June, 1921 



Northwest Fruit Notes 

 From Here and There 



WASHINGTON 



A VOLUNTARY petition in bankruptcy hai 

 been filed in the U. S. District Court in 

 Spokane by the Bohlke Fruit Company through 

 N. M. Sorenson, its attorney. Accompanying the 

 petition was a schedule showing liabilities amount- 

 ing to $1,309,248 and assets of $847,471. With 

 this petition was filed another from the creditor's 

 committee, named some time ago through At- 

 torney D. A. Shiner, asking that William A. 

 Doelle of Cashmere be named temporary receiver 

 to take charge of the company's affairs until a 

 permanent trustee is appointed. This action 

 comes as a culmination of the investigation into the 

 affairt of the company instituted by creditors 

 when they took over the Bolhke affairs April 2. 



CAR LOT shipments from the northwest, by 

 districts, from July 1, 1920, to March 1, 

 1921, were as follows: 



Wenatchee valley, 1862; Yakima valley, 7659; 

 Spokane district, 2764; Southern Idaho, 2244; 

 Hood River, 2166; Walla Walla district, 433; Mon- 

 tana, 436; Rogue River district, 369; Western 

 Oregon, 263; Eastern Oregon, 266. 



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ESTIMATES of Yakima Valley's fruit crop, 

 based on inspections made after the late 

 frosts, show little change from that announced 

 four weeks ago by H. A. Glen, general agent 

 of the Northern Pacific, at Yakima, whose crop 

 predictions have generally proved reliable. Mr. 

 Glen estimates: Apples, 12,500 cars; pears, 2500 

 ears; peaches, 1200; plums and prunes, 140; 

 cherries, 259; melons, 400; total, 16,990 cars. 

 His figures include Yakima and Benton counties, 

 but not Kittitas county, which produces little 

 fruit. 



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THE Wenatchee District Cooperative asso- 

 ciation, recently perfected, has signed up 

 4250 cars of apples in the Wenatchee valley, ac- 

 cording to C. A. Campbell, cashier of the Citi- 

 zens' State Bank of Leavenworth. The new or- 

 ganization has completed a selling arrangement 

 with the North American Fruit Exchange, which 

 will open an office in Wenatchee. 



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ABOUT 250 acres have been planted to ber- 

 ries in the Aberdeen section this spring. 

 While these will not bear this year, a large 

 acreage planted last year will come into bearing. 



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CAREFL T L examination of many orchards in the 

 Wenatchee section shows there is no founda- 

 tion for pessimistic reports. There has been a 

 heavy dropping of blossoms and embryonic fruit, 

 but there are still enough apples left on the trees 

 to insure a record breaking crop, according to 

 all authorities. The extraordinary heavy bloom 

 made it necessary for 75 per cent to fall off or 

 else be pulled off in thinning. Prospects still indi- 

 cate a bumper crop of cherries, apricots, peaches, 

 pears and apples, despite the drop. 



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TWENTY-FIVE thousand boxes of Yakima ap- 

 ples, shipped from Seattle the last week in 

 March, arrived in England on May 4 in perfect 

 condition, according to a cablegram. The message 

 quotes the market at "from 16 shillings to 17 shil- 

 lings, six pence a box." Australian Jonathans, 

 now reaching the English market, are selling for 

 28 shillings or $3.30 a box, for extra fancy at 

 present exchange rates. 



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THE first crate of strawberries to be ripened 

 this spring in the Prosser section of the Yak- 

 ima valley was brought in by J. Harkema and 

 won the prize given annually by the commercial 

 club, 



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PS. DARLINGTON, district horticultural in- 

 • spector in Okanogan county, north of Spo- 

 kane, states that the late frosts have done no 

 damage to fruit in the Okanogan valley, and 

 judging from a wealth of bloom the apple crop 

 this fall promises to be very heavy. 



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WITH the prospective apple crops in other 

 sections damaged by early frosts, thereby 

 making the demand for northwest apples greater 



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this year, fruit growers throughout the Spokane 

 district are looking forward with optimism to a 

 good season this year in spite of low prices, ac- 

 cording to P. R. Parks, manager of the Spokane 

 Fruit Growers' Company. 



"Prospects now look very favorable," Mr. Parks 

 said. "While a late frost is always to be con- 

 sidered we always consider the crop fairly safe 

 after May 20, so that chances for damage this 

 year are slight." 



THE contract for the construction of a two- 

 story packing house with an air cooled storage 

 capacity of 40,000 boxes, to be built on the six- 

 acre tract of the Winthrop Fruit Company at 

 Gleed, Wash., has been let to Kelley & Sons of 

 Selah. 



IDAHO 



NOW that the "big freeze" is over and the 

 fruitgrowers of the Payette valley are able to 

 take stock of the damage done to their crops, it 

 is manifest that the damage done is not nearly as 

 heavy as was at first feared. 



Orchardists and shippers alike estimate that 

 the 1921 apple crop will be the largest harvested 

 in the valley for some years. Pears also look 

 promising, although the earlier varieties have been 

 somewhat damaged. Sweet cherries have suffered, 

 though they are by no means all gone, and the 

 sour cherries promise well. Peaches and apricots 

 suffered more than any other variety of fruit, but 

 as there are comparatively few of them in the 

 Payette valley this does not mean a big loss. 



PRESENT indications are that Idaho will 

 have a normal commercial crop of apples 

 and prunes, a very light crop of cherries, and 

 practically no peaches or apricots, according to 

 W. H. Wicks, director of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Boise. In the northern counties, partic- 

 ularly in Boundary, the peach trees were nearly 

 all kiled by winter injury. The outlook is very 

 promising for Bonner, Kootenai and Latah coun- 

 ties. At Lewiston on account of rainy we ther 

 during the blocming period an exceedingly heavf 

 drop of cherry blossoms was occasioned from the 

 lack of proper pollenation. In the Weiscr dis- 

 trict, most varieties of tht apple show only a 

 small number of blossoms killed, which still 

 leaves more apples than can develop. The Deli- 

 cious and White Winter Pearmain seem to have 

 suffered the most. In the Rosswell, Panama and 

 Apple alley section, peaches, apricots and early 

 varieties of the apple are practically a total loss. 



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