The herald., 1898-11-20
the POMOLOGISTS
DRASTIC MEASURES FOB
FREI0HT RATES REFoRM
THE ANNUAL FALL MEETING
Unexpectedly Large Attendance.
Fruit and Flowers-Freights and
Fertilizers-Irrigation

ostv 1orfSsr " sonthSey. thSey. lsmThe Pomological So
days session Of its e., Gossa .ne Two Two
LAST lsst night The chair was ttsesl teel, meeting &c here
Abbot Kinney, and the meeting oy non, on.
most largely attended and, in many respecs.'o
Tho most interesting yet held by the So
ciety.
Before the meeting opened Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock, visiting members had
been met at the train by the residents and
taken for drives through Covina and its
surroundings, being shown number OF
handsome residences and many thriving
orchards. which generally show very good
supply of fruit on the trees, some OF 1t far
tbar advanced in color than is general else
where this year.
After an invocation by Rev. j. w. Utter,
an address of welcome was made by kev
IC. II. Libby of Covina, who welcomed the
society because of its helpfulness in bringing
tho knowledge which enabled the better.
ment of conditions. Mr.. Libby announced
the death of Covina's fatted calf and many
of ;ts chickens in honor of the occasion
This address was responded to on the par'
Of the society by Chairman Abbot Kinney
= MIR. Kinney, in referring to the clt-
J. rus fruit industry, said that last year =
j. had been hard one on the grower ana
| j. that to secure greater returns TOR h1s =
i product he should direct his efforts to =
| \ get his fruit to the consumer at less \
i cost than at present. 1.-The place to :
| j. cut" he said, sis on the freight rate. ?
y Last year our fruit products were =
i worth 800, ,OO0, 900, of which the or 4
i anaes brought $ll ,0OO, ,00O Our output :
j of oranges was $4,000 cars, and a near :
i future prospect is that we will have to :
! ship 10000 cars Before this time 4
| y comes we should secure a cheaper =
\ freight rate, and the way to do it is =
\ to 90 east, arrange for the capital to :
\ build railroad from here to New Z
= York and let existing roads know you =
\ have done so. They will quickly lower 4
\ your rate of freight. That they can =
\ do so without loss to themselves is
\ shown by the fact that their present =
= charge, IS cents, for icing is greater =
\ than the charge for icing fruit from
\ Oregon, although it has been shown 4
\ that ice here costs no more than it \
\ does in Oregon" =
Mr.. Kinney advocated the appointment
| by associations of fruit men of board oi
trustees, who would give its entire time tc
freight matters.
On the subject of our national policy o.
expansion, he said that if persisted in il
would be but few years before Cuba ano
Porto Rico, with cheaper traffic charges
| than ours, could blot our fruit trade from
the markets. He estimated that ten millor
dollars were spent here each year by tour
lists, and advocated that school of forestry
be established on the government reserva
ton at Santa Monica.
j. B. Neff read practical paper OF
"Aprcots.'
A. r. Sprague delivered an address upor
| Marketing of Fruit, in which he earnestly
urged cooperative associations, arguing fol
them by citations of successful co-operativ,
movements in shoemaking and other bust
nesses in Great Britain, where, he said, co
operative efforts had for considerable tim,
been failure before success crowned thei
work.
DR.. j. II. Needham. on the subject of 9TH,
Lemon, Its Care and Culture" read papel
of great value to lemon growers and gave th
result of experiments in keeping winter lem
ons over for the summer markets in common
orange packing boxes, with folded news
papers laid in the bottoms of them, ant
stored in dry, well-ventilated basement.
Hon. George H. Maxwell read a pape
] and G. f. Bemis a discussion upon fedora