The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
ARE IN FEAR OF
 WESTERN FRUIT
Connection Is Worrying the Germans Far More
 Than Pests.
Reasons Why Some of California's Exports Are Discrininateo
 Against

A letter was received Tuesday by Man- ager Filcher of the State Board or Iraue from Hamburg, Germany, under date oi March Il, and written by Mir Edward Sommer, a gentleman who was III MT Pitchers employ at the time he had Call fornSa's exhibit in Hamburg last summer which contains some points of general lh- terest to California. The letter says
 "The German fruit-growers are hghtlng hard to keep the California fruit out think this is due a good deal to the re- suit of your exhibit here last summer They have seen that California has the nerve to go ahead in the typical Amerl- can way. This is what they fear more than the fruit lice. Schutze. an importer of California fruits has heard that your State Is talking of making another e1nlois in Europe, and he is strongly opposed to it. He says you encourage too many peo- pie to ship. and thus spoil the markeG He says when irresponsible people snip the fruit is sold for anything and the growers do not get the money they. should. Jealousy, think, Is the cause or MT. Schutze's protest:
 dealing in California fruits and wine ln small quantities, which he. has to buy from the importers because his means are not sufficient to enable him to import himself. But he says:
 ''In spite of hard work and small profits l am satisfied. Nearly all the hotels. boarding houses, the Hamburg hospitals
 
 show them how to prepare the fruit ac- cording to the methods taught by you at the Hamburg Exposition, and when pre- pared this way they like it and buy IL again; but the price l have to pay here for California fruit and wine is too high and leaves me very little profit l am glad to know your State is raising money for more exhibit work in Europe or Berlin. Do you not think that a steady exhibition room in Hamburg would be much cheaper and give better benefits to California growers and dealers? It coulo be supported long time for S1OO0o.
 If 1 can get money enough l am coming to California to learn all about its prod ucts and business ways, to have the benefit of 1t in the business of dealing Tn your products, in which 1 am here trying to build myself up. I am promised some backing, which another season hope will enable me to import by the carload. MT. F1lcher has another letter from Germany from a big importing firm there. asking to be enlightened in regard to the true character of the San Jose scale and the extent of it's ravageS in Califor- Quarantine Officer and Entomologist for the State Board of Horticulture, that while this scale mad it's origin in San Jose, it is now practically extinct there, and is less of a pest in California than in many of the other StateS-that, as a matter of fact, there is no danger from it whatever to be apprehended from the dried fruit trade. MT. Craw has promised to write a full statement regarding the situation that exists here in relation to this scale, and the origin and character of the pest, for the benefit of Mir. Pitchers German cor respondent, and the latter hopes to have said information published in Germany as a means of allaying to some extent the apprehension there regarding the impor- tations of California fruits.