The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-03-18
ASSN BUSINESS
OVER 100000
MILLION DOLLAR GAIN Is REPORTED
Average Price ofAll Varieties, Sizes and
Grades Of Apples is Shown to
Be SOP per Box

Growers Association, read by Execu-
tive Manager Stone Saturday at a
meeting called for nominating candi-
dates for the directorate for the ensu.
ing year, shows the Association to have
received gross return of So, 3S9, 020
for fruit and stores during the past
year.. The increase over last years
business reached $l.252. $50. 65. The
1919 apple crop of members of the or
ganization brought in returns of 81,
450, 600. Other items of income are
stores and materials, $3.50, 600: straw
berries, $254, 5S7. 81 pears, 1854, $50. 80
cherries. $28, 46l . raspberries, S3l4 SO
loganberries, $l24.64; gooseberries,
Sl.50: prunes and plums, 1924. 26
blackberries, $l,lS0.24; crab apples,
1926. Sc; ounces. A3.27, and ice. $4,000.
MIR. Stone paid tribute to the Hood
River Experiment Station operated
with Leroy Childs and Gordon Brown
in charge. He urged all growers to
follow strictly Recommendation of the
station as to matters Of spraying. fer
tilization and cultivation. Mr.. Stone
declared in his report that the Associa.
tion had far outgrown its inpsection
department and recommended that the
organization enlarge and increase the
usefulness Of this department. He
said:
''The time has arrived for making a
more thorough and rigid enforcement
of inspection and men should be Sc
cured for this department who have
training and ability to trace to each
orchard diseased conditions and the
knowledge and ability to cooperate
with the experiment station in remov-
ing these diseased conditions. The
men should be trained as to best meth.
DDS for keeping our fruit in the ware
houses.
Mr.. Stones report showed that re-
turns had been made up to March on
only SO per cent of the apple crop.
The sum of 81, ,529, l43. 63 had been re-
ceived up to that time on I'll .00l boxes,
or an average on all grades and sizes
of all varieties of $2.02 per box, as
compared with an average of $l.87 per
| box last year. At the time of the an
nual report last year all pools had been
closed except on Newtowns.
The report showed that So per cent
of the year s big crop Of apples, the
Associations tonnage having reached
1885,, ,268 boxes, was extra fancy.
32 per cent was fancy and Is per cent
to C-grade. Sixty per cent of the
fruit was marketed in the larger sizes.
The report shows the Association to
have erected large new warehouse
at Parkdale during the past year. The
cold storage plant of the Hoo River
Apple & Storgae Co. at Van Horn was
purchased, giving the Association all
the refrigeration facilities of the val
ley. The organization has also pur-
chased 2l7 feet of trackage on the line
of the O..W. r. & N. Co. Total rev.
enue for the,past year reached $685..
500, while expenses were $2l5, 800
FIVE cents per box on all fruit for the
past five years, the Association has ac-
cumulated fund to be used in the
purchase of materials and for loaning
to growers to tide them over periods
Of cultivation. This fund will on
March 81 of this year reach Sal, $50,
having been increased $73, 32l the past
year.
The crop season of l9l9." said Mr..
Stone. "is remarkable from the fact
that, notwithstanding there has been
an advance in every line and in the
cost Of raising fruit, in every depart
ment the Association has been able to
reduce the regular charge this season
one cent per box less than any season
since the Association was organized.
Nor is this all for the special pur.
chasing fund of five cents per box on
nearly all fruit handled for the past two
years, will be discontinued at the end
of this fiscal year, so the the costs of
handling to growers for the 1920 crop
will be reduced this amount.
i The following shows respectively the
highest, lowest and average price per
box on apples 10, SAT boxes of Craven
stems, $3.50, $l.69 and 1924, pools
closed; ll,096 boxes of Kings, $l84,
Sl.O4 and Sl.6S, polls closed. The low
price for this variety is explained by
early shipments to England and the
decline of exchange; %. 494 boxes of
Winter Banana. 81. 80. $l.54 and $2.48,
pools closed; "A. 33l boxes of Jonathan.
1928, $l.33 and $l.88. pools closed
IL, ,S27 boxes of Delicious, 81. 81. 81. sc
and $2.54, pools closed; 466, Gas boxes
of Spitzenbul $2.l8, $l.23 and 81. 96
582. 1877 boxes of Newtowns, $2.57, $l.67
and $2.l6; 27,374 boxes of Arkansas
Blacks, $3.50. $l.70 and $2.43; 70.749
boxes of Ortleys, ~. II, 81. "a and 81. SO
6, 957 boxes of Red Cheeks, $l.75 $l.47
and $l.6l; 3, 1877 boxes of Oregon Reds,
50. OF. $l.57 and $l.52; 1886 boxes OF
miscellaneous varieties averaged $l.64
per box. But rs per cent of the New.
town crop has been collected for. Col
lections on Spitzenburgs reach 86 per
cent.
The foregoing figures show net re.
turns to the Association. To arrive at
the net return to growers, from l7A
cents for Gravensteins and early vari
etes to rs cents per box for Newtowns
and late varieties, must be dedu ted.
"We have the best cooperative asso.
citation in the world" declared Mr..
Stone in prefacing his report, and
members, who came from all
parts of the valley making record
attendance, although at one time in.
harmonious criticisms bubbled over, end.
ed the days session in love feast
The meetings. calm was ruffled by Roy
d. Smith, who in former years has wor
distinction by his eulogies Of the olc
board of directors in his speech placing
their names in nomination for reelec.
tion, but who Saturday imputed parti
ality to the incumbent directorate ir
maintenance of inspection.
Mr.. Smith proposed new blood foI
the directorate. The old board, how
ever, was indicated by the growers
who unanimously voted Tor the direc
torate's president, P. S. Davidson, t
reconsider an announcement that hs
would decline reelection to the board
Mr.. Davidson, who has been the organ
zation's president continuously since i
was established, was firm, however, il
his decision to retire from active par
ticipation in the management of thu
Association.