The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-05-11
,ov Temperature Tuesday
M Morning Does Consider
able Damage
svrFNT OF INJURY
NOT YET KNOWN
come Orchards Hurt Severe
While Others Will Bear
Full Crops

1.mared by the frost? Whe knows !
Nobody. This is about as accurate
. answer as the Courier-Reporter
- Give to the query which since
Tusedav morning has been upper
,.ost in the mind Of every resident OF
4. community. One local grower
Tpesdsy morning announced that ne
~ not have an apple left in his or
.A,rd, Wednesday morning he pre-
xrted q rs per cent crop, this morn
=, he has a full crop and tomorrow
2 will probably be thinning. And so
lie story goes.
Truitgrowers Of long experience
and orchard inspectors agree that it
vill be impossible to ascertain the ex-
,.nt d the injury until after the June
drop and they are also agreed that the
injury is not nearly so great as it
auuesred to be Tuesday morning.
Whatever the injury the frost was
the seyerest this section has ever ex-
perienced this late in the season. The
mercury dropped to the freezing point
soon after midnight and continued to
drop until we'll after daylight. The
government thermometer at the Spie-
seIberg place on the Highlands regis
tired minimum Of 271a degrees while
temperatures as low as 90 were re-
parted from some sections Of the dis
tziet.
Never before had the orchards been
fuller set or gave greater promise Of
bumper crop. Cherries, apricots,
peaches and prunes were we'll formed.
whesap, Delicious and Jonathan ap-
PIE trees were in full bloom while
only the Romes of the commercial
varieties were not yet in full bloom.
4. W. Desgranges, local manager
Of the Yakima Valley Fruitgrowers
association, who spent yesterday af-
ternoon and all today in the orchards,
has issued the following statement:
With the damage in the various
orchards ranging from nothing to a
total loss, it is difficult to give fig
ues that can be considered at all re-
liable without visiting practically
every orchard. After covering the
Held hurriedly, while we must admit
the loss is serious, it is not as bad
S at first expected.
The cherry crop, as a crop is
ruined, although there will be enough
ior nome use. Peaches will make 25
percent. Pears are very severely hurt.
" is impossible to make a guess at
nls time. | look for apples to work
0us about as follows: Jonathans, 40
PEI cent; Delicious, rs per cent;
A0mes' 90 per cent; Staymen, 25 per
.ens and Winesaps, 60 per cent. On
@e kadow hill there is very little
aamage and this extends westward
.O' some distance. The extreme west
au east ends of the Highlands are
~ tue hardest. L. A. Tweedt saved
:. .Os. OF his crop by smudging, even
~ nls apricots. While it looks as if
ae loss is tremendous, it must be re-
.4sn'oered that if one good bud in
'snsS IS found, there is still a fair
0p' A few more days when it is
~ s'1r 70 distinguish the good from
s se Dad, ?. | am inclined to think that
= ngures | have given you will be
Sea S rather than lowered"
,,a !. nave Just returned from Yakima
~. s 'ne damage seems to be general
Sas. H's side of the gap. The damage IS
y, immediately around Yakima.
o.,'..l :. l. Craver, manager of the Ken
nav nA-Richland Fruitgrowers COM
e,t;,, agrees with Mr.. Desgranges'
csn.; a'es on the apples with the ex-
rsra 0u , Oh Jonathans of which he be.
Al Il mere will be much better than
ion .se r.. cent crop. He is of the opin.
ovs.a. y mat the injury to the peaches is
a f.;s f'lnated and that there will be
lar II. crop of pears. .
l,,s. w, Vickers, manager of the HIGH.
bis con, t company, predicts that
Is NJ. u'apany's orchards will have :
than q cent "inesap crop and bette,
cor0.p ~ per cent of Jonathans.
agent V. L. Georgeson's