1915 



BETTER FRUIT 



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Shippei's' League, which has met with 

 the Executive Coinmiltee of the (iidw- 

 ers' Council in the most friendly sort 

 of an altitude. As a result competition 

 and compaign for tonnage have been 

 free fiom personalities and the sales 

 more or less free from the harmful 

 com])etition that existed last year. 

 Each one of the marketing concerns 

 has recognized the right of the others 

 to exist and continue. 



The Wenatchee Fruit Grower s' 



League. — One of the marvelous crea- 

 tions during the present readjustment 

 of the apple business was the splendid 

 organization known as the Wenatchee 

 Fruit Growers' League. Through the 

 co-operation of the state, this league 

 succeeded in making effective in the 

 AVenatchee district (a very large area) 

 a plan for state inspection of all apples, 

 which has resulted in every grower, no 

 matter how he shipped, whether inde- 

 pendent or through any of the selling 

 organizations, being compelled to sub- 

 mit to a state inspection. After this in- 

 spection was made the official stamp 

 was placed on the shipment. When a 

 carload was shipped, an otTicial certifi- 

 cate of inspection was issued by the 

 official inspectors. The force of in- 

 spectors consisted of 51 men working 

 under the supervision of O. T. Clawson 

 as chief inspector, in connection with 

 Mr. Adams, president of the Wenatchee 

 Eruit Growers' League. The result of 

 this being that every grower in Wenat- 

 chee has put out a consistently uniform 

 grade, establishing a standard valua- 

 tion on every car of apples, according 

 to the variety, grade and ma'-kct con- 

 ditions. It is therefore our ])leasure to 

 commend Wenatchee for the excellent 

 work it has done alonff this line and to 

 suggest this plan to other districts for 

 their consideration. The Wenatchee 

 Eruit Growers' League are showina a 

 spirit of co-oi)eration with other dis- 

 tricts along lines whereby all districts 

 can work together with harmonv to the 

 betterment of the industry throughout 

 the Northwest, the president, Mr. 

 Adams, having offered to visit anv of 

 the jirincijjal fruit-growing sections to 

 ex|)lain this ijlan — its operatiims. how it 

 is carried out — provided any district is 

 willini.' to nav the expenses of such a 

 trip, Mr. ,\(lams voluntarily ofl'ering to 

 contiihute his own services and knowl- 

 edge without reimbursement. 



Economy. — The Oreeon Leeislature, 



owing to financial conditions, felt com- 

 I)elled to adojjt a rit-'id system of econo- 

 my in all departments. It is sincerely 

 regretted that it seemed necessary to 

 extend this to the Oregon Agricultural 

 College on account of the excellent 

 work it has been doing and is doing. 

 However, the new law provides for an 

 experimental fund to be contributed by 

 each Legislature, effective for two 

 years, at the end of which time a new 

 appropriation must be made. It seems 

 regretable that such a law seemed nec- 

 essary, for the reason that the T'xperi- 

 ment Station men say that manv prob- 

 lems re(|uire many years' investigation 



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before they can be expected to be 

 solved. Consequently at the present 

 the Experiment Station of the State of 

 Oregon is somewhat hampered bv the 

 limitation, lieing unable to engage in 

 experimental work which cannot be 

 expected to be reasonably worked out 

 during the life of the fund, which is 

 limited to two vears. 



the fruitgrowers may prefer in their 

 different localities, instead of endeav- 

 oring to create new oi'ganizations. Up 

 to the present writing, according to all 

 information obtainable, the general im- 

 pression seems to prevail that all or- 

 ganizations are obtaining reasonably 

 good prices for the dilVerenl varieties 

 and grades in the respective districts. 



Selling Organizations. — In America 



where every man is free to engage in 

 any line of business he sees fit, with 

 com])aralively few restrictions, it seems 

 only fair and just to concede that every 

 selling organization in the Northwest 

 has the right to exist and continue, pro- 

 vided it can make satisfactory returns 

 to the growers that will compare favor- 

 ably with other marketing concerns 

 doing business in the same territory. 

 The opinion generally prevails that at 

 the present lime the Northwest is ami)ly 

 s'i[)plicd with selling organizations. 

 There is apparently no desire evident 

 on the pari of any organization to put 

 any other organization out of business. 

 On the other hand, it seems to be more 

 or less the universal opinion, not only 

 among the selling organizations them- 

 selves but among the fruitgrowers, that 

 at the present time the rniinher of sell- 

 ing concerns and associations are suffi- 

 ciently ami)le to handle the business 

 of the Northwest witboul increasing 

 the present number. Therefore it is to 

 he hojied that effort will he direelcci 

 toward increasing the sirenglh of Ihe 

 present organization, whichever ones 



H. F. Wilson, entomologist for the 



ExperinuMit Station of the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural ("ollege, has accepted a posi- 

 tion with the University of Wisconsin, 

 at Madison. Mr. Wilson was highly ap- 

 preciated for his ability throughout the 

 State of Oregon and Oregon feels that 

 it has lost an able man. However, it is 

 our pleasure to wish Mr. Wilson suc- 

 cess in his new position. 



No one man will be able to formulate 



a plan of ijublicity that will meet with 

 the approval of all districts. Such a 

 plan and campaign can only be worked 

 out in detail to Ihe satisfaction of all 

 sections by giving the matter serious 

 thought .and revising and adapting any 

 plan so thai all districts and all con- 

 tribulors will he benefited. 



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