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BETTER FRUIT 



April, 1921 



Free Spi-ay Calendar 



Tells When to Spray-What to Use 



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OREGON 



AUTHORITIES on cherry marketing in Oregon 

 state that they do not expect the price of 

 cherries this year to reach the sensational figures 

 of 1920, but that they will not drop to pre-war 

 prices. A price of 8 cents a pound is predicted for 

 the coming season. 



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REPORTS from the various fruitgrowing dis- 

 tricts in Oregon are to the effect that weather 

 conditions have been extremely favorable for both 

 orchard and bush fruits and that the unusual num- 

 ber of fruit buds indicate abundant crops this 

 year. Fruiting plants and trees of all descriptions 

 are much more forward than usual and the only 

 possible drawback feared now is that late frosts 

 may do considerable damage on this account. 

 AAA 



ACCORDING to the annual report of General 

 Manager A. W. Stone of the Hood River 

 Apple Growers' Association its business for the 

 year will total $2,476,899.12. The invested capital 

 of the organization is $332,345. During the past 

 year the association handled a total of 1,052,969 

 packages of fruit, apples leading with 942,458 

 boxes. The average price for all varieties of apples 

 for the 1920 crop is given at $1.60 per box as 

 compared to $1.98 in 1919. An abundance of 

 smaller sizes in 1920 and additional transportation 

 charges are given as accounting for the reduc- 

 tion in the price during the past season. 



IN ORDER to keep China pheasants from feed- 

 ing on valuable pear seed imported from Japan 

 a nurseryman in the Hood River district is trying 

 the experiment of coating them with coal tar. 

 Last year this nurseryman claims to have lost 

 $1,000 worth of sprouted seedlings as a result of 

 the work of these birds which are reported to be 

 very abundant in the Hood River valley. 



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ALTHOUGH it costs but l]/ 2 cents a pound to 

 lay Oregon prunes down in the markets of 

 Europe by shipping by way of the Panama Canal 

 as compared to 2^4 cents by rail through New 

 York, it is stated that on account of the excessive 

 heat and humidity in the canal zone it has been 

 found hazardous to ship the large sizes through 

 the canal, except under refrigeration. 



IN a campaign to clean up neglected orchard 

 districts of Douglas county. County Fruit In- 

 spector Armstrong recently destroyed 40 to 50 

 acres near Sutherlin and will remove others that 

 are a menace to the rest of the fine orchard dis- 

 trict in that county. Most of the orchards de- 

 stroyed were the property of non-residents. Doug- 

 las county now has over 10,000 acres in tree fruits 

 and is making a rapid development in the berry 

 industry. 



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 the label itself is not given 

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