The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25

SNOW the crop OF this year 1913, last
year 52.2. The twelve million barrels
increase above last year does not then
come from the United States, for this
country will fall below last year. Does
1t come from Canada? Canada is too
far north and too cold to raise fruit
successfully, except in spots where the
climate is modulated by large bodies of
water.
Canada Crop Small.
There are several small spots where
it is possible to grow good fruit in
Canada, but they have not generally
| done so yet, so that the principal apple
growing region in fact about the only
region that grows apples for the export
trade is Nova Scotia. Novia Scotia is
$50 miles long and 12O miles wide;
about half as large as the state of
Kansas. 1t is bounded on the east by
the Atlantic ocean and on the west by
the Bay of Fundy. 1t is also divided
in the center by a range of hills or
mountains. On the west side of the
mountain range, protected from frost
by the Bay of Fundy, is a narrow
strip of land about ten miles wide and
seventy miles long, where it is possi-
BILE to grow good apples. We have
not the statistics of last year for that
region, but the year before they ex-
ported 2S7,196 barrels. This is
equivalent to S61,5SS boxes. Allow
ing five boxes to the tree, this would
require 172,317 trees. Allowing so
trees per acre. the export acreage
would be 3,446 acres. This is about
five and one-half square miles of land
Now where is that twelve million
barrels coming FROM?
east Has Increase?"
Number two. 1.-The crop east of the
Mississippi is much larger than last
year." The government reports show
the crop in 81 states east of the Mis-
sissippi to average 4S.4 this year and
S0.3 last year. So the crop east of the
Mississippi is not larger than last
year.
Number three. THE crop in the
New England states is 20 per cent
larger than in 1905" The govern
ment reports show the crop in New
England this year to be 61.3; last year
81.
Number four. Growers in the
Southern states report crop one hun
dred and twenty-five to one hundred
and fifty per cent larger than last
year.
The government reports show a
group of thirteen southern states, in
Guiding West Virginia and Oklahoma
as having an average yield this year of
43.S, while the yield last year was 66.2.
Number five: 1.-The Pacific coast states
will have a smaller crop than last
year, but the decreases in Washington,
dol nd ~ a.
up by the increases in Colorado"
Decreases in West.
The government reports show, the
decreases in Washington, Idaho and
New Mexico, to be 22.7. This year the
estimate is So. Last year 77.7. Col
orado this year is 80, last year it was
81. Now this does look like the fifth
statement is true. But the deception
in all these figures of percentages is
that the number on which the per-
ccntage is based has to be taken into
account. Ten per cent on 500, is not
as much as ten per cent on 1000.
According to the estimates of 1908,
the number of bearing trees in WASH
ington was 2,735,S24; in Idaho $685.
$40; in New Mexico, 4S3,157. Total
number of bearing trees in these three
T,
time 2,0O4,S95; or less than half the
bearing trees of Washington, Idaho
and New Mexico. Counting in round
numbers, the 4S per cent increase in
Colorado, on 2,004,895 bearing trees
would equal 62,094, bearing trees
The deficit in Washington, Idaho and
New Mexico, of 22.7 per cent on
4,2O1330 is 966,305 bearing trees. So
ga ,to+4 Of
made up in Colorado, especially when
we come to consider the increased
number of trees in bearing this year,
that We're not in bearing last year.
More Errors Shown.
Number six: "Gains are shown in
Michigan and Wisconsin" The gov
eminent reports show Michigan this
year So. last year Sd. a gain of one
per cent. Wisconsin shows this year
55, last year So, a loss of eight per
cent.
Number seven: "The middle and
western states, report a crop double
that of last season."
There is not state in the union that
reports a crop double that of last sea-
son, except Nevada, and it only has
S3,393 bearing trees. Every bearing
apple tree III nevada cOulu SCdHu
thirty feet apart on less than 1000
acres of land.
Effect of Other Fruit Prices.
Another fact, not generally consid-
cred, and that is, that other fruit crops
effect prices on apples. If other crops
are scarce, apples are substituted more
or less. If other crops are plentiful,
and apples scarce, the other crops are
substituted. The reports show that
peaches this year average asa, last
year 67.1. Pears this year SIS, last
year Sc. 4. This shows a large de-
crease in peaches, a small gain in
pears. We trust the government re-
ports as the most reliable source of
information, because the reporters
have no motive for lying and the
others have. Generally, when people
try to deceive, they present enough
truth, to disguise the falsehOod: but