. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page 2p mind to feel the necessity or propriety of co-operating seriously with the growers of M'enatchee or Southern Idaho, and this same thought applies to many growers in all of the prominent sections. Experience shows that there is an- other class of gentlemen, who are fewer in nuniher, most of whom see the handwriting on the wall, and it appears to be up to these gentlemen, the shippers, to work out a practical plan for Ihe nmtual protection of them- selves and the growers that will pre- serve the fruit industry of the North- west on a basis
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ipi6 BETTER FRUIT Page 2p mind to feel the necessity or propriety of co-operating seriously with the growers of M'enatchee or Southern Idaho, and this same thought applies to many growers in all of the prominent sections. Experience shows that there is an- other class of gentlemen, who are fewer in nuniher, most of whom see the handwriting on the wall, and it appears to be up to these gentlemen, the shippers, to work out a practical plan for Ihe nmtual protection of them- selves and the growers that will pre- serve the fruit industry of the North- west on a basis that will be profitable to the growers as well as themselves. To the shippers must be added the in- fluence and advice of another class of gentlemen in the Northwest who are becoming vitally interested in the proposition, and who will become more interested if the unpaid notes become musty, and they are the bankers, the gentlemen who must finance the grow- ing and harvesting of the crops if enough revenue is to be produced to enable the note makers—the growers— to pay up. The question before the house is, \\'ill enough men out of the large num- ber of practical shipiiers and practical bankers get together and give this mat- ter sufficient attention to work out the proper solution. The proposition is not seriously complicated from this angle, but it will retiuire an honest, energetic, intelligent efl'ort on the part of a num- ber of loyal gentlemen to solve the problem. The intelligence is easily available. Enough experimenting has been done and enough experience has been gained to reduce the task largely to that of energy and effort to bring Ihe fruit industry of the Northwest from a condition of chaotic disappoint- ment to one of satisfaction and profit to growers, shippers and bankers and merchants. The industry is estimated to represent an investment of over .*,0n0, and while a very large percentage of this investment has not reached the full-bearing age, yet i
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