The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-10-25
Ontario Has Thirty-Six Cooper.
alive Associations of
Various Sorts
MANY ARE UNITED IN BIG
FEDERATION BUY SUPPLIES
Most of Them Pay Managers a
Commission on Each Package,
Though a Few Give Salary of
From ST, 900 to 81, 500

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getting together the Canadian grow
ers into big cooperative society,
seems to have been synthetic, as OPP
posed to the Yakima valley method
which was rather analytic. Here, a
larger union was formed which pro-
ceeded to establish sub-unions as well
as take in the existing ones. There
the small unions, district affairs, We're
established first, and later were fed
Grated into what is now known as the
Cooperative Fruit Growers of On
tario. This federation which was Or
ganzed six years ago. primarily to
discuss forms of organization and
means of securing a higher grade Of
fruit, more uniform distribution Of
the crops and to keep the associations
in touch with the prices in home and
export markets, does not itself mar
ket the fruit of it's members.
Weekly Reports
Its secretary does send reports to
the associations, telling of the con-
ditions in other fruit sections, prices
offered, quality of fruit and other per-
tinent facts. Before the apple asso-
Citations make sales in the fall, a
meeting of the federation is held at
which a range of prices as basis of
sales is suggested. This is adhered to
as nearly as market conditions will
permit. An annual fee of IS is char
ged each association. .....
Uniform Pack.
The federation effects it's greatest
work in establishing a uniform pack
and grade, and in the purchase of
bulk and selling for only a small in
crease, it has been able, not only to
put materials into the growers hands
cheaper than before, but it has been
able to prevent extraordinarily high
prices for supplies being charged by
Canadian manufacturers. In one case
81. GATHERINGS concern was brought
to time, by the federation making
wholesale purchases in the United
States.
Cooperative Intent.
There are SO so-called cooperative
fruit associations in Ontario which
may be divided into three classes, as
apple associations, general fruit as
sociations dealing in apples, pears,
plums, peaches, cherries and berries;
and small fruit associations, engaged
chiefly in shipping berries to home
markets. Nearly all the small fruit
and some Of the general fruit assoc
Citations are rather loosely organized.
but truly cooperating, says Felix S
S. johnson, American consul at King
stan, Ont, in q letter to the Consular
Report. The others have all organ
lied with cooperative intent but in
some instances have fallen short of
their ideal through lack of knowledge.
Apple Shipping Affair
The Forest Fruit Growers assoc
citation, for instance, is an apple
shipping affair. 1t has no share capt
tai and the deposits of buyers are de-
pended on for the working capital. 1t
rents a shed and packs most of the
apples in this shed. Sales are made
fob and each buyer is required to
pay into the bank a certain percent
age of the price before the fruit is
shipped, and the remainder within n
certain number of days The society
then pays to each member certain
price per barrel reserving little
more than sufficient to pay expenses.
At the annual meeting all remaining
moneys are paid back to the growers.
according to the business done by the
society. The only person who is paid,
besides necessary employees, Is the
secretary manager, who receives a
commission Of cents a barrel on the
total pack. The average annual pack
is about 1000 barrels.
Is Stock Company
The Oshawa Fruit Growers asso-
citation, on the contrary. is stock
company which charges so much per
barrel for handling through the
packing house. Revenues from
charges for the use of the packing
house are used to provide sum out
of which to pay expenses and also a
fixed dividend of per cent on the
stock. The society proper is coop
erative and does not differ essentially
in its workings from the Forest as
ISOLATION, except that sales are made
largely by consignment
Like Horticultural Union
The st. GATHERINGS Cold Storage
company. organized in 1896. with it's
$4,000 artificial ice plant, is prob
ably the best equipped financially to
do business and follows a plan SINH
lar to that employed by the Yakima
County Horticultural union. In 1909
this organization sold $4,000 worth
of supplies.
Directors Work Gratis
All of the associations have prac-
tically the same arrangements for
government of the societies, that is,
a president, vice president, a secre-
tary, who IL usually manage IA
treasurer and board of directors.
Expenses are met by d straight
charge per package. Although direc-
tors usually work gratis. some socie-
ties allow 81 to $3.50 aud mileage for
each meeting held, The president
usually works without pay, but some
times is allowed from $40 to $40 a
year. ono association wlth 4li QUE