The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-06-22

Returns have been received the past week, from a
supposedly marketing that mere last
fall by making an advance of SIPS box at time OF
shipment with glowing promises of what would be re-
turned later These promises now being var1fled by
the grower receiving bill from the company for what
he is indebted to them.
We have had various sundry examples of this same
thing every year since we have been growing apples
grower will put in all of his time during the sum-
producing OF fruit and when 1t is ready
for market that they qualified to determine
the market method of placing it in the hands OF
the consumer at the best advantage to them When the
family is SICK why do they call doctor? When In legal
difficulties why go to lawyer? Why not, with the same
reasoning realize that the selling of apples requires men
who specialized for in that particular line OF
work?
It is generally acknowledged that the selling of apples
contains of the most complex and high tension selling
problems in the hands of highly perishable COM
modify grown practically state in the Union must
be placed in the hands of the short period
of time and competition with the various other table
fruits such as oranges bananas and grape fruit and the
complexty of problem in the Northwest is added to
by the fact that 1000 to 5000 miles FROM the
Stunning centers with the added handicap of high freight
rate
Why are the wheat growers organizing all over the
United States and placing the selling OF their product In
the hands of their salesmen Here product that
can be held indefinitely the of storage yet
the manpuations of gamblers and spectators has
prompted the growers to market their with their
statesmen.
It is true that occasionally a grower will effect
very satisfactory sale of his fruit but these cases are
vastly the minority and although the entire history of
them generally unknown to many, others thereby
influenced to try the experiment.
Where the grower has assumed the Ego it alone poll
cy he has, in the majority of instances been compelled
to make loans from the banks to produce and prepare his
crop market and if there buyers in evidence at
harvest time there and the price offered does not
meet with the growers IDEAS and stated he has no
market knowledge upon which to base his judgment he
places the fruit in cold storage with an added expense OF
storage and insurance charges well certain amount
of loss in decay and storage scad. While he and his
financial hacker sweat through period of three to six
months gambling that price will be offered that will let
them out of the hole.
We ask that you carefully and honestly compare the
above methods with the grower who is member OF the
Kennewick- Richand Fruit Growers company
This company is organization of fruit growers in
the Richland district 1t is owned controlled
and managed by those growers entirely without any out
side influence whatsoever with all of it's business trans
acted it's books and records kept at Kennewc where
they at all times accessible to the Its func
tons buy in quantities the orchard supplies such
spray boxes, paper and nails required by its members
and furnish them at cost to grade and pack their fruit
ship orders furnished by the sales organic
alton keeping thereof and when returns
ceived grower equal like
ety grade and sze less the cost of operation 1t Also
through pooling of growers assets is enabled to make
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