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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



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material i.s so great that he can get 

 what he wants without paying a fair 

 price for it. Ordinarily, I believe, 

 there is not any great danger tliat the 

 grower will not get fair treatment from 

 the private individual. At least it is 

 not so in the private plants of which I 

 have an>- knowledge. The grower is 

 getting about all he could reasonably 

 expect. 



The private individual must have 

 what amounts to co-operation on the 

 part of the growers. If he is building 

 a plant on the assumption that he is 

 going to run 180 days of the year, be- 

 ginning with loganberries, etc., and the 

 grower puts his fruit on the market 

 fresh for two or three years because 

 he finds it more profitable, then that 

 private individual is going broke. You 

 will not get private capital to build 

 without the assurance that he can pro- 

 vide himself against such a condition 

 as that. Bankers and men with money 

 say they will not put $10,000 or -$15,000 

 into a community for by-products be- 

 cause the grower will have no interest 

 and he will step from under when he 

 can dispose of his fruit for 10 cents 

 more a ton than they can pay. 



Mr. Leedy : At the present price of 

 evaporated apples, what can the evap- 

 orator alford to pay the grower for 

 green fruit? 



Dr. Caldwell: $9.00 or $10.00 a ton. 



Mr. Doty: Will the present desirable 

 varieties continue so? 



Dr. Caldwell: Of course I can't say 

 delinilely. Of course we know that 

 the variety which is the most desirable 

 in one state is not the most desirable 

 in the next state. The highest priced 

 apple in New York is not the highest 

 priced apple in Philadelphia or Chi- 

 cago. Of course we can't say that the 

 apple which is the highest priced now 

 will be so ten years hence. 



Mr. Paulus: But you can reasonably 

 state that apples which are undesirable 

 at the present time will continue to 

 be so. 



Chairman: How many tons of culls 

 should be provided for per acre each 

 year — what is the average? 



Mr. Green: At ^^^lite Salmon we 

 count about one-half ton. 



Mr. Van Holderbeck: One and one- 

 half tons per acre in a bearing orchard. 



Dr. Caldwell : Evaporation must not 

 be considered a panacea for growers' 

 trouble. It offers possibilities of help, 

 but everywhere there are very definite 

 limitations upon those possibilities, and 

 those limitations nuist be clearly imder- 

 stood. I think that very great harm has 

 been done here in the Northwest by a 

 few misinformed people, by reckless 

 and enthusiastic people who have pre- 

 sented statements of the possibilities 

 which were very wide of the facts. 

 The net result has been that it disgusted 

 the grower who investigated when he 

 found out that he had been misin- 

 formed, and in two or three cases 

 where evaporators were started there 

 has been extreme dissatisfaction, the 

 growers feeling that the man in charge 

 was imposing upon them. 



Mr. McKee: Over how long a period 

 did you gather data of the average price 

 of the dried products? 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



