Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-07-17
ASSN GETS READY
FOR THE BIG RUSH
OF COMING HARVEST
Extensive Plans Made For
Handling Of Business In
Systematic Manner

Within few weeks the harvest az
the hop crop of the state OF Oregon will
be ON and, in anticipation of the bio
rush Of business activity which win fail
upon the headquarters of the Oregon
Hop Growers association, the executive
committee has enlarged its office SPACE
in the Bush Breyman huildirg Ia ON.
brace suite of seven large, well light.
ed and airy rooms and they are being
remodeled and re-partitioncd on the i'm.
terror to suit the needs Of the associa.
tion. Everything is hustle and hustle
in the headquarters now and viii he
ship-shape in plenty on 'imr for the re-.
ceipt of the first samples OF the 1915
crop,
with over 10000 bales of this wear =
crop Of hops sigued up with the associa-
tion, the volume Of product being gov
crned by tne outcome Of crop condi-
tions, it win require am immense amount
of space to accommodate the samples
and the executive committee has set
apart two Of the largest rooms for this
purpose with Il third held i'm reserve for
an emergency A SIo,y mas also been
reserved in the hallway undcr big sky.
light for Il table for grading and max
ing up shipping samples and the entire
suite Of office rooms has been separated
from the balance of rne building by o
partition which extends across the hull.
way. The officers and business offices
of the association will he In the front.
facing on Commercial street and the
sample rooms "a the rear
Four or five grades Of hops 10 en-.
brace every condition involving the
commercial value of the product, win be
established and as fast as the samples
como in from the gTOwcr.mcmbcrs Of
the association they viii bc graded as
to quality by expert ludgcs Of hops
and every sample will be uacNcd and
numbered so that, whom IL g placed I'm
the general line of samples according ~
quality the identity of the grover will
be maintained but this will be- known
only 10 the officers OF the association
and the executive committee samples
viii be made up and sent ont 10 every
agency desiring to ~'ausU.t business
with the association and, since the grad
ing is 90 he done upon u scientific and
uniform scale throughout an order form
any sample can be filled bv any lot
Of hops embraced in that division ot
quality.
While the association has adopted the
policy Of keeping hands off in the mat
ter Of picking prices and other matters
coming purely within the province g..
the individual grower 10 be settled WITH
the pickcrs, it has been reported th.
the sentiment expressed among the
growers ia that the ruling price for picl,
ing this year viii be 40 cents per hoN
Of the standard g.bushel size ur so cents
per 100 pounds by weight. The as,oc'a
tion has agreed TO cooperate with %
government employment bureau which
is conducted in connection with the Im.
migration department, whereby the hu.
reau will furnish pickcrs for the ore.
gon hop growers free Of charge iu such
numbers as they are wanted and with.
out competition with the local pi,bcra
Crop and market conditiors are Just
at the stage of uncertainty where there
is nothing doing In either rospcct-tho
crop being iu such critical condition
that it is impossible to mako an intel
ligent forecast of the yield aud the flo.
turc market depends altogether upon
the prospects oi the crop this ycor
Therefore, thcrr rs no business doing I'm
the market nnd things are expected to
remain NJ q stnrdstill until the outcome
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