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the report i)t the committee, and the 

 success of the State of California, all 

 indicate a large output possible from 

 the North-west at fair prices for our 

 own manufactured products. Through 

 the co-operation of our own railroads, 

 wholesalers, retailers and buying-at- 

 honie leagues; by the stimulation of 

 lumber-camp trade, and with our pres- 

 ent home and Alaskan needs, surely we 

 can increase our consumption mate- 

 rially in our own home territory. The 

 committee finds a number of surprising 

 things. Much fruit goes to waste in 

 many Northwestern towns and cities, 

 and the same variety of fruit, canned 

 or evaporated in California, is found 

 on the merchant's shelves in these same 

 villages. Annually California imports 

 great (luantities of Royal Ann cherries 

 for maraschinos, imports hundreds of 

 tons of Oregon pears and exports back 

 to this country and the Canadian terri- 

 tory this same fruit. Some districts let 

 hundreds of tons of apples go to waste 

 nnd import ever\ pint of vinegar 

 they use. 



"Corn canned in the West is shipped 

 lo the East and returned under Eastern 

 labels. Vinegar of the West is shipped 

 in barrels to the East, put into cases, 

 returned to the Northwest and sold at 

 four times the i)rice it was bought for. 

 And all these products are from our 

 own home states, but bear a foreign 

 label, thus losing to us the advertising 

 value. California supplies the dried 

 and canned fruit largely for our own 

 states and the territoi-y north of us. 

 She uses thousands of tons of peach 

 seeds, the kernels Ijcing ijrocesscd and 

 sold as "bitter almonds" or shipped to 

 (ierman>- and there used for the manu- 

 facture of prussic acid. The commit- 

 tee is unanimous in its conclusion that 

 ;i central by-pr(iducls organization is 

 necessary for the salvation of fiur fruit 

 and vegetable industry. Therefore, the 

 committee imanim(iusl> agreed to call 

 this convention today for the purpose 

 of forming a central by-i)roducls or- 

 ganization whose functions, the com- 

 mittee recommends, shall be: First, to 

 net in an advisory capacity to all dis- 

 incts contemplating establishing plants 

 and lo employ experts whose services 

 are to be paid for by such districts. 

 Second, to arrange for a central sell- 

 ing agency for the handling of by- 

 l)roducts." 



In discussing the leport M. M. Higle> 

 of Payette, Idaho, declared Southern 

 Idaho was convinced that definite 

 action at the present meeting was 

 urgent. He said the growers and the 

 commercial clubs of that portion of the 

 Northwest were heart and soul in the 

 movement. Failures in plants, he said, 

 were generally due to inadequate in- 

 formation and immatuie judgment, two 

 things a central organization could 

 furnish all the districts. 



George Tinker of Corvallis, Oregon, 

 declared an organization was no! 

 wanted by the growers unless it could 

 lie made co-operative like the N'oitli 

 I'acific I'ruit Distributors. 



W. II. Paulhanuis of I'uyallup de 

 I'larcd he was heartily in sympatln 

 with anv movement that would better 



Fruit Tree Stocks 



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for budding or grafting, Doueine and French Paradise 

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D. S. LAKE, President 



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