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seven-eighths of an inch in thickness. We also further recommend that 

 all former actions of this association relative to apple boxes be repealed. 

 The above is most respectfully submitted. Signed: E. L. Smith, E. C. 

 Emerson, S. L. Moore, L. A. Porter and G. W. Whitehouse. 



Reaffirmed by Walla Walla meeting held January 28 and 29, 1902, by 

 resolution as follows: 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that the action of the 

 convention of a year ago relating to the size of boxes used for apples be 

 reaffirmed; and all the members of the Northwest Fruitgrowers' Associa- 

 tion be urged to use the same. 



This resolution is deemed necessary and important owing to the action 



of other fruit associations and of commission men and large buyers of 

 apples, in using and recommending various and unnecessary sizes of boxes 

 according to their different ideas on the subject. It being in our opinion 

 absolutely necessary and essential to the best interests of the fruitgrowers 

 to establish and use a "standard box," and experience having shown that 

 the sizes adopted at Portland are perfectly satisfactory, fair and honest, 

 we recommend that those sizes be re-endorsed and given the full sanction 

 and support of the association. 



THE OREGON STEAWBERRY. 



PAPER READ BEFORE THE MIDSUMMER MEETING OF THE STATE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, NEWBERG, OREGON, 



AUGUST 10, 1901. 



By Hon. E. Hofee. 



With practical control of the commerce of a hundred million people, 

 with our shipping rapidly spreading to the navigable waters of the globe, 

 with educated and civilized nations increasing in wealth and demanding 

 the best fruits for their tables, there is a greater gold mine in the canned 

 strawberry for Western Oregon than in the richest discovery of the 

 Klondike. It means wealth, health and employment for the people of 

 city and country. 



Two articles can be grown in the Willamette valley in quality and 

 quantity, and which our soil and climate will produce cheaply and surely, 

 for which there is an unlimited demand when canned to meet the require- 

 ments of commerce— asparagus and strawberries. I am on the program 

 for the latter, but have mentioned both on account of their universal 

 consumption by well-to-do people the world over. 



Willamette valley strawberries are destined to take the markets of the 

 world — shipped fresh from fifty to five hundred miles without refrigeration 

 and from one thousand to three thousand miles with cold storage — and 

 canned in tin or glass to the ends of the world. This result will be achieved 

 whenever the industry assumes commercial proportion. 



