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Title: Better fruit
Identifier: betterfruit13wash (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: Washington State Apple Commission
Subjects: Fruit-culture
Publisher: Hood River, Ore. , Better Fruit Pub. Co
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1919 BETTER FRUIT Page 9 shape and the winter has been so mild that there has been no damage whatever apparent in the orchards. The high prices that prevailed last year has encouraged the growers and the interest in fruit growing is again reviving. Many of the orchards that have been neglected, more or less, for the past few seasons are being taken care of and put in shape for profitable production. Orchard work at this time is pro- gressing nicely. Much of the pruning has already been done and the growers are beginning to prepare for the appli- cation of the dormant spray for blister- mite and scale. If the crop is not injured by frosts during the blooming season, Montana should market this season between four and five hundred cars of apples. The fruit produced in the home orchards and for the local markets will about equal the amount of commercial fruit. Fruit other than apples is also look- ing fine. The cherry and plum crop, while not large, promises to be good. The Bitter Root valley, the Missoula valley and the Flathead Lake region are the most important commercial fruit- producing regions in the state. There is some planting of new orchards this year, though none of the new plantings are likely to be of large proportions. A. L. STRAUSZ, State Horticulturist. Washington Apple-Crop Prospects Olympia, March 20. Better Fruit: 1918 goes down into history as being the most profitable year ever expe- rienced by the fruit growers of Wash- ington. The outlook for the coming crop of Washington was never brighter than at present. The 1918 crop was not abnor- mal in any way. The stone fruits were injured by spring frosts so that the crop was short. These conditions, ac- companied by favorable weather, per- mitted the trees to develop a strong, heavy setting of buds for the 1919 crop. The trees went into the winter in an ideal condition. The winter weather thus far has been very favorable, and if the blooming periods are not accom- panied by frosts we have reason to expect a bumper crop of all fruits in 1919. Never in the history of the orchard development in the Northwest has Washington fruit averaged the prices that has been paid for the 1918 crop. The state output of apples was ap- proximately 1800 cars, which brought up to February 25 an average f.o.b. price of: In Wenatchee— Extra Fancv $2.10 per box Fancy 1.83 C Grade 1.53 In Yakima— Extra Fancy $2.02 per box Fancv 1.80 C Grade 1.58 Including the four Northwest Stales— Extra Fancy $2.03 per box Fancy 1.86 C Grade 1.51 Since that time the average has been, in Wenatchee, $3.09, $2.80 and $2.39; in Yakima, .$2.91, $2.72 and $2.69; and to- day offerings of $4 are being refused. This has stimulated activities in the sale of fruit lands and some valuable transfers are being made in the leading districts. This condition has encour- aged the growers to the extent that 100 Bean power sprayers have been sold in Yakima and more carloads ordered which cannot be filled by the factory. Other sections and other concerns are reporting the same conditions. The lack of thoroughness in the spraying operations of 1918 was an expensive lesson, and the growers are exerting an extra effort to get trees better pruned so that they can do a thorough job of spraying this spring, and reduce the percentage of cull apples. M. L. DEAN, State Horticultural Inspector. The cannery of the Gresham Fruit Growers' Association at Gresham, Ore- gon, has been leased for a term of four years by A. Rupert & Co. The pack will be principally berries, cherries, pears and vegetables.
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Illustration Showing Bees m Connection willi Orcliarding. Value of Bees in Relation to Fruit Growing By Luke Powell, District Horticultural Inspector, Prosser, Washington A GREAT many of our valuable fruits are sterile, or, in other words, non- productive unless they are pollenized by other fruits of the same variety. Ninety-nine per cent of the pollen is carried by the insects, and it is a safe estimate that seventy-five per cent is carried by the busy little honey bee. Thus the value of the honey bee to the fruit grower is beyond estimation, be- cause without it many of your fruit trees would not bear sufficient crop to warrant the spraying and care of them. Not only does the bee scatter the pollen but it gathers the nectar that would otherwise go to waste and makes it into honey, which is a valuable farm pro- duct; therefore, it has a distributive as well as a productive value. Now for a fruit grower to be a suc- cess in raising fruit he must understand the growing and care of it. The same applies to fruit growers who have bees and expect to get results from them. First study and learn all you can about caring for them. Second, don't put your bee stands out in the orchard under the trees. Why? Because it is too cool and damp for them. For bees to do good work the temperature of the hive on the inside should be about 90 de- grees. The professional bee men keep their bees out where they can get plenty of good, warm, spring sunshine. The trees where the hives are are never well sprayed. The bees object and the man spraying naturally sustains the objection. There are more scale and worms on these trees than any of the others in the orchard. Therefore, if you have your bees around under the trees, move them out at once, where they can do better work. They will scatter more pollen and in- crease their production of honey. UfontAfl I Horticulturist—one who fflQlllvUi has had experience in pruning, spraying, irrigation and pack- ing fruit. Please state full experience in first letter. Horticulturist, care Better Fruit The Old Reliable BELL & CO. Incorporatad WHOLESALE Fruits and Produce 112-114 Front Street PORTLAND, OREGON

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