The herald., 1895-10-20

duced into California, could have been
utterly exterminated at cost of few
dollars, while now it costs hundreds OF
thousands of dollars every year to merely
keep it in check. What vineyardists have
lost from the vine disease since its intro
duction would pave with gold the ground
it occupied .he first year. Now we must
leave nothing to chance which we can
possibly control, and if we are not ready
at any sacrifice to cooperate to secure our
mutual protection we had better quit and
go and raise wheat near the fever slough
of the great rivers, the only place l be-
lieve where transportation charges don't
consume all the profits OF grain raising.
Again there is need of organization to
enable US in organic fashion to compare
experiences in the cultivation OF our
lands and the comparative value of diff
ferent varieties of fruit and grain, re-
garded especially with reference to their
adaptation to our peculiar conditions
here. We shall do we'll to learn as much
as possible of The successful meth obs used
elsewhere, but even in this we need to
counsel together to determine upon what
allowances must be made for the differ
ent conditions
Again. we are almost face to face with
the most pressing need of organization
to secure the careful packing and most
advantageous marketing OF our orohar
products. We are now raising in small
fruits and nuts than is raised any where
else; our orchards will soon be producing
hundr reds of tons of this. 1t should at least
bring from l to 2 cents more per pound
than the best that the market now
affords. This would be equivalent to an
additional profit of from So to $50 per
acre. To secure this advantage will not
be easy. 1t will require the faithful CO.
operatos of large min led men who will
freely give their time and money to Sc
cure it. But we have got them, many such,
and a almost daily getting more.
And, finally and more than all, do we
need such provisions for association, be-
cause we are men and women whose ma
lures crave and need the uplifting and
Stimulating effects of wider association
than that of the household or immediate
nighborhood. In the latter case we soon
get familiar with the range of ideas. pet
prejudices and aversions OF our associates,
so that there is nothing fresh and stim-
ulating even in quarreling with them. In
our pioneer settlements we are denied the
pleasure and profit OF the numberless
gatherings in the city, lectures, concerts
and informal club meetings. and some
times we try to make ourselves believe
that we are quite as we'll OIL without
them. But this Is u mistake.
Men are made to fnd their highest de-
velopment in contact with each other and
not in the hermit life which reminds one
Of the habits of the coyote.
l know how one is tempted to settle
down, sealed up in his environment feel
ing daily the hard pressure of the things
he can't get time to do, living so close to
the margin of subs istence that he hardly
knows a week ahead how food IS 10 be
obtained for his family, worried by the
debts he can't pay because somebody
can't or won't pay him. 1t will often
seem to such an one that to appropriate
a day for attending an association meet
| ing would be thriftless almost to the
verge of impiety, and 80 he grinus along
-generalizing from the narrow limits OF
his own experience, trying expensive ex-
perimeats that possibly have already been
| proven failures in simila: conditions ten
miles away. He has saved days work
| but how much better off think you he
will be in a series of Yeas if he persists
in such mental isolation? Will he not
grow more unfit to bear his part in such
gatherings2 But If necessary for the
head of the family to broaden and
quicken his mind by wider acquaint-
ance and informal discussion with fresh