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REPORT OF STATE BOARD OP HORTICULTURE. 



last March a car of four-tier apples were shipped by a Port- 

 land house to Hamburg, Germany, which came from a com- 

 mercial orchard in Southern Oregon. These apples sold for 

 fifteen marks ( $3.65 ) , notwithstanding that plenty of five-tier 

 apples were in that market at the time, and netted the growers 

 $2.45 per box after paying freights, commissions and all 

 other expenses. The reasons for such fancy figures were 

 simply absolutely clean fruit, honestly packed and labeled, 

 all apiDles being of the same size and quality. I have repeat- 

 edly stated that to do otherwise is commercial suicide, and 

 sincerely hope that our growers, dealers and shippers will 

 follow the example set by our Southern Oregon friends, and 

 will not make a fatal mistake in this year of j)lenty. 



This brings us back to the old question of competition in 

 European markets, and the more the question is studied 

 the more I become convinced that the Orient is the market 

 for us to develop. The Oriental market is practically our 

 own, and, when we realize this, and turn our attention to it, 

 we will sever the Gordian knot of competition with one clean 

 cut. 



FRUIT CROP OF EUROPE. 



Agreeable to my statement in the report of the expected 

 and estimated fruit yield throughout the United States made 

 a month ago, I now present the fruit prospect of foreign 

 countries, based on several hundred replies received to a 

 letter of inquiry sent out by me to United States consuls and 

 dealers immediately in touch with importation of fruits from 

 America to their respective countries, being percentages 

 based on a full crop of one hundred per cent : 



England 



France 



Belgiuna 



Russia 



Holland 



Servla 



Bosnia 



Switzerland 



Hungary 



Italy 



Poland 



Austria 



Prussia 



Bavaria 



Wurtenberg 



Hessen-Darmstadt _- 



Turliey 



Sweden and Norway 



Apples. Pears. Prunes 



100 



100 

 75 



100 

 90 

 80 

 80 

 95 

 90 

 50 



100 



100 

 55 

 60 

 90 



100 

 70 

 80 



90 



85 

 60 

 40 

 70 

 80 

 75 

 80 

 60 

 40 

 80 

 90 

 40 

 40 

 &5 

 90 

 40 

 30 



50 



100 



100 



30 



100 



100 



100 



100 



100 



50 



100 



100 



60 



90 



90 



100 



100 



