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BETTER FRUIT 



February, 1921 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON. 



The Hood River Apple Growers' Association 



still holds in storage about 270,000 boxes of 



fruit. It received in all for the past season 



043,930 boxes. 



The apple acreage in Oregon, according to 

 the figures of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative 

 Association, is 50,000. The prune acreage is 

 about 10,000, while that of pears is 13,500. 



C. I. Lewis, manager of the organization de- 

 partment of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative 

 Association, is still strong for prunes, not- 

 withstanding present conditions. He says that 

 ultimately, prunes will prove as they have in 

 the past, a good investment. 



In the planting of cherries, he calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that the Royal Anne, Bing and 

 Lamberts are not only self-fertile, but also 

 inter-sterile, and that with these varieties must 

 be planted the Long Stemmed Waterhouse or 

 some other good pollenizer. 



The Spitzenberg apple is likely to come into 

 its own within a few years, Mr. Lewis says. 

 He believes the time is coming when this 

 apple will sell at a premium as the acreage 

 has been greatly reduced, due to collar rot in 



the Inland Empire and winter injury in the 

 Hood River country. 



Mr. Lewis is of the opinion that next year 

 will be a good year for apple growers in west- 

 ern Oregon, as the East is not likely to have 

 a bumper crop next season as it did last year. 



Jackson County fruit growers, through the 

 Oregon legislative assembly, have addressed a 

 memorial to the Honorable, the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, earnestly petitioning the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to maintain the frost 

 warning service with which the weather bu- 

 reau has been serving the growers of the 

 Rogue River Valley for several years, during 

 the spring months when orchard heating is 

 practiced. The memorial says, in part: 



Whereas, this service has proven of inesti- 

 mable value to the fruit growers of that sec- 

 tion as a guide in the taking of measures for 

 the prevention of frost damage to their crops, 

 whereby many hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars worth of fruit crops have been saved, and 



Whereas, the fruit growers of that district, 

 many of whom were at first skeptical as to 

 the value of frost prevention measures, have 

 rapidly grown to appreciate the value of the 

 same bv reason of the results obtained during 



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the years this service has been maintained by 

 the weather bureau, and are building up a 

 stable horticultural practice of frost preven- 

 tion measures under the direction of the 

 weather bureau's representative sent to the 

 valley each spring. 



Therefore, be it resolved, that the legisla- 

 tive assembly of the state of Oregon earnestly 

 petitions the Department of Agriculture to 

 maintain the frost warning service herein- 

 above referred to without interruption, to the 

 end that many thousands of dollars worth of 

 fruit crops may be saved to the growers of 

 southern Oregon. 



Gordon Brown of the Hood River experiment 

 station is doing a real service to local growers 

 contemplating setting out nursery stock this 

 spring, having procured the names of Wash- 

 ington nurserymen who can supply stock in 

 quantities. There is a heavy demand for 

 small fruit and berry plants in the Valley, and 

 several hundred acres will be set this spring. 



The organization of the Oregon Mint Grow- 

 ers' Association to further the production and 

 marketing of peppermint oil was completed at 

 a meeting of growers at Eugene, recently. 



Professor A. Ziefle, head of the school of 

 pharmacy of Oregon Agricultural College, 

 spoke to the growers on the methods of har- 

 vesting and curing the crop and the most ef- 

 fective manner of distilling the oil. The plan 

 of the Oregon Mint Growers' Association is 

 to link together all the mint interests of the 

 state in production and marketing, and it was 

 shown by statistics that it would be possible 

 not only to increase the revenues from the in- 

 dustry, but to quadruple the output in the 

 Valley, which was about 10,000 pounds last 

 season. With their own refinery in the Val- 

 ley, operating under the best methods, it is be- 

 lieved that the growers will derive a far great- 

 er margin of profit. 



WASHINGTON. 

 Washington's shipments of white potatoes 

 were slightly greater by Christmas last year 

 than they were at the same time in 1919, 2,022 

 carloads being shipped last year and 1,874 

 shipped the year preceding. 



Frank Miller, manager of the Zillah branch 

 of the American Fruit Growers, Inc., recently 

 made a statement against the packing of 5- 

 tier apples in a year such as 1920. He said, 

 in part : 



"There would have been a different market 

 situation today had we let alone packing 5- 

 tier stuff for home consumption. 



"The growers would actually have made 

 more money, for the large sizes would have 

 brought them more per box and they would 

 not have had the loss which they are now 

 sustaining on the 5-tier stuff. It clearly was 

 a blunder to pack the 5-tier, but no concert 

 of action was possible and with some concerns 

 packing them of course the rest did the same." 



What is the answer? Is it cooperation? 



. Whereas there have been a good many sales 

 lately of Wenatchee Winesaps at ?2.00 per 

 box, the large sizes are held at §2.50 to ?3.00. 

 Holders of the big sized fruit are confident 

 that they will realize more later in the season. 



It is estimated that the Wenatchee district 

 has grown 9,300 cars of apples and has shipped 

 7,500 cars, leaving 1,800 cars still to be dis- 

 posed of. 



Apple shipments for Washington for 1920 

 up to December 25 fell 1,000 carloads behind 

 the shipments for 1919. The shipments for 

 last year was 14,712 carloads as compared with 

 18,958 at the corresponding date of 1919. 



Prosser fruit men agree that present indi- 

 cations favor a bumper crop next season. Or- 

 chardists are convinced that trees have re- 

 covered from the damage occasioned by ex- 

 treme weather last winter. There has been no 

 zero weather this year. E. Bowles, who har- 

 vested $11,480 worth of cherries from 6V. acres 

 in 1919 and got virtually no crop last season, 

 was of the impression last winter that his 

 trees were nearly all killed, but he now re- 

 ports that he lost only 14 trees out of his en- 

 tire orchard and that he is assured of a heavy 

 crop next season. 



Manchuricw Walnuts. — In the month of Jan- 

 uary, 1920, there were 4,000 sacks — approxi- 

 mately 200 tons — of walnuts imported to the 

 Port of Seattle from Manchuria, China. These 

 arrived after the holiday season of 1919. There 

 was little sale for them, as we understand, and 

 they were held in dry storage during the hot 

 months of 1920, allowing them to become ran- 

 cid and unfit for food, after which they were 

 placed ill cold storage for a few months and 

 then placed on the market for sale about 



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