116 Report of State Board of Horticulture. 



After the election of directors the corporators should sign a certificate 

 stating who has been elected, and should announce the time and place 

 for the first meeting of the directors. It will usually be of advantage 

 to have the directors meet immediately after adjournment of the meeting 

 at which they are elected. The corporators' certificate of this election 

 should be kept among the permanent files of the association. It would 

 be well to adopt by-laws at the same meeting of stock subscribers. These 

 should of course provide for the same number of directors that the 

 meeting has decreed. Adjournment of the stock subscribers' meeting 

 ends the responsibility of the three corporators. Thereafter the affairs 

 of the association are in the hands of the directors. The latter should 

 not forget that, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, each 

 must take and subscribe an oath faithfully and honcstly to discharge 

 his duties as director. The oath should be acknowledged before a notary 

 and kept among the files of the association. 



The officers are chosen by the directors at their first meeting after 

 taking the above mentioned oath. The President must be a director, 

 but a secretary may be appointed from outside the board. Both these 

 officers should have sufficient interest in the success of the undertaking 

 to serve without pay. Their gratuitous Service can be greatly lightened 

 by the exercise of a little consideration on part of the stockholders, in 

 not insisting on or expecting unnecessary Communications to be sent out 

 upon every occasion. In an Organization of this kind, the manager is 

 the only person to whom it is necessary to pay a salary. He is not 

 an officer, but an employee. The duties of secretary are confined to 

 keeping a record of board meetings, signing occasional documents, and 

 issuing various notices at stated intervals. As the latter are usually 

 printed, the duties of the office are not so heavy that some fruit-grower 

 will not be willing to perform them without compensation. 



The following letter received by the writer will be of interest as 

 reinforcing some of the points made in this article, and as showing the 

 varied possibilities and rapid and healthy expansion of the fruit industry, 

 under the Stimulus of a well-organized and prudently managed 

 association : 



Eugene, Oregon, October 26, 1912. 



Mr. H. C. Atwell, Forest Grove, Oregon. 



Dear Sir: I have yours of the 23d asking what we are doing and 

 how we are doing it. It is too early in the season to give you a complete 

 statement of this season's business, as we are yet running füll blast, 

 packing apples, canning pumpkin, apples, squash, tomatoes and Sauer- 

 kraut. We expect to keep running up to about December Ist; in fact 

 we are busy in one or more departments the year round. Our buildings 

 cover about thirty thousand Square feet of floor space, consisting of a 

 green fruit packing department, a cannery, an evaporator, and a spray 

 factory. These departments are so arranged that fruit may be easily 

 transferred from one to the other. During the winter and spring 

 months we make from four to six hundred barreis of lime-sulphur spray. 

 The cannery begins on asparagus, beets, gooseberries and strawberries, 

 in May, and following the fruits and vegetables in season, finishes up 

 late in the fall with pumpkin, kraut, etc. When this season's pack is 

 finished it will be somewhat in excess of sixteen thousand cases, con- 

 sisting of twenty-eight varieties of fruits and vegetables, put up in 

 sixty-nine different styles and grades. The fresh fruit department 

 attends to the grading, packing and shipping of the various fruits from 

 strawberries to apples. The cannery is always at hand to take any 

 surplus or over-ripe fruit from this department. Our evaporator has 

 a capacity of eight hundred boxes of fruit every twenty-four hours. 



