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BETTER FRUIT 



April, 1922 



WASHINGTON 



'T'llE North Puyrillup Fruit Cannery, it is ;ni- 

 nniinccd, has been leased to Frank Collinson, 

 of the Star-Cnllinson Packing Company of Pnrt- 

 l;ind, Ore. The annual capacity of the plant is 

 about 100,000 cases and it will be run at cnpac- 

 Ity this season. Berries and rhubarb constitute 

 most of the pack. H. A. Baker was formerly 

 lessee of the plant. 



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'T'HE OMAK. FRUIT COMPANY h.is taken 

 over the property of the Omak Fruit Growers, 

 Inc., a co-operative organization which had 

 handled most of the apples grown around Omak. 

 Incorporators of the new company are: Martin 

 Miller, Dr. E. E. Copple, George W. Lee, and F. 

 C. Paine. The property consists of three ware- 

 houses capable of handling 400 cars of apples .i 

 season, a spur track and 9''^ acres of land. 



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'T'HE OKANOGAN Produce Company has been 

 incorporated by James T. Kllpatrick, Charles 

 Ostenberg and B. Garigen, tn take over the ware- 

 house business of the Farmers' Warehouse .A.ssn- 

 ciation at Okanogan, which recently closed a re- 

 tail store and warehouse business. Kilpatrick w;is 

 formerly manager fnr the farmers. 



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npHE Walla Walhi \ A\cy Prune Growers' Cn- 

 Operative Association has been organized, 

 with W. R. Parvin as manager and approximately 

 400 members, who count on shipping between 6ilH 

 and 800 cars of prunes this season. 



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T W. YOUNG, man.igei of the cannery at Mossy- 

 *'* rock, reports th it he expects to pbnt 2'-^ acres 

 of Cuthbert raspberries and a like acrenge of logins 

 this season. Eventually he expects to h;ive 2il 

 acres in cane berries. 



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■T^UK APPLE cr.ip nf the Pab.use Corporation 

 .it Waverly, Fairfield ;itid Four Lakes, nc.ir 

 Spokane, sold for $101,100 and pnid ex-penses for 

 the season of 1921, ace ird'ng to H. T. Hubbard, 

 the receiver. The Enrl Fruit Company foreclosed 

 on the property and his been providing the fund; 

 necessary to finance It. 



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rpRUIT GROWERS at Meyers Falls, 7^; miles 

 north of Spokane, at a recent meeting decided 

 to form a local organization and take over the 

 warehouse which belonged to the now defunct Spo- 

 kane Fruit Growers' Association. 



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C^OR THE first time in history the executive 

 committee of the International Apple Growers' 

 Association will meet in the Northwest, word 

 having been sent to A. R. Rule, of the North- 

 western Fruit Exchange, that the committee will 

 convene July 26, in Seattle. 



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■npHROUGH a friendly suit, plans for re-organi- 

 zation of affairs of the Puyallup & Sumner 

 Fruit Growers' Canning Company have been set 

 in motion. William N. May has been appointed 

 receiver, to direct the reorganization task. 



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"TJR. F. D. HEALD of the State College has 

 issued warning to potato growers of the 

 state against a new disease known as skin-spot. 

 He says the disease occurs in storing. It came 

 from Europe and is now present in Canada. It 

 was found on potatoes shipped into Spokane from 

 British Columbia. 



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"A NEW PRICE for land In the Bucna district, 

 Yakima Valley, was established recently in the 

 sale of 27 acres of bearing orchard by E. S. Smith, 

 George W. Pearson and W. E. Humphrey, to 

 Jacob and Manuel Matson for $20,875. 

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At THE anpual meeting of the Yakima CouniV 

 Horticnltnral Union, the valley's largest ship- 

 per of fruit, steps were t:ikrn to increase the cnpl- 

 -ta-l'-rtnck- to- $500,000 and to rebuild the Selnh 



warehovisc. During the past season the union re- 

 ceived on sales $2,.^H,278 and turned over to 

 members $2,228,311. 



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of control demf)nstrati(ms, featuring the c<irrosive 

 sublimate treatment, has been arranged by Pro- 

 fessor Zundel of the State College. 



/^RAYS H.-\RBOR County potato growers are "C^ARLY L.\ST month a petition was filed in 

 ^■^ laying careful plans this season to eradicate superior court at Wenatchcc asking that a rc- 



rhizoctonia disease, which has been the greatest ceiver be appointed for the Manson Fruit Growers' 



i-nemy of the industry in seasons past. A series Co-Operative Association. 



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