SHIPMENT OF RED RASPBERRIES. 3 
as there were few rains and much dry, sunshiny weather. In 1912 
about half the crop was shipped fresh, the remainder, being too soft 
for shipment in a fresh state, being put up in barrels and cans. 
During the season of 1912 the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Asso- 
ciation, then handling approximately 95 per cent of the berry crop 
of the valley, shipped 270 cars of fresh berries of 545 crates each. 
Of these 123 were red raspberries, 72 blackberries, 35 strawberries, 
and the remainder currants, loganberries, gooseberries, etc. The 
cannery receipted for 1,251,630 pounds of red raspberries, 3,424,874 
pounds of blackberries, and 318,000 pounds of strawberries. 
The two principal commercial varieties of red raspberries are the 
Cuthbert and the Antwerp. Of the blackberries the Evergreen, 
Snyder, Kittatinny, Lawton, and Himalaya are the leading varieties. 
Fic. 2.—Red raspberries at Sumner, Wash., planted in rows, showing the separation of 
new canes from those in bearing, in order to facilitate picking. 
The Cumberland black raspberry, the loganberry (a hybrid between 
the Antwerp red raspberry and the Aughinbaugh blackberry), and 
the Phenomenal (similar to loganberry) are grown to some extent. 
The recent remarkable growth and development of the industry 
in this valley is due largely to the formation and successful opera- 
tion of an effective cooperative marketing association. This asso- 
ciation some years ago purchased a cannery, which is now operated 
as part of the cooperative enterprise. This plant has been greatly 
enlarged and improved, and more recently a second one has been 
built. These cooperatively owned canneries serve as the balance 
wheel of the berry-growing industry in the section. Without them 
the growers would be in a very precarious state, as through these 
canneries they are able to dispose of all berries that for various 
