Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1917-02-17
MANAGER JANNEY
BACK FROM BIG
FRU|TMEN'S MEET
HEAD OF MARTINsBURG FRUIT
EXCHANGE IN CONVENTION
WITH BIG
FRUIT JoB5ERs OF THE UNITED
STATES AT NEW ORLEANS.
STORAGE,
DISTRIBUTION AND TRANsPoR.
TATIoN OF CROPS ESPECIAL
~ CONSIDERED.

Closing a most agreeable vacation
to him as it were, though really a
business trip. of two weeks in the
south, last night Mr.. J. Tabb Janney.
manager Of the Martinsburg Fruit Ex-
change. returned on r. & O. train No.
l from the Gulf coast.
The trip was made primarily to at.
tend a big convention of the West.
ern Fruit Jobbers Association which
assembled in New Orleans, bringing
together over three thousand men di.
rectly interested in the fruit deals
oil over the country. Matters given
particular consideration at the con-
vention, in which many OF the best
posted men OF the United States in
the growing and handling of fruits
took part in discussions, we're the dis
tribution of crops, transportation,
storage, etc. The past few years
with each general crop these things
have become Of more and more vital
Importance to the grower. For the
past two years especially, the need
of local storage that would take care
of the crop at least for a time in the
main fruit belts until proper market.
ing season arrived. has been felt In
the matter of big losses, and perhaps
nowhere more than in Berkeley coun-
ty. Last year, especially in the north
ern and eastern fruit belts lack of
transportation facilities hndored the
distribution OF the big apple crop in
manner that represented many
thousands of dollars of loss to the
growers. Each year the need of more
equable distribution, according to the
production in certain we'll known
fruit centers. Is realized and one Of
the special features of the big meet
ing at New Orleans was directed to
this end.
Leaving New Orleans Mr.. Janney
visited many points in Florida, in
GLIDING Mama, Palm Beach, Fort Lau-
derdale, ST. Augustine and Jackson
Vile. This section Of his trip apart
from the pleasure to be enjoyed in
that semi-tropical climate, was to
study the citrus fruit condition, as
in limited way big orange and grape
fruit crops affect apple markets, es-
pecially at certain seasons He found
that the citrus fruit industry had
been hard hit by freezing. The big
| frosts of more recent date, he says
have destroyed about ninety per cent
of the vegetable crop, not only caus-
ing an enormous loss to the truckers
in the southland, but under the best
possible conditions it will be eight
weeks or more before much southern
grown truck will reach the northern
markets, which means eXorbitant
prices. The extreme drought is also
efecting losses to the vegetable grow
ers as in many places it is SO dry
that not only has the growth been
stopped but the seed sown in rota-
ton crops will not terminate.
Mr.. Janney, considering all, is in
good spirits with the outlook at this
early date for the Eastern Panhandle
apple deal, in which the Martinsburg
Fruit Exchange shared most liberal
| ly and successfully last year, for the
year at hand. Berkeley. Jefferson
and Morgan counties have prospects
of big repeat apple crops while
some other sections in the apple belts
of the east and north indicate GER
tainly short crops.