. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pageu - BETTER FRUIT Slipshod Practices in Marketing Fruit By \\ . B. Armstrong President Washington Slate Farm Bureau, Yakima, Washington December, 1921 FULLY to describe the lack of order in the distribution of the perishable food stuffs grown in this country would be im- possible and to attempt such full descrip- tion would result in a tiresome impeach- ment of our civilization which has per- mitted the greatest disorder to remain in the distribution of the food of the people. A few statements will illustrate the dis- order, and while they are drawn from ex- p
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Pageu - BETTER FRUIT Slipshod Practices in Marketing Fruit By \\ . B. Armstrong President Washington Slate Farm Bureau, Yakima, Washington December, 1921 FULLY to describe the lack of order in the distribution of the perishable food stuffs grown in this country would be im- possible and to attempt such full descrip- tion would result in a tiresome impeach- ment of our civilization which has per- mitted the greatest disorder to remain in the distribution of the food of the people. A few statements will illustrate the dis- order, and while they are drawn from ex- perience with apples, please remember that exactly similar happenings occur to all raw food stuffs, whether they be apples or onions, turnips, squash or potatoes, poultry or eggs. The national apple crop of 1920 will be remembered as the largest for almost 20 years, and as our Northwest crop moved to market we found that a number of centers of distribution were becoming bady glutted. By the first of this year losses, due to lack of what I will call pre-vision in ship- ping, must have aggregated fully $1,000,- 000 to growers and shippers of Washington alone. The storage facilities of Fort Worth, Texas, were piled up with excess shipments of Northwest Jonathan apples, while, to my knowledge, there were still unfilled or- ders for that variety in the hands of ship- pers. It is impossible, of course, to trace back the ultimate loss, but when it is under- stood that 95 cars of Jonathans were in storage in Fort Worth late in December, it will be realized that tremendous loss was experienced from that point alone. The presence of so many Jonathans there closed the market? of that region to later varieties, causing further loss — indirect loss, of course, but nevertheless very important. Kansas City w^as another center where the glut exceeded that at Fort Worth, and conditions at Pittsburg, Chicago and other places only repeated with little variation, the same tale. My own observation
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