. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pase 28 BETTER FRUIT February, 1921 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. The Hood River Apple Growers' Association still holds in storage about 270,000 boxes of fruit. It received in all for the past season 043,930 boxes. The apple acreage in Oregon, according to the figures of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association, is 50,000. The prune acreage is about 10,000, while that of pears is 13,500. C. I. Lewis, manager of the organization de- partment of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association, is still strong for prunes, not- withstanding present
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pase 28 BETTER FRUIT February, 1921 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. The Hood River Apple Growers' Association still holds in storage about 270,000 boxes of fruit. It received in all for the past season 043,930 boxes. The apple acreage in Oregon, according to the figures of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association, is 50,000. The prune acreage is about 10,000, while that of pears is 13,500. C. I. Lewis, manager of the organization de- partment of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association, is still strong for prunes, not- withstanding present conditions. He says that ultimately, prunes will prove as they have in the past, a good investment. In the planting of cherries, he calls atten- tion to the fact that the Royal Anne, Bing and Lamberts are not only self-fertile, but also inter-sterile, and that with these varieties must be planted the Long Stemmed Waterhouse or some other good pollenizer. The Spitzenberg apple is likely to come into its own within a few years, Mr. Lewis says. He believes the time is coming when this apple will sell at a premium as the acreage has been greatly reduced, due to collar rot in the Inland Empire and winter injury in the Hood River country. Mr. Lewis is of the opinion that next year will be a good year for apple growers in west- ern Oregon, as the East is not likely to have a bumper crop next season as it did last year. Jackson County fruit growers, through the Oregon legislative assembly, have addressed a memorial to the Honorable, the Secretary of Agriculture, earnestly petitioning the Depart- ment of Agriculture to maintain the frost warning service with which the weather bu- reau has been serving the growers of the Rogue River Valley for several years, during the spring months when orchard heating is practiced. The memorial says, in part: Whereas, this service has proven of inesti- mable value to the fruit growers of that sec- tion as a guide in the taking of measures for the prev
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