. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. April, IQ20 BETTER FRUIT Page 35 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. Owing to the fact that pear growers in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon, are being offered .$45 per ton for their pears for canning pur- poses this year the California Pear Growers' Association is advising the Oregon growers not lo sell at that figure as indications are that canning pears will bring a much higher price. A telegram recently received at Medford from California advised the local Chamber of Com- merce that buyers in the latter state were offering .^S.'i per ton for the s
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. April, IQ20 BETTER FRUIT Page 35 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. Owing to the fact that pear growers in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon, are being offered .$45 per ton for their pears for canning pur- poses this year the California Pear Growers' Association is advising the Oregon growers not lo sell at that figure as indications are that canning pears will bring a much higher price. A telegram recently received at Medford from California advised the local Chamber of Com- merce that buyers in the latter state were offering .^S.'i per ton for the same stock that they were trying lo buy in Oregon for $-15. It is freely predicted at Medford that canning pears will sell for §100 per ton before the season is over. The fact that several million pounds of the 1919 crop of prunes remain unsold is causing operators in the prune industry considerable uneasiness, according to newspaper reports. This large amount of holdover stock is ex- pected to affect the price of the new crop of prunes. A fruit ranch sale of interest recently took place at Medford, when Lieutenant O. V. Mor- row purchased Brookhurst, the large place formerly owned by E. B. Pickel, near Med- ford. The ranch, which consists of 153 acres, 60 acres of which are in pears, 6 acres in apples and the rest in barley and alfalfa sold for .$45,000. The entire acreage is under irri- gation and is considered one of the best pro- ducing fruit farms in the Medford district. According to E. M. Harvey, research man for the Oregon Agricultural College, who has been inspecting orchards in the Willamette River and Rogue River Valleys to determine the extent of the damage winter injury from frost, the damage is comparatively slight. In a recent statement Mr. Harvey says: "Greatest injury is noticed in the lower and central sec- tions of the Willamette Valley. In these sec- tions the damage was due to the fact that trees have not properly reached a dormant state of growth and
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