The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-07-28
'SUCH Is LIFE In
YAKIMA VALLEY

20 wad some power the giftie gle US
to see oursels as ithers see US, 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 growers
of the Yakima valley might have had
the prayer anwsered had they heard
the dissertation recently poured torth
by a buyer who has purchased fruit
in Wenatchee, the Yakima valley and
other points in the interest OF various
houses through period extending over
a good many years. His discussion
showed how the grower looks from
one view point and the discussion
would have excited him even had 1t
not proved instructive.
| couldn't go out now and buy
peach. could go out and offer man
rs cents box for all his peaches and
he would say, well, I'll talk to my
wife, and we are going to have
meeting up in the schoolhouse next
Friday, and if you will come around
next Monday | will tell you all about
it.
And the next Monday he could say
81 have talked to my wife and my
neighbors about it and think can do
better and | guess on't.sell.
81 could go out today and tell a
man | would take every Jonathan and
Winesap and Spitzenberg he would
have in his crop and give him $2.25 a
box and he wouldn't take it. He
would want to hold it until spring and
get So.
"If a man knew had bought his
crop and lost $500 on it he would sleep
so sound that he would snore, but if
he knew | had made $500 on it he
wouldn't be able to sleep at all. Ii
| | said | had made $1,000 on it he would
say of course, but if told him had
lost $1,000 he would say it was frame
up.
II used to work for a fruit associa-
| tion and the members of the assocla-
tion would pile their best apples of a
wagon load near the brake block where
| would Jump on to take off the first
boxes. When they would get down to
the boxes under the seat | would
open box. | turned down n of the,
| first 20 lots that came in.
Zone man wanted to know why
was ill-tempered one morning. | told
! him | hadn't slept well and that | had
given up chewing tobacco and had
taken to chewing gum instead and
there was a bit of gum in town be-
cause all the rubber had been used up
in making Extra Fancy stamps. He
didn't know anything about Common
or Choice" All he knew was Extra
Fancy
1.-The fruit is too high priced to eat.
/ worked for one man who told me
that if / 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 oil
make pie out of them, and as conse-
quence they eat rotten apples all win
ter
(The gentleman did not state whether
this state of affairs applies. to the Yak
ina valley or whether it was true only
of some of the sections he had been in. }
He also made some other remarks
but before he got through the reporter
took hoist at his trousers in the
Texas fashion and left.
'Is that fellow reporter?' in
quired the fruit man as the reporter
departed. The anwser was, Eyes. "