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Box 355 



R. M. KELLOGG COMPANY, 



Tbree Rivers, Micbigan 



Editor Better Fruit: 



Realizing the most excellent standing of your 

 publication and its wide circulation among the 

 intelligent and progressive growers of fruit, I 

 solicit space sufficient to call the attention of 

 the fruit industry to some matters of very great 

 importance, at least they so appear to me. 



During the season 1910, as manager of the 

 Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' Association, 

 I shipped out of the Puyallup Valley about 185 

 carloads of red raspberries and blackberries, part 

 of which were marketed in Canada. Every crate 

 of berries that was marketed in Canada was sub- 

 ject to a duty of fifty cents, or two cents a 

 pound. The transportation on each crate of these 

 berries was in the neighborhood of seventy-five 

 cents, therefore the fixed 'charges after the berries 

 left tlie Puyallup Valley were $1.2.5 per crate 

 without any commission to the brokers. This will 

 explain that the consumption of our fruit would, 

 of necessity, be curtailed on account of the high 

 price it must be sold at in order to give the 

 grower .'tn\- return. T can understand of no 



J. F. LITTOOY 



CONSULTING HORTICULTURIST 

 Orchard director, orchard schemes examined, 

 orchard plans submitted, orchard soils and sites 

 selected, nurseries visited and stock selected, 

 values examined for farm loans, purchasing agent 

 for land and orchard investments, acts as power 

 of attorney in selection of Carey Act lands. 

 MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO 



reason why the good people of Canada would not 

 desire to buy their berries fifty cents per crate 

 cheaper than they are now buying them. I am 

 sure that the Puyallup and Sumner fruit growers 

 would be pleased to have this duty removed for 

 the selfish reason that their friends in Canada 

 would naturally consume more berries if they 

 could buy them cheaper. What applies to the 

 growers of raspberries and blackberries applies 

 equally to the .growers of all deciduous fruits in 

 the three states of Oregon, Idaho and Washington. 

 If it is to the advantage of the raspberry and 

 blackberry growers to have the tariff removed, 

 it is to the same advantage to growers of all 

 other classes of fruit; it is of equal importance 

 to the transportation lines for the good reason 

 that if we can now market in Canada 10,000 

 crates of berries per year imder a tariff of fifty 

 1 cents per crate, we could probably double the 

 consumption several times if there was no tariff. 



I can understand of no harm to either the 

 producer or the consumer should this tariff be 

 wiped out. If this is true, why should it not 

 be advisable for every grower, every shipper, 

 every commercial organization and all other inter- 

 ested parties to take this matter up with their 

 members of Congress with a view of getting the 

 fruit tariff removed. 



There is now a commission acting in behalf of 

 the United States and Canada, who have this 

 subject under consideration. By a combined effort 

 we can point out to this commission the advisa- 

 bility of the change in the tariff suggested herein. 



There is another reason why the Northwestern 

 states mentioned should be interested in this 

 matter. We have a barrier on the west in the 

 Pacific Ocean. We have a barrier on the north 

 in the Canadian line. If Washington, Idaho and 

 Oregon e-xpect to be successful states they must 

 find a market for some part of their products in 

 foreign territory, meaning other states than our 



own. Of necessity we are compelled to send con- 

 siderable of our money to other states to get 

 articles for our use that we do not produce at 

 home. In order to have money to do this we 

 must, of necessity, market in other states a per- 

 centage of that which we produce in order to 

 have the money to purchase that which we do 

 not produce. There is a day coming when our 

 timber will not enable us to bring in all the 

 money we will require. Before that time arrives 

 we should endeavor to establish our business rela- 

 tions and business conditions in such manner as 

 will enable us to be a success. I believe that one 

 of the things we should do is to endeavor to 

 remove the barrier north of us, which will enable 

 us to get into a fast growing country that will 

 always be a consumer of more fruits and vege- 

 tables than they will produce. 



We must also find a market for our cheaper 

 products of fruit and vegetables which can only 

 be marketed in cans; but this is another story, 

 which I will be glad to ask you to find space for 

 at another time. Very respectfully. W. H. Paul- 

 hamus, Puyallup, Washington. 



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