The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-01-01
HORTICULTURE.
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the squeal and has it for sale on
monograph records. No doubt but
some people will buy these records as
a matter of curiosity, but so far as 1
am concerned, I heard enough of that
kind of noise in my boyhood days
spent on the farm to last me through
life. No canned squeal for me, please.
But this aside, I wish to call attention
to the waste on many fruit farms.
Some apples, peaches and other fruits
will necessarily be unfit to ship to
market and would be dumped into the
bay or burned if they were. In a new
country there is of necessity a lack of
means to properly care for much of
this waste. When prices are high and
profits are great the loss from this
waste will not be noticed. But this will
not always be so. The time may come,
and not very far in the future, when
the saving of all waste from our or
chards will spell success, otherwise,
failure.
Canneries, evaporators, vinegar fac
tories and other means of saving waste
must be encouraged. The government
has taken up this matter and we may
expect some profitable bulletins along
this line. Already one such bulletin
has been issued. 1t is called Bulletin
No. IS, from the Bureau of Chemistry.
It can be had free by addressing the
United States Department of Agricul-
chit n md cir ipcr 70
this publication. This is a move in
the right direction. Apple juice is a
very wholesome drink. This bulletin
| tells how to put it up and keep it from
| fermenting. Apple cider soon ferments
| if left open to the air and the weather
| is warm. This fermentation, as I have
| several times explained in these col
umns, is first alcoholic and then acetic.
When the cider is hard it contains as
much as II per cent of alcohol in some
cases. To drink much Of this hard
| cider will make man "glor1ouSly
drunk if there is any such thing No
| parent, who has the welfare of his
| boys at stake, will permit them to use
| this hard cider Once the taste is
formed for Intoxicating drinks the
| habit becomes a demon that rushes its
victim on to ruin. While I would pre-
| fer my Gull apples to go to waste or
to be fed to the hogs, than to be the
means of making drunkards, yet this
is not necessary. This apple juice can
be canned or put up in kegs and will
remain fresh and wholesome for
months. Grape juice is now being
shipped into our state by carloads and
is taking the place of the wine that is
"red in the cup and that orders itself
Alright The fashionable custom of
setting wine before guests will ulti-
mately give place to the use of infer
mented grape juice and instead of
apple wine we will have the infer
mented apple juice put up as recon-
mended in the bulletin here referred to.
Fruit growing tends to temperance.
The use of apples and other fruits les
sens the use of fiery drinks. President
H. M. Gilbert deserves the thanks of
all decent people for the noble words
he uttered at the recent meeting of
the State Horticultural Association in
Spokane in favor of temperance. 1t is
reported that at a meeting of the State
Horticultural Society of Missouri at
Columbia in that state a few years
ago, but one of all the men assembled
there went into a saloon. do not think
quite so good a report could be given
of Washington fruit growers, but a
few, very few, I believe, still 'prac-
tice at the bar" When they do go
into saloons they seem to feel like say
ing to each other what the girl said to
her beau the first time she ever had