The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-03-09
M0SIER FRUIT ASSN
IN ANNUAL MEETING

The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Mosier Fruit Growers Association
was held Saturday morning at the /.
o. o. f. hall. Owing to sickness of
many of the growers, only about SO
members were present at the meeting,
representing 100 shares of stock. The
report of the business for the year
1922 was read by the manager. r.
! ID. Chatfeld, and election of officers
| for 1922 was the only busines of any
Importance, brought before the meet
ing. Owing to the market conditions
| and the large crop the manager re-
ported only two of the apple pools
closed. Final returns on Spitzenburgs
and Newtowns cannot be made until
late in April or the early part of May.
Three hundred cars of frUit were
shipped by the organization in 1921
and 1922, which is the largest amount
of fruit ever shipped from this district.
Eighty-six thousand three hundred
pound of Royal Anne cherries were
sold to canneries at price of 4t cents
per pound; 8, 1872 suitcases of prunes
netted the Association 46 cents per
suitcase or $50 per ton. Shipments on
d Anjou pears. which amounted to only
five cars. netted 81. 60 for combination
extra fancy and fancy per box, and
SLIGO for the choice grade; 1889, 900
pounds of cider apples brought $l2 per
ton to the organization. The only late |
pools to be closed were Delicious and |
Arkanas Blacks. Delicious averaged |
81 per box for all grades and sizes. |
Arkansas Blacks averaged $1.65 per |
box. Mr.. Chatfeld reported that 95
cars of apples remain to be heard from,
81 of the number being unsold and in
storage at eastern points and consisted
of the Newtown variety.
In 1919 the Association inaugurated
centralized packing for the growers of
the. district who were not prepared to
handle the large crop of that year on
their own orchards. Fifty thousand
boxes of apples were packed for the
growers that year. Last fall over
100, 600 boxes were packed for grow
ers. A tax of q per cent on all fruit
is levied by the Association to retire
the debt incurred in building the CEN
.ral packing plant. The packing charge
his year was 19 cents per box. The
system of centralized packing has
proven very successful and practical
rom the standpoint of the grower and
assures the buyer of a more uniform
grade and pack.
All growers supplies are handled by
he Association for the members, and
n addition hay and grain are carried
nd sold to the members at very near
ost, which reduces the actual cash
Expense of the grower very materially.
n 1921 100 cars of supplies were han
led, amounting to 500, 600. Mr.. Chat
eld reported that the Association
would have to increase its storage
pace in order to take care of crop
xceeding the proportions of the 1921
rOp, which will undoubtedly be in
923. .
The officers for 1922 who were elect
at this meeting are as follows: DR.. :
. A. Macrum, pres. j. p. Carroll,
ice pres. j. M. Carroll, Secy.; Mo-
er Valley Bank, treas. j. p. Ross
nd c. A. McCargar, directors. r. d. II
who has served as manager r.
the organization for the past ten b
ears, was unanimously reelected. The q
lccess of the Mosier Fruit Growers al
ssociatiOn during the past has been ol
rgely due to the untiring efforts of W
r. Chatfield in behalf of the growers N
the district. .
Large paintings are being made this -
ring by many growers of the dis n
let, who are taking advantage of the 4,
wered cost of nursery stock to offset n
image done in 1919 by winter kill. N
0 planting of any consequence has "a
en done by growers since 1914. Es- q
1922 crop place the tonnage a
100000 boxes for the district, which a
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2l crop. 8