The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-08-18
Totals
5,139 $3.50 5,379 5000

Willamette Valley: Reports from
| Benton and Lane counties Indicate a
substantial increase in the 1921 apple
crop over last year, due largely to in
creased production in young orchards.
| Elsewhere in the district, there is but
little increase over last years crop
prospect, in fact, some sections will
probably have less apples than last
year. Unfavorable climatic conditions
during the blossoming period are held
responsible for a light setting of fruit
and a heavy "June drop" Fungus
growth and insect injury are reported
as being more prevalent than usual.
In the better cared for orchards much
of the affected fruit has been elm
mated during thinning. A good many
orchards are not receiving their usual
care this season. The pear crop is
generally way below normal, being
probably 60 to rs per cent of last year.
Prunes are also way below normal,
particularly on the older trees, and in
the orchards at the higher elevations.
Upmqua Valley: Apples promise
very substantial increase over last
year, but, "scab will be slightly worse
and there will be larger percentage
of C grade" Pears will probably be
considerably less than last year, and
promise about 50 per cent of normal
crop, although reports from one dis
trict estimate that the crop will be 20
per cent larger than last year. Pear
quality is hardly UP to normal due to
presence of some scab. Prunes prom
ise full crop of Petites, and about rs
per cent of a full crop of Italians.
Prune sizes will probably run larger
than usual. Some old orchards have
rather light crops, and there was some
frost damage in few localities. Mois
ture conditions have been better than
usual.
Southern Oregon: The apple crop is
now estimated at 25 to 40 per cent in
crease over last year, but pears prom
Use only So to 60 per cent of the 1920
crop. Pears did not set as well as
usual and there was some hail damage
in early June in some of the heaviest
producing sections. Size and quality
of both apples and pears promise to be
quite satisfactory.
Hood River: Well informed local
orchardists are of the opinion that the
number of individual apples will be
about the same as last year, but it is
expected that the size will be larger
and the actual number Of boxes will be
10 to Is per cent greater than last
year. The average size of the 1920
crop was the smallest of any during
the past six years, the percentage Of
5 tier apples handled by the Associa-
tion in 1920, being rs per cent as com
pared with l2b per cent for the two
years preceding. 1920 quality was also
low, the percentage of Extra Fancy
being "A in 1920 as compared with an
average of 81 per cent for the three
years preceding. Both climatic condi-
tions and the labor situation are held
responsible for the low 1920 averages.
The pear crop of 1921 is estimated at
about so per cent of normal.
Eastern Oregon: In Umatilla county
the Milton-Freewater apple report is.
THE crop this year is very fine as to
quality and quantity. In the Her
miston district there was considerable
frost damage. Union county reports,
"A very excellent crop of apples is in
prospect and should be as large, or
larger, than the 1919 crop. The or
chards as a whole this year have re-
ceived and are receiving much better
attention in the way of pruning, spray
ing and cultivation, and the apples
show much better size right now
than they did at the same time last
year. We had abundant early mois
ture. ." In Wasco comfy there has
been considerable abandonment and
neglect of young bearing apple acre
age. One large young orchard that
produced 10. 600 boxes last year will |
probably produce less than 5000 boxes |
this year. From Baker county, W. f. /
Baker. Home, Oregon. says: Il will |
ship seven or eight cars Of apples this /
year. Quality and size of fruit is
better than usual also have fine /
peach crop Of between forty and fifty /
cars.