Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-07-28

ington State will produce the great
est apple crop in history, according
to the government forecast which
PAGES the commercial crop at 20
$4,000 bushels. Last year the pre-
lminary estimates for the crop
TeTe placed at 13,42O,00O bushels.
Other fruit crops in the state are
lorecasted as follows: Peaches,
100000 bushels, and pears 1856,
coo bushels. making total CONNER
cial crop estimated at 23,150,000 bu-
shells, or $1,000 carloads at uniform
loading. Practically four-ffths Of
this tonnage, 27232 cars, is in ap-
pies.
Yakima Valley, including Kittitas
nd Benton counties, will produce
1850 cars Of apples. according to
u revised estimate, on the amount
of tonnage, of w. L. Close. district
horticulturist The pear crop is
now figured at 1000 cars, and the
peach crop at 900 cars. This will
bring the total of these three fruit
crops to 5000 carloads.
Yakima's 1920 fruit crop has NOV
cd to market, and the files are
closed reports H. A. Glen. of the
Northern Pacific, in his final letter
to Headquarters on shipments and
amount still In storage The total Of
tta 1920 crop that moved in car
lots Is, according to NJ. Glen's fig
ures, 1l,5I2 cars. Counting in the
less than carlot shipments on data
secured from the express and mail
shipments the grand total of the
1920 fruit coop is 1861 cars.
The apni0 crop reached a total Of
approximate 900 cars that roll
ed to marEc. y CARROTS. Mr.. Glen's
figures here are 9.572 cars. +. f.
Sampson, who has been checking the
shipments and reporting to the In
ternational Apple Shippers Associa-
ton, says his figures show approxi-
mately $500 ears. The loading has
been uniform at 1855 boxes to the
car, or total of 7257,000 boxes. a
crop valued at the most conserva.
tive figure at s1O,000,000
Summer apples are now moving
steadily in, and there will be a
heavy shipment of peaches by the
end OF the month. Summer apples.
peaches. aprieots, nectarines, plums
and prunes will make up mixed car
shipments that will fill in the inter
Val between now and the pear crop
movement, and that will be follow
ed by the Elberta peaches, the fall
pears and then apples. The fruit
movement promises to be very con-
slant and very heavy this year
Heavy At Wenatchee
Wenatchee, Wash, July "a
Enough big red apples to girdle the
Slobe will be transported through
the Northwest by the Great North
ern Railway during the coming fall,
one OF the greatest fruit crops on
record, according TO William P
kenney, vice president in charge of
Great Northern traffic. Ii they were
pared and strung to an aeroplane
like kite tail, no aviator would be
able to fly high enough to lift the
other end Of this mountain pile of
parings off the ground.
These apples will come from
Wenatchee Valley. Sixteen thousand
cars will be required by the Great
Northern Railway to move this huge
crop. Each car will contain 75G
boxes, and each box $50 apples, max
ing total of approximately 1874
100000 apples, more than 10 apiece
Tor each man, woman end child in
the United States. If these apples
were shipped at once il would re-
Quire a train about 200 miles long
to haul them.
f. c. Iced, general supervisor of
> agriculture for the Great Northern
Railway, estimates that the apple
producing valleys of the Northwest
will raise about four billion apples
this wear.