The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-12-07
FRUIT SESSION
NEXT WEEK
SERIOUS PROBLEMS SURE TO ARISE
Apple Men Have Been Too Busy to Form
a Set Program for Horticultural
Society Meeting

While ii is likely that the annual
meeting of the Oregon Horticultural
Society, to be held here December IL,
IL and 13, will be more lacking in set
program than any such meeting in the
history of the organization of fruit
men, the sessions, it is predicted. will
be characterized by pervading serious
ness. Because of the conditions sur
rounding the harvest and shipment of
the northwestern apple crop this year.
the lack of labor, the abnormally early
cold weather and the shortage of re-
frigeratOr cars, growers Of all apple
districts have never been buster than
during the past several weeks. 1t hap
pens that the moving spirits of the
Oregon Horticultural Society are &C.
lively engaged in growing apples. This
fact accounts for the lack of prepara-
tion that has been made for the CON-
ing meeting. G. ID. Minton. secretary
of the organization. has been so busy
harvesting and attending to the ship
ment of his own crop of apples that he
has found the task of arranging for the
program of the approaching sessions a
difficult one.
Heretofore a large portion of the
horticultural Society's annual sessions
has been devoted to discussion of meth
DDS of cultivation. The dominating
features of the meeting of 1916 will
arise out of the difficulties that fruit
men have been facing during the past
several weeks. The car shortage prob
lem will probably come first in import
ance, and apple growers and shippers
will endeavor to devise some plan of
cooperation with railway systems to
prevent such future contingencies of a
lack of rolling stock. Another problem
that will receive the attention of the
fruit men will be that of a lack of
wrapping paper.
of fruit districts are finding it difficult
to secure the material for the years
crop. Paper mills, it..is said, are dis
continuing in large measure the man.
ufacture of lighter weight products in
demand for wrapping apples. declaring
that the profit in making this material,
even at an advanced price. is much
less than where the stock is put into
heavier weight papers. The price of
apple wrappers, it is declared, may be.
come prohibitive. and next season
Northwestern extra fancy and fancy
apples may be shipped without the
usual covering.
Visitors here during Horticultural
week will be entertained by the Com.
mercial club.
A partial program of the convention
is as follows:
Address of welcome, Mayor Dumble !;
response, R. G. .Washburn. of Central
Point, president; annual address, Pres.
ident Washburn; Sprays and Spray.
ing" Leroy Childs; Fertilizers and
Results" Prof. Brown. of o. A. c. !;
address, Prof. Magnus, o. A. c..
Pruning and its Relation to Fruit
Spurs, Prof Gardner, o. A. C. !;
"Orchard Inspection and Law Enforce
ment," II. S. Allen, of Medford; !;
blight Resistant Pears" Prof. Rel
mers Tangent. o. A.C.: Marketing"
Wilmer Sieg: address, E. H. Shepard {;
Building up the Home Market for
Fruit and Fruit Products" M. McDon-
aid, president of the Oregon Nursery
Co. g.: "Unwise Publicity" A. H. Har-
ris, staff writer of the Evening Tele.
gram: "New Horticultural Legisla-
tion," A. P. Bateham. of Mosier |;
Broccoli Growing" DR.. c. h. Bailey,
of Roseburg; Celery Growing and
Marketing" c. Nj. HollowelI, of Mil
waukie: Vegetable Crops as Phase
of Horticulture, Prof. Boquet, of y.
A. G.