Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-23
C, S. Hubbard's Work Bears
Fruit in Habersham and
Banks Counties - Apple
Growers Exchange Scores
Success
BY A. M. KITCHENS

CORNELIA, Ca, March 21.-The
vegetable growers Of Habersham
and Banks counties, tributary to
Baldwin, Ga, organized a cooper
alive marketing association at a
meeting held in Baldwin February
%, 1922. The association will oper'
with shares at $40 each, but regard
by any individual, he can only vote
organization absolutely co-operat'
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The farmers and orchardists have
all enthusiastically Joined in this
movement and they have now a
prospective membership of over 100.
At their initial meeting forty-eight
prominent orchardists and farmers
signed up, each agreeing to grow a
certain number of acres of various
vegetables and collectively to de.
liver their produce to the central
packing house at Baldwin, where
it will be properly graded and pack
ed by experts and sold by the man.
ager of the association, Prof. G. S.
Hubbard. This is a very important
feature in connection with market
ing any product. The illustration
of the great benefits accruing to
apple growers of this section, by
concentrating the selling of all their
product through the Consolidated
Apple Growers Exchange, demon
strated to the organizers Of the
vegetable association the financial
advantages accruing to the individ
I'll grower by cooperative efforts.
The association has arranged with
w. A. Shore for the use of his pack
ing house for the grading and pack
ing OF The vegetables the coming
year and by another. year it will
erect a packing house of its own.
Professor Hubbard
A few growers tributary to Bald
win operated under this plan last
year, through the efforts of Profes.
SOr Hubbard and it was very sue.
cessful. They did this more as an
experiment, those growing Vege
tables doing so because of Pro
fessor Hubbards persuasion. He has
made a great success as a marketer,
He has the confidence Of the grow
ers and farmers, which is a cardi
nal feature in connection with any
marketing association.
Professor Hubbard is a man Of
keen perception and unlimited Wis
ion. He took hold. of the Baldwin
school several years ago, when il
ranked as a poor country school
and by his efforts and with the as
sistance of w. A. Shore and others
he has built up one of the bes
grammar and high schools in the
state. The professor still directs
the school but finds time to assis
in the development of the resources
of his constituents.
The school has an excellent de
partment of agriculture wherein
prizes are offered each year to the
boys for growing various vegetables
grains, etc, and the school alsC
| has a practicable domestic science
department. where girls are taught
cooking, canning, sewing, etc.
Packing Company
The Baldwin Packing company
composed of twenty or more of the
apple growers within a reasonable
hauling distance of Baldwin, recent
ly organized a company for the cree
ton of three-story brick packing
house, 100x120 feet, and will begir
breaking ground for the building al
once. This building will be up-to
date in every particular and equip
ped with the best machinery obtain
able, all of it coming from Portland
Ore. The actual packing will be
done on the. second floor and the
apples conveyed directly from the
graders to a spiral chute, with the
terminus on the first floor, where
the product will be either stored
or loaded into cars. From the time
the apples are received from the
wagon until they are loaded into
the cars there will be practically ne
handling by hand. Gravity convey
ors deliver the fruit to the grad