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BETTER FRUIT 



September, 1920 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON 

 Hood River apple growers figure that the 

 increase in freight rates will cost that section 

 an additional s200,000 this year. The increase 

 will apply to about 75 per cent of the crop 

 from that district which will move to points 

 east of the Mississippi river and also to ship- 

 ments that will go to California. 



The sale of the J. D. Housley pear orchard 

 at Medford to County Pathologist C. C. Cate 

 is reported. The orchard consists of 40 acres 

 in pears in a fine state of cultivation and the 

 sale price as announced is $23,000. Another 

 sale of orchard property in the Rogue River 

 valley recently of more than usual interest 

 was the transfer of the Austin Corbin ranch 

 near Eagle Point to Fred C. Bell, a Chicago 

 capitalist. The Corbin ranch consists of 250 

 acres, 49 of which are in pears, 71 in apples 

 and l!0 in grain. The remainder is in meadow 

 and woodland. The sale price was $80.00". 

 according to the reports from that section. 

 Mr. Bell, it is stated, expects to manage the 

 ranch personally. 



Two Royal Anne cherry trees at Roseburg, 

 Oregon, are said to have netted their owners 

 ¥250 for theii fruit this season. 



According to the announcement of a local 

 fruit buyers at Salem, the loganberry crop 

 within a radius of ten miles of that city 

 amounted to 0,000,000 pounds of berries and 

 should return to the growers at the prevailing 

 price of 13 cents per pound approximately 



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Reports from The Dalles are to the effect 

 that there has been a very marked recovery 

 by the orchards in that section from the ef- 

 fects of the extreme cold of the past winter 

 and that the damage was practically limited 

 to cherry trees. 



It is estimated that $40,000 will be distrib- 

 uted this year among the farmers and or- 

 chardists in the Hermiston district from honey 

 sales. The bees, to produce this honey, were 

 pastured on the alfalfa fields and orchards in 

 the Umatilla project in this section, which 

 was developed some years ago. 



A number of the leading handlers of fruit 

 in the Rogue River valley have recommended 

 that all fruit to be packed in that district be 

 wiped before delivery to the packing houses. 

 This action has been taken to meet the ob- 

 jections of some of the eastern horticultural 

 inspectors against fruit showing an excessive 

 amount of arsenate of lead spray. 



The pear harvest in the Hood River valley, 

 which commenced the latter part of August, 

 as well as the harvest of Kings and Graven- 

 steins, is said to be showing a considerable 

 reduction as compared to the early crop of 

 pears and early apples last year. The pear 

 crop in the Hood River valley is now esti- 

 mated at about 45 per cent of that of last 

 year, when something over 113 cars were 

 shipped. The harvest of the main apple crop 

 in this section is expected to begin this year 

 about October 1. There will be sufficient 

 local labor, it is stated, to handle the pear 

 crop and outside help will not be needed 

 until October. 



The Myrtle Point district is figuring that 

 when the evergreen blackberry crop is fully 

 harvested between $15,000 and $18,000 will 

 have been paid out for this fruit in that sec- 

 tion. The berries are being handled by the 

 Myrtle Point cannery. 



While most people do not in any way con- 

 nect the Tillamook country with the fruit 

 business, considerable interest is being taken 

 there in developing the berry business. There 



were about 50 acres in loganberries in the 

 Tillamook country this year and the nearby 

 foothills produced $15,000 worth of black- 

 berries. The moist climate of the Tillamook 

 country seems to be especially adapted to the 

 growing of loganberries, which attain a larger 

 size than in any other section of the state. 

 Loganberries at Tillamook attain a size of 1% 

 to 2 inches and in addition yield heavily. 

 The berry products of the Tillamook country 

 are being largely handled by the Graves Can- 

 ning Company, which has a small plant lo- 

 cated in the Cheese City. A beginning has 

 also been made in this district in growing 

 strawberries. 



The prune crop in the Sheridan district, 

 which will be largely handled this year by 

 the Oregon Growers Cooperative Association, 

 is expected to be largest in the history of that 

 section. A 40-tunnel dryer, which the asso- 

 ciation is having erected there, is rapidly 

 nearing completion and will greatly aid in 

 solving the dryer problem of the growers, 

 which last year was serious. There will also 

 be a large apple crop in the Sheridan district 

 of fine quality this year. 



The pear crop of the Rogue River valley, 

 the harvesting of which was started about the 

 middle of August, will total 700 cars, accord- 

 ing to local estimates. The shipment of apples 

 is expected to reach 500 cars. The yield of 

 pears, it is stated, is 15 per cent greater than 

 was anticipated early in the season. Mention 

 is made of the fact that for the fist time in 

 the history of the fruit business in Oregon 

 solid trainloads of pears were shipped this 

 year from the Southern and Western Oregon 

 districts. 



F. L. Kent, field agent for the bureau of 

 crop estimates, places the Oregon apple crop 

 at 3,425,000 boxes for 1920. Of this estimate, 

 Mr. Kent reports that about 60 per cent is of 

 commercial quality. The 1919 apple crop was 

 5.570,000 bushels, showing that there is a big 

 falling off in the estimate for this year's crop. 



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