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clean. Then we are ready to use the 

 yard for trays and fruit. When the 

 drying season is over the yard is cleared 

 and the space then is as clean as a clay 

 floor from being used so much. It is 

 then flooded with water and in three 

 weeks the top of the ground is green all 



over and before the rains come we have 

 another cutting crop; three crops a 

 year, a ton at each cutting. So we make 

 something from the space that was be- 

 fore occupied by trees and have also 

 solved the dust problem, which means 

 clean fruit and better prices. 



Oregon Growers Form State Wide Association 



As the result of a recent meeting in 

 Portland of seventy-five represen- 

 tative Oregon fruit and nut growers to 

 consider the plan of organizing a state- 

 wide co-operative association, articles 

 of incorporation have been filed and a 

 campaign of education is now being 

 carried on to fully inform the fruit 

 growers of the various sections in re- 

 gard to the details of the proposed 

 organization. The incorporators of the 

 new association are Isaac D. Hunt, 

 D. W. Johnson, E. L. Klemmer, J. O. 

 Holt, E. W. Matthews, C. I. Lewis, 

 George L. Zimmerman, Seymour Jones 

 and W. E. St. John. 



The articles of incorporation cover 

 the formation of two organizations, the 

 Oregon Growers' Co-operative Associa- 

 tion and the Oregon Growers' Packing 

 Corporation. Control of both organi- 

 zations will be vested in the former. 

 The articles of the Oregon Growers' 

 Co-operative Association provide for a 

 non-profit and co-operative organiza- 

 tion to promote the production of all 

 varieties of fruits and nuts and to 

 handle and pack these products in the 

 interest of the growers. A contract is 

 provided for between the two organiza- 

 tions whereby the association will de- 

 liver its products to the packing corpor- 

 ation, which will handle them on a 

 non-profit basis. The control of selling 

 thepacked products is left in the hands 

 of the association. To become a mem- 

 ber of the association the applicant 

 must be an actual grower of fruit in 

 Oregon. 



The capital stock of the packing cor- 

 poration is fixed at $1,000,000. Of this 

 amount $500,000 worth of common and 

 $500,000 of preferred stock will be 

 issued, and the plan provides that mem- 

 bers shall take stock in the organization 

 on a basis of $10 for each acre of fruit 

 in bearing. The marketing agreement 

 provides that the grower shall sell his 

 products to the association and that the 

 association shall pay the grower the 

 resale price, less the actual cost of 

 handling and the other necessary 

 charges, which must not exceed two 

 per cent of the gross selling price. The 

 two per cent to be retained by the asso- 

 ciation will be used to pay advertising 

 costs, dividends, and to create a reserve 

 fund to retire the preferred stock. 



While the association will extend its 

 operations to all the fruit-growing sec- 

 tions of the state, its most immediate 

 action will be the- absorbing and com- 

 bining of the interests of the Salem 

 Fruit Union, the Umpqua Valley Fruit 

 Union, the Roseburg cannery, the Doug- 

 las County Prune Growers' Association, 

 the Scotts Mills Prune Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, the Dundee Prune Growers' 

 Association, the Eugene Fruit Canners' 



Association, and the Willamette Valley 

 Fruit Exchange at Corvallis. The large 

 capitalization proposed is for the pur- 

 pose of providing funds for the pur- 

 chase of the physical properties of these 

 organizations, such as canneries, pack- 

 ing establishments and equipment, and 

 to construct and maintain additional 

 plants where necessary. Funds to 

 finance the proposition, it is reported, 

 will be forthcoming when the associa- 

 tion is ready to commence operations. 

 The new organization will not attempt 

 to handle any of the Oregon fruit crop 

 this year, but expects to have every- 

 thing complete for taking over this 

 allied fruit industry in 1920. 



To give the various districts local 

 representation in the central body it is 

 proposed to appoint a board of direc- 

 tors from each district. It is expected 

 that the new organization will be han- 

 dling $5,000,000 worth of fruit products 

 in the near future. 



The new organizations had their in- 

 ception through the efforts of Robert 

 C. Paulus, manager of the Salem Fruit 

 Union. At the suggestion of a number 

 of prominent fruit growers in the Wil- 

 lamette Valley, Mr. Paulus went to Cali- 

 fornia, where he studied the operations 

 of several of the big co-operative asso- 

 ciations. Being satisfied of their suc- 



cess, he secured the consent of Aaron 

 Sapiro of San Francisco, attorney for 

 the largest co-operative associations in 

 California, to come to Portland and out- 

 line a plan of organization for Oregon 

 growers. 



The plan received the unanimous 

 approval of the meeting of growers, 

 who appointed an organization com- 

 mittee of the following to take it up: 

 Robert Paulus of Salem, W. W. Silver 

 of Dundee, George Zimmerman of North 

 Yamhill, E. W. Matthews of Amity, 

 K. W. Johnson of Corvallis, E. E. Klem- 

 mer of Alvadore, J. O. Holt of Eugene, 

 A. N. Elliot of Dallas and Earl Percy of 

 Roseburg. 



The following were also chosen to 

 act in an advisory capacity to the 

 organization committee: J. A. Taylor 

 of Scotts Mills, Seymour Jones of Salem, 

 Stanley Smith of Albany, C. I. Lewis of 

 Corvallis, E. M. Barlow of Eugene, W. C. 

 Jamison of Hillsboro, L. F. Russell of 

 Washougal, R. H. C. Wood of Roseburg, 

 W. C. Harding of Roseburg. W. E. 

 St. John of Sutherlin, John Busen- 

 bark of Roseburg, Frank Gibson of 

 Salem, Henry Both of Dallas, E. W. 

 Coulson of Scotts Mills, G. A. Dearborn 

 of Dundee, Ferd Groner of Hillsboro, 

 Kenneth Miller of Sheridan, J. E. Cox 

 of Dallas, H. S. Butts of Dallas, C. C. 

 Hall of Gresham, J. A. Riggs of The 

 Dalles, C. E. Spence of Oregon City, 

 J. E. Ferguson, Stanley Armstrong of 

 Milston, J. J. McDonald of Salem and 

 Professor McPherson of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College. 



These two committees worked out the 

 plans of the organizations with the 

 assistance of Mr. Sapiro, which were 

 adopted, resulting in their incorpora- 

 tion as already stated. 



Growing Cuthbert Red Raspberries in Oregon 



By Oren Stratton, Brownsville, Oregon 



IN discussing the subject of growing 

 the Cuthbert red raspberry let it be 

 understood that this article is not writ- 

 ten with the intention of encouraging 

 or discouraging the growing of this 

 fruit, but rather of giving some of the 

 experiences we have had in the past 

 few years in connection with berry 

 growing, that the reader may draw his 

 own conclusions. 



We first became interested in this 

 business in the year 1907, when we 

 plowed up some river bottom land 

 which had never been cropped, and 

 planted the Cuthbert raspberry in rows 

 seven feet apart and the plants thirty 

 inches apart in the rows. This proved 

 to be a very satisfactory venture, as the 

 plants grew very rapidly and produced 

 some fruit the first year, and the second 

 year the crop yielded about one and 

 one-half tons per acre. 



At picking time the young canes had 

 grown to a height of six to eight feet, 

 with a heavy foliage, thus making it 

 very difficult to pick the ripe fruit, and 

 neighbors who saw this splendid pros- 

 pect were encouraged to set out small 

 tracts to cane fruits. We had planted 

 some loganberries and blackberries also 



at this time, which gave equal satisfac- 

 tion as to yield. 



A few years later, when the price for 

 fruit at the canning plants was very 

 low, in fact too low to produce fruit at 

 a living wage, many of the smaller 

 growers plowed up their berries and 

 have since grown other crops on their 

 land. In 1914 we decided to enlarge our 

 berry field, having sixty acres adjoining 

 the tract which we had first planted, all 

 river bottom land and well drained. 

 The sixty-acre field, however, had been 

 farmed to grain for the past fifty years, 

 growing splendid crops, the wheat and 

 oats growing as tall as the horses' backs 

 when harvesting the crops. We found 

 the growth of the canes on this sixty- 

 acre field much smaller than on the first 

 tract planted, which would only be a 

 natural result from the continuous crop- 

 ping of grain. We have applied land 

 plaster, ashes, etc., to the ground, but 

 thus far have found nothing as satis- 

 factory for a fertilizer as stable manure, 

 though we have only a limited supply 

 of this for use on this berry field. 



The second year after planting this 

 tract we had only a light crop of fruit, 

 and in 1917 and 1918 the summer sea- 

 sons were very dry and as a conse- 



