The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-28
REDF|ELD OPPOSES
FRUIT INSPECTION
SAYS THAT WE HAVE TOO MANY
LAWS AND THAT THE DEMAND
FOR CLEAN FRUIT WILL COM.
PEI CARE BY GROWERS.
Cashmere, Jan. 81.

CASHMERE, Jan. II.
Editor World: notice from
Fruit Inspector Darlington's report
that it cost Chelan county something
over $4,000 for bug hunting last
year.
at was very successful season
SO far as the inspectors were con-
cerned-three of the five employed
getting $1,000 or better for eight
or nine months work I call this
a very good showing-very good, in
deed, when we consider the fact that
there was no law for employing even
one inspector nor paying out single
cent for this purpose.
"Mr. Darlington wants a more
rigid and thorough inspection of
fruit that is shipped abroad in order
to keep up the reputation for clean
stock.
"It is well known that all the buy
ers coming here require contracts
specifying that the fruit shall be
sound, and free from San Jose scale,
cojling moth and other insects and
pests
''The buyers insist on these points
and the trade also demands them.
These demands and requirements
eliminate the necessity of inspection
on out of state shipments. This bug
hunting business is a sinecure
"Thc buyers will attend to that
affair If it becomes necessary. We
have corps of professors at the
agricultural college who make
study of the life and habits of or
chard pests and the methods of des-
troying them. They have given
in this valley for the
past two years so that we have moth
ing to fear from the codling moth
The intelligent fruit grower can and
will have clean apples even if his
fruit is full of worms. The
careless grower will have worms in
spite of all laws. There will be no
market for his fruit He will not
tarry long in the business. He will
have to sell out to some good man.
1t is of vital interest to every fruit
grower to raise clean fruit 1t has
been amply demonstrated that this
can be done, and most of the grow
ers are doing so now.
Our soil, climate and other con-
ditions for raising big red apples are
not surpassed by any county or To-
cality on the face of the earth. Yet
there are men in this valley that be-
lieve fruit growing will be a dismal
failure if we don't have more strin-
gent horticultural laws and more in
spectors to enforce them. If l could
not make a success of fruit growing
in the Wenatchee valley, or in fact
most any valley in the state of Wash
ington without being bolstered up by
the strong arm of the law, / would
hang my head in shame; I would
sell out and try some other business
which most likely would also be
fizzle.
"a man who can't make money
raising fruit in the Wenatchee valley
government assistance is
either in the wrong business Or
mighty poor stick. The sooner the
worm eats him out the better
I'VE have had the stone, the
bronze and the iron age. This is the
age of "law." You can't turn around
tramping down some law.
We are surfeited with law-law is a
drug on the market There are scarce
ly enough able bodied men in the
state to strictly enforce the laws al
ready enacted in this law-cursed
We are paying $780,.
900 to get more laws-cuspidors and
nine-feet Sheets
When l say that 80 cents covers
the benefit derived from fruit in
spection in Chelan county last year
I honestly believe I have overesti-
mated it by at least so per cent.
81 believe in the survival of the
fittest. You can't keep good man
down. If man is not adapted to
his work he will make a failure of
It. The law will be of little or no
assistance. His success or failure
depends on his ability or the lack