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VOL. XSTI
nOOD RIVERJOREGOX, THURSDAY, MAY 0, 191
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Horace W. Day, member of'the firm
of Sgobel & Day, who. with connec
tions abroad, opera1 e one of the largest
fruit distributing houses in New York
city, brought a message of optimism to
local fruit growers on his arrival here
last Thursday afternoon aboard the
Shasta Limited, which had been de
toured from San Francisco by way of
llgden on account of washouts on the
Southern t'acilic.
Mr. Day, who spends the larger por
tion of his time traveling over the
fruit districts not only of the United
States, but of the entire world, de
clares that he looks for good times
ahead next aeason for all fruit growers.
Speaking of general conditions in the
fruit industry and talking of his
month's visit in California Mr. Day,
who left Thursday night for Yakima,
said:
"1 left Sacramento Tuesday evening
in a pouring rain. It had been raining
steadily for two days and nights. This
rain followed a furious wind Btnrm,
and all fruit was pretty badly dam
aged. It was said that the wind caused
injury to the early varieties of cherries,
while the rain interfered with the rip
ening of the later varieties.
"Such conditions are very unfortun
ate for the growers; for the fruit has
been selling for large prices on the
New York markets. The first carload
of California cherries disposed of
brought $4, 3(H), and as late as last
Tuesduy 1 notice thHt some pony re
frigerators were delivered, the fruit
selling at from $3.50 to $5 per box.
"The California apricot crop was in
jured. Fears, too, fruit men told me,
were hurt; for this storm was the
worst May storm in the history of the
California fruit industry. Of course, it
is too early to make any predictions as
to the grape crop. However, the
grewers were needing sunshine very
badly, in order that they might apply
suplhur to prevent mildewing later in
the season. The crop of pears, as it
seems now, will be about three-fourths
that of last year. The shipments to
the east depend on the qauntity that
will be bought by canners, who on for
mer years have taken about a third of
the crop. When shipments to Europe
were curtailed a good deal of dried
friut was left in the hands of Califor
nia dealers. However, canned pears
were pretty well cleaned up. How
ever, financial powers, as was told me,
may not make allowances for handling
the near crop by canners, and the ship
ments to the east may equul, those of
last vear.
"Judging from the reports 1 receive,
the California grape crop will be about
65 per cent of last year, the plum
crop will run from 50 to 80 per cent,
owing to variety id locality."
Mr. Day says that he found the fruit
glowers in California in depressed
financial conditionsjand pessimistic.
I told them. he said, "that 1
looked for better things in all decidu
ous fruit markets, pointing out that
conditions were quite diflerent from
those of the beginning of the season
last year. Then the people were large
ly out of employment, while now all
over the east factories are running
night and day, turning out supplies
demanded by the warring nations.
Millions of dollars are being poured
into the country. The male members of
the ereat middle class, the largest con
sumers of fruit, are recieving from $3
to $5 per day.
"In my mind there are no shrewder
forcastera of events than the Wall
street manipulators, tor the last two
months this crowd has been building on
better conditions."
Mr. Day Bays that he has found no
apple growers more despondent than
those of the Pajaro Valley, Calif. The
Watsonville people, he said, recieved
most disastrous prices tne past season,
especially for friut shipped to England.
Nobody seemea to Know now me next
crop, which would not oe a large one,
would be disposed or.
When asked his opinion as to the out
look for northwestern apples, Mr. Day
said that in his opinion much larger
net returns would be received by the
growers next year.
"I base this judgment," he said,
"on the indications for a very light
crop, the general good financial condi
tions over the country and improved
marketing facilities."
When speaking of the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco, Mr. Day
waxes enthusiastic. "It is simply im
mense," he aays, "and yet with such
setting that one is not amazed and be
wildered. The architecture, the light
ing, the well proportioned spaces; I
shall never forgat how they charmed
me. I have been attending world fairs
since 1873, when 1 visited the exposi
tion at Paris, and none of them to me
have appeared in any way assplendid
as that at San Francisco.
"Because of former experiences at
fair cities, my son, Kenneth, who ac
companied me, and I expected to get
stung on every corner. However, the
reasonableness of all charges, hotel,
transportation and restaurant, were
most agreeably surprising. Don't hang
back in going to San Francisco because
you expect it to cost you exorbitant
prices. Why there are thousands of
jitney automobile busses that will
carry you over the city for a nickel.
"1 am advising everybody to see the
fair. It will be worth the price be
cause of its educational value."
Mr. Dav said that he closely inspect
ed the big red apple exhibited by the
Hood River vallev.
"The man who thought of that idea
deserves great credit," he said. "The
bis apple looms up so that it can be
teen afar, and it attracts attention
heard dozens of people extoling Hood
River because of it.
kill" and "little leaf," says The Dalles
Chronicle.
"After an investigation of the condi
tions, in the Mill creek district," says
Dr. M scrum, "1 would advise the fol
lowing procedure. That land which is
planted to trees in the fall, which has
been new ly cleared, be planted to corn
or potatoes the first summer after hav
ing le moved all of the rcots of the
aboriginal forest as thoroughly as pos
sible. "Before planting to trees in the fall
1 would recommend that where each
tree ia to be planted that a hole be put
down with a dirt augur to a depth of
four feet below the surface and a tttck
of 1!0 per cent powder be placed in the
hole in the approved way and tired to
thoroughly break up the subsoil.
"I would also recommend that the
old orchards in this district be treated
in the following manner: With the dirt
augur start a hole at the top of the
ground six feet away from the tree,
inclined in such a manner that the bot
tom of the hole will be two feet closer
the tree at the bottom. This hole
should be bored on the up-hill side of
the tree which is leceivmg attention to
BERRY HARVEST
IS UNDER WAY
ASSOCIATION SHIPS CAR LOADS
Transient Pickers ICrowd Community
Davidson Says Cool Weather Retard
ing Crop is Bene6cia!
a depth of about four feet. In this
hole put a charge of 20 per cent pow
der and blast. Investigation has proved
that in old orchards at a depth of about
three to four feet the ground is packed
very hard which excludes moisture and
air and prevents the roots from extend
ing downward all they should."
Mr. Macrum explained that the soil
in this district is of heavy mineral coin
position and consequently ' packs very
easily. Me said that this could be
easily demonstrated by taking two
glasses of water and in one mixing
with the water a quantity of the vol
canic or mineral soil, general in the
orchards here, and in the other mix
some black silt or clay soil and note
how much quicker the mineral soil will
settle to the bettom of the glass and
the water become clear. He also em
phasized the fact that no new orchards
should be planted unless the holes, in
which the trees are to be plahted, are
blasted.
"For the treatment of the winter kill
and little leaf found in the Mill Creek
Valley and other districts," he contin
ued, "cut back the trees at least one
half of last year's growth and do the
shooting of the ground spoken of about
the last of July or the first of August,
when the ground is dry. Do not shoot
the ground when it is wet, as that will
cause it to pack.
"If all of the trees are treated with
the shouting system, this will break up
the subsoil crust in such a manner that
no more blasting will have to be done
for a couple of years. After two years
it would be advisable to again use pow
der, but this time in the center of the
squares between the trees. In this
manner the whole orchard would be
thoroughly subsoiled with the powder
and loosened so as to be in the bust
possible condition to conserve moisture
and allow the roots to extend down
ward. "It is probable that the planting of
orchards will soon be renewed in The
Dalles district, and it should be done
properly at the start. And every tree
should have a plaoe basted for it in or
der to promote rapid and healthy
growth. i
"The soil in this district is naturally
rich in minerals, but is deficient in hu
mus. Cover crops of rye and vetch
should be raised in the orchards to fur
nish the humus and nitrogen. These
cover crops should be alternated every
four years with 'cowhorn' turnips to
unlock the inorganic potash and phos
phorus ii ml put them in a soluble or or
angic form, because fruit trees cannot
use anything but soluble food.
"For the best and quickest results In
the use of vetch as a nitrogenizer 1
would advise all growers send to the
experiment station of the Oregon Agri
cultural College at Cor va Ilia for cul
tures of the vetch bacteria and inocu
late their seed with it before planting,
because it will produce the same result
from thiB inoculation in one year, as
can be obtained by planting without
inoculation in three yeaia. The agri
cultural college will furnish the cul
tures to any grower with instructions
how to use, without charge."
Dr. Macrum was accompanied by C.
M. Grimes, a retired capitalist of The
Dalles, who takes considerable interest
in this work. County Judge Cunning
had planned to accompany the party,
but legal business matters at the court
huuse prevented him.
Dr. Macrum stated upon his return
that these facts are applicable to somu
sections of the Moiser and Hood River
valleys.
CINCINNATI PARTY
GIVEN JOY RIDE
Star Grocery, Perigo & Son
DR. MACRUM GIVES
ORCIIARDISTS ADVICE
Dr. C. A. Macrum, of Mosier, mem
ber of the state board of horticulture
! for this district, recently made a trip
through the Mill creek valley to find
lout, if possible, the cause of what the
growers in that district call "winter
Arriving here Monday afternoon at
ISO o'clock by boat, a party of over
100 Cincinnati people, for the most part
members of the Hetail Grocers Associ
ation of that city, was met at the Keg
ualtor line boat landing by a train of
automobiles and taken on a tour of
the valley, going out over the East
Side and returning over the West Side.
The junketers were returned to Port
land after their motor trip by a special
train on the O.-W. K. N. line. All
expressed their delight at the scenery
along the Columbia gorge and of the
beauties of the Hood Kiver valley.
Those furnishing machines were:
H. F. Davidson, A. W. Stone, Apple
Growers Association runabout, DN G
Ciuikshank. F. P. Friday. W. B. Dick
erson, Martin Dragseth, J. K. Nuna-
maker, W. K. Collie. A. Canlield, W
F. Laraway. E.W. Birge, F. 11. Black
man, L. E. Clark, L. C. Heizer, W. E.
King, Louis Plog, A. W. Peters, E. L.
McCiain, Joe Vogt, E. A. Franz.'Dr.
r. c. tirostus, J. K. Kinsey, A. C
Lofts, Fruit Growers Exchange tour
ing car, A. 1. Mason, E. U. blanchar,
P. S. Davidson, Dr. H. L. Duuible, C
J. Calkins, F. H. Button, Ralph Root,
It. d. Early and r. A. Massee.
Secretary Scott, of the Commercial
club, who arranged for the entertain
merit of the visitors while here, stated
that hereafter the club would not give
free rides to excursion parties.
"If the railway companies choose to
send junketers here, he says, with
the idea that we shall give them rides
over the valley, we will demand that
they attach coupons to such excursion
tickets, making a charge of $1.25 to
cover cost of transportation around the
valley
Heavy Rainfall Sunday Night
An unusually heavy rain fell over
the valley Sunday night. E. W. Birge,
cooperative U. S. weather observer of
Edgewood Faim, on the West Side,
reports a precipitation of four-tunths of
an inch.
The strawberry harvest ia on in full
blast. As twilight settles down over
the valley, and Mount Hood begins to
show witchlike in the last glamour of
the sun as it sinks in the Pacific, scores
of vehicles, wagons drawn by one and
two horses, buggies and automobiles,
may be seen moving toward the city,
all carriyng a burden of luscious Clark
Seedlings. Since last week the streets
have taken on the usual activity at
tendant an berry harvest season. The
hundreds of pickers may be seen con
gregated on street corners. Bevies of
Indians, bucks, squaws and papooses,
have sat and chattered on curb stones,
hulling parched peanuts or eating
bright colored candy.
No small commotion was created on
Oak street last Thursday afternoon.
when thre young ladies, neatly attired
in blouses, and overalls, walked, ap
parently unselfconscious, down the
sidewalk. They had no trouble in se
curing places as pickers.
the first carload of fruit sent out
from the valley this season was routed
east last Thursday evening by the Ap
ple Growers Association.
An unusual sight was seen in the city
last Friday afternoon. A big Indian
man, accompanied by'two squaws, hired
a double-seated rig from the Fashion
stable shortly after noon, explaining
that they wanted to take a ride over
the valley. The three'returned to the
city in the course of a couple of hours,
and the horses alone were sober. They
had evidently secured. a quart of liquor
at The Dalles, and when the horses
pulled their rig again into the stable
all three were having "heap big
dreams."
While the bloom of the berry fields
has not been as hesvy this year the
wsather conditions have been better
for s good yield and those who have
looked aver the fruit tracts predict that
the yield will be all that can be ex
pected. The name of the Apple Growers As
sociation will be burned in all cups
handled by that agency. The crates
will besr the famous "Blue Diamond"
label.
The plant of the Hood River Canning
Co. is being rapidly made ready to
handle the year's strawberry crop.
New machinery has been installed. A
new receiving platform has been built
and a new shed to be used for the stor
age of empty rases has been erected at
the west end of the csnnlng plant.
The name of the company was re
cently changed from the Cloud-Newton
Co., Mr. Newton hawing retired from
the business. The authorized capital
stock was also increased from 10,000
to Ji5,0U0.
T he Fruit Growers Exchange is now
making daily shipments of strawber
ries. A bulletin issued by the Ex
change follows:
"the opening price was S3. 50 per
crate, f. o. b., and we have been ship
ping on firm orders since the opening
until now, when the quotation is $2.60.
Wo have been conflicting with the Ken-
newick berries, while in ordinary years
these berries are off the market before
ours come on.
"However, we have found no cause
for alarm, or losing our heads by con
signing our berries, and our orders
have been coming in so rapidly that we
have been unable to nil them all.
Strawberry growers, please keep in
close touch with the office at all times.
We have established firm connec
tion with the trade as far eaBt as Chi
cago, with the intention of selling all
our small fruit at a profit and will han
dle the dircet saleB, as we are doing
the strawbberries, without the aid of a
central selling agency, except in car
load lots.
H. F. Davidson states that the recent
cool and rainy weather has been of the
greatest benefit to Hood Kiver straw
berry growers, since it has retarded
the maturity of the fruit.
Mr. Davidson says: "The Hood River
crop is two weeks earlier than normal.
Despite the heavy rains and the wash
outs on railways, California has been
shipping carloads of fruit into Spo
kane, Seattle and Portland and other
northwestern markets. Several days
supply sometimes arrives on a single
train.
"In normal seasons the Louisana and
Arkansas fruit is all marketed before
the Hood Kiver product begins to roll
in carload lots. The Missouri crop is
likewise cleaned up. The marketing
of fruit from these districts dues not
interfere with local ("shipments to Colo
rado, Nebraska and Montana. At the
present time, however, Arkansas ber
ries are arriving in Montana points
and are selling at prices that should be
received for Hood Kiver fruit at Hood
Kiver. The Arkansas and Missouri
crates contain each 24 full quart boxes.
"While our crop is early this season,
the Missouri crop is just beginning to
move. Early shipments will be on the
market this week. The districts there
raise two varieties, Klondikes and Aro
mas. On a normal season the fruit is
markted over a period of three weeks.
"The Kennewick crop this year ia
one of the largest in the history of that
district."
RAND NOW MANAGES
ASHLAND ASSOCIATION
D. E. Rand, who for the past seven
years has been connected with the
fruit business at Hood River, has left
for Ashland, with Mrs. Rand, to as
sume the management of the Ashland
Fruit & Produce Association, succeed
ing A. P. SprBgue, formerly a resident
of Hood River. Mr. Sprague was con
nected with the Hood River Apple
Growers Union one year.
Mr. Rand for five years was shipping
clerk and assistant manager of the
Davidson Fruit Co. For the past two
years he has been shipping clerk and in
charge of the stores and Buppliea of the
Apple Growers Association.
Harry Farrell will succeed Mr. Rand
as shipping clerk and storekeeper at
the Association offices.
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