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APPLE shipments from Selah will be heavier 

 th.m anticipated, the estimate having been 

 raised from 1,000 to 1,200 cars. In mid-Novem- 

 ber warehouses were jammed with packed and 

 loose fruit, and at one time one of the packing 

 houses was obliged to suspend accepting apples 

 temporarily. 



ES. B.-\RNES was elected president and D. A. 

 • ChcUieu was chosen secretary of the Jeffer- 

 son County Berry Growers' Association, at the 

 annual meeting held In Port Townscnd. J. M. 

 Kincaide was elected to fill a vacancy on the 

 board of directors. 



FOR the Wapato district the claim of producing 

 more than 1,000 boxes of apples per acre is 

 put forth bv Harry Jones. On 11.5 acres, carry- 

 ing 800 trees, Mr. Jones harvested 12,000 boxes, 

 principally Winesaps. The trees are 11 and 14 

 years old. Mr. Jones attributes his record to 

 successful fertilization, which consisted in leaving 

 alfalfa uncut in the orchard, supplemented last 

 year with nitrate placed about the trees. He 

 expects to use five pounds of nitrate per tree fi2r 

 next season. 



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SUCCESS of a "fruit handling" machine in- 

 vented and built by the Spokane Valley 

 Growers' Union, and the only one of its kind 

 in the world, is reported by Edward Peirce, man- 

 ager of the growers' union. The machine has 

 been in operation since the shipping season opened 

 and is reported by Mr. Peirce to have increased 

 the hindling of fruit by about 50 per cent. At 

 the time Mr. Pierce gave the report the union had 

 shipped 110 carloads of fruit as compared with 

 50 carloads at the corresponding time last year. 

 The increase was attributed chiefly to the new 

 machine. 



BETTER FRUIT 



THE acreage of cranberries along Coos Bay is 

 steadily increasing as the crop is proving a 

 profitable one. On a tract on North slough 

 production this year was reported as between 100 

 and 150 bushels per acre. 



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THE largest trainload of fruit ever shipped 

 from the southern Oregon district was com- 

 posed of 51 cars, dispatched from Ashland over 

 the Southern Pacific on November 1. The ship- 

 ment, which went south was composed of fruit 

 from the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue River 

 valleys. 



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GROWERS at Freewater will receive $2,000,000 

 for this year's apple crop, according to a 

 recent estimate. Cost of production was placed 

 at 50 cents a box and net return at $1 a box. 

 The community's prune crop was more than 250 

 cars. The price for prunes averaged about $40 

 a ton, with $52.50 as the top record. 



THE mild weather which prevailed over the 

 state until the third week of November 

 developed second crops of berries in many sections. 

 Second crop raspberries were grow in numerous 

 sections. Strawberries were in the home markets 

 at Medford, Marshfield and other towns at late 

 as November 10 and 12. 



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SO DIFFICULT was the matter of judging 

 between exhibits at the highly successful 

 Rugue River Valley Apple exposition at Medford 

 that the judges resorted to microscopes in look- 

 ing for blemishes. In the three-box entries 

 contest the judges thus examined every apple m 

 the competing exhibits of Upton Brothers of 

 Central Point and the Bear Creek orchard of 

 Meford. The award was finally given to Upton 

 Brothers. They also won first in one-box entries 

 of Jonathans, Newtons and Spitzenbergs. 



December, 1921 



OREGON 



TT'OR the prunes produced on his 12-acre orchard 

 •^ at Scio this season, Mat Doubek received 

 $1,700. This is to be compared, however, with 

 a return of $4,000 for the 1918 crop. 



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TT is expected that the Hood River Canning 

 ■^ company will pack 500 tons of lower grade 

 apples in gallon cans this year. The plant has 

 been working on Spitzenbergs and Newtowns prin- 

 cipally to date. It employs about 35 persons and 

 will be in opcratin until March 1. 



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An apple show was held by the Milton- 

 Freewater district November 11, at the new 

 Lamb packing plant at Milton. This district 

 is reported to have had an apple crop fully 

 equal to the record crop of 1919. Prune ship- 

 ments amounted to 600 cars. 



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"jVTEARLy 80 tons of prunes were processed 

 from the 4-0-acre orchard of C. R. Widmer 

 of North Benton. The prunes were processed and 

 graded at the Dallas plant of the Oregon 

 Growers* Co-operative association and 10 tons 

 graded as 20-30s. 



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PRUNING school will be held in the Hood 



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River valley December 5 to 8, inclusive. One 

 school will be held December 5 and 6, at Park- 

 dale, and the remaining two days will be spent at 

 Hood River. The work will be in charge of 

 Clayton L. Long, extension specialist of Oregon 

 Agricultural College. 



IDAHO 



'T'HREE weeks ago it was reported that there 

 were 100 carloads of apples in storage in the 

 modern new plant at Eagle Heights, near Nampa. 

 It was estimated that it would take the packers 

 three months to handle these apples. 



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At EMMETT the Hartley prune orchard of 

 ■^ 8J/2 acres, now owned by W. Stone, yielded 

 164 tons of green prunes, or almost 20 tons per 

 acre. The prunes were sold in special cases at 

 70 cents a case, which brought a return just 

 short of $50 a ton. 



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•HPHE McBlrney Fruit Company, with large prune 

 orchards at Meridian and Beatty, produced 

 and shipped approximately 200 cars of prunes. 

 The shipment of about 100 cars from Beatty was 

 "suitcase" packed. 



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IVT C. HINSHAW has a 15-acre apple orchard 

 near Greenleaf, in Canyon county, from 

 which he is said to have netted $1,000 an acre 

 in the past three years. This year he sold his 

 crop at $51 per ton. His gross return was $1,400 

 an acre, and $400 of this was clear profit. 

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r^N THE upper slopes of the Central Cove 

 district, California grapes are grown with 

 entire success. Jacob Mussell, who has a vine- 

 yard there, had a fine grape exhibit at the Idaho 

 state fair, including Flaming Tokays, Thomp- 

 son's seedless, Malagas, Muscats and Blue Damas- 

 cus varieties. 



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