THE HOOD KIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1913
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SAYS PROGRESSIVES
WIN IN HOOD RIVER
(Randall R. Howard In current "Coun
try Gentleman")
"You'll And a few non progressive!
In every community," said Professor
VV. H. Lawrence, fruit inspector of
Hood Klver county, Oregon, to little
group of apple enthusiasts In the hotel
lobby.
"That's what they are, all right
people who won't spray and prune
their apple trees. They're non-progressives."
And his eyes flashed, and
there was a snap of fighting vim in
the voice of the vigorous young hortl
cultural expert. "But I go right on
working don't pay any attention to
them. The people who kick when the
neglected trees are cut down are prac
tically all non-residents who don't un.
derstand the Hood River Valley spirit
who don't appreciate the price that
must be paid for apple perfection."
The fruit Inspector was telling about
the county campaign for maintaining
the world-wide reputation that the lit
tle Hood River Valley has gained as
a producer of almost perfect apples.
But I did not need to listen long before
deciding it was more than a campaign
It was war uncompromising war
against apple pests, apple Ignorance,
apple dishonesty. The county fruit in
spector, the "apple doctor," is one of
the two salaried and highly trained
field generals leading and working
with the 5000 apple growing residents
of Hood River county in their co oper,
ative struggle for apple profits. The
other trained field general Is Wilmer
Sieg, business manager of the Hood
River Apple Growers' Union.
"I am working at present to elimi
nate the San Jose scale," continued
Fruit Inspector Lawrence." I know the
location of practically every diseased
tree in the valley. About forty differ
ent orchardists are co-operating with
me, every one of whom would sacri
fice several hundred dollars in present
apple profits rather than to risk the
reputation of Hood River apples in the
least."
His statement had nothing of boast
ing in it, for Professor Lawrence Is a
quiet-mannered man, still In his thir
ties. He is a fluent and a willing talk
er, because he knows his subject and
is almost boyishly enthusiastic.
His mildness at times turns to militant
aggresiveness because he knows that
he knows his subject, and has apple
ideals. His time Is so much in de
mand in the Hood River Valley that he
is a hard man to catch unless you
happen to be an apple grower. I
found him in the evening in the lobby
of one of the valley metropolis hotels,
surrounded by a group of apple enthus
iasts three young professors from the
Oregon Agricultural College, doing col
lege extension work and conducting
scientific apple experiments In the val
ley, and a youthful graduate from the
University of Wisconsin, who was mak
ing a tour of the best-known orchard
districts of th' United States, trying to
decide wheher he should jump Into the
apple producing game In the West or
in the East.
Professor Lawrence jumped into
Hood River Valley orchard research
work with a vim, giving up bis classes
and hig experiments at the Washing
ton State Agricultural College at Pull
man. One of the first big problems
that he tackled was to rid the valley
of fire blight, a fruit pest bo general
and so dreaded in the United States
today that many state agricultural ex
periment stations have advised against
the planting of any additional pear
trees. Fruit inspector Lawrence found
traces of fire blight over approximate
ly 3000 acrs in the Hood River Valley.
But he began to slash "Trees and limbs,
and under his direction and order an
almost Infinite number of "surgical op
erations" were performed, this being
the only effective remedy against the
tree disease. As a result, today fire
blight has been entirely wiped out In
th Hood River Valley, not a single
case having been reported during the
past season.
A second vigorous battle against tree
diseases In the Hood River Valley
Is now undor way the elimination of
the San Jose scale. One of the first
steps In the campaign w as to enlist ev
ery horticultural plant In the town of
Hood River, located on the Columbia
River at the gateway to the valley.
There has been no trifling, though
some few residents of the county me.
tropolla and non-resident property
owners were Inclined to squirm and
to assert their Individualism. "Clean
up your trees or cut them down," Is
the order, and the squeamish owners
know that a flood of public approval
Is behind the order.
But these two big battles In the war
agnlnst apple pests have only prepared
the way In the Hood River Valley for
a third and a still morn crucial one.
"There's no doubt," said Professor
Lawrence, "that the biggest apple pro
blem In the Northwest today Is dry
rot."
"What's the cause of dry rot," you
ask, the county horticulturist replied.
'Well, I don't care to make any state
mentsJust yet. I have been experi
menting, and I have proved certain
things. But I haven' yet assembled all
of my facts."
Frankness a Local Virtus
It may be Interesting to state right
here that not every apple district of
the Northwest is as honest and frank
with itself as is Hood River as regards
things. But I haven't yet assembled all
dry rot. But many other sections
proves the old saying that "none is so
blind as he who will not see." The
others have seemingly never found
caBes of dry rot though such cases
are known to exist there by the score
and cases of dry rot have existed for
as long as ten years past in the Wll
lamette Valley, Western Oregon. I
talked with several horticultural ex
perts who attended the recent "Nation
al Apple Show" at Spokane, where ap
pie growers gathered with their ex-
hibits from practically every fruit dis
trict in the Northwest
"Those fellows all side-stepped the
question of dry rot," one of my inform,
ants sand. "They were all good boost
ers, they were."
More Problems Ahead
The Hood River county fruit Inspec
tor is at work on a unique list of prob
lems. "We have backed the non-irrigating
apple-growers off the map," he
explained, "but we don't yet know the
exact amount of water needed for our
different soils. We have proved that
certain chemicals Injected Into the
ground will prevent the spread of cer.
tain tree diseases, but these experi
ments are far from complete. The mat
ter of precooling and cold-storage for
apples-its exact worth and methods of
procedure-is yet in the experimental
stage. The difference In keeping qual
ities of apples from trees of diftcren'.
ages has never been worked out any
where in the United States yet we
continue to pick and pack apples pro
miscuously, as if they were all exactly
Alike. And we don't know very much
about the actions of different kinds of
sprays, about cover crops, fertilizers,
and so on and on and on.
"In fact I could keep eleven assist
ants busy on the experiments that I
have started and that ought to be
worked through immediately," the
county fruit inspector concluded.
However, not all of Professor Law
rence's problems are problems of Na
ture. Some of them are problems of
human nature. For instance, soon af
ter he came to direct the scientific
and co-operative warfare that is meant
to maintain the present pre-eminent
quality of Hood River apples, he as
sembled arguments and petitioned the
Department of Agriculture for a soil
survey of the valley.
"They turned me down," Btated the
professor. "But the next day a large
number of letters, each from a differ
ent Hood River orchardist, started to
ward Washington, D. C, all petition.
lng for a soil survey.
Co-operation the Golden Word
Intelligent co-operation is the gold
en word. Some call It the "Hood Riv
er spirit'" which may be amplified In
the words of a young orchardist:
"Most of us in the valley think and
talk apple most of the time." He
continued: "I don't think we ought
to allow ourselves to get so narrow
that we can't talk intelligently about
other subjects besides apples when
we have to. Now there are a good
many people in the valley who just
naturally have to close up, who have
n't a single word to say when the
topic of conversation wanders away
from apples. That's going too far, 1
think even though I read the other
day, in the autobiography of a rail
road president, that he ascribed his
success to eternally thinking and talk
ing shop."
Apple Chautauqua Described
Then the or hardist described the
work of the various "improvement
clubs" of different sectiins of the val
ley, with their regular monthly meet
ings, usually addressed by some per
son of authority, often invited to come
form the distant State Agricultural
College. He told about the activities
of the Hood River Valley University
Club, with some 130 nu mbers, repre
senting nearly every college of the
United States. He told of the Valley
Summer Chautauqua Assoinbly, attend
ed last year by several hundred per.
sons.
"What is the purpose of the Chau
tauqua?" I inquired.
"Just entertainment just a good
time," answered the apple grower.
"We have people here in the val
ley from all over the country former
amatur and professionul actors, and
the former manager of a vaudeville
circuit. So we had shows ;md speeches.
Of course we devoted some time to ap
ples all of the afternoon sessions in
fact. And a good many, in fact most
of the other addresses, too, were on
topics that In some wny related to
our work of apple growing. It was
called the Horticultural Chautauqua,
you know. Everybody agreed that
it was a big success uud it will be
held every year now."
But the production of apples In this
day of the West is considerably less
than half of the orchard game. If pro
ducing w ?re all the growers would not
be so anxiously concerned now about
the Immediate future of the apple In
dustry. The Hood River County fruit
Inspector Is watching the gates to pre
vent apple disease from getting In or
getting out. He Is stamping out the
diseases already in and training the
individual orchardists to be their own
apple doctors.
But the apples must be packed,
shipped and sold. And because of this
the story of co-operation in the Hood
River Apple Growers' ' Union. "The
Union" as It is affectionately called
by its loyal members and respectfully
referred to by its several active and
sometimes bitter competitors, is as
well known In Its way as the Hood
River apple.
"The Union" Is the business end of
the commercial Hood River apples
or at least of a percentage. Hence it
was the natural thing for me to find
the Union manager, WUmer Sleg, in
an atmosphere of typewriters, adding
machines and letter files, in his private
room at Union headquarters, seated
at a desk piled high with letters
and telegrams. He is a type of the
successful Amerclan business man, ag
gressive yet approachable, a man in
the prime of middle age who has
served for 24 years as a commission
merchant in a large city, and who Is
the only man ever electd twice to
the presidency of the National League
of Commission Merchants.
"The different apple growing dis
tricts of the Northwest must organize
and co-operate, just as we are doing
here locally," said Mr. Sieg, In speak
ing of the future of the apple In gen
eral. "And the apple must be cheap
ened to the consumer and its use stim
ulatd by a national campaign of adver
tising. "No, I don't believe that co-operative
selling will tend to lower our ap
ple standards, through averaging and
leveling the quality and the price.
Rather I believe that co-operative sell
ing will intensify the individuality of
each separate district, since practical
ly every apple district in the North
west specializes in different varieties.
Here at Hood River we take nearly
all the prizes for Spltzenbergs and Yel
low Newtowns, while other districts
specialize in Wlnesaps, Baldwins, Jon:
athans, etc. Each section and each
apple has its own particular merit,
which could be macj known by indi
vidual advertising campaigns. We
know, for instance, that one class of
trade wants a fancy, high-priced apple,
while another class wants a cheap ap
ple. Here at Hood River, of course,
we have been specializing in fancy
apples. Our trade-mark stands for
quality."
The last remark caused me to re
member what one of the New Y'ork
apple commission houses has said
about Hood River apples and the Un
ion. "You would like to know," the com
mission merchant wrote in answer to
a query from the doubtful editor of
an Eastern agricultural journal, "if the
packing of the Hood River apples Is
so perfect that we accept them with
out close inveptigation. Not only do
we accept them without close invest!
gation, but we accept them without any
invstigation whatever, leaving the en
tire matter up to the Hood River Ap
ple Growers' Union. . . .Our con
tract is certainly a very stringent one,
they guaranteeing us a perfect pack
and also guaranteeing that every apple
in every box is absolutely perfect. We
have handled several hundred thous
and boxes and never have we found
ourselves In condition to make a single
complaint against their pack. . . .
This is more than we have been able
to say for any other large pack of
fruit that we have ever contracted for.
Fruit can be had Just as good In the
East as in the West, and we see no
reason why the Eastern grower can't
get just as much for his goods as the
Western grower, if he will only make
up his mind to one absolute fact and
that is to be honest, and that if he
thinks he can fool the people all the
time by putting up a fake barrel of
apples he is making a big mistake."
SAMPLE POULTRY PROFITS
Prof. W. M. Proctor, Superintendent
of the Forest Grove public schools, on
June 1 last purchased 12 hens and a
rooster, at a cost of $6.50. During the
past eight months he has expended
f 14.05 for feed, making a total invest
ment of $20.55. He has received for
77 dozen eggs $19.50, credits for broil
ers, frys, etc., $6.40 and now has on
hand 24 chickens, valued at $12.00.
This shows a total of $37.90, and
leaves a net profit of $17.35.
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