The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-06-20
Strawberry Notes.

The price OF strawberries Thursday,
as we 90 to press, ranges IRON $l.2o 10
| 81 crate, according toquality. Berries
! from the mountain patches, where pick
ing has just commenced, are coming IN
| in fine shape and command the highest
price. Owing to the absence of Mr..
Palmer, former night operator at the
depot, the Glacier failed to get report
Of the shipments for the week.
n. c. Evans place is among the earli-
est for berries in Hood River. His first
crate this season sold for $3.50, and he
had marketed 900 crates before the
price dropped below So. When asked
| the average price of his 900 crates, he
said he didn't want to make statement
for publication that he told r. G. Jud-
son one time that his crop netted him
one season is cents a pound. He cleaned
up from one acre Of ground that season
5000. This statement was published in
the o. r. & n. Co.'S literature and went
| all over the country, and some people
might have thought he prevaricated.
Judge Henry finished picking and
shipping his strawberry crop last Satur
day. His two town lots and not quite
half a lot turned off 50h crates. This is
at the rate of about 200 crates to the
acre. On the balance of his block of land
he has other fruit, such as blackberries,
cherries, peaches and pears, from
which he will have as much income as
he derives from his strawberries. This
shows what can be done on small
piece of ground in Hood River.
Uncle Billy Ellis growed the berries,
20 crates, that were shipped by the
Davidson Fruit Co. on the steamer to
China. Uncle Billy has fine patch of
berries. He counted l42 berries on one
hill.
The Goddard ranch shipped its first
consignment of berries on Monday, be-
ing the product of plants set on April
2lst of this year.
+. G. Church, on Monday picked 81
crates of Strawberries from his
patch OF IL acres. 1t is estimated
that his l = acres will yield 400 crates.
His berries are large and fine. The
Union paid him So for crate Monday,
that went to Portland for a banquet to
the Mystic Shriners. Each box of the
crate contained only three tiers of ber-
ries, or 27 berries to the pound.
Mrs. Ida Frohn, who has the reputa-
ton OF being one OF the swiftest berry
packers in the valley, packed 20 crates
and six boxes, last Saturday afternoon,
on f. Il. Church's place at Belmont.
John Buskirk brought in his first
crate OF strawberries Wednesday morn
ing, from his place on the West Fork of
Hood river. He has four acres of fine
berries. He sold 20 acres of land re-
Gently for $65 an acre.
w. J. Magoon of Portland, who origi-
mated the Magoon strawberry, is now
experimenting with new berry he has
named the Black Diamond, of which he
has a half acre this season. The berry
is dark in color and delicious in flavor.
1t is somewhat smaller than the Magoon,
and it is SO firm that Mr.. Magoon feels
sure that it will be successful as ship
per. He says the Black Diamond is a
prolific bearer-twice as fruitful, he
thinks, as the Clark's Seeding.
Strawberry growers in the Underwood
neighborhood on the White Salmon, are
demonstrating that strawberries can be
grown WltllOul lITlgdIlOll' MS ulSIl nc
250 crates day were shipped from
this section during this season and they
are still shipping so and 60 crates day.
Their berries are early and get the big
prices. The principal growers are M,
G. and f. and Jake Thornton, r. d. Cam
eron, w. NJ. Kellendonk, George Thom-
as, J. G. Clarkson, w, M. Wendorf, c..
E. Larsen, Bob Kline and G.. Huff. VIM.
Kellendonk shipped 70 crates in one
day. None Of the these growers irrigate
their plants.
Mammoth Spring, Ark.-D. L. Hell
! vern reports to the Chicago Packer: |
. have this to say about our berry crop
this spring We are now through with
Strawberries and it was the lightest crop
| have seen in 16 years. | have stated
! all along that we would not have more
than 25 per cent of crop, but that was
an over estimate. | have five acres we
picked from and we only harvested sc
crates of marketable berries, while we
should have had 250 to 800 crates, so our
crop only averaged about 10 per cent
The berries were extra fine and sold al
SO a crate for the entire crop except nine
crates which sold at 1915 Most OF our
growers sold their crop of berries to s.
r. Young q Co. of Springfield Mo-, al
81 so per crate here.