The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-07
1.-THE FARMERS. VOICE.
A sunnyssde writer Seems to Have
the Editor aon the HIP

rcltor Weekly Post-rntelligcncer n
your issue ef July - Mr.. Joseph i1annins
OF Sannvslde. answers your query a. 70
what Sunnyside has 20 say 10 the slarlux
statement IN the Farmers Voice OF cat
caEo. that Sunnyslie can not raise any
thing. Mr.. Lanain answers trnshfally ana
20 the point. The naa that ne has hit
sQ1arssy on the head I viii endeavor &c
drive home He asks: What has Snu<
nyss1e done 10 the editor OF Earmers
Voice that causes him 10 write 80 Often
in the vtadicsivc manner he dcesT
The editor 81 the Voice must know fuL
wei that his statement iacks the nrst
earelance of truth. and THAI this In pat
ans 10 these familiar with the cfrcsre-
stanceS. Tn fSA ard tire spring OF 1926 the
editor Of the Voice had nothing but good
words 20 say az Sunnyside. Here are
few ef them: Following the receipt os the
subscription ist to the Ranch az Norsh
Yakima. which was turned over TO the
Voice when tho Ranch went cut Of exist
ence the Voice says:
ssrhe Farmers Voice he's always been
a warm advocate OF the splendid seotisn
in With the Ranch oirculates."
IN the same issue, answering an in-
,,utrv n SAYS. The Yakima valley,
washington. soil IL volcanic ash. seventy
i've feet deep, and viii grow anything ex-
cent oranges and leEnenss il especially
adapted 10 truit and hop srowinS.
In editorial notes. issue II July =. In
the Voice says: '~rhe Yakima yayeys
Washington. people expect large fnnuy
OF those who desire 10 engage In fruV
and hop growing. The valley wau nN
disa point the homs-scsker.
In December - fSe4. ISSUE arswer1u1
the inquiry. Are they telling the GusA
ahoNt the country IN all resneetsT TN
voseA says; we Honestly believe that
ordinarily man can make more from ten
~ 4~~.a <N4aff "A =
he can on many OF our lon acre farms.
March 2. 1925. issue Of the Voice sAyss
There Is no lack az water In the Sunnys
side district. and neyer can be. We kncy
lust what we are talking about when W
talk of the Sunnyside country. The Yak-
ina valley is the best country We have
ever seen.
The Voice had devoted considerable
spsee. answered a good many queries and
said a good many catering things about
Sunnyside and the entire Yakima valley
As quoted above. the editor saws: We
know tuSt what we are talking about
when we talk OF the Sunnys.de country"
II he knew just what ne was talking
about then, he surely don't know what
he Is taking about now. and for ones
a resident OF sunnyside for the past three
seasons take exceptions 70 those siurs
against Sunnyside ana the intelligence OF
her people for we must be more than
NAMED ~
Won't raise anything. That Sunnyslde -
an right her people will souch for, and
what better evidence is needed That we
can raise nearly everything under tho sun
that can I've raised in n serni-tropgcal cii-
mate can be proven BY visiting Sunny
side any time between row and cold
weather.
This country IL pre-eminensly fruit
country, and we don't intend 70 take =
back seat and let even California get
away with US on that score. barring. or
course. tho citrus fruits. have lust cut
my second cutting OF alfalfa this season
from hrand-new soil sewu last simmer.
ana cut for the first time thirty days ago.
the yield netting me four and six-fenths
tons 10 the acre for the two cuttings.
This fact alone not only contrsdIcts tho
editor OF the Farmers Voice and proves
the falsity OF his assertion. but. using q
slang phrase. which coming from farmer
and orchardist makes II axcusahle. puts
him In the SOUP" r.. ~ NOINd
Sunnyslde. July q. z