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Show good apples grow in these two sections. sec-tions. "Then I went to southern Idaho, and there I found more trouble than anywhere else. I visited Payette. Parma, Boise, Emraett, and learned of the situation at Welser by phone. The freezes nearly knocked them out. They had about. 650 cars of Italian prunes out of that whole section last season, and they will not have over a quarter of a crop, tho best T could calculate cal-culate after Interviewing all of tho people. Their apples also have been somewhat damaged but they did not speak so discouraglngly about tho apples ap-ples as about prunos. "The fall and winter pear crop In California promises well. They brought good prices In New York City last season notwithstanding the rather rath-er depressed state of things. We represent rep-resent the A. Block Fruit company of Santa Clara, which sends the best winter win-ter pears that come out of California, largely the Cornice and Winter Nellis. and we think they have several other varieties. Our sales on their firsts run from $1.G00 to $2,600.00 per car gross. Eveu their seconds, shipped under another mark, sold from $1,01)0 to $1,400 per car. "It is most unfortunate that this bad weather has hurt the crops, becauso after this tariff bill Is out of the way and signed by the President, we are i going to see Increased prosperity, and I believe that we are going to have a very good season in fruits in New I York City this fall. I am on my way I to Colorado and expect to be lii New York within ten days. "Many of the growers of apples ( west of this place are worried fearing ' over-production, but I pointed out. to I them that about ten years ago there were CO.OQO.OOO barrels grown, whilo fr the last two years there have been only about 30.000,000 barrels In tho East, simplv because no new orchards orch-ards have been set out, and the growers grow-ers there "hardly ever trim, prune, cultivate, cul-tivate, plow or spray their trees, tho result being that if God sends apples on the trees they put them in barrels I and market them. This shortage of 30,000 barrels equals 90.000:000 boxes and it will be a long while before tills huge quantity of boxes is produced. Besides when that time comes the population of this country' will be much over 100,000.000 people. Again, not all of these new orchards that have been set out in Oregon, Washington Washing-ton and Idaho and Utah will ever go into bearing for ono reason or another, 8o I do not think you need fear, provided pro-vided you put out the desirable a-rietles a-rietles of money making apples for the, future, I have found that tho best sellers on the Atlantic Coast arc the following varieties: Spitzenberg, New-I New-I town. WInesaps. Jonathans, Romo I Beauties. Delicious and one or two other varieties, and these I believe to be the money-makers of the f' j ro-,-I remain, yours very sinc A'' (signed) Horace W. Day, of Sgobel & Day, New York." FRUIT CROP OF THE WEST I WHAT A CLOSE EASTERN OBSERVER OB-SERVER HAS NOTED. Great Market for Apples, With an In- J creasing Demand and a Decreasing Decreas-ing Supply Favorite Varieties. The following letter on the fruit crop of the West is written by Horace W. Day of New York to H. L. Crlfflu of Ogden. . It contains niucli valuable information for fruit growers: "The II- L. Griflin Company, Ogden, Utah: I was in California between April first and 18th. and then went to Oregon. When I left California, they had promise of good crops; apricot crop not large and rather late; peaches, good sized crop; Tokay grapes large crop; plums and prunes fair crop; Bartlett pears good crop. The government people checked the blight on the Bartlett pears. "Then I went to southern Oregon in the Rogue River Valley district They have a pretty good crop of pears coming com-ing on there, the Cornice, Bartlett and Winter Nellis. They have about 75 per cent of an apple crop and are not putting in any more Spitzenberg, as they find ,thcy do not color up as highly as those from other sections, and they are going in for iNewtowns. "At Hood River they sold their crop of -Spitzenberg and Newtown, the finest ever, 128 size and larger, at $2.25 per box f. o. 'b., a magnificent sale. At Hood River also they will have about 75 per cent of a crop of apples. They will "nave also about 50.000 crates" of strawberries, virtually virtual-ly the same as they had last yca'r, but they are a little late. On the Snake River, near Rlpnria and Lewlston, I found that Messrs. White Bros. k. Crum had purchased the LaFoIlete orchard at Wawawai, and virtually they control all of the fruit in that section. Jhis is the only section l found in all the northwest where they will have any peaches at all, so they stand to make good money at Seattle. "The crop of cherries at Clarkston was very badly hurt by the froat, and one party told me that they would only have 10 per cent of tho yield. tut another party said they might have j 25 per cent. I "At Wenatchee the sent out SCO carloads of apples last year, and they I expect to have about the same this : i season owing to the new orchards coming into bearing. Last year they I had about 150 cars of WInesaps, and they expect a large increase in the production of that variety, possibly 250 carloads this season. They have very few Spitzenberg and Newtown apples, probably 10 to 20 cars in all. They will have many less Ben Davis and Jonathans this season, and are going ahead largely to WInesaps. They have about twelve cars of Italian Ital-ian prunes. They are rather poor in quality and very small in size and will be marketed near home. "In the Yakima section they had last year about 75 carloads of Italian prunes and this season expect about ninety cars.. Last season the had about seventy-five cars of Bartlett ' pears and this season expect about j 100 cartr. They had about 1,400 cars j of apples last season and will have i about the same quantity this year on : account of the new acreage. They are j going in for WInesaps largely and will j not push the Spitzenberg and New- j town apples. There will be absolute- I ly no peaches cither in Yakima or Wenatchc-e section. "The Dalles will have about twenty-five cars of Italian prunes, virtually virtual-ly the same as they had last season. No peaches there. "At Walla Walla, which Includes Milton, last 'season they had about 105 cars of Italian prunes and this season they will have 70 cars. The big Blaxlock ranch will have more than it had last year owing to the new acreage, but they are cutting up this huge tract of 1.300 acres to sell in small lots of 40. 80, 120 acres. At Milton, near Walla Walla, they had seventy can last season and will have only about twenty-five cars this season. sea-son. No peaches or pears and few |