The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-03-23
WHERE FRUIT
IS PERFECTION
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sections in the Pacific Northwest
producing in greatest perfection not
only the grapes that thrive in Middle
EUROPE, but those originated in Spain.
ltal y, North Africa and Asia. Col.
ohel Brackett, pomOlogist of the de-
partment of Agriculture, travelled l5O
miles out of his way to assure him
self that grapes exhibited as Idaho
grapes were really grown in Idaho.
ana stated that after an exhaustive
inspection of the California vineyards
a few weeks previous to his visit, he
had seen nothing there TO excel and
little to equal what he saw in North
ern Idaho. The experiments of wine
making have resulted in notable sue
cess, the dry wines of the Riessling
and Sauterne type having been pro-
nounced by conniosseurs as coming
nearear to the European wines than
any grown in California, and these
wines we're awarded one of the %
prizes at the Pan American Exposi-
tion at Buffalo against 600 entries.
j. Schaeffner, of Clakston, is authoity
for the statement that his vineyard
makes l,5OO gallons of wine to the
acre, and that the cost of growing
his grapes, manufacturing them into
wine, allowing interest on the value
oftheland, will not exceed s. per acre.
This wine when two years old is easily
worth IS cents per gallon. Frank
Eberle, near Julietta, made 1900 gal
Ions of wine from three and one half
acres of grapes, besides selling large
quantities of the fruit, which also
shows the enormous profit on the in
dustry. The dreaded pest of the
grape grOwer-the phylloxera-is un-
known in Idaho. Idaho prunes are
already known on the Eastern market,
some varieties showing an unusual
and and pleasing combination of
sweetness and acidity. Chemical
analysis of the Dawson variety proves
that it appoXimatc3 the high sugar
content of the French prune, while
uniting with this quality it has an
acidity equal to that of the Italian
fruit
The excellence of Oregon fruit up
on exhibition at the st. Louis and
Chicago Worlds fairs, Omaha, Buff
alo, Charlestown and Paris exposi-
tions, have added much to the
states reputation as fruit producer.
Hood River won l6 medals on fruit
at the Chicago World S fair, including
seven on apples and the highest award
on strawberries. The largest apple
and the largest cherries exhibited at
the same fair were from Oregon, and
the largest pear from Washington. Z.
f. Babcock, Walla Walla, Washington,
took the first prize on apples over all
the world at the Paris exposition. At
Buffalo the state received 27 gold
neutrality-suspicious., 6; foods and ac-
cessOries, horticulture, pomology,
viticulture, IS; forestry and forestry
products, 2. Silver medals to all ex-
hibits, 33, of which IS went to horti-
culture; bronze medals, 70, of which
ID went to horticulture. At the same
exposition Oregon won the Wilder
medal offered by the American Pom
illogical society for the most perfect
fruit. At the Charleston exposition
the Oregon horticultural and pomolo-
gical exhibit captured "a gold, IA sill
yer and one bronze medal.
With the continued development
of the fruit industry the next decade
as in the past, with the continued
care of producing extra fancy quail
ties, there is no reason why Oregon
should not become as famous for its
fruits as California and Florida are
for their oranges. For the year 1904,
Oregon's fruit crops amounted to
81, Alb, 500: Prunes, 1862, 500; apples,
S935, 900; pears $3.50 peaches,
Sl86,O00; grapes, $4,000; cherries,
Sl25, 600; other fruits, SAG, 600.