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BETTER FRUIT 



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Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



The cherry crop at Mosier this year is re- 

 ported to have been above the average in quan- 

 tity and of fine quality. 



A large tonnage of the Douglas County prune 

 crop is said to have been contracted at 16 cents 

 a pound. 



The longest orchard in the world is stated to 

 be that of the Dufur Land and Orchard Com- 

 pany, seven miles from The Dalles. The 

 orchard, which is largely apples, is nine miles 

 in length and occupies 5,000 acres. 



A. small shipment of Gravenstein apples 

 which arrived on the market in Portland from 

 The Dalles July 15 is said to have broken the 

 record for early fall apples. Veteran fruit 

 dealers said that they had never seen this 

 variety of Oregon apple on the market at this 

 season of the year before. 



D F. Fisher, plant pathologist with the 

 United States Department of Agriculture, who 

 was assigned by the department to make an 

 investigation of winter injury to fruit trees in 

 the various sections of the Willamette Valley, 

 recently stated that orchards in Marion 

 County had made an excellent recovery since 

 he first examined them in February. While 

 some of the varieties of fruit trees that were 

 injured will have to be taken out, the greater 

 part can be saved by careful treatment, 

 Marion County growers were warned by Mr. 

 Fisher that winter-injured wood is subject to 

 heart rot and advised the careful protection of 

 all pruning wounds and cracks in the bark. 



Cherry growers in the Willamette Valley sus- 

 tained a considerable loss due to a rain in July, 

 which fell for the greater part of a week in 

 that section, causing the fruit to split and mak- 

 ing it unsalable. Bings and Lamberts were the 

 varieties that suffered the most damage. Some 

 of the canneries continued to accept fruit that 

 was not too badly injured. A large part of the 

 crop had been picked and marketed before the 

 rains came. The prices received by most of the 

 growers was 13 cents per pound. In the Salem 

 district where loganberries are grown exten- 

 sively the rain is said to have done little 

 damage to this fruit. The average price paid 

 for loganberries in this district this year was 

 13 cents. 



An interesting fact discovered recently by 

 Leroy Childs of the Hood River Experiment 

 Station was that the d'Anjou pear trees in that 

 district were the most frostproof of any of the 

 tree fruits grown in that district. Mr. Childs 

 says that although most of these trees were set 

 in tracts where one would expect the worst 

 frost damage they emerged in better condition 

 than any of the other trees. 



According to J. O. Holt, manager of the 

 Eugene Fruit Growers* Association, Lane 

 County will harvest the largest crop of prunes 

 in its history this year. In fact, the crop is 

 expected to be so large that it is feared that 

 the dryers now in existence in that district 

 will not be able to handle it. 



The Dalles cherry crop, which was one of 

 the finest this year that has ever been har- 

 vested, resulted in highly profitable prices to 

 growers. While many tons of fresh fruit was 

 sold on Eastern markets, the local canneries 

 purchased 500 tons, for which they paid $300 

 a ton. 



Denney & Co., fruit shippers and packers, 

 have leased the building formerly occupied by 

 the Rogue River Fruit Association at Medford 

 and will conduct their business from the new 

 plant in future. M. E. Root is the local man- 

 ager in charge of the Denney interests in this 

 district. 



Carlot shipments of Hood River strawberries 

 were limited this year to fifty-nine, or only 

 about 60 per cent of the tonnage shipped last 

 year. Continued late cold weather is said to 

 have been the cause of the short crop. The 

 average prices received, however, are reported 

 to be the highest ever known, both for fresh 

 fruit and from the canneries. 



The Hood River Apple Growers' Association 

 which has just closed its apple business for 

 the past year announces that its total returns 

 from all apples reaches $2,686,986.88. It is 

 estimated that this year's output of apples from 

 Hood River will only reach fifty to sixty per 

 cent of last year's tonnage, but that the fruit 

 will be of exceptionally fine quality. 



C. E. Stewart, county fruit inspector for 

 Lane County, reports that Are blight has ap- 

 peared in two orchards in that section in 

 malignant form. Steps have been taken by the 

 county authorities to prevent its spread. Apple 

 growers in Hood River County have also been 

 notified by the local experiment station that 

 this disease has appeared in orchards there in 

 a mild form and instructions have been given 

 for its treatment. 



The Juniper Flat country near The Dalles, 

 which for many years has been devoted to 

 wheat raising is now becoming dotted with 

 orchards, berry patches and diversified farms 

 due to the fact that irrigation has been se- 

 cured. In area the flat contains about 100 

 square miles. 



The location for the model fruit farm which 

 will be established near Albany to demonstrate 

 how to raise fruit and berries desirable for 

 canning it is stated will be chosen in the near 

 future. The farm will be operated by the 

 Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion which owns a cannery at Albany. 



WASHINGTON 

 Although the yield of cherries in the Grand- 

 view district this year was light it is estimated 

 that it totalled over 170 tons. While the quality 

 is reported very good the size of the fruit was 

 a little below the average. 



Information from Clarke County, is to the 

 effect that the prune crop there is expected to 

 exceed that of 1918 when it reached a total of 

 over 13,000,000 pounds. Loss from the June 

 drop this year was very limited. Up to during 

 the early part of July about 500 tons of prunes 

 had been sold at a price of 15 to 16 cents for 

 30-35s f.o.b. drier. The larger part of the 

 crop however is being handled by the Wash- 

 ington Prune Growers' Association which 

 closed its pool July 20 five days later than the 

 Oregon Growers' Association. The Washington 

 organization is building a large packing plant 

 at Vancouver to handle its tonnage from 2,000 

 acres of prunes belonging to its members. It 

 is expected that the plant, which is one of the 

 largest and most modern in the Northwest will 

 be completed by September first. The opera- 

 tions of the association are under the manage- 

 ment of M. J. Newhouse who has as his 

 assistant Edward J. Bodey. 



Wapato is now said to have the largest and 

 most modern dry storage warehouse in the 

 Yakima Valley. The structure which belongs 

 to the Pacific Fruit and Produce Company cost 

 $70,000 and is 200x155 feet. It is of concrete 

 construction with a storage capacity of six 

 hundred cars. This company maintains forty- 

 three warehouses at different points in the 

 state. John C. Koresky will have charge of 

 the company's business in the Wapato district. 



Among the activities of the Yakima Growers' 

 Association is the continuation of their na- 

 tional advertising campaign for the third year. 

 This will consist of the use of color pages in 

 the prominent eastern magazines which are 

 reaching millions of families in the United 

 States. An improvement in the association's 

 cold storage and warehouse facilities, is the 

 erection this summer of a cold storage plant 

 at Kennewick. With this new plant in opera- 

 tion the association will have a combined cold 

 storage capacity of 750 cars. 



An improvement in orchard machinery that 

 has been attracting a good deal of attention in 

 the Yakima country is the Fordson-Bean Trac- 

 tor-Sprayer. The apparatus consists of a 

 specially manufactured bean sprayer which is 

 coupled to the rear of the tractor and obtains 

 its power direct from the crankshaft of the 

 tractor, in this way obtaining a very high 

 pressure. The combined outfit can be turned 

 in a radius of ten feet and the tank section 

 when empty only weights 950 pounds. It is 

 claimed in sections where it has been demon- 

 strated that the new apparatus has developed 

 a high degree of efficiency and a very material 

 reduction in the cost of spraying. One of its 

 features is that the driver of the tractor can 

 throw the pumps in and out of gear without 

 Leaving his seat. 



Fire, believed to be incendiary, completely 

 destroyed the storage and packing warehouse 

 of theEntiat Growers' league at Entiat, Wash. 

 The building was a wooden structure 200 by 

 288 feet in size, built four years ago and 

 owned by the Cooperative Association of 

 Growers connected with Skookum Packers' 

 association. The loss to the building is $25,000, 



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