Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-16

markets. v4n will Tfexer aehseye# success
As long as a number Of Different organ
cations are IN the aeid fFoikhg lhae
pendentlY. you viii always BE- Wofklh
at cross purposes and tue results ar
sure to be disastrous. Your own cnn1pe
tition will Kill the price of your product
and this is entirely to your own diSad
vantage with no corresponding adVan
Itaea 10 the people who hHy ard handle
your products. as OWING 70 inns coiapeu'
tor there is always uncertainty IN re
gard to cost OF goods Delivered ana eaci
dealer il afraid that his competitor WI
be able to get the same goods tor less
money. and is therefore, unwilling &c
take hold and push the business as il
should be
Cooperation Necessary
A sarcastic old farmer once remarked
that thc reason farmers did not co
operate more was that there were too
mahy of them who would rather lose
dollar than to see another make two.
will be impossible for growers to reaiiz
in the greater distributing centres. a
they otherwise might until their repre-
sentatives follow the crop to its tina
destinations The yearly loss to Main
orchardsts resulting from lack of at
tentiou TO just protection in disposal
their fruit reaches hundreds OF thous
ands of dollars and Will continue unit
practical cooperation becomes an aetua
fact.
The growing consciousness that by ant
through such organized bodies the futur'
sIDDlp grower must unite To compete Will
his western competitor. now so thor
euglly organized. places this problem
before this society as one of paramount
importance. If the New England grove
is consef vative, and tenacious of wha
he terms individual rights. that conser
Yatism must be disturbed; if he IS, be
cause Of the experience of the past, snS
picious Of others that suspicion mus
give way to confidence; If habit has es
tablished method of disposal OF NJ
fruit product that habit must be broker
l.. .FlNNn fsg,f4 Gf o nd
practices now recognized as absolutely
Industrial life.
+ The individual unit must be lost in the
chain of corporate power, one man can
handle the product of thousand or
chards a less expense. and insure a
better price, than one thousand men con-
tending with each other in the market
The sudden severe drop IN price sep
TENDER Il to Is told simply of the indis-
eliminate erowding upon the market OF
stock good. bad and Indifferent By grow
ers from every portion of New England
A we'll organized association would have
divided and diverted shipments and pre-
vented that gIut SO welcomed by the
commission dealers at the great centres
1t WIS not the result of heavy crop but
of bad business methods in handling
brought to see the Importance of or
ganizing for protection, and this CAM
paign of education lies legitimately in
the path of this State Pomologica
ting and care of new orchards the bur
den of obligation is in line of protection
lof those now planted and the best posi-
BILE disposal of the yearly product. Be
cause OF neglect of good orchard princi-
pies there is a tremendous loss to grow
ers. not necessary. but resulting from
causes which easily might be remedied.
Too many take counsel of their fears
rather than their Judgment. Reports
of the Department of Agriculture show
that in the face of a rapidly increasing
demand owing the growth in nOnTla-
ton, the annual production of apples in
the United States actually decreased
more than 13S, coo. 900 bushels between 1895
and 1908, during which period our popu-
lation increased fully 10000 900. In 1895
the yield of apples i'll this country was
50, 453 600 barrels and in 1910 only 24.000000
In view of these facts the fear of over
production may well be discarded.
No Get Rich Quick Scheme.
At the same time because of the claims
made by certain newspapers and maga-
zine writer's 1t will be necessary to hold
aa ~ far hot