The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-12-14
JUSTICE GIVES PREMIUMS TO
YOUNG COUPLES WHO'LL WE'D

! Michigan fellows admitted that w
had the color and all the other es
sentials but not the flavor. Tha
was the one thing they claimed TO
themselves.
1--WE think you have good eolol
but we believe you use wax. Wha
kind do you use? We think you hav
great colors on your apples but w
think you paint them. What kline
of paint do you use? Then the.
would come to the flavor. Well W,
stood it as long as we could but one
Michigan man got J. B. Shellenbergel
| of Ellensburg at the wrong time o.
day. The Kittitas man called him
and sent him back to procure the
: best Michigan apple he could find
/ then he chose a Kittitas apple JUS
like it, put up $40 as bet ant
stopped the first man who passed and
asked him to sample them. The mar
stopped proved to be an old Mis-
souri, apple grower. He bit into the
Michigan apple and got the flavor
Mister he said, that's mighty
good apple Then he bit into the
Kittitas apple. His face broadeneo
| into a smile. He bit again and closed
hi eyes in delight. Mister, he said
that am the best apple 1 eve'
tasted That said Mr. Morgan was
the first of a good many ten dollar.
that came to the Yakima valley or
the flavor test.
Valley Folk Worked Together.
''We yakima valley people" said
Mr.. Morgan, worked together in ar
effort to lay foundation for future
construction in the way of booster
building We showed the merits OF
our respective sections fairly I think
and honestly, but we did no knocking
There was too much knocking by
men who had real estate to sell. II
was section against section. We STOOD
for the northwest and particularly for
this part of it. 1t was a winning liue
for people believed us and took al
interest in what we had to present
Henceforth in sending men out or
/ such a mission strict care should be
taken to send out the biggest and
broadest men obtafnable, those who
are we'll posted as to places and con.
ditions and who can answer intel!i-
gently all questions put to them con.
corning the country and who will he
honest enough to tell the exact truth
Saw Few Orchards.
zone thing with regard to the
! trip as a whole that desire to say i,
this, that from Spokane to Chicago
from Chicago to st. Louis and Gowr
into Missouri, through Iowa, indiana
Illinois and elsewhere until I got on
at a southern Michigan station I die
not see 25 acres of orchard anywhere
In Michigan I saw one orchard OF
| $4,000 trees, mostly Jonathan and
WAGNER and it was good orchard
well cared for, free from pest though
with some fungus and showing care
The eight year old trees, were about
like our six year old trees and from
what l could learn the yield per tree
averages about half that we get here
I went into Pontiac to examine the
Champion sprayer and the manufac.
turers have promised to have one ir
the field here early next year. I told
them that there is not yet any spray.
err that fills the bill and that the
people who produce one can have the
market. The easterner is doing the
hest possible with his fruit and his
orchards and deserves praise. The
long and short of it, however, is tina,
he is outclassed. He can't compete
with the Northwest for he cann1,
produce the fruit. He grows in
Michigan and in other places a splen-
did apple but it isn't a match for ours