The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-05-18
PEARS WILL
FIND MARKET
Kenneth H. Day of New York
Says California Bartletts Will
Be But so Per Cent of Crop.
STRONG PRUNE OUTLOOK
FOR THE GREEN FRUIT
Quality Apples Should Find a
Ready Sale, as Consuming Pop
ulation Is Increasing More Rap
idly Than the Production.

Messrs Horace w. and Kenneth II.
Day. father and son, of New York,
reached North Yakima Sunday on
their annual visit in search of knowl-
edge regarding the fruit yield of the
United states for the year. Messrs.
Sgobel and Day of New York handle
"a large quantity of Yakima valley
fruit annually. 1t was to them that
the special test refrigerator car went
two years ago from the warehouse of
the Thompson Fruit company and it
was from them that w. l.. Sawyer of
Parker received checks which estab-
Iished him as the record pear man
of the Yakima valley. For two
months the Messrs. Day have been
travelling the fruit producing sections
OF Tho country and they bring a mes
sage ~ cheer to the growers of the
Yakima valley.
California Weak on Pears.
california; said Kenneth II. Day,
will not have for shipment this
year more than 60 per cent as many
Bartlett pears she sent out last year.
We now figure her aggregate for this
season at 1900 cars as against 200C
cars last Year. For some reason o:
other the Bartletts are dropping and
the same conditions exists in other
Bartlett pear producing districts fur
Their north. l do not know how it is
with you people here, as we have not
AS yet learned, but every indication,
from our point OF view as New
Workers, is that such fruit as is of a
quality sufficient to entitJe it to lie
shipped east will bring excellent
prices. The Bartlett pear you should
remember. stands in a class by Itself
and has no competitor. What
mean by that is that the consurn er
who wants Bartlett pear wants ii
and you cannot tell him to take a
peach instead. He wants Bartlett;
and will pay the price. The consum-
ing population is increasing more rap
idly than the producing acreage You
people may not realize that but it Is
the case.
What the East Wants.
Speaking from the eastern point OF
view, | will say that what we want
are Bartlett, d'Anyou and Comic
pears, WineSap, Spitzerbers, Johna'
than, Rome Beauty and Newtowr
apples. Your peaches hardly reach
us and so far your Winner Nellis peers
are not up to the STANDARD of those
of California; The growing demand
rs we see it. is for the big red apple
by which / mean that tho white
sliinred apples 90 not command I
ready sale. We get rid OF the larSes
a. Lcne and export the smaller ones
Ant right mere | would call attention
to the need for producirii tht Nc"A
best possible fruit of any kind tina
can be raised. What Is the use 90
paving freight, icing an, commission
charges On inferior fruit? The hort
Gullur!st who is not making money i
the man who is growing ana attempt
Jig tC market ar inferior fruit. Mo-
only is he lniuring himself hut he IL
iniurinc his reishbor who is trying tC
raise the standard and his entire
community as well.
Apples and Pruncs.
"Incidentally, l want to say in con
rection with the apple production tha
it may be a surprise to your people
here to learn that 80 per cent of the
apple production OF Hood River Is
Spitzcnbergs and Newtowns. Those
are the apples they can grow anC
they are devoting themselves to them
They are producing fine fruit ano
methods.
'"Thcre is another fruit to be men
toned and that is prunes The out
look is excellent for the Italians Th'
market for the green fruit is increas
ing and there are but four producing
sections. which are The Dalles. the
Walla Walla country, a territory II
southern Idaho and you people herr
W u; &c
that the number of trees does not ap
pear to be increasing. In fact in som'
sections they are being cut out. O
course in the new Burbank prune
none Of you can compete with Cali
fornia but you have IA field o.. you
own and apparently excellent pros
peCtr.
Good Hope for Yakima.
Now YOU have the conditions
have mentioned, which are increased
demands in the cities, which are out
stripping the country sections; in fact
that trees are going out in the cas-
faster than they are coming in in tn
west, a curtailed crop because of Nari
Gus conditions and a demand for tn
things you best can produce, namel.
the pear, the red apple and the prune
In connection with the California
pear situation may be added the fac
that the canneries there, which di'
not operate last year, are in the mar
ket strong this season for the hes
quality of fruit. When we were il
California they We're paying $42.
per ton FOR Bartletts and we wer
told that they were anxious to con
tract at those and even greater fig
ures for future seasons. even offerin
five-year contracts. Men who shout
know say that there is not can O
pears in California and that the can
merry folk are ready to go as high a
$50 a ton to get the supply they vii
need.
because we have many friend
and customers here l wish to say on
other thing and that is to congratu
late you Yakima valley people upo
conditions which promise an album
dant crop in a season of eXcellen
pricesl'