Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-08
Urge the Erection of a Cold storage
PInnf In CITY.

Urge the Erection of Cold stOrHge
Plant In City.
1t required forenoon and afternoon ses-
sions TO complete the deliberations OF the
thirty-hrst annual meeting Of the South
western Iowa Horticultural society yes
terday instead Of a morning session as had
been planned. The treatment accorded the
society by the people Of Council Bluhs
not only prompted it to select this city
as the place for holding next years meet
ing. but ELECTED the following resolutions;
Whereas This society has just COM
pleted the labors OF the thirty-second an
nual meeting, and,
Whereas. owing to the cooperation OF
the citizens OF Council Bluffs and vicinity
pleasant meeting; therefore, be It
Resolved, By the members Of this So
ciety that the thanks OF the society Is due
the ladies OF the Associated Charities and
OF Council Bluffs for the literary enter
tainment rendered at our opening session.
We thank the presses OF Council Bluffs
and Omaha for the courteous mention made
Of this association and their efforts to as
sist in making our meeting a successful
one.
That we, as an association, owe the
Grape Growers association and the Com
merclal club OF Council Bluffs q special
and their royal entertainment and the spe-
cial efforts put forth by said associations
IN cooperation with the citizens of Coun-
so profitable and pleasant that II will be
with a FEELING OF regret that we leave e.
and we cannot leave without expressing
70 J. p. Hess our thanks for his individual
effort TO make our stay pleasant.
The society also adopted a resolution in
-dorsipg the proposition to establish a cold
storage plant IN Council Bluffs and guaran-
teeing its support and patronage at the
earliest opportunity It is possible to do so.
An interesting feature OF the closing ses-
sions was the talks Of H. w. Collingwood
If New York editor Of the Rural New
Yorker, who spoke at both the morning
and afternoon meetings. Mr.. Collingwood
was on the program for the opening day,
but could not reach here until Yesterday.
He did not confine himself to any special
subject in either OF his addresses. but
touched on a number OF matters of interest
to the fruit grower in general and those in
the ives. especially. He said among other
things that the fruit growers OF the west
do not make a sufficient effort to create a
market People should be made to realize
that apples are a necessity and not a
luxury. Consumption of fruit as in other
things, Is increased by educatins people to
the need of It. He told OF the methods
OF orcharding and gardening in the east.
which were materially different to those
produced for the local market and did not
export Now the eastern fruit grower had
to contend with those from the west, who
were invading his market. The only way
they in the east could compete with the
west was by raising special fruit, which
would Of necessity bring a greater price
than that shipped in from the west. Eight
K thousand Italian fruit stand owners hae
! created, he said, a great demand for tho
| Ben Davis apple in New York on accoun,
! Of its color. making IL a popular seller
This peculiar demand for one special kind
hurt the market to a considerable extent
on the other varieties.
Prof. H. p. Baker Of the State Agricul-
| tural college at Ames discussed 'Towa's
Fence Post Problem" The only solution
he said. was to continue the use OF the
wooden post. and he believed every farmer
and fruit grower ought to be able to raise
lNimber SUFFICIENT to produce all the posts
needed for his land. and II he did this h'
believed that the 100000 or more sem
out Of Iowa every seven or eight years fol
posts could be kept at home. Waste land
he suggested, could be utilized with goot
profit for raising timber such as would h
suited for posts.
z. Kretchmer Of this city read an inter
esting paper on the advantage Of fruit
growers keeping bees as a side but proht
able issue. They would find that not onll
was the apiary business one Of pleasure
but one Of profit.