December, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 25 



"OOBERT HYSLOP has a peach orchard of 

 four acres in the Deer Flat district, south 

 of Nampa, which netted him big returns, both 

 this year and last. The crop of 1920, sold on 

 the trees at 4 cents a pound, returned him $1,786. 

 This year's crop, which was about 50 per cent 

 greater, was sold for 5 cents a pound. The 

 trees are but six years old. 



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TN IDAHO the prune growers and shippers 

 this season quite extensively used what they 

 call the "suit case" pack for their fruit. This 

 means use of nothing other than the ordinary 

 peach or tom.ito box which holds about 19 pounds 

 net. An advantage is said to be much greater 

 speed in handling the fruit. The price per "suit- 

 case" this year ranged around 60 and 70 cents. 



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A TRACT of the famous Stephens apple or- 

 chards at Nampa, planted 96 trees to the 

 acre In 1908, this season averaged 13 1/5 boxes 

 per tree, or 1,267 boxes per acre. Yield per tree 

 ranged from 10 to 19 boxes. E. F. Stephens, 

 widely-known orchardist and principal owner, at- 

 tributes this record to frequent cultivation in the 

 earlier st.iges and the supplying of lots of plant 

 food, particularly alfalfa, as the orchards gei 

 older. 



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TTNDER sponsorship of the California Pear 

 Growers' Association the First Annual Pear 

 Industry convention was held in Berkeley, No- 

 vember 2! and 22. Everybody connected with the 

 industry, including buyers, canners, shippers, driers 

 and transportation agents, was invited. In calling 

 the convention President Frank T. Swett of the 

 association said the industry annually brings $12,- 

 000,000 to the state. 



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A BIG fight for lower freight rates for 1922 on 

 deciduous fruits is being outlined by the Cali- 

 fornia Fruit Growers' and Shippers' Protective 

 league, recently organized at San Francisco. Frank 

 T. Swett has been made manager of the organiza- 

 tion, which has opened offices in San Francisco. 



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JOASPBERRIES from the Shady Oaks farm in 

 Saratoga were a part of numerous Thanksgiv- 

 ing menus in Chicago. The berries, reported to 

 have been of exceptional quality, were assembled 

 at San Jose and sent forward from the model pre- 

 cooling plant there in time to go on the Chicago 

 market just before Thanksgiving time. There 

 was a carload of them. 



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\V/ HAT is considered a record price of the year 

 for peaches was "recently reported by J. L. 

 Nagle, general manager of the California Fruit 

 Exchange. A shipment of Levi clings from New- 

 castle sold at a New York auction on November 

 1, for $5.25 a box. The net price was calculated as 

 $4.36. The boxes contained an average of 45 

 peaches, or 18 pounds of fruit. 



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TRRIC.^TION and methods and practice of graft- 

 age are given prominence in the deciduous fruits 

 short course being held at the University of Cali- 

 fornia farm, at D.ivis. The course opened Novem- 

 ber 28 and is to continue until December 12. 



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A LONG-TERM pruning test on a large scale 

 has been mapped out by the University Ex- 

 tension Service for a plot of peaches and apricots 

 a mile long, on the California Packing Company 

 property near Tuttle. The trees were planted in 

 1919. 



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TN OCTOBER, the Watsonville district shipped 

 800 cars of apples, 241 to eastern points and 

 ^39 to California points. In the same month last 

 year the district shipped 680 cars. 



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/California authorities are insistent on en- 

 forcing the apple standardization law to in- 

 sure a more perfect pack. A Watsonville grower 

 was recently fined $100- for violation of the law. 



TT is reported that the 5-cent package of raisins 

 put out over the country by the Associated 

 Raisin Company has proven so popular the com- 

 pany can not get cartons fast enough to take care 

 of the demand. Now the California Prune and 

 Apricot Growers, Inc., have followed out the same 

 idea by putting out a 5-cent carton of prunes. 



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\y EPORTS from San Francisco on the shipment 

 of Concord grapes from Washington were to 

 the effect that they did not sell well, drawing an 

 offer of 5 cents per pound. The shipment car- 

 ried poorly. It was said. 



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Investigations by the California College of 

 Agriculture have disclosed that peaches are the 

 most popular deciduous fruit of the state. There 

 are 9,000,000 bearing trees in the state that pro- 

 duce an annual crop valued at more than $30,- 

 000,000. 



Most of the apples raised in New Jer- 

 sey this year were sold to mincemeat fac- 

 tories at $100 a ton, according to A. Free- 

 man Mason, formerly of Hood River, but 

 now in charge of the New Jersey Experi- 

 ment Station. Many orchardists merely 

 loaded their apples loose in box-cars, tak- 

 ing them direct from the trees without 

 regard to possible grading, and shipped 

 them to the mincemeat makers. 



/^HARLES W. PUGSLEY, for many years 

 ^^^ professor of animal husbandry at the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska and editor of a farm publi- 

 cation there, has been named as Assistant Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture by Secretary Henry C. Wallace 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



A MARKET for the peels, cores and other 

 apple waste In the Northwest has been opened 

 up by tile establishment of a factory for the 

 manufacture of powdered pectin at Topeka, Kan. 

 The discovery Is said to revolutionize the jelly 

 making industry. The discoverer is Albert Leo, 

 a chemist who formerly operated a by-products 

 plant at Moscow, Idaho. 



A freak apple that attracted considerable 

 attention was grown this year in the orchard 

 of George Gallaway, east side fruit grower 

 at Hood River. The apple grew on a 

 Spitzenberg tree, but had four equal seg- 

 ments, quite distinctly representing Spitz- 

 enberg, Arkansas Black, Gravenstein and 

 Delicious varieties. Cross pollenization was 

 the cause of this freak of nature. 



Fruit trees budded from bearing orch- 

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 Prune. Apricot. Quince. Grape Vines, 

 Shrubbery. Plants, Raspberries, Black- 

 berries. Logans, Dewberries, Asparagus, 

 Rtiubarb. Flowering Shrubs, Rosea. 

 Vines, Hedge. Nut and Shade Trees. 

 Carriage paid. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



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