The herald., 1895-05-04
The Fruit Growers Last Day
at EScOndidO
VIEWED THE BACK COUNTRY
Listening to Papers by Some Well-known
Pomol0gists
Professor Manning, Of London, Tells Them
Why They Should Grow More Fruit
and Less Grain

Escondido Yesterday was filled with in
teresting and instructive things. At the
morning session B. f. Dixon of Escon-
dido talked of citrus fruits; Frank KIM
ball told some facts about lemon culture.
and Judson Williams talked on fruit
pests.
A drive to the Escondido dam and
around the valley was enjoyed in the
afternoon. and in the evening there were
papers and talks by Professor C.. II.
Nuker of Escondido. Professor ]. A. Cook
OF Pomona college, I. H. B. Chamblin Of
Riverside, and others.
A paper was read by W. S. Manning of
London, entitled, Why Farmers Should
Crow More Fruit and Less Grain. 1t was
as follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentle
men 81 must try and give in the briefest
possible way a few reasons showing how
natural food. or the gradually increasing
use Of more fruits and nuts, can become
partial panacea for most of the ills that
flesh is heir to. Non-cereal diet. II we
continue meat. milk, etc. is easily prac-
ticabe by all who wish to try it. Its
digestion diminishes the strain on our
nerve energy, and therefore conserves
stamina. 1t gives more enjoyment to the
palate than any other food. once our sys-
tenn becomes adapted to it..
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it, in proportion as We push on to the
ideal Of this frugal fare. 1t can be adap-
ted particularly by taking fully ripe fruit
at first, one OF two meals daily, merely to
replace bread and other grain foods.
Nuts are best left alone as a regular
thing. it is found until the cereal foods
have been given up for a few weeks or
months, according to age, constitution
and occupation.
1t has been demonstrated that grain
foods contain far too much of the lime
salts as we'll as that the transformation
of starch into glucose is far too severe a
strain for invalids and all who are over
worked, or subject to inherited tendencies
to disease. If there be ''only one evil in
the world. detection from divinely APP
pointed law then the most urgent ne
cessity of the day is how to learn from
actual experience guided by science what
is our most natural and most wholesome
food. if both bread and meat produce SO
much injury?
If fresh fruit with its 80 to 80 per cent
OF water contains all the fluids needful,
then it will eventually prove the most
complete preventive to the entire habit
of drinking. AS we gradually disuse the
whole list of stimulants. including flesh
and fish, and hot slops like breakfast
tea and coffee, there viii probably be an
end of the cry that the social evil is a
come overmastering it is too often because
of his unnatural eating and drinking
habits, as rule probably acting upon
inherited tendencies but with will power
cultivated our power OF self.restrant
could be master.
As soon as fruits and nuts are properly
known to answer for all the nutrtive
needs OF the body there will be a general
increase in the planting OF fruit and nut
trees. berries and grape vines. There
will be an urgent demand for practical
horticulture 10 be taught il all public
schools, especially in rural districts.
Lana law reforms will be more persist
emily and earnestly demanded in proper
tion as the people, the individual voters,
realize their ability to make the best use
of the soil when it becomes more easily
accessible to all through their school
training. There can be none ultimately
unfed or unemployed if everyone after
few years realizes that fruits suffice for
both food and drink. and that one could
get his entire nourishment from the
produce of we'll selected piece of land,
even one acre of fruits in full bearing.
If the farmer really wants a radical
reform for the present crisis he must look
to science for guidance as to the trend of
future demands from an enlightened pub
lie. As the producer of food for mankind
he will find that just as fast as the laws
of health and preventive santa ton is
.
food will be diminished for the WE'LL as
they already are for the sick throughout
the world. When the culture of fruit is
undertaken with as much energy and
skill as cattle or cereal farming are today.
it will give far better returns than grain
growing. Apples and pears, and some
berries too. can be grown OF different
sorts in rotation for use the year round.
Plums and cherries and the foregoing
under scientific culture will be amongst
the most profitable always. Persimmons,
guavas and loqauts, with oranges, form
ample variety for winter and spring.
The great variety of sorts will soon
lengthen the prospective seasons to
double their present periods. The state
should conduct experimental orchards in
each county to test the kinds best adapt
ed for the various soils and localities.
Walnut (and in some few cases chest lut)
trees could be generally planted to sup
ply the needs OF forestry and at the same
time produce eventually both rich foods
and valuable timber. Filberts and cob
nuts as cultivated in Kent. England, are
already often the most productive crops
in the old country. The point to remem-
ber is the striking fact so often quoted by
Mr.. Gladstone. that in proportion as
really good fruit i, produced and well
packed. the markets are bound to
open out and receive all that is grown. -
The benefits to be derived from what
some may think a desperate remedy for
our various desperate diseases-pbysca
social, moral and economlc-wOuld of
course not be all at once attainable. Ply
sically all invalids would derive great adj
vantage at once or within week. prob
ably. by merely abstalning from their or
dinary starchy foods and substituting
fruits-the ripest and sweetest in season
whilst the moral and social advantages
would be attained just in proportion to
the pace at which the public took to fresh
fruit in place of grain foods, for such
radical changes must take considerable
time to permeate the homes of the
masses. Manual training for land culture
is the only sort of technical teaching (if
well done) for calling that can never be
overdone. Because if there be no profit
able market at hand. the grower can with
his family. about always live on his own
produce in the most healthy and enjoy
able way. If the main object of govern
ment is to enable its people to live in the
most healthful. enjoyable and self-con-
tented life, and in fact to make the entire
nation capable of being supported from
It's own soil. what can compare with the
plan for effecting that purpose with the
programme briefly outlined above?
OF course there are difficulties in the
way Tor those cuitivating for market. Que
TO transportation. want of proper chan
nels of distribution, sometimes risky eli
mate, pests and blights and at present
general want OF faith or appreciation of
the value of fruits as staying foods. But
these are all temporary troubles or obsta-