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THE Hood River Apph Growers' 

 Union has had a fairly good season 

 considering the quite general widespread 

 unsatisfactory condition of the market 

 which has prevailed. In going over the 

 market situation the manager of the 

 Hood River Apple Growers' Union, Mr. 

 C. H. Sproat, has the following to say: 

 "We think the Hood River Apple Grow- 

 ers' Union has fared very favorably 

 when comparison is made with results 

 which other box apple sections have 

 obtained this year. At the same time 

 the results are somewhat disappointing 

 to the Union. The general conditions 

 which prevailed throughout the latter 

 part of the season were very unusual. 

 The trees were heavily loaded with fruit, 

 and while we were anticipating a large 

 crop of average sized apples, the fine 

 growing weather and the early fall rains 

 seemed to produce apples of very unusual 

 size. This in turn produced a very much 

 larger crop than was anticipated in the 

 month of August. In years gone by, the 

 highest priced apples of our fancy grades 

 have been the extremely large (jnes, for 

 the reason that people seem to want 

 what they have difficulty in getting, there 

 being very few large sized apples on the 

 market in years gone by. These brought 

 high prices. This season the 120s and 

 138 sized Newtowns and Spitzenbergs 

 were very scarce, so much so that the 

 Union had to cancel several carload lot 

 orders because it was impossible to pro- 

 cure these sized apples; and on the other 

 hand in years past we have had a very 

 fair proportion o'f 4^-tier stock of 



Spitzenbergs and of Yellow Newtowns, 

 which have always sold very readily. 

 This season we were obliged to disap- 

 point Steinhardt & Kelly, for we were 

 only able to supply them with a very 

 small per cent of their needs of 4^-tier 

 Spitzenbergs and Yellow Newtowns. 

 This firm has a special trade which uses 

 a very large output of this sized fruit. 

 The relations which have existed between 

 Steinhardt & Kelly and the Hood River 

 Apple Growers' Union this season have 

 been along the same lines as have pre- 

 vailed in the three seasons past, in which 

 they have handled our apples. Without 

 casting any reflections on any other 

 f. o. b. buyers the Union feels called 

 upon to express its unciualified approval 

 of the business methods of Steinhardt & 

 Kelly. Of the hundreds of cars which 

 they purchased of us this season f. o. b. 

 Hood River they have not rejected a 

 single car, and only in a very few cases 

 have they written back making any criti- 

 cisms relative to the ciuality and packing 

 of the goods. In five or six cases they 

 have specified that certain growers' packs 

 were not up to the regular grade, and 

 asked us to call the attention of these 

 growera to the matter. In view of the 

 fact that the market conditions early in 

 the season were not in favor of f. o. b. 

 buyers the acceptance of all of our goods 

 sold early in the season to this firm is 

 a very pleasing incident in connection 

 with our business. 



"We hardly think that the people of 

 Hood River Valley really appreciate the 

 valuable services which Steinhardt & 



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