. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT May, 1920 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. Prices for canning cherries were fixed at The Dalles April 17, when a contract was closed be- tween the local cherry growers' union and the Libby, McNeil & Libby Canning Company, at 15 cents per pound. J. D. Riggs, manager of the cherry growers' union estimates that the crop of cherries at The Dalles this year w ill be 1,000 tons. Pools recently closed on several varieties of apples handled by the Hood River Apple Grow- ers' Association show that the high and low prices received
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT May, 1920 Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There OREGON. Prices for canning cherries were fixed at The Dalles April 17, when a contract was closed be- tween the local cherry growers' union and the Libby, McNeil & Libby Canning Company, at 15 cents per pound. J. D. Riggs, manager of the cherry growers' union estimates that the crop of cherries at The Dalles this year w ill be 1,000 tons. Pools recently closed on several varieties of apples handled by the Hood River Apple Grow- ers' Association show that the high and low prices received were as follows: Jonathans, i« and ?; Delicious, * and $; Northern Spy, and $; Wageners, $ and $ A local nurseryman at Hood River reports that a 200-pound shipment of seedlings that be- fore the war cost $25, according to present prices for nursery stock, cost him $536. Not- withstanding this big increase it is claimed by some of the leading nurserymen that stock for planting has not yet reached the maximum figure. Although loganberry prices are soaring the Salem Statesman, which has been keeping close watch on ofi'ers that are being received for these berries at the hub of this industr- says that it has beeu unable to find that moi ; than 12 cents has been actually offered for loganber- ries this year. Predictions are being freely made, however, that they will go to 14 cents before the season is over. While the prospect for record prices for "logans" seems bright, some of the larger and older growers say that it will hurt the industry to boost the price so high that they will be out of reach of the con- sumer. A new feature that is reported to have been injected Into the loganberry industry this vear is the arrival on the coast of eastern buy- ers who are said to be buying these berries to be packed in barrels and shipped to the At- lantic coast in refrigerator cars to be processed in the east. Rerry growers generally believe that
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