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Show H jxr 1- 111iMi.11 iuijM.m.j-iijLjMmrwTWT 1 1 - . jmw """" IWW"TW"WMIW"'"I''WWW : i HORTICULTURE Thii Department if Edited by Prof. R. S. Northrop, State Ari- cultural College. : GUARDING ONE'S REPUTATION 4 It is a good sign when individuals j nnd localities begin to take steps to . protect their good names, in any line. f It is a good sign horticulturally when " "individuals and localities take steps j to protect the reputation of their j fruits, and within the past year a num ber of localities have sought to have .laws enacted which will secure this ' protection. Oregon lias passed' a very stringent law, requiring the name and address of the packer and locality I where packed) to be oh every fruit ' . package. And now comes New York II with a movd to insure protection to J the good name of New York fruits. I . It seems that some of the cold stor- agc companies of New York State liavc been in the habit of 'buying ap-j ap-j ' pics in other states and bringing them 1 "to their own storage houses for keep ing. As the season progressed and prices of apples advanced, and the demand for New York apples was especially es-pecially good, these forcigiv-grown apples ap-ples were repacked and labeled New . York apples and soldi as such. And New York growers .don't like the 'practice, foi they claim their apples anc better than the forcign-growji 'fruit. The New Yorkers arc right in demanding de-manding that laws be passed preventing prevent-ing this improper labeling of fruit packages. They arc correct in their position, whether their apples arc better bet-ter or worsjeHhan those grown elsewhere. else-where. We think it is a sound proposition propo-sition that every package of fruit ought to be ? correctly marked, no matter where it is grown. If this fruit is not so good as the fruit, 'grown in the section -indicated by ths label, then it is a fraud to falsely label the package. And if the fruit is bc'.-tcr bc'.-tcr than the average of that produced in the section which may be better advertised, then, in justice to thcni- selves, the growers should seek to '' build up their own reputation. It is the improper labeling of packages pack-ages which has made necessary the pure food law and other stringent regulations. Few "persons will object to oleomargarine, if it is sold for what it isbut when it is labeled as "pure creamery butter" then ' comes the rub. . The best plan is to grow fruit that you arc not ashamed of and then la- ' teJuLfor just what it is. Don't try , to steal the reputation of another in-tffViduaT in-tffViduaT oroTVnothcr section. Establish Es-tablish a reputation of your own. Hicrc, indeed, is a case where "a good name is rather to be desired than great riches." And no good name can be established estab-lished unless the one trying to establish estab-lish it is, first of all, honest. The Fruit Grower. |