332 Appendix. 



with the other two varieties are called and branded pure Mayettes. Many pro- 

 ducers grow the three varieties and do not keep them separate in marketing. 

 This mixture is called the "Commercial." None of the Franquettes or Parisiennes 

 are marketed under their own name. 



Besides the three varieties mentioned tliere is a large production of a variety 

 called Chaberts, which are entirely used for cracking, and the perfect halves are 

 largely sold in America, the imperfect halves being mostly used for oil making. 

 Unlike the Mayettes, Franquettes, and Parisiennes, the Chaberts grow on hill 

 and table-lands, though formerly they were produced in the valleys, but the 

 trees planted in the lowlands have now almost all been grafted to other and 

 more profitable varieties. 



Many of the trees that I personally inspected were grafted fully sixty to 

 seventy feet from the ground, there being as many as fifty grafts on some of 

 these grand old trees. Those that were grafted looked fully as sound and healthy 

 as the new ones. 



THE OREGON RED APPLE. 



By Henry E. Dosch. 



Who has not heard, and frequently, too, the announcement "Cotton is King I" 

 Then some one claims "Corn is King!" and again comes the cry, "All wrong. 

 Wheat is King." and I have no doubt that occasionally this is true, and many 

 Iieople think so. Just at this time, when our Oriental friends are getting away 

 with the Muscovites, it may be said that "Rice is King," especially American 

 rice, for tlie rice that feeds the Japanese army today comes from Louisiana, and 

 while I do not wish to say it boastfully, but when I was stationed in that 

 country several years ago, I called the Japanese government's attention to the 

 superiority of American rice over Cochin China rice, wliich they were using, 

 costing no more, and induced them to make a trial, which proved so successful 

 that many cargoes have been and are still being purchased in Louisiana, and 

 this rice has no doubt lent strength, stamina and stick-to-itiveness to the little 

 lirown men, and which characterizes the Japanese successes : may they not be 

 pardfmed for believing that "American Rice is King." But with us Oregonians. 

 the beautiful red apple is the "King of Kings," and this belief is gradually 

 being shared by the rest of the world, as they are becoming acquainted with 

 our apples, thanks to tlie education afforded by our extensive exhibits at the 

 great expositions held in the last twelve years, beginning with the Columbian 

 Exposition at Chicago, and ending with the Louisiana Purcliaso Exposition at 

 St. Louis, to which we hope to add the crowning sheaf at our National, Inter- 

 national Centennial Exposition and Oriental Fair tliis year. 



I was asked to be one of the jurors on horticulture, wliich, however, I 

 gratefully declined, as Oregon was largely interested, and feeling confident that 

 the Oregon apple would not only hold its own in securing many gold medals, but 

 capture the grand prize, as it had done at other expositions, I feared that per- 

 chance some of our less favored States might think undue influence was exercised 

 to bring about such results, more especially as our red apples came into direct 

 competition with the apples from all the famous apple regions of America, but 

 Oregon's red apples "Came, saw and conquered." 



Now that the contest is finished and our victorious representatives have 

 returned home, with the banner on which is inscribed "Grand Prix" for most 

 excellent apples, as to size, color and fiavor, nailed to its masthead, may I be 



