July, 1920 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 9 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruitgrowing 



Sydney Stott, of Melbourne, Australia, who 

 owns an apple orchard of 150 acres in his 

 home country was a visitor at the office of 

 Better Fruit recently. The reason for Mr. 

 Stott's visit to the United States was for the 

 purpose of determining if there was a market 

 here for Australian apples. As the Australian 

 crop of apples is harvested in March and 

 April or about the time that the previous year's 

 crop is pretty well distributed he and other 

 Australian apple growers figured that they 

 could probably dispose of some of their sur- 

 plus fruit in the states. After a trip extend- 

 ing across the continent and back, however, 

 the Australian stated that he was convinced 

 that there was little if any market here for 

 apples from Australia. One of the reasons 

 for attempting to market Australian apples 

 here this year was the fact that the English 

 government was unable to provide sufficient 

 ships to transport the fruit from his country 

 to European markets. Mr. Stoot's visit to the 

 United States this year was not his Brst as he 

 has made several trips to this country and on 

 a former visit took back with him an expert 

 packer who introduced in Australia the Amer- 

 ican method of packing apples in boxes. While 

 the fruit growing industry in Australia is be- 

 coming a very important factor in the coun- 

 try's resources, Mr. Stott said that there were 

 a number of problems confronting growers 

 there that must be solved to place in on a 

 more stable basis. 



Joseph H. Steinhardt, one of the best known 

 fruit men in New York City and head of the 

 firm of Steinhardt & Kelly, recently moved his 

 business into a new 8200,000 home. This new 

 departure, or perhaps we might better say 

 this new establishment was the occasion of Mr. 

 Steinhardt receiving many complimentary let- 

 ters from men in the trade and also articles 

 in the trade papers. The following taken from 

 the Fruit Trade Journal is characteristic of 

 what the fruit trade in New York City had to 

 say about Mr. Steinhardt personally and 

 about his success: "Mr. Steinhardt's success- 

 ful career has been punctuated by long hours 

 and hard work. After selling fruits from a 

 peddler's wagon, this man of vision slept 

 that the dawn might find him busy at his task. 

 Nor were his thoughts only of markets and 

 sales. He saws the stars and reflected that 

 less fortunate men than he had a heart and 

 soul as well as a brain and body and that man 

 had far from completed his work in this 

 world if he left the world not better than he 

 found it. No worthy charity ever appealed to 

 him in vain. His mind and his soul are cast 

 on a generous mould and his heart goes out 

 to all men in need, to one case as well as 

 another, to the remotest corners of the earth 

 as well as at home. His firm has made a 

 place for itself in the apple industry of the 

 Northwest which will ever be remembered 

 with gratitude and affection by growers. Mr. 

 Steinhardt brings to his new home a splendid 

 staff of employes, the hope of service rather 

 than personal success, and the good wishes of 

 the trade which gives all the surer ground 

 for prediction of the highest achievement." 



While we do not look on the southern states 

 as a very large factor in the production of 

 apples it will be interesting for the average 

 apple grower to know that last year they 

 produced 24,898.000 bushels of apples with a 

 market value running up into the millions. 

 Georgia, the state farthest south engaged in 

 the commercial production of apples produced 

 a crop valued at $1,518,000. 



Early reports of apple crop prospects out- 

 side of the Northwest are that New York and 

 New England looks for normal crops; Mary- 

 land for a better crop than last year, while 

 Virginia expects about 60 per cent of the 1919 

 crop. Due to the freeze in the early spring 

 Missouri reports about 45 per cent of a full 

 yield while southern Kansas and some of the 

 other middle western states report conditions 

 as about the same as in Missouri. 



Picketed ponies and wigwams seen at Hood 

 River, at strawberry season in former years in 

 every watered copse of the berry districts, have 

 vanished. Indians who come down from Yaki- 

 ma and Warm Springs for strawberry har- 

 vest ride in the most modern conveniences. 

 Their automobiles are characterized by their 

 newness and expensiveness. While squaws 

 and papooses contine to wear the gayest col- 

 ored shawls obtainable and carry beaded bags 

 that arouse coveted glances from white sisters 

 and the bucks stroll about with their long 

 hair done in plaits, the old wigwam has been 

 discarded for the latest motor camp equip- 



ment. Baby Indians do not seem so much in 

 evidence as in former years, but those brought 

 along are rarerly seen in any modern go-carts. 

 The redskin mother may ride in an eight- 

 cylinder car, but she clings to the old board 

 and basket baby carrier. 



Indians, so those who are here now declare, 

 have prospered mightily the last few years. 

 Most of them own land allotments that have 

 been used for wheat growing. The redskins 

 make no protest when they pay 18 cents per 

 ioaf for bread. Comparatively few participate 

 in the berry harvest now. Several years ago 

 Indians, coming here as many as 500 to 1,000 

 in a season, were the chief berry harvesters. 

 It is likely that not more than 50 are here this 

 season. Some Indians are here merely as tour- 

 ists. A grower the other day approached a 

 buck and started to dicker for the services of 

 himself and family. He was informed in the 

 best of English that the party whose services 

 he desired was merely on a vacation. 



"That's our car," said the Indian man with 

 hauteur, pointing to a handsome eight cylin- 

 dered Cadillac. — Hood River Glacier. 



What They Are Doing 

 in California 



The 1920 cantaloupe acreage in the Im- 

 perial Valley is reported to be 22,000 acres 

 as against 14,000 acres in 1919. At the rate 

 of production last year it will require 10,000 

 cars to move the 1920 crop at the rate of 300 

 cars per day. 



The largest and most modern lemon pack- 

 ing plant and processing plant in California 

 has just been completed at Maxwell, Colusa 

 County. It will handle the greater part of 

 the lemon product of the Sacramento Valley. 



A new fruit cannery being built at Santa 

 Rosa when it is completed will be the most 

 modern fruit handling plant in California 

 and will give employment to about a thou- 

 sand persons. The new plant will cost 

 1250,000. 



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