. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 42 BETTER FRUIT Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON D. F. Fisher, plant pathologist and C. A. Reed, nut expert, both of whom are connected with the United States Agricultural Depart- ment report that damage to orchards and fruits generally in Marion County from cold vcallicr is not as great as first "thought and that in most instances the trees harmed will lecovcr during the next few months. Mr. I'ishcr and Mr. Reed will spend two months in examining orchards in various parts of the slate. An unnftlcial report from Marion County is to the e
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 42 BETTER FRUIT Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON D. F. Fisher, plant pathologist and C. A. Reed, nut expert, both of whom are connected with the United States Agricultural Depart- ment report that damage to orchards and fruits generally in Marion County from cold vcallicr is not as great as first "thought and that in most instances the trees harmed will lecovcr during the next few months. Mr. I'ishcr and Mr. Reed will spend two months in examining orchards in various parts of the slate. An unnftlcial report from Marion County is to the efTccI that loganberry growers there have been offered 10 cents a pound on contract for their fruit for the coming season. Few of these contracts it is said are being signed as growers expect an unprecedented demand foi these berries this year. One large grower is leported to have set the price for his loganber- ries at LS cents per pound and states that he will not dispose of them for less. Shortage of water to irrigate the rapidly in- creasing fruit crops in the Ashland district is called attention to in the Ashland Tidings, which says that there should be no further planting in that district until growers are as- sured of sufflcient irrigation to mature their crops. A conference of fruit growers in that district has been planned to discuss the situa- tion with a view to taking steps to secure a large/ supply of water for irrigation. The capital stock of the Eugene Fruit Grow- ers' Association was recenllv increased from .? to ?250,n00 at a meeting of the stock- holders. The association, which operates a large fruit packing warehouse, a cannery, vine- gar factory, ice plant, box factory, fruit evapo- rator, and ice cream making plant in Eugene, has liesides canneries at .tunction City and Crosvell. It has 781 stockholders and did a business during the past year of ?949, A further examination of Hood River or- chards by Leroy Childs, chief of the experi- ment stat
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