April 1922 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page Thirty-one 



CALIFORNIA 



'PARL G. DELZELL has been unanimously 

 ■^ elected gener.il manrigcr of the California 

 Fruit Growers' Exchange, to succeed G. Harold 

 Powell, who died suddenly February 18, while 

 attending a dinner party at Pasadena. Mr. Del- 

 zell had been assistant general manager fnr a 

 number of years. He began work with the ex- 

 change as an office boy. Mr. Powell was very 

 widely known and respected in the fruit industry. 



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TV/TEETINGS to be held at S.icramento have 

 bt-en announced as follows by Director G. 

 H. Hecke of- the Department of Agriculture: May 

 29 and 30, Convention California County Horti- 

 cultural Commissioners; May 31, Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board; June 1, County Hnrticultur.il Com- 

 missioners and Nurserymen. 



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TV/r E. O'DEA, who has been fruit and vegetable 

 * inspector in the sh'ppins: inspection service, 

 has resigned, effective April 15, to become a repre- 

 sentative of the Americ-in Fruit Growers', Inc., 

 in Sonoma .ind Napa counties. 

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Asa MEANS of giving the public instructive 

 information about its doings, the California 

 I'rune and Apricot Growers' Inc., has appointed 

 Dr. F. M. Coleman as lecturer for the organiza- 

 tion. Dr. Coleman, who was formerly a grower, 

 will be av-iilable for speaking tours, and will 

 probably visit the leading colleges and universi- 

 ties of the Pacific Coast as well as appearing be- 

 before Innumerable Sdcietles and conventions in 

 California. 



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CTATE Quarantine Guardian L. O. H.uipt, re- 

 *^ ported that he found a sh'pment ot l(),U()ll 

 prune trees from the Portland Whi»lc;ale Com- 

 pany, Portland, Oregon, infested with peach tree 

 borer. When notified, tlie sh'ppers said the trees 

 were grown near Woodburn, Ore., and req\iested 

 ll];it thev be destroyed. 



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"rRANK R. HRANN, authority on horticultural 



mittcrs, has been appointed county horticultural 



cummissioner cif Tulare cnunty to succeed Ch uli-' 



F. Collins. 



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T^HE FAIROAKS Fruit Conipmy liU reison 

 sh'pped about 1 tH) tons nf bulk olives to east- 

 ern points, sending them in lug boxes of an average 

 weight of 2> pounds. Instructions for the proces- 

 sing of ripe olives in the hr)nie hive been broad- 

 casted. This plan of shipping bulk <)lives to the 

 consumers, who will them^-Ives pickle them, is 

 s.iid to be proving quite popular and successful. 



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A MOVE was made at a recent meeting of the 

 California Cmners' I.eagne, in San Francisco, 

 to have the Vnivers'ty of California establish a 

 trult canning 1 iboi;itoi v. 



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TN a peach growers' contest conducted an- 

 nually in Sutter county, the highest record last 

 year was 3I,2'HI pounds per acre, considerably un- 

 der the 1920 record, due to frost and unusual rains. 



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A 40-RARREL shipment of strawberries was 



recently sent from San Francirco by boat, 



destined for England. ■ The berries were frozen In 



sugar list August and September and arc shipped 



under refrigeration of about 20 degrees. 



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Payments to members by the California Wal- 

 nut Growers* Associatiim for 1921 ami>unted 

 to $7,986,262, as compared with $7,791,093 in 

 1920. It is believed this year's crop will bring in 

 more than $11,000,000. The association handled 

 S2 per cent ai the state's walnut crr)p in 19211 and 

 S6 per cent in ]'I21. 



trees from beavers. The animals cut down several 

 of his best trees. 



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TT is reported that more than 100,000 

 fruit trees, most of them apples, will be planted 

 this season in Mendocino county. 



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T ESLIE M. SHAW, former governor of Iowa 

 and later secretary of the treasury, recently 

 purchased a 20-acre prune orchard near Santa 

 Rosa. 



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T^HE California Pear Growers' Association last 

 season paid its members more than $500,000, 

 as compared with double that amount in 1920. 

 Since 1918 the membership has g^rown from 218 

 to 1048. 



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Tj^ROM 6J^ acres of Elberta peaches, L. P. 

 Biszant of Reedley, harvested 112 tons and 

 his dried peaches ran three tons to the acre. A 

 block of 10 acres of Wickson plums averaged 

 645 pounds to the tree. From these tracts and an 

 additional V/^ acres of Lovell peaches, 18 acre^ 

 in all, he sold fruit worth $12,000. 



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A. MOREHE.AD, a pear grower with ar 



orch ird near Woodbridgc, on the Moke 



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