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The  Hudson  Ynlloy  frnil  growers  are 
awakening  to  the  fact  that  if  they  are  to 
hold  their  own  in  the  increasingly  keener 
competition  of  today’s  fruit  production 
from  all  over  the*  country  they  must,  stir 
themselves  or  take  a  hack  seat  in  the 
markets  that  are  almost  at  their  very 
door.  The  keynote  of  President.  Brad¬ 
ley's  address  was  that  New  York  grow¬ 
ers  should  organize  and  carry  on  a  sys¬ 
tematic  advertising  campaign  to  educate 
the  cousuming  public  to  the  superior 
quality  of  New  York  fruit.  Many  prom¬ 
inent  Hudson  Valley  growers  voiced  their 
approval  of  organized  advertising.  It 
seems  to  me  there  is  a  very  important 
preliminary  step  that  must,  he  taken  be¬ 
fore  such  an  advertising  campaign  can  be 
fruitful  of  permanent  results.  That  step 
is  the  complete  organization  of  a  stan¬ 
dardized  uniformity  in  grading  and  pack¬ 
ing.  Not  until  we  bring  our  grading  up 
to  par  with  that  of  the  northwestern 
growers  can  we  hope  to  reap  permanent 
benefit  from  the  best  advertising  cam¬ 
paign  ever  organized.  Not  until  the  buy- 
►ers  gain  the  same  confidence  in  what  New 
York  Standard  Fancy,  New  York  .Stan¬ 
dard  A  or  New  York  Standard  It  covers 
that  they  have  in  the  branding  of  other 
sections  can  we  hope  to  hold  our  own  in 
the  best  markets  in  competition  with  the 
brands  that  have  gained  the  confidence  of 
those  markets,  regardless  of  the  amount 
of  pointer’s  ink  we  use  in  lauding  the 
quality  of  New  York  fruit. 
That  there  is  a  growing  feeling  in  the 
Hudson  Valley  that  the  poorer  fruit 
should  not  go  on  the  market  is  shown  by 
the  fact  that  they  asked  for  a  place  on 
the  program  for  a  talk  on  evaporating 
fruits,  and  Mr.  13.  W.  <  'atchpole  of  North 
Rose  was  chosen  to  give  an  address  on 
this  subject.  Prof.  H.  .T.  Wilder  gave  a 
paper  on  (he  adaptability  of  varieties  to 
different  types  of  soil  with  maps  and 
charts  showing  the  general  distribution 
of  the  various  soil  types  throughout  the 
fruit  growing  sections  of  the  State  and 
the  percentage  of  plantings  of  the  differ¬ 
ent.  fruits  on  these  different  soils. 
The  Hope  Farm  man  talked  on  “From 
the  Producer  Direct  to  the  Consumer,” 
and  told  many  interesting  experiences 
relative  to  marketing  the  Hope  Farm 
crops.  One  of  his  neighbors  came  to  him 
with  the  proposition  that  he  would  mar¬ 
ket  the  Hope  Farm  fruit  for  one-half.  A 
certain  lot  of  fruit  was  divided ;  the  neigh¬ 
bors  taking  half  to  mnrRot  on  his  50  per 
cent,  basis  and  the  other  half  was  sent 
to  a  city  Commission  man.  of  first-class 
standing,  to  be  sold  at  the  regular  10 
per  cent,  usually  charged.  The  neighbor 
got  in  direct  touch  with  the  consumer  and 
the  net  returns  to  Hope  Farm  were  25 
per  cent,  higher  from  the  50  per  cent, 
neighbor  than  they  were  from  the  10  per¬ 
cent,  commission  man.  He  told  many 
other  experiences  in  getting  in  touch  with 
the  consumer  and  also  the  story  of  the 
man  who  laid  the  poor  packing  on  his 
wife. 
Commissioner  Wilson  explained  the 
working  of  the  New  York  State  grading 
and  packing  law.  and  showed  il  had  al¬ 
ready  been  successful  in  improving  (lie 
average  packing  and  grading  throughout 
the  State.  A  bill  is  now  before  the  Legis¬ 
lature  that  would  repeal  this  law,  but  it; 
is  to  the  interest,  of  the  honest,  fruit  grow¬ 
er  to  strengthen  this  bill.  Any  grower 
can  still  pack  anything  he  wants  to  if  he 
will  only  stencil  the  truth  about  the  fruit 
on  the  barrel,  but  the  dishonest  growers 
want,  to  pack  their  trash  and  stencil  it  as 
something  better. 
The  insect  problems  were  well  cared 
for  by  Profs,  Parrott,  Felt  and  Herrick, 
and  the  plant  diseases  by  Dr.  Reddick. 
Dr.  U.  P.  Hedrick  spoke  on  “Future 
Fruit  Growing,”  and  took  up  the  intro¬ 
duction  and  development,  of  new  fruits. 
Many  new  fruits  and  plants  are  being 
brought,  from  foreign  countries;  some 
good  in  themselves  and  many  promising 
as  material  for  development  and  hybridi¬ 
zation  by  the  plant  breeder.  Mr.  O.  M. 
Taylor,  of  the  Geneva  Station,  spoke  of 
“New  and  Worthy  Fruits”  of  recent  in¬ 
troduction  and  conducted  a  question  box 
on  small  fruits.  Mr.  Edward  Van  Al- 
styne  conducted  the  regular  question  box 
at  each  session. 
The  banquet  held  Thursday  evening 
was  very  successful,  with  a  full  house 
and  a  few  disappointed  ones  who  could 
not  get  in.  Edward  Van  Alstyne  was 
toastmaster  and  after  a  fine  dinner  excep¬ 
tionally  well  served  the  banqueters  were 
so  well  entertained  that  when  they  rose 
to  sing  America  many  were  surprised  on 
looking  at  their  watches  to  find  that  it. 
was  Friday  morning.  The  speakers  were 
Dr.  II.  W.  Collingwood,  of  New'  York 
t’ity  and  Hope  Farm  ;  Rev.  W.  P.  Bruce, 
D.  D.,  of  Yonkers,  and  President  IT.  N. 
MacCraoken  of  Vassal*  College,  Pough¬ 
keepsie. 
The  fruit  exhibit  was  exceptionally  fiue 
in  quality  and  the  Geneva  Experiment 
Station  made  their  usual  attractive  dis¬ 
play  in  lluts  even  more  attractive  than 
heretofore.  The  non-competitive  exhibit 
of  J.  A.  Ilepworth’s  Sons  deserves  special 
mention,  mid  very  few  realize  the  amount 
of  hard  work  connected  with  an  exhibit 
of  this  character.  The  exhibit  consisted 
of  11:1  bushel  boxes  placed  four  high  on 
an  incline  and  represented  18  different 
varieties.  The  quality  and  packing  of 
this  fruit  would  compare  favorably  wfith 
the  best  from  the  Northwest,  or  1  would 
better  say  grading  and  packing,  for  the 
quality  would  far  surpass  anything  the 
Northwest  produces  in  the  same  varieties. 
(Continued  on  page  4*12.) 
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