White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-08-13
Northwest
Apple Crop to
Be Smaller
ESTIMATES PLACE 1881 CROP AT
1000 BOXES UNDER 1890
PRODUCTION

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Idaho-for this year will probably fall
at least 5000 to 1000 cars below the
1880 crop, with the entire loss occur
ring in Washington and Oregon, &C
cording to the Seattle correspondent
of the Pacific Coast Packer. Idaho's
1891 production, it is predicted, will
run fully as heavy as that of last sea-
son.
Last season Washington shipped a
total of 45.115 carloads of apples which
was about 40 per cent of the national
yield. Oregon's shipments were be-
tween 1000 and 5000 cars, while Idaho
shipped out 6,973 cars. Total produc
ton in Washington this coming season
will probably not exceed $500 to 3d.
600 cars; Oregon, it is estimated, will
not exceed $500 cars, but Idaho should
produce fully as heavily as year ago.
or approximately 1000 cars.
The bulk of the loss in Washington
crop this year under last will come
in the two principal apple districts
the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys.
Present estimates for the Wenatchee
section indicate crop in prospect
OF around $4,000 cars against actual
shipments from that section last year
of 24,385 cars. Yakima's 1881 crop is
forecast at $4,000 cars against last
years shipments of 1880 cars. 1t
must be remembered that present es-
Inmates can easily vary from S to 10
per cent depending upon the size that
the apples make between now and
harvest time.
Other Washington districts will pro-
dlce about the same as last season.
The Spokane district shipped out 704
cars last season and estimates just
recently made, place this years pro-
spective yield at from 700 to 725 cars
Growing conditions have been quite
satisfactory throughout the Spokane
district and the fruit has made good
size. Romes, the principal Spokane
CROP will show a substantial increase
over last year. while Jonathans and
Delicious will in all probability run
somewhat short of 1880 production.
The Walla Walla district, which in
cludes Dayton and Waitsburg but not
Milton Freewater, Ore, has around 500
cars in prospect, which is about
normal crop and equal to that of last
season. In this district Delicious APP
pear to be somewhat lighter than a
year ago, but Winesaps, Romes and
Jonathans, the principal varieties for
the district in the order of their i'm
portance, will yield fully as heavily
as in 1890. The Underwood White
Salmon section is expected to ship be-
tween 100 and 200 cars, slightly under
last season.
While the effects of the late July
pest activity, encouraged by extremely
hot weather during the last two weeks
of the month, can affect the 1881 es-
Inmates, it is generally believed that
the Yakima and Wenatchee districts
will produce crops close to the present
estimates. Other than the hot weather,
growing conditions in both sections
have been highly favorable for pro-
ducing crop of fine quality and good
size, although it is indicated that there
may not be the heavy percentage of
large sizes produced this year that
there was last.
The Packer reports the estimated
yield this year in the White Bluffs
section at $50 cars as against 75O in
$780, that the season has been nor
NAL and indications are that the crop
will be clean although worms have
been bad in some orchards and that
weather has been favorable for large
sizes.