The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-08-11

tations show that the Oregon prune has
an established place in the markets o
the world. Every year dealers come t.
| the Pacific co lst to buy prunes, and, 81
a general thing, after looking over the
markets in Oregon and California, buy
in Oregon, declaring the fruit 70 be ssu'
perior in every respect The Italian
prune Of Oregon is large size and con
tains a sub-acd that makes it in great
demand at a fancy price. An acre Of
prune orchard, well cultivated, will pro
duce abont eight tons Of prunes, worth
from $I0t TO $3.50 per ton. Andrew
Vereler, east Of Salem, from q ten-a ire
prune orchard picked $500 barrels, dry
| ing 81, 900 pounds, which were sold from
80 TO 4 cents per pound. +. C.Rhodes
OF Albany has 65-acre orchard OF
Italian prunes, near jefferson, from
which he gathered $4,000 pound-, for
which he received 5000. Many simi-
lar Yields for the valley could be cited
hungarian and silver prnnes do well
throughout the Palouse country. In
1903 the Blalock Fruit 20. -hiPnc1 five
carloads OF prunes TO LHdrn, thc 81 =
signment meeting with uch favor tlIn
other large shipments will fllow. The
town of Eberton, Eastern Washington,
has the largest fruit dryer IN the world :,
having daily capacity OF 95 tons Of
green fruit.
In an ordinary year, nearly $4,000
boxes OF peaches--the finest grown--are
shipped from Ashland, Oregon. Orch
ards in good bearing produce from 800
to 400 boxes OF peaches per acre, the
average price being about 20 cents per
box, Peaches are successfully grown in
other parts OF Oregon Oregon cherries
are shipped to all parts Of the Union
a,d are In big demand. They are most
.pr0ftably grown, Hood River raiser
gathering %, 900 pounds from an acre,
netting him 81 $50. Royal Ann, Bing
and Lambert all do we'll. II. I. Will
liams Of Hood River tried an experiment
with Lambert cherries, shipping them
by express to New York City in the hot
test July weather without any refrigera-
tion. They reached their destination
in good condition and sold for 10
cents pound, q net profit OF ~ cents
Il pound. From one.third Of an acre Of
Z year-old trees Edward johnson, of Col
fax, Washington, sold 1926 worth OF
cherries. NJ. Harlow, near Eugene,
marketed nearly ten tons OF Royal Ann
cherries from two acres. Miller Bros.
north of Eugene, have five acres Of pear
and cherry trees, which produce rev
enue OF about $500 year The Bart
lett. Winter Nellis and other pears
grow 10 perfection in Oregon and yield
q good profit. Over 100 carloads of
pears are annually shipped from South
ern Oregon 10 New Orleans, st. Louis,
Chicag0 and New York. Many acres
OF Oregon fruit land are devoted togrape
culture and the results are something
astonishing.
Northern Idaho il o natural fruit
country, apples forming one 0f the sta
pie agricultural products. Winter va
ieties, Gano, Ben Davis, Rome Beauty,
Jonathan, Black Twig, Wagner and
York Imperial bear well the fifth year
after planting. Idaho prunes are al
ready known on the Eastern markets,
some varieties showing an unusual and
pleasing combination Of sweetness and
acidity. Chemical analysis of the Daw-
son variety proves that it approximates
the high sugar content OF the French
pFnne, while uniting with this quality
II has an acidity equal 10 that OF the
Italian fruit. II there is one section in
the Pacific Northwest morefay0red than
another In the cultivation Of vineyards
and the marketing and manufacturing
OF wines, il is the Lewiston, Idaho, val
ley, which produces in the greatest per
fection, not only the grapes that thrive
In Middle Europe, but those originated
in Spain, Italy, North Africa and Asia
Colonel Brackett, pomologist of the de-
partment OF agriculture, Travelled l5O
miles out of his way TO assure himself
that grapes exhibited as Idaho grapes
were really grown In Idaho, and stated
that after an exhaustive inspection OF
OF the California vineyards u few weeks
previous to his visit, he had seen no
thing there to excel and little to equal
what he saw in Idaho. The expert
ments in wine making have resulted in
notable success, the dry wines OF the
Resisting and Sautern type having been
pronounced by connoissenrs as coming
nearer to the European wines than any
grown in California, and these wines
were awarded one OF the 2S prizes at the
Pan. American exposition at Buffalo
against 600 entries J,Shaeffer of Clark.
ston is authority for the statement that
his vineyard makes 500 gallons of wine
TO the acre, and the cost of growing his
grapes, manufacturing them into wine
allowing interest on the value of the
land, will not exceed $75 per acre. This
wine when two years old is easily worth
rs cents per gallon. Frank Eberle, neal
Juliette, made 5000 gallons of wine
from three and one-half acres OF grapes
besides selling large quantities OF fruit
which also shows the enormous profit
on the industry. The dreaded pest
Of the grape grower--the phyloxera-
is unknown in Idaho,
The excellence of oregon fruits which
were upon exhibition ut the Chicago
Worlds Fair, Omaha, Buffalo and
Charleston fairs, have added much tc
the states standing as fruit producer
Hood River won sixteen medals ut Chi.
cago Worlds fair, including seven on
apples and the highest on strawber
rles The largest apple and the largest
cherries were from Oregon, and the
largest pear from Washington. +. f.
Babeock, Walla Walla, Washington,
took the first prize on apples over all the
world at the Paris exposition. HOrti'
cultural hall at the Pan-American Ex-
position, Buffalo, contained far more
fruit than was exhibited at the Chicago
Worlds fair. Magnificent indeed were
0regon's forestry, mineral, agricultural
and liberal arts exhibits, but to Oregon's 7
fine fruit was awarded u greater mum
Der of medals than to all the other Ore.
gon departments combined. The state
received 27 gold neutrality-suspicious., Il;
food and accessories, i; horticulture
pomology, viticulture, lS; forestry aud
forestry products, 2. Silver medals t.
all exhibits 80, OF which Is went to hor'
ticulture; bronze medals 70, OF which Ii
went to horticulture. OF still greater
value to Oregon was the winning uf the
Wilder medal of the American Pomo'
logical Society at the Pan-American fol
the most perfect fruits in Horticultural
hail. The American pomological society
is composed OF the most eminent POM
ologists in the United States, and is the
highest horticultural authority in this
country and probably in the world, and
this passing recognition of the surpass'
ing excellence Of Oregon fruits was the
iuhpst hnpnr tn ha ,rivnn M the pynnai.