The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-04-08
CAMPBELL WARNS
APPLE GROWERS
GRADING MUST BE MAINTAINED
Distributors Chief Inspector, After Spend.
ing the Winter in Gateway Cities,
Makes Shipping Suggestions

Some Of the important incidental
causes for the low prices received by
northwestern apple growers this year
which the growers themselves can and
should correct in the future, viewed
from the standpoint of a man whose
duty il. has been to inspect shipments
at the principal gateways to the east,
were given by Sam G. Campbell, OF
Hood River, upon his return from
Omaha recently.
MIR. Campbell is chief inspector for
the North Pacific Fruit Distributors
and his headquarters had been in
Omaha since the commencement of the
1914 shipping season. A part of that
time he spent in Kansas City and trav-
cling throughout Iowa, Nebraska and
Kansas. Besides inspecting the fruit
which passed through the Omaha and
Kansas City gateways, he was in
charge of the apples stored by the Dis
tributors at those places. Being a
grower himself, his observations were
put in the form of constructive advice
10 the growers.
Large apples from young trees, no
matter what variety, should not be In
cluded in the same shipment with those
from older trees, because they do not
keep as we'll and the result usually 10
that when the car is inspected upon
arrival at the market the buyer finds
the apples from the young trees going
to pieces or beginning TO do SO and
bases his price for the whole car on
them," stated MIR. Campbell. THE
best way for the grower to avoid
trouble is, in picking, to keep the large
apples from the young trees entirely
separate from those grown on the older
trees. he should never pack them in
the same boxes, and should keep the
boxes separate.
Moreover, the grower. in packing,
should in every case-no exceptions
eliminate all of the apples which he
finds bruised or defective, because the
, fellow at the other end knows just as
! well what constitutes good fruit 40 the
,, grower does, and, the way the luck
seems to run, the buyer, in inspecting
car, is more often liable to open q
bad box than a good one, and the price
for the good stock suffers in eonse-
quence. This. to my knowledge, hap
pened many times during the past sea-
7 son.
. "An essential feature Of loading the
fruit few growers apparently realize
how ESSENTIALS that in every car
there should be manifest showing the
tier sizes which should be absolutely
: correct. Time is valuable at the mar
!; ket end, and frequently buyer turns
= down a car. refusing to accept II OF
I demanding a rebate. Because the mani
o fest is not right and his confidence in
the shipment is destroyed by that un-
fortunate fact. | cite this because Of
y specific cases which came to my at.
tention.
1T is poor business to include an in
: ferior variety along with good variety
in the same car, and just as disastrous
to the grower TO ship &C. grade with
: extra fancy. In every case where pos
: sible car should be limited to sep
arate variety and grade. Sometimes
there is a market for mixed cars. but
not often compared to the number of
c such cars that were sent rolling to mar
7 ket this season.
Zone of the vital necessities which
n the fruit industry of the northwest
: must possess is reputation for good
3 pack and an absolutely good grade
g whether it is extra fancy, fancy or 'C'.
l. and that means discarding the wind
= falls, no matter how fine they look, and
u all bruised and defective apples In
l. fact, all that are apt to fall down be-
fore their natural life period has beer
'r reached. In a year like 1914. when the
ie growers should have been especially
u careful about this. surprising number
10 apparently were not.
,. "The grower will do well to remem
10 ber that the dealer is not shrinking
'e violet modestly nodding his head in {
x shaded dell. He has the courage Of hi
We convictions and loud voice, as a rule
~ and, instead of asking for nickle re
'e bate, wants dime or a quarter, II TN
car is at all off-and 80 times out o.
100 he wants the quarter. Ii he has al
ie excuse for complaint and he has th'
" car placed at disadvantages 10
" example, at some point where 1t can
ne not be easily diverted-there are time
OF when he will 60 the limit, and tn
\ grower must either take his medicin
o. there or incur as big loss in anothe
direction.
e, 1T is also a questionable practice I
no put apples with short life In storaR
at and even more hazardous to put ther
re with good keepers in the same car IN
&C. tended for eastern storage. The aT
re pies are taken out of the car an
er stacked up in the storage warehous
no altogether just rs they come. To sor
as and move the carload after 1t has bee
he placed in storage would cause more IL
ne jury to the apples and cost more in tn
ss- end than to take loss on the Who'll
20, car. The recent experiences OF quite
ne few growers have proven this to b
III true.
&C. "The opinion prevails among a gres
I'm many people-even growers-that whe
'as fruit goes into storage IL keeps indefiI
itely. But il does not. There is
limit to the life of any apple in sto
age, and shippers should endeavor
ing move their stock out of storage in tin
of for the fruit to reach consumers In u
,ci- best condition. Mixing varieties on u
fiji part ofsthe grower sometimes preven
b. this, even if the shipper is on the aler
lis, For illustration, Winesaps, Spitze
All burgs, Rome Beauties, Newtown RI
ex- pins, Winter Bananas. Ganos, Ben ID
W. Wis, Black Bens, Delicious and Jon,
as thans keep we'll in storage, while Sta
per man Winesaps, Wagners, Black Twill
to and York lmperials are liable to tai
I is on an early scald in storage which b
of comes particularly noticeable short
after being taken out and starts
n quick decay. If the growers put the
for and similar varieties IN storage, th'
must watch them carefully and reno
them before they begin to show e'
dence of storage scald.
"This season the apples in practical
ted all of the big warehouses Of the ca
eek we're kept at temperature of 81 3
ub. grees, as the government recomment
ire but in some of the smaller hous
". where the temperature was held