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By CYRUS HAPPY
A
SHORT while ago at a banquet -
given, py , uie . roniana com-. year
Vear shipment around the world
mercial club to some Sookane : and can wait shipment" until the market is, never ,.pe an overproduction ;j of ' the- winter : "and espeoially to tnOse great
vJtnr T ; 'Vn a W mnmnte' ready. Coming as it does into the markets of "apple is the - comparatively . narrow ' area in lation where the frosts of
.... j. :'..' ; .. . the creat northern centers of civilization af a which this fruit can be pYofitablv crown. That As I view the situation the
,1K' ,m11V.one? tn-w,me,r "P. . time when the frost of winter make other zone around the earth lvine between the 40th ducer will be sendinc his
places, a food of prime necessity, commanding .
In the last few yean. ; It U only very recently
that the fame of our apples has become aach
as to get fancy prices in Europe for the prod
ucts of our best orchards, from wmcn pronta
of over $500" an acre are beine realized. a I
y But rnv Drincioal. reason lor sa'vihe.there willj ' reeioh will be senr apples around the world Z am credibly, informed.- t .. s; . .' , ;
centera of poour.. All that lhave rJredicted and all tnat l nope
winter are familiar.- for from the future apple crop, in yui most
cron to a constantlv crowers of the aoole will eive thia crbP' the.
and 50th parallels of north latitude , takes in growme; market from a very limited area 6f .- most scientific and iriduitnous care xn cui
practically all the winter apple territory of the production. I can see no good reason to ex- tiyatlon and handling.: i With such care it will
world. ;. I am; not unmindful that isothermal .pect that the apple crop shall become less re- excel the orange. as a food, 'money maker and '
hnes are not straight. There-may be a few-, munerative than it has been to our producers in all other respects.-.
piacrs wncre ine winier ppie-wui,nangupver , j
a scientist, or as having anv exnert knowledtre
in the production of fruit of any sort. ' I wish vantaKe '
, them to be understood as the observations and
deductions of one who has tried to becomfc ac
quainted with this new and undeveloped re
gion, and to be helpful in .the development of
its latent resources. If the thoughts and sug
gestions herein ahall be instrumental in'stim-
Swmdles WorKed Tfa Mails
plel as one of the coming rb-1
sources of the Pacific northwest. ; At the sug
gestion and with the generous permission of ready sale and at prices profitable to the pro
The Sunday Journal I now offer to your read- ' :ducei; The apple is a wholesome and dainty
. - i food both in the raw' state and cooked m va-
-;?"n, ..r. F" Sw riou, way5If given equally intelligent xare as. these latitudinal lines, lln the main, however,
oenehts to' Uregon, Washington and ..Idaho the orange has received in its cultivation the' the lines above drawn define the limits of win
from the growing of the winter apple. . result would be a perfectly sound apple, in ; ter apple territory. ; . ' , ;; ,
I do not assume to write these thoughts as those' favored places where the apple orchard ' ' ' This zone ; takes in the .whole of Oregon,
can De grown ana nounsnea to tne Dest aa- wasnington ana xaano. rit must De borne in
mind, too, that m this winter-apple zone it is f f HE records , of the postoffice . depart- that he would now be able to tell pads for
TMAtRAit n.MMAJ..AfSMM. " . v "K"" ".v w. vy : ; ment are rich with examples ot the ?4 eacn, ana as tney wouia cosi mm -omy a
POCSNOtrCar OVCrprOdVCllOn; ndbe gullibility of citizens of the homVof- he would make a dear, profit of 100 per cent.
The orange has for many years been the ob- in orchards that will be cultivated and cared V the braVe and the land of the 'free. No matter on his.investraenti 'The salaryand expenses
ject of the greatest care. No weeds are per-- . for as , the orange orchards have been. ; The how often some one may think of a new device had vanished. . - -.V:.'Vs , . j "
mitted to grow among the orange trees; nor European territory lying in thii zone produpes for fooling the people he can always find a ' n 'ulm'
fr I0?. :5ry,f-apples. .rK, ready market forhi. wares, say. the Washing AlTCSt PollOWS DlSCOVCry t
uUting the efforts of practical and -scientific A telligent solicitude for the orange there is no as I am reliably informed. On.this continent, -JL081 . V ; ; -Y' '--l---
men in the cultivation of the w nter annle in " lc east of the Kockv mountains. -few nlaces there - V1 .uv, u uvs
the favored localities of this section of -the - uame J.ti9 -to Mt ?W' but -'fe P,iId are where 1 the apple orchard cuts any. com--' !ld whe" the,average person, hears
iTYrrc - r""! VS ,,n th! - br cooking. It is a poor keeper. From the , mercial fieure.' In lower- Canada, northern ;.tht h cn ke an Unusually large amount
uuucu TiLai lctti . vi it pniprnriKintr inn rn n i ann ia. . .t..j : a. . j.a . . , .
- t; ; w- i" - v " v
liUpon th.e discovefy.of this, fraud its author
was arrested, gave $1,000 bail and skipped.
He had made enough out-; of his Utopian
scheme to allow him. to"; indulge in this little'
I will not only have conferred a favor uoon the ''. Whether the market is-favorable or not .-it, ftllliitLV .sum. Previous' exoeriences have taueht him .extravagance. ' Not a word" was- heard from
grower of the- fruit, but upon the consumer must be shipped at once after it is ripe or not' Michigan in verv narrow limits in ' Kana ' -nothing he is willing to 'pay for another very his victims. By American greed they had
and the country, a, well , ; - at .11 For reason the .orange crop not ;
(The apple, it is asserted, possesses most im-. infrequently becomes a liability to . the pro-rai8ed - ; , t . -ability, as little effect on' him-as the previous ' stand for it. The fiddler; always has to De
portant therapeutic qualities, .il am not pre- ducer instead of An asset. - . ; ' -v 4 H . ' ? . r ; - ; one. " " , ; . r ' ,paid sooner or later. .. v' ' v --S- ''
pared to affirm of deny this claim, I prefer to ' The question may be asked: "Is there not Fnr thr Dff ''Rlllfc ' H r-; I ' Puzzles and the. reward .which their solution r. Another, undertaking that had for its sole
consider the apple as a food rather than as a- great danger that the apple, like the orange " ""Trr the: benefi. mMklnd was instituted
medicine'' If it i hoihi n much ttihttr mow- iJ nvmnuiiitinn k.Air. . , .Tti tMt rfiH ran k Mf. n.t..r. tt, m -j. tn th A mnVan Tmhlir. If a man ran he made ' bv a magazine.. " ..The Fireside xavorite . will
osition to the grower?" This is z very perti- crop is supplied by a sufficiency of moisture at rith for life; by; solving a mere rJuzzle he1 is be its designation, lor cnamy s saice.
nent question. I do not believe it at all prob- the proper time during ;the growing season, " more than willing to risk the amount of a sub- TThemen- back of ' this pubheafaon fought
able 'that there will be; an overoroduction.of : This'is possible' where nature's orecioitation scrintion to the paper. that makes him such a it would be quite a nice little thing for ; tnem
good, first class Winter apples. Of course it 5 is supplemented by artificial aid in some way magnificent offer.' r 1 ' ? A?.?? a Pa"Ie to the public for solutloiuj.
or pther. In ; the -Pacific northwest there are '.l' ... ' x r i 1 inouK"1 was V w tuf, "nu
favored valleys where all the conditions unite '; HOW' tHC P0St0lIlC6 WOrRS , sh?rt whlIe he Pzzle appeared with the ad-
to produce the finest apple.that can and .will i - : t. . ' ' , - vertisement that the solver would rweire
be grown with' intelligent cultivation. No- "When the postoffice.department learns that quarter of the money which it Brought to the
where else on this continent do such favorable -V person- is engaged ' in using the mails for owners of the paper. And then the inevitable
conditions exist. In these places will, in a 6Ucn irauuuicnt. putpvro, uu . supuianon a suDscnpiion rosung
few years, be the highest priced lands in this ,
country, because they will be the most profit
ible. : : . .; : :" -: V , ' -V'
While those engaged in growing the winter'
apple ' in this 10-degree zone are . competing
It does not require any special skill to be able
to affirm that the apple is a most delicious
food. v It is-in that light I wish to view itr "
UrCZllCSl 01 All rrUIlS, " will-not pay to raise poor apples any more
' .. 5 . . 1. n H . . 14 A a . .m TL'.
iTS.' ?P if 1 y trhe greatest of ail known -jmarket gets the best .orange that the gYower
fruits. .Ithas-reached this place in the world's can produce. In the future that must be the
case with the apple. The product is going to
. be better because the apple grower is learning
how, to guard against diseased trees and to
' keep the fruit tree from pests that will "mar the
fruit; They are learning, in fact have learned,
that the apple orchard should be kept clean,
should be cultivated and given every possible
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estimation without ha vintr received the srien
tific; care in its cultivation that other fruits
and especially the orange have been given. It
is only in very recent years that those en -,
gaged in raising apples have shown that fruit
any but the most ordinary care in its cultiva
tion and treatment, f In my. boyhood days on
the farm in Illinois, apple orchards were quite
common. .' -They rarelyloccupied more than an
acre or two of land. These orchards were sel
dom cultivated., - Once, in a while the trees
would be pruned. , Usually the orchard was
used as a pasture- for calves and hogs. The
fruit was of no special varieties, and no at
tention was paid to '.quality.' Nature was re
lied on in the mayfor crops of these orchards.
Little more was expected than that they would
afford shade and - food at least fit for hogs.
This was, not so. very long ago. ," I don't un
derstand the reason" for. this long, neglect.
The apple has shown that it is very respon
sive to good i care. " This is manifest in the
great variety of colors they assume as well as
by the flavors produced in the ripened fruit.
Already a seedless apple has been produced.
In this respect it has reached the highest at
tainment of the orange. ' In all other respects
it has, with much less care, outstripped the
orance in the race for excellence., , , ...
The. winter apple is 'a great keeper ; some
varieties remain in excellent condition for a
care. -Where the orchard can be irrigated the with but lO degrees pf the earth's area, those'
forbiddine the delivery of . mail to him, or his
agents; The matter of preventing the con
tinuation of the1 project o far as he is ; con
cerned is not so easy. ; , T
Very often in cases of this kind the postal
authorities say that persons who. nave -been
Where the Proofs Went ;
' The puzzle was solved. - The fortunate ones
received 25 cents, just one quarter of what the .
advertisement brought from each reader, i he
supply of moisture is so regulated that the
trees will get as much as, and no more moist
ure than, is necessary to produce the best re
sults. The trees in the future will not be al
lowed to overproduce and thereby - exhaust
'their vitality, 'airid'.'produce. an inferior apple.
J he sou will be .watched with intelligent care
n fro erf A n ' nrnHiirintr : ritrmia fniit will tt
r.mr-f;r . wftn fin A&rm r,f tU rth' i.r. O resent ' the action of thedepartment in direct
fa,.. 4h aChu Arrr n( nnrtu itUi"' ine that their' letters shall not be delivered,
to the 40th degree ofJsouth latitude is to be. hey argue that i tney care to invest money rfJince aepanment. k . y . w
found citrous territory. -Furthermore,-the 10 i" his . proposed plan, it is the business of no Ten yards of lk for 10 cents was Wit that
degrees of winter apple zon'ej embraces, or .. e to interfere. . -- . ; y ; ; '. .- . ry no feminine fish could resist. The originators
'-r.i..--- tu. n-r., - An instance when the government received of this proiect-made a tremendous haul. What
and the necessary elements artificially Supplied ters of the north, temperate zone and -likewise frno.cbmplaints from the; perscfts. defrauded and woman could, affordto miss such a chance?
to keep the orchard to the highest efficiency, the termini of the greatest transportation lines . .- ..ws .." ' 1, , V, if. T mi," TIi,
The ; Apple Producing" Zone -
1 he, apple hot many .years ago was poured tion lines that will afford .the greatest possible
Jiuojoarrpis or snoveica.inio wagons ana nan-, ; facilities for; getting the product of pur or-
patfonizing a iman affected by a fraud, order : residue of the profits was spent by the pro
prietors, in ; tne : law courts aeienaing mem
selves against the order issued by the post-
nn'ljflH ant ea ; Thui w( are in nrrt-rimitv was that of the
to those great. markets to wmcn tne appie wui."."'"1w
'Franco-German Electric Pad Alas and alack! They received silk and the
be shipped and are ih'fhe track of transporta-
f romised ten 'yards but it was sewing silk,
t mightv haVe passed muster "as material for
died as corn was handled.' At the same time shards to .these markets
tne oranges; we ate came wrappea in, tissue ? v,.; . i .. . 4
paper and were carefully packed in wellven- nil jt in llrCfJOTI
tilated boxes. .The atiole of the future is o- !aiU610. VI,KKU
ing to be handled As the orange has been and Thetforegong are some of the reasons lead-
-1 '
This alleged comoanv advertised for agents
to sell its goods, offering to pay a large salary a dress in 'the Pacific islands, but hardly in
and expenses, but before one ctfutd qualify for this country. . ; ' V
such; a. position he. was expecfed to buy twd of; Clairvoyants and fortune tellers "seem to.
fthe; electric' pads, the electricity of which'con- have the greatest hold uponlthe public. These
sisted of a mustard plaster. These were to be -persons change tleir names' as often as they"
sold and testimonials secured celebrating their ; can think of a new one. Exposed from time to
virtues.. After this had been done the pro-' time, they nevertheless continue to make a
'is,-for. the price it will bring will justify this , ing'mc. to believe and' predict that the winter '. spective representative of the company was good living from men .and women ; who are
care. There will always be a-demand for the.' apple is going to do more for the Pacific north-; ; supposed to be on the road to wealth. , . : " ' . anxious' to learn tfie future.- It is one branch
apple produced and handled as it will be in the - west than the growing of the orange and the ' That was as far as he got The next com- of the prophet business in which thert is no
future. '
' ' lemon has done for California,; that from this munication from -his future employer stated .lack of profit in its own countrr