f EFFICIENT MARKETING
BETTER FARMING
prune
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OPEN AGAIN: ALL
By J..F. Imngncr
The Oregon Fruit Growers' as
sociation has reopened ita prune
noole which were cloeed by order
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'..'' of the board of director some weeks
ar o. . All prune growers of the state
who are not yet members of the
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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
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GHAMPIONS AT MULTNOMAH
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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.
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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
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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.
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Winter Banana
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Rome Beauty
Grimes Golden
Gravenstein
BLACK CAPS
M unger
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Plumb Farmer
FILBERT TREES
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GOOSEBERRIES
Oregon Champion
GRAFTED ENGLISH WALMJTS
Fanquette
GRAPES
Concord
PEACHES
Early and Late Crawford
PLUM TREES
Green Gage
Blue Damson
RED RASPBERRIES
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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.
Portland
Union Stockyards Co
North Portland, Oregon
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Call at our warehouse and allow us to explain why
the Riusell "Three-Speed" Transmission Tractor
is proving so successful, also get informa
' tion concerning our up-to-date j
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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
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