Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-08-08
Special Fruit Report

reports received from our cores
pcn1ents throughout the state, it
appears that the fruit crop is very /
large compared with previous years,
and more fruit is being shipped
from tile state. In many sections
fruitgrowers' associations, have
been formed, whereby consideration
of those subjects vital to the growth,
preservation and sale of fruit has
incurred to the general good of the
community by stimulating interes,
in fruitgrowing by dissemination
of knowledge of fruit and fruit
growth. By united effort OIL the
part of the members who compose
the fruitgrowcrs' association, or
union, markets have been secured
for the fruit OF a community when
previous to the organization of the
society little or no sale could be
had. Our correspondent from
Roseburg, Douglas county, writes:
Through the efforts of new fruit
union, which has just been estab-
lished, larger shipments of green
fruit are insured for the future;
fruit shipments are larger than they
have been in former years.
Peaches are ripe and plentiful, and
their quality is considered very
good. A disease known as "curl
leaf has everything to do with the
success and failure of the peach
crop. In cool, cloudy sections tits
E extremely difficult to successfully
raise fruit crop. owing to this
r detect. However, some excellent
q peaches have been produced in the
L northern sections of the Willamette
valley and even in the coast dis
o tricts, the sections most subjected
to failure. At Albany the Alex
:. andef variety of peach is abundant
u also at Lyons, In Linn county, tho
e the peaches are of poor quality, bu
n the trees are so full that il has be
n come necessary to prop up thu
', branches to preserve the tree
Peaches are scarce i'll Marion, Yam
NJ hill. Washington, Columbia ant
Multnomah counties, while il
Clackamas county, at Liberal, tn
,s .n peach crop is the best for man
,g Years. In Douglas and Josephin
ne ne counties the crop of peaches
a light. Apples and pears are rip
,S ~ in abundance, and the prospect fo
be an abundant harvest of all apples
DC ,, good. Apples are large and quit
We free from worms. While the aphi
ea ea and other fruit insects are preser
ID, in the orchards, they have bee
,,, o., kept within safe bounds, and al
of becoming less numerous. A CORES
ca ca pendent stated that when ii
of warnings Of the proper authorize
,as ,s (meaning the Oregon State Hort
nd cultural Society have been heede
M NJ. the complaints Of damage done b
zen insects are less frequent. There
It's IT. large crop of plums of superic
he quality. Prunes are doing wei
ts rs Italian prunes promise full GRO
he and the petites are sustaining the
,,a d. established reputation as stror
to bearers. Of all the fruits, Il
m {" prune is the most successful th
sSason. Tie pune cfopls reports
as heavy and above the average
.o OF all sections, and quite free fro
rds damage by insects. A correspo
oa, ., dent from Jacksonville reports Il
al. prune crop in his section as havit
The suffered somewhat from scale al
Ter. moth, and also damaged by Il
as, .aS spring frosts, but this conditic
his does not apply to the crop general
',''l 'aa 1t is the general impression til
prn the shipments Of dried prunes W
Tor. be in excess of former years by
per cent. A change most pote
nt' in the disposing Of the fruit crop
for the amount Of green and dried fri
prepared for market. Grapes a
/. extensively cultivated in the sout
ing ern counties, and the crop promis
axe large yield Of superior qualit