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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Fruitmen Planning to Organize From Seattle Sun. once a large number of canneries WH. PAULHAMUS has tackled and evaporators, the greatest undertaking of Any district which believes Itself bis career. able to supply the raw material for a The man who converted the word plant of this kind need only to apply "Puyallup" from a term of reproach to the committee for assistance, fur to a synonym for highly organized, nishing, of course, a reasonable show Intelligent, efficient agricultural mar- ins of its resources, keting proposes now to bring all tha The committee will thereupon have fruit growers of the Pacific North- complete survey of this district west into one powerful organization, made by an expert and will recom In short, he expects to extend the mend what type of by-products plant benefits of the famous success "should succeed In the locality and ad acbleved by the berry raisers of his vise as to the best size to install, little valley to all producers of ber- This investigation will be made for ries and apples and cherries and the actual expenses incurred, peaches and other fruits grown In ' Raiding $4000 Fund. this corner of the United States. .. . ., , , Time was when every vaudeville To cover the lncl(5ental expenses of performer that came to these parts Buel1 a campaign the committee is so used Puyallup as the butt of all jay Hcitlng a fund of 14000 from the Jokes. Today Puyallup points plac- transportation companies, commer idly to vast arrays of figures denot- clal organizations and fruit growers' ing immense business transactions organizations of the Northwest, accomplished by herself and the When the by-products plants are laughter falters. established, the committee insists, it Just for Instance, W. R. Scott, one shall be on a purely co-operative ba of Mr. Paulhamus' lieutenants, who sis. The purpose of such a financ was In Seattle yesterday, mentioned lng method, in the words of the re in passing that the Puyallup fruit port, "is to make the growers the full growers up to November 10 had paid owners of the property and the busl this year to the railroads and express ness." companies doing business in their The committee expresses itself as valley the nifty little sum of $191,- unalterably opposed to the sale of 000 merely for transporting their stock in canneries or evaporators to products! For the entire 12 months outsiders, taking this position be of 1914, he said, the total will be cause such persons come into the dis- $230,000. And this does not include trict "with no other object in view what they have paid steamship com- than to make a profit of from 20 to panies for shipments going out by 30 per cent out of the sale of the water! stock and who have no interest In the Co-operative marketing under ultimate success of the corporation Paulhamus' leadership brought Itself." about these results. Xext Meeting January 23. In the meantime, all the other The next meeting Is set for 10 fruit growers of this region are voic- 0.cock January n at tne New ing loud complaints. Prices, they Washlneton The committee has is- report. aro at a point which allows vv a!Hington. me committee nas is- them little profit. Eager as they are iliei specM invitation to repre- to see hope for the future, they face ?entatlves of the six big agencies re- fhn tort that cvtonai oror t feired to above. The men and the about to come into bearing. This means increased production, the nat ural corollary of which would be still lower prices. Nearly the full volume of their output Js marketed at present by six marketing concerns they represent are: H. L. Davidson, president, and J. H, Robbing, manager, of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors. R. H. Parsons, president, and W. great selling agencies. These have uwinn, manager, oi wiv"""" been competing feverishly for busi- Fr"'t Exchange.- ness. slashing prices and, so they mu- , w- M- NelBon' Prudent, and E. B. tually charge, doing their Industry Samson, manager, of the Horticul- great harm. tural Union. Farmers Want Good Clothes Farmers Want Good Shoes Farmers Want Automobiles (so do their wives.) Farmers want the same necessaries and the same luxuries that doctors, lawyers, bankers and business men want. , (their families likewise.) What's more, right now the farmers have got the real U. S. dollars to satisfy every single want and then some. If yon make or sell anything that is useful or ornamental to American citizens of either sex or any age and yon want to sell more the following FARM PAPERS OF CONCENTRATED CIRCULATION can deliver your message about those goods to nearly 500,000 real prosperous homes (the kind you think about on Thanksgiving Day) viz: MEMBERS IXITED FARM PRESS OF AMERICA State. Addres. Paper. Avv,9!& Arkansas Fort Smith Arkansas Fruit and Farms 15,000 California San Jose California Farmer fia,50 Florida Tampa Florida Grower 13,200 Illinois Springfield. . . . The Farm Home 75,083 Iowa Des Moines. ... Iowa Farmer 6:.000 Kentucky Louisville Kentucky Farming SS.000 Missouri St. Joseph Profitable Farming 60,472 N. Carolina. ... Raleigh The Carolina Farmer 11,900 N.Dakota Fargo National Grain Grower 40,000 Oregon Portland Orcgon-Washington-Idaho Farmer. 5&200 Texas San Antonio. . . Texas Stockman and Farmer 36.800 Utah Lehi .The Utah Farmer 16,623 ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES John D. Ross, Otis Eldg., Chicago. 111. White-Simonson, Inc., Tribune Bldg., Now York, X. Y. Ueo. W. Purcell. N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. F. F. Gllmore, Jr.. 107 S. Fourth St., Louisvile, Ky. Geo. YV. Purcell, Victoria Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. . The nearest representative is at your service. ill r,t wMM, ho mof that ih m. unueri, oi me mcuey OC Ull- farmer at Wenatchee or Yakima or ber Company. Hood River has been realizing much Conrad Rose, of the Wenatchee less a box for his apples 0-r his Pruc Company, peaches than he feels he is.entitled to. r w; T- Clar,ft' of ,the Wenatchee , , . Fruit Growers Association. Fruit Men Get Together. T . ... .... ., ,7 . , 1915 to Be Lnndjnark leap. At the same t me thousands of . . . , . .. . . . When this session Is qver and persons the country over and In other ,.hen another meeUng t0e fteld parts of the world never set their two daJ.s later at Portland is over teeth down on a red-cheeked apple or the committee expects a central downy Elberta peach, not because board of control representing all the they don't want to or can't pay the fruit growers of the Northwest will price, but because the marketing ma- be in office and be ready to set In chlnery of the Northwest does not motion the machinery to bring about give them opportunity. 8 realization of the whole ambitious With these facts in mind. Paul- programme. hanius some weeks ago asked repre- And then a new year and a new sentallves of these large marketing era alike will have been ushered into establishments to meet him at the the life of an enormous but dis- Spokane apple show, traded industry, Paulhamus and They accepted his invitation, talk- backers believe. ed matters over and decided to con- r fer again. A later conference was Hon- the Chinese Grow Beets, held Saturday at North Yakima. In many things we can profit by Next month further meetings will be observing methods practiced by peo- held at Seattle and Portland, The pie of other nations, and especially upshot of the sesstons already held those who occupy distant parts of and those called, it is anticipated, our globe. will be a realisation of the Puyallup The Chinese are excellent garden man's idea. ers, and a few of their methods are Outlines Kitrnsive PioRramn. becoming quite popular with our The organization already formed 'Ftooin that when early is known as the Northwest By-Prod- beet plantg are transplanted from a ticts Committee. Paulhamus is its seea.Ded to the permanent growing president. ground the tops should be clipped to It proposes to bring the marketing belp jn(juce a vapid growth and pre agencies into an agreement so that vent tne plant from wilting too much, uniform prices may be established. Tllose wno trim lne tops will think Then the various individual market- lt Btrange when told that the Chinese Ing organizations may compete just trim the otiier en(j 0 the beet plant, as much as they wish as to quality of too product and for territory but not in . cutting down the growers' profit. A rPat deal of tne oak used on It proposes to develop tne worm s the pa(.if jC coast comes from the Be Prepared for Opportunity GET THE BEST BUSINESS EDUCATION THIS COLLEGE offers a complete Business Course In all business branches Stenography, Accounting, Type writing, Banking, Dictaphone Operating, Etc Expert Teach ers. Positions guaranteed or money refunded. Day and NlSht School. Write at once for com plete information and terms. N ext Term Begins Jan. 4, 1915. College Journal Hailed Free. LINK'S BUSINESS COLLEGE TILFORD BLDG. A.T. LINK, PRINCIPAL KING OF THE WOODS" DRAG SAW With or Without Buzz Saw Attachment Will saw 20 to 40 cords of wood per day at a cost oi $1.00. 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