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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
October, 1917 
The 1917 Cherry Harvest in Door 
Co. 
Door county’s 1917 cherry crop 
will bring the growers approxi- 
mately $200,000, it reaching 
about 250 carloads, the estimate 
made early in the season. Each 
car contains 500 cases, and each 
case 16 quarts, making the total 
crop 2,000,000 quarts. Both the 
Early Richmond, the early cherry, 
and the Montmorency, the late 
cherry, were good crops. The 
quality of both was also excellent 
but the late cherry was better not 
only in quality but also in yield 
and brought a better price. The 
price on the outside market ran 
from $1.40 to $1.75, being very 
satisfactory to the grower. 
EXCEEDS TOTAL OF iHiuir. 1 £.aRS. 
The 1917 crop exceeds the total 
shipments of the combined crops 
of 1914-15-16. One day’s ship- 
ment this season was equal to the 
entire crop of 1913. 
There was no trouble in secur- 
ing a market, the greatest diffi- 
culty being in supplying the great 
demand that there was for Door 
county cherries. Shipments were 
made as far west as Tulsa, Okla- 
homa, and a number of shipments 
were made to Cleveland, O. Min- 
neapolis furnished its usual good 
market, and shipments were made 
into Chicago, which is usually 
supplied almost entirely by the 
Michigan cherries. 
PICKERS RECEIVE $30,000. 
During the five or six weeks that 
the pickers were employed in the 
orchards they were paid approxi- 
mately $30,000. This large 
amount of money is paid almost 
entirely to women and children, 
and the amount earned is addi- 
tional money brought into the 
families. AVliile a portion of it is 
earned by young people who come 
here from outside, the fact that 
these young people are here 
places a large amount of the 
money in circulation that goes in- 
to local business channels. 
The crop being an exception 
ally large one, and picking being 
done on a number of young orch- 
ards where the trees are small, re- 
quiring no ladders, the pickers en- 
joyed the work and made good 
money. They are all anxious to 
return to Door county another 
year and help harvest the crop. 
The picking problem is one of the 
easiest problems of the cherry 
business. The different organiza- 
tions represented here during the 
season by the pickers were the 
Y. M. C. A., Boy Scouts, Camp 
Fire Girls, Green Bay Orphans 
Home, besides the hundreds of 
pickers who were not connected 
in any way with any organization. 
The Co-Operative Co. intro- 
duced Indian pickers this season, 
being the first to engage the ser- 
vices of the natives for this work, 
and they proved to be well 
adapted to it. 
EIGHTY CARLOADS TO FACTORY. 
The Reynolds Preserving Com- 
pany will be about through can- 
ning cherries this week, although 
it might take a couple of days 
next week to clean up what comes 
in. The company has used about 
eighty car loads of the crop, 40,- 
000 cases. The price on the first 
30,000 was about $1.00 per case, 
but what was purchased above 
the original contract of 30,000 a 
much higher price was paid. The 
fact that part of the crop was be- 
ing canned here had a tendency 
to stiffen the outside market, as 
there was no surplus to dispose 
of. The quality of cherries 
canned by the Reynolds Company 
is of the very best and a ready 
market is found for them . — Door 
Co. Democrat. 
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It is to be hoped that all grow- 
ers of the state may appreciate 
the benefits which may come from 
this law, and by their cooperation 
render the enforcement of the law 
easy. It is only when all apples 
from this state are packed strict- 
ly in accordance with the law that 
the reputation of our apples will 
be bettered and prices to the 
grower raised. 
