. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. December, 191Q Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen and Fruit Growing Gerald Da Costa, of London, who has been receiving Hood River apples for sale in Eng- land for the past nine years writes Bettur Fruit that the market for Pacific Northwest fruits is ruling high at the present time. Mr. Da Costa savs that two cars of California Cornice pears in half boxes recently sold in London for 20 to 24 shillings a box, and that a car of D'Anjou pears from the Rogue River valley sold for 32 to 36 shillings per box. Oregon Newtowns, according to Mr. Da Costa are expected to bring aro
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. December, 191Q Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen and Fruit Growing Gerald Da Costa, of London, who has been receiving Hood River apples for sale in Eng- land for the past nine years writes Bettur Fruit that the market for Pacific Northwest fruits is ruling high at the present time. Mr. Da Costa savs that two cars of California Cornice pears in half boxes recently sold in London for 20 to 24 shillings a box, and that a car of D'Anjou pears from the Rogue River valley sold for 32 to 36 shillings per box. Oregon Newtowns, according to Mr. Da Costa are expected to bring around 20 shillings a box. BETTER FRUn Page 31 J. A. Campbell, assistant director of tlie horticultural division, Department of Horti- culture, of Wellington, New Zealand, was an interesting visitor at the office of Betieb Fruit recently. Mr. Campbell was in the Northwest studying the methods in use by fruitgrowers, and frankly stated that the Aus- tralian states expected to become keen com- petitors of the Pacific Northwest in the Euro- pean fruit markets, and also to make an at- tempt to establish markets for fruit in the United States. Tasmania recently shipped 40,000 cases of jam to this country, and it is reported tliat other shipments will follow. Two large bears were recently killed in a Hood River orchard. The animals had been feeding on the fruit for some time, causing considerable destruction to the Of the 2,000,000 boxes of apples shipped out of the Hood River valley this year, it is estimated that 1,900,000 of them were hauled to the valley shipping points in motor trucks. The California Walnut Growers' Association sold 23,000 tons of walnuts within 36 hours after the opening prices were announced, and within three days had to decline orders aggre- gating 93 carloads more, despite heavy im- portations of nuts from abroad. The associa- tion put on a nationwide advertising campaign tlirough the national journals to reach the consumer. According to historical data
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