The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-01-20
CHERRIES ARE THE CROP FOR
THIS END OF THE VALLEY
Horace Wray Writes Inter est in gly of Survey
Giving Some Valuable Data on This
Favored Product

eaHi COMIHeHCS Cnat can De made
which will at least be of interest.
take it that you are fully con-
versant with the extent of the
sweet cherry industry at the pres
ent time on the Pacific coast and
IN the Northwest generally. With
respect to cherry production in
otner parts of the country, the
principal extensive commercial
producing regions are indicated
In Farmers bulletin TIC, copy
OF which is being sent to you. We
are also sending a copy of Stats
tlcal Bulletin No. 8 which 1 think
may be of some interest with re-
spect to the shipping data on
cherries. No doubt in the aggre-
gate a good many cherries are
shipped in less than CARROTS by ex-
press. Such shipments of course
would not show in Statistical Bull
letln No. 8 as that deals only in
car lot shipments. However, the
larger producing centers are in
dicated in the shipping stations
that are reported. Shipping records
do not entirely tell the story, even
tho express shipments could be
added to the figures given in the
bulletin just cited. For instance,
one would naturally infer from the
census figures that extensive pro-
duction of cherries exists in Penn
sylvania. While doubtless good
many are grown they do not APP
pear in any shipping or other
market statistics because to so
large an extent, they are marketed
locally. The same thing is more or
less true in other sections.
However, the significant thing
from the standpoint of your inter-
est is the fact that nearly all of
the cherries produced east of the
Rocky Mts. are of sour varieties
rather doubt if there are any
solid car lot shipments of sweet
cherries included in any of the
statistics in Bulletin No. 8 from
the states east of the mountains
1t is now ten years since the
material in Farmers Bulletin TIE
was worked up for publication
The information which is in it was
based on field studies that were
made in the different cherry sec.
lions. During the course of the
field work / attempted to get some
sort of an estimate of the proper.
tions of sweet cherries to soul
which made up the crop in diff.
| ferent sections. / thot that there
was something in our cherry bulle
tin that covers this point but d.
not find it in running over the
western New York or in western
| pages. / think it was either il
j Michigan, the two sections il
which there are more sweet cher
| ries grown I think than in any o.
the other sections east of tht
Rocky mountains, that the ques
tion of the proportion was partic
| ularly considered. The figures tina
are in my mind are 85 or 80 pc
cent sour cherries with only 10 t,
15 per cent sweet. suspect tina
that is liberal from the standpoint
of sweet cherry production. In ad
dition to western New York AM
Michigan. there are few grow
in the Hudson River valley. A lit
tie scattered production is to b
, found elsewhere but / think it j
negligible from the commercial
standpoint.
Whether the restricted produc
ton of sweet cherries in the east
ern states is due to their freeing
out mainly, / am rather doubtful
Of course the sweet cherry tree
: not as hardy as the sour; henc
the latter is grown successfull
in many sections to which tn
: sweet cherry is not adapted. In
general way, think the swee
r Il