The newspaper., 1910-04-01
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apples on the eastern slope and in fact
all markets have been flooded with in
ferior apples. This makes it very slow
work cleaning up on storage apples.
have no doubt however that our apple
prices when made will compare favor
ably with any sales that have been
made IN Colorado.
In regard to packages used, will say
that in most of the markets we have
used the past season the trade have
preferred the old style Colorado stand
ard box and packing. We find however
that for cold storage in the eastern
markets apples wrapped and with card
board between the layers are preferred.
The carton pack. which you know we
put up as a trial, will be all right in
small way but none of the markets
where we have tried them care for
them enough to pay a premium over the
box pack. and believe it is best to con-
tinue to pack them only in a small way
each season and supply those who call
for them until they are better known,
when have no doubt they will be
popular package.
Another season believe it is advis-
able to adopt the new standard box
which is half inch shallower and three
sixteenths of an inch longer than the old
Colorado standard box This will en-
able us to use the layer pack when
necessary and will not interfere with
packing the old pack if desired.
You will notice from the prices OBJ
tanned for berries and small fruits that
it is a paying proposition to raise them
and | think it would be advisable to
raise more as they come on early in the
season when it is easy to obtain help to
handle them and gives employment to
packers who would otherwise be with
out employment until peach season.
/ recommended in my last report that
each Grower try to arrange to take
care of all the help necessary to har-
vest his crop and since last seasons
experience recommend this more
strongly as this years experience
shows conclusively that no association
can take proper care of and furnish its
members with help unless each one
makes preparations and takes care of
their help it is going to be hard another
year to get the required amount of help
much harder. believe, than ever be-
fore for the reason that the help that
came in last season were all more or
less dissatisfied. Again it is not salts
factory to the Grower who has to wait
for help to come back and forth from
town and great deal of valuable time
is lost by this moving back and forth.
The past seasons business has been
handled with much more ease than ever
before partly owing to the fact that all
with whom we did business signed up
their crops and gave in estimates early
thus enabling us to get supplies and ar
range for certain volume of fruit
ahead of time
Would recommend that this plan be
followed another year as closely as pos
sible as it is great help in handling
the crop. Our outside packing houses
also proved great help and we have
put S2975. l3 additional into permanent
Improvements the past season. making
total in buildings and tracksge
amounting to Sl2, 45l.0 and there are
still opportunities for improvements
along this line which should be made
this season and will enable us to handle
the crops tor our members to better
advantage.
Our profits the past season have not
been large as the net for this season
amounts to SS6lS.22 which is little
over seventeen per cent on the twenty
one thousand of paid up stock which we
now have issued. This would have
been more but for the fact that we
carried over large supply of boxes
from the previous year which as you
know were sold for less than they cost
us the past season, thus reducing our
merchandise profits.
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