The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-11-25
LOCAL MEN
VISIT SPOKANE
VALUABLE DATA GIVEN, SHEPARD
Sieg Announces that Shippers League
Will Effect Cooperation and AL
low Extended Membership

While marked oppo9ition was ap-
parent among the apple growers and
market men of Spokane, opinion as ex-
pressed by fruit growers from all parts
of the northwest presssge an adoption
next January of the proposed plans of
the Growers Council as recently out
lined, according to E. II. Shepard, who
returned Saturday from conferences of
apple men at the Spokane National ap-
Pile show last week.
II is proposed to levy an assessment
of one cent per box on all fruit for the
purpose of raising fund to be used in
opening up new apple markets, WIDEN
ing distribution and increasing con-
sumption. 1t is estimated that such a
levy will collect fund of more than
SIS, 600 with which to wage an apple
publicity campaign. No one district
will be featured but all northwestern
box apples will be given the benefit of
the fund impartially.
"The Spokane fruit men,, says Mr..
Shepard, ''are apparently opposed to
the proposition. since they think it will
be better for all districts to conduct
their forward campaigns individually.
No definite action was taken at the
Spokane conference, which was in
measure informal. The tentative plans
were discussed by growers present, and
movement to work out more complete
details to be submitted at the second
annual meeting of the Council to be
held in January.
while the Spokane apple show did no
have as much exhibit fruit as on some
former years." says Mr.. Shepard, sand
while the crowd present was not so
large as usual, all northwestern fruit
districts were represented, and the in
formation derived from the different
meetings of growers was invaluable to
fruit men,"
Mr.. Shepard went to Spokane pri-
marily to deliver an address before the
meeting of the Washington Horticul-
tural Society. "This meeting was not
as large as former conventions held in
the fruit districts, when the attendance
ranged between 300 and 700. but have
Papers contsining valuable information
on all phases of orchard problems were
read" he says. 'Some of the most
interesting were those on the codling
moth by S. W. Foster of the General
Chemical Co., and DR.. A. l.. Melander.
This pest caused damage ranging from
10 to so per cent, and even higher in
cases, in northwestern orchards. DR..
Melander stated that weather condi-
tions were more favorable this year
than in any former year for the breed
ing of moths, and that mort. than ever
before the insects had survived the
winter of last year"
| Other local men who were present at
the Spokane conferences were Truman
| Butler, A. W. Stone, Wilmer Sieg.
Walter Kimball, j. G. Porter. E. W..
Birge. w. W. Rodwel and S. G. Camp
bell.
The Shippers League, an organiza-
tion launched contemporaneously with
the Northwestern Fruit Growers Coun-
ell the first of the year. will be incor-
porated, according to Wilmer Siegs
'It is the purpose also," says Mr..
Sieg, "to create PASSIVE membership
of the League, composed of managers
or trustees of affiliated organizations
of central distributing agencies. In
this manner we will be able to include
in our lists of members the organiza-
tions affiliated with the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors and the Northwest
ern Fruit Exchange"
Mr.. Sieg says that the great problem
of the League in the future will be the
work of keeping down the cry OF
wolf" big crop reports, at the first
of the marketing season.
"We should confine our talk to our
selves" he says, for the swelled esti-
mates that 60 forth from the different
districts each fall do us inestimable
damage