White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-05-10
MEETING WILL BE HELD AT LIB
ERTY HALL WEDNESDAY
EVENING

Fruit growers OF the PrleSC FaplQS
valley will meet Wednesday evening,
May 16, to elect one delegate to the
state fruit growers convention, accord
ing to notices posted this week in
Hanford and White Bluffs. The meet
ing will be held at Liberty Hall, White
Bluffs, and will begin at 8 o'cock.
The state fruit growers convention
will be held in Ellensburg, on date
to be announced later, for the purpose
of formulating fruit growers code
for the state of Washington, under the
provisions of the washington Agricul-
tural Act, passed by the last session
of the legislature.
The Priest Rapids Valley Growers
Association, composed of fruit growers
of the White Bluffs and Hanford dis
trict, have undertaken the task OF or
ganizing the growers for the formula
ton of the code, and have assumed all
the expense of organization and selec-
ton of delegates to the state conven-
ton. To date, they have canvassed
the fruit districts of the state, calling
meetings of growers in each commun-
ity having a tonnage of 500 cars or
more apple shipment per year. AT
these meetings the growers have sell
ected committees to arrange for local
elections, at which one delegate Will
be chosen for each 500 cars of fruit,
or major fraction thereof, shipped
from the community. There will be
about SO delegates to the state con-
vention in all. Most districts will have
elected delegates by May Is, and 1t
is hoped by the sponsors of the move
ment that they will be ready to as
semble in convention by May Is.
No opposition to the plan has de-
yeloIed an1ong the growers alsss the
sponsors believe that the convention
will be harmonious effort to write
a code that will be of real benefit to
the fruit industry. The concensus OF
opinion among the growers appears
to be that q growers code should pro-
vide a minimum code price to the
grower, preferably based on cost OF
production and net to the grower, con-
signed fruit to be accepted by the
consignee only on guaranteed mini
mum price basis
'The bugaboo of surplus is still
on parade" says A. L. Brockway, Sec
retary of the Priest Rapids Valley
Growers Association and leader m the
movement for code. "The necessity
of a surplus production of farm pro-
ducts is evident when it is remembered
that, if farm production were regu-
lated to an exact balance with con-
sumption, single bad crop year would
result in actual deprivation and suf-
fering from lack of food. A surplus
should be produced and should be con-
trolled to the mutual benefit OF both
producer and consumer. This Is being
done by most industries, why not by
the agriculturists? Would 1t be more
economically unsound to withhold
portion of a crop from market thar
it is to close down the factories fol
portion of the year, or to pillow uI
part of the crop for a pittance?
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the fruit growers would have authority
to control production; that is, to con.
troll the surplus that might clog thu
market, in a number of ways. Thu
method that appears to be most il
favor with the growers is by means o
minimum code price regulation. Should
market conditions indicate the desira
bility of curtailing the quantity 0
apples to be marketed, for instance
the minimum code price for the
grade could be set SO near to that o
the Fancy grade that there would b
no movement of the @ grade fruit, a
least no movement of Importance I'm
til after the higher grades had beel
disposed of.
cit is fully realized by the frui
growers of Washington that larg
surplus crop and bad economic con
ditions will result in poor returns TO
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