The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-05-22
SUMMARY OF 19lS-l9
APPLE MARKET GIVEN

The following are excerpts from
market summary Of the 1853 apple
crop prepared by o. ". SchleuSsneT.
specialist In the marketing of the SpO-
kane office of the Bureau of Markets:
From the standpoint of the grower.
shipper, buyer and receiver, the boxed
apple season Just closing IN the Pacific
| Northwest was unquestionaDly the
most successful and satisfactory one
ever experienced. Particularly is this
true In the state Of Washington, wher
shipments exceeded all previous rec
0rds, in spite Of expectations of a some
what smaller crop than had been har
vested the previous season. 'is re
suit was particuaIl ly gratifying in vie
of the fact that the total supply Of al
pies in the nited States far eXceede
the previous year, the drop IN the east,
and particularly in New York state.
| being large one.
Generally speaking, the yield tins
| past season was fairly salts sactory
although there was an unQuestione
| shortage in the earlier Varieties. whic
was counter balanced by very ahuud
ant crop Of late varieties, such "a
| Winesaps and NeWtowns. Not ONLY
was the yield of early varieties light
| but the general quality was rather or
dinary, and tha injury from worms eX-
cessive On the other hand, the heavy
crop of Winesaps was of exceptionally
good quality, and was not seriously
affected by worms.
The crop in Idaho was almost fail
ure.
The Montana production was about
normal. slightly larger number of
ears being shipped than in the previous
| season.
The Washington crop exceeded eX-
pectations, the total number of ears
shipped to April l6 being slightly
larger than the entire shipments for
the previous year.
The Hood River crop was good, but
the yield in the rest of the state of
Oregon was very light. Oregon ship
ments fell short of the previous sea-
son.
California was the only boxed apple
state having crop largely in excess
of the previous season.
The northwestern apple crop, and,
in fact, the apple crop OF the whole
country moved out very rapidly this
year. The consumption was undOubt-
edly stimulated early by the in fall by
a very conspicuous shortage of peaches
and Valencia oranges. The peach crop
in the northern states was almost a to-
tai failure. and the orange movement
from California after September was
almost negligible on account of the
loss due to the hot weather in June,
1917. Unquestionably the shortage of
these other important seaSonable fruits
stimulated apple consumption.
The total movement from the north
west was over 5000 cars short Of the
movement to the same date a year
ago, and this was very largely due to
the failure Of the Idaho crop. On the
other hand. the movement from all
other boxed apple states was some
what heavier this year than the previ
Gus one, and consequently the total
boxed apple movement was only about
800 cars short of the previous season.
The yield in New York state was tre-
mendous, the shipments from this one
state equaing those from all other
barreed apple states put together, and
being almost equal to shipments from
all boxed apple states. The movement
Of all apples to April was over 20
per cent greater than the previous sea-
son, which makes the verysfne results
achieved in marketing all the more re
markable. Twenty seight per cent'of
the entire apple movement of the
country during the past season origin
ated in the four northwestern states.
Other boxed apple states contributed
another ten per cent toward the total
movement, making a total Of 3o per
cent Of the entire crop marketed in
boxes, New York state alone contrib
ute1 over 80 per cent towards the en-
tire apple shipments Of the United
States, or almost exactly one-third.
Other barreled apple states made up
the balance OF the movement.
1t is probable that never in the his
tory of the northwestern apple indus
try has such wide spread distribution
been secured. Over LOCO dffer rent
towns and cities in this country and
Canada received northwestern apples
in carloads by direct shipment from
the Northwest This does not include
large number of towns which We're
doubtless also reached through diver.
slOns which were made later.