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BETTER FRUIT 



September, 1920 



H. A. Glen, agent of the Northern Pacific 

 at Yakima, has completed his estimate of lead- 

 ing crops of the Yakima valley which will 

 require refrigerator car service. Mr. Glen 

 . says there will be 150 cars of peaches this 

 year, as compared with 2.000 last year; 425 

 cars of melons and cantaloupes as compared 

 with 400; 500 cars of mixed fruit as compared 

 with 350; between 10,000 and 11,000 carloads 

 of apples as compared with 11,540 carloads 

 last season. Mr. Glen's apple estimate is gen- 

 erally accepted with surprise. Most orchard- 

 ists had believed the crop this year would be 

 far less than that a year ago, but Mr. Glen 

 explains the fruit will be larger and there 

 will be fewer culls, though probably not so 

 many apples. 



Many Washington shippers are said to be 

 already making preparations to secure space 

 in refrigerated steamships sailing from Seattle 

 to New York, via the Panama canal. In case 

 the full increases in freight rates granted to 

 the railroads stay in effect, it is claimed 

 apples can be shipped much more cheaply by 

 steamer through the canal than by rail. 



The Wenatchee section of the Spokane fruit 

 district, comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas 

 and Grant counties, will produce only 9533 

 carloads of apples in 1920, compared with 

 12.500 cars raised last year, according to Dis- 

 trict Horticultural Inspector P. S. Darlington's 

 estimate recently completed. Virtually every 

 portion of the district shows a decrease. We- 

 natchee and vicinity, which last year grew 

 3825 cars of apples, will have only 2050 this 

 year. Cashmere shows an increase from 1392 

 cars last year to 1500, forecast for 1920. Omak 

 shipped 663 cars last year and will have only 

 450 this year. Okanogan drops from 330 to 

 290', Brewster from 332 to 250, Entiat from 

 577 to 450, Pateros from 440 to 275, Olds from 

 828 to 600, Dryden from 480 to 350 and Peshas- 

 tin from 460 to 350, according to the estimate. 

 Monitor indicates a slight increase from 628 

 cars last year to an estimated crop of 700 cars 

 this year. Mallott, Wagnersburg and Chelan 

 Falls all have the same estimated yield as 

 last year, and Chelan, which yielded 484 cars 

 last year should have an increase to 500 this 

 year, according to the July estimate. 



Grant county will just about hold its own 

 with about 300 cars. The Moses Coulee sec- 

 tion will ship 125 cars, the same as last year, 

 it is estimated. The yield of summer fruit in 

 the district this year is given as 1,000 cars, 

 compared with about 1,400 cars last year. 

 Pears show r an estimated increase from 500 to 

 550 cars, cherries are the same at 100 ears, 

 but peaches and apricots show a heavy fall- 

 ing off. 



The first Winter Banana apples of the sea- 

 son were shipped out of Wenatchee July 29 

 for Alaska. This is the earliest shipment of 

 winter apples out of the district by about 

 10 days. 



A number of new fruit warehouses, costing 

 several thousand dollars each, will be erected 

 by the Spokane Fruit Growers' Company, ac- 

 cording to an announcement by Luther N. 

 Flagg, president. The new buildings will be 

 erected to handle this season's apple crop and 

 will be located in several of the districts in- 

 cluded in the organization of the Spokane 

 fruit growers. 



Despite unusually dry weather, the apple 

 crop in Arcadia is reported to be looking un- 

 usually promising. It was found necessary 

 in some sections, to do considerable thinning 

 to secure a good harvest of extra fancy stock. 

 Work on the warehouse, 60 by 100 feet, at Ar- 

 cadia is progressing. The structure will be 

 completed by October 1. The growers' asso- 

 ciation begins at once the erection of another 

 warehouse at Denison to care for the harvest 

 at that point. This building will be 50 by 130 

 feet, of concrete construction. 



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