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In the Wenatchee and Wenatchee Valley areas, the pear crop plays an 

 important part in the space pictureo Records indicate that at the end of 

 apple harvest about 10 percent of the Bartlett pears for canning still remain 

 in storage, awaiting shipment to the canneries„ More than 75 percent of the 

 pears, mainly Bartlett s and D'Anjou, that have been packed for the fresh market, 

 remain in storage. The number of boxes packed during the picking period is 

 estimated to be equal to the amount of apples which would be packed during 

 20 days at full packing capacity. 



By the end of the picking period in 1955, about 1,500 carloads of 

 apples had been shipped to market, and the rest remained in storage. At this 

 time, the unpacked part of the crop remained in storage in field boxes, 

 occupying about 30 percent more space than would be required when the fruit 

 is packed. 



An estimate of the space situation based on these assumptions has been 

 made with the 1955 crop for the various shipping areas and is given in 

 table 1. This shows that all shipping areas except the Oroville, Ellisford, 

 Tonasket area had adequate space for the 16,000-carload crop. By an extension 

 of this analysis, it appears that for the district as a whole, the cold 

 storage facilities would start to become crowded and some fruit would have to 

 be held in common storage sheds or in refrigerated space outside the area when 

 something over an 18,000-carroad crop was produced. 



The figures presented do not take into account the movement of fruit 

 into cold storage facilities in the Entiat and Wenatchee areas from the 

 Oroville and other up-river areas. Storage-in-transit freight rates are 

 available that make such movement advantageous and, as a result, 682 carloads, 

 or 544,000 boxes moved into the Wenatchee and Entiat areas in 1955. As a 

 result, the space requirements of the Oroville, Ellisford, Tonasket areas 

 were met. Cooling capacity requirements also were alleviated by this movement. 



SPACE NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL VARIETIES 



There are apparent differences between operations now and at the time of 

 the original survey in 1941. In 1941, the Delicious crop in packed boxes 

 would have occupied 80 percent of the available space. The present Delicious 

 crop would take more space than the total space then available. At that time, 

 the chief concern was to take care of the Delicious crop. Now the cold 

 storages are able to provide refrigerated space for all varieties. Because 

 of the shortage of space in 1941 and the high cullage then encountered, the 

 emphasis was on packing as fast as possible and placing a minimum of loose 

 fruit in cold storage. Now, with more space available, with less severe 

 cullage, and with marketing changes, a trend toward storing the fruit loose 

 and packing it later over a somewhat more extended season is noted in a 

 number of storages. 



The data regarding space and cooling capacity available in the various 

 areas have been presented on an overall average basis. Variation exists 



