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enough and see that we get what is best suited to our locality, and then see 

 that thej' are gro"wn to perfection as far as care of the orchard will make 

 them grow, we will in a short time be able to build up a trade in the foreign 

 market that will use all the apples we can raise. We must reach out and 

 secure that market for our apples or we will have to stop raising so many, as 

 our or»chards are assuming such proportions that our local markets cannot 

 use them. A few years ago I shipped many cars of apples to S^wkane, but 

 that is a thing of the past. They are now heavy shippers themselves. Mon- 

 tana has been a great market for our valley, but contrary to the expectation 

 of most every one, they too are raising quantities of apples, and claim in the 

 near future they will produce enough apjiles to supply their market, and it 

 behooves us to grow something we can ship to the Old World. Grow and 

 pack as we can, we need have no fear of overproduction, for with the qual- 

 ity of our apples we will have a marl<;et for all we can raise as soon as we can 

 get them established in those markets. 



SPITZENBERGS WANTED. 



The past season I had a letter from a dealer in New Yoi'k asking me if I 

 could get him a few cars of Spitzenbergs, but I had none to offer. In a few 

 days he wrote and asked me to go to Yakima at his expense and see a car of 

 Spitzenbergs that had been offered him at $1.50 a box f . o. b. Yakima, saying- 

 he did not know the party or his packing, and wanted me to see them. If 

 all right he was willing to pay the price for them, besides my expense. He 

 also said to buy all I could at that price if the stock was all right. We can 

 sell apples if we have the right kind. Why not raise what people will buy 

 at good prices? Apples of lower quality would not have been worth the 

 freight to New York. I believe this is the fruit situation: Find out what 

 our locality is best adapted to, confine ourselves to that, and push it to its 

 highest state of perfection. 



ERUITCI ROWERS' ORGANIZATIONS AND 



ASSOCIATIONS. 



By H. B. Miller, Eugene. 



Whatever there is in the affairs of producers, as a class, that is disastrous, 

 is due to an absence of organization in some form, and until we give up our 

 prejudices against associations, and group ourselves together for our common 

 good, we will remain suft'erers, bearing the brunt of the burdens of society. 



Someone asks, would you do away with competition? My answer is that 

 competition is not all virtue any more than absolute monoply is a virtue. I 

 believe that the evils of competition must be eliminated so as to have any 

 social progress. 



