The pear harvest in the Mid-Columbia is underway.  Craig Mallon of Duckwall Pooley Fruit Company said the harvest started a week earlier than usual, and the picking of Bartlett pears is beginning to wrap up.  He says the volume of that crop is one of the largest on record.  Mallon says the larger winter pear crop that will start to be picked next week, led by green Anjou, is off a bit in many parts of the Hood River Valley, but adds that may dovetail well with the Bartlett crop.  He adds the fruit size of those Anjou’s are a bit larger than normal.