The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-04-08
APPLE NOTES


The apple deal is winding up better |
than was expected, according to Wilmer |
Sieg, who is IN New York representing |
the North Pacific Fruit Distributors. |
"The demand has continued exception |
ally good" Mr.. Sieg is quoted as say
ing in the New York Produce News.
"Aside from the local demand the
European trade has taken the fruit
much faster than anticipated. There is
all probability that the boxed apple
deal will wind up much better than be-
lieved. The cheap prices seem finally
to have stimulated consumption to a
point where the fruit is moving rapid
ly."
The citrus fruit business is in very
bad way in every section of the coun-
try. Grape fruit crops are not being
harvested. 1t seems almost certain
that acreage will be decreased. Down
in California the orange growers are
said to be ready to go out of business.
Everything points to survival OF
Nthe ftest. The big acreages have
created for the time being supply
that has been turning heaven and earth
for a demand. Now, 1T seems, that
automatically that supply will decrease,
and the demand that has been created
will not be filled. In the course of time
the man with fruit orchard, be 1t ap-
plies or citrus fruits, will come into his
own.
The same course may be expected in
the northwest. The consumption of box
apples has been greatly increased.
However, on account of the disasters
of marketing, the unfit orchards will
be eliminated. The man with an orch
ard in tried and proven district, who
sticks to the business, has good days
head. And Hood River is one of the
best of districts.
Commenting on the Panama canal
situation from the viewpoint OF the
northwestern fruit man, bulletin of
the Northwestern Fruit Exchange says:
There is considerable disappointment
that the Panama canal has failed to
give more decided and immediate relief
to fruit shippers of the Pacific coast.
1t is still conceded that lasting benefits
will accrue; but time, patience and
perseverance will be required. When
the war ends and normal navigation
conditions are resumed, it seems prob
able that steamship companies will be
more aggressive to provide requisite
facilities for handling large tonnage
from Pacific coast fruit and vegetable
shippers. The citrus industry of Cali
fornia is pushing this matter more ac-
| a. nSh foafnr and nnrth-
western fruit shippers will share the
results of their efforts.
E. E. Schenck, chief engineer of the
C. & N. w. line at Omaha, Neb., who
owns an East Side orchard tract, has
sent to the Glacier an interesting clip
ming from the New York Times. A
special correspondent of that metropol
itan daily has written an interesting
article telling of the Kaiser's teachers
as great war aids. The professors have
adapted themselves to the situations as
they find them. Some are making good
soldiers at the battle front. Linguists
are assisting in the provinces with
breaking in raw troops.
But one of the most interesting por-
tion of the article deals with food and
material resources of the Germans.
Note the prominence of the apple, al
though it is metioned but once, in the
following clipping:
Prof. DR.. Carl Ludwig Schleich re.
Gently wrote an article on Abstinence
from Food" in which he stated that
Germans in time of peace almost with
out exception ate too much. He said
Zone has always hesitated to speal
it out openly, for social reasons. tha
in general not only the well to do. bu
also our workers and our poor, speak
ing strictly scientifically, eat far mor'
than necessary in order to be nour
ished. 1t is a proven fact that with |
couple of carrots, few nuts, an appI'
} day, and quart of water per day
one can gain in weight.
He added that an occasional "hunge
day" would do everybody good.
The ground for the new bread ordi
; nances was prepared weeks and month
ago by an effective press campaign, i
which many professors showed tha
mixed rye and wheat bread was NOR
nourishing than pure white rolls an
bread that black bread was even bet
ter. and that the addition of 20 pc
cent or more of potato flour would nc
materially impair the food value G
bread, while bringing with it advar
tages, especially the necessity of chew
D ing the bread more thoroughly an
thereby aiding digestion.
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