Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-09
THE LAST DAY.

THE LAST DAY.
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Two excellent Papers Read During the
Fruitarowers' convention.
The fruit growers convention closed its
three days session at the college Friday
evening. The feature of fridays meet
ing was the closing paper on the program,
.oThe Up-to Date Fruitgrower," by Prof.
Emory E. Smith of Palo Alto, Calf. He
said in part: "Before closing | wish to
call your attention to the motto under
which Los Angeles has grown to be
great city in few years. ls Is TINS
Persistent publicity is the price OF pros
perity.'
"You people in Oregon have a genial
climate, rich and cheap lands, cheap fuel
and lumber, and numerous railroad and
steamship outlets-all the necessary
elements of great. active prosperity.
"You have intelligence tand wealth;
the powers which make the wneels OF in
dustry turn; but in looking back have
YOU not been a little private minded,
attending too strictly to your own person
al affairs? Have you not been contented
to let we'll. enough alone? Have you
concerned yourself enough about public
matters? Have you not waited tor some
i Indefinite person, from some indefinite
place, to do fer you what you should
have done for yourselves? Private
mindedness is dangerous quality to
encourage: it will deaden people and
throttle an industry, be it in city, village
or country.
"Men do not seek of choice. as dwell
ing place, community where the fences
are tumbling into decay, the houses
unpainted, the sheds unroofed, the roads
impassibty muddy, the yards overgrown
with weeds, the orchards unkempt.
Such things are the result of private
mindedness.
s.No matter how rich the soil, how sa-
lubrious the climate, or how genial the
people, the stranger does not quickly
determine to live and do business in
private mi nded country.
"He knows that it is public spirit,
enterprise, enthusiasm and willingness
to risk time and capital that distinguishes
progressive communities.
nMsn do not of necessity congregate
| nor empty their sacks of gold i'll the
ocalities most favored by natu re. They
care little whether it is rich valley, a
sand spit, rocky hillside or swamp.
They seek for those places, and throw
their energies and their money IN, where
it is the busiest; where the wheels OF
fortune turn the fastest.
"I will repeat the motto. Persistent
publicity is the price of success There
is no secret about it. 1t is one OF the
Oldest of the old principles. Success is
attained by well-directed human en-
deavor.
ssThe matter of success in life is rela-
| tive, What one man would call success,
another would call failure. The up-to-
date fruitgrower is successful from his
standpoint. He does not expect to get
rich in hurry He works hard has a
comic rtable living, well planned,
sanitary home and pleasant surroundings
an educated family, well TILED farm,
tidy sum in the bank, and he is abreast
of the world, the peer in happiness OF
employment of any man. The farm is
more than money making machine, it
is home, and the best home man ever
| had"
The paper on varities of Prunes Suit
able for Oregon" REID by w. K. Newell,
of Dilly, Thursday, had much of interest
to growers in il, and the following ex
tract is worthy of consideration:
"We have only one prune, the Italian,
at present in general cultivation, that l
consider even reasonably well adapted to
our needs. The silver prune, while a
delicious and high priced fruit, is al
together too late in ripening, is too hard
to cure, and the tree is too tender and
short lived to make 1t worthy of consid-
/ erations as market prune.
seThe petite, the standard prune of
| California, and in fact the standard of the
markets throughout the world, can be
grown here to perfection, but there are
so many objection to it as to render it
undesirable as leading prune tor Ore
gon. The first buds and blossoms are
very hardy, but the trunk of the tree is
quite tender in this climate, and is easily
affected by canker. It requires muct,
! better pruning and cultivation than is
generally given it to secure prunes of a
profitable market size. 1t is we'll known
that the bulk, of the crop of 1898 was sold
for cents or less per pound, a ruinously
low price. But the great objection to the
French prune is that California does
and probably always will supply all o
that variety that the market can absorb
lat living figures. It is problematica
whether We can compete successfully
with California in raising this prune, anc
we do not wish to mike the attempt on
any large scale. What we want is tt
grow an entirely different class of prune
one that will make a. place for. itself il
the worlds markets, and reach that grea
class of people who do not like tn
. insipid, sweet French prune.
"The italian is of the quality that W
want to grow here. It has numerou
strong points; in flavor and handsom
. appearance. when properably cured,
can not be excelled. In point of siz
when well cultivated. it is just abou
. right. But it is too uncertain in yiel
it has too many off years, too man
3 things affect it. AS heard one grove
4 express it. Tt is too blamed cranky
The tree itself is tender; there has bee
considerable loss of trees every winte
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