The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1920, Page 18

M2 The Seattle public can now obtain the superior quality apples our Eastern friends enjoy An Epoch-Making Announcement By H. G. Bohlke President Washington State Horticultural Association Seattle is the apple capital of America. ' New York used to be the great apple state; now Washington produces twice as many. The apple industry with Seattle as its center, is now greater than the orange interests of California. Yet Seattle scarcely knows REALLY GOOD APPLES. Strange but true. So highly organized has the apple industry become that the markets of the country are divided and all the best and most luscious fruits from the wonderful Wenatchee Valley and other apple sections have been sent thousands of miles from their home state to please the eye and delight the taste of the people of the East and foreign countries—sent to premium markets where profit is the only consideration. I believe this is unfair to the people at home. I like my own home state too well—like Seattle too much—to be a party to this injustice. As president of the Washington State Horticultural Association and as the largest individual grower of apples in the Wenatchee Valley, I have been for years striving to build up the horticultural interests in general and the apple interests in particular for the benefit of Washington primarily and of myself in a secondary way. So I have now broken away from all the marketing agencies that have so ruthlessly commercialized the apple industry, and am bringing my own fine apples from my Wenatchee orchards into Seattle by the carload to sell them to you through your grocer—Bohlke brand Apples. For the first time you are going to have for your own table the finest apples that the most wonderful apple-producing valley in the world yields. Honestly, folks, you haven’t had a chance before—except, probably, on an Eastern trip—to know what good apples are—the real, extra choice, great big Wenatchee apples. The way Seattle has been treated by the marketing agencies is the next thing to a scandal. Fact is, you in the apple capital have pretty nearly quit eating apples as a result. Not any more! Seattle was my home years ago—before I became an apple valley where the nights are cooler and the frait comes to ripeness with a maxb grower, and I still feel at home here. My friends, both here and in Wenatchee, mum of lasting qualities—you'll quickly notice the difference. encouraged me to take this independent step. Grocers and market keepers all over the city are enthusiastic over my plan. ' They are backing me to the limit, They know that if you, Mr. and Mrs. Seattle, Se I have opened o big a on Westen ovenes ond ® fs to be Se give me support this is just the beginning, and I'll be here spring, summer, fall attle’s apple headquarters. My representatives are placing the choicest of my and winter with the finest apples in the world. No longer will you need to ge 1919 crop in the hundreds of grocery stores and markets—where they will be to New York or Boston for the best Wenatchee apples! easy to reach. Every box is marked “Rohike Brand Apples"—you can't go wrong. Show me whether I'm'right, It's a big, expensive step for me, to demonstrate My trucks will keep the stores supplied constantly with fruit Just brought In that Seattle really wants the best, yet the best doesn’t cost you any more than from my acientifically built warehouse in Wenatchee—crisp and fresh—every the so-called best you have been buying. apple a concentrated ball of that marvelous Wenatchee sunstine and flavor. Say to your grocer right quick, “Send me a box of Bohike Brand Apples.” My three hundred and more acres of bearing trees are in the upper end of the Tl get the message. BOHLKE FRUIT COMPANY Phone Main 1787 1124 Western Avenue, Seattle | | Sa” Taare Bei-ke>) | enatchee'’s Best Apples}