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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



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SOMETHING DOING.— Evidently 

 the East is becoming agitated on 

 account of the popularity of the Western 

 apples, which have been rapidly growing 

 into favor for the past few years. The 

 trade is buying Western boxed apples 

 more extensively than ever before, and 

 the consumers are eating them in greater 

 quantities every year. Press reports 

 throughout the East indicate this topic 

 as one of the principal ones for districts 

 where the most of the horticultural meet- 

 ings are being held. Advance reports 

 indicate this will be a main feature of the 

 New York state meeting, and what is 

 true of this meeting is true of other hor- 

 ticultural meetings. The Daily Ore- 

 gonian, the best daily publication west of 

 the Mississippi River and without any 

 superior in United States, covers the sub- 

 ject in a way that meets with our 

 approval in an editorial of January 6th, 

 which we quote herewith: 



"The New York Fruit Growers' Union 

 is holding its tenth annual meeting at 

 Rochester, and, according to news dis- 

 patches, the main point under discus- 

 sion is 'how to meet the inroads of West- 



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WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



ern apples in markets until now held by 

 Eastern orchardists.' The remedy sug- 

 gested is that the Eastern growers be 

 taught to produce apples that will com- 

 pare with the Western fruit in appear- 

 ance as well as in quality. While it may 

 not have occurred to the New Yorkers, 

 the best method by which this desired 

 end can be reached is for them to come 

 out West and here grow Western apples. 

 Rochester, where the fruit growers are 

 meeting, produces good kodaks, collars 

 and shoes, but for people not engaged in 

 the production of these necessary staples 

 Oregon offers advantages which van- 

 ished from New York when the last of 

 the Mohicans went over the divide." 

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MR. H. C. ATWELL, president of 

 the Oregon State Horticultural 

 Society, has called a meeting of the fruit 

 growers from Washington, Oregon and 

 Idaho to take place January 34th, in the 

 Y. M. C. A. Hall, Portland, for the pur- 

 pose of discussing organization and a 

 central marketing agency for these three 

 states. We intended to devote more 

 space in this issue to this subject, but on 



