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Show FARMERS WANT $12 PER TON FOR TOMATOES The T'lah County Cnaninu' Crops association went (in record here Saturday afternoon for a $12 ier ton contract for the tomato crop, and voted unanimously to reject re-ject the $11 .per ton contract which, it is said, the cannons of the slate propose to offer. This action was taken fjtllowinj: a report of an investigating committee commit-tee which was appointed some time aro to obtain information hearing on market conditions and the possibility possi-bility of canning companies paying a $12 rale. II: was poinled out. at. yeslcrdny's meeting that tomatoes arc bringing from $2.-10 to 2.70 per case, which allows Ihe canner a sufficient suf-ficient margin to warrant ft $12 per ton conl ract. (k'orjre Scott Presides George ('. Scott of Lake View-presided View-presided at the meeting and gave Ihe reiwrt on the coimuif toe's findings, find-ings, fie suited that he had heard some of the farmers express Ihein-selvcs Ihein-selvcs as being afraid Unit the canning can-ning companies would go broke il" the growers' demands were too great. lie declared that no canning company need go into a receiver's hands if proper cooperation and organization or-ganization exists. Ho referred to the manner in which -the growers and canners of California are given aid by the Federal 'Intermediate Credit Jiank or Berkeley, the capital capi-tal of which is. supplied by the United States treasury. This hank, he stated, froifl the time of its organization or-ganization in March, 1023, to December. De-cember. I!)2(i, had loaned $29,620,-71)2.05 $29,620,-71)2.05 to twelve cooperative marketing mark-eting associations, with approximately approxi-mately :i2,000 members. Loans, he said, made to cooperatives yere secured se-cured by 'warehouse receipts covering cover-ing the following itews : : Canned, fruits and vegetables, raisins, olive oil. rice, hay and cotton. Mr. Scott stressed the fact that no loans can be made direct to individuals,' in-dividuals,' and pointed out that by organization 'both the grower nnd the canner can receive this aid. which is a guarantee against total' losses such as have been suffered in this district in the past few years. Demands To 15e Met N C. Christensen of Salem declared de-clared that in his opinion the growers grow-ers will meet 'every demand of the cunning comitriis in regard to delivering superior quality produce if they are to receive a price commensurate com-mensurate with that quality. He related the risk the farmer takes when he plants a tomato crop. Early-frosts, Early-frosts, Wight and other unfavorable, conditions arise that make ft Impossible Impos-sible for him to succeed at prices such as those offered the tomato growers of the state this year. He gave as an example an experience of his own, wherein he had grown a fine'erop of tomatoes and the out-iooli'was out-iooli'was good, until oh the night of September 11 a frost destroyed his entire crop. It was decided that the members of the association would devote the coming week in a membership drive, and' hold another meelihg in the Farm ldureau assembly room, city and county 'building, at 1 :30 o'clock next Saturday afternoon. . |
