The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-04-18

to be more beneficial than profitable,
whereas il very small pecans, pig nuts.
hickories or allied stock of inferior var
/ ieties be used. and not subsequently bud
ded with choice pecans, the product of
such seeding tree may be practically
worthless.
Inferior Trees Expensive.
/ In the 4Ith annual report of the Hor-
ticultural Society of Missouri, 1901, APP
pears an article by Albert Brownell,
Northwest Horticultural, upon the sub
iect of cheap trees. 1t is replcte with
so much truth and common sense that
it may be read with profit by all CON
celned. 1t reads: at costs more to
produce good article than poor one,
and in buying. the first question should
be not how cheap but how good it is.
Many people understand this well en-
ough and yet how few ever stop to APP
ply the rule to nursery stock. In no
other kind Of purchase is the quality
Of the article or such vital Importance
as in nursery stock. The price of the
tree is the smallest part Of its cost by
The time ii Fas come into bearing. If
man buys cheap trees. to save few
cents ON each. by the time the tree
comes into bearing the expense of the
land. labor. etc. has amounted to scv-
eral times the cost of the tree: and
consequently il his cheap stock turns
out as il uniformly does, TO he of infer
ior and worthless varieties, then it i
a serious loss to him and he has to be-
Yin all over again. Now, is it not plain
10 all that it is rank folly for anyone
70 risk this dead loss of trees, use land
for years, expense of cultivation. etc, to
save Il few cents on the tree, when for
tritling increase in price he can get the
very best warranted stock? As n mat.
ter OF insurance man can not afford
TO buy anything but the best warranted
stock 1t is ii general rule. which can be
relied upon, that cheap stock is worth
less stock, and therefore dear at any
price. If man won't pay for good
stock, and buys cheap stock to save
money, he is very sure to lose all he
puts into it. We can not get something
for nothing. and when an article is Of
fercd at an extraordinarily low price
there must be some good reason for it.
The very simple reason is that rs the
article is of bad quality il can not be
sold in competition with first class goods
and is therefore necessarily worked off
on the public at low rate to catch
fthosc people who will bite al anything
cheap with out regard to quality. Such
/ people never get ahead because they
waste their money on poor trash that
gives them no value received for their
outlay. In concluding these series Of
/ articles let me say. All facts tend to
convince the observant ones among us
that vast opportunities are slipping by
and that steadily increasing wealth lies
at our doors. and generations vet unborn
will bless the far-seeing wisdom and
forcthought of those careful students,
who close to Mother Nature and faith
oming her ways. are profiting by ex-
perience, and, informed of affairs and
the commercial and material wants of
the progressive world have plantAd
choice pecan trees, lasting monuments
Of beauty, shade and profit.
To the International, U. s. Bureau of
Statistics, G. NJ. Bacon of Georgia. am
much indebted for the help extended to
me in these series of articles, as we'll as
to The Yakima Daily Herald in opening
up its columns to all these extend my
heartfelt thanks.
PAUL G. KRUGER.