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BETTER FRUIT 



March, ip2i 



000,000 pounds will be needed. This would 

 fill 150 cars, carrying 30 tons to the car, or 

 three solid trains. 



If apple boxes sell at 20 cents apiece this 

 year the growers will have to pay $2,400,000, 

 lint if they only bring 18 cents, as some author- 

 ities predict, the cost to the growers will be 

 about $2,000,000. Paper at 15 cents a pound 

 will cost $90,000. 



With approximately 100 delegates present 

 the eleventh annual convention of the Western 

 Washington Horticultural Association opened 

 at Port Angeles February 11. The visitors were 

 welcomed to the city by Secretary W. H. Tay- 

 lor of the commercial club, response being 

 made by Charles W. Orton of Sumner. An 

 interesting feature of the session was Profes- 

 sor J. L. Stahl's reminiscences of horticulture 

 in the Northwest. The Bing cherry and Island 

 Belle grape were named as distinctively North- 

 west products, having originated here. Mr. 

 S t:i lil also told of how the berry industry got 

 its start in the Puyallup-Sumner district in 

 1885. Cherry culture, by C. E. Fitzgerald of 

 Ferndale, and gooseberry culture by F. H. 

 Burglehaus of Sumner, were features of the 

 afternoon program. 



Solid train load apple shipments were re- 

 sumed out of the Wenatchee district on Febru- 

 ary 19 for the first time since Christmas. The 

 first train to leave this year consisted of 57 cars. 

 Up to that date 7,900 cars had been shipped 



from Wenatchee with 1,000 cars still to be 

 shipped. The total crop from the district is offi- 

 cially estimated at 9,500 cars. In addition to 

 this, 1,304 cars of summer fruit were shipped, 

 making total fruit shipments 10,804 cars, val- 

 ued at about $16,000,000, compared with 13,700 

 cars shipped last year, which returned the 

 growers about $22,500,000. 



A report from Wenatchee is to the effect 

 that as a result of the visit there of Aaron 

 Sapiro. organizer of cooperative associations 

 of San Francisco, announcement is made that 

 H. G. Bohlke has resigned as manager of the 

 newly organized Wenatchee District Coopera- 

 tive Association and his place has been filled 

 by Lee M. Lampson, formerly county agent of 

 Benton County, and recently organization man- 

 ager for the Washington Wheat Growers' As- 

 sociation. Mr. Bohlke will devote his atten- 

 tion to his fruit business, and Mr. Lampson 

 will conclude the organization of the new as- 

 sociation. The election of permanent officers 

 of the association will occur at the annual 

 meeting to be held in March. 



The Okanogan Growers' Unit covering terri- 

 tory north of Spokane has begun repacking 

 Winesaps held in storage through the winter. 

 The pack will total about 18,000 boxes. The 

 unit also has on hand about 20,000 boxes 

 packed last fall and not previously shipped 

 on account of low prices. 



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Increased freight rates have deprived the 

 fruil growers of the Spokane valley of their 

 profits on the 1920 crop of apples. It is de- 

 clared that lower freight rates will have to be 

 secured for the 1921 crop in order to secure 

 any returns from the orchards. This is the 

 report of several large growers of Opportunity 

 and shippers in Spokane. They assert that 

 the 1920 crop was raised at the peak cost of 

 production, sold on a low market, and moved 

 to eastern markets under the highest freight 

 rates which absorb the ordinary margin of 

 profit. As for the 1921 crop, they assert that 

 lower costs of production will be offset by the 

 low prices, leaving the increased freight rates 

 to absorb the profits. The cost of shipping a 

 box of apples to eastern markets before the 

 two freight increases were granted was approx- 

 imately 50 cents, shippers say; while the pre- 

 vailing cost is from 90 cents to $1, of which 

 more than 40 cents is taken by the increased 

 freight rates. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruitgrowing 



The adoption by the United States Senate of 

 the amendment to the tariff bill placing a 

 duty of 4 cents a pound on imported cherries 

 was announced February 17 by Senator Mc- 

 Nary of Oregon. The news of this action on 

 the part of the senate is being received with a 

 great deal of satisfaction on the part of North- 

 west cherry growers and packers who will now 

 be able to more than compete with the cheaper 

 foreign fruit that was being shipped into the 

 United States. Other legislation that is being 

 asked for the fruit industry is an appro- 

 priation of $10,000 for the purpose of studying 

 new spraying methods for codling moth thai . 

 will not be objected to by eastern buyers as 

 poisonous. The idea of the investigation is to 

 determine if it is possible to discover a spray 

 that will be effective against this insect and 



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