lUC.HTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. yj 



1st. Their local Western market. This does not amount 

 to very much. The mining towns and the inland cities con- 

 sume a certain amount, but the population is, of course, not 

 so dense as here in the East, consequently the consumption is 

 light. 



2nd. The Orient is a market which they are looking 

 forward to. .After all, fruit must be introduced into the Ori- 

 ental markets through the medium of people who are accus- 

 tomed to eating Western fruit, the apple in particular. The 

 Orientals are not accustomed to eating fruit and are not edu- 

 cated along that line. I do not look, therefore, for the de- 

 velopment of an extensive market in the Orient for our West- 

 ern apples in the near future. 



When it does come, the Pacific Northwest growers will 

 be on the ground floor. 



3rd. Then there are the Eastern and the European mar- 

 kets. It costs Washington shippers practically a cent a pound 

 to any point east of the Mississippi River. Notwithstanding 

 this, they are taking the cream off all our markets, for they 

 send nothing but the highest grade of apples, handsome, uni- 

 form and reliable. We must look to our laurels. 



The ArPLE Show. 



One of the things in connection witji the National Apple 

 Show at Spokane was an interesting little incident with an im- 

 portant moral, and I speak of it in passing. Somebody con- 

 nected with the apple show said New York ought to be rep- 

 resented, so they telegraphed to one of the largest firms of 

 apple men in New York City, saying, "Send us half a dozen 

 barrels of New York commercial apples, standard varieties." 

 A representative of this firm went into the storehouse and 

 selected a couple of barrels each of Baldwins, Kings and 

 Greenings, and sent them on. These were commercial apples 

 — you know how they are generally graded and packed. When 

 they arrived at Spokane they knocked the head out, then tipped 

 the barrel forward to show' its contents. I need not describe 

 the appearance of the apples. On the top there were two 

 layers of good looking apples, in the center were culls, and in 



