f EFFICIENT MARKETING BETTER FARMING prune IDS OPEN AGAIN: ALL By J..F. Imngncr The Oregon Fruit Growers' as sociation has reopened ita prune noole which were cloeed by order GROW '..'' of the board of director some weeks ar o. . All prune growers of the state who are not yet members of the . a ,u nnt vet ' BWOCUIllVni ftuu nww . - - old their prunes tor this year, are ; Invited by the association to put their crop Into the association pool. The association has concluded flnan . cla! arrangements with a group of pow- erful bankers to advance to the grow- ers on delivery of their prunes from 2 ' to 8 cents per pound, according to size, upon delivery to the association packing houses. . This advance, is on account of the resale price according to the contract or the association. . The Oregon Growers' association will probably prove the salvation of the , prune growers ot Oregon this year and " in the future. To understand why, it Is necessary to know the prune situation 'as it has always existed up to this year. Orearon prunes have always sold on - a speculative market. Local buyers are not speculators in the strict sense of the word. They buy prunes from the growers and turn them over to eastern speculators at very small margins of . profit. .The eastern buyer of prunes v rarely If ever appears on the scene so far as the prune grower in Oregon Is concerned. BACKING POWEEFCIi But he Is a powerful factor In the speculative handling of the prune crop of Oregon. He has tremendous finan cial resources. He can borrow money from the largest and most powerful financial institutions in the country. And he has hitherto borrowed this money for a speculative account in Ore gon prunes. Until this year he has al ways been able to borrow enough money to buy up the major portion of the Oregon prune crop. Thus he would be In control of a year's supply of Oregon '" prunes. These prunes have been fed out to the legitimate distributors. Jobbers . and retailers according to their general requirement, The money borrowed in the East by these speculators in weiun prunes finds Its way back through Ore gon buying channels to the prune grow ers of the state. Thus, in effect. Kast ern speculators, wholesalers with big bor- - rowing power, have financed, from the - East, the movement of Oregon's prune crop from the West to the East. ' SPECULATORS BLOCKED ' j, This' year, however, all this has been ; changed. The Federal Reserve bank, ' through Its Intimation to Its member banks that they should curtail their loans to borrowers and make only those loans which are essential, has prevented the big speculator in Oregon prunes bor? rowing large sums of money in the East o buy the Oregon prune crop. Unable - to borrow, he Is unable to speculate. itki unarulate. he is not in the . s. market for any prunes from prune ; i growers, ror resale in me mcio v is only a hand-to-mouth" market for (.' prunes from legitimate wholesalers and retailers because of tight credlU, and this condition will continue until the i s. financial stringency is over. Thus few, if any, prunes are being absorbed by dls trlbutors. (STABLE MARKET AIM But the Orecpn Growers', association -' and the prune icrower members of the . - association are in a different situation. tk buawmi ntirnruiii nf the association Is to create a stabilised market and to - eliminate the speculator, borne growing pains and even convulsions are neces sary. Everything that the association ' hopes to accomplish may not be possi ble in a few months. At the time the association was organised no one could predict the present financial situation and no one could tell exactly what steps would be taken by prune speculators to ' try to break up the association and make It almost impossible to market prunes even at the expense of non--- member prune growers. It is stated by the association that local interests an nounced to the trade that when the as sociation named Its price the local buy ers would cut this price by half a cent ' a pound. " DECLINE IS FORCED a tread v this has forced the price of ' , prunes down on most sires 2 cents a ' pound. It is not the members of the as- - - , ln whn a r miff Arlnr Vi V this nol- icy, but the non-members, who find that because of a falling market, aenoerateiy created by independent Buyers, tney can. . it thai nmn iuiv at anv nrice v ' with tVi irwal huvwrs aneculatlve mar ket in the East shut off. he is no longer i in the mantel ana me legitimate dtokct ' ' will not buy until he thinka the market -i has reached bottom. With a fight on be- ' tween speculative interests ana am u- .' ; gociation, the legitimate distributor , waste to feel sure of the situation before ' ' i him mnrn than hla immediate re- ' : quirements. So the outside buyer of ' prunes la leit out in tne com. witn no , buyer for his prunes, and no Immediate : prospect of a sale. RICK IS NAMED J : The association on the other hand is a - - stabilising factor. It has named a price j for Its prunes, and is going direct to the consumer with an advertising campaign ' r ah i. Kn4 whlrh will fnrctt rilntrihutlnn - and force the distributors and retailers to carry aaaoctayon oranaea Mistiana orunes In stock. , i Collectively and with the full support of the prune grower the association can , be the stabiliser of the market if from - 75 per cent to S5 per cent of all the prunes in the state are in the association pool. The difference between the speou 7 lator and the association is that one is - ulMri4 In mmrarn of nraflt and that : other in the industry as a wholt. Every 1 'pound ot prunes not in the association prune pool is a menace to the stabilising factor the association hopes to and 1 j should be. With the majority of prunes v in the pool, with a definite sales policy SASH AND DOORS O. B. WILLIAMS CO. I4 First Ave see Somth, Seattle MOT- & SASH a ftse ft. Mth , wis . fLst ft, wek 1 970 ' " ' OHIOKgn HOUSg'tagN A mm aiffenst bums la stock for IswudlaU - - txr tiaxrt ron oNicxgN Houtte tCin.x0in priee wMA -.. ..Sg.00 - . This Is the sis rmamnM by the , Wtntan WaihiastoB ExpsrioMBt gtatloa We- earrj tkta ia stock for Usbm- - dlsis ehlpaiMt. - ; Oar terse HlurtrrtsS OeUtoeue shewlns full Uiw er euiramf mswnai me en requeat. , O. B. WILLIAMS CO. GHAMPIONS AT MULTNOMAH V A i 1 .- " - , !&7fmrxmut- Upper left Charfiplon Hampshire hi V'V ij. y by I. O. Hubbard & Son of Monroe, Or. Upper right Grand cham pion Tam worth sow, owned by I. J. Oder of Yakima, Wash., which took grand champion over all breeds at Washington State fair, and grand champion at Oregon State and Multnomah County fairs. Lower left Grand champion Holstein bull, "Segla Walker," owned by David McKeown of Gresbam. Lower right Grand champion Ayreshiro cow, "Princess Happy," owned by Earlcrest Stock Farm, Eagle Creek, Or. (Photos by De Monbrun of Portland.) formulated, with a certain knowledge of the exact amount of prunes at its dis posal, with a knowledge of the amount of prunes the speculators and local buy ers will have to break the market, if possible, the association can tro ahead with Its stabilising- influence. FUTURE MARKET The - future of the prune market is with the Independent grower. Many growers without funds will be obliged, to dump their prunes to get money with which to pay their harvesting and pack ing expenses and will eventually sell their prunes for less than the association price. It can readily be seen what ef fect this will have on the association prunes as well as that of the independ ent grower. Ae soon as this situation was observed by the growers' association it put the whole question up to the big financial Interests and bankers of the state. The question in effect was, "Do you want -to help the prune growers of Oregon over this period of stress? Will you help the prune growers release themselves from the grasp of these Eastern epeculators who have big banks like yours to finance them in their speculative operations against our prune growers?' ASSISTANCE ASKED "Will you lend the prune growers of Oregon, through this their association, enough money to carry them until they can merchandise instead of dump their prunes?" To all these questions the Portland- and state bankers have said 'yes." .And they have made one of the largest Individual loans ever made to an association of farmers in this state. Probably the largest loan. This loan is being used by the association to make advances to all prune grower members of the association so that they will not be forced to dump their crop into the specu lator's lap. Every prune grower in Ore gon who becomes a member of the asso ciation before November 1 will receive an advance from the association imme diately he delivers his prunes. The more growers who join, the asso ciation the stronger will the market become. FULL VALUE PROMISED Every grower who joins helps himself in getting a higher price for his prunes than present market conditions, with control nowhere,1 would seem to- war rant. But with the control of the crop In the growers' hands, through their association, the full market value will be realized by every member. In Cali fornia, the prune and apricot growers have joined their association nearly 90 per cent strong. They control their own product. They don't care what specu lators do with the balance of the Cali fornia crop. There is not enough left to hurt. But with the growers- in con trol the association names its prices and sticks to them, and in one day this year sold the bulk of its crop to the legitimate trade at handsome prices. Oregon prune men can do the same if they will rally to and give the Oregon Growers' asso ciation the full support it deserves. Wisconsin Leads In Hemp Production Kentucky once led in hemp produc tion, but has turned to more profitable crops and relinquished the lead to Wis consin, according to the United States department of agriculture. The Badger state cultivated 7000 acres, half the country's total, this year, followed by Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio and Califor nia,' With Kentucky sixth. Send today for BOOKCNIAND CLEARING itdsoteUs obout lobcr. saving Dull Dog Stomp Puller, MOHR. STEEL 2845 26th st, COMPANY 1 an i m a . ....... -i yr' l A it'-: ram at Multnomah County fair, owned IGRAT AT ELLIS FILLS HIS BERTH By Westbrook Peglcr (United N'ewt Staff Corratnondtnt) New York, Oct. 23. Apples are rotting on the ground and potatoes- are spoiling in the soil around about Geneva, N. Y.,- because there aren't enough "hands" to make the har vest. Naturally Geneva farmers don't like this and they have told their labor trouble to Frederick WalUs, the new Immigration commissioner at Ellis island. Wallis is now trying to "sell" some incoming immigrants the idea of going to Geneva to pick, apples and dig potatoes, instead of going into the slums of New York and- Philadelphia and Chicago. Yoleski, Ohio, has a lot' of jobs for coal miners at $S.50 a day, but nobody every heard . of Yoleski until Wallis began to 24-sheet the town and the opportunity among the Immigrants coming here for Akron and Columbus. where conditions are not as good as before.. Some of them will take this advice, but others will Insist upon sail ing Into the industrial doldrums with a cold winter coming on. By and by they will wish they had not known so much more about America's Industrial situa tion than the man who is trying to start them off right. LOUISIANA HARD UP Louisiana is so hard up for farm labor, owing to negro exodus, that the truck farmers have asked permission to Import Mexican labor. But immigrant labor entering the country by the front door is much more desirable, because It settles where it lights. Wallis has become a propagandist for Louisiana, too. This Wallis Is a yellow-haired, round- faced, burly Individual who can make as much money in a month by his own business as he can in a year at the commissioner's office on the island. He was just the right size to give his business the air for a year and hoist Ellis Island out of the mud. In the old days the inspectors at the island were about as pleasant as a crew of bull-pushers on a trans-Atlantic cat tle packet jn a January . storm. But they do not dare boss people around nowadays. Even the lousiest, the most timid and frightened greenhorn from Poland gets a civil word as he goes through the inspection "mill" today. because you can never tell When Wallis may be around the corner of a pillar looking over the job. THEY AHE NOT PRETTY For a fact, some of the Immigrants Let's &o The gufw way put pep into your Job onarabiy day tsroget Into a FISH BRAND Reflex Slicker TW is a FISH BRAND garment for every kind of werworkorsport H B, AJTOWER COJi BOSTON. MASS. 'ABeW "-- JT XT j - -- 1v jesw i MM 1 FJ ISLAND I. 1 COUNTY FAIR are not very prepossessing. Many of them are constitutionally opposed to bathing, which makes it very unpleas ant for the doctors when they have to be put to bed in the hospital. Some are very tricky, too. and pretty nearly all of them are willing to take all the handouts they can get, whether they need help or not. Immigrants from Poland have been making a great fuss about having been robbed at Danzig, but two English women in the steerage of the Adriatic gave some light on this troublesome matter last week. They reported that the crowd from Poland was pretty much engrossed in gambling on the boat and thought maybe some of the people who whined about robbery had really gone broke at cards. But Wallls likes to overlook all these little faults and envision them as good, clean, industrious citizens a few yearn hence. And so he tribts them as re spectfully as he do the distinguished men and women who come out to in spect the post. We are .promised the hatless summer man next year. If the fashion is ever Introduced, his squint may become ter rifying. Man has no reserve sources of beauty to draw from. IF YOU NEED NURSERY STOCK Please Mark and Return and We Will Send You Prices Mama Quantity, Six or Asa. APPLE TREES Winter Banana King Rome Beauty Grimes Golden Gravenstein BLACK CAPS M unger American Plumb Farmer FILBERT TREES DuChilli Barcelona .". GOOSEBERRIES Oregon Champion GRAFTED ENGLISH WALMJTS Fanquette GRAPES Concord PEACHES Early and Late Crawford PLUM TREES Green Gage Blue Damson RED RASPBERRIES Cuthbert STRAWBERRY PLANTS- , Improved Oregon Gold Dollar Wilson Clark Seedlings Kame Address Phois WOODSTOCK NURSERY SStS WOODSTOCK AVENUE PORTLAND, OR. $400,000 Exposition Buildings. $75,000 in Premiums. 2,500 Head of Livestock. Dairy Products Show in connection. Daily Auction Sales. Nationally Kn own Judges. Student Judging Con tests. Horse Show Each Night. STOCKS! MEN RUSH TO FIND ENTRY SPACES Beyond the-most -optimistic pre-1 dictions of the livestock enthusiasts of the Northwest, and surpassing the most ambitious expectations of the stock show management Itself, the Pacific International Livestock Ex position closed its entries at - noon on October 15 with an average of 60 per cent increase over last year in all classes of breeding stock. So overwhelming was the volume of entries that poured in from all points of the compass the last few days, and particularly at the eleventh hour of the last day. that the 'rejoicing of the busy staff in stock show headquarters in the Northwestern Bank building was turned to dismay as it .became evident that the management would be confronted with no easy problem in providing housing and accommodations for the mammoth assemblage of exhibits that were being officially listed. General Manager O. M. Plummer Im mediately called the Pacific Interna tional's building committee together for a consideration of the emergency. Al though the big pavilian completed just In time for last year's show covers an area of six acres, it was obvious that even by reducing the aisle space and re modelling the stalls and pens to secure the maximum of accommodations, there "The unerring pre potency of the HERE FORD to reproduce like it responsible for their wide popularity:' Northwest Hereford Breeders will sell at public auction 150 Registered Herefords 150 Western Royal Livestock Show Spokane, Wash., Thursday, Nevember 4, 1920. Auctioneer Col. Harry C. Cranks, Nexperce, Idaho Northwest Livestock Show LewUton, Idaho, Thursday, November 11, 1920 Auctioneer CoL Harry C. Cranke, Nesperce, Idaho Pacific-International Livestock Exposition Portland, Oregon, Friday, November 19, 1920 Auctioneers Arthur W. Thompson, York, Nebraska, and Harry C Cranks, Nesperce, Idaho The splendid youn cows, bred and open heifers in this 1920 offering are especially worthy of the' consideration of the estab lished breeder. An abundance of desirable type and breeding are amonc the many Jots. Females in calf are bred to some of the leading Hereford sires of the West. In the bull consignment are herd bulls qualified to head any registered herd. Among them will be Rupert's Model 14th, by Prince Rupert 80th; Beau Gomez Jr., by Beau Gomez; Severn, by Cuba's Panama, and Beau Hesiod, by Beau Gomez Sth. There will be a desirable lot of RANGE BULLS White faced range bulls that will pay their own way can be purchased at auction prices at these Fail Sales. Sales held under the auspices of THE NORTHWEST HEREFORD CATTLE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION Catalogues will bo mailed en request. ADDRESS R. P. BANKS. SALES MANAGER, BOX 85, PORTLAND, OR. Promoting and Perpetuating the Livestock Industry NOT a farmer lives in the West who hasn't a vital interest in the wel fare and further development of the live stock' industry. The Pacific International - Livestock Exposition is a clearing house for bigger and better livestock production, bringing together breeders and feed ers from all parts of the country for exhibiting and demonstrating the methods of raising pure bred dairy and beef cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and horses. Portland Oregon November 13 to 20 Reduced Railroad Rates would still be a shortage of shelter for the tremendous total of pure bred ex hibits that will begin pouring into Fort land from all the Pacific coast and In lermountain grates and from Western Canada a few days before the opening of the exposition on November IS. After a strenuous session of figuring and planning It was decided that tem porary annexes covering approximately two acres would have to be 1 built and fitted with stalls and pens, these taking the form of extensions of the big beef and dairy barns at either end of the stock show stadium, and an enlarge tnent of the sheep, swine and hog divi sion at the rear. ' "We are not cerfam as to the details as to Just how we are going to do It," said Mr.' Plummer the other day, "but We will have accommodations ready for all our entries by the time the show Is open, and while It is going to make us hustle to take care of the overwhelming excess, we are mighty glad to have this gratifying surplus, which will make our approaching show . one of the largest events of Its kind ever staged anywhere and a triumph for everyone Interested In the livestock - Industry here in our Western country." Leading , all other classes in the en tries for this year's Pacific International are the Jerseys, with 340 entries, and the Shorthorns, with 334 exhibit, are a close second. In the dairy division, the Holstein -entries are almost as heavy as the Jerseys, with a little less than 300 exhibits; the Guernseys will have 150 and the Ayrshires "5. There will be some 60 milking Shorthorn exhibit and a herd of Red Polleds. In the beef classes, second to- the Shorthorns will be the Herefords with entries numbering well above the 200 mark. In the Aberdeen-Angus class, represented last year1 by only three or four animals, there will be upward of 75 exhibits, and there will be a herd of Red Polleds. In the swine division, more than twice as many animals are listed as last year. and there wilt be an increase ot (0 per cent In the sheep and goat sections. The horse division will show a 40 per cent increase, and the exhibits of the boys' and girls' livestock clubs will be" SO per cent larger than last year. A. P. Fleming. In charge of the night horse show feature of the stock show, reports keen ' interest and enthusiastic cooperation from . owners of harness horses, gaited animals and hunters all over the coast from Victoria and Van couver, B. C, to Los Angeles and Pasa dena. Cal. He plans to provide a schedule of nightly shows in the big tan-bark arena that wUl surpass even the brilliantly successful , record of this section last year. Make Pacific International Livestock Exposition Week NOVEMBER 13 10 2Q The Big Week in Portland 60 more entries this year than last is the prediction of O. M. Plummer, Man ager. v iL If you are interested in Pure Bred Dairy and Beef Cattle, Hogs, Horses, Sheep and Goats, set aside these dates for your ctrip to Portland. Also visit the Portland Union Stockyards and see the Public Livestock Market in full operation. 4 A cordial welcome awaits all visitors. 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Averill Machinery Co. 324 Belmont ( St. Portland, Oregon In addition to the carload lots and Individual entries of fat stock In the va rious classes, there will be upward of 3600 of the finest purebred beef and dairy -cattle, sheep, goats, horses and swine under the roof of the half-million dollar plant at North Portland, when the tenth annal Pacific International, Livestock exposition throws open Ita gates on November 13, and because of the increased interest of the public la fairs and stock shows, as shown every where throughout the season, the man agement hopes to have a record-breaking attendance throughout the week, to complete the triumph of a stock shttka which Is one of the la r cent and tne moat Important events of Its kind ever atasenv bled anywhere. -4 : RUSSELL T " MAIL THIS COUPON' II mM Ilk. 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