. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. April, 1922 BETTER FRUIT Page Twemty-nine T ESS THAN 10 per cent of the 1921 fruit pack of Salem canneries remains in hands of the packers, according to late estimates. The pack of the year, said to have been the largest in the history of Marion county, is placed at 450,000 cases. Salem boasts that its pack was one-sixth that of the entire Northwest. The pack of the state of Oregon is estimated to have been 1,304,- 548 cases. AAA TTOOp RIVER interests report that more than nne-lnlf of the 500,000 boxes of apples shipped by water to England this season from Pnrtli
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. April, 1922 BETTER FRUIT Page Twemty-nine T ESS THAN 10 per cent of the 1921 fruit pack of Salem canneries remains in hands of the packers, according to late estimates. The pack of the year, said to have been the largest in the history of Marion county, is placed at 450,000 cases. Salem boasts that its pack was one-sixth that of the entire Northwest. The pack of the state of Oregon is estimated to have been 1,304,- 548 cases. AAA TTOOp RIVER interests report that more than nne-lnlf of the 500,000 boxes of apples shipped by water to England this season from Pnrtlind and Seattle were supplied by the Apple Growers' Association and Dan Wuille & Co. The 's direct tonnage amounted to 150,000 boxes, while that of Dan Wuille & Co., aggre- gated 124,000 boxes, assembled from Hood River, White Salmon and Underwood, Wash. In addi- tion to these the Oregon Growers' Co-Operative Association supplied considerable tonnage. AAA T OGANBERRY pool No. 1 for dried logans has been closed by the Willamette Valley Prune Association, on the basis of cents a pound. This is on the basis of 4^ to 5 cents a pound for the fresh fruit, according to T. Jenks, manager of the association. AAA l^GUR CARLOADS of prunes, valued at $32,000 and produced in one orchard, were recently shipped from Eugene by the Oregon Co-Operative Growers* Association. They were sent by rail to New York, whence they will be shipped to Europe. The prunes were grown and evaporated on the orchard of Dr. L. D. Scarborough, at Cresswell, Ore. AAA OREGON At ROSEBURG last month the Umpqua Prune Company was organized to develop dUe prune orchards. The first experiments are to be made on 320 acres of land acquired In the Upper Umpqua Valley. R. M. Knight, successful prune grower of Day's Creek, has been chosen vice- president and will serve as superintendent. G. Archer Lindsay of Portland Is president; M. McDonald, Orenco, is secretary-tre^urer and the other d
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