THIRTY-THIRD BIENNIAL SESSION 
189 
Home Consumption. 
Seattle, in Washington, was well supplied with apples in the year 1912, 
consequently the consumption amounted to about 883 cars, however strange 
to say the consumption of oranges and bananas was 910 cars. If the State 
of Oregon had been as properly supplied and consumed apples at the same 
per cent per capita as the city of Seattle the State of Orego*n would have 
eaten its entire apple crop. 
While the output from the northwest, particularly in apples will steadily 
increase, we do not want the east to think that all of our apples will be 
shipped to their markets. Already our trade with Australia is rapidly grow- 
ing. The demand is increasing in the Orient and with the opening of the 
Panama Canal and refrigeration steam-ship service thousands of cars, before 
many years, will be exported from the northwest to South America, South 
Africa, Australia, China and Japan. With the increased production we 
realize the necessity of superior grades and also the necessity of saving 
the waste. We will put up a finer pack than ever before. All of our ordi- 
nary stuff will go to the vinegar factory, canning plants and by-product 
manufacturing institutions. This at one time will accomplish two purposes: 
decrease the supply and raise the grade. If the demand for our fruits was 
fixed and the supply properly decreased by the elimination of ordinary fruit 
every fruit grower in the United States would make more money than he is 
making today or than he has made in the past. If the right means of adver- 
tising and marketing are adopted; the cost of marketing properly reduced; 
and, the exorbitant retail price prevented it must be evident to you there will 
be better money in the fruit business for all of us. A true spirit and right 
brotherly feeling should exist between fruit growers in all sections of the 
United States. You should not regard us of the northwest as competitors 
nor should we of the northwest regard the east as competitors. We should 
work together and contribute our share to create a greater consumption; to 
improve our quality and endeavor to supply the trade, always with the very 
best of quality in prime condition at the time when each particular fruit is 
at its best for consumption. 
AN ATTEMPT AT CO-OPERATIVE FRUIT MARKETING IN MINNESOTA. 
K. A. Kirkpatrick, Minnesota. 
Fruit growing is not an extensive and general industry in this state, 
but in the lake regions of the central part, and in the counties form- 
ing the southeastern quarter of the state, large orchards are the rule on 
most farms. In many areas in this section, notably in the Lake Minnetonka 
district, the Twin City territory, Steele, Fillmore, Houston and Wabasha 
Counties commercial orcharding and small fruit growing have been attempt- 
ed for years with fair success. 
