. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 6c) 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 g
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 6c) 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 A
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