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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



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 WINTER 



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Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, Blackberries 



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October and November was mild and 

 this fruit moved rapidly at for 40 to 

 75 cents per hundred pounds. Had 

 the usual freezes in the fall of the 

 year prevailed this competition would 

 have been eliminated. Such a condi- 

 tion may not prevail again in years. 

 Hood River has been particularly 

 forliinate in the disposition her ap- 

 ples this year, all fruit having been 

 sold for the most part, except some 

 Newtowns, while hundreds of thou- 

 sand of boxes of other Northwestern 

 apples remain in storage. And Hood 

 River's price has been more than 10 

 cents per box higher than that of 

 other district. The district has been 

 fortunate in having Wilnier Sieg to 

 handle the fruit. M'hen Mr. Sieg fii-st 

 came hci-e I did not particularly take 

 to hiiu. But mv four months' experi- 

 ence in the middle western markets 

 have pointed out to me the benefits 

 that he has brouaht to Hood River. 

 I believe that a great bulk of oiu- crop 

 has been disnosed of advantageously, 

 on account of his broad acouaintance 

 and fricndsliip among the market 

 men. When 1 wnuld strike a town I 

 would always find that lliev knew hiin 

 and were friendly to him, and this 

 thing helped me more than anything 

 else to make mv sales." 



Mr. Vandei-biU was present at the 

 Seattle meeting and declares that he 

 is for harmonv. "Lots of the grow- 

 ers," he says, "had got the idea that 

 by the formation of the big central 

 selling concerns we had readied the 

 ultimate ends. No agency is ocrfpct, 

 and we must stop tlie holes as we find 

 fhcni. The organizations evolved in 

 191,3 have been of benefit to the grow- 

 er, for if we had last vcar such con- 

 ditions as were prevalent in 1912, a 

 great manv apnles vould never have 

 left the orchards at all. But while we 

 are talking harmony, why not try to 

 get together here at Hood River and 

 go to the front in a solid organiza- 

 tion. We have got to do this very 

 thing sooner or later, or all of us are 

 going broke. There is no use of Hood 

 River growers going into the eastern 

 markets and competing against each 



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