The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-04-09
In THE FIELD OF news
Reports From Various Districts Regard
Ing Fruit and Hops.
ROY STARK'S BODY AT REST AT LAST
Account of the Moore.smith We'd
ding-musicar service at 80. Mich
aei,s-News of Former yakimans.
--Olde Folkes Concert.

b. L. Eglin says that the frost and cold
nights have not injured the fruit Of the
Ahtanum.
Harry Roberts, of Tainpico, has plowed
up his hop yard, and A. ID. Eglin, Il. G..
Eglin and Jack Shaw are reducing their
acreage.
Hon. George Taylor says that the
fruit of the Selah and adjoining neigh
borhoods was not sufficiently advanced
to be injured by the recent cold nights.
A. P. Dudley, foreman OF G. 2. Will
cox's Parker fruit ranch reports that the
peach buds are pretty well killed by the
frost and that the same condition exists
regarding about 80 per cent. Of the silver
prunes.
While too early to give definite figures
as some growers are still on the fence re-
garding the disposition OF their yards,
Mr.. A. b. Weed is of the opinion that
about 1000 acres OF Yakima hops will
either be turned under or left uncultivat-
ed this year.
j. M. Kincaid, who is the pioneer fruit
grower OF the Natcheez, believes the fruit
of that district is unframed. He says in
previous years, where the frost has come
late, that the apples OF his orchard have
suffered to some extent, while the cher
ries have escaped uninjured.
G. p. Wilcox left this week for Salem,
Oregon, to inspect the fruit evaporators
OF that locality with a view to building a
new one, of the most approved pattern,
on his Par ker Bottom ranch. Stone for
the foundation of the evaporator has al
ready been hauled to the site selected.
Robert Scott says that when he learned
that the hop markets of the world were
practically controlled by ten men or firms
and that they could combine at any time
to send the prices down it settled the
status of the hop with him and he pro-
ceeded to pillow up his upper yard of eight
acres.
Robert Scott has plowed up eight acres
of hops and is setting out 500 peach trees
of the choicest varieties and 500 winter
apples. Mr.. Scott says the fruit in bis
neighborhood is uninjured, not even the
apricots being blighted. Mr.. Sinclair
brings in similar report from his Sec
ton.
Phil Neis, the well. known hop buyer
has returned to Puyallup from Salem, Or,
and announces as his conclusions that
hop cultivation in the Northwest is a
thing of the past. He says that i'll the
Salem district, where they cropped $1,000
acres in 1895, there will not be 1900 acres
cultivated this year.
j. Flint was in the city Monday and
in conversation with HERALD represent
tative said that the cold snap of March
Both was very severe on the Crawford
peach buds, both early and late, in the
Parker district. The thermometer drop
ped to IL below freezing, and In the opin-
ion of himself and Mr.. Fred Thompson
the Crawfords are pretty well cleaned
out. "It always looks darkest" he add
ed, "just after the cold spell and last year
l did not anticipate harvesting more than
a thousand boxes of peaches from my or
chard, while as fact the yield was be
tween ten and twelve thousand boxes.
l expect about half crop taking all va.
rieties into calculation"