Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-08-07

LAST winter Frank Alling opened q
Les of experiments in shipping apples
RS and other green native fruits tc
eign countries. with a view of deter.
Ing what fruits and the varieties OF
"a are best adapted for shipment via
IN to far away lands, especially to
Orient and to South or Central Amer
. ports, says the Tacoma News. MI
,rous opportunities presented them
fes for Mr.. Alling to send fruit to
q liners leaving here every Is days,
Il the enterprising gentleman took adj
Mage of the fitness of events. He
md that Washington apples, pears,
<rries, plums and apricots can be laid
IN at Yokohama, Hong Kong or .,ther
is in the mikado's domain or the
Fery land in first class marketao
1dition.
y order to arrive at the number Of
Ts native apples would keep in transit
|ng the south coast, Mr.. Alling put
Teral boxes of hardy apples aboard the
1erican bark Guy G. Goss, which sail
from Tacoma last December for Bos-
4 with a cargo of ship spars and ium-
II Captain Mallett, master of the ves-
is a thorough down eastern Yankee
n took much interest in his charge. He
|ced the apples in a locker or heavy
rage box deep in the ships hold,
IRE he could conveniently examine
m at intervals and note the tempera-
b in the apartments. The Goss ar
I'd in Boston the middle of May, but
captain hurried to his home in Maine
2 did not forward the report on the
ples to Mr.. Alling until many weeks
er. 1t reached Tacoma a few days
}. and reads:
At this late date I send you report
The apples you put on board the Guy
'Goss Sunday, December 20. 1895.
days out, in latitude 2
yrees and 80 minutes south, and longi-
|e 12S degrees and 80 minutes west,
Z below the equator, and at point
1ost directly south of Cape Flattery,
west of Ecuador, and where the
Ather is supposed to be the warmest,
ned a box containing Baldwin and
rthern Spy apples. Ten of the
OWNS were more or less decayed and
lew were wholly so. 1 noticed that
larger ones were affected most. The
rthern Spies were in better condition,
four being at all specked and enc
ayed. The good apples were firm and
d. The Northern Spies were much
re juicy and retained their flavor bet
than the Baldwins.
For the first two weeks at sea the
lperature in the locker averaged Sc
rees Fahrenheit; third week, 6S de-
es and the remainder of the time So
rees.
January %, 1896, 81 days out, in Jati-
9 40 degrees and 20 minutes south,
ll41s degrees west, I opened a box
tanning Rubicon apples. Eighteen out
% of the apples were decayed, the
ater number of them entirely so. I be
Die ones were firm and juicy and of
! flavor. Since the first box was
ned the weather had been growing
dually cooler as we approached the
th pole, and on the date of opening
last box the temperature was "a de-
ss.
Upon arriving in Boston harbor the
box was opened, and only three of
apples were sound, three were par
" decayed, and the remainder rotten
he core. Those that were sound were
Days on the passage from Tacoma to
ton."
\. Alling is greatly pleased over the
pit of the experiment. In the first
,e he had made a wager with a Ia
ia gentleman that he could lay down
Ellington apples in Boston via Cape
n on a sailing ship in sound condition
won the bet. In the second place,
3 convinced from the showing. in Cap
Mallett's report that the delicious
les produced by the Evergreen State |
be shipped to Central and South
erican states as regular article CT
ie. Why" exclaimed Mr.. Alling to-
"just think of it; the captain did |
open a box until he had passed the |
lest point on the earth's circumfer-
}, and then found scarcely as many |
apples among the number as you
I'D be likely to take from box rur-
sed in the Tacoma market. The asst
OF fruit was not looked into until the |
had been driven down one side and |
the other of the two American CONT
IS, and then some of the apples were |
4. gave special instructions to the |
pain not to sort the bad apples at any
before the final opening. This he
rived. Had the bad apples been
IN out as they began to decay there
I'D doubtless have been many more |
I'D ones in each box at the end.
{ such results can be secured on
I'd sailing vessel, cannot we ship
fruit to southern coast points via
mer and land it there in prime condi-
)RTAGE IN OREGON FRUIT