Show FRUIT GROWERS GROVERS FAVOR FORMING mil milAH i iAN AN AH ASSOCIATION mm Plan of Marketing Their Own t Product Meets With Favor Favorat at Convention p t pt pE E H SHEPARD MAKES CONVINCING ADDRESS MANAGER OF HOOD RIVER ASSO ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION DISCUSSES MOD MODERN MODERN j jERN ERN METHODS t t H M M M f t 4 Several important 1 W t re 4 4 reached at the OM three asi oes et p A c cde 4 day de da of the lie convention of the th State Stat StatH 4 4 t H re society 4 4 t 4 One Oue was WIlli that hat at lit the cleM do of the 9 4 4 days day of the convention Oll the tM m 4 4 of the delegates present were wen 4 4 in favor of forming lonni g a a 4 4 4 for handling and aDli 4 i I 4 the fruit and getting a 4 4 reputation for the fruits of or this state stats 4 4 Another reached was waa the u 4 4 great desirabIlIty tt recognized by the tile 4 4 fruit growers grower in getting tome some Important 4 4 tant tact changes change ch and additions to the tb 4 hortIcultural 4 law laws of or this thi state 4 4 passed by the present letl legislature lure 4 The attendance at the gathering on 4 the first day and the great Inter 4 taken in all matters matter d 4 showed that the fruit frutt growers grower ef fit 4 4 Utah are very Vel enthusiastic very 4 4 wideawake and heartily in sympathy rt 4 4 r with every matter that wilt will men mean a 8 4 betterment lt of 01 conditions hor 4 ally aily 4 fl t f f t The filth fifth annual convention of el Ute the Utah State Horticultural society began at It W t yesterday esle morning in Ute the armory with close to 3 delegates delegate present The TIle 1 session slon opened with prayer by John JohB P I s Sorensen count county horticultural inspector for Salt Lake county and the annual address addre Immediately followed follow President Jams James Jam s G of or Pro Provo hi IR his address addreN gave a summary of whet what the society lid had acc d in the Ute past p t and f t what lie he thought should be in the future tie lie reviewed the record of the horticultural industry in the s tate Ie and pointed out mistakes mistake made which should be remedied also aleo giving some trait fruit j statistics of or a general nature that were exceedingly IntEresting i I I I I I I President stated that up to w 11 1 whEn the first state horticultural board i iwas was appointed by Governor Heber M y Wells not to ten solid cars rs of fresh fruits had been shipped out of the lite J stat state during HOB l more mere than 1189 t l ears can caraI i were W re shipped s besides buld II a great quantity of el y fruit truit that was wag sent lent t by bJ y express L He Hu Mil teti from planting statistics and ami ease acre enge ge of 0 growing orchards that within a afew af J JI few tW f rs tn be shipped from Utah at least tast ears cars annually annu h P t p J JI D ff heartily in favor of organ orwan t z r t f farmers and fruit growers for J products and he tie pointed to the tile 9 r great benefits derived from the expert t mi rt stations conducted under the tile dives t tin tn n of I f the state Agricultural college He 1 said that one of the gi great eat problem ma to be Ite d tn In this state was how to turn tuna to t tI I what goes gocs to tn waste in the orchard t tHI Hf HI raid Fall more mor canneries are Reed in this tId it state stat al also o 1 evaporators tors vinegar fact r and like industries An address by Governor WIll Spry was scheduled sL for Y st forenoon but butte t te g it s absence ab enle from the city ma e eIt I it no T to postpone that part of the tile until today Following the pret pr Ii nt s talk Dr E D Ball director of o f 11 if I Utah tah experiment nt station cation A C IT U was caS introduced and he M read a II paper on R Ds Drs A Spraying Injure Fruit Tr TrI I Why Fruit Trees Die Dle Dr Pr nail Ball took tuk exceptions to the conchs conchi it f i i ions t r a Colorado expert who ho gave It ns Ita I i his that man fruit tree treel in ID that U UI state stat had died from arsenical poisoning I H HC Ho said lid thousands or of tress trees have died In InI Utah and surrounding states state under apparently fi I Iy the tue same Mme conditions described by the Colorado man and that In many rage eases c cI I these trees had bad never n vr been sprayed prayed From Front jo joI I his observations Dr Pr Ball 1311 stated hi h hk be H belief lief ilef that the most roost common romon causes of the dying of or apple ap le trees tree In the Intermountain t i region rt gJon are arc the tM rising of f the ground water i charged with alkali thus thua choking sad and t killing the roots root of the th trees tree He lie aid aaM aa a i great grat many trees tree ass are r dying In this thin state of ot collar ollar rot which manifests Itself I f In Inthe Inthe inthe the crown of ot till the tree where the hark berk dies A and decays the tree dying dyn within one on or two years afterward The of or this t I d as th to the doctor dOtor ald to le I unknown In Inome i ome tome cases it i is apparently caused by an impervious layer of hardpan close to the f I surface but in an any ease case he said It was j certainly not arsenical Committees Appointed I I Just JUIt before rore taking a recess committees i iOl on Ol resolutions re and nominating officers were appointed by the chair hair a as follows follow Committee on Resolution Re J E Taylor of ot Salt Lake Professor or E G 3 Titus Titos of tit o oCache Cache count county W 1 O 0 Knudson of Bex Box BI l lder der county A D Miller of Davis Dam comity J r rN X N J 1 Knight of or I nah tah county Joseph J eph Wright ht of Weber county ij i Committee e on Nomination C G C Adney of Box Elder Eider county R ft D Wadi of ot fi Utah county X N R It Broby of Cache Cadle conn rena Continued on Page 5 f k V Vi i FRUIT r V t GROWERS FAVOR FORMING AN ASSOCIATION Continued from Page 1 ty t Leroy of Weber eber county count Francis McDonald of Salt Lake county Orson Cazier of Juab county count A recess was then taken until 2 3 Shepards Convincing Talk The whole of the afternoon session last In about two tO hours was consumed consumo by byK byH K H 1 H Shepard manager of the Hood River JUer Fruit Growers association In ex es explaining to the audience how a fruit frit growers organization could b he be effected gowers how ow It should be b conducted and in giving ideas Idea that he had bad found useful in adver advertising Using the Hood Ho River fruit country and andIn andIn andIn In getting top prices pric for apples After his remarks considerable time tm was a spent by him in answering scores of questions putto put putto putto to him hi The Tle questions indicated the great g t I interest taken by b the tho Utah Uth growers In Inthe 1 Inthe the th matter of organizing and they seemed to w wat want uit to know every eer detail of Mr Shep Shepards Shepards ards association He answered all an ques questions Quel questions plainly plain and took tok great paint paint to tomake tomake tomake make every little thing inquired un understood er Ills His lit talk was wa entirely tu and was very interesting Mr Shepard ver began his hl remarks by stat stating stating ing InS that bat the farming faring Industry was the greatest industry of the country stating that all other oilier industries depended d pende upon the farmer for their existence and then he said sold that the most mot important branch of fanning faring was fruit rl growing Fruit grow growing ing lag he said was the best bt kind of farm farmIng far Ing Irig the most Intelligent class cla of farm arm farmIng arming Ing the most mOt Interesting kind of farming lucrative and the most the most moat mot thE mot to the whole lot of people He stated that while the northwest was already fa famous a amona mona that for its fruit frit that the th industry In Inthis Inthis inthis this section was still in Iii its infancy y and calculated from fro statistics In his lila possession that the states of Utah Idaho Oregon Washington Ue and Colorado Colordo contribute only of an the fruit fri growing In this country This was s In connection with the cry countr often heard of or danger fager of overproduction c than tion ofen That danger he be said Iid was wal He pointed out that the northwest as far faras faras faras as apples pinte are concerned Is i producing the tl best b st flavored best hest col and bet best keep keeping kep keepIng ing In apples s In the th country In th the east cast I dp ds d ho said sid fruit culture Is IB gradually creasing This is attributable to a num number I her ber of In 1 fruits are br rapidly becoming more and more preva prea prevalent prevalent lent in the eastern states stales and the eastern are being bothered more fruit growers ar and more each ch year with th worn worm II They have the destroying ln frosts frost that w we do not have hae to contend with wih in our best bet fruit districts and they the have hare the tile cold rains at blossom time unknown to We car certainly certin bloom have hae a great geat future before us us in inthe Inthe Inthe the tin matter of fruit frit raising Profits of Fruit Raising Mr Shepard stated that It had been es os estimated that 10 10 acres acl of hay ha or grain grainland gin graInland land was only sufficient to maintain one ordinary family He lie said 10 acres of the best fruit land was sufficient to keep six sixteen sixteen sixteen teen ordinary families and drew drw conclusions conclusions orinal that fruit sections could handle a larger population peculation of people than common mak rank making rankIn makIn farm lands thus when developed develop far In ing the th fruit frit sections In comparison n to I i area aia about bout eighty tines times as wealthy as common farm lands communities He lie spoke about the Porter measure In congress epke and amI urged te the tha th fruit growers grower of Utah urge against the measure and see that thai resolutions strongly against it I be placed in the hands of the states del delegates delegates b to congress He explained the te western measure was a knock against weter growers in w that it i called cane for uniform sizes of fruit boxes and stipulated that ap apples apple boxe sold b by the bushel pies ples for fO instance InsUn od should be heaped up upI It would be b an outrage to pass pas such sucha a law I h he said fd We Ve dont sell sl our ap plea iles by the bushel buhel We 1 pack them In a a BOX which we have found to be of con convenient size and we sell sel our fruits by the sie so muck much for that certain box As A a amater matter mater of oC tact fact that box as packed nake eon con cn i s a little lUe over the governments stan standard san standard dard bushel bushel Why Thy should we e bo be b com corn compelled pelted to sell our fruits by the bushel the heaping sel bushel The government is passing massing no laws making the breakfast b food people put up their product in a a certain certin tain tam sized package They have a pack package package age tin that suits them thorn and they sell sel their product ae by suit that package Why y dont they pass lass a law compelling the thc selling of gaso go gasoline line ine by heaped up gallons lne Mr Shepard denounced the methods of man many mant Shep speculators and promoters who buy bu fruit lands lads for speculation What we want out here he said is not spec speculators speculators speculators here and we want men to come settle on the land and Improve it i benefIt the the country He spoke at some soe length on the benefits benefit derived from the th lengh good work of the th agricultural colleges In go and other northwestern states and andle he le urged the Utah growers gowers to support thee these urge institutions to the limit at alt all al times lie He said that organization among the fruit growers was essential that big re results suits could not be accomplished by any nn other said other means Of his hi own association caton he be Organization and Prices The Tho best beet het example of what can be b gained by organization toward towa getting letter etter prices for fruit I can best present to you ou by giving you figures of prices re received received received since c the organization of at the Hood Hod River Fruit Growers Crowers association In 1902 we had no association and we received that hat year s 83 cents a box for our berg apples 8 After organizing we got gt S 3 I Ia ber a box in 10 a box In 1904 1901 19 1 and I 29 20 a box lo in 1905 10 1 a box in 1906 19 2 2 to O a box In 1901 and last year yea we I got JK 22 a box for the packs gt The S speaker said mid there were two kinds of associations mutual and stockholders ers era He knew more about the mutual he said because that was the kind of an a association si buse he belonged blonge to He lie said ald Mr Moore of Grand Junction could tell tel them the later ater about the stockholders kind I 1 relieve believe abt there is not much ranch choice between the he two kinds he said each probably has las good points ponts that th the other has not In our go association we charge the grower per ner box for what it I actually costs costs us sto to In handle landle the fruit fruit Every member of the association must be b a holder of or stock in inthe inthe Inthe the association He lie must hold at least ten en shares at HO no each ech and ad no member can hold more than s AiO worth of shares That Is to prevent any anyone one person or set of persons from getting entire entre control of the he association We e capitalized for tor 23 We e pay no n dividends The growers 0 get their py dividends In the t increased prices they get for their products About I 6 per cent of or the growers In the th Hood Hod t River Rive pr valley railey ley country belong belon to the as association a SlaUo In forming an association the te speaker said aid it was very desirable that ht none but fruit growers be allowed to Join that all al growers be compelled to t have some ome stock stok In gowers n the association and that thal a limit of the amount amunt of stock stok each ech could hold be b provided pro pro vided for and he h also urged that the rules adopted be such as to protect the te rles adopt small mall growers as well wel as the big ones The smal objects to b b be accomplished were principally grades of fruit uni uniform uniform form orm packing of or fruit these to create a confidence among buyers buyer to the extent that hat they were certain any ay fruit fri pur purche chased te under tinder a label of or the association aaton che was bound to be b perfect In choosing ng dl di directors rectors w he hp said sid they should be chosen chOen equally from every ever fruit district and ne I said that great gret care cre should be used In employing a manager 4 Calls Cals for Able Management You Ton will have to have hae a man who can Yo get results relt l and who wo thoroughly under understands understands stands gt the business busine These TeS men me are stan scarce and you will wil have to pay pa him goodmoney good goodmoney go money sc or you cant get him Im Dont em era employ employ mony ploy some so yo grower you know Just because bause you know goer he is honest and because he tie will O work kow for S 3 a month month He wont nt do Your wi manager must be honest honet he must command magr the respect anti and ad the th confidence of ot coman the growers grower and ad the buyers He lie must mut be conscientious diplomatic and ad have b ability In many may respects You Yo cant suc sue succeed without such s ch a man and you cant ced get such sch a man m without making main up your mind gt to pay him what he is I worth Mr t Shepard py laid lad great gat stress upon up the Importance of ot making the fruit frit as attractive at attractive as possible for the market by good packing Every Eter apple he said go should be b wrapped in a special printed print wrapper in boxes paper pp lined Un and ad be between b between tween twe the tiers Ue of apples apple there should be b the end |