The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-10-02
Saving the Waste


We must have canneries, evaporators,
cider presses. vinegar factories, and
facilities for the manufacture of jams,
jellies, buffers. pickles, etc.
Mr.. Fairchild today called my at
tention to an experience he had in a
mining district, where the food sub
stances contained an undue proper
ton of fats and some one shipped in
spiced pears, and the miners We're
ravenous for them. 1t furnished the
acid necessary to make balanced
food ration. For these products, the
managers of the organization could
find a market as we'll as for the green
fruits.
Mr.. Paulhamus has demonstrated
that it is possible to start in a small
way, without a large amount of capt.
tai at first, and put the profits of the
business into enlargements, until such
time as it meets the requirements o.
the organization.
Can 1t Be Financed?
l think there is no question about
1t; if enough men of responsibility
take hold of it. Certainly they can
figure out some way to do it, | have
been told that the banks consider the
fruit business less secure than other
industries, such as wheat and corn
and that they are very conservative
about lending on such security
We do not blame the banks FOR
conservatism in this matter for they
are handling trust funds, and are
hedged about with laws. l have gem
orally found the banks ready to ex-
tend credit to their patrons where
they could do SO safely under the
laws of banking institutions. But
farmers who leave their fruit rotting
on the grounds are not very good
risks and the promise to do better in
the future may have to be demon
strated in order to establish credit.
How They Could Finance Themselves
In Europe, and in parts of the
United States, the farmers in many
sections have financed themselves
They do this by organizing cooper
alive associations for buying and SELL
ing. They have cooperative stores
cooperative banks, and cooperative
marketing. They take the money that
they would ordinarily deposit in the
other banks and establish a credit Of
their own, and while there have been
few failures through mismanage-
ment, the percentage of failures is
not nearly so great, as with COM
petitive institutions. i#t7t4
Suppose 800 fruit growers should
organize a small banking institution
and the average deposit were $500.
there would be enough to install some
of the things we need, besides, We
could help our brother farmers, with
lonas, on conditions similar to those
they now get, and our security be
better than it Is possible for the bank
as ordinarily conducted; because his
fruit is signed up to be delivered to
the association, which is also the Dor
rower's banker.
Whether this be considered wise
or unwise under conditions that sur
round us here, it ought to be possible
for intelligent, Industrious and honest
farmers to get the credit they need
to establish whatever is necessary Cor
their permanent success.
Cooperation of Organizations
1t seems to me there might be
worked out plan by means of which
organizations tina. have been Compel
ing in the past might preserve their
identity, and still cooperate for GER
tain things. For instance, the buyers,
the commission men, the selling
agencies, the horticultural union, and
the association, are all interested in
the permanent success of the fruit
industry of this country. 'a
They want to improve the roads
and build up the town. They may
anf lA TIT a..
izing the waste products, but they are
all Interested They are all interest
ed in the gathering of statistics.
These statistics should not be the
property of one firm or one organi-
cation, but should be the property of
the public and published in the daily
papers, the same as the prices Of
wheat, corn, oats or stocks on the
stock exchange.
They would not come with the
same degree of accuracy as the COM
modities named, because not gath
cred from so wide a field, nor in so
scientific manner, but they would
eliminate a large element of uncer-
tainty that now attends the business
and every farmer could have all the
information that the buyers have and
determine what he wants to do in the
light of all the information obtain
able.
All are interested more or less in
cold storage problems. Then there is
legislation. transportation, and a uni
form pack, all questions that affect us
mutually. Now, if there could be mu-
tual action on question in which we
are mutually concerned, it would be
a step forward. / know this is diff
ficult, because you have been fight
ing each other and perhaps you saw
no other law of self-preservation But
now it seems to be the law of self
preservation is the preservation of
others as well as ourselves and the
Kilkinny cat fight should come to an
end
S. c. Sampson, vice president and
general manager of the National APP
Pile show, and M. H. Gilbert delivered
brief speeches, full of suggestions APP
propriate to the occasion.
The speeches were of such an edu-
cational value that much practical
good is certain to result.