The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-28
N. ?. +. D. WILL
HANDLE SPUDS
IUBER GRADES WILL BE MADE
Thousands of Car Loads Will Be Shipped
Local Pear Crop Will Be Small
er Than Usual

er Than Usual
| Although it was at first thought hv
the management of the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors that the potato crop
IN the districts in which the central
agency has affiliated growers associa-
tons would not be handled through the
same channels of the organization as
the apple crop, the Idaho growers, ac-
cordlng TO Wilmer Sieg, sales manager
OF the Distributors with Headquarters
here, have forced the handling of the
potato crop on the Distributors. At
Pocateilo. Idaho, on Saturday, August
81, potato sHb-eentral of the organ.
ization will be formed, and the grading
and packing rules of the season will be
formed. Three thousand carloads of
tubers are assured the Distributors
from the Idaho districts and more than
200 from Montana.
In addition the Distributors will han
die the crop from any Oregon and
| Washington district. Hood River pro-
duced potatoes by the thousands of
bushels last year, and potatoes NAV be
seen rotting in all sections of the val.
ley at the present time on account of
the surplus stock produced in all parts
OF the country. However, many grow
ers have planted this crop on their new
land this year and all are looking for
ward to good harvest. 1.-The potatoes
from these sections have been going
INTO Texas and other southwestern
states, says Mr.. Sieg, land the man
agement of the Distributors feels that
the handling of the product can be put
INTO the hands of capable potato men
and the marketing worked out to the |
success of the growers as we'll as the |
central agency. 1t will give us
greater income with practically no
more expense.
A statement just issued by ]. II.
Robbins. manager of the Distributors.
to the sub-central and local offices, is
as follows:
). u. Mcpherson, the present state
horticultural commissioner of Idaho
has been employed as general superin-
tendent of all field operations, and he
will be assisted by inspectors working
under his direction, and under the same
rigid rules that now govern the inspec-
ton and handling of fruit. This de-
partment will give its time exclusively
TO the business of potatoes, and outside I
OIL the superintendent, inspectors and
experience and capable potato statesmen
we are now employing, will require no
additional overhead expense in the hand
ling of potatoes.
South Idaho now maintain high
great and pack on potatoes because po-
tato growing there in many places is
an exclusive and serious business. For
this reason and because the season is
too far advanced to call and meeting of
growers from the four states, the Dis !
trlbutors will accept for 1918 the rule
1f grade and pack which are adopted
At the PocatellO meeting.
please note that il will be neces-
iary for each local union to execute a
separate contract with potato growers.
the present fruit contract, bv b
hanging of few words, and be made S
% serve the purpose of this potato con, G
ract. Please not further that posi- h
lively, unless these potatoes are signed b
lnder contract as is the case at present c,
With fruit. the Distributors will not c
Iandle them. "
We urge that these contracts with oI
'otato growers be signed as quickly as G
osble, and that the estimate of total al
onnage thus signed, should be reported b,
to the sub-centraI and by al
hem to us. In the meantime, we will
ppreclate an estimate of the tonnage ST
ach local union will probably be able p
0 sign. All these reports to us should in
nunp HITppt la fbRnpUb hn |
he charge for handling, potatoes will II
G the same per car as for fruit, ex- til
ept that no education will be made for he
dvertising." W
Several carloads of pears have al 10
9ady been shipped out from this city. st
The crop will be comparatively small be
1is year, " says MIR. Sieg. ''We will
ave no more than 10 carloads. And II
he d'Anjou crop will be the smallest II
e have ever had since our trees came
ito bearing. We will do we'll if we
mp as many as two carloads of dan
lus. "
Hood River launched its Australian
lsness Saturday, when 900 boxes of RI
ravenstelns and Kings were shipped nj
car to Vancouver, b. c., where they IN
Ill be loaded on boat for Australian th
arkets. Two thousand more boxes dr.
Ill follow on September 10. ''This is "a
cash sale, " says MIR. Sieg. ro m
We have between 10 and Is carloads ha
Kings here. says Mr.. Sieg," and tb 1'
is fruit will begin to move at once N
le growers are picking it as fast as it to m
lors. Then will come the Jonathan M,
op. We will find the best markets an an
r Jonathans, if they attain the good br,
re that the trade likes ss
Sam G. Campbell, chief inspector for
e Distributors, has just returned :
om Medford, where he has been look. HI
2 over the orchards of the Rogue Jt
yer valley. ''If man wants to see
Bartlett pear that will please bis
es because of its beauty says Mr..
mpbell, he will only have to be-
Id the Bartletts of that district. J