. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 22 BETTER FRUIT September, 1920 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON Hood River apple growers figure that the increase in freight rates will cost that section an additional s200,000 this year. The increase will apply to about 75 per cent of the crop from that district which will move to points east of the Mississippi river and also to ship- ments that will go to California. The sale of the J. D. Housley pear orchard at Medford to County Pathologist C. C. Cate is reported. The orchard consists of 40 acres in pears in a fine state of cultivation an
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 22 BETTER FRUIT September, 1920 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON Hood River apple growers figure that the increase in freight rates will cost that section an additional s200,000 this year. The increase will apply to about 75 per cent of the crop from that district which will move to points east of the Mississippi river and also to ship- ments that will go to California. The sale of the J. D. Housley pear orchard at Medford to County Pathologist C. C. Cate is reported. The orchard consists of 40 acres in pears in a fine state of cultivation and the sale price as announced is $23,000. Another sale of orchard property in the Rogue River valley recently of more than usual interest was the transfer of the Austin Corbin ranch near Eagle Point to Fred C. Bell, a Chicago capitalist. The Corbin ranch consists of 250 acres, 49 of which are in pears, 71 in apples and l!0 in grain. The remainder is in meadow and woodland. The sale price was $;. according to the reports from that section. Mr. Bell, it is stated, expects to manage the ranch personally. Two Royal Anne cherry trees at Roseburg, Oregon, are said to have netted their owners ¥250 for theii fruit this season. According to the announcement of a local fruit buyers at Salem, the loganberry crop within a radius of ten miles of that city amounted to 0,000,000 pounds of berries and should return to the growers at the prevailing price of 13 cents per pound approximately Reports from The Dalles are to the effect that there has been a very marked recovery by the orchards in that section from the ef- fects of the extreme cold of the past winter and that the damage was practically limited to cherry trees. It is estimated that $40,000 will be distrib- uted this year among the farmers and or- chardists in the Hermiston district from honey sales. The bees, to produce this honey, were pastured on the alfalfa fields and orchards in the Umatilla project in thi
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