Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-12


Some OF these apples were scarcely
larger than common marbles. Only
great scarcity of apples permits APP
pies like these. which can be measur-
ed in a quart measue to be placed
upon the market.
1t is not hard to find the caues of /
this great decline in the quantity of /
apples produced for the market. We
cannot have all the wonderful bene-
fits of modern times without some
attendant evils. When the fruits of
all countries and the ornamental
trees and shrubs from all parts Of the
world are distributed to every part
of our country, we obtain with this
fruit and these trees and shrubs
insect pests and tree diseases from
all parts of the world. 1t has been
the spread of insect pests and tree
diseases over the country which has
been responsible for the great de-
crease of production of apples. The
/ San Jose scale has been the most eff
fective Of the reducers. East of the
Rocky mountains apple orchards
have in most cases been side issues
The farmer who owned an orchard
has not been willing to give that or
chard the care which an orchard must
receive in order to keep down the
pests and produce marketable fruit.
You need only to go over the VIII
jeanette valley and see what is hap
pening to the old apple orchards on
the average farm to know what is
. happening to the average apple or.
: chards all over the United States easi
of the Rocky mountains.
f 1t is probable that the decline IL
4 apple production will soon cease an6
t be followed by a period of growtl
j. until we again produce IN the United
e States a supply adequate to the de
d mand. The increase of population
e in the United States of itself increas
h es the market demand at the rate o
l. probably 100000 bushels per yeal
d There is also a vast deficiency to b
r made up. The question of vital IN
ID terest to us in Oregon is, "Who
p going to take advantage of this OF
r portunity and supply the demand
,e Is the weight of advantages on tn
IN side of the people east of the Rock
mountains or with us? We must col
&c cede the east the advantage of pro
10 unity to market On the other han
m the fasteners concede that we pr
M duce apples of greater beauty ths
an theirs. They attempt to offset tn
oo admission by cleaning that their a
no pies in the east are better in qua
oo ity than ours. AS this claim is MAJ
On by them in good faith it needs son
40 attention in spite of the fact tn
40 the consumers in eastern cities a
m willing to pay almost as much +
M an average box of our apples as f
oo barrel of their own. When ask
M why their apples are better in qui
~
formulated a theory that ours mi
be of poorer quality than the caste
apples because of certain china
conditions they suppose to exist he
but which. in fact, do not exist. 7
old, and usually reliable, Springf'
Republican discussed the matter
itorially few days ago. If refer
to our warm, humid climate a
the moisture-ladened winds VIII
=, bring us the semi-tropical and me
ture ladened air which results fir
p, the proximity of that Japanese oce
stream some of our boomers h;
told such imaginative stories abo
'llh I will read a sentence or two:
an 1T is easy to produce fine look
-. apples in a warm climate but not
IN Easy to grow apples as fine in qu
~ ty and as solid in substance as
grown in our temperate regio
III" Fruit of this kind has lately come
Springfield from Oregon and Wa
ington, where it has grown under
- warm influence of the japanese Oc
~ current, and splendid-appearing Fl
it is; but the nice quality of the
pie of the northeastern states see
90 to be lacking, and it fails to sa
"' fly the cultivated taste of the caste
er. who still regards the apple
"a, the superior of all fruits"
ket- We fully agree with the SPRING.
that Republican in it's evident belief
tier moderate summer Temperatures
,tis- dry air are conditions more IA
tes- able to the production of fruit
With high quality than are warm sunni