



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At a RECENT stockholders' meeting of the 

 Boise Valley Growers Inc., composed of prune 

 growers, It was voted to change the name of the 

 association to the Boise Valley Prune Growers, 

 Inc. These were the officers elected: Fremont 

 W(tod, pre-^ident; F. H. Chamberlain, vice-presi- 

 dent; P. P. Garvin, secretary-treasurer. 



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\ SPECIAL committee to develop plans for ad- 

 \ertlsing northwestern boxed apples was ap- 

 pointed recently by the StTtc Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation. The report of the committee will soon 

 be ready for consideration. Fruit men on the 

 committee are: T. O. Hyslop, Twin Falls; J. J. 

 Steel, Parma; A. E. Gipson and J. J. Allison, 

 Caldwell; Dr. E. F. Colemin, Kuna; John Moul- 

 tcm, Welser; Harry Yost, Meridian; Lee Truax, 

 Boise; D. VanHoesen, Council; L. S. Yoder and 

 Harry Richards, Nampa; Guy Dalton, Emmet. 



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A T.BONNER'S FERRY the Boundary county 

 Potato Growers' Association has been organ- 

 ized and a large number of growers have S'gned 

 up a three-year agreement with the association, 

 The directors are: George KIndschuh, Emil Frank, 

 J. M. Billings and O. H. Campbell, nf Bonner's 

 Ferry and J. A. Morlce of Naples. 



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