The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-01
LOADS OF BLOOMS.
uit=GroWers Confident
of a Big Yield.
co = OPERATIVE MARKETING.
Discussion of How TO Keep Fruit
Out OF the Hands of Middle
men.
CO. OPERATIVE MARKETING.

The meeting of the State horticultural
Society held yesterday was quite largely
attended by representative fruit-growers,
who took very lively interest in the pro-
ceedings
The first business claiming the attention
of the meeting was the report of the COM
mittee recently appointed by the executive
committee 10 ascertain what steps had been
taken by the various organizations through
out the State toward the adoption of the
California scale for judging citIus fruits.
The report, which was unanimously
adopted, stated that the scale had been
adopted by the State Fruit-growers' Associa-
ton, the Fruit-Growers' Association Of
Southern California and the California
Citrus Fruit Association.
The meeting was then treated TO various
encouraging reports made by members from
various frut-producing counties.
j. y. Wilcox of Santa Clara stated that
pears were looking well, and large yield
WAS expected.
Mr.. Coates of Napa said it was altogether
too early to do more than guess at the prob
able yield.
K: F. Adams Of San Jose said that the
apricot trees in that section of the country
were in full bloom, and unless something
unexpected occurred there would be a good
crop.
Prison Director de Pue, speaking of the
outlook in the vicinity Of Woodland, said
That plenty of rain had fallen; the trees,
especially prune trees, were fun of blossoms,
and everything seemed TO point 10 year of
pros erity.
The special topic for discussion was the
subject OF State cooperative fruit-grew-
ers' exchange.
Mr.. Adams opened the discussion by ex-
pressing the belief that the question of how
TO conduct an exchange of that kind was
more momentous than how to establish it.
The speaker was followed by Colonel p.
Hersey, who has managed the affairs of the
west SIDE Cooperative Exchange of the
Santa Clara fruit-growers since the starting
OF that institution. Mr.. Hersey gave an
outline CT the methods pursued there with
so mueh success, and gave it as his opinion
that, unless some organ cation OF like nature
was adopted by the fruit growers of the
State, the next Two or three years 20
come would be the dullesI ever known to the
fruit industry.
he 1000 fruit-growers ofthe Santa Clara
valley, said the colonel, will produce
1850 carloads of dried prunes in excess of
other years, which will make the States
output fully 100000 pounds in excess of all
former years. This will cause very dull
time TO follow, as such an excess In output
cannot fail to OYertaX the present machinery
Tor marketing, and in consequence many
producers not 90 plentifuly supplied with
money Will either be forced to sell at very
low fgure or carry their produce over until
the spring sales open"
His idea of the proper exchange was that
1t must first be put in operation in the
ceniers of fTuit-producing localities and
aIterwaTd cooperate with central OTgani-
cation. Be stated that the success of the
exchange, Of which he is manager, had tius
lar been so great that it would luild new
warehouses, go feet long by fifty feet wide,
with railroad sidngs and have 4 working
capital of S25. CO.
At the close Of the meeting a resolution
was adopted thanking Colunel Hersey and
others for the free expression of their views
on Cooperation and expressing the hope
aud belief that the example set by the Santa
Clara Exchange would be followed with
equal benefit by the fruit-growers of other
sections OF the State.