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It is iudeed marvelous when we think of the thousands of cars of fruit raised 

 and shipped from the State annually that a very small portion of it reaclies even 

 the small eitles and praetically none at all reaches the small towns. owing to the 

 fact that the lar^'er eitles are willins,' to pay the very hi.uhest priee for the best 

 article, thereby drawing so heavily on the Oregon produet that practically the 

 entire production is consumed exclusively in the larger cities. 



The definition to the great snccess attained may be easily written in two 

 words, "Appearance" and "Quality." 



The pioneers in this Inisiness deserve great credit for tlie System and thorough- 

 ness brought about in their early organizations for a systematic growing of fruits 

 rather than a helter-skelter, go-as-you-please System whieh other states had 

 permitted. 



It can be said without sueeessful contradiction that Hood River set the pace 

 for the World in berries and apples. Willamette Valley in prunes and the Rogue 

 River country in pears. 



New ideas, clean fruit, graded fruit, neat paekages and many other things not 

 thought of before Oregon entered the field have been brought about through the 

 tireless efforts of our pioneer orehardists, and the same tireless efforts are going 

 on today even in a more scientific way, as we now have more and better data 

 to work from. 



The State has benefited more tlirough the famous Hood River strawberries, 

 Oregon box apples and Oregon prunes traveling around the United States and 

 European coiuitries than through any known method of advertising otherwise, as 

 it is a well-known fact that what suits the taste is rarely forgotten. 



In the early efforts of hortieulture the entire citizenship. it seems, absorbed 

 the right spirit and encouraged the business, by providing public money for a State 

 horticultural society, a state horticultural board, as well as to provide money for 

 carrying on a eomplete horticultural department in our agricultural College, 

 where the business is taught and studied from every scientific side known up to 

 the present time. 



There is no College in the United States or the world that is giving more 

 assistance in this direction than our State Agricultural College. 



Bulletins on any phase of the subjeet may be had for the asking; letters on 

 any subjeet are promptly and intelligently answered ; special short courses are 

 given free eaeh year ; demonstrators are sent out from time to time and traveling 

 schools are part of tlie work they are carrying on. 



The biennial crop and pest report is one of the most eomplete of its kind ever 

 gotten out by any institution. making as it does every person earefully studying 

 the same eomplete master of the pest Situation, when Instructions are earefully 

 carried out. 



All of these things Oregon has done to assist and bring about this first place 

 world recognition as a fruit-growing state, and while the past 20 years have 

 brought US farward in leaps and bounds, it must be remembered that if our 

 development was 1.000 times greater than at present we would not have touehed 

 the maximum possiliilities of production in fruits. 



Not unlike most other business. fruit growing has its up and down periods. 

 seemingly about every 20 years. the first half of these periods taking on a great 

 boom, the second half great declines. 



Future Is Bright 



We are just entering, apparently, a new 20-year lease on one of those periods 

 whieh looks bright for all. and it is to be hoped that our devolopment will go on in 

 a sane and safe way rather than be carried on with a boom, as was the case 

 10 to 20 years ago. 



During the past 20 years there was only one year where there was a real 

 cause for depression in the markets on account of overproduetion — the year 1915. 



