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BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of 

 ■The Northwest Fruit Growers' Association 

 A Monthly Illustrated Magazine 

 Published in the Interest of Modern 

 Fruit Growing and Marketing 

 All Communications Should Be Addressed and 

 Remittances Made Payable to 



Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H. SHEPARD 

 Editor and Publisher 

 C. R. Greisen, Assistant Editor 

 H. E. Van Deman, Contributing Editor 

 State Associate Editors 



OREGON 



A. B. Cordley, Entomologist, Corvallis 

 C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist, Corvallis 

 P. J. O'Gara, Pathologist and Entomologist, 

 Medford 



WASHINGTON 



W. S. Thornber, Horticulturist, Pullman 

 A. L. Melander, Entomologist, Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette, Director and Entomologist, 

 Fort Collins 



E. B. House, Chief of Department of Civil and 

 Irrigation Engineering, State Agricultural 

 College, Fort Collins 

 E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist, Grand Junction 



IDAHO 



\\'. H. Wicks, Horticulturist, Moscow 



UTAH 



Dr. E. D. Ball, Director and Entomologist, Logan 

 Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist, Logan 



MONTANA 



O. B. Whipple, Horticulturist, Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



C. W. WooDWORTH, Entomologist, Berkeley 

 W. H. VoLCK, Entomologist, Watsonville 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 



R. M. Winslow, Provincial Horticulturist, Victoria 

 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR 



In Advance, in United States and Canada 

 Foreign Subscriptions, Including Postage, $1.50 



Advertising Rates on Application 

 Entered as second-class matter December zy, 1906, 

 at the Post Office at Hood River, Oregon, 

 under Act of Congress of March 5, 



MARK TWAIN.— "The good that a 

 man does lives after him." Great 

 men are seldom appreciated to the fullest 

 extent during their lifetime. Mark Twain 

 will go down into history as a great 

 author. His books, in their respective 

 line, are considered to be masterpieces. 

 "Roughing It," "Innocence Abroad," 

 "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" 

 and others, each present certain phases 

 of life in a very original way. In fact 

 every one of his books is absolutely and 

 entirely original, and different from any- 

 thing else that has ever been written. 

 The consensus of opinion is that Mark 

 Twain was a humorist, yet everyone is 

 not familiar with the fact that he was a 

 philosopher and teacher as well. The 

 editor has read nearly everything that 

 Mark Twain has written with unusual 

 interest, not only for the above reasons, 

 but for the further reason that "Rough- 

 ing It" is full of scenes familiar to the 

 editor of "Better Fruit," in his boyhood 

 days, as he was born in California. 

 "Innocence Abroad" has been unusually 

 interseting for the reason that the editor 

 personally knew some of the individu- 

 als in this famous party. "Innocence 

 Abroad" is not, as a great many people 

 consider it, a work of fiction. While the 

 names are assumed names, still each one 

 represents a character of an individual 

 who accompanied that party, with pos- 

 sible slight additions to make the charac- 

 ter more interesting, or at other times 

 more humorous. 



BETTER FRUIT 



Mark Twain met with severe financial 

 losses during his middle age, and not 

 only through his fault but through others 

 through whom he invested his money. 

 He immediately set to work with his 

 own pen and his own brain to make 

 enough money not only to pay off all 

 of his indebtedness, but to make enough 

 to be comfortable in after life, and to 

 leave a good fortune. He was known 

 for his generosity and kindness, and it 

 was his wish that his works might be 

 in the library of every family. Harper 

 & Brothers, publishers of Harper's Mag- 

 azine, Franklin Square, New York City, 

 are carrying out his ideas in a way so 

 as to enable every individual to get a 

 complete set of works by Mark Twain, 

 consisting of twenty-five volumes, for the 

 sum of $25, which is just one-half of the 

 usual publishing price. 



On account of our admiration for 

 Mark Twain we are presenting this 

 article for your consideration, and beg 

 leave to say, should it interest you, 

 elsewhere in this edition you will find 

 the advertisement of Harper & Brothers, 

 which will explain all of the details 

 necessary in ordering the complete set. 



We would consider it a personal favor 

 if in writing Harper & Brothers you 

 would be kind enough to mention "Bet- 

 ter Fruit." <^ <«> ^ 



ON ASSOCIATIONS. — The editor 

 of "Better Fruit" for several years 

 was manager, and is now a director, of 

 Hood River associations. 



Personally, as well as editorially, he 

 has advanced and indorsed and recom- 

 mended fruit growers' associations at 

 every opportunity. Many districts have 

 written for constitutions and by-laws, 

 and have been supplied. Advice and 

 counsel was given as thoroughly as time 

 would permit in the hope that such, 

 founded on experience, might be of 

 value to the different districts. 



The fruit growers in sections where 

 associations exist know that the editor of 

 "Better Fruit" has continually and con- 

 sistently been in favor of associations, 

 as the fruit growers in every district 

 where no such associations exist realize. 



Consequently we wish it understood 

 that the editor of "Better Fruit" is in 

 favor of fruit districts forming asso- 

 ciations. District associations can be 

 formed with one central head, which 

 would be of benefit for the reason that 

 under one central selling head a dis- 

 trict can eliminate self-competition; such 

 organization would be of benefit to a 

 district, particu'arly in sections which 

 are too small to employ proper selling 

 ability. 



Southern California has formed the 

 Citrus Fruit Growers' Exchange, with 

 one central selling head, which has been 

 a great help in every way to the orange 

 industry of that state, and it is the opin- 

 ion of many that a similar organization 

 can be perfected for Oregon, Washing- 

 ton and Idaho, which will be of great 

 benefit in properly distributing fruit, 

 eliminating self-competition and supply- 

 ing all markets systematically without 

 glutting any or shortening others. 



The fruit industry of the Northwest 

 has been going through a process of 



February 



development for quite a number of years, 

 and, we are proud to say, improving each 

 year. The association idea has spread 

 rapidly. The first association was organ- 

 ized in Hood River in 1893. Oregon 

 and Washington each have about twenty- 

 five associations and Idaho ten. Many 

 have been organized recently. It is safe 

 to say that there are in the neighbor- 

 hood of seventy-five or more associa- 

 tions in these states at the present time. 



PORTLAND MEETING.— About 100 

 fruit growers from Washington, Idaho 

 and Oregon responded to the call of Mr. 

 H. C. Atwell, president of the Oregon 

 State Horticultural Society, and attended 

 the meeting held in Portland January 

 24th and 25th, for the purpose of form- 

 ing a central selling agency, or exchange, 

 for the Northwest States of Washington, 

 Idaho and Oregon. 



Two days were spent in very earnest 

 discussion of the problems of marketing 

 fruit. Nearly every feature of selling, 

 packing and grading fruit was discussed 

 at length, and a great many views were 

 expressed by the growers present. The 

 delegates came from Southern Oregon, 

 Willamette A^alley, Hood River, Mosier, 

 The Dalles and Grande Ronde Valley 

 in Oregon, different section of Idaho, and 

 representatives were present from Walla 

 Walla, Wenatchee, White Salmon, North 

 Yakima and various other districts of 

 Washington. 



The meeting was not only interesting, 

 but instructive, educational and develop- 

 ing, and was instrumental in affording an 

 opportunity to the fruit growers of 

 these dififerent districts to become better 

 acquainted; a general feeling of com- 

 munity interests and harmony prevailed. 

 While some had hoped that an, organiza- 

 tion might be perfected upon short 

 notice, it was the consensus of opinion 

 that more time would be required to 

 maturje a plan which should be generally 

 satisfactory to the different states and 

 their respective districts. 



A committee of fifteen representative 

 fruit growers from the different sections 

 was appointed, which went into session 

 on the evening of the 24th, going into 

 the various problems thoroughly from 

 8 p. m. until midnight. After the com- 

 mittee had thoroughly discussed every 

 feature that had been brought up before 

 the convention they adjourned, bringing 

 in a report the following day recom- 

 mending that another meeting be held 

 at Walla Walla on February 28th, at 

 which meeting it is expected that the 

 representatives from each district will 

 present their idea in the nature of a plan 

 for organization, which, in their opinion, 

 will be satisfactory to their own districts 

 and, in general, to other districts. It will 

 be the aim of the Walla Walla meeting 

 to formulate one general plan from all 

 the different plans submitted, which, it 

 is hoped, will be so carefully drawn up 

 that it will meet with general acceptance 

 and approval. 



It was the general opinion that the 

 fruit growers should organize into asso- 

 ciations in the different districts. Most 

 of the growers present felt that a central 

 selling agency for the three states could 

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