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Show Peach Growers of County Receive Checks from Assn. Some Growers Fail To Cooperate On Agreed Peach Prices By Assn. By WAYNE HINTON Peach growers of Washington county received $56,746.62 'for their peach crop on last Thursday Thurs-day night. Of this amount, $1,-283 $1,-283 had been advanced to growers grow-ers previously, and $5,224.92 had been paid previously for other services, such as trucking, inspection in-spection and overhead. Leeds Ships Most You often hear the question: In what town of Washington county is most of the fruit raised? rais-ed? On the basis of shipping records, the town of Leeds produces pro-duces twice as many Elberta peaches as any other community in the county. When the minimum mini-mum price was set in a meeting meet-ing of all the growers in the county at $1.75 per bushel loose, or $2.60 and the grower furnish the basket, Leeds growers were the only group that kept their pledge. As far as I know as supervisor of shipping and from the "grapevine" only 50 bushels of peaches in Leeds were sold for less than $1.75. Every other community in the county had growers selling all season for $1.50 and some growers in one community sold for $1.25. Whether Wheth-er these growers had inferior fruit and were afraid they couldn't sell it except by cutting the price, or whether it was (Continued on page eight) j Peach Growers' Report i ! (Continued from first page) i down right chiseling on the price, I do not know. In any j event, it is too bad that the i majority have to hold an umbrella um-brella over a small minortity. i P.sycologists say, "that -most peoples' deepest sense of feeling is when you touch their pocket-book". pocket-book". The following should cause a small minority to shed a few tears. 35,618 Bushels Shipped This year as a cooperative marketing association, we shipped ship-ped out 35,618 busheLs of peaches. They were divided according to size as follows: 29,610 bushels of 2-inch, and 6,008 1-inch peaches. In addition we sold one truck load of 276 bushels to Flagstaff, Ariz. There were a total of 67 carloads of 528 bushels bu-shels per car, plus 242 busheLs of pears which were loaded in. Town 2-inch 1-inch Santa Clara.. 720 bu. 2 bu. Toquerville .. 3,632 bu. 657 bu. Leeds 12,355 bu. 3,387 bu. LaVerkin .... 6,408 bu. 3,387 bu. LaVerkin .... 6.408 bu. 790 bu. Hurricane .. 6,495 bu. 1,247 bp. Hurricane .. 6,495 bu. 1,247 bu. Total . . ' 29,610 6,008 The 2-inch peaches netted the growers at Cedar City $2.01 per bushel and the 1-inch peaches netted $1.76. The expenses were 22c for basket, freight to Cedar City, 9c; except in Leeds, where it was 8c; and overhead for loading, load-ing, car inspection, supervision and bookkeeping, etc., $5.14. The total expense was $36.14. This subtracted from $2.01 leaves net, to the grower at his farm, $1.6486 for his 2-inch peaces and $1.3986 for his 1-inch peaces. In Leeds it was lc higher for each. Quotes Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln once said, "divided we fall, united we stand". Why can't farmers catch the meaning and cooperate? They stay outside the main group and undersell. Their argument has been that over a period of years the marketing association has not paid on an average what peddlers and truckers pay them. For the enlightenment of all, I present the figures of the past eight years: $ 3 "3 2 "3 3 o a, H O J 1942 $1.65 $1.50 .15 1941 84 .75 .09 1940 73 .75 .02 1939 64 .75 .11 1938 53 .75 .22 1937 77 .75 .02 1936 87 .75 .12 1935 83 .75 .08 46 35 Over the last eight years the Washington County Cooperative Fruit Growers' Marketing association associ-ation has averaged 1 38 cents per bushel more than what truckers truck-ers paid for them. E. O. Muir has sold our fruit for us and has done a good job. In fact his company has been the only one in the state in the past able to do the job. Valuable Service The association has rendered a service in addition to selling fruit. Each year they have furnished the sbakets for the county and non-cooprators have been helped as well as members of the association. as-sociation. This year 77 growers made up the membership of the association. associa-tion. Two from Santa Clara, 18 from Leeds, 17 from Toquerville, 14 from LaVerkin and 26 from Hurricane. Next year we hope there will be more. In numbers there is strength, let's grow stronger, i |