The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-16
season shows !:

season SHOWS
Stores, $500, 900; apples, So OO6 600
Strawberries 1929, 934 78; pears, Sl2I
243. 10; cherries, $l4.0ll.l2; rasuber-
rles. S90.72; loganberies, $547.O7.
, prunes and plums, $2767; blackber
RES, Sl,l78; crab apples, $l83. 40 :
ounces $40; ice, $50. 600.
The Association business in 1915
reached but $72l, 245 60.
The estimated receipts of revenue Of
the Association for the season is placed
at S303, 900. while the expenses are
placed at SZ4O 600.
Mr.. Store stated that the percentage
OF fruit handled by the Association
each season since it was organized had
not varied greatly, although statistics
snow a variation of tonnage due to
crop yield. The total number Of pack
ages Tor the current season reached
l,437, 773, with apples leading with
l, 295, 824 boxes. The year 1919 ex-
ceeded tins with total of /, 46Ub49, OF
which 1872. 286 were apples.
Average prices on apples are given
as follows:
Gravensteins, $2.08; Kings, $l.45
Winter Bananas. S1.62; Jonathans, |
u. SO; Delicious. $2.O2; Spitzenburgs, |
Sl.62; Arkansas Blacks, Sill; Ort- |
leys, $1.52; Red Cheeks, $1.47; Oregon /
Reds, $l.63, and Newtowns, Sl6l. In
making returns to growers 10 cents
per box is deducted for handling
charges, two cents for advertising one
cent Tor purchasing fund, four cents
for building fund and maximum of
SIX cents for storage.
Returns up to March / have been
received on 6S per cent of the crop,
total of 81, 1,42l, l46.84, in settlement {
ot 89O,97 boxes. This gives an aver
age per box of $l.59. as against like
average of Sl.6O at the same time
year ago. when but 81 per cent of the :
;rop had been paid tor. Average
)rlces Oh other fruit is given as fol-
oWs: Strawberries. $2.S5 per crate
'eats, ~. ~ per box, and cherries, lI3
ents per pound.
The report shows that the apples of c
'roWers of the past season were of
nightly better quality and larger in a
lze than the year before. they fall a
mort OF the seasons 1918 and 1919, and N
lr. Stone urges that growers improve /
races ana sizes, condition that will I
haple The sales department to return N
etter averages. "
TN 5z per cent OF the crop yet to "a
paid for, says the general manag- Il
+, we cannot make any definite esti- al
Iate as to the amount which will be
,celved for the fruit yet unpaid for. er
arket conditions, however, warrant 81
he conclusion that the final returns m
III show an advance In prices unless a Oh
rious break in the market occurs. an
Mr.. Stones report showed that the ra
arehousng cost of the sales organic. ci'
ION had decreased "a per cent in the tn
lst year. The decrease in wages and at
laries the past year was 80 per cent. lie
The organization S inspection depart 10y
ent. now operating under direct su- an
rvislon of the management, Mr.. eg
one stated, had been more active.
tn the result that fewer reflections
cars of apples were noted. The de-
rtment, he stated, not only operated
eliminate the packing of low gra rio
Piles, but to aid growers in the pro- no
ctIon of clean crops. r.
Mr.. Stone complimented the Hood aio
Yer Experiment Station and urged ~
overs TO avail themselves vi It's IN cot
'mation. Iai
Mr.. Stones report shows a total in. ~.
'ted fund of $404 73o, which has ua
IN raised by asses, mems foc pur sg.
sing fund, a butiamg fund b
ouEh membership Zee. Per oaN IL,
essments ton a purchasing tu1u wan 'H
TINS year.