The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-10-15

races to take place. The grange is
right"
Y
Those who oppose such practices as
here referred to are accused of OPP
posing the fairs. l have spoken against
the prominence of the horse racing of
Washington State fair and some COM
plant has been made that l am work
ing against the fair. I am friend
of the state fair and want it to pros
per- but the pool selling and selling
of intoxicants are positive damage
to the fair. In California it was pre-
dicted that if these evil features were
eliminated it would ruin the fair, but
now comes the Pacific Fruit World
of Los Angeles and says that the at
tendance was never so great nor the
fair so prosperous as since these bad
features were given up. So it will be
in all such cases. l see by the Yakima
Herald that the w. G. T. u. of North
Yakima has refused to make an ex-
hibit or in any way patronize the state
fair till these Objectionable things are
ruled out. Sooner of later all who are
opposed to such things will have to
take the same step if the management
persists in it's course.
Y
The papers tell of a conflict between
the state horticultural commissioner
of Washington and the fruit inspectors
of Yamhill and Marion counties of
Oregon Some peaches were con-
demned in Tacoma as being infected
with San Jose scale The Oregon in
spectors claimed that there was no
scale on the peaches; that what ap-
peared to be scale was a fungous
growth. 1t is not my intention to
express any opinion on the matter in
controversy for I have not seen any
of the infected peaches. l have this
to say, however, that I would not ship
any peaches so affected with fungi
that they would be likely to be con-
demned as scaly. 1t is extremely
doubtful if the scale can be spread on
fruit but so long as we have the laws
we have, we must observe them and
expect them to be enforced. Such
fungous growths, if that was the NAL
ady, might become dangerous pests.
e
Quite a little is said in the Yakima
papers about new fruit that some
call the peach-apricot but the promo
ter Mr.. Gale, calls the "Yakimeen."
AS near as | can learn the facts in
this case, Mr.. Gale bought some peach
trees and when one of them came into
bearing it's fruit was found to be I'M
like any of the others. 1t seemed so
much like what cross between the
peach and the apricot ought to be that
Mr.. Gale concluded it was real cross.
However, this is mere conjecture, for
so far as known to the horticulturists
of the world, no cross between the
peach and the apricot has ever been
secured. 1t would be the delight of
our experimentors in new fruits to
find such a novelty. 1t might be
valuable fruit and it might not. But
they would want satisfactory proof
that the cross was a real hybrid and
not simply sport. The probability
is that this new fruit, if such it proves
to be- is a sport but that would not
necessarily make it a worthless pro-
duction. 1t is to be sincerely hoped
that this fruit may be all that is
claimed for it.
y
Some very silly things have gotten
into the papers about this "Yaki-
men," For instance, some have
claimed that it is cross between the
peach and the apricot as the result
of grating or budding. But crosses
are never made in that way and it is
fortunate thing for the horticultur-
lists that such is the case, for then
we could have no permanency in our
varieties of fruits when we multiplied
by grating. If budding a peach on an
apricot stalk or the reverse could pro-