. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. March. ip20 BETTER FRUIT Baled Hay SavesThousands of Boxes of Apples By R. A. Laird ANY notion that the farmer is less resourceful than the city man does not hold good in the Spokane country. The Okanogan, Washington, district produces high grade export apples in of warehouse capacity, facing a heavy cash loss. Did the farmers throw up their hands in despair? Not for a moment. There was some quick planning, the apples Page 3/ The beauty of the whole matter was that the upward trend of forage prices netted the apple men a handsome profit on the hay after the hasti
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. March. ip20 BETTER FRUIT Baled Hay SavesThousands of Boxes of Apples By R. A. Laird ANY notion that the farmer is less resourceful than the city man does not hold good in the Spokane country. The Okanogan, Washington, district produces high grade export apples in of warehouse capacity, facing a heavy cash loss. Did the farmers throw up their hands in despair? Not for a moment. There was some quick planning, the apples Page 3/ The beauty of the whole matter was that the upward trend of forage prices netted the apple men a handsome profit on the hay after the hastily contrived warehouse was dismantled. The accompanying picture is repro- duced with the permission of the Foy Film Peanuts Most people who eat peanuts, says the American Economist, believe that they are all grown in this country and will be surprised to learn that there were 70,947,036 pounds of these nuts im- ported during the fiscal year 1918, prac- tically all of which came from China and Japan. Most of the imported pea- nuts are grown in China. The 1919 crop in that country is estimated at 33,000 tons. Many Tractors in Missouri According to the State crop report- ing service, there are now in the state of Missouri 7202 tractors. How rapidly these are being bought and used is best indicated by the fact that nearly half of them have been purchased since the first of June of the present year. Apple storage house made of baled hay that saved thousands of boxes of apples in the Okanogan, Washington, district from freezing. considerable quantities and had a big crop in 1919. Shipping was hampered by a car shortage, and an unexpectedly early cold snap found apple producers with several thousand boxes in excess were assembled at a convenient point- and piled in tiers. Then the owners bought every bale of hay in the district and built a frost proof structure of baled hay around the fruit. The inspection service for shipments of fruits and vegetables started in 1917 by the
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