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BETTER FRUIT 



October, 1920 



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Apple sales m the various districts in Wash- 

 ington as well as the other sections of the 

 Northwest are reported to be slow with verv 

 little indications as to prices. A few sale's 

 have been reported from the Yakima, Wenat- 

 chee and Spokane districts, but the general 

 trend is to hold off until later in the season. 

 A sale reported by the Spokane Vallev Grow- 

 cers' Union of 50 cars shows a drop in prices 

 for the same varieties of 25 to 75 cents a box 

 compared with those of last year. The prices 

 quoted for the Spokane sale are S2.00 to $2.25 

 for Jonathans; $2.25 to $2.75 for Delicious, 

 and $2.25 to $2.50 for fancy Winter Bananas. 

 The following prices for extra fancy grades 

 are reported to have been offered by buyers 

 at Wenatchee: Winter Banana. ?2.7.">; King 

 David, $2.15; Jonathan, $2.00; Delicious, $2.00. 

 Growers are somewhat disappointed with the 

 prices of Delicious and Jonathan, believing 

 that there is a shortage of both varieties. 



The heavy rains during September very ma- 

 terially cut down the output of the prune 

 crop in Clarke county, prune men there esti- 

 mating that from one-third to one-half of the 

 crop is a loss. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruitgrowers 



E. F. Benson, commissioner of agriculture 

 of the state of Washington for several years, 

 recently resigned this position and accepted 

 one as manager of a new department that 

 has been created by the Northwestern Pacific 

 Railroad. The new department will be known 

 as that of immigration and industry, through 

 which the railroad plans to co-operate with 

 federal and state authorities, agricultural col- 

 leges, farm bureau organizations, county agents, 

 farmers' clubs and other agencies in promot- 

 ing enterprises for the Northwest. In making 

 the appointment, President Hannaford of the 

 Northern Pacific stated that Mr. Benson had 

 been selected owing to his experience with 

 agriculture and the railroad business. Mr. 

 Benson accepted the position by cable from 

 Shanghai, China, having been away for sev- 

 eral months on a trip to the Orient. He took 

 charge of his new duties October 1st and will 

 have his headquarters at St. Paul. 



A visitor in the Northwest at the present 

 time is Mr. Sam Birch, representative of 

 T. J. Poupart, one of the largest handlers of 

 fruit and produce in London, England. The 

 mission of Mr. Birch in the United States is 

 to secure shipments of American apples. Mr. 

 Birch, who has been touring Washington, 

 Oregon and California, believes that notwith- 

 standing the price control in England that 

 the fancy and choice grades of Northwestern 

 box apples will bring the grower better re- 

 turns in England than in this country and 

 is endeavoring to make connections for large 

 shipments of these grades, particularly New- 

 towns. Owing to the almost total failure of 

 the English apple crop and the short crop in 

 Canada, Mr. Birch looks on the coming sea- 

 son for the export of American apples with 

 an optimistic rather than a pessimistic eye, 

 and for this reason his firm is sending him 

 into America for the first time to enlarge its 

 export business. The Poupart company, which 

 has one of the largest fruit and produce ware- 

 houses in England, has connected with its 

 firm men who have long been identified with 

 handling fruits on a big scale, and recently 

 secured the services of W. H. Press, who, 

 during the war, had sole charge of supplying 

 the English army and navy canteen depart- 

 ments with fruit and produce. Although Mr. 

 Birch has established his headquarters during 

 the apple shipping season at Vernon, B. C, he 

 will make frequent trips into the Northwest 

 section of this country. 



According to a statement made to the Hood 

 River Glacier by C. W. McCullagh, sales man- 

 ager of the Hood River Apple Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, who recently returned from an East- 

 ern trip, any pronounced activity in the box 

 apple trade will probably hold off until around 

 the holidays. Mr. McCullagh says that the big 

 Eastern districts will produce 65 per cent more 

 apples than last year, a big percentage of 

 which will have to be gotten out of the way 

 before the market opens in a large way for 

 box apples. He believes, however, that the 

 better storage facilities provided and the su- 

 perior keeping and other qualities of apples 

 from this section will later allow the North- 

 west apple crop to clean up in good shape. 



Far from satisfied with the recent increase 

 in freight rates on fruit shipments from the 

 Pacific Northwest, both citrus and deciduous 

 fruitmen, it is stated, will continue the fight 

 against the new rates. Data to show that the 

 increase is discriminatory and will seriously 

 handicap the fruit-growing industry on the 

 coast is now being prepared and will be pre- 

 sented to the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 in the near future. It is pointed out that a 

 box of oranges from California, when shipped 

 to New York, will be required to pay approx- 

 imately a freight charge of $2.00, and that 



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