. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ./»///. ion BETTER FRUIT Page 15 Water Shipment of Fruit ON June 1 delegates from the fruit dis- tricts of California, Oregon and Wash- ington held a convention in Seattle and or- ganized the Pacific Coast Producers' and Shippers' Association. C. S. Whitco;nb, vice-president of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, was elected president of the association. The object of the new association is to encourage the shipping of fruit bv water to Gulf and Atlantic Coast ports, as well .is to Europe and the Orient, and to endeavor to secure better general service in del
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ./»///. ion BETTER FRUIT Page 15 Water Shipment of Fruit ON June 1 delegates from the fruit dis- tricts of California, Oregon and Wash- ington held a convention in Seattle and or- ganized the Pacific Coast Producers' and Shippers' Association. C. S. Whitco;nb, vice-president of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, was elected president of the association. The object of the new association is to encourage the shipping of fruit bv water to Gulf and Atlantic Coast ports, as well .is to Europe and the Orient, and to endeavor to secure better general service in delivering Pacific fruit to Eastern maricets through water transporta- tion. At the meeting steamship companies w^ere assured that for this season the asso- ciation would guarantee 6,000 cars from California and 4,000 to 5,000 from the cific Northwest. The new .association has two branches, the citrus for California interests .and deciduous for shippers and growers of fruit in the Pa- cific Northwest. J. H. Wade of Wenatchee elected president of the deciduous fruit branch; C. DeVere Fairchild of Yakima, secretary and treasurer. Directors at large, C. L. Lewis of Salem and H. F. Davidson of Hood River. The shipments of fruit will be largely from the ports of Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco. Steam- ship companies have indicated their willing- ness to equip vessels with cold storage facili- ties for handling shipments of fruit. Unequal Readjustment IN a recent tabulation by Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, a graphic illus- tration was given of the unequal progress in the various steps in economic readjust- ment. It showed the danger of the agri- cultural industry and its standards of living being undermined. The following index numbers show present heights—100 being 1913: Farm crop prices, 115; farm meat ani- mals, 123; wholesale index, all commodi- ties, 162; building materials, 212; house furnishings, 275; clothing, 192; fuel and light, 207; ra
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