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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFOItn MAIL TUTBITNE, M MDFORB,"" OT? FiCiOX, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1929. 'f t i Sv (" . -ii . ti . H CO-OPERATION IMPERATIVE IN PEAR INDUSTRY IF BEST RESULTS ARE TO BE GAINED i Albert '-Butch, Retiring President "of Fruit Growers' r League Shows How Necessary Xo-Opcrative Action Is, in Widening of Markets and Maintenance of Profits Constructive Achievements of League During 1929 Enumerated Importance of Drainage Problem Is Stressed. ' . i The adilroNK of Albert Hurth, : presldom nf the . Km II Fruw th ; Kcanup, nt the unmiul nii'WIiig of ' tho oriianlxfit liiii Wcdnefcduy, w la , us follow.s: , r,IHf nf ,ni llllni'KJi nlZcil imil) 4'utl- trmlihK aKaliiMt a compact, immv Tful orKiinl.ullon, Tint iiiiiii'kkii i.uu ntoi) ajvayn loses. . wo urv now iif I llfatcd with the (Jidwci'i1 Tariff I.euuiH', which imiy hcconif Wo hiivr uiillioriMl here lotlav for! ; Hid annum mct'tln'K of the FrUit ! I'fWiM-ful cnuiiKrt to do sonm gouu i Orowsri) Lrajuio of Jitcknoii Court-( A rtiii'Ft wan made through our iy, a lid It Ih oiiHtomary and propo: ' Henat.i'H fur a liirutT approprlatlHii j for the rethink president to re-! to Ihu weather hurra u, ho that we view tho pnJKWHM and work of th may uhu.lti more accurate front previous year and n;iy something j warnltiKH and further In advance, jjUhout thu uUn; of the league, fori and your director were uwsilre I tlio iiiiiirp.", , ..- t mi i tnm Mem wouiti re ineiuti u it In iMinnlni; ! Would like to coiiKratuIate tho kiowoih up'iii ' thn fc'cnrHl HiieeesH of Iho-orchard dhuKinL'MH In thla valley for the year j. I It Ijf (ruo that lute frOHW iltonk'theh toll ;from some of tlm In (he htidKct Htilmiillcd to the prcHent eoiiKresft and Hint the hcii atorH would try to meer It through During the Hiiiunier we wt re confronted with possible shipment of K';ilefrull from Florida, where :'orcjhitrda. hut In the muln the yield Ihe Aledlterraneun fruit fly had jihas hccii oud, und I liuvo heard become established, and we tried ' no eo'iiplaitit rcxardinH prices. A I t" obtain protection from our state ; pin ti for Hid in maintaining future! authorities. We found, unfortun I orientf will be referred to ' latiV. ntely. that the mate has no money I are not Immune, and each tr.i 't I has l(: own problems to solve. As a rule, orehardlHts who have not i hud Irrigation experience do not j -ense the trouble till much tlu'ii ' ae lias been done, und we ;! i fortunate In obtafnliiK the servlcn of a trained engineer to KUlde ti . Many minor jucUuil have he;i j dealt with, but perhaps the on; I HiandliiK achievement of iho yeur . is th reorKanlzatlon and eii larneinent of the I lose I 'ear com mit ley and the work which the new com in It tee, now called the Winter Pear committee, has (Ion?. Mr. Wood, the chairman of the committee, will Klve you a full re port Idler Ui'' the "session, and I do not wJnh to rob him of any of hi. 4 thunder, but will brlellv review the facts. Hose Coiniiililce I'rnUcd The l!ose 1'ear committee, which had met with many rebuffs from our members during the preceding summer, was still perLslstent and ready to go ahead with this yeu.'h campion, but It was felt both by the committee and the? directory, that more oud could, bo accomp lished by enlarKliiK Its member ship and taking in new blooj. This was done In January and later, when It was decided by the enlarged committee to widen its scope of action and deal with 'ill varieties of winter pears, lite name was changed to Winter Pear com. mittee. ' As HUeh, ' It went vigorously to work and one of the members d" vl.se d the scheme for financing thf lto.uc nmpuign In Detroit, wit lie another advanced the idea of the campaign for dealer-buyer educa tion in New York, and, to the credit of the committee be It rai.l that both plana were unanimously accep;ed. During the entire seas on the committee . has met twice a week, and particular credit 'is due CiiHli'inan Wood for tho un tiring effort he has put into the work A new. and I believe permanent nt:irWt h:t l....,n niinni1 ft. r gathered together by any usso cla.luii for the benefit of in-, dustry. It held that It wna perfectly lawful for an IikUih try to' gather together tho facts of production, of sales, of all pr.st transactions, Includ ing prlcex at which sates were made, and to disseminate them among Its members." A condition smilar to that whU-h will confront the Pacific Ho-ir Crowers Council is described by the following quotation from the sumo speech: , ,; ' ".Many mining companies were- feurful of giving; these statistlcH to any organizations lest they become known to their competitors, and we had to work out a very adroit and .very carefully framed meth od." ' ',.. ''') for the collection - of (the deta'ls1 and the dissemination of 'the 'tot il contdusions to the trade. I Further ouoting: , , "Tiie result of Hie Copper Institute has been much like the result of the barometer and the study of tnctcrplogy In navigation. Itefore we hud th'se statistics It waa Inipos- aible for any mining executive to know whether he should Increase hl production, wheth er hd should lower his pro duction, whether consumption was Increasing or ' decrcas , ing.M ' Cooperation Is Smtvshfu And what of the result up . to date of this organized cooperative effort? When the Copper Insti tute was formed In und its companion organization, the : pop per and Ifrass llesearch, associa tion, copper was fluctuating H price between 12 cents and, cents per pound, nnd uiitny.pro duceiri were forced to. close down. Today a much larger output ' Is being readily absorbed at' a steady price of 1H cents per pound. The Copper ; Institute merely gathered and disseminated mar ket information. The Copper and fruit. Advertising will be resorted to for Iho hi rpu.se of Introducing our pears to consumers who have never kccu them, und market gluts will be avoided, becuuse IMacer vllle will know each day how many ably read, that the Pacific Pear Grower Council is' not uu tills time f oiumtttudJio nay advert ltd :k program, Ijut thut- ,tlie delegates merely state thaf eohlderalloii will be given ,to this question. In curs are going from Med ford, and other words. If the grBwers that to what market, and Med ford will j they represent really want to ad have the same Information re-' vertls?, a plan will be prepare! gardlng Yakima, und so' on down j for doing it in an economical and the list. . Tho Detroit experiment ' effective tvay. Th jVower of the word- is nieiitioned7 From thj fully said, "Man fivetli not to him- ' beginning of man's gathering to-1 self alone' ' . get her in -tribe there 'has been-j Cooperation Is Coiiiiiiou 1'iytlice more or less cooperation among;. men-and In the Bible ! trath-- y H-ontlnued on page fuur.j ha.s shown two tilings conclusive ly, viz. that advertising pays and that It pays to feed to each ma.--kcti only what . It ,can 'adsorb at good jn-ices. (Cooperation will bring proper advertising' is jinqiicstlou-1 able fnu 'muiry iiiBtaYic'es" can be j cited to provo It. . At an advertising . conference ! held In Berlin last', summer about hot) of thcMc results in, man went o far as to say that i time, and this does not neces'ir lly mean thut there should be any hard and fast combination be tween distributors or between dis tributors and growers. There I? none between the copper produc ers of the Cnlteu fitatcs, but the lavor.ible results a'e ' obtained by the interchange of information which hcrvcg us a guide for at! seller and hy advertising. There is, In course of prepara tion now a pamphlet prepared by the new organization which will show the , probable future .expan sion of pear acreage and produc tion, and show clearly why It is necessary right now to Increase consumption If prices are to be maintained In the ruture. If 1 an correctly Informed. It will also show what has been gained . by cooperative advertising of other commodities nnd I earnestly asl; each and every pear grower to read It and study It carefully whn his copy is received. In order that j said In this report relative to past the-Individual growers may---lo-j acooMtpllshmnts or future alms is cidc. cacji for himself what;, he j cooperation: and what It there wants to do to help maintain thvl ahout cooperation that causes some price of his fruit. I people to riso up, in great anger You Will notice, and have prnb- nnd" froth at tlTc intuit h whenevf li 5 per cent of tho people guided by advertising In their pu .chases, and gave some figures as to results. He gave tho average In creese in iiuoted prices of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange between the War U2'A txnd 1U:?7 a lL.iplnis; fron tlt up to while Alio riso for certain con- ; cerns that had done a great deal of advertising was j-i , points, from .63 iip to ,21U. . Wolftaitnot hope, 'by.idvertlsing to double the price of our pear., but we ' can reasonably hope to maintain good fail' prices and If th iri'nwir of thin vallev Insist upon it, tthbi Itisltitence will go at long way towards convincing the I Pacific. Pear.Gro.werp Council that' pears must be advertised . It hiji gpowca! problem and in a les.ier way a distributors, und we must see ft through if we are to continue to prosper The keynote In all that has been 0 Appearance Counts , in Your Holiday , Festivities Latest improved Shcllon Croquinoglc Waves (King lettc ends). - Emma Kline .; Shop Liberty Bldg. .' ,( Phone 454 7 troit Mid the campaign of eduea-J Brass ilescarch association did th? new I Your directors have been dill-' for (he maintenance of an ef vjteni flunng-me year in c.rrymg ; ".w ; hkmuu. uu aim e uau i ,, ,s milknB KOOtl progress in adverlUing ' and developed nut wAi were oeuevea in p me . urncn.i upon wie u-u.-ihi em.mi , New V()rk ,t wUhwut .. I for tho metal. Each pro- jfwihejr of tho leaguoV momberHhip, upl.n shipments and an awakening nK tmt U0Hp t((H C()ll), not;Uurer did his own marketing so :aitd have held nhout ten meetings j of JocU sentiment against uslig mivt, hovn ucrnmi,lHh(.d without f far as sales in the United States fllnce the iHst annual gathering. Morida grown fruit. Thus far;lo h:u.kUK of lhe ,,MWer.s, sev-! were concerned, but a central sell -At the flist meeting, which was these have proved effective in' ntvfiv .... (1(.nt r u.h, ! ai:encv in which finallv nin.Mv licui piT wecemuei- at, u.'n, un: l'"'K n "i "i vaney " i trn,te,l morala to the I nu- Mil' milium iiiiii uiiuuit'i .icum'mi i i question of a reduction In park- hoping will show the fly entirely eradi- dangerous fruit pest of ' all, and ; until we know that none exists in ( Florhb'., we should take no chances j by welcoming any Florida fruit, no matter how good. In tills vallev. I Boycott Is an ugly word, ami boy-1 ''Ins 'elmrgcH was discussed and a , colitmrilee appointed to confer wi;h I the Vnickora on this subject, tiev ' era! Vonfereneo were held with ) tho packers as a body and with hillvlduals. with the result that t.i . committee was finally able to re ('port 'iiti ngrenment with a majo.' i ity 'df tho packers upon a plan I that ' means a reduction In rat 'fi for lUo average grower. It Is not , so great a reduction as the com t.mlttco had hoped to obtain, and is not binding upon those packers who refused to glvo their consent. ' Ho far as tho others are concerned. l w nelleve they have lived up to executive committee of the Trai thelr' agreement as no complalmH j fc association. ehHinber of com t haVe' been received by tho adjust i pierce, and your league, an e.i- per cent oi an inc producers in ; exiense A logical outgrowth of (his sti xnuuCiil niini'nlliin otlidtli lu n.mr nnliiinl' fm l"!u t'n iinsi n n A nut i m 1 1 It 111 C ited 111 Florida. It Is the most j ,.Iwm, , ., (lf ,,in ,. lfl.liwl., ! Tiler.. I- no Imiirnr an niirtl.M. mi,..- regions of the I'aciflc coast, was! Vet lhe program for the Slate llor.; cultural society and pear conf"r euce held in Med ford last month. Large delegations came montln'r fi .mi i "ji H fiii'ii in w,,mB "lluum ,,7 . 'iaud Washington and I am very except in extreme cases, but when ; Hnr).y hat H(( f4,w (if n(1. WJ mt,m. any pear grower discovers that the (,(l,rH wm premM( lo hrnr u,t. grocer with whom he Is dealing ,.C(in iinillyMif, ((f H.ai. nia,ketl..g ih iiiiiiiuiiig r loriuu iron, inis fi uu. in- is .iiiki i ueu mi nuiKuiK "'that meeting nirt-WiK iiiuh'hi. i Through the efforts of the Joint ; for voppcr in London and the metal r no longor handled hy tlU' Loud in Metal Exchange. What the widely scattered con- to this per producers, some large, ' sonnk Oregon ' small, some rich, some pour, lur e l done by Intelligent cooperatJ.i l. 1 lhe pear growers of the Paclf.t coast can do. ' , ' In another address at the smut' conditions which was developed at! meeting the following lauguav ap- tna mept coinmlttee, which was pointed at the heginnliiff rof packing ecatinu, Tho rate In not a flat one, but depends upon tho percentage of pack-out and the average size of i thc fruit packed. Tho reasons for the adoption of this plan Instead i of a f t t rato are. first, because ; It Was demonstrated to your dir ectum that It costs more to pack fruit containing a largo percentage of culls than It does clean fruit, and' Hi so more to pack small fruit 1 than'1 large; and second, bocauxe' It furnishes an Incentive to the grower to improve the k rutin of v his fruit. I' Naturally, tho cost per box w 11 vary 'with the different orchards, land ft 1 1 that I can say Is, that in sinjr' oase, with a pack-out of ml '2 ;jpnr dent, and bIkoh nearly equally f divided below 135a and above, the .jcost iior box figures Tifi.2 cents oi J.nearly five cents below tho cost fo the preceding year. It Is our hope van ft expectation that, t.s the pacU ,'lug hbiises ttecome more thorough-' ly-equipped with labor saving d .vlneHi. the packing charges may be 'still further reduced. ; 1 - lOxcnwi Weight of Hoxcm , 10a rly In the year a commlllee .was appointed to take up with the f Traffic nssocliitlon the matter of tiexepss weight in the packed box-s ;wich had hoenme a burden upon jthe troWeiH because of the stui ttpOKcd dchiand by dealers for a ' "bulge" pack.' There can he tyi louht that there has been fii- 'i ' a 'demand, hut steps are ' brliu lfti'ken to educate the dealers atel lishowthein that that an excessive bulgff rcstitts in more bruised friitt t and consequently real loss to them. ' The result of the discusalcm wis general agreement that In the Tiitur tho' maximum weight (or ;D'AnJntts and Cornice should be '.'i pounds per 'box, and U' pound foi' Bosc, Nells and Burlletts. In ;tho past .fit) pounds lias been com mon, lihd In extreme cases Vi pound, the difference bnlng hor.te t 'directly by Ute grower. Sonic (,packers are now equipped with scHlrj. for Weighing each box eco nnntleiiliy, and It Is hoped that aP 'SvlII irthre tii the new plan. . Ih February a meeting of Wash ington Oregon; nnd California fruSi flrftWoTi was called In Portland for Hit) Vufpnte of taking steps to ob lain a tariff On baiiona and your president attended the meettni' Later a amall contribution 'bnide to the National Ilorttcii1tur.il .Council, which had the matter In 'hand In "Washington. An eft'tri way made by a representative of the cnoncll to 'obtain a duty of MH cents per pound on thla fru'l, which la 'tt' diVect competitor win our apple and pears, but thr i f fort was temporarily, at least, a falltmv ' ' Justice nf liunana TaHfT Mmber of eongreas and the pen pit of the country need to b educated to the point where tin y than aee the Justice and neeeMlty nf urh A tariff. Also the pow ifrfiil opponltlon of the l!nlted Krnit i-umpany must he overcome, and all thla will require time, labor and money. Homo of you may have noticei that during the recent hearing In' con grew regarding lob iylata, Mr. Caroll testified that lhe Tntted Fruit company paid htm S15.000 for hla aervlcea In fighting th hanana tariff. How many other paid lobbylata they had, we do not gineer from the United Hiales !) partmi nt of Agriculture has been detailed to make a study of drain ago problems In this 'region, ar.d ho has been worsting here for sev eral months. 1 Mis salary is p.i'd by tho government and his ex penses by an appropriation of t'lc Jackson county court. i PriMr Drainage Proper drainage Is a probl-m which always arise in an Irrigate, district and it is already becom ing acute in this valley, where orchard trees are dying from- vet feet. In this connection, ortjliards nnniiMiics. if Jhey are iriiaied. "f T Pear (.rowers Council The result of tills meeting wan the organization at Sacramento two weeks ago of the Pacific Pear (i rowers Council. Mr. Bosenberg of our" league was elected presi dent, has already made public- ;H objects, and I hope that in his absence, Mr. Van llocvenberg w'll talk to us today about It. I there fore shall not say much about it except that the principles have a very familiar ring to mi. The following Is from a speech made in New- York on October 22, and refers tn the principles of thv American Copper Institute. Mr. Biownell said; - "The supreme court of the lr lilted Htr.tes had rendered a very clear decision governing " t hose farts which might be t I was used regarding copper: "!'- fore the war It was always a 'buy era market,' but now through th action of the copper companies t! fairer and mitre equitable method of sale has been built up." How, well this description ' f conditions before the war fits the nrcscnt situation pf the'ppar grow ers. 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