Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-04-27
A NEWSY LETTER FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Interesting Facts for the FarmerOr Representatives Now
Listen to the Petitions Of the Tillers of the Soil

ed green and cured always being
| handled literally with gloves, or like
eggs" as the saying goes, and how
to ship them. Then it was found that
the fruit could be imported more
cheaply than the home producer could
grow it Finally the tariff helped that
and in time it is predicted the State
of California alone will be able to
supply all of the lemons consumed
in the United States" and then some,
and that the price will go so low-it
is now drOpping-that the foreigner
will not find this market tempting
except to unload his surplus on it.
Advertising is an art that has grown
but slowly Some of the old files OF
newspapers that are kept stored away
in the Congressional Library are OF
the greatest interest because they give
as nothing else can certain aspects
OF the times in which they were print
ed. The House Beautiful has found
in one of these old newspapers some
quaint little advertisements and
among them is one of the little shop
where lemons were sold in Boston by
John Crosby. He called it The
Basket of Lemons" This was way
back in 1869, and Citizen Crosby mod
estly asserted that his lemons were
''as large, in general, as lemons com
monty are" and that they were sold
lat "a per hundred, or ten shillings
per dozen" That would be from ten
to twenty times the presept cost. And
yet one OF the free trade advocates i'll
Congress had the assurance last year
to charge publicly that the high cost
of living was due to the tariff on
lemons
As to Mr.. John Crosby's enterprise
in running FIVE or six line advertise
ment in 100 what would he think now
to see California spending Sl50,0O0 in
single year and the growers i'll Flor
ida making an expenditure proportion
ltely large. to advertise their wares,
md beside that distributing to the
consumers in the shape of premiums
the entire product OF one big silver
ware manufactory2
In all ages the eating OF fruit has
been recognized as an aid to health.
Some OF the more advanced dieticians
advocate the use OF fruit and nuts eN-
clusively The more reasonable plan.
however, seems to be to eat plenty
Of fruit, and that is the way DR.. Wiley
the famed pure food expert puts it.
He believes that everone should eat
! iruit-say oranges or applcs,an they
| cost about the same-every day. The
nation seems to be following this ad
vice. at will save doctors bills,
says DIR. Wiley, and who should know
Better than he2 But that is a funda
mental fact which everyone should
know from experience. 1t is pretty
safe to say that the more fruit people
eat, the better the health OF the nation
will be
So great is the demand for agricul
tural imports in this country that our
sales abroad are falling off and we are
importing large quantities. The re
cent shipments of potatoes from Ire
land are fresh in everyone'S mind, and
we take considerable shipments from
| Canada and Mexico. A recent agri
cultural item in the consular report,
states that last year 1917 ,69S crates Of
tomatoes were shipped to this coun
try from Cuba, besides 4l,Sl3 crates
of okra, eggplant, peppers, etc The
farmer still has room to expand hi
market