The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-10-26
BROCK is PACKING
APPLES IN IDAHO

APPLES in lDAHU
BOISE, Idaho. Fremont Wood is
now busy packing the apple crop Of
his model orchard and taking care of
the waste fruit that can not be mark
eted. 1t is an inspiring sight that is
presented in his orchard and packing
house, for, in addition to adopting
all the improved methods of caring
for the fruit during its developement,
he has likewise introduced great i'm
provements in preparing the apples
for market, says the Statesman. In
order to attain perfection in packing,
Mr.. Wood employed Il. O. Brock of
Hood River, Ore, to superintend the
work and train the crew in the best
methods. The Hood River apples al
ways command fancy price, not be-
cause they acre so much better than
those grown here, but because they
are packed better and with perfect
regularity. The buyer knows, when
he buys box of apples packed by
any of the we'll known growers of that
section, that the fruit will be uniform
and absolutely reliable.
Under Mr.. Brooks direction, the
fruit of Mr.. W, od's orchard is being
packed az they pack in the famous
Oregon valley. All the apples placed
in box are of the same size; they
are all laid on edge, aud the first
quality are all wrapped in paper sepa-
rately. For instance, an apple of the
f., pty mill f,anl 10 Ia, .
another "a, of al other 1l2 and an
other 1913. In filling an "a box there
are four layers, each with seven tiers
of three apples each. The end of each |
box bears the number Of apples con
tained. Moreover, it is possible to toll
approximately the number of apples in
a car. In one of the cars shipped by
Mr.. Wood, by way of illustration, it
may be stated there were 8 boxes of
Y apples each, lab of 81, 373 of 112,
l42 of l2S and 30 of about l50 What
is known as the IL tier can not be
made to fill uniformly, but the mum
ber is close o $50. That car, ther3-
fore, contained practically 70, 89G ap-
pies.
The orchard will this year produce
some 5000 boxes Of marketable fruit.
Mr.. Woods apples this year are
mainly Jonathans and Rome Beauties.
lie has some Ben Davis, but many
of that variety Of trees have been
grated to Newtown Pippins. The or
chard contains l6 acres, with 26OO
trees. More than half the trees are
young, and great many more are
grated. The young part of he or
chard is made up of Newtown Pippins
Grimes Golden, and JOnathans. In
the entire orchard about half are Jon
athans. The trees that furnish this
years crop number only about 800.
The orchard is kept thoroughly cul-
tivated, and the trees are sprayed as.
sduously during the season, with the
result that there are very few worms
and no scales.
MIR. Wood IL running a cider mill
at his cellar in connection with the
packing house, in which all the wind.
tails are being ground for vinegar err
cider. Already 300 gallons have been
run into the tanks. The culls from
tho packed apples will be- used for
making cider, for apple wine, and for
by new process in its
sweet condition. In this process no
are to he used.
MIR. Brock, who Is Interested in the
business at Hood River, said recontly
the Jonathans and Rome Beauties ia
Mr.. Woods orchard were perhaps
little larger than theirs. lie further
said the apple business could be made
II great feature in the valley. There ,
was no doubt whatever that twice as
much net money could he realized
from the business rs from growing
wheat on land yielding 10 bushels to
the acre,
In the orchard in which he was in
terested at Hood River he said, ,
There were y IL acres. Last year ,
they shipped 1000 boxes of apples. q
The ,Spiteznborgs brought So ON
board the cars there, tie Newtovns
-. 10, and the Jonathans Sl.iO, while {
the average price of the entire cIop {
was 81 90.
That was a year when there was
great crop elsewhere, vet the average /
price realized there was nearly twice q.
as high rs the hest received in this !
valley. /
The loss fom all causes did not eN-
coed | per cent of, apples, MIR. Brock /
said. The trees were carefully thin. q
ned early in the season, and there J.
we're few windfalls and few small ap- S
plos. Thay sprayed nine times dur ;
ing the season, he said, aud twice !,
during the winter.
MIR. Brock added that they had kept a
A careful account of cost Of producing J.
apples. They made liberal allowances
for the time of the throo owners, for
al expenses, such as taxes, for team
all the time, and for every other item,
the total being the equivalent [of 81
cents box for apples placed on the |
'ars. With equal care, Mr.. Brock was
satisfied, he said, equally good re-. !
suits could bo secured here.