The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-06-21
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 81, 1905.
., NJ. w. RUSSELL.


The following article. taken from
the Cornell reading course. contains
food for thought and gives some
people strong lint.
Every human being is RESPONSE
Bile for making his own part of the
world as beautiful as possible-to
cause a flower to bloom where none
has bloomed before, to rid door
way of unsightly weeds, to paint
a weather-beaten surface of the
house, to hang a picture that will
mean something to the life of the
observer. This desire to beautify
seems to be common to mankind:
the one who does not find this his
inclination may have become too
absorbed in iarduous duties to allow
1t to find expression.
1t is not enough that houses mere
ly be built; after they are. built
they should be made home-like by
means of serviceable furniture and
decoration. - 4- lt .
A report from Colfax states that
the fruit crop throughout eastern
jured by the heavy frosts of May
practically all varieties of fruit this
year. Whitman county has suf-
fered much but the heavies, dam
age seems to be in the section
south of Snake river. Shippers are
trying to contract all of the peaches,
plums, pears, apricots and other
higher than last year.
Owing to frosts in May the apple,
pear. plum and cherry crops in many
places on the uplands were dam
aged and it is thought there
will be less than half an aver
age apple crop in Whitman county.
The Willamette Valley Prune as
ISOLATION of Oregon concludes that
what looked a few weeks ago like
third or half of crop. of
prunes has dwindled down to not
more than a fourth of an average
crop and that indications are that
it will fall below the estimate be-
fore the fruit natures. Unless the
weather is more favorable in the
future it has been in the past it
is thought that the crop in some
sections will not be worth harvest
ing. Secretary jerks estimates the
total yield at not to exceed 9.000,-
900 pounds, against an average
yield of about 36,000,000 pounds
Prunes may be worth taking care
OF this year.
A special effort of the fruit
growers, should be made this year
to raise and put upon the market
the best fruit that they can produce
as there will be thousands of eastern
and other people and retail buyers
and consumers of fruit as well as
homeseekers and investors that will
come in contact with Yakima fruit
during their journey and visit to
and at thte Lewis and Clark Expo
sition at Portland. Thinning
should be practiced on all fruits
that load too heavy in order to
raise large fruit; packing in a neat,
uniform and attractive way in the
packages, and stenciling all with a
good, conspicuous mark of Yakima
fruit and growers name, and he
will be paid for it by advertising
the Yakima valley as well as his
own fruit and not advertising Walla
Walla or the Missouri Ozark
regions by the best of Yakima APP
pies, as has been done in the past
by selling to outside buyers and let
ting them stencil the fruit to suit
themselves, thus securing the top
market prices in eastern markets.
Seeing is believing and seeing the
handsome Yakima fruit will create
desire to purchase, eat, or raise
such fruit and 10 study the country
where 1t grows. This method of
advertising the valley will do lot
and also bring returns to the grow
er by the fruits being shipped to
Spokane, Seattle or Portland, where
most of the visitors will stop, and
selling for advanced prices, and
stenciling the fruit shipped east will
advertise Yakima fruit and valley
in the east.
Fighting Mosquitoes.
Prof. c. w. Woodwork of the
state university and Dr.. NJ X. Fos-
ter, secretary of the state board of
health of California have Joined
in the publication of information
about the reduction of mosquitoes
and the relation thereof to the pub
lie health:
In many parts of California mos
quitoes are preat nuisance. and
nearly everywhere except in the
coolest parts of the Immediate
coast region, the species carrying
malaria are to be found more. or less
abundant. Comparatively little
work has yet been done with the OBJ
ject in view of mitigating this
trouble. lint the efforts that have
been made have been remarkably
successful. There seems no reason
why individuals or communities in
any part of the state might not take
up the matter with good deal of
assurance in obtaining results which
will amply pay for the expenditure.
A great deal of investigation must
be made before all the facts in re-
gard to the species occurring in this
state are available. In nearly every
region there will he one or two