Show APPLES BETTERTHAN WHEAT Fame Startling Figuring Done by an Enthusiastic En-thusiastic Oregon Editor That it will not do to put all of ones eggs in one basket has been thoroughly demonstrated by the berry crop this season sea-son With thousands of crates ripe the ability to reach market is without any fault of ours suddenly taken away The strawberry crop has been the principal one of this section and while it will not only hold its present yield but will double and treble it it will in a year or two become of secondary importance Prunes peaches cherries and small fruits generally are a necessity to the fruitgrower because they furnish him with money early in the season as well as early in his business They are a means to an end furnishing money to support the family and to improve the I farms They all bear one fatal objection as a crop to be relied upon and that is the absolute necessity of finding a market mar-ket for them as soon as they are ripe This may not be true of the prune but for it the same condition existsit must be taken care of at once when ripe The fruit of Hood River the one that is to make her famous as well as prosperous pros-perous is tho winter apple That can bo kept It can be gathered leisurely once in baring bring better and steadier stead-ier returns and at the Very least outlay John Sweenys orchard last year its first year of bearing produced more net money than would or could have been derived from the same area of land sown to wheat in 36 years This year it should yield 50 times as much next year 70 times as much and then for 20 years 100 times as much In other words ono acre of winter apples is worth more year in and year out than 100 acres of wheat Six acres of good orchard will yield a larger not yield than a section of wheat land Multiply the acres in Hood River valley by 100 and some idea of the wealth that it will eventually produce may bo gained I In other words every section in fruit will produce a cash value equal to three townships of wheat Tho winter apple is going to accomplish this result and the next few years as tho young orchards or-chards como into bearing will prove the truth of this assertion though it now I seems a wild one Wo can but reiterate our former words Plant apple trees I Twenty acres if you can ono tree if that is your limit but plan at every opportunity j oppor-tunity When this valley is an orchard from the mills to the summit east of us I and from the liver back for 20 miles then only will it have attained fnL development Hood Biyer Or Gin F1Iir S < I 1 |