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BETTER FRUIT 



Northwest Cherry As An Income Producer 



By C. A. Bell 



CHERRIES! Don't your mouth wa- 

 ter at the very mention of the 

 word? 



To one who lives in the east or the 

 middle west a cherry means a small red 

 fruit sour enough to make a pig squeal 

 but capable of making delicious pies or 

 preserves, granted there is no limit to 

 the sugar supply. 



Several varieties of sour, or so-called 

 pie cherries are successfully grown in 

 the middle states, notably the Early 

 Richmond, Late Richmonds, English 

 Morello, Wragg, and Montmorency. 



Rut when you say "Cherry" to a resi- 

 dent of Washington, Oregon or Idaho, 

 it runs the gamut of all the delicious, 

 soul-satisfying list of sweet, sweeter, 

 sweetest black, blacker, blackest, pink, 

 pinker, pinkest, redest, purplest and 

 liver-colored varieties known to mod- 

 ern horticulture, and among which at 

 least one can be found to suit every- 

 body, and most people like the whole 

 list. 



And what fruit so universally appeals 

 to a human being (or a bird) as the 

 cherry? 



If you doubt it, just come to Cherry 

 Lane, a mile or two from Grandview, 

 Washington, some Sunday afternoon in 

 June and sit under a tree unobserved, 

 and see how many of the three or four 

 hundred automobiles can get by with- 

 out having "car trouble" that necessi- 

 tates a stop. 



Other fruits there are that are good 

 but the cherry is the first tree fruit of 

 the season and you need the whole- 

 some, sprightly, acid and sugar com- 

 bination to get the bile out of your 

 liver and the grouch out of your sys- 

 tem. 



Rut what about cherries as a cem- 

 mercial crop? 



Are they profitable? 



Can they be depended upon to pro- 

 duce every year? 



How many tons per acre would be a 

 paying crop? 



Has the market ever been over- 

 stocked? 



What varieties pay best? 



Where is the market? 



How old must an orchard be before 

 it will pay expenses? 



Hold on now — one at a time — it 

 would take a big book to hold all that 

 the writer does not know about cher- 

 ries, but he can relate some of his ex- 

 periences as a grower of cherries on a 

 small scale for 16 years, in the state of 

 Washington. 



Some things he has learned that have 

 been too well demonstrated to be any 

 longer in doubt as to profit, we know 

 of no fruit grown in the Yakima Valley 

 that will show more net profit per acre 

 than sweet cherries. 



Why? Recause people will eat them 

 even if they cost 40 or 50 cents per 

 pound. 



August, IQ20 



Recause the territory upon which 

 sweet cherries can be successfully 

 grown is so limited in comparison to 

 the territory upon which most other 

 fruits can compete with us. 



Recause the trees grow very rapidly, 

 come into bearing very young, cost 

 much less for spraying and pruning 

 than other fruits, and the fruit itself 

 is so perfect that there are no culls 

 worth mentioning. 



Everything depends, however, upon 

 a very few essential points. 



Location is the most important. 



One must have good elevation. 



Good soil drainage. 



Good air drainage. 



Good nursery stock. 



Good varieties. 



Convenience to shipping point. 



The market proposition is in a large 

 measure solved by the canneries recent- 

 ly erected at nearby points and by the 

 square dealing fruit buyers who have 

 warehouses by the dozen throughout 

 the whole Yakima Valley. They have 

 paid from 7 to \2y 2 cents per pound 

 without packing or package for the 

 past two seasons. 



If one has facilities for packing at 

 home, and knows how to put them up 



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 being lidded. The pressman does not have to lift the boxes 

 to get them into position, as they slide easily on the 

 smooth metal top of the press. 



2. When the box is nailed it may be tipped over back- 

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 pressman. 



3. There are no arms or parts above the box to inter- 

 fere with folding the lining paper or placing the lids, an- 

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 the lids a light pressure on the foot lever brings the 

 presser arms first into position over the box — then down- 

 ward. 



4. The presser arms are connected with an equalizer 

 bar which evens the pressure on the pack at the two ends 

 of the box. Pressure on the lids crosswise of the box is 

 equalized also. 



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