8 BULLETIN 1072, U. 5. DEPARTMEUTE OF AGPJ CULT USE. 
lower valley region fruit is sometimes found breaking down at the 
core while still sound at the surface, but this tendency is not common 
in fruit from this section. 
Table 1. — Relation the shipping quality of Bartlett pears from 
distri t% I the t tun lit ■ ler which they are c 
- July. 
August. 
Septem- 
ber. 
1 
: [strict and station. = j 
| 
J 

illllllll. 
Remarks. 
Antelope Valley, Calif. 1 . . 
TTpper Sacramento Val- 
Ley: 
Chico 
Bins 
Marys— ill r 
Sierra Nevada foothills: 
B \-:lin 
Auburn 
Lower Sacramento Val- 
ley: 2 
Sacramento 
S9.3 55lC 3SL • 
S7.S ' E --. 1 
58LO 9-5. S 
86.0 52.7 
35.1 55.0 9L7 
junty, Calif.: 
upper Lake 
Kogue River 
Oreg.: 3 
Ashland.. . 
Valley. 
Yakima 
iloxie 
Wenatchee 
Clara VaUey. 
• - 
S3. 5 50.0 
" 
Ti. r 
i 
San Jose 
Santa Clara. 
6.9 
77. 
Sonoma County, Calif. 
5a ita Rosa 
Willamette Valley. 
Salem " 
California coast district: 
Oakland 
Watsonville. 
- 
72.1 
72 1 
- 
& i 58 - 
2 54.4 - - 
. a - 
ta 
46.5 
15. - 
19 
'- ' 
• 
52. 
1 
i I 
60.2 
66.3 
6L1 
97.4 
95.1 
1 
- . 
91.? 
JS • 
52.0 
49.1 
5 - 
17 
57. 4 
5L : 
- 
■ 
-- - 
a i 
- - 
- . 
Fruit of very highest keep:: z an 1 
shipping quality 
'v i 
S'.o '.'.'.'.'. "'.'.'A r y in g ( i ualit 3 
57.3 
60.3 
57.7 
35. 4 5LS 
. ; Fnrit ::' exc rll-.- nl :v:::i: and I :.:- 
•:-:• i .-.--■■ — ' " 
5L1 
51 
19 . 
53.1. 
1 Fruit ripens evenly and is ::' firm 
J texture. 
Occasionally fruit becomes overripe 
in transit east, particularly from 
a I cooler par! 
this region. 
Ft ait holds up well and ripens 
evenlv. 
7 ::s:ierable difficulty during cer- 
tain seasons from fruit breaking 
down in transit. 
-. 1 G 
• : sat difficulty in shippin; : a : :- 
f ul precooling nee e - 
Tendency to break down at core. 
fresh eastern shipments practi- 
cally abandoned because : .' 
i gd l intra al 
About the same as Sanl 
Bartic 
- - 
Little attempt made to shr 
ern marke:- 
total :: ; - 
:ry poor keeping: marked 
; 
nvule) 
Bartlett especially bad. 
1 The temperature record is not available, but the summer rangr is 1 my place listed. 
2 Themainp. -. - mento. Records ailable. 
3 Themainpe:" isat a much lower el-"" :::er than the above records show. 
The Rogue River Valley district in southern Oregon produces a 
good-shipping Bartlett pear, though considerable fruit arrives on the 
markets in an overripe condition. This fruit approximates that from 
the lower Sacramento Valley in carrying quality, but somewhat more 
trouble is experience'! with it. owing to a longer haul to market. 
M< st of this fruit goes east . - • imento. The temperatures given 
for this district are for Ashland, a markedly cooler location than the 
main pear plain gs atering about MedfordL 
