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Okanagan Valley Notes 



The season of 1916 will be a satisfactory 

 one on the whole for the growers of .hi 



?u^tTr- •'''"' '^ '''' «=-« feZitlV^ f^c! 

 that la.st winter was the most severe tor 

 about twenty-five years, even the great ex 

 panse of Okanagan Lake freezing over solid 



L th., ;„ ^'"''' '^'"■^ P'-edictions at th;.- 

 time that^the fruit crop would suffer sevei. 

 ly from the continued low temperatures bV 

 nf'f'r.f?"' ''i''*' ^''^' '^'^ aggregate shipment 

 °as ve.r"M ^^^''''''^f ^i" "e no les.s than 

 cars ^ In' "n r"'.*''" °^«'' ^^^^^ 'housan 

 anv in th ^"i'i"-' ^^"^ ^^^'^ light, espe. 



^Uy in the .southern end of the Vallev 

 From various causes these fruits have mea 

 iQir*^* "P more than fifty cars short of the 

 1915 total, not over two hundred cars being 

 shipped this year. Nevertheless, the l" 

 un for !".^PP'«^a'°"e will more than mak, 

 up for this shortage. 



J^? -, Z""*"^ °^^'"' ^PP'es will aggregate 

 about 1.200 cars. The Okanagan apl?e ^out 

 put grows every year, there being new 

 orchard areas coming into the bearing stacp 

 every .season. The greatest increase wiil 

 show Itself in the winter varieties, th. 

 policy in regard to later planted areas hav- 



ng been to .set out. few varieties, and those 

 the best, which means heavy straight vari- 

 ety production in a few years. Trees which 

 have died out. or winter killed, or peach 

 trees which have been pulled out. are being 

 constantly replaced with the standard vari- 

 eties of winter apples, and the wisdom of 

 this policy becomes more apparent every 

 season. What a detriment the multiplicitv 

 of varieties has been to the Valley can be 



TT f ^ ^'■'*™ ^^^ ^"""^ ^^^^ the Okan^an 

 ^^'}t^ ^^'^ovrera. the co-operative concern 

 Which handles approximately two-thirds of 

 the output of the Valley, lists no less than 

 one hundred and thirty odd varieties of 

 apples, which are classified according to 

 their qualities. 



Prices up to now have been good. Short 

 crops on the soft fruits kept the prices up 

 and the demand could not be met. Cherries' 

 which promised well at first, afterwards suf- 

 fered great shrinkage from rain at the pick- 

 ing time, causing much split fruit. Never- 

 theless, the fruit that was shipped brought 

 very satisfactory returns. Apricots also 

 ^ere short. Fifty dollars to sixty dollars at : 

 the packing houses was a common price 

 One case has been heard of where a grower 

 who ships out direct to a number of prairie 

 customers was offering from $80 to J85 per 

 ton fnr apricots to fill his orders, and could 

 not obtain them at that. The demand for 

 British Columbia apricots is increasing 

 every year, especially for the standard pre- 

 .servine kinds. Peaches, while not bring- 

 ing such a good price as apricots, have 

 proved profitable to the men that have a 

 Rood proportion of No. 1 fruit. Peaches 

 in the past have not been a profitable crop* 

 in the Okanagan, but now as the marketing] 

 methods are becoming more rational the] 

 returns are better. In the meantime, many] 

 orchards have become run down, and are not] 

 now producing the proportion of No. ] stuff I 

 they should. There has been some difficulty! 

 In keening the grades up to standard, par-! 

 Hcularly as to size, but the government 

 inspectors have been on to their jobs, forc- 

 ing growers to keep the pack up to what it 

 should be. The No. 1 peaches have gone 

 out very largely on the twenty-pound crate, 

 but for the No. 2 stuff an innovation has 

 been tried by packing into open lug boxes, 

 unwrapped, civing a package containing 

 about twenty-five pounds of fruit. It is 

 understood that the new nackaee has not 

 been kindly received in all quarters, but it 



