Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-07-04
LARGE PROFIT IN
RAISING CHERRIES
Varieties Tn, Are Best Shippers
--Canner.os v ant Sour Bel
r.es-hlnds and Yields.
u, Trof. Lewis. Hrnd of the IIortiruJ-
Agricultural tulicGcJ

f4,f.U tu~ u IGu'r II = -piemDer. These
cherries have boom Skipped in small
shipments 30 ALASKA, Mexico City and
liverpool and they arrived in good
conditions The Bling, as grown in
Eastern OREGON. IS fully as good
shipper As the Lambert in Western Ore
gou. For canning purposes the Royal
AIN is the fayorite. II splendid color
and light colored juice make it very
attractive The Elton is often canned
in quite large quantities.
There is not as yet much of de-
maud for the blaek-heshed cherries for
canning. However there seems to be
an unreasoning prejudice against dark
colored cherries The writer believes
that if more persons had tried such
varieties as the Lambert and Bing in
cans these varieties would be much
more popular than they are now.
For maraschino purposes the Royal
Anne is the only cherry desired, and
this cherry is coming into greater de-
mand for such purposes. One Cali
fornia firm the past year tried to buy
600 900 pounds in one Oregon district,
The price offered was $50 a ton. and
at this price very good money can be
made with the Royal Anne.
At this experiment station we have
boa,, truipy ayparirnoptS in
cracked cherries, and the Lambert
cherry makes most delicious confec-
ton. In fact there should be splen-
did market for this product. 1t is rich
and meaty and preferable to raisins.
OF late there has been an increased de-
mand for cherries for syrup manufac-
ture One concern on the Pacific Coast
finds the Bling to be especially adapted
for this class of by-product.
Sour cherries on the Pacific Coast
are grown chiefly only for home use.
In the seven seasons that the writer
has spent on the Pacific Coast he has
never known a failure of sour cher
ries. However. up to the present time
the only possibility of disposing of
sour cherries has been for a light To-
cal consumption, there being very lit
tie demand for sour cherries as long
as the market was supplied with good
sweet cherries.
However, with the establishment OF
canneries, which are now being erect
ed in nearly every fruit center, the
growing of a considerable area of sour
cherries would be very profitable in
dustry. The success of cannery de-
ponds upon the amount and variety Of
produce it can secure. If the cannery
can be run for long season profits
are much better and better rate OF
interest is realized from the money
that is tied up in the plant.
There is an increasing demand for
the sour or pie cherries, and in GER
tain of our Eastern states the sour
cherry business is becoming one of the
most profitable fruit ventures in the
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entire United States. With the open
ing of the Panama canal we should be
able to sell enormous amounts Of by
products, and sour cherries would meet
with splendid demand in European
ports. There is also an increasing de-
mand for the sour or pie cherries in
our Coast cities.
The large Montmorency is by far
the most popular cherry for the can
neryman. Probably there are four
times as many Montmorencies grown
as of all the other varieties put to-
gether. The reasons for the popularity
of this variety are it's size, it's firm
ness, its small pit, its red color and its
attractive red juice. The trees begin
bearing as four-year-olds, and by the
time they are from six to eight years
of age, come into fairly heavy bearing.
! Probably mature trees will run from
$50 to 200 pounds of fruit per tree.
The average price paid by canneries
in the United States ranges from to
6 cents per pound.
Concerning some yields that are Sc
cured in Eastern states. my readers
will be interested in the following fig.
ures; One grower has 292 trees, near.
ly one-half of which are large Mont
morencies, which he reports to be his
best bearer and best seller; other vari-
cites being Dyehouse. Early Richmond
and English Morello The orchard was
set out in 1905, one-year-old trees be-
ing used. The trees were planted 20
feet apart. Four crops have been gath.
cred, last year the yield being 5000
quarts, this year 1000 quarts and in
dications for next year making a yield
of from 5000 to 5000 quarts probable
One two-acre orchard OF Montmoren-
cy cherries bore in 1909, after the trees
had been planted four years. half a
ton in 1917 orp ton. in 1Q11 civ