. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 20 BETTER FRUIT August. profit, if you need it or can use it in your business, organize an association and get it. If you don't want it or can't use it, be content with your present method and in your idle hours, resulting from a lack of prosperity and progress. The association can buy wholesale in carloads boxes, spray material, paper and many other orchard supplies, which can be sold the growers at wholesale prices plus the actual cost of handling, and the actual saving to the grower by this plan is no small item. Lastly, in speaking of benefits. I want to
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 20 BETTER FRUIT August. profit, if you need it or can use it in your business, organize an association and get it. If you don't want it or can't use it, be content with your present method and in your idle hours, resulting from a lack of prosperity and progress. The association can buy wholesale in carloads boxes, spray material, paper and many other orchard supplies, which can be sold the growers at wholesale prices plus the actual cost of handling, and the actual saving to the grower by this plan is no small item. Lastly, in speaking of benefits. I want to call your attention to the advantages arising through an association office. The Hood River Association's office has evoh-ed. so to speak, into a commercial fruit growers' club, which has developed into a bureau of information on fruit topics and methods. In the association office the growers are always welcome. Every experimental station bulletin per- taining to fruit is received and every horticultural paper of value taken. The office force is composed of able and experienced men. In this office you can ascertain the formula for any spray, or learn the effectiveness of any brand of spray, or be advised of its efficiency. You can be posted on the market or learn about the best varieties to grow com- mercially. Every newcomer finds the latch string out, and old growers congre- gate in dozens almost daily for friendly and advisory discussion. Anyone in the office can tell you the tool or implement generally considered best for a certain purpose, where to get it and the price. In addition to all this, the office is a pub- licity bureau, a development league, so to speak, for every letter is promptly and fully answered, giving full informa- tion on subjects of inquiry. Such are some of the benefits resulting from an association properly managed, which should again impress upon you the value arising from organization, and in addition convey some valuable sug- gestions of what an a
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