Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1910-03-10
NO BETTER FRUIT
COUNTRY ANYWHERE
EXPERT SAYS WAILowA coUN.
TY ExcELa IN COIL AND Gil
MATIc ADVANTAGES.

Ai0u the NOunNy Iutl lhspSStOI
contains some good ideas of general
interest:
l wish to preface this article by
stating that there can be no new
facts advanced in the matter of
whether it pays to grow fruit.
Everybody that is posted at all
and is willing to take the time to
look up the statistics knows that
fruit growing has been and will be
one of the best moneygetting and
money-earning industries for the
husbandman for years to come. The
writer has been identified for the
last 20 years with all kinds of fruit
growing and has been in all the fruit
districts of the Northwest, barring
none, and Wallowa county can and
will produce just as good fruit as
can be grown in any other fruit dis
,rict and from general observation
consider the industry very promis-
ing indeed. Now if our own ciu-
zens will take on a little more ac-
uvity and let the general public
know of the great wealth of choice
alluvial soil that is so we'll adapted
20 the growing of the apple and
pear, these two great staple CONNER
cial varieties, would be step along
the line of progress.
1t seems almost needless to repeat
that these two staple fruits have
made several districts wealthy.
Our county is what is known as
diversified fruit growing country.
Some parts grow varieties that
other parts can not, as the climatic
conditions govern, but as a whole
there is no kind of fruit grown in
the Northwest that can not be grown
in Wallowa county. l have the
temerity to claim that it is the best
county in the state for all kinds
of husbandry and the annual distri-
button of moisture is of the best
Little has been done in a CONNER
cial way in this section in regard to
fruit, as all of the older orchards
have so many varieties 1T is a diff
ficult matter to collect a carload
shipment of any one variety.
The keeping qualities for CONNER
cial purposes of fruit grown in
this district is of the best, the
hardy condition of the trees make
without question the fruit better,
and apples have been known to
keep in an ordinary cellar from the
fall to the first day of June. These
facts being taken into consideration,
there is no question but that Wal
Iowa county can be known as a. fruit
district that can grow first class
commercial varieties.
What we need and will get is
more people and of the right sort,
the kind that can produce. 1t will
not be the fellow that says it won't
pay, "It can not be done" and who
sits around, chews tobacco, and spits
on the stove, finds fault with his
neighbor, and is "agin" the govern
ment and law and order. Nor will
it be the lOoker-on who watches his
neighbor do things and is always
talking about his inopportunities and
that he never did have chance.
But it is the fellow that is awake
and knows that he can do it, and
tries to find out how to do it, and
there are no greater opportunities
anywhere than right here in Wal
'oWa county to get a start in the
fruit industry and he who takes care
OF these advantages will grow and
prosper, and thereby become a use
full citizen because he produces
something.
The fruit industry gives a man
with small means a better oppor-
tunity to get a start than any other
kind Of farming, for 1t takes less
capital and the man who Is will
ing to work can In a short time
be independent.
Whenever persons are entering
upon the production of any new in
dustry IT is not all sunshine; there
will be a few storms, but if you
stick you are sure to win.
There is a tendency to specialize
In all kinds of industries, and why
not in farming, and / am of the
opinion that the future success of
the husbandman will be in specialize
ing the fruit product.
The Hon. H. NJ. Williamson, sec
retary of the state board of horti-
culture, in his talk before the Ore
gon Agricultural college voiced these
same statements. He alsa stated
that the day for the home orchard
for commercial purposes is past,
and that the product of the future
will be in orchards planted and cul-
tivated solely for apples and pears,
according to up-todate and scientific
methods. He also declared that the