November, 1920 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 21 



The npple harvest has commenced in the 

 Kettle River section, north of Spokane, good 

 weather adding to the satisfaction of gathering 

 the finest apple crop ever grown in this part 

 of the upper Columbia Valley, as regards size, 

 color and freedom from worms and scab. The 

 yield is fully up to the average, some orchards 

 producing much more than ever before. One 

 grower expects to have 17,000 boxes. Some 

 orchards that last year were seriously dam- 

 aged with codling moth are virtually free 

 from the pest this year. 



At least 1,500 tons of Yakima cull apples 

 will be converted into cider at the Lust & 

 Walters plant, according to David Walters. 

 The company has completely overhauled its 

 plant and is preparing for a run of boiled 

 cider. In former years it made fresh cider, 

 but the Volstead act makes this impossible on 

 a commercial basis. The company is paying 

 $6 a ton for cull apples, the lowest price since 

 the cull apple market was developed. Last 

 year the price went as high as $20. The huge 



Facts! 



You cannot deny them. 



Motorists buy Zerolene be- 

 cause it is good lubricating oil; 

 because it makes the car last 

 longer. 



More than half the motorists 

 of the Pacific Coast states use 

 Zerolene. Such approval is giv- 

 en only as a reward to a prod- 

 uct of highest quality. 



There is a Zerolene Correct 

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 of car. Get one for your car at 

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plant of the Washington Evaporated Fruit 

 Company is standing idle this year as there 

 is no demand for dried apples at this time. 



The first trade in Spokane Valley apples 

 involving the 1920 crop embraced a lot of 50 

 cars and was handled by the Spokane Valley 

 Growers' Union. Extra fancy Jonathans sold 

 at $2 to 82.25 on the cars at Opportunity, 

 which is about 25 cents under the opening 

 price of last season. Delicious sold at S2.50 

 to $2.75 for extra fancy grades, which is 75 

 cents under the first prices of 1919, and extra 

 fancy Winter Bananas are selling at .$2.25 to 

 J2.50 a box, which is about $1 under the price 

 a year ago. 



The large addition to the plant of the Spo- 

 kane Valley Growers' Union at Opportunity, 

 adjoining the city, is almost completed and 

 most of the mechanical appliances are in 

 place. Much of this machinery has been de- 

 signed especially for this plant, and work on 

 its installation is being rushed in readiness 



for the opening of the apple packing season. 

 The plant has a capacity of 2,500 boxes per 

 day of 10 hours, and requires 125 persons to 

 keep it going at capacity. 



A special car with 25 women apple packers 

 arrived during October at Fairfield., 25 miles 

 south of Spokane, direct from California, to 

 pack the apple crop of the Commercial orch- 

 ard, containing 1,000 acres. It is estimated 

 the crop of this orchard will be around 

 100,000 boxes. 



Growers of the Lewiston-Clarkston section 

 are going back into peaches. It is estimated 

 that 250 acres of peach trees will be set out 

 there in 1921. Many growers grubbed out 

 peach orchards a few years ago and developed 

 their attention wholly to apples. There is now 

 a marked disposition to return to peaches, 

 especially varieties best adapted to canning. 



That the land along the sides and foothills 

 of Moscow mountains in the Spokane country 



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