The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-17
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( ORANGES,

How many Of your readers sat in
their homes New Years day and
New Years night without any fire
in their stoves tor furnacesG We
did and for the good reason that if
we had had any fire We would have
been uncomfortably warm: But /
forbear Less sometimes l. should be
in the glass house and you have the
stone. A more pleasant subject for.
men to write about and surely for
you to read about is Oranges.
Of course we know all about
oranges by this time for have we
not been in their land of oranges for
over two years. Why shouldn't we
know all about them? Last year we
had our first experience in having
all the oranges we wanted to eat.
This year we have had our first ex
perience in picking and packing
oranges. Would you like the bene-
fit Of our experience along this ine2
Well, first got your trees loaded with
oranges. Of course you can find
them out in your back yard or in
the woods almost any where. Then
when you have secured your orange
trees get a ladder Then get--your
life insured. The Naval oranges
trees have no thorns, but the seed
|lings are made up seemingly of
thorns with the rest of the tree
thrown in. When I was through
picking my oranges I had on my
hands and arms something less than
$500 scratches. I did not count
them accurately. For any Of the
trees a tall step ladder is all that is
necessary; but for one tree on my
place 1 have not yet found a ladder
tall enough to reach the highest
oranges say my place, for On the
little ranch Of one lot that we rent
for $3.50 a month there are some
l.; VI 10 orange trees. Let me see,
I have not yet given you an inven-
tory of the stock on our little ranch.
We have oranges, lemons, olives,
figs, pears, English walnuts, black
walnuts, and almonds. Would you
you be willing to pay $12. so a month
for comfortable house Of six
rooms, and all. that ''shlubbery'
thrown in?
We have picked, packed and s:'nt
off about IS boxes of oranges. We
could easily have made the number
80, but we thought we would save
a few to eat through the winter and
Spring.: We found some oranges on
tile trees when we moved in here
last May. Our next door. neighbor
says that from one Of his trees last
year there were picked some IS or
IL boxes Of oranges. [ don't want
to5tantalj5e you hut 1 do wish you
could walk along one of our streets
and see the. rows OF orange trees out
side the walks used for shade trees
loaded with,fruit. The fruit is now
att it's richest color, and as it. hang
on; the tree with the dark green OF
the leaves for a back ground 1T GER
tainly makes a beautiful Turing
picture. / noticed one tree yester-
day so heavily loaded that it seemed
;ssssathough there was almost as much
yellow as green in sight.
We have had our olives picked and
picked, part of. them and are how
enjoying them. We do not pick
them out of a little bottle with a
small fork, but we scoop them by
the quart out of a three gallon jar.
The olives that we use here are the
ripe black oil yes, great big fellows
some of them as large around as
your, thumb.
IF you will take DINNER with us
tomorrow we will give you salmon
caught in OUT river here, lettuce
right from the bed, lemonade OF our
own raising, oranges, pears, 1gs
and nuts from our own trees. But
if#5you want any frosted Hoses OF
icicles, you will have to bring them
With YOU. G.. w. Merrill O. ~i'1',
Gall Jar ;, 1902:
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