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growers would never get away from
the G grade apple.

the C grade apple.
"The instant that you put c grad,
apple in the fancy pack" he declared
"you are going to lower the entire. boz
Of apples to the third grade. "ssSzs sAasl
Mr.. Sieg went even further than Mr.
Shepard. however. In decrying the pro
posed four state standard grading
rules. I'VE must await each season
and see just what our crop is going tc
turn out, and then make rules to con-
form to the crop. Otherwise we are
not going to live up to our rules.
Mr.. Sieg threw the first STARTERS into
the sessions of the convention, when he
characterized the efforts of the Office
of Markets of the United States De.
partment of Agriculture to aid frui,
growers by supervising the orgabiza.
tion of the Fruit Growrs' Agency al
Spokane as a failure. He referred tc
te Growers Agency as a "deutral neu.
tel"
Gentlemen" he modified his re.
marks, 81 do not desire to be mean.
But the government has done us nc
good because of the fact that it has
failed to include In its organization
some so per cent of the shippers and
growers of the Northwest, and this sc
per cent 10 tearing down all that the
Growers Agency is trying to build up.
You cannot have good aslesmanship
without good organization. The indi-
vidual districts themselves must get
together, and then work in cooperation
through some method Of centraliza.
tion."
Mr.. Sieg declared that the North.
western fruit industry q. worst enemy
was the grower who refused to organ.
iae.
"The most malicious and meanest
man have ever run across. ''lhe said,
''is the man who perhaps has been &C.
customed to the softness and easy
things of life. but who has come to the
apple district and has made failure.
You will find him against everything. -
During his address, Mr.. Sieg stated
that despite talk of the stringent car
shortage, a total of II, 800 carloads of
apples had already been shipped Lthis
season, more than had been shipped
out during the entire marketing season
of last year.
MIR. Malboeuf, whose subject was,
HAS High Apple Grading Paid During
1916" made the emphatic assertion
that it had. Ito lower grading" he
said, would mean a step backward.
We find that Cashmere and Mosier fruit
sales agencies have been building for
years on the maintenance of stringent
grading rules. They have been sue.
cessful. Do we find that they want to
changer"
Mr.. Malboeuf paid tribute to the
apple MEN Of the White Salmon com.
munity. He declared that they would
emerge next season as one of the
strong fruit districts of the northwest.
"This year." said MIR. Malboeuf,
"the growers of White Salmon have
welcomed the closest inspection. But
next year they are going to further
standardize their grade of apples by
building at central points four COM
munity packing houses.
Business gave way to sentiment at
the horticultural sessions Tuesday, hen
A. A. Quarrenburg, walnut grower
of Vancouver. presented the organiza.
tion with a gavel made from the oldest
apple tree in the Northwest. Mr.. Qaur.
renburg in his presentation speech told
the story of the old tree, now 80 years
old. Still alive and bearing apples at
Vancouver barracks. it was planted by
one of the men of Capt. John Nc
Lauk shin. governor for the Hudson
Bay Co.
The sessions of the Horticultural So
ciety came to close yesterday. Ad-
dresses were made on the last day by
the following: B. S. johnson, A. II.
Harris, Robert Pauus. j. r. Magness.
A. c. Allen. J. T. Holt and A. B.
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