The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-07-28

trict receiving conditions at railroa
yards will be bettered. The Appl
Growers Association will construc
new warehouses at Dee and Odel. IT.
Van Horn storage space will be in
creased. The same condition of bet
terment is noticeable in the White
Salmon and Underwood districts.
While growers and marketer are
alike optimistic over sales prospects
the coming season, the market remains
indefinite. It is not likely that
buying to any great extent will be
made until after the convention of the
international Apple Shippers Associa-
| tion at Cincinnati in early August.
| The number of independent buyers has
been largely increased here this sea
son, but their activities are not very
marked. Some growers are heard
talking of So per box, but it appears to
be the general opinion that the market
will start at considerably lower
| figure. Growers generally did not av-
erage more than Sl.35 cents, net, per
box for apples last year. In instances.
where orchardists produced fruit than
ran to good sizes and high grades at an
economical figure, they made money
last year, but such instances were
rare. The chances for profit this year
are much better. With a light crop
ovre the large commercial sections of
the middle west and east, and the gen
erab barnYard fruit crop of nearly all
sections eastsof the Rockies negligible,
local expectations run high for sub
stantial profits this season, in spite of
the lowered purchasing power of the
consuming public. Labor costs have
been materially reduced over last year.
Boxes will cost less. The average re-
duction of labor and materials, as com
pared with last year, will reach about
30 per cent.
The freight reduction announcement
by rail lines has not aroused any en-
thuslastic comment on the part of
growers and shippers anywhere. The
actual reduction per box, il is said,
will be six cents. The demand was
for three times as much. Agitation
for increased water shipments is heard
in every section, and shippers in nu-
merous instances are signing up refrig-
Grated steamship space, as fast as it is
available.
Some of the growers of the Hood
River valley declare that the yield of
this district for the year will not ex-
ceed |, $780, 600 boxes. c. H. Sproat.
formerly manager of the Hood River
Apple Growers Union and later man
aging director of the old National Ap-
pie Co., puts his estimate under this
figure. j. p. Naumes, purchasing
agent for Dan Wuille & Co., London
importers, who maintain Northwestern
headquarters here, figures that the
crop will run about 800, 900 boxes.
7. F. Clark, recently arrived sales |
of the Apple Growers AS
ocation, who formerly headed the |
Y akima Fruitgrowers' Association, |
igures that the yield will reach about |
:. 900, 900 boxes in the Hood River val |
ey. While he is not displaying an
Mr.. Clark declares that |
le looks for healthy demand for
apples throughout. the
season. He declares that the Associa-
lion has determined to grade with the
usual rigidity. In view of the clean
ness of the crop and the present size
If the fruit, he anticipates that the |
pack of 1921 will be as good as the dis
-rict has ever put out.
- DuN lh1Olly ONilGl VI large
orchards here and operator in the do |
nestle and export trade from a New |
\ ork City office, says he is we'll |
pleased with the harvest outlook. |
Mr.. Davidson says that his own indi-
5idual tracts will yield bumper crop.
He anticipates a yield of about 1000
100 boxes.
One of the most carefully analyzed
estimates made on the 1927 crop for
he Hood River valley has been com
)iled by Leroy Childs. superintendent
# the Hood River Experiment Station
dr. Childs says:
There has been much speculation on
he part of various writer's relative to
he size of the 1921 apple crop'in the
Hood River valley. These estimates
ave run as high as $500. 600 boxes.
consider them entirely too high.
There is present in the valley a
much smaller number of apple trees
han was present during the bumper
ields of 1919, at which time there was I
ctually produced on the trees close to 5
700, 900 boxes of fruit. OF this fig
re fully 10000 boxes were lost and
id not enter boxes, due to labor short. .
ge and due to the fact that much Of
he stock was frozen before it was S
icked. The actual box shipments of !
5l9 reached approximately 1900, 600
oXes OF these slightly over 2. 600, J
DO boxes could be considered CONNER .
al pack
This year. 1921. is the year when :
le 1919 record should have been sur =
assed. and doubtless this would have
iken place had it not been for the /
evere damage caused by the extreme }
: low temperatures of 1919. A large I
lmber of trees in the heaviest pro- I
lcing section Of the valley were en- \
rely wiped out as a result sof the I
Gather condition, eliminating an area I
lpable Of producing fully 3000 :
lXes. This damage, in milder form
fected a remaining large acreage, de- v
easing the production at east 25 per y
mt as compared with the 1919 yields. p
"ln uninjured orchards the yield is Z
IT so consistently heavy as it was o
lring the record season. This irregu- s.
rity is somewhat offset by the fact p
at trees are a little larger and a few o.
,ung orchards are nov coming into
,aring which did not produce in 1919. CO
lese conditions, however. are not Of y
" great Importance. The actual W
Imber Of apples produced on the trees y
III be less than 25 per cent Of the u
l9 crop. or a box production Of OF
300, 600 boxes. Quality at the present q
ne is excellent and the sizes that the rS
1it have attained at this time is a
eater than the average. The leaf F"
lier has caused some damage as has a
T. brown aphis. COdling moth and
8b infection are Of little commercial
portance IN the Hood River section
is season.
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