February, 1922. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



41 



Community Packing Pays 



THAT the handling of an apple crop 

 through a community packing house 

 had actually resulted in bringing the 

 orchard owner higher prices, while at the 

 same time it had given the consumer better 

 apples, was the contention of H. W. Pretty- 

 man and H. S, Vandervoort, two representa- 

 tives of a community packing house at 

 ilorganstown. West Virginia, who ad- 

 dressed a session of the American Associa- 

 tion for Horticultural Science in Toronto 

 in December. 



A state appropriation was made by the 

 West Virginia legislature to establish a 

 demonstration community apple packing 

 house in the principal apple growing dis- 

 trict in the state. This house was used to 

 demonstrate the best methods of growing 

 and picking apples. During the first season, 

 1920, over one hundred cars of apples were 

 handled through the house. These apples 

 brought a better price than those packed 

 by orchardists themselves in the orchard, 

 stated Mr, Prettyman, showing that a com- 

 munity could organize and handle Its crop 

 much more satisfactorily than the indivi- 

 dual. 



The fruit growers agree to put all of 

 their crop through the house and pool their 

 products selling as a group; each receiving 

 pay for the apples according to the number 

 of barrels and the grades. 



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FThe fruit and vegetable division of the 



Inlted States Bureau of Markets has start- 

 an investigation of the methods and prac- 



Jces of auction companies in that country, 

 preliminary survey of the fruit auctions 

 the cities of the Atlantic seaboard was 



%a.Ae during December. 



Growers and others interested in the 

 apple industry of the State of Washington 

 are planning to collect, by a small assess- 

 ment per box, a fund of $250,000, to be used 

 next season for advertising the apples 

 grown in the Wenatchee district. 



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