. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I5 BETTER FRUIT Page 19 necessity of proper railroad service, and it is to be hoped tliat the railroads will receive proper consideration from the public in the future. * * * The 1915 Outlook.—During the year 1914 many adverse conditions pre- vailed which were accountable for the low prices that the fruitgrower real- ized. In the first place, an immense crop; in the second place, a general depression of business; in the third place, the war broke out just as the apples were beginning to go on the market; in the fourth place, the crop got ripe all together; in t
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I5 BETTER FRUIT Page 19 necessity of proper railroad service, and it is to be hoped tliat the railroads will receive proper consideration from the public in the future. * * * The 1915 Outlook.—During the year 1914 many adverse conditions pre- vailed which were accountable for the low prices that the fruitgrower real- ized. In the first place, an immense crop; in the second place, a general depression of business; in the third place, the war broke out just as the apples were beginning to go on the market; in the fourth place, the crop got ripe all together; in the fifth place, there was much indiscrimate market- ing and cutting of prices and unneces- sary competition; in the sixth place, much fruit was shipped without ice to save the extra expense. Perhaps this is enough to account for the low prices prevailing in the year 1914. It is rea- sonable to assume that such a combi- nation of conditions will not occur again very near in the future. The Northwest feels assured that much bet- ter marketing conditions will prevail and it is reasonable to assume a big crop will not follow on top of last year's crop, so therefore growers can reasonably hope and expect to obtain much better prices than during the past year. The Policy of the Growers' Council. It will be the aim of this body, through their Board of Control and Executive Committee, to create a policy that can be consistently followed by different marketing concerns. All of the differ- ent members of the Board of Control and Executive Commitfee, in the minds of the fruitgrowers, are safe, sane and conservative people; therefore it is to be assumed they will act with good judgment and impose no condition on the marketing concerns that cannot be reasonably complied with. Such a policy will meet with success and support of the marketing concerns. On the other hand, if their demands were impossible opposition would nat- urally spring up which would result in friction and the good work
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