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Figure 28 — 1()3 Apples 

 Northwest Standard Box 



-175 Apples 

 Standard Box 



Figure 31 — 188 Apples 

 Northwest Standard Box 



How to Start a 2/2 

 Diagonal Pack 



Diagonal Pack 

 How to Start a 3/2 



Packing Apples 



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well clone, but in the Fancy grade the 

 grower usually falls down for the rea- 

 son that he hates to see anything go 

 into the C grade because the price is so 

 much lower, but his worst fault prob- 

 ably is in the C grade, for the grower 

 usually argues this way: "If this 

 apple does not go into the C grade, it 

 must go to the vinegar factory at only 

 six dollars per ton." Extra Fancy and 

 Fancy apples in average seasons usu- 

 ally bring the growers fair prices. The 

 C grade seldom gives satisfactory re- 

 turns. The reason for this is that usu- 

 ally in the C grade the grower puts in 

 everything that is left after the Extra 

 Fancy and Fancy are packed out. Con- 

 sequently the C grade in past years has 

 contained a lot of poor apples which 

 were either badly affected by worm 

 slings, aphis or fungus. If the fruit- 

 growers of the Northwest expect to 

 continue to put up a C grade and get 

 back satisfactory returns after harvest- 

 ing and sellin.g expenses are taken out, 

 they will have to bear this fact in mind: 

 they must put a better C grade in 1916 

 than they have any year in the past. 

 Careful investigations of returns on ('- 

 grade apples, particidarly on ordinarx 

 varieties, lead to the conclusion thai 

 C grade pay the grower comparatively 

 little, if any, profit. If a profit is to be 

 made on C-grade apples, then more care 

 must be taken in leaving out stung 

 apples, aphis apples, fungus apples and 

 others affected with any other kind of 

 a disease. 



The greater part of the apples pro- 

 duced in the Northwest are sold either 

 in the Middle West, the South, the East 

 or exported. Careful observation and 

 investigation points to the final conclu- 

 sion that if C grade is to be packed, it 

 must be a better grade in the future 

 than it has been in the past, for the 

 reason that C grade, particularly in 

 ordinary varieties, has not shown the 

 grower a satisfactory net profit. There 

 is a belief, which we have long enter- 

 tained, which is growing constantly, 

 that sometime in the near future the 

 Northwest will decide, and decide 

 wisely, to pack only two grades, the 

 Extra Fancy and Fancy, the latter in- 

 cluding in addition to Fancy the first- 

 class ajiples of what now go in the C 

 grade; the balance should be sent to 

 the vinegar factory. This suggestion is 

 thrown out in advance for considera- 

 tion for the reason that it is our belief 

 that sometime in the near fiitine it will 

 be the advisable method to atlopt. 



This year the Northwest is entering 

 on a new era, so to speak, under the 

 auspices of the Fruit Growers' Agency, 

 originated, created and fathered by the 

 Bureau of Markets in the Department 



of Agriculture. We are going on the 

 market under a uniform contract; we 

 have taken a stand for uniform pack 

 and standardization, and therefore it 

 ought to be evident that we will be 

 critically judged this year. If we make 

 good this year, we will have established 

 a reputation for uniformity and stand- 

 ardization. We must pack a product 

 of known value. Every car should be 

 standard so it can be sold on guaran- 

 tee w^ithout inspection. The business 

 world, the consumer, the government, 

 are all demanding standardization. The 

 Xoithwest has publicly stated that the 

 Fruit Growers' Agency will supervise 

 standardization. It is a critical year; 

 the responsibility is on our shoulders, 

 on every grower's shoulders. Individu- 

 ally. WE HAVE ASSUMED THE RE- 

 SPONSIBILITY; WE MUST MAKE 

 GOOD. WE CANNOT FAIL. WE 

 WILL NOT FAIL. 



A large grower and operator of 

 apples in one of the past issues of the 

 Chicago Produce News advises grow- 

 ers to take up the matter of marketing 

 and distribution now, instead of wait- 

 ing until the harvesting time. Mighty 

 good advice. 



The Eugene Fruit Growers' Associ- 

 ation, under the able managership of 

 Mr. J. O. Holt, organized in 1908, doing 

 a business of .$6000, has met with won- 

 derful success, showing a volume of 

 business done in 1915 of $225,000. 



The Winter Nelis pear crop is re- 

 ported to have suflercd more severely 

 than any other variety of pear. Ap- 

 parently the Winter Nelis will be 

 scarce and will bring good prices. 



The Libby, McNeill & Libby fruit 

 cannery is a big factor for the fruit 

 industry in the district surrounding 

 The Dalles. There is nothing like a 

 good cannery to help take care of the 

 surplus and save the waste. 



Anjou Pears 



A Perfect Box of Bartlelt Pears 



