54 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



NEW ORCHARDS. 



Each year the planting out of new orchards is done. Last winter 

 and spring Jackson County planted about 8,000 acres to new 

 orchards. Douglas County will plant a large acreage the coming 

 winter to apples and pears. Large tracts of fine ap])le land have been 

 purchased by commercial apple growers. Coos, Josephine, Klamath 

 and Lake are preparing for activity the coming winter and spring, 

 planting new orchards. 



MARKETS. 



The old question, "over-production," is always coming up. "Where 

 can yoTi market all this fruit when in bearing?" To those who have 

 not studied transportation facilities and market demands of the 

 masses for good fruit, the question of over-production is pertinent. 

 From a hygienic point of view, the people are learning it is cheaper 

 to daily eat fruit and have health than gorge on meats and have to 

 pay the doctor. The demand for fruit is constantly on the increase 

 as the masses become educated on lines of health. The increase of 

 population is always increasing the demand for the best. The fruit 

 zones throughout the United States, for certain types of apples, 

 such as the Newtown and Spitzenburgh, is very limited. These 

 two varieties are the commercial apples of the jSTorthwest Pacific 

 States. There is no other fruit zone that can grow a Newtown or 

 Spitzenburgh with success on commercial lines. These superb apples 

 do not compete with Eastern-grown apples. If there was compe- 

 tition, why do our Eastern apple growers sell a barrel of their best 

 apples, containing two and a half bushels, in Eastern markets for 

 less than the grower gets for a box of our apples of one bushel? 

 Many thousands of boxes of Newtowns are exported to Europe, and 

 as the keeping and shipping qualities of these apples are better known, 

 this demand will increase yearly. The Orient is beginning to import 

 apples from the Northwest Pacific, and that demand from now on 

 will increase faster than our ability to produce. The Northwest 

 Pacific has the world for such apples as her climate and soil can 

 grow. The secret of her ability to supply and hold the market is 

 to grow only the best, packing it the best. Wliere soil conditions are 

 right here, and a failure occurs in apple and pear growing, the 

 cause will always be found in the neglect of the man : his neglect of 

 details, as spraying at the proper time, lack of intelligent culti- 

 vation, and thinning the fruit and careless packing. 



Success in fruit growing, as in any line of business, is had only 

 where the grower is willing to pav the price: intelligent, hard work. 



"Next-year men," i. e., men who are always going to do a thing 

 next year, should never go into fruit growinsr. They will fail. 



The man who makes a success is the man who does in his orchard 

 the things that need to be done as they come up, noy. 



