168 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



what varieties to plant together for pollinating purposes. We know the 

 diseases and insects infesting trees and fruits, and how to combat them, but 

 the marketing of our products to advantage is the greatest problem that 

 confronts us today, and this brings us to 



FOREIGN MARKETS. 



•'The great secret of success in life, is to be ready when the opportunity comes."— /.orrf 

 SeaconxficM. 



The subject of markets is perhaps the most serious problem confronting 

 the fruitgrower, and when we look over the large area that has been planted 

 to fruit, and is still being planted throughout the fruit districts of the United 

 States and Canada, we cannot help speculating what to do with all these 

 fruit^s, especially in a good fruit year. 



There is perhaps no fruit which is more universally planted at this time 

 than the apple, owing to the fact that the apple is par excellence the com- 

 mercial fruit of the world. Millions of trees are being planted yearly, and 

 if it were not for for the fact that winter apples are grown comparatively as 

 yet in few localities, the result would be appalling. Even as it is. our home 

 markets are now fully supplied, and in a short time will be glutted. There 

 is but one solution to this problem, and that is, to seek foreign markets. 



My attention was first drawn to this matter about eight years ago, when 

 the Chamber of Commerce of Portland honored me as a delegate to the Nica- 

 ragua Canal Convention, which was held in New Orleans in November, 1892; 

 and there, in conversation with representatives from the South American 

 republics, I learned that there would be a good market for northern-grown 

 fruits, if freight rates could be arranged. Again, my attention was called to 

 it in a letter I received from the consul in Manchester. Engiand. three years 

 ago. stating that a lot of Rogue River apples had found their way there, and 

 that finer apples were never seen, and btiyers wanted to contract for the 

 entire output of this man's crop, which was four thousand boxes in 1898, and 

 all were shipped to that point. In this connection the yew Yorlc Journal of 

 Commerce says: "'A large increase in the shipment of Pacific Coast apples 

 abroad by way of New York this year (1898) is a noteworthy feature of the 

 fruit trade, and is exciting no little interest; large quantities of Newtown 

 Pippins in boxes weighing fifty pounds net, grown on the Pacific Coast, 

 principally in Oregon and California, have been sent to this city of late, in 

 carload lots, and from New York have been sent directly abroad. Some 

 handsome Newtown Pippins passed through New York lately from Oregon."' 

 But it is not England alone, there is a growing market in Germany and 

 France for our fruit. My advices from the consuls and dealers are very 

 enthusiastic and encouraging. Mr. Cunningham, Consul at Chemnitz, Ger- 

 many, a large manufacturing center, writes to me : ' 'I wish I had time to 

 detail to you the desires of the people here for our fruits. Germans hunger 

 for our fruits — apples before all others, etc. In France we have a promising 

 market for our fine Italian prunes, and for apple '"chops." Mr. Joseph I. 

 Brittain. Consul at Nantes. France, writes to me : ''There is a good opening 

 for evaporated apples known as 'Chops. " These apples, which are the lowest 



