The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-06-08
ON INTtN-
S|yE CULTIVATION
Especial to the Silver state.)

ever decide that it is desirable to
learn it, with regard to intensive cul-
| tivation.
United States Consul Robert Frazer,
Jr., of Valencia, Spain, has written to
the state department to the effect
that in the province of Valencia fami-
lies subsist on the product of four
tenths of an acre of land and that as
many as 100 families live on 100
acres. The cultivation is by hand, lit
tie machinery being used, and the land
is officially valued at an average of
| $656 an acre. Rainfall being INSULT
cient, irrigation is necessary, but the
production is enormous, amounting to
more than 100000 metric tons of or
anges, olives, grapes and other crops.
Much Land Undeveloped.
In view of such figures as these
one is tempted to ask why there is any
cry of land faminea The govern
ment is still giving away land for
nothing, and in some localities it is
giving the homesteader 800 acres,
while in others it has reduced the
period of time required to get title to
homestead to three years.
Undoubtedl-~ the rush to Canada is
largely misguided. It has been in
ducd by active advertising on the part
of Canada, and by more liberal regu-
lations for the taking up OF lands.
Many Americans who have precipi-
lately crossed the border are likely to
come back again as soon as they can
DO so without loss, and they will be
the better for their experiences. More
over, they will have learned that the
distant fields always look greenest, and
that Uncle Sam still has as good lands
as are being given away by any 9th
er government.
Tariff no Hindrance.
1t does not appear that the New
York market for Sicily lemons justi-
fies the anxiety of Congressman Har-
rison, Warburton and others to get
lemons put on the free list.
The foreign lemon brings in a reve-
nue. of some $3,000,000 a year to a
treasury which is meeting a great
strain for pensions, harbor works. pub
lie building, maintaining an army and
some five times as many retired as ac-
tive admirals. The country is spend
ing pretty literally. and yet a little
bagatelle like three millions for the
lemon tariff is thought by some states
men to be not worth saving.
On May Gath the Fruitman' s Guide
said that lemons were selling better
in New York because of the warm
weather, that AZ 900 boxes had been
offered that week, and that prices had
ranged up to $40. There were 101,-
900 boxes reported in transit to New
York. 1t is evident that the only
thing which kept the price of lemons
reasonably low was the ability of Cal
ifornia to put down first class fruit
in New York at prices at least as low
as those realized for the imported
fruit
Great Fruit Country.
According to consular reports, the
Island of Tasmania, of which very
little is heard in this part of the
world, is becoming one of the leading
fruit districts in the world and is
desirous of closer business relations
with the United States.
AS yet the chief market for Tas-
manian fruits is England, although
large shipments are made to Germany
and to other countries. Apples seem
to be the chief crop. Experimental
shipments to New York last year met
with disappointing results as they
were shipped via England, and in
crossing the Atlantic they were dam
aged by frost
The Oscillation Editor.
1t seems apparent that the editor
of the Janesville (Wis.) Recorder is
thority on osculation He has taken
h. <bak
sacred rite needed anyone to cham
pion it. saying;
''California reports all kinds of
schemes to boom her lemon industry,
but the last that comes to our notice
appropriates the confectionery, or in
plain, United States takes the cake. ,
can edict has been issued,' con-
tinues the only expert on osculatory
ethics, "by some quasi i-scientific au
thority who ought to be in better
business, that kiss should always be
followed by the sucking of lemon,
supposedly for the purpose of prevent
ing an interchange of microbes that
might lead to very shocking results.
We know nothing of the sanitary
properties of California kiss (here
let us remark that the gentleman will
Immediately receive the profound sym
pathy of all the California editors who
read this), "but we do know (aha,
so he has had some experienced y
speaking from personal experience of
others Ooh, shucks, not competent
testimony ''that whoever kisses one
of the Wisconsin girls does not want
anything to take the taste out of his
mouth.
''No he will carry that delicious
taste as long as possible, microbes or
no microbes.
"Try something else dear Golden
State, to boost up your lemon trade.
We win eat freely of your lemons dur
ing the hot weather, but neither inn
mediately before or after kisses, if
YOU please.
'fGo to grass with your scientific
theories that would counteract the
sweetness of kissl We will take our
kisses straight, using the lemons to