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Sex of Strawberries 



STRAWBERRIES produce two types 

 of flowers, imperfect, or pistillate 

 and perfect, or staminate. Imperfect or 

 pistillate flowers contain pistils, but 

 not stamens, while perfect or staminate 

 flowers contain both pistils and sta- 

 mens. Pollen, which is produced in the 

 stamens is essential to the setting of 

 fruit. A variety with perfect flowers, 

 therefore, can produce fruit when 

 plented by itself, but one with imper- 

 fect flowers can not set fruit unless 

 perfect flowering plants are near to 

 furnish pollen through the agency of 

 bees or other insects. Because of this, 

 varieties having imperfect flowers are 

 not as desirable as those having perfect 

 flowers, and fewer of them are grown. 

 However, some of the sorts having im- 

 perfect flowers or "imperfect varieties," 

 as they are commonly called, are very 

 productive and are liked in certain 

 sections. Imperfect varieties also are 

 injured less by the strawberry weevil 

 than perfect sorts, since this insect 

 feeds on pollen, and in regions where 

 it is serious, imperfect sorts are often 

 grown in relatively large proportions. 

 However, they form less than 5 per 

 cent of the total acreage devoted to 

 strawberries in the United States and 

 their planting appears to be decreasing. 



Where imperfect varieties are used 

 the usual practice in planting is to set 

 one row of a perfect variety for every 

 two or three rows of imperfect ones. 



There are certain varieties of straw- 

 berries that under ordinary conditions 

 produce flowers having both stamens 

 and pisiils, but frequently, under pe- 

 culiar weather conditions, they produce 

 so few stamens that they do not have 

 sufficient pollen to' insure the setting of 

 fruit. A variety producing an abund- 

 ance of pollen should be planted with 

 such varieties in the proportion that 

 perfect varieties are usually planted 

 with imperfect ones. 



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Northwest Fruit Notes 

 From Here and There 



OREGON 



THE LARGEST prune deal of the season was 

 announced during the early part of the past 

 month when the Drager Fruit Company of Salem 

 purchased 1 ,450,000 pounds of Italian prunes in 

 Oregon and Washington for shipment to Germany. 

 Of the quantity purchased 1,025,000 pounds were 

 bought from the Oregon Growers* Co-operative 

 iation, 300,000 pounds from the Washington 

 Growers' Co-operative Association, and 125,000 

 pounds from the Dundee Prune Growers' Associa- 

 ea were 70-80s, 80-90s, 90-100s, and 

 100-120s, and the dial is said to have cleaned up 

 these size- in the Northwest. The purchase is 

 believed to have constituted the largest single sin]' 

 ment ever made in this section of the country. 



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STATISTICS recently compiled give the apple 

 acreage in Western Oregon during the past 

 season as follows: Benton county, 1,336 acres; 

 'lackama; county, 1,630 acres; Douglas county, .1,- 



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May, 1921 



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2X7 acres; Jackson county, 5,091 acres; Josephine 

 county, 400 acres; Linn county, 225 acres; Ma- 

 rion county, 2,417 acres; Polk county, 1.600 acres; 

 Washington county, 1,500 acres; Yamhill county, 

 1,550 acres. According to this report Hood River 

 county leads the state in apple acreage with 11,- 

 770 acres; Wasco county coming second with 5,- 

 660 acres and Jackson county third, with 5,091 



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THAT the state of Washington is rapidly ex 

 panding its loganberry industry, of which Ore- 

 gon now has 85 per cent, is shown in the fact 

 that there were shipped from Marion county. Ore 

 gon, during the past winter 2,000,000 loganberry 

 plants to be set largely in Northern Washington. 

 On a basis of 660 plants to the acre this would 

 mean that more than 3,000 acres of new plants 

 would be in bearing in Washington in two years. 

 Oregon is credited in recent reports with 5, SOU 

 acres and ('. I. I. .-wis ,,( the Oregon Growers' 



dogs, ground hogs, 

 nrrels, pocket goph- 

 alfalfa. Experiment- 

 approve, low tablets 



Ft. Dodge, Iowa 



Co-operative Association estimates that within a 

 few years there will be 10.000 acres of logan- 

 berries in bearing in Oregon. 



THE PRODUCERS' Canning \ 1'... ki 

 pany, recently organized at Salem, has taken 

 over the canning, packing and evaporating plant 

 of the F. A. Kurtz Company and will operate it 

 along cooperative lines. The plan is to have 

 growers purchase stock in proportion to their 

 acreage, which will entitle them to have their 

 fruits processed and marketed, less the actual 



