Page 24 BETTER FRUIT 



Paulus Heads Oregon Association 



June, 1921 



RC. PAULUS, prominent in fruit 

 • circles of the northwest and sales 

 manager of the Oregon Growers' Co- 

 operative association since its organiza- 

 tion in August, 1919, was elected gen- 

 eral manager of the association and 

 Oregon Packing Corporation at the an- 

 nual meeting of directors and executive 

 committee of the association. 



C. I. Lewis, former manager of the 

 organization department, was made 

 assistant general manager. All the man- 

 agement of the association will now be 

 centered at the Salem office. 



Mr. Paulus, until the association was 

 organized, was manager of the Salem 

 Fruit Union. He has held positions of 

 trust in a number of the large horticul- 

 tural associations in the west and north- 

 west. 



Mr. Lewis was for 14 years head of 

 horticulture at the Oregon Agricultual 

 College and is a recognized authority 

 on all matters pertaining to horticul- 

 ture. 



The Oregon Growers' Co-operative 

 Association, during the past year, has 

 shipped about 1,500 cars of fruits and 

 vegetables, according to the report of 

 the sales department, submitted at the 

 annual meeting. 



Of the 12,000,000 pounds of prunes 

 delivered to plants of the association, 

 all had been sold up to April 26, ex- 

 cepting 3,077,043 pounds. Eighty mar- 

 kets were developed for Oregon prunes, 

 forty of these buying in car lots or more. 

 The state of New York was the heaviest 

 purchaser, receiving 1,940,015 pounds. 

 England bought 861,550 pounds in di- 

 rect shipments from Oregon plants. 



Of loganberries, the association sold 

 1,072,956 pounds at an average price 

 of 12.7 cents. Of cherries there were 

 sold 1,014,955 pounds, also at an aver- 

 age of 12.7 cents. Other average prices 

 were: Gooseberries, 7.9 cents; raspber- 

 ries, 20 cents; strawberries, 16.9. cents; 

 currants, 10 cents; evergreen black- 

 berries, 7 cents ; green prunes, 4.4 cents. 



Of the 210,930 boxes of apples 

 shipped by the association, England was 

 the heaviest buyer, receiving direct ship- 

 ments of 86 car lots. Apples were sold 

 in 35 markets with New York City 

 taking 59 cars, Los Angeles, 44 cars, 

 Chicago, 35 cars, Baltimore, 15 cars 

 and Memphis, 10 cars. 



A total of 5,555,953, pounds of 

 pears were sold the past season to 59 

 markets. Of the 402 cars shipped, New 

 York City took 123 cars; Havana, 11 

 cars; Canada, 10 cars; London, 12 

 cars. From the Rogue River valley, 

 with Medford and Grants Pass as ship- 

 ping points, were shipped 4,575,095 

 pounds. 



The association handled 85 per cent 

 of car lot shipments of broccoli out of 

 Oregon. There was a total of 27,514 

 crates. 



The Oregon Growers' Co-operative 

 association was organized at Salem, 

 Oregon, August 1, 1919, with 137 mem- 

 bers, controlling 3,000 acres of fruits 

 and berries. The membership now is 

 1648, controlling 28,838 acres. 



While the Oregon Growers' Co-oper- 

 ative association shipped 50 varieties 

 of apples last season, Mr. Lewis says 

 that for the benefit of the apple indus- 

 try, there really should be grown only 

 about ten varieties. 



These ten varieties, he (says, are: 

 Spitzenburg, Newtowns, Ortleys, Rome, 

 Grimes, Winter Bananas, Delicious, 

 Jonathans, Gravensteins and Wagner. 

 It would be better, he contends, if this 

 list was cut down to the first six varie- 

 ties names. 



What They are Doing in 

 California 



/BOUNTY Horticultural Commissioner L. O. 

 »-< Haupt, of Hanford, in a recent report says : 

 "The planting season has closed showing a heavy 

 planting of trees and vines, especially the latter. 

 Shortage and high price of vines curtailed the 

 planting somewhat. The following were inspected 

 and planted besides stock grown by the growers 

 themselves, which was not inspected: 



Apricots 25,956 



Peaches 33,141 



Prunes 22,777 



Miscellaneous (trees) 5,286 



^Grapevines (rooted) 1,189,652 



"The Tilton was the principal variety of apri- 

 cots planted; Lovells lead in the peach varieties, 

 while prunes were limited to the French variety 

 almost entirely. About half of the vines were 

 Thompson Seedless, as this variety was the only 

 one that could be secured at reasonable prices." 



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EIGHT Japanese strawberry growers from vari- 

 ous parts of the state are in the Oakland city 

 jail charged with violating the standard packing 

 laws of the state. D. P. T. McDonald, deputy 

 horticultural commissioner, of Alameda county, 

 swore to the warrants. The Japanese were traced 

 through boxes of strawberries placed on the Oak- 

 land wholesale markets. These boxes, it is al- 

 leged, were packed with a top row of fine ripe 

 berries, while the bottom rows were composed of 

 overripe and diseased berries. 



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SAN FRANCISCO has received its first car of 

 Mexican watermelons. Owing to the strict 

 regulations pertaining to the introduction of Mexi- 

 can fruit flies, a rigid inspection of the shipment 

 was conducted by quarantine inspectors of the 

 state department of agriculture. 

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CANNERY NOTES 



THE canning situation is very uncertain, accord- 

 ing to R. C. Paulus, general manager of the 

 Oregon Growers' Co-operative Association. Can- 

 neries have no orders for future delivery and hence 

 have no means of knowing how much to can or 

 how much they can pay growers for fruit and 

 berries. Wholesale houses are not placing heavy 

 future orders, buying on a hand to mouth basis. 

 If this continues, Mr. Paulus says that the trade 

 will be out of canned goods before another season 

 and in the meantime considerable portions of 

 fruit will have spoiled. Canners, bankers and 

 growers are giving much thought to the canning 

 proposition, Mr. Paulus says, and that some plan 

 may be worked out, although at present it is 

 difficult to say just what this plan will be. 



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