May, 1922. 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



119 



ing policies. The B.C. Traffic and Credit 

 Association extended the invitation to the 

 growers to name a committee to confer 

 with the shippers, which was accepted with 

 considerable satisfaction. 



After hearing a number of speakers, 

 chief of whom, was R. M. Winslow, mana- 

 ger of the B.C. Traffic and Credit Associa- 

 tion, and E. Doberer, president, the valley 

 shippers were invited to tEe stage, and the 

 meeting then developed into a debate be- 

 tween the representatives of the Okanagan 

 United Growers and the B.C. Growers.. It 

 was evident from the tone of the meeting 

 that the growers were not satisfied with 

 last year's deal, and wanted to know "whq 

 cut the prices." 



R. M. Winslow, of the B.C. Traffic and 

 Credit Association, Vernon, an organiza- 

 tion representative of nearly every fruit 

 shipping concern in the province, was the 

 spokesman for the shippers, and was on 

 the stand for nearly three hours, during 

 which time growers fired all manner of 

 questions at him, which he handled like a 

 politician on the stump. 



He reviewed the season's marketing diffi- 

 culties and showed how the drop in the 

 price of wheat last October and the decreas- 

 ed value of farm produce generally had 

 cut down the purchasing power of the 

 prairie provinces by three hundred million 

 dollars, resulting in a poor demand for B.C. 

 fruit. There never had been such a small 

 consumption of apples on the prairie prov- 

 inces as in 1921, he declared. 



It was felt by most of the growers that 

 the meeting had done a great deal in show- 

 ing to their number the reason for the 

 poor prices for the 1921 crop. While the 

 meeting was rather stormy at times, much 

 good resulted, for it cleared the air 



The Tomato Situation 



R. H. Helmer, Summerland, B. C. 



EVERY year a large acreage of tomatoes 

 is grown in the Okanagan Valley and 

 only a few realize enough from the 

 crop to claim a plus wage income. A short 

 review of the situation may throw some light 

 on the case and prevent some people actual- 

 ly making a cash loss on the year's work. 



A few years ago the hothouse tomato was 

 not a very serious competitor with our earli- 

 est crop, and during that period the demand 

 and prices realized for our early tomatoe.s 

 warranted the growers putting considerable 

 expense on the crop to get It early. Wlien 

 we say early we mean the last week in June. 

 It was soon found that the tomato gave a 

 good yield per acre if forced with commer- 

 cial fertilizer and that, when the early 

 market was off, the canneries which fal- 

 lowed the tomato into the valley would take 

 the main crop. This gave, for a time, a rea- 

 sonably good return, but today some changes 

 have taken place; the hothouse tomato is 

 practically on the market during the whole 

 late winter and early spring, coming from 

 across the line and coast sections. This 

 tomato has a very attractive appearance and 

 at all times sells above the price paid for 

 field tomatoes, with the result that what we 

 consider early tomatoes are no novelty on 

 the consumers' market and the price at 

 once begins to decline. 



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