The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-01-19
APPLE GROWERS PLAN
SELLING ASSOCIATION

Delegates from fruitgrowers associa-
tlons of the states of Oregon, Wash
lngton, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and
Utah will attend a meeting to be held
January "a to form a National apple
selling agency.
The plan was proposed by the State
horticultural Society at its meeting at
Portland last month. 1t is planned to
form corporation with sufficient cap
ital to own cold storage plants in the
various districts and larger ones at
central points in the east where the
apples may be stored and the market
readily supplied.
Hood River will send a delegation
to this meeting, but will take no active
part in the proceedings. As to the
plans of those who are pushing the
movement the Oregonian says:
IF they can control the sale of
50, 600, 900 worth of Northwest apples
in the Eastern states, advocates of the
proposed Cooperative Apple Selling
Agency Company believe that they will
eliminate all possibility Of over-pro
duction and ruinous competition.
Should this organization be perfected
at its meeting in Portland January "a,
it will be the largest fruit-selling
agency in the world Both the orange
and raisin cooperative organizations,
the success of which has been note
worthy, are smaller.
Delegates from every local associa-
tion Of fruitkrowers in the Pacific
Northwest will be urged to be present.
Acceptances have been received from
the following: Boise Valley Fruit
growers Associations, Yakima Horti-
cultural Union, Yakima Valley Fruit
growers Association, Hood Rievr
Applegrowers' Union, Weiser Fruit &
Produce Growers Association, Walla
Walla Fruitgrowers Associatino, Gold
endale Applegrowers' Union, Rogue
River Fruit & Produce Association.
shipments of apples from the
Pacific Northwest originate to large
extent from the following points:
Wenatchee, Cashmere, North Yakima,
Toppenish, Prosser, Walla WaIla and
Goidendale, in Washington: Milton,
Freewater, Hood River. Mosier, Med
ford and Ashland, in Oregon, and Pay
cite, Boise and Welser, in Idaho.
An area twice, and some estimate
three times as large as present, will
come into bearing soon. Hood River
has trebled its apple trea area the past
two years. Professor Lewis, of the
State Agricultural College, has made
the statement that there are 50,0 600
acres in the Rogue River valley plan
ted to young apple and pear trees.
There are fewer than 10000 acres now
bearing. That there are not to exceed
300 acres of commercial bearing orch
ards in Linn County, where three
firms are planting or already have
planted 5000 acres of young trees.
Other districts report similar progress.
Apprehension on the part of the
fruit growers is centered in the danger
of over production and reckless dump
ing Of huge quantities on the market
for the benefit of spectators, who will
have facilities to store the surplus.
1t is said that many of the apple
growers last season did not realize rs
cents a box f. o. b. for their market
able apples in the Eastern markets.
1t is this condition which it is proposed
to remedy and also to protect the apple
grower against the large increase in
amount of salable apples which must
| find a market in the next few years.
| 1t is estimated that the number of new
trees, bearing apples, which will come
into bearing this year, is as large as
the entire number of trees which bore
| last year. -