The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-26

picking and delivering your peaches
and other soft fruits, he cannot con-
tract for sales ahead or do more than
distribute your fruits to the best
markets at that time. If a large ma
jority of the Wenatchee Valley dis
trict will act in unison along this
line, the outcome will be of ajvan-
tage to all. But if not, it may be
then better. in handling the summer
fruit, to utilize our warehouses only
as loading and shipping stations, and
let each grower ship and sell his
fruit when and to whom he will un-
til, through dearly bought expert
ence, he learns that his only saliva
ton is to cooperate with his fellow
growers.
1t must not be assumed, nor ex-
pected, but that sometimes individu-
al growers will receive higher price
than can be obtained through CO.
operative effort, but these will be ex-
ceptional cases, and should not dis
courage the general movement.
Winter Apples.
1t is a much easier plan to handle
winter apples, and the plan, as car
ried out both in 1907 and last sea-
son has been highly successful.
Three hundred carloads of this class
of fruit was placed on the market by
your association the last season, at
prices averaging higher per box for
other sections obtained. True it is
that apple prices have been advanc-
ing and the prices now are higher
than they were at packing time, but
our products must be shipped and
sold in season, and when the sales
were made your apples were sold at
the highest figures. Later in the
season, some growers outside of
this association consigned their
fruit, and may have received in some
cases better returns, but the con-
signing proposition has been tried
out time and again, and it only OPP
crates in placing one grower of fruit
/ in direct competition with that of
his neighbor on the same market. If
satisfactory prices cannot be obtained
1 f. o. b. for our apples at shipping
point, and there is an indication of
a combination among buyers, to
bear the market, our, apples can be
placed in cold storage, some locally,
some in Chicago, and some in New
York, directly under the control
and management of your associa-
ton and sold from these points later
on.
Your association is strong enough
to manage it's own business and force
buyers to pay fair price for that
which you will have to sell.
Goods from New York can be
placed on the English market quick
ly, and for this market, it would
seem that it would be better to store
in New York under conditions of
this kind, than to ship directly
abroad AMI store them, so that by
storing in the three places mention
ed, all markets could be reached ex-
peditiously. Arrangements can be
made at all of these places for cash
advance of about IS per cent upon
the apples in storage, and this money
can be distributed proportionately tc
the growers.
In the sale of your apples this
year all of your directors, who, hat
placed their apples in the pool, me-
together Immediately after the meet
ing of growers, held in the Wenat
chez warehouse on the 2Sth of Sep
TENDER. These directors, after 1ut
consideration and consultation es
tablished a price at which each va
riety of apples should be offered TO
sale, and authorized the manage
ment to negotiate with buyers TO
the sale of the fruit at as nearl,
such prices as it was possible to OBJ
tain.
!. Mr.. Turner spent his whole time
while such negotiations were on tn
way, in conjunction with the manage
ment of the association in maxim.
the sale.
The following letters indicate wha
is thought of our apples by buyer
who have become acquainted witt
them.
Packing and Grading.
In establishing packing and grad
ing rules for the past season mucl
thought and time were exercised an,
spent upon the subject
A draft of these rules was mad