Show THE APPLE MARKET some prospective bichai lists feel the orchard business Is being overdone luellig on oil account of the large acreage being planted in ili the noi thweat this Is a ground groundless le fear I 1 car there is 1 no danger of overproduction for each bear ear ten times greater acreage of old orchards Is abandoned in ili the hast halt than Is planted in ili the pacific Koith thweat west the consumption of apples in the world is yearly increasing as the population pul pu aaion lation Is inci casing as wealth ani and civilization ale aie increasing inci easing figures gathered gai hered by the united states of agriculture shows a steady decrease in ili lie he production of apples rath barb year thousands of eastern orchards ire are aban boned to the san sail jose scale to the codlin moth to the wooly aphis to 10 to the blight anil and the other I 1 pests ests that prey upon the apple each I 1 year the filst mins a large percentage of 0 tile ho crop the farmer apple grower Is going out of business in liis his place reigns the scientific foni commercial mercial climatic and foll boll conditions render this occupation a hazardous one in the last hast a sure success in ili ali the northwest hence tile tho northwest is the orchard of the future in the apple crop was approximately Inia tely sixty five million barrels in ili 1908 the apple chop was only twenty three million showing a decrease of forty two million barrels in twelve sears the following figures prove the gradual diminution of the total output proving the improbability ill of an over production these se figures if compared with those ol ci the twelve years previous will wil ial nl so io show diminution in the he year barrels 1897 barrels IS 38 11 barrels 3 barrels 1900 barrels 1901 barrels 1902 17 barrels 1903 45 barrels 1904 0 barrels 1903 1905 2 3 bartels 1 1906 1900 barrels 1307 1907 29 barrels barrel i barrels tribune |