The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-09-10


actual locality or district where grown
anc no such box, crate. basket or
package shall bear the name of any
other locality, place or district other
than that IN which said fruit was
| actually grown
! That there is big money in ap-
pie orcharding, an industry, YET in
ITS infancy in the state of Washing
tton. AMI, in fact. troughout the north
west, becomes apparent when it Is
known that trees average five boxes
each and every season and that in
many OF the older orchards. con-
| tanning from so to IS trees. il is
not uncommon to harvest from 3 to
70 boxes. The younger orchards ara
set with from so to 1OS trees to the
iacre. thousand dollars gross the
acre is not uncommon in the western
part OF Spokane county. where an
pie growing has assumed a CONNER
cial Importance second to none in
the district. Forty and fifty-acre or
Guards, containing from $500 tn
| 4,ooV trees are not rare. These are
o.
seSt orchards in massachusetts. which !
mas an orchard of LOO trees ats
fa!denVliie. declared to be the larg-
est IN New England. However. big
orchafds are not the rule. as there
| IS money III five and ten acre tracts
which, with the practice of irriea. |
ton, have been made heavy pro-
ducers. Thousands of acres of land
Tributary to Spokane have been mt
under the ditch in the last few years
aud thousands more will be added
as quickly as the material and men
necessary to do the work can be as
sembled. 1t has been demonstrated
that 2O-acre orchard. properly tend.
ed, under irrigation, VIII net moro
profit than the 10O-ac.e fruit farm, in
the east These small tracts ar. irt.-
ing rapidly occupied bv men, wbo
while working in Spokane and aear
by towns. find time to care for their
orchards. During the three yea;:
the two-year-Oid trees aie coming IN
to bearing, POTATOES. ,0rn and other
vegetables ale planted. and snail
fruits are 2ieo raised, the crops, In
many instances. more than ma''in@
the first cost of the lard In other
parts of the state the gofernmens hrs
Installed or is building giants u IL
rieate thOGsa pds OF. tcres OF land,
and it is estimated hy compotct:t
hur.iculturists that besore'191J more
than 10000 acres will be added to
the commercial orchards of Wash
ington.
While there have been good and
poor years in the history of the apple
industry in the United States. the
records show the export business has
been one of gradual expansion, and
while the growth probably has moi
been so great as it iwll be during
the coming few years it las been en-
co,iragng The Plumbers of barrels
OF apples exported to Europe was
239,252 in 1887. and in 1882 this
increased to 395.594. The number
had Increased to 1920 barrels in
1884, and in 1883 the export bus.-
ness amounted to ,047, ,409 barrels.
and this increased in 1896 to 2,919.-
SAG barrels and $4,000 boxes.
There was an unusual number o
applas produced in the United States
In 1886. crop the size of whlch,
considering the number of bearing
trees, may never be equalied again
It is estimated that 6o.00o,0oo par
rels of apples were raised In TINS
country during the year. Naturally
such an abnormal crop caused the
expectations of apples to thigh and
it did not again equal th/record un-
til in 1904, then the exports
amounted to 3,469,763 barrels and
i4l3.356 boxes. 1t il estimated that
the total will reach 4,0O0.OoV par
! rels or 100000 boxes. this year
and it will continue to increase more
rapidly than ever befora in the annai.
of the business.
It is not in apples alone that "ash'
f.ngton has come 10 the front as i
f nit producing state Reports r:pil
jri)ed by State Fruit CommissloLsf
Huntley and hmitthe 10 uos "
bert F. Meal t'F na' IN aou''''
10 almost four fail torrshlps OF APP
: lple trees. the S ate lad at the DC
Ginning of las wear 1929 plum
and prupe trees. 76i ,956 peach trees
.t5O0.633 pear trees. 2f3.4os che'is
trees. 30,6S9 amicot trees, $3.50
English walnut trees, 15.ls5 aimond
trees and e.asS ounce trees, ana
THAT thousands Of trees have neeh
nlanted since TIE statistics were satn-
cred for the f~~egoing statement
AUGUST WOLF.