Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-22
CBv w. E. BrindIey.)

vanouished his enemy, the eodling
seedless variety has been
,ooated which, aside from the fact
.tA il is much more valuable because
{. oves the waste of the core, is inn
q from the attacks of the cod
moth, a pest which annually costs
+ erican orehardists more than $lO,-
N goo.
no assertion made short time ago
+. John F. Spencer of Grand Junction,
|3s that he had propagated a seed
I'LL ample attracted great deal of at.
|&at lion. because horticulturists who
IA studied the codling moth and its
"a hods asserted that the introduc-
III of the seedless apple meant ex-
animation of the pest, since the seed
"a apple has no eye, and the moth
'hArefore has no means of ingress.
.|tple. isn't itS Yet the assertion that
.s is the case has not been denied.
IN. when Mr.. Spencer told about his
sdless apple, the apple growers all
~ Oregon declared that he had made
q new discovery, since they had been
sbpagating seedless apples for years.
fhe fame of Oregon's red apples,
.hile widespread, is not so general as
Should be. A dozen years ago few
|sbple knew that Oregon raised apples.
nan at the Columbian exposition at
.hicago, in 1898, the Oregon apple won
ID prize. The place where the prize
6ble came from is in Eastern Oregon,
district known as Eagle valley,
mere nature has scooped six-mile
lin out of sagebrush plateau; and
be- apple that won the prize was
umped along for As miles in a wagon
~ to the nearest railway station, and
hen bumped two thousand miles by
all to Chicago.
If an apple thus treated could win
prize, people said, what a wonderful
|eple country this Oregon must be!
'ibce then hundreds of apple orchards
Nc been planted out in Oregon,
Nshington, Idaho and other western
ties; but Oregon is still the Gland
Il big, red apples" competing with
4 Iissouri for this title, and success
fBn of triumphs proclaims the apple
|pg in the land.
Since the Chicago worlds fair, the
,|egon apple has won distinction at
.t th succeeding exposition, where
fpusands have admired the fruit, and
ID ties of award have grown enthusi'
ic in its praise. At the Pan-Ameri-
d exposition, Count Van Arnim, chef
ID a famous New York hostelry, SO
|4mired the luscious appearance and
so pleased with the flavor Of ore
ID apples that he telegraphed to Ore
ID TO have a supply shipped to him
81 any price. At st. Louis, Oregon
apwers were awarded the grand prize
most excellent apples as to size,
+ or and flavor.
The Oregon apple today commands
"A highest prices ever paid for APP
Is. In London, recently, Hood River
ewtown Pippins sold at 22s cd
y 43) per bushel box of forty-hye
|tunds, and in Scotland 1000 boxes
1ld at Edinburgh for 2Os per box,
pile Scotch apples were TO be bought
y Is Cd. These prices are equivalent
3 about cents an apple. And the
Rples are worth the money, if ever
y lples are.
AT the Lewis and Clark exposition,
|bich is to be held at Portland from
|pne TO October Is next, the most
'cmplete apple display ever gathered
'of an exposition will be made. More
ban one thousand boxes of the choie-
y apples grown in the apple regions
psf Of the Rocky mountains will be
Inhibited, that all may know the stor'
= told are not mere idle boasts, while
the experimental gardens, which
N situated in a charming ravine in
p western portion Of the grounds
fple trees two years old will be
Down actually bearing edible fruit
\ +. Van Deman, formerly pomo-
sgist for the United States govern
ent, has been engaged as judge OF
e apple displays, and will classify
Ae fruit.
The value of the Oregon apple crop
1903 was 100000. Probably In
04 it exceeded an even Million Tor
e number and size Of the apple or.
fards is increasing by leaps ana
Ruhds yearly, Oregon fashion be.
Feen 1890 and 1900 the number OF
Rple trees in the state more thaA
ubled. Four eOunties-Linn, Oiaek.