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HOMES' AND FAESf MAGAZINE SECTION
Among the Orchards of the Northwest
A Pag of Interertiaf Advic tad MkhuOIoo About Frail Large and SmalL
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The big problem the orchard-
itt faees the days, and it U
problem, (or commercial pur- 4
posea, u part of his work, is th
disposal of his crop. Mr. Steph-
ens has a fair ideas wall worth $
considering on how to obtain
the mai'unum eash yield from
apple orchards. 4
BY P. STEPHENS.
THE eommorcial apple orchardist is
often asked by his friends, "Do
you hope to find room to market
all the apples you are growing! " In
my own case I expect to produce in a
tingle season three hundred to four
hundred, ear loads of apples from the
orchards in my care.
What are the conditions surrounding
the future market of the commercial
pplet Recently, in Lincoln, Neb., 1
found Ben Davis grown in Kansas sell
ing at wholesale for $8 a barrel Jona
thans at 16.50 a barrel, and other va
rieties in barrels at similar prices.
Western box apples, wholesale, are sell
ing at 2.25 to 2.75 a box. The Yakima
Fruit Growers' Union is selling Wine
saps f. o. b. Yakima, Wash., at $2.25 a
box. These prices are extraordinary,
and arise from the fact that the crop
of apples for 1913 in the United Statos
with boxes computed in barrels, was
only 25,000,000 barrels as against 45,
000,000 barrels for the crop of 1912.
Production on Increase.
The average production of the United
States for the last ten years has fallen
to not far from 30,000,000 barrels an
nually. Whenever the crop falls below
40,000,000 barrels the commercial grow
er may be sure of good prices for his
apples, if propertly grown, packed and
marketed.
On the streets, my friends tell me
that oranges are as cheap as apples,
that while the consumption of oranges
' is up to the limit of production, the
orange dons not take the place of the
apple. The apple can be eaten for
many months in the year and can be
cooked in many and varied ways. It
will be difficult to develop any other
fruit which will really supplant the
apple in the markets of the country.
People tell us that by persistent ad
vertising, wide distribution and forc
ing the fruit into consumption, of ttimes
by very low prices, they have been
able to increase the consumption .of
the banana from 10,000 to 75,000 ear
loads annually. Their effort is to make
the banana the fruit of the workman
and the child.
Millions of Trees Planted.
The apple orchardist has these con
ditions to contend with. He must or
ganize a campaign of education, call
ing attention to the many and varied
uses that can be made of the apple,
and must endeavor to inaugurate dif
ferent systems of distribution. Under
previous methods, too many carloads
of apples were shipped to the large
centers. The smaller towns, able to
handle a car or one-half car, were often
overlooked and neglected. The retailer
Usually asks for more profit for his
jrork in distributing apples than "the
grower can hope to make on the entire
year's work.
To illustrate: In my home town I
apply the local merchants with ap
rdes at $1.50 a box, and they immedi
ately dispose of them at $2.25 a box, a
profit of 50 per cent on an article in
Bis bands but a few days. Should these
apples go on the stand or be sold by
the grocer In small lots, the selling
price is likely to be doubled. This phase
of distribution will require earnest at
tention. In the matter of production, we know
that millions of apple trees have been
planted in Montana, Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho. These states have the
climate, soil and water suited to large
production. What then will happen to
the millio of trees planted in the
states and sold to non resident inves
tors f
Incompetent Grower In Fix.
If the non-resident investors finds
himself able to give up his prosent line
tt work and to give personal attention
to his five or ten acres; or if he is
(his to place the care of his orchard
in the hands of. some capable friend or
some responsible company that can give
the same care to hia orchard they would
give their own, hie" orchard will then
become a producer of commercial ap
plet. If these orchards of non-residents
are not intelligently and skillfully
handled, and the fruit not graded and
honestly packed, then it will not enter
the markets.
A year of large production like 1912
surrounds an incompetent or financially
weak grower with grave difficulties.
Perhaps his capital will not allow him
to store his fruit in his own or some
other warehouse until the markets ask
for it. Perhaps his fruit is shipped be
fore there is a demand, or too many
care nre shipped to one point, or for
some other reasons it does not render
bim a suitable profit, then the weaker
and less successful growers become dis
couraged and neglect their orchards.
They then drop out of the race and are
no longer competitors with the up-to-date
commercial orchardists.
Ten Per Cent Produce.
Professor Bailey, a very noted and
reliable writer on horticultural topics,
statos that only 10 per cent of the
fruit trees sold by nursery men. ever
become productive aid bear fruit for
a continuous period. The others fall by
the wayside.
The production of apples is less at
this time than ten years ago for the rea
bods above suggested, while the citrus
growers and the banana trust have
taken up some portion of the apple
market, yet the production of apples
has fallen off, and during the next live
years the market is not likely to be
overstocked with apples. There seems
yet to be room in the expanding mar
kets of the world for extra fancy and
fancy grades of fruit, grown and mar
keted by the intelligent, up-to-date and
successful orchardist. , It is believed
that the Panama Canal will help to ex
pand the market for apples grown upon
the Pacifio Coast; The innamtants or
the islands of the Pacific and the
oriental races are gradually becoming
consumers of apples.
Bythe use of graders and by pack
ing in the most attractive and up-to-date
maimer, the orehardist can get his
product before the public in sush form
as to increase the sale and broaden his
market A year like 1912 should de
cidedly" encourage the orchardist who
has sufficient capital to construct cold
air storage houses either on his own
land or at his nearest railroad switch.
Thus equipped with storage facilities
under his own control, the orcnaraist
will not contribute to the depressing
overstock at any point by tnrowing un
solicited car loads on markets already
filled.
New Cherry Pests Are
Being Found
f infested with two serious in
sect pests, and my office re
ceives a great many inquiries concerning
methods of combatting them," said J.
R. Shinn, county agriculturist of Spo
kane. "The insects are the black
cherry aphis and the cherry leaf slug.
"Spraying with a combination of the
lime , sulphur, and the tobacco spray
known as Black Leaf 40,' just as the
cherry buds are opening has resulted
in preventing 90 to 100 per cent of
aphis infection. The mixture is made
by using one gallon of commercial lime
sulphur to 10 gallons of water, and add
ing one part of the 'Black Leaf 40' to
800 parts of the dilute lime sulphur.
"The cherry Blug is the progency of
a small fly which deposits eggs on the
lower surface of the leaves. . These
eggs batch into slime-covered larvae
that do so much damage by eating away
the green portion of the leaves, leaving
nothing but a network of leaf veins.
Two remedies have proven successful in
the northwest in combating these slugs.
One is the use of a spray containing one
pound of white hellebore to 50 gallons
of water, and the other contains one part
of 'Black Loaf 40' to 800 parts of water.
These sprays are used as soon as the
slugs are discovered on the foliage."
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FOUR CALVES '
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" SIXTY HOGS AND
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THIS ENTIRE PROPERTY
WELL WOBTH
118,000
EVERYTHING GOES, IF BOLD
THIS WEEK, FOB
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WILL REQUIRE 14,500 CASH.
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INC.
710 LEWIS BUILDING,
Fourth and Oak.
Marshall 4200. A-715S
5 Acres for $250.00
110.00 DOWB ABB 6.00 FEB MONTH.
. Burs S sens ol good level logged-off land,
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I'M throe railroads, Hi milas from a
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Perfect Title and Warranty Bead.
CHARLES DELFEL
313 Railway Exchange Bldg., between 3rd and
Fourth, on Stark St., Portland, Ore.
50,000 ACRES
Level Taller Land For Sals in Barney Val
ley, Harney Comity, Oregon, at Frlcei
Ranging From 120.00 to $30.00 Fer Acre.
Terms, ten per cent cash and the balance
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alfalfa, moadow grasses, fruits and garden
truck, Excellent and abundant water al from
tea to fifteen feet. - '
An unanrDaeaad Annnrtnnll nw
looking for home.. Lack of railroad trans
pertaiion has up to the present time kept
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under cultivation; however, the Oregon A
eastern Railway Company Is m engaged
in ooaetructlng a line into the valley, and
wiu o cesepieica in tae vary soar
future.
Fer booklet com
address
taininf further information.
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- 888 Btark St, Portland, Ore.
FARMS WANTED
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under cultivation and also what improre-
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104 Sherlock Building, Portland, Oregon.
A SNAP
A first class steam laundry. Fully equipped.
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