The record-union., 1892-05-07
IMPORTANT TO PRODUCERS GEN
ERALLY.

The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION have made advances recently in
directions of the highest importance to
the people of the State. Competency of
the fist order and most reliable character
has been engaged to furnish from San
Francisco daily market reports, elaborate
and exhaustive, accompanied by critical
comments. At times, a few days apart,
these market reports, covering all pro-
duction and traffic, will be preceded by a
commercial review going over the whole
ground of the produce, real estate and
money markets, crop conditions and
prospects, and all topics related legiti-
mately to the markets in California, and
in which the producer in any branch of
agriculture can have the remotest inter
est.
These daily reports and periodical re-
views will be accurate, perfectly fearless,
free from any bias, and from all infiu-
ences antagonistic or counter to the best
material interests of the producer, and
the people generally. They will make
no concealments, be blind to no ills, and
will make full expositions for the infor-
nation of the people as truth may de-
mand. If the producer is suffering under
imposition he will in these reports find
the facts laid bare, and the remedy sug-
gested.
Whatever patient, vigorous and untir-
ing research and watchfulness can con-
tribute in these directions will not be
spared, no matter what the expense, the
purpose being to give the producers and
consumers of the State clear and search
ing insight into marke et.activities, and the
forces beneath and behind them.
Mr.. Frank S. Chaplin has taken the
field for the RECORD UNION and WEEKLY
UNION, to visit all sections of California
examine into all conditions of agricult-
ural life and need, and to communicate
the truth in terse, direct and accurate let
ters. He will write of each section in a
manner to present its needs as well as it's
claims and its advantages, and the OBJ
stacles to its progress, where agitation is
essential to their removal.
Mr.. Chaplin will devote himself to the
interests of agricultural societies and
their relation to the State as whole; ma
tional and city parks; lands, as to soil,
drainage, watering, and production of all
kinds; to irrigation progress. proposition
and accomplishment. He will take the
hveliest interest in farmers institutes
and similar social and intellectual factors:
in the systems of drying and mar
keting fruits; in the questions relat-
lug to timber and forest growth and
preservation; in farm economies and ag-
ricultural economics generally.
To whatever it is important the atten-
ton of the agriculturist, horticulturist
and viticultuEist should be called, he will
give his examination and devote study,
The question of irrigation will much en-
gage him, and equally so the subject of
immigration.
The fitness of Mr.. Chaplin for this inn
portant task is unquestioned. He has
been practical horticulturist here and at
the East for many years; an agricuIturist
of experience and study, and a diligent
student of educational, social and eco
nomic conditions in rural life. He was
for long time a worker in Grange or
ganization in this State, where he has
been resident for twenty years. He is a
plain, straightforward, self-contained OBJ
server, of worldly wisdom and the fore
sight that is born of experience and much
travel in agricultural regions.
These are his missions, during the fol-
lowing of which he viii present the
claims of the RECoRD-UN1oN and
WEEKLY UNION as safe, intelligent and
fearless exponents of the truth and as
hearty laborers in the work of develop
ing rural California and building it up TO
its highest possibilities. But such pre-
sentation will be subordinate to the pur-
poses first mentioned, and which will be
carried out irrespective of the second.
We commend the labors of these two ele-
ments in this journal to the people. and
invite thoughtful attention to their high
value to all the State. They viii, to some
considerable extent, be in touch with each
other directly, and at all times, in one form
or another, since both relate to the high
est interests of the producers and the best
possible and fullest development of our