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
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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
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markets scientifically,
It proposes to include In that
scheme the by-products: 1. e., canned
and evaporated and otherwise arti
ficially prepared goods, thus caring
for all the fruit which cannot be
marketed fresh.
It proposes, furthermore, greatly
to augment production of these by
products. Incidentally, of course, lt will
strive to standardize the output of
the fruit districts and to standard
ize on a high level.
Will Survey Districts.
In order to save the immense waste
of fruit now common to nearly every
district in the state, the committee
purposes to put into operation at
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