. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT September, 1920 H. A. Glen, agent of the Northern Pacific at Yakima, has completed his estimate of lead- ing crops of the Yakima valley which will require refrigerator car service. Mr. Glen . says there will be 150 cars of peaches this year, as compared with last year; 425 cars of melons and cantaloupes as compared with 400; 500 cars of mixed fruit as compared with 350; between 10,000 and 11,000 carloads of apples as compared with 11,540 carloads last season. Mr. Glen's apple estimate is gen- erally accepted with surprise. Most orchard-
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 BETTER FRUIT September, 1920 H. A. Glen, agent of the Northern Pacific at Yakima, has completed his estimate of lead- ing crops of the Yakima valley which will require refrigerator car service. Mr. Glen . says there will be 150 cars of peaches this year, as compared with last year; 425 cars of melons and cantaloupes as compared with 400; 500 cars of mixed fruit as compared with 350; between 10,000 and 11,000 carloads of apples as compared with 11,540 carloads last season. Mr. Glen's apple estimate is gen- erally accepted with surprise. Most orchard- ists had believed the crop this year would be far less than that a year ago, but Mr. Glen explains the fruit will be larger and there will be fewer culls, though probably not so many apples. Many Washington shippers are said to be already making preparations to secure space in refrigerated steamships sailing from Seattle to New York, via the Panama canal. In case the full increases in freight rates granted to the railroads stay in effect, it is claimed apples can be shipped much more cheaply by steamer through the canal than by rail. The Wenatchee section of the Spokane fruit district, comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas and Grant counties, will produce only 9533 carloads of apples in 1920, compared with cars raised last year, according to Dis- trict Horticultural Inspector P. S. Darlington's estimate recently completed. Virtually every portion of the district shows a decrease. We- natchee and vicinity, which last year grew 3825 cars of apples, will have only 2050 this year. Cashmere shows an increase from 1392 cars last year to 1500, forecast for 1920. Omak shipped 663 cars last year and will have only 450 this year. Okanogan drops from 330 to 290', Brewster from 332 to 250, Entiat from 577 to 450, Pateros from 440 to 275, Olds from 828 to 600, Dryden from 480 to 350 and Peshas- tin from 460 to 350, according to the estimate. Monitor indicates a slight increase from 6
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