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fruit-producing nations on the globe, 

 yet, in addition to the domestic con- 

 sumption, .$122,678,783 worth of all 

 kinds of fruit were exported during 

 the calendar year 1919, of which 15 

 per cent, or $18,581,110, was for dried 

 and fresh apples, not including large 

 quantities of canned and preserved 

 apple products also exported. The dis- 

 tribution of these exports by princi- 

 pal countries during November and 

 December, and for the calendar year 

 1919, was as follows: 



BETTER FRUIT 



total green and ripe apples exported, 

 value at $6,089,701, the United King- 

 dom took .$3,112,956 worth, Canada 

 $1,040,413, Germany $916,883, Aus- 

 tralia $200,847, Argentina $156,839, 

 and Brazil $124,520 worth, smaller 

 amounts being shown for other coun- 

 tries. 



War did not seriously interfere with 

 the exportation of fresh apples from 

 the United States to Great Britain, 

 but rather stimulated the demand for 

 the American product. During the 



September, 1920 



Shites, Canada 14.3 per cent, Germany 

 10.1 per cent, and all other countries 

 9.8 per cent. 



As the Australian apples are mar- 

 keted from May to August and the 

 English crop from September to No- 

 vember, American exports are nat- 

 urally largest from November to May, 

 when the new crop is available at the 

 most opportune time for marketing it 

 in European countries. From the pre- 

 war calendar year 1913 figure of 

 $3.80 per barrel for fresh apples to 

 $8.45 in 1919 an increase of 122 per 

 Cent is shown in the average annual 

 export price. 



Since the colonial period the United 

 Kingdom has offered the principal 

 foreign market for fresh American 

 apples, to which has been added in 

 more recent times other British do- 

 minions, particularly Canada and Aus- 

 tralia. Prior to the war Germany 

 also bought liberally of the fresh 

 fruit. In the fiscal year 1914, of the 



five fiscal years, 1914 to 1918, the 

 United Kingdom took 60 per cent of 

 the quantity and 59 per cent of the 

 value of the total exports of fresh 

 apples from this country. During the 

 fiscal years 1910 to 1914 the United 

 Kingdom took an average of 65.8 per 

 cent of the total quantity of fresh 

 apples exported from the United 



Fruit Growers Start Box Factory 



Unable to obtain sufficient boxes in 

 .the Yakima and Wenatchee districts, a 

 number of fruitgrowers there have en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of boxes in 

 Portland, Oregon. The plant of the 

 new concern, which is known as the 

 Bede Box & Lumber Company, is 

 located on the Columbia river in North 

 Portland. The new plant which has 

 just been started is now turning out 

 20,000 boxes a day, and next year the 

 owners expect to greatly increase the 

 output. Although delayed in starting 

 by the failure of machinery to arrive, 

 the plant will turn out this year 600,000 

 boxes, which will be shipped - to the 

 Yakima and Wenatchee districts. 



A feature of the plant is that it is 

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 the logs — a process that is said to be 

 from 15 to 20 per cent, cheaper than 

 the usual one of utilizing lumber. 

 Equipped with electric power and the 

 most modern box making machinery, 

 the cost of manufacture is reduced to a 

 minimum. The plant is 50x150 feet, 

 and has a frontage on the river of 700 

 feet. Next year dry kilns will be built 

 and other improvements made. 



The men directly connected with the 

 management of the enterprise are D. B. 

 Loughlin, M. Harkema and D. H. Arm- 

 strong. 



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