The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-01-28
INCIDENTS OF THE
TARIFF HEARINGS
Especial to the Silver state)

guess since the Inauguration of Presi
dent Taft in a fierce blizzard than it
I'll early in this month. 1t announced
that the eastern part of the United
States was going to have severe
weather. Instead the eastern region
enjoyed springlike weather which con-
tinued until the writing of this let
ter, and the cold snap struck Calfor-
MIA and froze up the lower end of the
state so hard that the papers there
saw the orange and lemon crop of 5O,-
600 cars will be reduced to 10000 car
loads. The Florida growers are bene-
fitting by the increased demand for
their fruit.
"We hear that sort of thing every
year. some of the papers say, but
thus far it seems certain that this esti-
mate is not too high. Perhaps the
damage will include the loss of many
trees. 1t is too soon to tell about that
Part of the crop was saved by
smudging," or raising the tempera-
ture with the aid of coal and crude
oil fires built in the groves in sheet
iron receptacles.
Ice to Retard Apple Trees.
i While the Californians were suffer
ing from the worst freeze they have
ever known, the apple and peach
growers of the Atlantic states were
fearful that the long-continued warm
weather would force their trees into
bloom in January and that they would
be caught by a subsequent frost and
the prospect of crop ruined. One
man in Washington, William F.
Thomas, is reported to have purchas-
ed 100 tons of ice, hauled it to his ap-
pie orchard in Maryland near by, and
had it cracked and piled around his
apple trees in an effort to keep them
from blossoming. That, it was stated
in the local press, was done on the
advice of the department of agricul
ture.
To Cut Tariff.
The ways and means committee of
the house of representatives took up
the agricultural schedule of the tariff
on January 20. Democratic members
of the committee announced that there
would be reductions on many articles
in the schedule. What these would be
was not Indicated.
Perhaps there was not such large
representation of simon pnre farmers
as one would have expected The
they wanted reductions in the duties,
as matter of course There were also
representatives of various producing
interests, including the rice growers,
the walnut men, the orange and lemon
growers of California and Florida, and
others.
s. Locke Breaux. of Louisiana, in a
reply to Representative Longworth s
query as to the effects ON his state of
putting rice and sugar on the free
list, replied:
eff the effect is so serious as to an
initiate the rice and sugar business,
then Louisiana will be in a condition
of distress such as has not occurred
since the Civil war;
Representative Broussard, of Louis
lana, and w. B. Dunlap, of Beaumont,
Texas, president of an association of
rice producers of Texas, Louisiana and
Arkansas, made a plea for maintain
ing the present tariff.
Nurserymen Appeal.
Irving Rouse, representing the
American Association of Nurserymen,
Rochester, ~ Y, made a statement of
what would be acceptable to his asso-
citation. Replying to Committeeman
Harrison, he said that he did not OBJ
ject to putting seeding evergreens on
the free list, but he wanted it speei-
fed that they should not be over two
years old. At present, he said, trees
twenty years old were imported as
seedlings. Mr.. Harrison thought that
would help reforest the country, but
Rouse said the country couldn't be re-
! forested with trees twenty years old.
After Dried Fruit.
To lower the duties on practically
all dried fruits and nuts, dried peas
and beans, and to take IL off some
fruits altogether was the demand of
L. B. Parsons, president of the Dried
Fruit Association of New York. He
thought dates should come in free.
Congressman Needham asked if it
WASH t true that raisins had sold last
fall in California for less than the
tariff on them, and he said yes, that
they had sold in the sweat box for
but he thought the duty should be
cut to | cent per pound.
For Cheap Meat.
''We can't have cheaper meat in
this country said Daniel J. Haley,
of Troy, \. Y, representing the Unit
ed Master Butchers Association of
America "unless we reduce the tar
if on meats and cattle There was
no one to take the part of the cattle
producers except members of the com
mittee who asked Haley few ques-
tions and then passed on TO lemons.
Maine vs. California.
Chas. M. Stewart, of Bangor, Me-, a
commission man selling box shocks,
told the committee that the Sieilian
lemon growers had one time paid the
Maine people 100000 a year for
shocks of which to make lemon and
orange boxes, but since the Payne tar
iff law went into effect with higher
duty on lemons. they had quit buying
Maine shocks entirely and had giveu
that trade to Austria. He asked that
the tariff be taken off of lemons.
G. Harold Powell manapnr of the