June 1919 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 13 



The Outlook for American Apples in Germany 



REPORTS which have reached the 

 United States that Germany has 

 been largely increasing the number of 

 her orchards, especially as to apples, 

 and has also expanded her dehydration 

 plants with a view, to making a heavy 

 exportation of evaporated fruits are 

 now said by the American consul at 

 Rotterdam to have been greatly exag- 

 gerated. 



In reporting the fruit situation in 

 both Germany and Holland the Ameri- 

 can consul says: 



"One of my informants, undoubtedly 

 the leading importer of fresh and dried 

 fruits in Rotterdam, states that, al- 

 though he understands that even before 

 the war Germany had commenced to 

 increase the number of her orchards, 

 ■especially as to apples, and to expand 

 her dehydration factories, such increase 

 is not very likely to be connected with 

 the exportation of evaporated apples, 

 as the apple crop in Germany has al- 

 ways been so small that the country in 

 pre-war days was obliged to import 

 large quantities from Holland, the 

 United States and other foreign coun- 

 tries for home consumption. My in- 

 formant further definitely states that 

 Germany has not yet been exporting 

 evaporated or dried apples, the more so 

 as last year's European crop of apples 

 was very small, and lack of sufiicient 

 fertilizer in Germany very materially 

 affected the crop. In his opinion the 

 European apples are not suitable for 

 the manufacture of evaporated apples. 



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The pre-war fruit trade with Ger- 

 many was important. In 1914 the 

 United States shipped 108,792 barrels of 

 apples to that country and 272,382 in 

 1913. Seventeen million six hundred 

 and forty-five thousand six hundred 

 and ninety-seven pounds of dried 

 apples were shipped to Germany from 

 this country in 1913; 3,847,032 pounds 

 of dried apricots 1,852,019 pounds of 

 dried peaches and 17,417,865 pounds of 

 prunes. In 1914, the year the war com- 

 menced, these quantities of dried fruits 

 were cut to almost nothing and since 

 then there have been no shipments at 

 all. It is expected that this year the 

 exportation of both fresh and dried 

 fruits to Germany will be resumed on 

 a large scale. 



Northwest Prune Growers 

 May Organize 



After quite an extensive conference 

 among the prune growers at Roseburg, 

 Oregon, recently, it was pretty generally 

 decided to organize a prune growers' 

 association. The sentiment in regard to 

 the formation of such a company seems 

 to be in favor of control by the grow- 

 ers to direct the handling of their own 

 fruit. 



Robert Paulus, a well-known fruit- 

 man of Salem, recently made a trip 

 to San Jose to confer with the Califor- 

 nia Prune and Apricot Association re- 

 garding the formation of the Northwest 

 Prune Growers' Association. It is 

 thought that by merging the local in- 

 terests in the various prune-growing 

 districts of the Willamette Valley, con- 

 trol of the Oregon prune business can 

 be secured and result in better condi- 

 tions for the growers of this fruit in all 

 parts of the state. 



Di Giordio in New Venture. 

 It will be interesting to Northwest 

 fruit growers to know that Joseph 

 Di Giordio, a large buyer of Northwest 

 apples, has engaged in a new venture. 

 Mr. Di Giordio is one of the organizers 

 of the Mexican Fruit and Steamship 

 Corporation, with a capital stock of 

 $9,000,000. The new company expects 

 to operate a line of ships, carrying fruit 

 from New Mexico to New Orleans, and 

 it is staled that this line of ships may 

 become the nucleus of a line that will 

 be put on to transport Northwest fruits 

 through the Panama Canal. 



Heavy Bloom at Wenatchee. 



Reports now coming from the Wenat- 

 chee Valley state that a much heavier 

 bloom was evident there this year than 

 last. This is said to be true of cherries, 

 peaches, prunes, apricots and other 

 fruits in that section. Only in a few 

 isolated districts was a shortage noted. 

 In Yakima this shortage was almost en- 

 tirely confined to Winesaps. Unolficial 

 estimates now place the apple crop at 

 Wenatchee at from 20 to 30 per cent 

 heavier than last vear. 



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