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Oldenburg, and even the Rhode Island Greening. The reverse of this is also 
true with other varieties like the McIntosh, Yellow Newtown, Rome Beauty* 
Winesap, Jonathan and a score of others. The general average prices being 
received this year for apples is very satisfactory and many growers are very 
hopeful over the future of the industry, particularly for the grower who 
makes a careful study of his problems and produces a minimum amount 
of low grade fruit and a maximum amount of extra fancy grade. 
The transportation problem is quietly working itself out in a very 
satisfactory manner. The building of storage plants in the East to protect 
from a quarter to one-third of the crop; the handling of another quarter 
or third immediately at harvest time, and the storage of the balance to go 
forward in Spring, or in protected fruit cars. The opening of the Panama 
Canal is being looked up by Western fruit growers as the actual solution of 
our transportation and labor problems, and at the same time as making it 
possible for us to put our fruit on markets anywhere in the world at prices 
that will be favorable to the consumer as well as the producer. 
The Peach. 
The peach market has again been a serious disappointment to many 
growers of the Northwest. The early prices promised a very fair return 
for the crop but the mid-season and later prices dropped to where there 
is little or no money in marketing so perishable a commodity. The peach 
tree is largely used here in the West as a filler, in fact, a very small area of 
the orchards of the West are alone devoted to peaches and, for this reason, 
the next two years will see the removal of possibly sixty per cent of the peach 
trees of the Northwest. This alone will make peach orcharding a very 
fair industry; however, the special peach growers now are considering the 
advisability of growing three classes of peaches, — extra early varieties to 
compete with California fruits; extra fine quality mid-season varieties; and 
very late varieties for the last of the markets. 
The Pear. 
The pear is rapidly becoming more and more popular each year in the 
Northwest and while it will never be as extensively planted as the apple, 
it will become a very large factor in the fruit industry of this section. 
The varieties that have been most extensively planted are Bartlett, 
Anjou, Winter Nelis and Comice, however, the Howell, Bose, P. Barry and 
White Doyenne are receiving a great deal of attention at present. 
The growers generally are seeking a later pear of excellent quality, 
and while the P. Barry promises to fulfill the want, many are hesitating 
about planting it extensively. 
The seeding of pear orchards to alfalfa is being practiced very generally 
in all irrigated sections of the West. The results thus far have been very 
satisfactory from growth and fruitage factors as well as the pear blight 
factor. 
