The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-02-08

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large as it will be in a few years.
If New York had bought the Bart
let's they needed; if Chicago and
all other marle had put this
money into onr Bartletts, none OF
those markets would have been
over supplied. Why should we
furnish The frnits for the eastern
auction merchants to gamble with
But remember. they cannot do
otherwise, until you and I. shippers
and grower, stop consigning
The remedy, and the only possible
one, is with us. If the Louisiana
lottery of fruit gambling is to be
stopf, it must be stopt by US.
The annual situation in canta-
loupes illustrates more simply. We
in Yakima cannot sell {. O. b. or
contr oil markets. because Wenatchee
consigns. Wenatchee cannot sell
f. O. b. or control markets because
we consign. What is the remedy !?
My belief is, sell " hat you can +.
o. b. and make the rest into pork
If YOU at Wenatchee will do this
we will. And | don't know but We
will practice this theory whether
yon do or not. For we will thus
save onr crates and freight. And
if you consign, YOU will lose your
crates and freight, and furnish a
free feed for the fish in the bay,
and then You will have to pay
freight on the fish back to Wen
atchee.
Now I repeat the only ones who
can remedy this situation are tie
growers and shippers who consign.
If we consign three cars to Seattle
when they can only use Que, the
Seattle dealers are powerless to help
US. We can condemn them to per-
dition; swear they steal and lie, but
the simple fact is, the growers and
shippers have made, mistake.
Now the automatic self-ac ing way
# CO. recting this is to ship only
what you can sell at all f. O. b
price. Nor can we ask the dealers
in any market to buy until we all
ofa ctlly ,,up consi, n nx to that
market 1t Seattle dea ers know
e M, cons,gn car or two of
:dntalo pes any day from the Yaki-
ia valley, Seattle dealers will not
buy a car from Wenatchee. l
know of no authority or agreement
that can compel growers not to con-
sign. But I believe the almost
universal average experience of
growers and shippers is that the
consignment method is a failure.
And l plead with you all to act on
ttis experience. No man is foolish
but him who confines making the
same old mistake.
do not believe in any grand H.
legal merger or impossible trust of
all the fruit growers and shippers
of the northwest will solve this
problem. Doubtless the Hood
River plan of grading and selling
which has been so successful, can
and will be copied in otner districts
SO far as our extra fancy export
apples and perhaps all apes are
concerned, tut l do not believe we
can use that system on our compli-
Gated peach, pear and MKT fruit
proposition. and probably it would
be too expensive tor our medium
varieties of apples. The individ-
ual grower, the local union, the
local shipper. must insist on uni
form aud reliable grades. BY a
careful system of inspection we
have had very little complaint in
handling 10000 boxes of apples
this past season, and many cars of
peaches. l do not recollect single
kick in shipping 5000 boxes of all
kinds of peaches from my own or
chard.
l wourd urge then that each aud
every grower either personally or
thru his union irsist that his frui.
be sold f o. b. shipping point. : If
his hrand n, the u,,;o,, brooI :.yA