White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-01-28

than heretofore is the newest winter
sport. United States cold storage
holdings totaling this season the
largest ever known are disappear
ing at the rate of 100000 barrels a
month, increasing the average rate
just one half
The government bureau of agri-
cultural economic reports that Writ
tually the entire cold storage supply
promises to be cleaned up by May.
Relatively low prices are cited as
going far to explain the apple zest.
The foregoing is what an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Chicago,
unde, date of January 20, said. The
dispatch has been given considerable
publicity in newspapers published in
apple growing sections.
1T tends to dist1ount assertions
made, apparently from authentic
sources, that apple consumption in
the United States has been on the
decrease for years.
Commenting on this phase of the
apple industry the Yakima Herald
says: "Ore of the most colossal mis-
conceptions regarding production
and consumption of apples that the
country has ever known is the often
repeated assertion that the consurnp-
ton of apples has decreased and that
production of apples.
For years practically everyone
connected with the apple industry
has held to the view that consump-
ton of apples was decreasing. The
statistics of production have been
taken without thought or discrimi-
mating Interpretation and the conclu-
son was reached that fewer apples
were being eaten.
No Storage 20 Years Ago
It was assumed the tonnage
grown 20 to rs years ago, which sta
t;st:cs show to have been large, went
into consumption. Those were the
days of no facilities for cold storage.
Thousands of tons Of apples rotted
in the orchards or if gathered much
of the Sonnage spoiled before it was
used.
When little common sense is
used in the Interpretation of the crop
estimates, and the storage figures
are taken into account, it will be ap-
prec:ated that the consumption of
apples has grown steadily. When the
commercial production is considered,
it is evident that the effective pro-
duction has actually increased.
1t fel. to the lot Of r. G. Phillips
cf Rochester, N. Y. secretary OF
the International Apple Shippers
association, probably the best posted
man in the United States on apple
production and consumption, to ex-
plode this bubble Of decreasing con-
Era of Conservation
eve are in tie midst of the great |
est commercial apple production and
conservation that the world has ever
known," said Mr.. Phillips in discens.-
sing the situation. "It is the gospel
+ nth. Paw no attention to the CEN
sus figure of the number of trees IN
existence and as related to past de-
cades. Such figures a-e misleading.
"Not so many years ago trcm ~
per cent to IS per cent OF the COM
u1ercial apples of the United States
were grown and stored in the state
es New Yo.k. That condition no
longer exists. The state of WASH
ingtcn, for example, has long ex-
ceeded New York in average. pro-
duction. In fact the extraordinary
growth of the boxed apple states
During the last rs years is one OF
the great romances of horticultural
development. In 1900 the states OF
Washington, Oregon and Idaho. were
zero from a commercial standpoint
YAKIMA CROP MOUNTS
, "In 1900 Yakima shipped about
200 cars. In 1904 Wenatchee ship
ped about the same number. "A
Single carload was shipped from
.O.egon to New York in 1898. Idaho
was unknown as producer of COM
mercial apples in 1900.
{ I'm 1900 this group of states was
not acommercial factor in the apple
world. In 1923 these states produced
over so per cent of the commercial
apples of the United States.
("The Shenandoah Cumberland sec
ton is another case in point with its J