The San Francisco call., 1910-12-08

s. ner car in the average gross
sale in the four principal markets
Boston, New y ork, Philadelphia and
we shipped from Monterey six
cars of pears, the gross of which
amounted to S10,600. We consider
this a remarkable sale, especially
from the fact that these pears were
mostly Bourre Ciairgeau and some
Winter Nellis, and most of these
cars contained good many half
boxes
From the Paradise fruit growers
union of Paradise, in Butte county,
we handled the entire shipment of
that union, or seven cars of pears.
All of these were Bartletts and
sold at private sale, netting the
grower Sl.52 y a box.
J. p. Dargitz, formerly of Acampo
but now located at Sacramento, render
ed report on the California almond
growers exchange. He said that the
almond crop in California this year was
the largest ever produced, and that the
growers by cooperating have realized
profits amounting from 500, 600 to
100000. All the unsold portion of the
1910 crop is in the hands of the ex-
change.
FREIGHT RATES UNEQUAL
Isadore Jacobs of San Francisco, an
authority on the fruit industry in Cali
fornia discussed the matter of freight
rates, declaring it TO be one of the most
important before the growers. He said
that the fruit men should exert every
effort TO secure an adjustment of rates
so IS TO be able to reach San Fran
CISCO San Pedro and Los Angeles in
order to ship their fruit to the old
world.
President Jeffrey appointed the fol-
lowing committee on resolutions:
Marshall De Mott Corning: George
D. Kellogg, Newcastle; Henry Thonip-
son, Lodi; George II. Cutler. Sacra-
mento; e. o. Essig, Santa Paula.
A. A. Martin of Sacramento addressed
the convention relative to the citrus
fair to be held at Sacramento next Fri
day in conjunction with the National
convention of the fruit jobbers' asso-
citation.
OUTLOOK FOR VINEYARDS
NJ. Z. Angler was not able to attend,
and the subject, The Table Grape In
dustry and Its Present Outlook,55 was
Diseased by T. 3. Mills of Lodi. He
said that the table grape industry had
grown to SUCH magnitude as to attract
the attention of the world. So rapid
had been its development, he said, that
it was more like a revolution than evo-
luton.
He traced the growth of the Industry
from a few scattering shipments, when
transportation was crude, to the pres
ent day. and said that the growers
faced the problem of production which
had caught up with consumption and
threatened to outrun it. Even this year
hundreds of cars of the best grapes sold
at a loss to the growers.
Mills took UP the matter of competi-
ton from Spain and said that Almeria
gapes were kept in storage and sold at
fancy figures in the east after the tokay
season had closed. The number of bar
rels of Spanish grapes, he showed, was
479, no. which brought $2.39S,550
He described the overproduction of
table grapes as a grave menace, and
said that the question of disposal was
worthy of more serious consideration.
There were two outlets for table grapes,
he said-eastern shipments and the
winery, and the wine market, was hold
ing out better prices for the grower
than in many years. The widening of
the eastern market and the curtailment
of shipments he believed the only solu-
tion of the problem.
Frank SWEET of Martinez read a paper
on The Tokay from Cutting to Table,
He discussed certain methods of cut
ting and cultivation, stating that some
of the best prices were brought by to-
kays grown on irrigated soil.