The herald., 1895-07-27
The Walnut Growers Will Hold
a Meeting
BETTER MARKET CONDITIONS
Proposition to Organize an Effective
Walnut Exchange
The Commercial Reports Showii teady In.
crease Of Industrial Activity, With
Bright Future

Some OF the walnut growers interested
In securing more satisfactory market
conditions have called meeting OF pro-
ducers of walnuts, to be held at the as
sembly room OF the chamber of commerce
onsAugust 20. So far as the project has
now mat rializcd it is proposed to form
an organization or exchange modelled
more or less after the Los Nietos ex-
ch,nge. Thd aim OF the organizat is
to be TO get the nuts into the hands of
consumers without paying there or four
or seven or eight intermediary profits,
and to secure such establishment Of
grades and brands as will be respected on
the eastern markets.
OF exchange methods there is some
question-on the part, it is but fair to
say, Of those Who do not belong to the ex-
change--but on the matter of trustworthy
branding there is no question in the mind
OF any sane agriculturIst. The mat. er
was well exemplItied in the matter of or
anges. Previous to the organization of
the fruit exchanges Riverside navel
meant in California navel orange grown
at Riverside; by tho time the fruit reach
ed the eastern market it covered all the
oranges having dents in the flower end.
though they might be such fruit as a
Riverside grower would be ashamed to
have dealer find lying on the ground
under the trees. The Los Nietos exchange
has already established reputation for
the walnuts of that section--so mucn so
that Los Nietos walnut sells more read
lily and at better price than nut of
equal quality where place of growth Is not
known. Now, Judging from the univer-
sal experience of the orange handlers.
unless some means is adopted by the
growers. whether by the exchange system
or otherwise, to prevent substitution and
Justification of brands, next year LOS
Nietos soft she'll walnuts" will mean any
fair sized and fairly bright walnut,
though it may have been grown thous-
and miles from the Los Nietos valley
and thelpurchaser may need q piledriver
to crack his nut withal.
In brief, the walnut business has al
ready become too large and of too great
Importance to be longer conducted after
the .ramshackle- methods heretofore fol-
lowed, and every walnut grower who
hopes to see the business conducted IN a
businesslike way should take day off
earnest aid to the mplishment Of the
object in view.
Rural Californian: The virtue OF Or
ganization among the furit growers is
forcibly illustrated in the fact that the
Lemon Growers excahnge Of Ontario is
able to fill orders for lemons in carload
lots all graded as fancy, at good prices.
while the unor2anIzed growers are find
ing a slow market and low prices. Stand
by the exchanges and strengthen them In
every way possible.
4 4 Il
Pears are a short crop and prices real
izeo for green fruit shipment up to the
present time are, generally speaking. sat
isfactoIy. 1t looks now as if this crop
would net growers handsome returns.
Gamers are practically out of pear stock
and sales OF blocks of this fruit can be
made at about S25 per ton, though for
green shipment sales are reported at
cents per pound. of course, from favored
/ calities. 30 t..