The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-02-01

| TACT is, some Oh our SldISS nave very
stringent laws with reference to in
sect pests-laws that practically do no
good at all. The insects get in and
spread and they will continue to do
so. Our main dependence must be in
| fighting these insects and curtailing
| their injury. l believe that our law in
Washington should be so amended as
| TO prevent the introduction and selling
of fruit affected with codling moth
only in those sections where it has
not already been introduced. In the
infected sections no good whatever can
come from prohibiting its introduction.
Under the head of "Too Many
Prunes" Col. Henry E. Bosch, of Hills
dale, Oregon, read a valuable paper.
Col. Bosch has travelled extensively
in the United States, Europe and Asia.
He is one of those men who "see
things" Having formerly been extern
sively engaged in the raising OF
prunes he very naturally had his eyes
open to the situation of the prune mar
ket. He thinks that we have but to
make the people acquainted with the
superior quality and the medicinal val
ue of the Italian prune to greatly en-
large it's use and consequently increase
it's sale enormously. Mr.. Bosch showed
that the use of this prune is very
conducive to health and especially in
stomach troubles The acid of this
prune is just suited to the conditions
of the digestive organs. 1t is cure
for scurvy. In his visit to Japan Mr.
Bosch called the attention of the jap
anese officials to this fact, and secured
promise that these prunes should
be tried in their army, where the
scurvy is great scourge. Mr.. Bosch
is fine scholar and has fine COM
and of the English language, though
foreign born. 1t is real pleasure, as
well as source of profit, to hear such
a paper read.
Col Bosch thinks the Italian prune
should be called the Oregon prune."
His reason for this is that it should
not be COMPOUNDED in the markets with
the California product, which is al
most entirely what is known as the
French prune, and also because the
word italian" is a miSnOmer for the
reason that the prune did not orig1-
nate in Italy, nor is it raised there to
any considerable extent. Objection
was made to this on the part of the
prune raisers of Washington and
Idaho They say it is worse mis-
homer to call it the Oregon prune
when it did not originate there and
especially so when raised in these
other states. Col. Bosch replied that
this whole section, except British Co
lumbia, was once known as Oregon,
and that it is a misnomer. But Wash
ington was set off from Oregon in
1858, and prune raising began in the
Northwest in 1857 Besides, the larg-
est prune growing section in the
United States is in Clarke county,
Washington, where the annual produc-
ton amounts to ESQ carloads of the
finished product
Col. Bosch is too fine scholar not
to know that there is nothing in the
fact that the name is misnomer.
Our word Indian" is a misnomer. Co
lumbus thought when he dicovered
America that he had come to India
and hence called the natives "Indi-
ans" When the mistake was found
out it was too late to make the change.
In fact, America" itself in a sense
is a misnomer-the country should
have been called Columbia" after the