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Show URGES OBDISTS TO STflfUDkTO B ETHER Special to Tho Tribune. BOISE. Sept. 1. An urgent appeal la made to thc applo growers of thc Boise valley and western Id alio to stand with the North Pacific distributers In disposing dispos-ing of thiB year's crop by Hugh n Me-ICIroy. Me-ICIroy. secretary of tho Boise district of the Fruitgrowers association. In which the declaration Is made that thc Independent Inde-pendent growers who refuse to Join with the distributers are the Industry's greatest great-est enemies. Tn part he says Thc apple crop of 1913 is about to b marketed. The general Indications Indica-tions surrounding the market, arc that the growers will receive a good price. Apparently there Is but one. thing that cun prevent this lack of co-operation. Last year the market went to pieces as the result of consignments con-signments by individuals to commission com-mission men. Tho grower can only get a good price by demanding and ! holding out for It. The greatest enemy en-emy thc applo grower has Is the independent apple grower who will not co-operate and Imagines that, in some way, he will do better than his neighbors, and for such reason is not. willing to tako chances with the community as a whole. If these men rcall made unusual profits from grul tgrowln-i: there would be some Justification for their policy; but It is well known they are no more, uncccshful than the rest of the community. Already some, of these growers assert that they havo made sales of apples, but refuse to divulge thc prices received. it may be safely assumed that they have received re-ceived a price so low that the are ashamed to disclose It, or else they havo consigned to a commission man and accepted a trifle advance sufficient suf-ficient t'- prepare the apples for market. ISxperlence has clearly demonstrated demon-strated that without organization It will he Impossible to successfully dlHlrlbulo the fruit In the interest of both the purchaser and consumer, since It will pnsij Into thc hands of unprincipled commission mon, who sncenlntc upon the project without risk to the -uzclvos, and who will bo wholly unable to make an efficient distribution, oven if they so desired, |