The daily sentinel., 1914-05-27
ABOUT HOME FOLKS AND HOME DO|NGS
"a. C. NE WToN.1

| \ letter received mere the past
week from Miss Daisy Gordon at Pay
ette. Idaho, reports that spring frosts
practically wiped out their small
fruits, peaches. pears, plums and a
good many apples, so that there will
be a light crop In that section which
a few years ago held to the belief
that it was immune from such losses.
! This also overthrows the idea that we
are going backward in the matter of
immunity from such danger because
of larger acreage; as a matter of fact
it is very probable that the seasons
are not changing but we are observ-
/ ing the weather more carefully and
have more Interests at stake.
Georgia and West Virginia report
very heavy peach crop this year
and they are about the only points
| that make such a report in the older
sections. Utah will interfere with
our product to a larger extent than
any other section and it will have a
very large crop this year. Michigan
has light crop and there are no
peaches In the great middle west. If
We can get our fruit TO the people
VINO have none there'll be no trouble
to get good money. and insofar as the
selling agency succeeds in doing this,
Just so much more successful will it
be over the old methods.
II our crop must be handled by the
! Jobbing trade, passing from that to
/ the wholesale commission man and
thence to the retail merchant we
shall be no better off than heretofore
and any grower who has fruit by the
carload can sell to the iobber IL he
mas the good sense to get the reliable
firms. The matter of distribution is
the one of greatest importance. One
may go to Chicago and other great
centers and find plenty of peaches
on the markets which are often
flooded while the country town has
no fruit at all.
Many large minds are devoting a
great deal of time to this question of
distribution and possibly we shall
have some final solution. In many
small towns in Colorado there are no
! peaches whatever and there is plenty
lot money to spend for them: the ex-
press rates many times are prohibi-
tive and doubly so when the commits
sion men hold up the prices at the
! points of distribution. 1t is possible
that a large amount of our fruit
could be sent out by parcels post
from Denver. Colorado Springs or
| Pueblo if the right man could be
| placed to make the distribution. The
same might be done from points in
Iowa, Illinois and other central states.
The tendency TO over-estimate our
fruit shipments should be frowned
upon: we have had one statement
this spring which was certainly very
much exaggerated; it is too early yet
to make any sort of an estimate as
there has been a heavy drop of pears
and some varieties Of apples. and
there is time vet for a heavy drop,
though the natural thinning is fire.
quently of great benefit. However.
II is always better to send out an un-
der estimate than an over statement
as it is Away much surer of being
correct. The cool weather and high
/ winds at the critical time of polinlz
alton seem to have caused a heavy
loss in some parts of the valley, but
this does not seem to have affected
the peach crop, as the trees are heav-
lily loaded and the fruit is growing
very rapidly.
We all had hopes that the Main
street bridge matter had been con
signed TO the scrap heap but here
comes the Socialist sheet with a re-
hash of the subject which has been
warmed upon so many ways that ev-
erybody Is disguised. With plenty
of live political subjects to discuss
one is at loss to understand why
our friends who have cure for every
financial and social i'll should waste
ink on this threadbare tale.
As expected the same paper has a
great deal to say as to the labor dis
pute in the coal fields and bases its
statements on much that has been
printed in the press of the state and
which Is in far too many cases abso-
luely untrue; the Socialist party
may have remedy for the evil con
dition and ii may be that we must
come to that turn in the road but ii
Will not be brought about by parti-
san statements and appeals to the
hatred of class against class. such as
the one that the writer does not dis
i approve of the action" OF the strik-
ers in arming and securing armed
which now goes to the human Junk