The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-10-01

with our shipments of winter varieties
of good quality
This statement from these New
York exporters of American apples
suggests several things worthy OF
our attention. Much has been made
out of the fact that there is good
apple crop in Europe. Some apple
buyers who are trying to bear the
market, as recently stated in this
paper, have been trying to make the
growers believe that the foreign mar
ket would not take many American
apples owing to the good crop at
home. While this might apply TO
some extent to early apples, 1t would
not be applicable to winter apples lot
the simple reason that foreign apples
are mot in it, when that stage is
reached. Again, this confirms my OFT
repeated statement in these columns
that if we raise only the high grade
apples we have no competition in the
markets of the world. If this is true
of apples grown in the east it is
doubly so of our apples. good
many of our Spitzenbergs, Newtons,
Winesaps and Arkansas Blacks are
shipped into New York and sell there
so high that the business is very
profitable to us. That shows that the
best grade of eastern apples are mot
in it" with our highest grades. Much
more must this be true when our
highest grade apples go where these
eastern apples have no competition
with the home grown product.
What of the apple market outlook
for the Pacific Northwest? 1t is good
much better than it was a month
or two ago. The apple buyers have
tried very hard to make out that the
crop is phenomenal this year. But
they are met by reports from the
growers that show their estimate is
far from being correct. An apple
dealer recently called the Rural New
Yorker to account for showing that
the apple crop is not phenomenally
large. This apple dealer says that
The crop this year is the largest ever
produced in America. The editor OF
this staunch and reliable paper comes
back at this dealer in this fashion:
1--WE are in constant communication
with hundreds of the best apple grow
ers in the country, and we print their
reports as they come. Our only OBJECT
is to learn the truth. We do not
know of any class of men better able
to Judge conditions than those VINO
report to us, and we stand by their
statements" l have read more or less
of the statements referred to from the
growers and am free to say that they
do not give support to the position
maintained by this apple dealer.
Who is to be believed? l certainly
agree with the editor of the Rural
New-Yorker that the growers are
much better prepared to give cor
rect statement as to the condition OF
the apple crop and, therefore,
would stand by their statement.
The Fruit-Grower of st. Joseph, MO-,
for the month of September, bears out
the position maintained by the Rural
New-Yorker. Editorially this paper
saws: 1.-THE Fruit-Grower has tried to
present in this issue reports giving the
facts from the standpoint or the
growers for the benefit of our readers
who have apples to sell. This months
reports show that the apple crop mas
deteriorated very materially during
the last month Bitter rot and other
fungous diseases have developed IN
some sections, and the late broods OF
the cooling moth have caused much
damage. Inasmuch as apples Will be
| oulIad mora CLOSELY this season than