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Iketed early in the season. Their qnahty does not justify an expensive 

 package added to the higher price of cold storage, and the sooner we, as 

 dealers, learn this lesson, the sooner our business will get on a paying 

 t)asis. We have been cold storage mad for the past few years, placing in 

 :storage as No. i, many inferior farmers' packed apples, which barely 

 come up to our No. 2 classification, calculating that twenty thousand bar- 

 rels would make double the money of ten thousand, and overlooking the 

 most important of all points in apple packing and storing, which is 

 equality. 



A strong united effort should be made by this Association to raise 

 lOur standard and encourage orchardists to strive for a higher quality of 

 production and grading, and to the marketing of the great bulk of medium 

 .and low grades in an inexpensive manner in the early part of the season. 

 The most practicable solution that presents itself to my mind is the en- 

 'Couragement of the production of a higher grade of fruit. The day of 

 .the small commercial orchard managed by the diversified crop farmer is 

 .already on ttfe wane, and the coming successful apple grower must be 

 .a practical scientist and specialist, operating on an extensive scale, and 

 in a measure directing nature's forces. — Fruit Trade Journal. 



PROSPECTS FROM MARKET STANDPOINT. 



Editor Northwest Horticulturist: — 



The prospective market for fruits for the coming months looks very 

 favorable at the present time, and unless adverse conditions arise, there 

 should be more than an average crop of strawberries, with prospects of 

 better prices than usual. So far the strawberries that have come in the 

 market have been of the first quality, and brought good paying results 

 to the growers. Some shippers insist in sending fruits that are unripe, 

 and should be left on the stems for one or two days at least, but in order 

 to secure the high prices quoted think they will pass. Such fruit we 

 should like the packers to understand is entirely unsalable and usually will 

 not pay the expense of sending to the market. While if held until ripe 

 would have sold at good paying prices. 



The cherry market is much the same. And the prospects are good 

 for a nice yield and fair ])rices. The same conditions face the grower. 

 As in all fruits, the shipper who takes pride in putting up one box well, 

 rather than three indifferently, is the one who reaps the largest net profits. 



First — There is a demand for the best. 



