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BETTER FRUIT 



January, 1921 



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Notes Oregon Growers' 

 Association 



With the rather bad weather to be expected 

 during the next few weeks, the fruit grower 

 can put in his time on inside work, such as 

 mending boxes. It is also suggested that now 

 would be a fine time to re-model dryers if 

 necessary, rather than to wait until the busy 

 season. 



Growers who have pruning might begin now 

 to relieve the rush of work next spring. 



Good results are obtained by the applica- 

 tion of the nitrate of soda on loganberries dur- 

 ing the month of March. Some report in- 

 creased diameter as well as length of cane. 

 Those who intend to use this fertilizer should 

 he placing orders. 



The business of the Oregon Growers' Coop- 

 erative Association has assumed such propor- 

 tions that during the month of November, 

 checks were issued for §540,199.23 by the asso- 

 ciation and its affiliating company, the Ore- 

 gon Growers' Packing Corporation, according 

 to a report of W. I. Staley, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



The good results of advertising and coopera- 

 tion were shown in an address recently de- 

 livered by C I. Lewis of the Oregon Growers' 

 Cooperative Association, before the State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, in session at Eugene. Four 

 years ago, Mr. Lewis said, the peach growers 

 of California were a discouraged lot. Many 

 trees were grubbed out as peaches were selling 

 for two cents a pound, below the cost of pro- 

 duction. The growers got together, formed a 

 cooperative association and by judicious ad- 

 vertising, created a demand for certain peaches. 

 This year the crop was sold for $8,000,000, an 

 average of $340 a ton to the grower. The Cali- 

 fornia Peach Growers' Association is now four 

 years old. It has 6,500 members and controls 

 40,000 acres. Cooperation among growers, Mr. 

 Lewis said, had in four years brought the 

 peach industry in California from almost finan- 

 cial ruin to an established, prosperous busi- 

 ness. 



The growing of filberts is urged by the Ore- 

 gon Growers' Cooperative Association, as there 

 are just two states growing them commercially, 

 Oregon and Washington. Already there is an 

 active interest in filberts and many are pre- 

 paring to put in tracts of from five to twenty 

 acres. There are now only from 40 to 50 

 small tracts in Western Oregon. Filberts 

 grown in this state are of a much finer qual- 

 ity than those imported from Spain, Sicily, and 

 Turkey. There is a commercial crop about the 

 fifth year from planting. As there are fully 

 10,000 acres of logged off land in Oregon 

 adapted to the growing of filberts and English 

 walnuts, it is predicted that within a few 

 years, the growing of nuts will be one of the 

 great industries of Western Oregon. 



What They Are Doing in 

 California 



According to advices to the California De- 

 partment of Agriculture, on December IS there 

 will be a total of 2,200,000 boxes of apples 

 shipped from the Watsonville section this sea- 

 son or approximately 300,000 boxes less than 

 was shipped last year. There is in cold storage 

 about 200.000 boxes, loose and packed, at Wat- 

 sonville and about 400,000 boxes in other 

 cities throughout the state, mostly in San Fran- 

 cisco and Los Angeles. In addition there is 

 some stock in common storage. 



Opportunity for Pacific Coast orchardists, 

 vineyardists and ranchers, for the disposal of 

 surplus production, in the markets of the Far 

 East, will shortly be afforded by the installa- 

 tion of a line of fast, modern, combination 

 freight and passenger carriers, to be operated 

 from San Francisco to Manila and East Indies 

 by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, it is 

 officially announced. This highly improved 

 service will be initiated by the Shipping 

 Board steamers "Creole State" and "Wolverine 

 State," these vessels being due to arrive from 

 the Atlantic in January and February. The 

 announcement is of special interest to the 

 fruitmen of the Pacific Coast, because the 

 ships were, at the suggestion of the Pacific 

 Mail Steamship Company, particularly de- 

 signed to c;ire for the transportation "f the 

 ranch production of Hie Western Slope, and 

 marks the beginning of a service which pro- 

 vides the necessary refrigerating space for 

 commodities thai could not be otherwise sent 

 out of the United Stutrs. The ships will be 

 operated in the Manila-East India Service 



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