. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page iS BETTER FRUIT March, ip2i 000,000 pounds will be needed. This would fill 150 cars, carrying 30 tons to the car, or three solid trains. If apple boxes sell at 20 cents apiece this year the growers will have to pay $2,400,000, lint if they only bring 18 cents, as some author- ities predict, the cost to the growers will be about $2,000,000. Paper at 15 cents a pound will cost $90,000. With approximately 100 delegates present the eleventh annual convention of the Western Washington Horticultural Association opened at Port Angeles February 11. The visitors were
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page iS BETTER FRUIT March, ip2i 000,000 pounds will be needed. This would fill 150 cars, carrying 30 tons to the car, or three solid trains. If apple boxes sell at 20 cents apiece this year the growers will have to pay $2,400,000, lint if they only bring 18 cents, as some author- ities predict, the cost to the growers will be about $2,000,000. Paper at 15 cents a pound will cost $90,000. With approximately 100 delegates present the eleventh annual convention of the Western Washington Horticultural Association opened at Port Angeles February 11. The visitors were welcomed to the city by Secretary W. H. Tay- lor of the commercial club, response being made by Charles W. Orton of Sumner. An interesting feature of the session was Profes- sor J. L. Stahl's reminiscences of horticulture in the Northwest. The Bing cherry and Island Belle grape were named as distinctively North- west products, having originated here. Mr. St:i lil also told of how the berry industry got its start in the Puyallup-Sumner district in 1885. Cherry culture, by C. E. Fitzgerald of Ferndale, and gooseberry culture by F. H. Burglehaus of Sumner, were features of the afternoon program. Solid train load apple shipments were re- sumed out of the Wenatchee district on Febru- ary 19 for the first time since Christmas. The first train to leave this year consisted of 57 cars. Up to that date 7,900 cars had been shipped from Wenatchee with 1,000 cars still to be shipped. The total crop from the district is offi- cially estimated at 9,500 cars. In addition to this, 1,304 cars of summer fruit were shipped, making total fruit shipments 10,804 cars, val- ued at about $16,000,000, compared with 13,700 cars shipped last year, which returned the growers about $22,500,000. A report from Wenatchee is to the effect that as a result of the visit there of Aaron Sapiro. organizer of cooperative associations of San Francisco, announcement is made that H. G. Bohlke has resigned as manager of
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