THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE IN ITS BROADEST SENSE, WITH SPECIAL 

 REFERENCE TO PLANT DISEASES, INSECT PESTS, AND 



THEIR CONTROL. 



Sent free to all citizens of the State of California. Offered in exchange for bulletins 

 of the Federal Government and experiment stations, entomological and mycological 

 journals, agricultural and horticultural papers, botanical and other publications of a 

 similar nature. 



A. J. Cook, State Commissioner of Horticulture Censor 



E. J. VosLER^ Secretary State Commission of Horticulture Editor 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS. 



Geo. p. Weldon Chief Deputy Commissioner 



Harry S. Smith Superintendent State Insectary 



Frederick Maskew Chief DepCty Quarantine GiBcer 



Entered as second class matter December 29, 1911, at' the post office at Sacramento, 

 California, under the act of July 16, 1894. 



Northwestern Fruit Exchange to use its influence toward prevent- 

 ing the shipment of wormy and scabby apples into California this 

 fall. — The market for California apples packed by the Watsonville 

 Apple Distributors last season, under the Standardization Act of 1915, 

 was seriously crippled because of the shipment into this state of very 

 poor grade, scabby, and almost worthless apples from Oregon and 

 Washington. Because of this fact the following letter was sent to 

 Mr. H. G. Fletcher, Manager of the Northwestern Fl-uit Exchange 

 at Seattle, Washington : 



NOBTHWESTEKN FbUIT EXCHANGE, 



Stuart Building, Seattle, Washington. 



Gentlemen: I wish to call your attention to the fact that the marketing of 

 California apples, packed under a standardization act passed by the 1915 session of 

 the legislature, was greatly injured by the shipment into California of exceedingly 

 poor grade, scabby fruit from the Northwest last season. The Watsonville Apple 

 Distributors, representing 80 per cent of the growers of a section which produces 

 more than l")0 per cent of the entire state's output of apples, packed all their best 

 apples under state label, in accordance with the terms of the act. To them your 

 shipments have meant little short of disaster, and if, each season, the Northwest 

 were allowed to unload this kind of stuff onto us, our standardization law, which 

 promises so much, would be of little value. That your people recognize the detri- 

 mental effect upon their own market, and the disastrous lowering of a standard 

 which they have tried so hard to maintain, and that they do not countenance the 

 practice of shipping scabby, worthless fruit, is indicated in the resolutions adopted 

 by the North Yakima Association, a copy of which I am enclosing. 



