Show HOOD RIVER APPLES GOTO fiO TO VLADIVOSTOK Fruit From Oregon Orchards Brings a Barrel on the Trees Portland Ore Dec 27 i- i Six Ix hundred boxes of the apples grown s-rown III in the thc Hood River Ills district have havo started this w ek ck on out a L Journey to Vladivostok lalI Siberia Carefully wrapped packed and amid boxed th this 15 fruit Is expected to reach ll its remote destination tIon via sa Pu- Pu pro got oot t sound a Vancouver II 1 0 and Japan in perfect condition IL It Is probable that no other fruit pro product of American or- or s is shipped so 80 great a distance 5 So 80 perfect are the time methods of r select In ing nn nut and packing those apples that lt thero should I Kin hA M a l defect In nr ni other oilier shipment It ft C can l- l be be t-r t traced c Imme immo- to lo time thu and anti packer responsible Nothing but absolutely perfect fruit Is allowed to go out of the state slate with Hood Hoo Rivers River's name lame on ous the lie box hox Barrels wet were lon long ago aban alJan- The rime apples alpes are graded and placed In unICornS tows rows a n bushel of or from flom 51 i to l S apples to the box All U packing packing- is hJ In iii time the hands ht of ut professionals entirely Independent of ot tho the grower who more often than not hot sells his crop on out the lie trees and nut has no nu further control over o It Xo o is 18 allowed to pack hl his own apples even cn If he lie wants to do so eo The Tue apple growers growers' union attends to that ant and inti th the lie men are under orders to reject all fruit that shows ShO the thc slightest blemish So great Is tho the confidence built up nit b by this rule that thousands of oC boxes that the time purchaser has bus never no neverseen neverseen seen are soul sold at nt prices ranging from Iron to 1750 i. i O Thu rho methods of or Hood Ulver apple gro grow ems eis are arc unique in iii this respect tent A A soil soli of or volcanic ash ush utah and climate perfectly suited to fruit growing were the foundations upon which the lot for tunes of or the tho lie Hood River district were built Vi With those advantages cs and the most advanced methods of ot growing less than 2 per cent ent of or the average u cro crop falls fails to tt t come Cume up to the tIm high standard th the growers set t Iou for themselves Last st season one orchard reported only GO CO defective apples out o of bushels I So great reat I is lie tho care exorcised I h by the lie Hood HooLi River growers however cr that 20 0 act acres Is Iii e J t to tl bo Lu is mis us as one lan can look ouk after properly Hut But th the returns an acre are arc so BO large laree that there thele Is no nl complaint in regard to the thc Income derived ll which gulch runs rums above abu a 0 year ear Irons from these small somalI tracts Seven Set hundred dollars an nn acre Is considered con con- con a an au ii aera average a ge return u Open cultivation with lh the lie space betWeen between be be- tween till tho hit trees kept as us clean rh-ni as us a It Lull bat hour is th the approved method fol oh- oh lowed limit throughout this ilmis section This allows lie tho trees to derive dens the maximum amount of timid nuLl nourishment from time tho joll soil oll Small or oi defective ap up- pies ples are picked before maturity In itt order that lint the lie healthy fruit may reach Its be best t development nt To u ascertain c the lie right moment for 1 attacking moths and anti Insect posts pests their tl growth Is watched snatched duj ilay h by l' day n on lI trees J pura IJ by limit Jn screens screen Cn and at ul the ihie first signs that lint an aIm any Insect cl ims tJ begun ln to do o da damage 1 ge spray spray- hl Is lu I On Only 1 11 1 of the thc 1000 rich acres of time the Hood flood River district are under cultivation j TIO w not moOs profits re realized re- re on un the Hw tie crops grown here are bringing in s settlers from front all nil parts o of the thc lie country and nuLl drawing them from all employment Nine out of ot 10 Hoot Hood followed somo other calling most of oC tIm dr lives Ph Physicians editors engineers machinists bricklayers bricklayers brick brick- la layers 18 und tutu printers ers arc are mong time the most ucc successfuL of or late arrivals M Men n who arrived a n few Cew years UKO UJO with but a n. less few bundled d dollars rs and now own o orchards valued at nt are oC numerous 1 1 Ii |