February, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 29 



Thanksgiving Day, 1920, or the beginning of 

 the 1920 holiday season. The standard on wal- 

 nuts is they must be 85 per cent or more 

 good; two shrivelled nuts counting as one. 

 These walnuts were traced over the state to 

 Spokane, where we found them in the hands 

 of retail dealers, transfer, express and rail- 

 way companies. They were seized, samples 

 taken, sent to the state chemists, and found to 

 run from 32 to 80 per cent bad. The original 

 shipment at Seattle was seized, and now the 

 State Food Division has "nuts to burn." 



Twenty-six tons of potatoes to the acre is 

 the record made by Edward J. Bedard of 

 Cowiche, who planted five acres with Minne- 

 sota seed last spring. Mr. Bedard gave the 

 crop personal attention and irrigated it Ave 

 times, each application being light. The total 

 yield for the five acres was 130 tons and 

 potato men say it was a perfect crop in every 

 respect. 



IDAHO. 

 A pamphlet is being prepared which will 

 show that the work of the University of Idaho 

 extension division, in cooperation with the 

 county farm bureaus, has added $6,716,000 to 

 the profits of Idaho agriculture in the last 

 two years, according to an announcement from 

 the ofTice of L. W. Fluharty, director of ex- 

 tension. This seems like a big sum for farm 

 bureau and extension w r ork to have added to 

 Idaho farm profits in two years, but when you 

 consider that 10,000 farmers have helped to 

 make and save it, it doesn't look so large. 



Idaho's apple shipments up to December 25 

 last amounted to 2,312 cars compared with 

 3,197 carloads for 1919. The state shipped 

 4,913 carloads of white potatoes in 1920, as 

 against 5,002 cars in 1919. 



$3,000 Extra on Cherry Crop. — Organization 

 of a cherry growers' association is considered 

 by the county farm bureau the outstanding 

 feature of its horticultural program for the 

 year just past. The association obtained a 

 price for its cherries that exceeded previous 

 offers bv three cents a pound and represented 

 an added profit of $3,000. 



Five hundred thousand acres of arid land 

 lying between Boise and Mountain Home may 

 be thrown open to irrigation through a tunnel 

 from the Stanley Basin. 



What They're Doing in 

 California 



California is the leading honey producing 

 state of the Union, and the Sacramento Biver 

 and the bottom land area produces tons of 

 honey each year, purely as a by-product of 

 other crops, for blossoming plants such as 

 alfalfa, fruit trees and the wild shrubbery and 

 flowers along the banks of the river afford an 

 abundance of nectar for the busy insect. Sut- 

 ter County, in which Sutter Basin is located, 

 boasts of thousands of stands of bees. Most 

 of these are of the perambulating type for the 

 owner transports them about, following the 

 honey flow. One grower has 2,000 stands and 

 carries them up and down the Sacramento 

 Biver on a small barge, placing them on the 

 banks of the stream where the blossoms are 

 abundant. At certain seasons of the year he 

 even takes some of his stands over into Ne- 

 vada to gather sagebrush honey. California 

 honey producers are organized into a coopera- 

 tive association and they are marketing the 

 product direct to the trade. Only recently they 

 made their first shipment direct to New York. 

 This shipment consisted of 400,000 pounds, 

 which went by steamer through the Panama 

 Canal. 



The annual meeting of the California Fruit 

 Exchange in Sacramento and it is stated re- 

 funds aggregating between $675,000 and $700,- 

 000 to the growers was made by the organi- 

 zation. John L. Nagle, manager of the ex- 

 change, announced that the refund totaled 5 

 per cent of the gross sales of the year, the 

 total business amounting to $13,500,000. Last 

 year the dividend amounted to 4.72 per cent, 

 while the disbursement of the previous sea- 

 son was 4.47 per cent. 



Potato growers of Marin and Sonoma Coun- 

 ties met in San Francisco recently and formed 

 a potato growers' association under the prefix 

 of "Northern California." 



As the result of the committee of seven ap- 

 pointed by the governor meeting with forty 

 representatives of various railroads in Chi- 

 cago recently, the railroads agreed to a sched- 



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