The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-10

in all parts of the continent and the
world for the reason that the Spo-
kane exposition is neither insutar nor
sectional People in every state, ter
ritory and province of America and
every country in the world are inter-
ested in the supply of food, fruit and
material for the manufacturing indus
tries of every other district; noI only
because these are interchangeable
through the process of trade. but for
the reason that a knowledge of the
total supply is necessary to the intel
ligent treatment of the problem of
each districts share of the supply.
Thus the value of the lessons in COM
PARSONS cannot be overestimated.
Observe Different Packs.
The various methods of selection
and pack can he balanced at the ap-
pie show as at no other exposition.
Whether complacently secure in the
belief that his exhibit does not suffer
from comparison or is suddenly up
set in a cherished notion of cultiva-
ton or pack, the grower is there to
study the methods of others. While
this feature. in a measure, is attend
ant at the great state fairs, it is most
peculiarly patent in the apple show
There is a very good reason: 1t is
not possible at an exposition of the
products of any state to show why q
certain fruit or other agricultural
product of that district is better than
its neighbor by the process of multi
plication of exhibits. There is not
space, there are not the exhibitors in
sufficient numbers and there not
the centralized motive.
Market Situation.
No more convincing argument in
behalf of the excellence of the pro-
ducts of apple orchards in the North
west has yet been presented than that
put forth by the handlers of fruit in
the United States and Europe during
and since the first apple show They
were quick to see the possibilities of
high grade apples in eastern and for
eign markets and they snapped up
every offering of fruit at top prices.
1t is not out of place to say there was
ready market for 5000 cars Of
northwestern apples over the output
of the orchards this season The crop
is short in the northwest this season.
but the growers WILL receive more
money for their apples than ever be-
fore in the history of the industry.
The total crop in the United States
this year is not more than $1,000, 900
M tly1i nI,
is for foreign trade, as against e.
100000 barrels in 1896
Industry RevOlutionized.
There were periods in the history of
apple growing in America when the
fruit was actually a drug on the mar
ket That was before Orcharding be-
came an established industry in the
northwest. Eastern farmers then did
not grow apples: in fact, all they did
was to pick them from the trees and
dump them into barrels. Time work
ed changes, and the apples of Wash
ington and Oregon gradually found
their way eastward. They created a
market for themselves, limited as If
was, and the growers began to ex-
tend their orchards. and make "a bus
mess of apple culture.
People Want Fancy Apples.
Conditions developed the fact that
much better apple could be grown
by intelligent cultivation than by the
haphazard method of letting the trees
care for themselves. The product of
the orchards of the northwest were
received with favor not only at home.
but also abroad. and when the peo-
pie found the better apple, they were
no longer satisfied with the inferior
fruit. They demanded the best. and.
in many instances, the growers were
not prepared to supply the new stand
ard. They were not equal to the task
of improving their orchards: they
permitted their trees to run down.
and as result the fruit became so
unattractive that it could not be sold,
and thus the position OF supremacy
gradually slipped away
Vast Changes i'm Decade.
Apples were so plentiful and cheap
in the New England and other east
ern states from 1895 to 1897 and in
1899 and 1890 that farmers with or