January, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



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create a working surplus large enough to 

 meet all requirements, and the establishment 

 of connections in the East to handle a large 

 percentage of the tonnage, have been com- 

 pleted by the Wenatchee District Cooperative 

 Association, according to .H. G. Boehlke, pres- 

 ident of the newly formed fruitgrowers' asso- 

 ciation, who was in Spokane recently. "We have 

 already signed up 735 carloads of the 1921 crop 

 in the valley, and we have every reason to be- 

 lieve that we are going to obtain the support 

 of 65 per cent of the growers in the four coun- 

 ties comprising our district," he said. "Three 

 cents will be levied on each box of fruit to 

 pay the advertising bill, which will be spent 

 advertising one brand for the entire district." 

 The chief features of the plan adopted by the 

 Wenatchee District Cooperative Association are 

 the centralization of all authority in trustees 

 and officers. All growers who join must sign 

 up for five years, and must place their entire 

 crops in the hands of the association's offi- 

 cers to dispose of to the best advantage. Pools 

 are provided for, settlement for which is to be 

 made at fixed dates, and all returns are to be 

 made equally to growers according to the num- 

 ber of boxes of fruit sold. 



Reports that winter apples held in commun- 

 ity storage in the Wenatchee district are dam- 

 aged are emphatically denied by District Hor- 

 ticultural Inspector Darlington, who has made 

 careful examination of Winesaps in the dis- 

 trict, both in the orchard and track storage. 

 Mr. Darlington reports that there are no indi- 

 cations of detrimental water, core or other 

 breaking down of the cells. 



Apple shipments from Yakima continue to 

 decrease, only 262 carloads having been rolled 

 to the market during the week ending Decem- 

 ber 12 as compared with 367 the previous 

 week. Total apple shipments for this season 

 are 5,708 cars with a valuation of about $8,- 

 0(10,0(10. There have now been 7,676 carloads 

 of fruit rolled from the valley this year, com- 

 pared with 13,147 cars at the corresponding 

 time a year ago. 



Regarding car needs for fruit of the Wenat- 

 chee district next year Edwin Swith, man- 

 ager of the Wenatchee Valley Traffic Associa- 

 tion, says: "Wenatchee requirements for 1921 

 without doubt will be from 40 to 60 per cent 

 greater than they were this year. Orchardists 

 advise that trees were never in a better con- 



dition to produce a bumper crop and 15,000 

 carloads for the district is being freely men- 

 tioned. To meet this there promises to be 

 about a 10 or possibly 15 per cent increase in 

 new refrigerator equipment on the railroads. 



IDAHO. 

 W. M. Crapp, manager of the big plant of 

 the Oregon Packing Company at Lewiston, 

 Idaho, has closed the plant until the beginning 

 of the next cherry season. Although the mar- 

 ket for canned goods was unfavorable last 

 season, the plant did a big business and re- 

 cently has made large shipments. Nearly 1,000 

 tons of tomatoes grown locally were packed, 

 a great increase over last year, when growers 

 were just beginning to raise this crop in com- 

 mercial quantities. The cherry pack ran about 

 500 tons and several hundred tons of other 

 fruits were packed, including apples, which 

 furnished the cannery with steady work during 

 the fall. The payroll of the plant is $60,000 

 annually. 



"The growing of seed potatoes has become an 

 established industry in Northern Idaho, where 

 only a few years ago potatoes for this pur- 

 pose were not grown," said E. R. Beennett of 

 Boise, Idaho, field horticulturist of the state 

 university of Idaho, while in Spokane. "The 

 whole thing has been in the growing of a 

 single variety," he added. "They have united 

 on the Netted Gems, the potato which has 

 made the Northwest famous for its potatoes, 

 and the result is that they are sold out at a 

 premium." 



Leroy Weston, manager of the Spokane Fruit 

 Growers' Company, states that the apple pack- 

 ing season has closed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 

 40 miles east of Spokane, and that 81 cars of 

 apples were shipped from the Coeur d'Alene 

 district as follows: Forty-eight cars from 

 Dalton Gardens warehouse, 21 cars from the 

 Coeur d'Alene warehouse and a miscellaneous 

 shipment of 12 cars by the independent ship- 

 pers of Hayden Lake-Dalton Gardens district. 



Mulching of trees and shrubs with 

 manure late in the fall tends to protect 

 the roots from freezing and thawing 

 and also helps to hold moisture in the 

 soil. 



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