. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi8 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 of small red apples and Yellow New- towns, if the English government could be persuaded that our apples are not a luxury and would lift the embargo. The Scandinavian countries and South America are literally crying for apples and offering all sorts of inducements, but there is practically no ship space to be had. Australia, always heretofore a dependable outlet for our early Jona- thans, is closed with an embargo. The individual markets open to our apples in the different countries will depend in a large measure on the con- ditions in th
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi8 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 of small red apples and Yellow New- towns, if the English government could be persuaded that our apples are not a luxury and would lift the embargo. The Scandinavian countries and South America are literally crying for apples and offering all sorts of inducements, but there is practically no ship space to be had. Australia, always heretofore a dependable outlet for our early Jona- thans, is closed with an embargo. The individual markets open to our apples in the different countries will depend in a large measure on the con- ditions in those countries. Personally, I think that nearly all these markets will be favorable. Europe offers the largest question of doubt, because Europe is so intensely in the middle of the war that nobody knows what it is going to look like when the struggle is over. Personally, I believe that the re- leasing of men and capital from war occupations, and the turning of Govern- ment finances to the spending of any- where from ten billion to twenty bil- lion dollars in reconstructing the dam- aged places, will produce a condition of great activity. One element very much in our favor will be the fact that European orchards have been neglected during the war, and those that have not been entirely destroyed will show a low efficiency in production. Another pleasant element will be found in Rus- sia. Some day in the not distant future Russia is going to complete its present occupation of blowing off steam accu- mulated during years of repression, and will move into a period of expansion and development that will draw much of the money and man power of the world. Russia will be a good market for our apples. Personally, I look for a tremendous expansion in the Orient and in Austra- lia. We will see a great outpouring of capital and of men to the new places of the world. That has come after every great war. The greatest new places of the world are Siberia, with its billions of acres of untouched
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