. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 8 pears. In the western Okanogan irriga- tion district, extending from above Oro- ville to Tonasket, about 500 acres of summer fruit will be set out this year. This new planting is being done under contract with the Puyallup & Summer Fruit Growers' Canning Company of Puyallup. This company will establish a shipping station at Oroville and Ton- from where the fruit will be sent to the main cannery at Puyallup. Straw- berries, tomatoes, and other small fruits and vegetables will be planted between the rows of trees for the first few years. The total
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 8 pears. In the western Okanogan irriga- tion district, extending from above Oro- ville to Tonasket, about 500 acres of summer fruit will be set out this year. This new planting is being done under contract with the Puyallup & Summer Fruit Growers' Canning Company of Puyallup. This company will establish a shipping station at Oroville and Ton- from where the fruit will be sent to the main cannery at Puyallup. Straw- berries, tomatoes, and other small fruits and vegetables will be planted between the rows of trees for the first few years. The total area of orchards in the We- natchee district is 35,000 acres, most of which is now in bearing, and divided among the counties as follows: Chelan county, 17,360 acres; Okanogan county, 8,480 acres; Douglas county, 6,350 acres; Grant county, 3,500 acres. Over 30,000 acres of this is in apples, which is the staple fruit crop of this district. This comparatively small area produced over 12 per cent of the entire commer- cial apple crop of the United States in 1919, and about 10 per cent of the en- tire commercial apple crop in the coun- try in 1920. About one-third of the total amount of boxed apples grown in the United States are produced and shipped out of the Wenatchee district annually. The total money value of the 1919 fruit crop in the district was $22,500,- 000, or an average yield of about $700 per acre, which is said to be the largest financial income per acre from any simi- lar area of land in the entire world. The 1920 fruit crop returned to the growers less than $15,000,000, owing to the de- creased volume and lower prices re- ceived. For the 1921 fruit crop, 60,000,000 feet of lumber will be required to make boxes. This is equal to the total timber yield of twenty sections of eastern. Northwest Orchard Ladders "The Quality Line" For Sale by Leading Dealers Everywhere Northwest Fence and Wire Works PORTLAND, OREGON BETTER FRUIT Washington pine land, or six se
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