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BETTER FRUIT 



December, 1921 



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TJ[7l!ILE shipments of apples over the United 

 States at large have decreased by about one- 

 half, as compared with those of a month ago, 

 ihcy are keeping up well In the Pacific Northwest. 

 A check made a week ago showed tliat Idaho was 

 sending out an average of about 25 cars a day; 

 Oregon around 85 cars a day, and Washington 

 about 175 cars a day. 



Indicative of how heavy have been early ship- 

 ments from the "boxed apple" states was the gov- 

 ernment's report compiled to November 1. By that 

 d;ite shipments of boxed apples aggregated 28,593 

 carloads, as compared with only 15,702 carloads 

 bv tlie same date in 1920. 



According to late figures compiled in the 

 Spokane office of the bureau of crop esti- 

 mates, the apple crop of the state of Washing- 

 ton was increased by about 3,000,000 bushels, to 

 2S,^2\niHl hiisheN. E>rly eninnte? hrid placed the 



crop at 25,474,llUl) bushels. The 1920 crop was 

 17,000,000 bushels. The state's pear crop Is placed 

 at 1,760,000 bushels. 



Latest estimates for Oregon place the apple crop 

 at 3,900,000 busliels. Idaho this year had an esti- 

 mated production of 3,132,0(11) bushels. This 

 breaks all previous records for the Gem state. 



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TOURING recent days shiw demand and dull 

 market for Northwestern boxed apples have 

 been reported from many of the big eastern cities. 

 Where apples have moved, however, it has been 

 at fairly good prices. 



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/^LOSING of first apple pools Is now belnb ef- 

 fectcd in many districts. One of the first to 

 report was the Hanford local of the Spokane Fruit 

 Growers' Company. Prices for the Hanford pool 

 Jonathans ranged from $1.35 for the smaller 

 fancies to $2.25 for the larger extra fancies. On 

 Delicious, for the same grades, there was a range 

 from $2.73 to $3.48. 



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t^INAL payments on cherries were made early 

 In November by the Wasco branch of the Ore- 

 gon association at The Dalles. Net average prices 



to growers were announced as follows: Bings, 

 8.52 cents, Lamberts, 9.74 cents; Royal Anns, 

 6.65 cents; Black Republicans, 5.63 cents; Oregon 

 Blacks, 9.72 cents. 



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T^HE pool of 112,000 pounds of this year's rasp- 

 berry crop handled by the Eugene Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association was closed two weeks ago. Man- 

 ager J. O. Holt announced. The price received for 

 red raspberries was 8J^ cents and for blackcaps, 

 10^ cents. 



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/^ANADA'S apple crop Is estimated at 3,377,200 

 barrels in official report of the fruit commis- 

 sioner. His estimate of production by provinces, 

 expressed in barrels, is this: Nova Scotia, 1,300,- 

 001); British Columbia, 1,009,000; Ontario, 960,- 

 000; Quebec, 35,300; New Brunswick, 33,000. 



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TN THE 12 months ending October 31, Cali- 

 fornia shipped 48,3 50 cars of oranges and 

 grapefruit and 11,797 cars of lemons, 72^ per 

 cent of which, aggregating 43,592 cars, were han- 

 dled by the California Fruit Growers* Exchange. 

 The average operating cost of the exchange's mar- 

 keting service was 7.03 cents per box. 



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Whereas this year you fruit men will make some money, we realize that you were all hard hit last year, and so to 

 help just a little we are making you this reduced price. The price of $1.00 applies to subscriptions within the United 

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