The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-23

where you said last fall to ship to"
Last fall, prune grower came to
my Office and asked what he should
do with his prunes, the Growers as
ISOLATION having failed to organize.
He showed me some of extra size
and very fine quality, running mostly
20 to ~ to the pound. | told him to
take them east into some community
where there were goou many Ger
mans, as they knew the fine qualities
of the Italian prune, and appreciated
them better than most others, but
they do not want lye-dipped and pro-
cessed prunes. He said his were not
dipped. A few days ago he returned
and told me that he sold all his large
sized prunes for II cents per pound,
while at the very time prunes are
offered in this market at most any
price.
Col. T. r. Weaver, OF California,
an extensive prunegrower, in sum-
ming up the existing condition of the
California prune situation, said:
What is to be done?' And answer
ed himself: Simply go to work and
sell these goods ourselves by making
demand for them with the consum-
err, and make it to the interest of the
trade, both wholesale and retail, to
handle them, because of that demand,
and make that demand so great that
they en- be handled at smaller mar
gin Of profit than at present by the
retail trade Here is another man
with advanced ideas and if he will
only remember what Commodore
Farragut said on a memorable Occa-
sion, Damn the torpedoes, steam
ahead,' we will have another horti-
curtural general.
These remarks of Colonel Weaver,
suggest the thought that the
Pan-American Exposition,
to be held this year, offers an excel
lent opportunity to carry out his
ideas. Within radius of 500 miles
of Buffalo there is a population of
100000 people, and it is reasonably
expected that good proportion of
| these 4O,0O0,000 people will visit the
exposition, who should be educated
and enlightened on the fine quality
of our Italian prune, as an economi-
cal nutritious and wholesome article
of food. A few tons of evaporated
prunes will do missionary work, the
result Of which cannot be readily
calculated at this time. A large ket-
tie full should be properly stewed
every day, and at some given hour
each afternoon be served gratituous-
/ dish, by still daintier maiddens, in
| the horticultural building, and dis
tributing recipes for the proper pre-
paration of them for the table. The
cost would be so small in comparison
with the results that it should GER
/ tainly be undertaken.
/ Hc "oIlu WOIh, pellOulCdI VI
recent date has an article very much
to the point, and applies SO aptly to
our horticultural situation that l will
quote a few sentences:
| Commerce must have it's diplo-
macy no less than nations, and its
generals, and it's own policies and
tactics. Especially is this true since
the world has become wire-girt, and
so swiftly traversed that the whole
earth is market-place for every
maker of wares for universal use.
But the making of wares of uni
versal utility does not win a univer
sal market, not even when the maker
offers them cheaper than his compel
itors. Cheap and excellent manufac
ture is one thing. Effective massins
and distributing is another thing, ant
herein comes the need of great gen
erals in trade.
mo better illustration of such F;
need could be found than is now Civ
en- by the industrial condition O
j Germany. One of the great events
] of the later part of the century ha
] been the building up of a German
manufacture. The government ha
in every way given it's aid.
Information Collected and Distribute.
|, for the guidance of manufactures AM
n and traders is the most thorough
: and systematic in the world. The lie
} gend Made in germany stampe'
!, on manufactured articles of ever
i kind, caused CONSERVATION in Ena
l land year or two ago.
> In fact, Germany, that is not unde
| arms, is in the workshop; and tn
5 studies of German commerce are a
> remarkable as the rise of Germa
scholarship was generation ago
: and the rise of German military an
: political power was under Won Mol