November, ipip 



operative lines. In fact, he has already 

 done considerable work of this kind in 

 Tasmania, which grows the largest crop 

 of apples in that section of the world. 

 Mr. Rundle left Seattle for Nelson, New 

 Zealand, early in October, where he 

 will continue his work of organization 

 in that country. 



While here he stated that orchardists 

 in the Australian group of countries 

 were not realizing the returns they 

 should from their fruit owing to im- 

 proper methods of marketing and pack- 

 ing. The custom is largely in vogue 

 there, he said, of letting the buyer set 

 the price, which resulted in the grower 

 having to take what was offered him, 

 or taking the alternative of sending it 

 to the auction room, where it sold for 

 whatever the large buyers wanted to 

 pay. These conditions it is hoped will 

 be changed if a sufficient number of 

 growers can be secured to form organi- 

 zations that will market their own fruit. 

 While there has been much done and 

 said on paper in regard to cooperative 

 organization in Australia, Mr. Rundle 

 reports the situation far from satisfac- 

 tory. "One of the things we are espe- 

 ciaily interested in," he said, "is your 

 method of sizing apples. Our growers 

 have not yet learned how to standardize 

 their packs. They have been putting 

 apples of all sizes in the same box. We 

 hope by studying the packing methods 

 here to eliminate this condition. W^hile 

 here I have arranged for the purchase 

 of fourteen power apple sizing machines 

 manufactured by the Ideal Fruit Grader 

 Company at Hood River." 



In company with J. A. Campbell, 

 assistant director of the horticultural 

 division of the department of agricul- 

 ture of New Zealand, Mr. Rundle had 

 spent several weeks in the Pacific 

 Northwest investigating fruit growing 

 conditions before his return home. 



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Nut Growers to Meet in 

 November 



In answer to many inquiries being 

 made to him about walnut growing, 

 J. C. Cooper, president of the Western 

 Walnut Association, through Better 

 Fruit says that nearly all the nurseries 

 in the Pacific Northwest sell walnut and 

 filbert trees. Mr. Cooper states that at 

 present there is a shortage of grafted 

 walnut trees and that growers are 

 planting black walnuts and grafting 

 them to English varieties. Very valu- 

 able literature on walnut and filbert 

 culture may be secured by those inter- 

 ested by securing the published pro- 

 ceedings of the Western Walnut Asso- 

 ciation for 1918, which can be had for 

 a one dollar membership fee sent to 

 Knight Pearcy, secretary, at Salem, 

 Oregon. 



The fifth annual meeting of the asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Mvdtnomah 

 Hotel in Portland, November 12 and 13 

 next. There will be a fine nut exhibit 

 in connection with the meeting and the 

 public as well as walnut growers is in- 

 vited to attend the meetings. 



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