January, 1931 



BETTER FRUIT 



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Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 

 According to a recent report from Rose- 

 burg, Kenneth McKay, a well known orchard- 

 ist of Yakima, Washington, and Hood 

 River, Oregon, has leased from the Balfour 

 Guthrie company of Portland approximately 

 300 acres of apple orchard land in the Suth- 

 erlin valley. Included in the lease are sev- 

 eral thousand dollars' worth of equipment 

 used to care and cultivate these orchards. It 

 is understood Mr. McKay will erect a large 

 packing house early in the coming year to 

 handle the fruit and that extensive develop- 

 ment of the industry in that section will be 

 undertaken. 



The Portland press recently announced the 

 receipt at that port of several large cargoes of 

 nitrates which will be used in Oregon or- 

 chards. Growers who are contemplating the 

 use of nitrates are advised by the Oregon 

 Agricultural Experiment Station that they can 

 learn much about the use of nitrates by apply- 

 ing to the college for the station bulletin on 

 that subject. 



Oregon apples were sent to President-elect 

 and Mrs. Harding to brighten their Christmas. 

 The apples were sent from Hood River and 

 consisted of a box of selected apples of as- 

 sorted varieties. The fruit was sent to Mr. 

 Harding by W. H. McCIain who formerly re- 

 sided in Marion, Ohio, the future president's 

 home city. President Wilson received a box 

 of fine Mosier apples forwarded to him by G. 

 L. Davenport, a Mosier orchardist. 



W. H. Paulhamus, president of the Puyallup 

 & Sumner Fruit Growers' Canning Company, 

 in replying to a recent inquiry as to what the 

 company would pay for fruit in 1921 says 



that the organization is now contracting for 

 Monger black raspberries at 3140 per ton; 

 gooseberries at SI 00 per ton; rhubarb at $20 

 per ton; red and black currants at $140 per 

 ton, and Monmorency sour cherries at SI 00 

 per ton, f. o. b. at their Albany cannery. The 

 company at the present time is not quoting 

 a price on loganberries and sweet cherries. 



The completion or the harvest of the 1920 

 cranberry crop in Clatsop county is reported 

 to show a total of something over G,000 bushels, 

 an amount considerably below what was ex- 

 pected earlier in the season. Wet weather 

 during the picking season caused a large per- 

 centage of the berries to become soft, entailing 

 a considerable loss. 



A report from Salem is to the effect that 

 split prunes, which heretofore have been al- 

 most valueless except for local consumption, 

 are being shipped from Marion County to 

 eastern states, where they are commanding 8 

 cents a pound. States bidding for this va- 

 riety are Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, North and 

 South Dakota. Arrangements are also in prog- 

 ress whereby large shipments of prunes may 

 be sent to Hamburg, Germany, the cost of 

 transportation being 56 cents for each 25 

 pounds. 



A merger was recently completed between 

 the Jackson County Farm Bureau with head- 

 quarters at Medford and the Ashland Fruit & 

 Produce Association whereby the two organiza- 

 tions will work to promote the agricultural 

 and horticultural interests of that district. The 

 cooperative movement between the two organ- 

 izations was brought to a satisfactory con- 

 clusion at a meeting held recently by the 

 directors of the respective concerns. 



Strawberry growers of Clackamas County 

 have taken the necessary steps to organize a 

 strawberry plant growers association. The 

 strawberry plant industry in that section is 

 said to amount to more than $90,000 annually 

 and to be increasing. 



Due to the claim of California horticultural 

 officials that strawberry plants being shipped 

 from some sections of Western Oregon were 

 affected with weevil, plants shipped from Ore- 

 gon to California hereafter will first be in- 

 spected in the former state by experts before 

 shipment. This action was taken by the Ore- 

 gon State Board of Horticulture after a meet- 

 ing held recently with L. A. Strong represent- 

 ing California quarantine officers. An immedi- 

 ate inspection will also be made of straw- 

 berry fields in several of the Western Oregon 

 counties, under the direction of B. D. Fulton, 

 an expert from the Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



According to a report issued about the 15th 

 of the past month the 1920 Hood River apple 

 crop was at that time practically in the hands 

 of the shippers. The report says that the total 

 output will run more than 100,000 boxes above 

 pre-harvest estimates. The Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Association which estimated its har- 

 vest at 850,000 boxes expects its total receipts 

 to be 950,000 boxes. The valley's total crop 

 this year is estimated at 1,350,000 boxes. The 

 association had shipped up to December 15, 

 50 per cent of its holdings. No pronounced 

 car shortage has occurred at Hood River and 

 it is expected that the remainder of the crop 

 amounting to about 500,000 boxes will be 

 shipped without any difficulty. 



According to an announcement of the Apple 

 Growers Association, many members of the 

 organization are expressing a keen interest in 

 raspberries, loganberries and pears, says the 

 Hood River Glacier. Growers express a de- 



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