The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-14

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NEWS FROM TACOMA.
FINAL MEETING OF THE STATE
BOARD OF HORTICULTURE.
Damage to Orchards During the Cold
Periods Has Been Overestimated
-sportsmen Petition for . Game
Warden 10 Protect TrOut-une
Interest Payment to BE Met.
Tacoma Bureau OF the Post-rntelhgencer,
II2S Pacific Avenue.

Tacoma Bureau OF the Post-rntelhgencer.
lis Pacific Avenue.
TACOMA. April 1.-the state board OF
horticulture began its last meeting yes
terday ard concluded the business before
Adjournment this afternoon Beyond tho
report OF Secretary J. z. Cass and those
OF the members OF the board. there was
little outside the routine business connec--
ed with q regular meeting or the board.
The members are getting the AFFAIRS OF
their offices Strengthened up for the trans
fer to the commissioner OF horticulture.
who Is soon 10 take charge OF the work,
under the law passed by the late legisla-
ture.
From the reports OF Secretary Cass and
the members or the board il is learned that
the reports OF damage 10 the orchards OF
Washington during the several psriods OF
extreme cold weather last winter were in
measure exaggerated The damage will
not be as great as was first supposed. An
other fact that is learned from the reports
OF the members Of the board is that all
the indications point to a large yield OF
fruit in the ensuing season.
Concerning the damage TO the orchards
in kittitas county, Commissioner Maxey
has this to say:
lowing to the cold snap in November.
there has been quite scare among the
Irult growers of my district and | have
been Kept busy visiting orchards and max
ing estimates of the damage done. / ind
that the trees are not so badly injured as
was supposed. A few varieties of peaches
and tender cherries. with a sprinkling OF
young apple trees. have suffered some. but
the majority of them Will recover. The
trouble was that the cold weather came
on very suddenly before the trees has
fairly gotten into winter quarters, or. in
other words. before the sap had been
driven down and the tree was left in
To-,
will be a fair crop of cherries. a few
peaches and full crop of apples"
Commissioner Chatfield Knight. of Van
couver, reports that the prospects for
large yield in his section OF the state are
more than fair. He says the sewers cold
weather of last November did some dam
age, but in many instances the trees will
outgrow the injury.
Commissioner Hosom. of the Third dis
trict, says that with the exception OF Ska
git county. the orchards of his section
have suffered little injury. and that the
yield of fruit this year will be large
In general way, Secretary CasS sums
up the situation which confronts the fruit
growers of the state as follows:
1.-THE horticultural, with the agricultural.
interests of the state-and il seems TO me
but feature merely nominal and some
what fnical that divides the two here with
us-shareS In the general business depres-
sion Of the times. The producing classes
seem always 10 have just cause OF COM
plant as to the complex workings OF trade
methods and legislative enactments inter-
fering with the natural course Of the gen.
eral laws OF supply and demand. and in
which the producers are as
rule unfairly dealt with In tina
race and conflict of interests. Leg
fslation avowedly and directly advo-
Gated and enacted for the grant OF special
privileges to some classes of the commu-
nifty. at the cost and expense of the whole.
IL is needless to say, is always to the loss
and damage Of that class whose interests
aro not sought direcelrto be enriched there
by. Largely. the remedy lot
abuses must be found in combination. both
cable. on the part OF the producing classes.
Continuing free and fair competition can
only thus be secured and retained"