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BETTER FRUIT 



November, 1920 



is ideal for strawberries is the statement of 

 L. A. Buswcll of Viola, who has eight acres 

 of ever-bearing strawberries, from which he 

 has sold $2,000 worth so far and the season 

 will not end until cold weather. Mr. Buswell 

 was selling 47 crates a week during the fall 

 and supplies the towns of the Palouse country 

 between Spokane and Lewiston. He is getting 

 from %i to $4.50 a crate. 



Contrary to most apple shipping districts, 

 figures recently compiled at Wenatchee show- 

 that a total of 500 more cars of apples were 

 shipped from there up to October 15 this year 

 than last year. This year, up to this date, 

 1,637 cars of apples had been shipped from 

 Wenatchee while last year, on the same date, 

 about 1,100 cars had been shipped. The high- 

 est shipment for any one day this year was 

 125 cars. The record shipment for Wenatchee 

 in 24 hours is 250 cars. 



Due to the hail storms which visit Wenatchee 

 at times and injure the fruit, many of the 

 apple growers carry hail insurance. This 

 year most of these hail insurance policies ex- 

 pired at midnight September 30. At 9 o'clock, 

 or three hours before the policies expired, a 

 hail storm visited the valley and did some 

 damage. In commenting on this 'fact the We- 

 natchee Advance says: "While the damage 

 was very slight, yet a number of growers have 

 been paid substantial sums for the losses in- 

 curred. Never before was a hail storm heard 

 of at this late date in the season, but it is a 

 lucky thing for the policy holders that it did 

 not occur 12 hours later." 



IDAHO. 

 The apple harvest is about completed in 

 Lewiston Orchards and the Indian Cache ranch, 

 northeast of Lewiston, Idaho. During the 

 height of the season the daily shipments 

 reached 10 carloads. Most of the early pack 

 was loaded in cars for immediate shipment, 

 although warehouses are prepared for later 

 storage. There are 10 packing houses oper- 

 ating in Lewiston Orchards and several in the 

 Clarkston district. The large new warehouse 

 of the Indian Cache ranch is now ready for 

 use. and a packing house is operated in con- 

 nection with it. Inspector C. G. Andrus, who 

 is overseeing outgoing shipments, says the 

 quality of the fruit this year far surpasses 

 that of last season. In addition to local 

 growers' associations, the Earl Fruit Company 

 is operating in the field this year again, and 

 three branches of the Skookum Packers' As- 

 sociation have been formed in the Lewiston- 



Clarkston district. One large grower is pack- 

 ing under the Chinook brand. Winter Ba- 

 nanas, Jonathans and Delicious are the early 

 varieties being shipped, with Newtowns to 

 follow. 



What They Are Doing 

 in California 



Large plantings of small fruits are reported 

 from California. In the vicinity of Mountain 

 View, hundreds of acres of strawberries and 

 raspberries are being set. 



The Roseville Drying and Packing Company, 

 which recently started up a large dehydrating 

 plant at Roseville, has been handling a large 

 tonnage of grapes of various varieties. The 

 demand on the plant has been so great that 

 it is being worked continuously day and night. 



Seventeen hundred tons of prunes and mus- 

 cat grapes were dried during the month at a 

 new dehydrating plant opened this fall at 

 Santa Rosa. Another dehydrating plant, which 

 has been opened at Santa Rosa, has a capacity 

 of 40 tons per day and expects to operate the 

 year around. 



The Yucaipa country, which is being rapidly 

 developed as an apple-growing section in Cal- 

 ifornia, is giving promise of being one of the 

 most important apple-growing sections on the 

 Pacific Coast. The crop there this year is 

 said to be especially fine and growers are ex- 

 pecting good prices. The latest methods have 

 been adopted, and the district has an active 

 association that is handling a large share of 

 the crop. 



Reports are to the effect that some of the 

 grape growers in Yolo County will average 

 $600 worth of seedless raisins to the acre 

 this fall. 



California shipped 46,757 carloads of citrus 

 fruits, valued at $81,200,000, in the season 

 just ended, according to the report of G. Har- 

 old Powell, general manager of the California 

 Fruit Growers' Exchange. The report was 

 given to the directors of that organization at 

 their annual meeting recently. 



Director Heckc of the State Department of 

 Agriculture of California announces the ap- 

 pointment of G. Spencer Wice as inspector 

 with headquarters at Los Angeles, where he 



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