The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-10-02
Meeting at Commercial Club
Rooms Was Most Enjoyable
and Beneficial
PRACTICAL ADDRESS
HUMOR PUNCTUATED
Addresses Were Also Delivered by
DR.. Granville Lowther, H. c.
Sampson, Of National Apple
Show, and H. M. Gilbert

Show, and H. M. Gilbert
Through the courtesy and Initiative
of the Yakima Commercial club the
fruit growers of the Yakima valley
were given the opportunity FRIDAY
of listening to a number OF ao-
dresses on the subject of Cooper
ation," which, it is confidently pc
lieved, will have marked effect en-
the method of doing business in TINS
region The main assembly room was
comfortably filled when c. G. Ware,
secretary of the club, called the meet
ing to order and made few remarks
a sto the objects in view, after which
he introduced w. p. Sawyer as
chairman of the evening.
Mr.. Sawyer, being a big orchardist
and farmer, mentioned some of the
difficulties experienced in organizing
people of his class so they would
be In position to protect their own
interests He put 1t in a nutshell
with the statement that the fruit
growers would have an absolute
cinch if they would only organize.
There was a time," he said, when
1t was considered that competition
was the life of trade. That time has
passed. 1t is nearly impossible for
the individual grower to make sue
cess, but by cooperation all will be
benefited, the consumer as well as the
seller. We should be glad to have
this opportunity of being able to lis
ten to people who are practical. and
know whereof they speak.
I'VE must get together or we al e
going to run into snas, as we have al
ready DONE"
\. Senator w. III. Paulhamus
The chairman then introduced
Senator w. H. Paulhamus, of sum-
nor. or rather. Of the Puyallup valley
The entleman Is so well known here
both personally and by reputation
that It almost seemed as though he
were from the Yakima country. He
gave an address that was 81 full OF
practical ideas and suggestions tina.
everyone present listened with marked
attention, particularly as his remarks
were interspersed with a dry humor
that was irresistible.
The speaker referred in most com
plimentary terms to the State fair
now In progress, particularly in regard
to the exhibition of Holsteln cattle,
and as he is Judge of livestock as
well as of fruits, his complimentary
remarks were received with more
than the accustomed gravity.
~ learned something today" he
said. Then he told a story with a
moral, as. follows:
30 few days ago an agent tried to
sell me a separator. l told him l had
no use FOR 1t, as / sold by milk in
bul,1 to the creamery. He went on
To- explain how the most successful
dairymen Of the world We're using
separators and feeding the refuse
milk back to the cows with theif
chopped feed, in order to have bal
anced ration, thus enabling the COW
ito produce more milk. L was pleased
to notice today, while rid az out
through some of the orchards of the
valley, that the orchardists of this
region have already grasped that idea
In regard to their fruit trees and
are putting it into practice. They
are allowing peaches and apples 70
rot under the trees, thus using them
as fertilizer, in order that they will
be enabled to grow more fruit next
year" The point was so plain thar
1t brought fort ha flood of laughter.
Ten years ago, in an address to
the horticultural union, the speak ef
had pointed out that the fruit grow
or must not depend on the little man
VINO came around every season with
his lead pencil and figured out the
g., ~, tsu
pend on the outsider to fix prices"
he said.
II cannot tell You what to dol
can tell you what we have done" He
then told of few of the wonders
that had been accomplished in the
Puyallup valley, where conditions
We're worse than they are here, for
their output is largely berries, more
perishable ana must be FASTENED to
market more quickly than the peaches
and apples of this region. Some of
his facts and figures may be sum-
married..
The Puyallup Valley Fruitgrowers'
association was organized five years
ago with less than 100 members, hav-
Ing nine directors, each of whom
wanted to be president and to run
things himself. Its capital stock Is
$4,000. Its membership has grown
10 1900. and the fact that it has sue
seeded in getting $4,000 in debt is
1 sign that it is in good shape and is
doing business. That debt will not
look to be so large when it is known
hat the members of the association
Ire the principal creditors.
Prior to organization the growers
received 40. so and 60 cents per crate
Tor their barries. They have been
able to add 81 per crate to the figures
and now receive $1.40. $3.50 and
$3.50 per crate. The growers fix the
prize, not the buyers. They are en-
Rbled to do this on account of own
Ing a cannery of their own. At the
end of the first year OF the operation
of the cannery 1t had gone behind
t2,S00, and the directors had TO come
to its help. That capnery plant today
is worth s25o,000, and covers three
and a quarter acres of ground space
Its output this season of blackberries
in gallon cans was 100 carloads.
The membership of the association