The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-05
BUYERS VIEWS On
FRU|TGROWERS
Gives Chance to "See Our
selves as Others See Us"
From Citical Viewpoint.

20 wad some power the g1ftie gle
us to see oursels as ithers see u.s."
said Bobby Burns in old Scotland
years ago and his cry has been
echoed by fellow mortals ever since,
says the Yakima Republic. But the
difficulty with the answer of the
prayer is this that when the prayer
is answered the looked-at one is sure
he has not been seen as he really is.
However that may be, fruit grow
ers of the Yakima valley might have
had the prayer answered had they
heard the dissertation recently pour
ed forth by a buyer who has pur-
chased fruit in Wenatchee, the Yaki-
ma valley and other points in the
interest of various houses through
period extending over good many
years. His discussion showed how
the grower looks from one viewpoint
and the discussion would have ex-
cited him even had it not proved in
structive.
Couldn't Buy Fruit.
Il couldn't go out now and buy
a peach. l could go out and offer a
man IS cents box for all his
peaches and he would say, We'll, III
talk to my wife, and we are going
to have meeting up in the school
house next Friday, and if you will
come around next Monday will tell
you all about it. And the next Mon
day he would say, L have talked TO
my wife and my neighbors about it
and l think l can do better and l
guess l won't SELL
Il could go out today and tell
man | would take every Jonathan
and Winesap and Spitzenberg he
would have in his crop and give him
S225 a box and he wouldn't take it.
He would want to hold it until spring
and get So.
Don't Like Profits.
IF a man knew l had bought his
crop and lost $500 on it he would
sleep so sound that he would snore
but if he knew l had made $500 on
it he wouldn't be able to sleep at all.
If l said had made $1,000 on it he
would say, OF course but if l told
him l had lost $1,000, he would say
it was a frame-up.
Il used to work for fruit asso-
citation and the members of the asso-
citation would pile ,neir best apples
of a wagon load near the brake block
where l would jump on to take off
the first boxes. When they would
get down to the boxes under the seat
would open a box. | turned down
81 of the first 20 lots that came in.
All Extra Fancy.
lone man wanted to know why l
was ill-tempered one morning. / told
him | hadn't slept well and that l
had given up chewing tobacco and
had taken to chewing gum instead
and that there wasn't a bit of gum
in town because all the rubber had
been used up in making Extra
Fancy stamps. He didn't know any
thing about Common or Choice
All he knew was Extra Fancy
The fruit is too high priced to eat.
worked for one man who told me
that if 1 found any of the packers
taking any fruit or eating any to fire
them or he would fire me. They
gather up few stung windfalls and
store them away in the cellar and
as fast as they get speckled they eat
them or make pie out of them, and
as a consequence they eat rotten ap-
pies all winter"
(The gentleman did not state whe-
Their this state of affairs applies to
the Yakima valley or whether it was
true only of some of the other Sec
tions he had been in)
He also made some other remarks
but before he got through the re-
porter took a hoist at his trousers
in the Texas fashion and left.
Us that fellow a reporter" in
Quired the fruit man as the reporter
departed.
The answer was, Yes