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ule of eight days to Chicago and twelve days 

 to New York, instead of the nine and thirteen 

 days time existing at present. 



The deciduous tonnage rolling east out of 

 California this year is approximately 40,000 

 cars and it is anticipated that the tonnage of 

 deciduous fruits in five years* time will be 

 close to 100,000 ears. It is also stated that 

 about CO per cent of the citrus acreage is bear- 

 ing at this time but that the production from 

 the bearing acreage is around 60,000 cars and 

 it is estimated that the movement of citrus 

 fruits will be increased by 6,000 cars per year 

 for at least the next five years. 



Notes Oregon Growers' 

 Association 



C. I. Lewis, with the Oregon Agricultural 

 College 14 years as chief of the horticultural 

 department, and now manager of the organi- 

 zation department of the Oregon Growers* Co- 

 operative Association, advises the planting of 

 the Bartlett, Bosc and Clairgeau pears. The 

 Anjou is not favored as it has a functional 

 disease and is slow coming into bearing. 

 Nor does Mr. Lewis recommend the Winter 

 Nelis, as it does not produce large fruit in 

 western Oregon. 



R. C. Paulus, sales manager of the Oregon 

 Growers' Cooperative Association, reports the 

 pear pool for this season amounted to $495,- 

 MJ0.47. Bartletts ranked first with sales of 

 §241,996.97 with the Bosc second, its sales 

 amounting to $78,211.55. Anjou pears were 

 third with sales of $56,871.52 and Winter Nelis 

 fourth with sales of $14,000.00. 



C. I. Lewis of the Oregon Growers' Coopera- 

 tive Association believes in the future of the 



BETTER FRUIT 



apple industry of Oregon. He says history 

 repeats itself in apple crops, and that next 

 year the West may look for a big crop, with 

 a short one in the East. 



Although there was the largest pear crop 

 in the United States last year ever known, 

 members of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative 

 Association received the highest prices on 

 record west of the Cascades. This was due to 

 skillful handling by the association, holding 

 pears in cold storage and awaiting favorable 

 market conditions. 



From the Oregon Growers' Cooperative As- 

 sociation comes this information to those who 

 intend to plant cherries: With the Royal 

 Anne, Bing or Lamberts, which are not only 

 self-sterile, but inter-sterile, plant about one- 

 fourth in Long Stemmed Waterhouse, or some 

 other good pollenizer. 



It is now the prune rather than the raisin 

 when it comes to mince-meat. J. O. Holt, 

 packing manager of the Oregon Growers' Co- 

 operative Association, at the Eugene plant, is 

 making a prune mince-meat much better than 

 that manufactured with raisins by the big 

 packing plants. It is just another way of 

 patronizing a home industry, even if you make 

 your own mince-meat. Use prunes and help 

 Oregon. 



The name "Mistland," by which the Oregon 

 Growers' Cooperative Association is selling 

 Oregon prunes in New York City, seems to be 

 quite a favorite. Now we have in Salem a 

 Mistland gun club, a Mistland bakery, and 

 even a Mistland orchestra. 



The large prune dryer constructed by the 

 Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association at 

 Sheridan, has been completed at a cost of 

 $20,000. The dryer is of 40 tunnels capacity. 



February, 1921 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growing 



Department of Agriculture reports the value 

 of farm crops for year 1920 as around $9,000,- 

 000,000, as against $11,000,000,000 for the year 

 preceding. 



The federal horticultural board is now ad- 

 mitting fruits from Cuba, the Bahamas, Ja- 

 maica and the canal zones only after vacuum 

 fumigation. 



The steamers "Marconi" and "Vauban" re- 

 cently arrived at Buenos Ayres from New York 

 with 24,000 packages (boxes and barrels) of 

 apples and 4,000 boxes of pears. Particular 

 mention for arrival in good condition was 

 made of boxes from Hood River, Yakima and 

 Payette. 



SPRAYING PAYS. 

 Ralph Irwin of Lancaster, Wisconsin, found 

 that spraying his orchard of 680 trees re- 

 turned him 5,487 per cent on his spraying in- 

 vestment. This is the report he made to F. R. 

 Gilford, extension man for the horticultural 

 department at the Wisconsin College of Agri- 

 culture, who aided him. It cost Mr. Irwin, 

 according to his records, $228 to buy the 

 spr&y and apply it. It took 1,500 gallons of 

 mixture for each of the four applications, and 

 20 hours* work on the part of two men and 

 a team. The eighty hours work he figured at 

 $140. On one sprayed tree, an average one, 

 he picked eight bushels of clean marketable 

 fruit which sold for $2.50 a bushel. There 

 30 unmarketable apples on this tree, and these 

 were only slightly injured. On one tree which 

 was purposely let unsprayed, four bushels 

 were picked. The ground was covered with 

 rotten apples. Of the four bushels of apples 

 taken from the tree, but 10 apples were clean. 



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