The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-01-01

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The Washington State Horticultural
Association will hold it's third annual
convention at Everett January IA,
Is and 16 next. 1t is unfortunate that
this association and the Northwest
Fruit Growers Association, which
meets in Seattle should hold conven-
lions the same week. This arrange
ment was no doubt made so the FRUIT
men could attend both conventions
without in most cases making TWO
trips. There is quite an advantage
in this. but as the conventions lap on
to each other and both will be IN
session on January 16 and thirty miles
apart, it will be impossible for any
one to attend all the sessions OF each
Some of us will have to deny ourselves
the pleasure and profit OF attending
the meetings at Everett. The writer
would like to attend both conventions
but as the Northwest fruit growers
convention is to be held in the city
where he lives he feels he must re-
main at home to give the glad hand
to the brethren from the other states
and the British province.
Fruit Growing in Washington is
the title of the report OF the second
annual convention of the washington
State Horticultural Association, held
at North Yakima, January gil, 1916
This report is made up of the papers
and addresses given at the last year
convention and the discussions that
followed AS any one might suppose,
these papers and discussions give the
experience of men who are IN the
business of fruit growing. That is
our most valuable source of lnforma-
ton. What one man has done an
other can do under like conditions.
So one mans successes or failures
help another man TO make like sue
cess or to avoid that which caused
failure.
The report under consideration is
good one and we'll gotten out. Some
of the stenographic reports of dis
cussions are quite faulty in that there
are serious errors. Such things are
perhaps unavoidable. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that nearly year elapsed
before the report was brought out.
presume that the secretay did the
hest that he could. He was limited
in funds and had to secure advertise
ments to pay for the work OF printing
the report. We ought to make some
ARRANGEMENT by which our reports OF
this society. which meets in January
could be brought out before spring
work begins in the orchards. Many
a man would be helped by the sug,
eestions in the various papers ana
discussions. We like to have such
things before they become stale with
age.
Some of the chunks of wisdom that
we occasionally see in the leading
daily papers when they undertake 10
write on fruit growing are certainly
anoucino Recently | read one OF these