Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-08-21
CALIFORNIA FRUITS
A GREAT STATE AND SOME OF
ITS PRODUCTS.
OUR WONDERFUL SIGHTS
Thousands Go Abroad to See Won
ders and Neglect the Surprising
Grandeur Of America-Fruits Dis
cussed From Medical Stand
point.

Grandeur Of America-Fruits Dis
cussed From Medical Stand
point.
/ 1t seems more than passing strange
that every season there are so many
| people who cross the ocean TO view
the foreign countries. Thousands Of
I American citizens of wealth have
/ been abroad and done" the foreign
countries, who have never stood en-
raptured before the mighty Niagara;
who have never befleld the lofty pin
nacles of Colorado bluffs and can
! yOus; who have never crossed the
great divide or travelled the great
desert that leads onward to the land
Of fruits and foWers-California. No
foreign country can equal, or, for that
matter, approach the attractions, the
magnitude of productions that Cali
fornia offers to the nature lover or
the observing tourist.
The state, with it's 1880 square
miles, is truly an immense nature en-
cycIopedia. It's mines, giant trees,
fruits, nuts, vegetables, are endless
sources of wealth The mountains,
continually snow-capped, look down
on fertile valleys bright with flowers
and fruits-that never are blighted by
a winters icy touch. The variation
in the states climate is so great that
there are sections Of perpetual ice
and snow and at the same time other
sections where nature is ever clad
with her brightest ColOrs; where
growth never ceases. From these
two extremes there is the usual eli
matte or temperature variations that
go to make up delightful results in
farming and fruit and grain growing.
It seems California has sections that
are almost identical with nearly
every state in the union, when climate
and production are concerned.
w. H. Murray, representative Of the
California Fruit Grower, says "Few
people in the east appreciate what a
big state California is in the matter
Of area alone 1t has a coast line of
more tnan 700 miles and an average
breadth Of more than 200 miles. The
number cE acres is calculated to be
1O1 $50 400, near equal to New Eng,
lard Nov York and Pennsylvania
,Dwbinc1. The annual fresh fruit
shipmC It's amount to 1G5 600 0O0
pounds; the cured fruit output, 70
600 600 pounds; tho r"uno crop. TO-.
t.;
canned fruits and vo@,tqn!Gs $500
900, ORANGES and lemons, cars, 10000;
nuts, cars, $50; honey product, 5000,
600 pounds, vegetable shipments,
cars, $500; beans, 54,O00O00 pounds;
hops, bales $4,000; beet sugar, 65-
23OOO,00O; gold, $155OO,OOO. These
are some Of the notable products of
the state, but there are almost end
less other industries that are also
wondrous sources of wealth. The
poultry industry is making rapid
strides, and, like nearly all of Cali
rornia's products, in many sections
the business is being conducted on
large scale"
Mr.. Murray is a great advocate of
ripe fruit as an aid to digestion, and
concludes that liberal ues of fruits
is beneficial to the general health of
mankind. He says: MANY drugs
are taken which should be replaced in
a great measure by ripe fruits. Many
parents will moro readily spend
money on injurious or even poisonous
sweets than they will on good, health
full fruit and fashionable society will
spend pounds on cakes, wines and
brandes, while they spend as many
shillings on the very thing they need
to keep them healthy-fruit And as
for the amount of drugs swallowed
which should be replaced in a great
measure by fruit. 1t is beyond my pow
ers to calculate. Millions upon mil
lions of pounds are spent annually
upon mercurial and other purgatives.
most of which would be quite unneC-
cssary If the people would but look
upon fruit as a necessary article of
diet
Good ripe fruit contains a large
amount of sugar in a very easily di-
gested form. This sugar forms a light
nourishment which, in conjunction
with bread rice etc, forms a food es-
pecially suitable for these warm col
onies; and when eaten with. say milk
or eggs, the whole forms the most
perfect and easily digestible food i'm.
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