The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-05-28
FAyORS Monument
FOR MOTHER EYI
Especial to the Silver State }

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| WASHINGTON, May 27.-While
we are talking about monuments and
memorials, what g the matter with a
monument to Eve7
By the accounts, Eve was a great
woman. She was our universal ancest-
or. None OF the genealogists ever get
any farther back than Eve. And Eve
was a suffragist. She was an equal
partner with the "head of the house,
(let us call him SO by courtesy any
way) in the fruit orchard known as
Eden. AT Adam didn't feel like try
ing the qualities of the apple-or
lemon, as some believe it to have been
| (while the Californians declare it was
an orange) Eve invented the initia-
tive to meet the occasion, and so be-
came the first Progressive. What
though both Adam and Eve suffered
the "recail' in consequence? Eve still
deserves monument at the hands
of her descendants, for the habit of
eating fruit has survived to this day,
and who would be willing now to fore
go the benefits of the great discovery
of Ewes that fruit-whether apples.
lemons, oranges, figs or what not-are
good for the system and beneficial to
the complexion, besides adding to the
family expense account unless grown
in your own back yardf
Perhaps we have not shown Eve SO
much honor as she deserves because
the earlier chroniclers did not dress
up their facts with as much wealth of
descriptive laudation as marks the
effusion on the society page Of the
journals of today. 1t is not too late
to honor Eve Why not have congress
erect a monument to her fame?
Apropos!
OF course it is natural enough for q
Californian to say, ooh apropos the
Titanic disaster, what do you think
of our climate?o Or else: "Ah, yes
sun spots no doubt affect our weather
but apropos; did you ever see finer
lemons than we are shipping out of
Riverside and San Diego nowf
1t WASH t Californian, however
who at hearing by the senate com
mittee on commerce asked Willis
Booth, of Los Angeles, in the middle
of panegyric on the Los Angeles
harbor if his talk "applied to lem
ons2' 1t was Senator Jas. A. Reed, OF
Kansas City, Mo-, and it was case
of "apropos because the senator had
been petitioned somewhat extensively
| by his constituents last summer moi
to urge the removal of the duty on
| lemons. Senator Perkins. of Califor-
MIA, broke into the testimony at that
particular juncture to say that he
hoped for Senator Reeds kind con
sideration for lemons-California lem
ons, not Sicilian-and Senator William
Alden Smith, fresh from a sojourn by
the gentle wavelets which kiss the
sands of San Diego bay, the beach at
Newport and the shores of fair Venice
announced his firm friendship for ev-
erything Californian including lemons
which he said were cheaper than ever
before and-he added-which thrived
under a tariff that brought $3,000,00C
a wear into the Federal treasury
while still permitting the foreign fruit
to find a profitable market in this
generous country
Thrips Parasite.
1t has been determined by the de
partment of agriculture that the thrips
parasite can be put in cold storage
and its development retarded until il
NAV be convenient to distribute it. On
if desired the material can be col.
lected in the field and shipped direct
to the point where it is to be intro
duced.
Experiments in these lines were con
Quoted at Compton, Cal, and in Wash
ington, and in 1911 much material was
put in cold storage in Los Angeles. II
is stated that while many of the in
furious forms of thrips have beer
studied in the United States no inter
nal parasites of Importance were rear
cd until 1911.
Tomato Seed Oil.
In ITALY and France an industry has
sprung up in the manufacture OF
tomato seed oil. The Consular Reports
note that in the province of Parma
ITALY. $4,000 tons of tomatoes are
conserved annually and the residue
which until recently was thrown away
now yields 600 tons of oil. Chemical
w this is classed with cottonseed oil
and it will be used in soap-making an6
other industries where that oil finds
uses. The extension of the tomato oil
industry will be largely at the expense
of the American cottonseed oil trade
Oil Seed Trade.
A branch of agricultural industry
which seems to have been somewhat
neglected in this country is the pro
duction of oils from seeds. Except
flax and cotton seed not much import
ance seems to be attached to ilbear
ing seeds. Yet the city of Hull, Eng
land, which Is the third most import
ant city commercially in England, ane
Marscilles, France, find in the pro
duction of seed oils very large anc