. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. .-tit gust, 1920 BETTER FRUIT Page 23 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There The cherry crop at Mosier this year is re- ported to have been above the average in quan- tity and of fine quality. A large tonnage of the Douglas County prune crop is said to have been contracted at 16 cents a pound. The longest orchard in the world is stated to be that of the Dufur Land and Orchard Com- pany, seven miles from The Dalles. The orchard, which is largely apples, is nine miles in length and occupies 5,000 acres. A. small shipment of Gravenstein apples which arrived on th
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. .-tit gust, 1920 BETTER FRUIT Page 23 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There The cherry crop at Mosier this year is re- ported to have been above the average in quan- tity and of fine quality. A large tonnage of the Douglas County prune crop is said to have been contracted at 16 cents a pound. The longest orchard in the world is stated to be that of the Dufur Land and Orchard Com- pany, seven miles from The Dalles. The orchard, which is largely apples, is nine miles in length and occupies 5,000 acres. A. small shipment of Gravenstein apples which arrived on the market in Portland from The Dalles July 15 is said to have broken the record for early fall apples. Veteran fruit dealers said that they had never seen this variety of Oregon apple on the market at this season of the year before. D F. Fisher, plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, who was assigned by the department to make an investigation of winter injury to fruit trees in the various sections of the Willamette Valley, recently stated that orchards in Marion County had made an excellent recovery since he first examined them in February. While some of the varieties of fruit trees that were injured will have to be taken out, the greater part can be saved by careful treatment, Marion County growers were warned by Mr. Fisher that winter-injured wood is subject to heart rot and advised the careful protection of all pruning wounds and cracks in the bark. Cherry growers in the Willamette Valley sus- tained a considerable loss due to a rain in July, which fell for the greater part of a week in that section, causing the fruit to split and mak- ing it unsalable. Bings and Lamberts were the varieties that suffered the most damage. Some of the canneries continued to accept fruit that was not too badly injured. A large part of the crop had been picked and marketed before the rains came. The prices received by most of the growers was 13 cents per pound. In the
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