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Mr. W. F. Gwyn Comments on 

 the Fruit Growers' Council 



The following extract is from an arti- 

 cle which appeared in the Produce 

 News as being an interview with Mr. 

 Gwyn. Mr. Gwyn says: "It is a cause 

 of sincere congratulation that jingo 

 ideas were tabled almost unanimously 

 and that the platform finally adopted is 

 of a kind to unite growers and selling 

 factors on a comprehensive construc- 

 tive program. The personnel of the 

 Executive Committee and Board of 

 Control, together with the Shippers' 

 I-eague to be formed, is additional indi- 

 cation that the fruit industry of the 

 Northwest is entering upon a new era. 

 The result of the three days' conference 

 at Tacoma is a 'get-together plan' that 

 meets with our entire approbation. 

 The Exchange has advised its grower 

 members through an ofTicial bulletin to 

 rally in enthusiastic support of a regime 

 which can bring nothing but good to all 

 sincere workers, whether in the pro- 

 ducing or distributing ends of the 

 industry." 



Commenting upon the formation of 

 the Yakima Fruit Sellers, which is a 

 consolidation of Richey & Gilbert, the 

 Yakima Horticultural Union and the 

 Yakima Fruit Growers' Exchange, Mr. 

 Gwyn is reported as saying: "This 

 merger reduces the number of compet- 

 ing factors and in this respect is a step 

 in the right direction." He further 

 comments: "I have never believed it 

 possible or profitable to market an over- 

 whelming percentage of Northwestern 

 fruit tonnage through any one agency. 

 Human nature, in growers as in other 

 people, requires an alternative. At least 

 two marketing institutions are indis- 

 pensable to the well being of the North- 

 western fruit industry, just as the wel- 

 fare of the country is better served by 

 two strong political parties than when 

 one is too long entrenched in power." 



Mr. Gwyn regards the launching of 

 the Yakima Fruit Sellers' announce- 

 ment as a home selling organization for 

 the exclusive benefit of the Yakima dis- 

 trict. That it indicates that a consider- 

 able number of Yakima growers ser- 

 iously <]uestion the economic soundness 

 of the central selling agency principle 

 by creating the Yakima Fruit Sellers, a 

 local selling agency. Mr. Gwyn says: 

 "This opens the field for competition 

 between the home selling agency and 

 the general selling agency, wherein a 

 contest will take place for ethciency 

 and service, with a survival of the con- 

 cern which gives the grower the best 

 results." Undoubtedly some interesting 

 rivalry will take place, but the Ex- 

 change will play the game fair, and I 

 anticipate nothing but the same spirit 

 with Mr. Gilbert and his associates of 

 the Yakima Fruit Sellers. 



"Pop" Rulofson Is Still on Deck 

 Mr. A. C. Rulofson's legion of friends 

 among the fruit industries on the Pa- 

 cific Coast have missed his smiling 

 countenance and glad hand at the 1914 

 fruit shows, and many inquiries have 

 been made as to what has become of 



Cutting the High Cost of Plowing 



One man who bought a Baby Caterpillar a year ago 



writes: rlave sold ori all my horses. The JSaby does 



all the work they did, only cheaper. It surely cuts 



the high cost or plowing. 



Re^.US.Pat.Oa. 

 Don '/ say Caterpillar unless you mean Holt ! 



An orcKardist writes in glo^vingly: "I 

 figure the Baby Caterpillar is cutting 

 the cost per box quite appreciably. The 

 'Baby' cultivates close up to the trees 

 ■without hurting the branches, and turns 

 right from one ro^v into the next. Also, 

 since I can cultivate more frequently 

 than with horses, I am getting a bigger 

 crop and better fruit than ever before." 



Another owner -writes: "Three years, 

 and less than $25.00 for repairs." 



^'^hen the owners boil overwith satis- 

 faction this -way -we realize more than 

 ever ho\v good a machine the Baby 

 really is. 



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