The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-08-17
UNIONS APPLE
CROP IS SOLD

Rae & Hatfield of New York city
we're the highest bidders this year fur
the fancy Spitzenbergs and Yellow
NewtoWns of the Hood River Apple
Growers union. The deal was con
summat2d last Saturday The price
has not been made public, but the
beard of directors ut lne union, who
conducted the sale aro well pleased
While this yeal IS Crcp viii not be as
lal ge as that last ytar the fruit prom
iscs to be OF even better quality
GI overs say tIey never had fine" aH-
pies on their trees at this season OF
the year.
Joseph A. Wilson has been secured
as inspector, both for the apple Grow
ers' union and Mr.. Hatfield, who was
in the city last Saturday to close up
the deal. The sale includes all l2S-
and above of the Spitzenberg and
Newtown apples.
Hood River apples, from growers
outside the Union, are beignnIng to
reach the Portland market. A mum
Der of small shipments Of fQuI and
Az tier Gravensteins went down Mon
day and were Offered at 5l5J an
81. 10. A handsome lot of Maiden
Blush apples, shipped in by the Rogue
River Fruit Growers Union, were
held at Sl25.
The latest issue of the Chicago
Packer contains a long report on the
apple crop of the United States, which
it figures will not average more tI@
40 per cent of an average crop. This
pessisimistic view is not taken by
Portland applemen. They acknowledge
a considerable shortage, but do not
go to such extremes. If the Packer is
ril ut, good prices will be realized 10y
American apple growers this year
~ Packer says:
10 looks now as though the crop is
90 ng 10 he very short one, 1t Ia
goiLs - 10 fully 10 per cent hort Of
last seasons crop, if not more The
detailed reports show that apples tH
many sections are dropping badIya and
that many orchards are infested with
fungus, scab and other diseases, which
in the course Of the next few weeks
can, by their ravages. materially do
crease the yield. A summary OF those
reports shows that in the New Eng
land states the yield will not reach
more than half of last year crop.
Baldwins, especially, are dying cut
particularly those which bore heavily
last season. An unknown parasite is
doing the work Reports from Now
York state indicate that the crop viii
not be more than 40 per cent of last
years crop. Weather conditions and
the ravages of fungi from now ON May
materially lessen this estimate.
In Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Virginia, the crop will not Lo Up to
the average. Delaware reports good
crop, but the output Of this state does
not amount to so much in a CONNER
cial way. In Maryland the crop Is
below the average. In the middle sec
tion, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have
less than an avreage crop. The yiol5
will in no case be az large as the yield
in those states last fall. In Michigan
there is the promise of something like
35 to 40 per cent of full crop. In Mis-
souri, the yield will be about il to %
per cent of the full crop. In the
Southwest, taking in the state of Al
kansas and the two territories, the
crop will be very light, not exceeding
Is per cent at the outside. Kansas
will have about 80 per cent Of fun
crop. Iowa, Minnesota and Idaho
have very poor crops Colorado re-
ports about an average yield. Cali
fornia has good crop, while the
Washington and Oregon crops viii be
short. Nova Scotia reports very
poor crop, while Canadian growers
will do we'll if they get 80 per cent Of
last years yield. Taking tho reports
of the apple growing states in detail
the prospects are that the crop will be
the smallest raised in many years.
The latest weather bureau reports en-
apple prospects are the gloomies, is
sued in years. Taken altogether it
loops as if those growers who will he
so fortunate as to have apples this fall
will realize good prices for them
The home demand promises to ho
very good, and already European i'm
quiry for American fruit indicates
that there is going to be a good out
let for all the fall and winter apples
raised.