The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-09-01

| iSlation so that the denatured product
will be cheap. This is vital matter
to the fruit grower, hence it's consid
Grafton here How to utilize our
waste products is a question of great
Importance to the fruit grower. The
difference between prosperity and
failure is often involved in saving or
losing our wastes. If our culls and
wormy fruits can be made into alco-
hol, vinegar and jellies and jams, we
may many times, place the balance
on the right side of the ledger. Our
laws will have to be changed so we
can ship our waste products to the
still, vinegar or jelly factories. AS
our horticultural law now reads this
could not be done. Our culls and
wormy apples, peaches, pears and
prunes can be so handled as not to
spread any disease or infection and
sometime our laws will be SO changed
that this can be done.
The Apple Shippers Association
recently met in Buffalo, New York.
This organization is for the protec-
ton of those who are engaged in the
fruit trade, and especially in the
handling of apples. This is perfect.
ly legitimate thing to do. Apple
growers and apple shippers have
many interests in common and should
work together. The question of
freight and express rates, the supply
of cars, and many other matters like
these. are the things that are of com
mon interest to the growers and
handlers of fruit. Unfortunately there
are some things done that are for the
benefit of the dealers exclusively and
these are pushed to the injury OF the
growers. During part of the season
apple buyers are bears and after that
they become bulls.
Bears are those who depress the
market and the bulls are those who
raise the price. Now these apple
shippers often try to bear the price
of apples by sending out reports that
the crop is enormous and consequent
ly the growers must sell low. Some
times these reports are unfair and
not truthful. This year this associa,
ton reports the Washington crop as
200 per cent of what it was last year.
This is doubtless true in some Sec
tions, but it is not true OF the state as
whole, or else Prof. Huntley, our
state horticultural commissioner, is
mistaken-and I do not believe he is.
1t is easy to misrepresent the cOndi-
ton of things in this way. 1t is not
new thing under the sun for apple
dealers to overrate the crop and buy
it up at low figures, and apparently
to discover that the crop is much less
than reported-and then they sud
denly become bulls and raise the
price. Beware of these early reports
and receive them with several grains
of salt. l shall aim to keep the read,
ers of this paper posted as to the real
condition of the apple crop.
When I was in my fruit ranch last
| week | met Mr.. LOOMS, who is one
of the firm of e. P. Loomis & Co., OF
$3.50 Barley St., New York. The
house which he represents was found
ed in New York by his father in
1868, hence Mr.. Loomis has been
brought up in the business. He wants
forty or fifty carloads of strictly fancy
apples for their trade. He said that
they could handle but four of our
apples, these being the Yellow New
town, Esopus (Spitzenberg), Arkan-
sas Black and Winesap. He says that
our Jonathans are too soft and that
he can get better keeping Jonathan
in Colorado l have no doubt but this
is so, for the higher up you can grow
this apple the better it keeps. Those
| who are running wild on the Jona-
than would do we'll to make note OF
this fact. There are some other facts
| wish to call attention to. have
said again and again that the Arkan
sas Black was bound to come to the