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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of The Xorthwest Fruit Growers* Association 

 A Monthly Illustrated Magazine Published in the 

 Interest of Modern Fruit Growing and Marketing 



All Communications Should Be Addressed and Remittances 

 Made Payable to 



Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H. SHEPARD. Editor and Publisher 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



OREGON 



C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist Corvallie 



H. S. Jackson, Pathologist Corvallla 



WASHINGTON 



Dr. A. L. Melander, Entomologist Pullman 



O. M. Morris, Horticulttlrist Pullman 



W. S. Thomber. Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette, Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



E. B. House, Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation 



Engineering, State Agricultural College Fort Collins 



E. P. Taylor. Horticulturist Grand Junction 



IDAHO 



W. H. Wicks, Horticulturist iloscow 



UTAH . 



Dr. E. D. Ball, Director and Entomologist Logan 



MONTANA 



O. B. Whipple, Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



C. W. Woodworth, Entomologist Berkeley 



W. H. Volck, Entomologist Watsonville 



Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist Riverside 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 R, M. Winslow, Provincial Horticulturist Victoria 



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of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



Statement of Distribution of North- 

 western Box Apples. — No more impor- 

 tant communication has ever been 

 given the apple growers of the North- 

 west than is contained in the article 

 on this subject appearing elsewhere in 

 this edition. Your ])articular attention 

 is called to the fact that the govern- 

 ment sent representatives to gather in- 

 formation about the distribution of 

 Northwestern apjiles for 1915. They 

 asked the selling concerns, shii)pers 

 and growers to co-operate, giving the 

 distribution of all cars .shipped; fhe\ 

 also asked for the same informalion 

 from the railroads. The railroads co- 

 operated, showing the destination of 

 9,407 cars. The fruitgrowers did not, 

 because their co-operation only re- 

 ported ■J„313 cars. But it must be stated 

 that all the reliable shipping concerns 

 of the Northwest co-operated by giving 

 the information requested. Those who 

 did not were independent shippers, 

 consigners and small operators, and 

 Eastern dealers. When the govern- 

 ment becomes interested sufliciently to 

 send representatives to help the apple 

 industry of the Northwest, the govern- 

 ment paying the expenses, it is very 

 strange that the growers cannot see the 

 wisdom of co-operating and furnishing 

 the information requested. But never- 

 theless it is a fact they did not do so 

 during the year 191."). As long as the 

 growers will not co-operate among 

 themselves or with the government 

 there is no reason why they should 

 blame anyone but themselves when 

 they fail to receive proper values for 

 their apples. The future is before us. 

 Our success deiiends on ourselves. If 

 we assist those who are trying to assist 

 us — more particularly is meant in this 

 case the Marketing Bureau connected 

 with the United States government and 



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l^AslitAN DlPU M Pr^AN P - H A\yrO£pA/0RKS ' 



the associations and selling concerns 

 that are handling our apple crop — there 

 is every reason to assume that we apple 

 growers can not only better ourselves 

 but that in the near future we can dis- 

 pose of our product for its market 

 value, getting full market value b\ 

 proper distribution and able salesman- 

 ship. But until the fruitgrowers are 

 willing to do this, in fact until they do 

 it, they cannot look for any increase in 

 prices or betterment of present condi- 

 tions except during occasional years 

 when the crop is light, and therefore 

 prices are good. 



Fruit Growers' Agency Incorporated. 



This agency is the result of the excel- 

 lent work done by the Bureau of Mar- 

 kets. It is to be noted that those who 

 have handled the largest quantity of 

 apples are the associations and selling 

 concerns that are old and tried out, 

 who are showing their approval by in- 

 corporating the agency and becoming 

 alliliated as members, agreeing to act 

 and follow the advise, instructions and 

 requirements as laid down by the gov- 

 ernment ollicials. 



Paragraph 1, "That every grower 

 should have the exclusive right to fix 



the prices," is the ri.ffht kind of recog- 

 nition of the apple grower ownership 

 and a necessary arrangement on ac- 

 count of the trust laws. 



Paragraph 2: (a) Good wisdom is 

 shown by making it the duty of the 

 selling concerns to co-operate for the 

 purpose of securing crop conditions, 

 (b) Good sense is also shown in the 

 demand for closer harmony among the 

 growers and selling concerns for the 

 pur])ose of securing uniform methods 

 in harvesting, grading and packing, 

 which are absolutely necessary in order 

 to standardize our present brands, (c) 

 No better law was ever laid ilown than 

 the one requiring a final date for con- 

 tracts, (d) .Shows an appreciation of 

 contlitions by recognizing the impor- 

 tance of conferences by the selling con- 

 cerns on market conditions, experiences 

 and mediums necessary in the sale and 

 distribution of the crops, (e) Improve- 

 ment in transiiortation, storage, etc., is 

 another important matter that should 

 never be lost sight of, but should 

 always command continuous attention, 

 (f) Calling for definite plans for the 

 development of various domestic and 

 foreign markets, whereby all selling 

 concerns can pool for the develojjment 



