The Kennewick Courier Reporter

Kennewick's 1938 Cherry Crop Totals 110 Cars
The harvesting of Kennewick's largest cherry crop is now a matter of history, as today saw the final windup of the packing. The crop totaled approximately 110 cars, according to a rather close estimate made today by H. W. Desgranges, manager of the Big Y warehouse here.
This is the biggest crop ever grown here, Mr. Desgranges said. The next largest was shipped ten years ago, when some 70 cars rolled from this point. Records this year have shown that more than 25 percent of all the cherries shipped from this state were Kennewick grown.
The crop ten years ago, however, brought the growers more cash than this year's larger tonnage. The crop was of an excellent quality, Desgranges said, the cullage, including the small ones received in the last days' cleanup, would probably average less than fifteen percent. Most of this was for doubles, virtually no damage being done by the rains causing splits.
Probably three hundred people were employed in the four packing houses handling the crop after it had been delivered from the orchards. At that, local equipment was insufficient to handle the crop and much of it was shipped to other Big Y houses, seven of them working on the Kennewick crop a portion of the time.
More than 200 tons of Kennewick cherries were processed at the Richland cannery.