Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-13

pleasure in instructing, and manages to find
time to meet with them every Saturday, and
lead them in their chronological studies. He
has fitted up for them a neat room, where by
his aud their OVID exertions is now gathered q
collection in natural history aud in geology
that is valued ytry highly, and which
is dEiy Increasing in Importance. Mr..
Cooke has visited every fruit-grow-
ing sectior, flom T-hsma to San
Berpardino, aud has addressed the people at
many assemblies at their earnest request. He
is an ardent &dyoclte Of what may be called
the quarantine system for fruit packages, and
by which all ho xes once used must be thor
,ughly cleaDsed before bsing returned to the
orchard, and also Ct the systsm which com
pels orchardists to cleanse theis trees as he
holds that a single lfected and unclaimed
branch will negative the efforts OF an entire
section in the work Of exterminating fruit
pests. During all the time d-scribed Mr..
Cooke has uulsusi his private business, and
when rot off on ctficisl duty studying new
devs!onIrents in orchard or Office, may be
found
WITH Barred ARMS
Ard hardened hands busily tcilng in lis
factory, where he takes Especial pleasure in
giving employment TO boys ana girls ard
y,uths, lrsferiirg their LABOR at all times
when il IL possible to en- p'oy i. He is a
plain, genial and generous ht arted man, of
heavy frame and features lie il possessed Of
much natural wit snd the most social spirit
imaginable, but with enough frInness ard
determination to conquer success in the face
Of apparently insurmountable obstacles. Mr..
Cooke wss few years ago honored by his
fellow citizens by election TO the city Board
Of Education, where he made a vigor
GUS fight for the introduction of me-
chanical education and industrial drawing
into the schools and other progressive ideas
His efforts to save the orchards of California
have not always been well received, and he
has had to meet opposition, resist selfish and
narrow views, fight opposing ideas, struggle
with ignorance, and even superstition, and
above all to wrestle with
THAT TOO LARGE CLASS
Which holds society has no right to compel
men to any specific performance. that the
| whole community may thereby be spared
| from the result of their ignorance and willful
disregard of the rights of others. 1t may here
be remarked that the war against insect pests,
as inaugurated by Mr.. Cooke, has in one
year doubled the value of orchard property
| in Santa Clara county. At the time of
| Mr.. Cookies first exhibit of insect pests,
made at the State fair of 1880, the RECORD
UNION editorially remarked
There is no more interesting exhibitionin theS
Fair this year, than that which Mr. Cooke furnished
Mr.. Cooke is neither agrculturist nor scientific
man. yet he has developed into selfmade natural
it and he has already been enabled to confer great
| and permanent benefit upon the fruit-growers OF
California. All his labor and research grew almost
! insensibly out OF small beginnings, but now Mr..
Cooke knows more about the codling moth than any
man in California, and, moreover, his interest has
widened to take in the scale insect, the phyl-
loxera and various other pests Of the field orchard
aud vineyard The same patient Investigation and
/ Intelligent reflection which have enabled him to
conquer the codDg moth will, trust, also give
| him the victory over his adversaries. 1t is by
such unselfsh and persistent Inquiry and expert
meut that the most important scoveries are often
made and such selftaught naturalists as Mr.. Cooke
have frequently conferred more benefits upon their
| generation than more fully equipped scientists.