The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-12-16

spread to adjoining orchards, or
the principal that no man has 9
right to harbor or allow a nuisance
or pest which will ruin or injure
his neighbours property.
These three are most important
and should command first attention
but | believe that we should have:
Fourth. Reasonable inspection in
the public markets of the state by in
telligeht, bonded and responsible in.
spectors, with the one object of pre-
venting the spread of pests and dis
ease where they will damage oui
fruit industry, with the provision,
however. that fruit suitable for vim
egar factories and canneries may be
transported under careful regula-
tions and conditions, insuring against
the spread of any contagious disease
and with the further provision that
fruit of commercial value may be
shipped after fumigation or under
conditions insuring against the
spread of any dangerous disease,
but carefully and plainly stamped
Second Grade"
Competent Attorney to Draw Con-
stitutional Law.
When this convention has united
on the main points the orchardists
wish embodied in state law, I be-
lieve we should authorize our COM
mittee on legislation to employ the
most competent attorney available,
and have him draw the law, en-
bodying our best judgment and sure
ly along lines that will be constitu-
tional and enforcible.
Protest Against Changing Standard
Box.
Another matter of less Importance,
perhaps, but one requiring prompt
and energetic action, is the proposed
change in the size of our apple box,
which change will surely be made
this winter unless we make vigorous
protest. This change will upset all
our rules for grading, and confuse
the terms of purchase and sale, with
which We have become familiar. A
uniform box is greatly to be desired ;
probably also uniform barrel. For
one, l am willing to let the barrel
men make the barrel any size they
desire. but I don't want the barrel
men to dictate to us the size of our
box. The ratio between the bar
rel and the box is of no consequence.
and in any event, l see no reason
why the barrel men should call our
box Dishonest Bushel." All we
claim for our box is that it is a full
bushel. and contains more cubic
inches than the Standard or Win
chester bushel.
The Heapesl-up Busliel Rubber
Yard Tape.
There may have been a time when
the "heaped-up'' bushel was a more
convenient measure ! remember
the ''heaped-up" bushel of New York
apples we used to buy in Illinois.
A few nice apples on the bottom of
the barrel. two layers on top and a
heap of culls between. | believe we
would have been treated better if
they had left out the cheap" and
given us an honest bushel of honest
apples in an honest Washington
bushel box. A heaped-up bushel is
no more honest than a rubber yard
tape. Our veteran orchardist, Mr..
Walden, with the most lucid pen in
the state of Washington. will discuss
this question, when l trust our del
egates will see their way clearly to
unite in demand for a uniform
national apple Oox-an honest
Standard Winchester bushel. just
about the size of the present Stand
ard Washington apple box
Fruit Express Trains Necessity.
Another question of supreme i'm
portance is the transportation prob
lem. The necessity of our orchard
lists is a more rapid service fruit ex-
press trains. Fourteen days to New
York, ten to twelve days to Chicago.
eight days to st. Paul. an average of
less than ten miles an hour: is it
any wonder our Bartletts often ar
rive "over-ripe," our peaches 'soft
and decaying." our plums and prunes
"moldy?" All these fruits we have
to pick too green.
Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars Per-
Car Freight.
We pay four hundred and fifty
dollars per car to ship car of Bart
let's to New York City. We pay
for good service. Owing to the long
time in transit we have to pack them
two-thirds grown and green. Is it
any wonder the California Bartletts,
only eight days in transit. picked
when full size and transported in
half the time, outsell ours?
We pay three hundred and fifty
dollars to ship car of peaches TO
Chicago. With an average yield next
year North Yakima will furnish
thirty carloads of peaches per day
for fifteen days. ten thousand dol
lars per day for freight earnings on
peaches from a single section. We
can furnish them in train loads from
any of our valleys. Why should we
not have fruit express trains? Do
the railroads really want to ruin
the peach industry? Surely not.
say to the railroads: Give us daily
fruit express trains. Make the time
three days from Spokane to st. Paul
four days to Chicago. five days to
New York. and your treasury will
fill while you do simple justice to the
greatest peach growing section in the
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