The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-01-06
ASSIST THE GROWERS TO SELL
Organization Will Start Fourth Year With
Strong Protective Association-Cal-
ifornia System Initiated


longer limit its scope to the display anc
exploitation Of the apple-growing indus
try. In addition to the other feature:
which have contributed to its success
the big organization enters on its fourth
year with strong auxiliary protective
association, which will aim to assist
orchardists throughout the Northwest in
obtaining the very best price the mar
ket affords.
Profting by the satisfactory expert
ence of Southern California citrus fruit
growers, many Oregon and Washington
fruit growers have banded themselves
together for mutual protection in an
organization known as the Northwestern
Fruit Growers Exchange, with head
quarters in Portland. This organization
has accomplished such tangible results
in behalf OF the individual grower, it is
now proposed to widen its influence
thru the aid of the national apple show.
One of the trustees of the apple show
will suggest at the annual meeting in
January that an auxiliary organization
be established, to be known as the Ma
tional Apple Exchange or the National
Apple Show Information Bureau. 1t
will be the aim of this organization to
keep growers posted as to market con-
ditions turnout the world; to help them
maintain and get the best possible
prices; to eliminate competition, and
to prevent the Cutting of the market
by keeping the fruit moving to centers
where the supply is never in excess of
the demand.
The proposed organization will prob
ably be patterned after the California
system, in which the directorate Of the
parent organization is selected from the
individual associations, and its higher
officers are named in the same manner.
The organization will be strictly pro-
tective, and no attempt will be made to
manipulate the market at any time. AS
the interested trustee put it, it will be
the sole aim Of the organization, backed
up by the national apple show, to see
growers get their just deserts and are
not wheedled out of their legitimate
profits by designing buyers who are
constantly trying to depress prices,
whether warranted by the conditions or
not.
The original aim of the national
apple show said the trustee, was to
exploit and help develop the apple
growing industry to the utmost. I see
no reason why the apple show may not
consistently aim to make apple culture
profitable as possible by keeping grow
ers thoroly posted as to market condi-
tons at all seasons of the year."
For many years the orange industry
of California was confined to supplying
local markets, and it was only after the
growers effected organization and ele-
waited the industry to a standard capable
of producing revenue, and mapped out
plans to invade foreign markets, that it
became one of the Golden states great
sources.
Under the California system the
small grower has as much voice as the
man of great acreage, and his fruit goes
hand in hand with his competitors to
the markets of the world. The associ-
alton maintains agents in every city in
the United States and many foreign
centers. Sales are made through these
agencies, the product being supplied
on Geographic advice.
Among the great things accomplished
by the association, aside from establish
ing uniform grades for fruit and gaining
control of the markets, is the adjust
mentof railroad conditions that guaran-
tee fair profit to the grower. All fruit
is gathered and delivered to the local
packing house, weighed, sorted, graded,
packed and prepared for shipment. The
parent organization keeps its finger on
the pulse of the market, and the fruit
is distributed to the four corners of the
world!
Each contributor of fruit is entitled
to ship under his individual label, thus
preserving the identity of his product.
Payment is made on poundage basis.
The final settlement is made from the
profits after expenses are paid.