The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-12

well and the Tokay grape crop will
be very large. Hood river will have
$4,000 crates of strawberries. and rs
per cent of a crop of apples.
Wenatchee Apple Crop.
"wenatchee shipped 500 cars of ap-
plies last year and expects to have
nearly as many this year owing to the
new acreage in bearing which will in
measure offset the other reverse
conditions. Wenatchee is very light
with Newtons and Spitzenbergs but is
going strongly in Winesaps.
Walla Walla suffered some damage
by the cold, but expects fairly good
crop of Italian prunes. At The Dalles
the conditions are just about the same
as at Walla Walla.
Mr.. Day, who spends a couple of
months of every year in the fruit pro-
ducing districts of the country has
been in North Yakima every year for
the last decade. He has just been in
California and other districts named
and came into North Yakima yester-
day from the Toppenish district
where he has been investigating the
fruit conditions.
Is Seeking Three Things.
There are just three things I am
looking for said Mr.. Day land spell
and pronounce them all the same way:
Quality; Quality; Quality. That is the
thing. Where is the use of shipping
east an inferior article when the
freight and other charges are no
greater on the best that can be pro-
duced?'
1.-The apple production says Mr..
Day "of the United States was 60,000,-
900 barrels eight or ten years ago. 1t
has been $4,000 900 to 100000 bar
els the last two years. Allowing three
boxes to the barrel this shows short
age of 90,000,000 boxes. 1t will be
some years before this deficiency is
made up and in the meantime the pop
ulation will have increased to over
100 900, 900 consumers. In addition to
all this quite a proportion of the or
chards now planted will never. for one
reason or another, come into bearing.
There is nothing to fear for the future
so far as overproduction is concern
ed However it is desirable to grow
only those kinds of apples that exper-
fence teaches the soil and the CHM
ate to be unusually we'll adapted to.
The Newtons, Spitzenbergs, Winesaps,
Jonathan and Delicious seem to grow
very well here but in my opinion, for
an all round proposition, I think that
the Winesap will stand at the head
in the future
Box Is Popular Pack.
"The box is becoming a great favor
tie in the east and is supplanting the
barrel and this for dozen well known
reasons. The box, among other things
is actually causing an increased con-
sumption.
81 would say also that D'Anjou and
Comice pears are two of the finest
kinds of winter pears for future use
although the Bartlett as summer
pear will always hold its own and the
consumption of Bartlett pears in sum-
mer in New York city alone, with it's
four and half million of people is
naturally immense. My advice to the
fruit grower no matter to what kind
of fruit his fancy leans is to pay es-
pecial attention to the production, Sc
lection and packing of strictly prime
fruit as such always brings better net
returns
Mr. Day and his son, will be at the
Yakima hotel today, have a great deal
to say that is intensely interesting, il
Illustrating as it does, the attitude of
the experts at the consuming end of
the line. Mr.. Day himself says, though
he is probably overmodest that he
does not know one tree from another.
He does, however. know the fruits and
the districts. He knows the men who
ship the best fruit and he knows the
needs Of his people in New York and
other needs of the European markets
He has been in conference with Messrs.
w. p. Sawyer, H. M. Gilbert and other
of the local growers and with some of
the dealers.
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