Page 62 BETTER FRUIT 



AMERICAN AND CANADIAN EXPORTS DECREASING 



REFERRING to the season's ship- 

 ment of apples and some facts 

 worth remembering, a letter from W. N. 

 White & Co., fruits and general prod- 

 uce, says: 



"This week will about wind up the 

 exports of apples to Europe, and the 

 following facts and figures may be inter- 

 esting and instructive: 



Season Season 

 1910-11 1909-10 



Port of Xew York 326,219 398,91-t 



Port of Boston 440,926 263.626 



Port of Portland 72,807 248,020 



Port of Montreal 169,940 .587,287 



Ports of Halifax and Annapolis 204,2.54 676,424 



Port of St. John 5,055 45,356 



Boxes of Far Western 1,070,500 463,362 



"The early spring and late frost 

 destroyed large portions of the crop east 

 of the Rockies and many parts of Colo- 

 rado. New York kept her supplies up 

 to the average through drawing large 

 lots from the Virginias, where they have 

 gone into extensive planting during the 

 past decade. It will be seen that Boston 

 and Portland combined are about equal 

 for the two seasons. From my own per- 

 sonal observation IMassachusetts and 

 Connecticut, that was for many years a 

 'by word' among the fruit from other 

 states, will in the future have to be 

 reckoned with. Growers there are taking 

 more pains with their orchards, until 

 today the quality is equal to some of the 

 best in New York state. 



"Attention is called to the falling off 

 from Montreal, Halifax and St. John of 

 over 800,000 barrels. Last year's warm 

 March, followed with bad weather in 

 May, accounts for this. Otherwise, Nova 

 Scotia alone, with her increasing acreage, 

 expected 1,000,000 barrels. This year 

 things are reversed. They still liaA-e cold 



APPLE GROWERS of America are 

 to have an opportunity for com- 

 peting for a prize of $500 in gold at the 

 great Nev^- York land show to be held 

 in Madison Square Garden in November. 



The prize of twenty-five twenty-dollar 

 gold pieces is offered by Howard Elliott, 

 president of the Northern Pacific, for the 

 best exhibit of twenty-five boxes apples 

 of any variety or varieties made at the 

 American Land and Irrigation Exposi- 

 tion next fall. Competition for this prize 

 is open to the growers of the world, and 

 the exhibitors must be prepared to fur- 

 nish affidavits as to the crop from which 

 the samples exhibited were taken. The 

 exact terms of award have not yet been 

 decided upon. Gilbert McClurg, general 

 manager of the exposition, and ^Ir. 

 Elliott, are now in correspondence with 

 pomologists and horticulturists upon this 

 subject, and the decision as to the points 

 of merit probably will be made public 

 early in the summer. Growers can 

 secure full information regarding this 

 apple contest from the Americaii Land 

 and Irrigation Exposition. 149 Broad- 

 vi'ay, New York City. 



The donor of this prize. President 

 Elliott of the Northern Pacific, is also 

 to give away 160 acres of Alontana wheat 

 land by popular allotment during the 



weather, and their season is fully four 

 weeks later than last. It is said their 

 trees are looking well, and, having had 

 light crops last year, Canadian ports are 

 expected to ship this year 2,000,000 bar- 

 rels, or 700,000 more than two years ago. 



"Further attention is called to the 

 remarkable increase in far Western 

 boxes, the largest in any previous season 

 exported being 520,000 boxes. This 

 industry started in 1885, and my firm 

 sold the first car that ever was shipped 

 to England. The total growth this year 

 has been reckoned about 15,000,000. 

 Each box when sent to New York 

 pays the railway fifty cents freight. 

 At the present time everything West 

 looks well for good crops. Colorado, 

 that only had 2,500 carloads last season, 

 has already come out with the statement 

 that they expect 10,000 this season. This 

 would mean 8,000 carloads of apples 

 (6,000,000 boxes). The immense tracts 

 laid out in Idaho, Utah, Oregon and 

 Washington during the past ten years, 

 which are now coming into bearing, 

 looks like 28,000,000 to 30,000,000 boxes 

 next season, and it remains to be seen 

 if these quantities will be able to stand 

 the present railway charge. 



"All barrels of apples have sold at 

 good prices, but boxes have sold at 

 lower prices than they have in their his- 

 tory, particularly those grown under irri- 

 gation. Some of these have arrived in 

 Europe in bad condition, proving that 

 fruit grown under irrigation has poor 

 carrying quality — too much water in the 

 fruit, and as the American government is 

 expending some .$25,000,000 on irrigation, 

 this season's lessons may be -of some 

 value.'' 



exposition. Several valuable tracts of 

 land will be given away in this manner, 

 and it is expected that this feature will 

 draw many visitors to the exposition 

 from the surrounding territory. 



This first New York land exposition 

 is to be thoroughly representative of 

 American agriculture as well as the most 

 picturesque and instructive call of the 

 land ever presented in the nation. 

 Exhibitors will display their soil and its 

 products, or show maps and relief mod- 

 els of their holdings. Agriculture as it 

 is generally practiced, dry farming and 

 irrigation methods will be demonstrated. 

 Moving pictures, illustrated lectures, 

 literature, growers and agents will dem- 

 onstrate the possibilities of American 

 soils. In fact the exposition will per- 

 fectly illustrate that from the land comes 

 all permanent wealth, and that life on the 

 land affords the greatest measure of 

 independence. 



^ 



Editor Better Fruit: 



I have received your sample copy of the small 

 fruits edition of "Better Fruit," March number, 

 and will say that anyone who can get up a publi- 

 cation of this sort for one dollar a year ought to 

 be encouraged by every grower of fruits in the 

 United .States, therefore I enclose you herewith 

 check on West Side Bank, New York, for one 

 dollar to pay for "Better Fruit" for one year, 

 commencing w-ith the May issue. Kindly send me 

 proper receipt for same and oblige. Yours truly. 

 L. G. Loomis, Victor, New York. 



June 



THE NORTHWESTERN FRUIT EXCHANGE 

 illustrates its policy of maintaining a thor- 

 oughly efficient administrative organization in the 

 selection of Charles A. Malboeuf for the office 

 of secretary. Mr. Malboeuf has been long and 

 intimately connected with the progress of the 

 Pacific Northwest, and is a traffic and publicity 

 man of very extensive experience. Born in Mon- 

 treal, Canada, where he was educated in the 

 Dominion government schools, he came to Port- 

 land in the early nineties, and for fourteen years 

 was with the Southern Pacific Company in that 

 city and in the field, rising rapidly through the 

 various traffic branches to the office of district 

 freight agent for the lines in Oregon, which he 

 held until January, 1910, leaving the railroad 

 service with an enviable record for energetic, 

 intelligent results. He was also previously con- 

 nected with the Burlington, Union Pacific and 

 Northern Pacific Express Companies, and as a 

 transportation man is one of the most widely and 

 favorably known in the Pacific Northwest. His 

 work as publicity manager of the Medford Com- 

 mercial Club was particularly effective. ^Ir. Mal- 

 boeuf has for j'ears been a close student of the 

 fruit growing industry in Oregon, Washington 

 and Idaho, and has contributed many articles of 

 value to the Pacific Coast press and magazines on 

 the subject. His experience and keen oljservation, 

 together with his knowledge of the present and 

 future necessities of the fruit situation, from both 

 the view point of the transportation and com- 

 munity interests, specially fit him for the impor- 

 tant office and its responsible duties, which he 

 now holds with the Exchange. 



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