The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-04-15

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pels (coreplates) and seeds In the
Spencer. and other seedless apples the
tionabie iU core is present as usual. I'm
less the seedless variety should possess
in. addition unusual good quality or
to see why it should be particularly
desirable except as g. curiosity. We are
told the Spenser apple promoters expect
to develop seedless varieties of CONNER
cial apples, such as Winesap, Jonathan
Bellfower and Gano. This can only be
done by the usual breeding methods of
of succeeding generations. While it is
within the range of possibility that
seedless varieties resembling to some
extent our present successful CONNER
cial apples may in time be secured such
result is most uncertain, and likely to
require indefinite time. 49, e,o+s
"After this statement of the Facts
we can have no objection If readers de,
eide to buy seedless apple trees and
plant them They must decide for them,
enough to be worth five times as MUCH
as a tree of known good quality. r.
however, the Spencer Company intends
creamery and cannery sharks we do not
hesitate to advise our readers against
entering such. enterprises. There is
nothing in sight to warrant the claim
that this apple is to "monopolize the
markets of the world" Who would be-
leve such Claim if made for the tt,eo1 Kief
drive Bartlett Bose. Clapp and the
other good ones out of business as this
seedless annie is to DISPOSE of Baldwin,
We would not join stock company for
the prona cation of this fruit The ample
is not high enough in quallty TO MAKE
cannot live on the novelty feature
alone"
would like to say few things in
these columns relative to the view
point from which I write. I want
what I offer to be beneficial to the
common, everyday people who are en-
gagged in fruit raising. | wish to keep
that primarily in view. I am not try
ing to help the scientists who are
working in our experimental stations.
I am indebted to them for much that
I know. I am receiving their bulletins
from many parts of the United States.
I read these with profit and try to
make good use of their suggestions in
my own fruit growing. About the
only benefit I can be to these workers
is to report on how their suggestions
work in one of our commercial orch
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sense between these experiments and
the people in the actual pursuits of
life. Therefore, I discard technical
terms and try to make every thing
plain to the common people If
have any mission here it is to bring
over to these toilers what our expert
mentors have established and tell 1t
to them in their own language or at
least in language that they can readi-
ly understand. But it must not be
understood that I mean to say that
our experimentors are technical and
abstruse but as a general rule their
experiments are limited and their
world of vision is not so large on the
practical side as is the case with one
who is constantly making applications
of their experiments. I consider it
the highest mead of praise when I
am told that my writings are helpful
to the mass of fruit growers who are
without college training but, like
Topsy, have 'just growed up" on the
farm.
am asked to explain what is meant