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0 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8. 1913 v ; v' xS:-' -5 V . '' ' ' V TV' : - t . . " - t IT must be said that literature has gained in many respects in tins hurrving, economic ago. It has GAINED LN POINT AND I'KKCISIOX WHAT IT IIAS LOST IN POWEK. We are more impatient of the sham, the make believe, the dilatory, the merely rhetorical and oratorical. We are more impa tient of the obscure, the tedious, the impotent, the superfluous, the far fetched. We have a new and a sharpened sense for the HEAL, the VITA I, the LOGICAL. The dilatory and meandering methods of even such a writer as Hawthorne tire us a little now, and the make believe of a Dickens is well nigh intolerable. WE WANT A STORY TO MOVE RAPIDLYi WE WANT THE ES SAY FULL OF POINT AND SUGGESTION. WE FIND IT MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO READ BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. AND ALL WRIT ING -ABOUT AND ABOUT" WE ARE IMPATIENT OF. WE WANT THE THING ITSELFj WE WANT CURRENTS AND COUNTERCUR RENTS MOVEMENTS AND RAPIDITY AT ALL HAZARDS. We are nsed to seeing the wheels go ronnd; we feel the tremen dous push of our civilization all about us; we see the straight paths, despite obstacles, that the controlled physical forces make over the earth's surface; we are MASTERS OF THE SCIENCE OF SHORT CUTS in all departments of life, and b.nh literature and philosophy respond to these conditions. Pragmatism has come in, dogmatism has gone out; the formal, the perfunctory, the rhetorical, count for less and less; the direct, the MANLY, the ESSENTIAL count for more and more. Science has cured us of many delusions, and it ha? made up the poorer by dispelling certain illusions, but it has surely MADE THE EARTH A MUCH MORE HABITA BLE PLACE than it was in the f rescien tific ages. PARCELS POST KEEPS FOLKS A' HUSTLING "Did my horse feed come this morn ing," was one of the first questions which greeted Postmaster Lucas when he opened the parcels post window for first time Thursday morning. This was the first and only one of the many facetious remarks prompted by the in stallation of the new service with its many possibilities. As a matter of fact the first day's business for the parcels post at the local postoffice was very good. Many parcels were posted by residents in the city and not a few of the merch ants took this their first opportunity to mail packages of goods to patrons liv ing on the R. D. routes. Among the first to post parcels was a local drygoods merchant who ap peared with bis arms full of packages the aftermath of Christmas. These be dumped into the parcels post win dow. They were all stamped with the common stamps. When Postmaster Lucas Informed the patron that he had violated one of the "11 command ments" by not using the parcels post stamps the merchant took back the packages with the exclamation that be would have to "lick those stamps all off again now." Most of the patrons showed familiar ity with the rules governing the new service. A few, however, faileu to put a return card on the packages and these must be held. This presents a difficult problem, as the office cannot easily learn from whom they came in order to notify them. Evidently there will be numerous "Postage due" no tices received by postoffice patrons at the receiving end until the rules are thoroughly learned. That local merchants are going to take advantage of the new service in order to get delivery Into the valley was shown by a package mailed one of the first days. This contained a roll of butter, a cut of meat and a loaf of brrad almost a complete meal which articlea were Bent by a local merchant to a country consumer. Nu merous small packages containing ap ples have been sent out from here. Kach of the R. D. men are now equipped with a pair af scales and a Wipe for measuring and weighing the artrlea. They alao fairy maps show ing the eight tones Into which the country hat been divided. llroken some food resolutions. Real Life Characterizes Literature of Toda.y By JOHN BURROUGHS. Naturalist and Essayist LOCAL TRANSFERS OFJEAL ESTATE Hood River Terminal Company to City of Hood River, right of way deed for sewer north of railroad track, $500. Roland Oliver to George Perkins, 30 acres in Upper Valley. George Perkins to Ziba Dimmick, tract in Upper Valley and another west of Dee. E. T. FoKs and wife to T. M. Mitch ell, lots 21 to 27, Folts Subdivision of Odell. E. E. Kreisler to H. K. Wilder, lot 6, block 1, Waucoma Park, $750. Homer A. Rogers to Elizabeth S. Rogers, his wife, 90 acres in Upper Val ley. August N'iehans to Theo L. Harley, 15 acres on East Side. U. S. to William C. Smullin, patent to 160 acres in the Upper Valley. Oregon Lumber Company to E. J. Miller, tract No. 13, Section 13 (River side Park). John M. Parry to John C. Laurer, 10 acres at Oak Grove, $7500. Hood River Orchard Land Company to Harry LeVain, 5 acres at Oak Grove. Louis P. Bruce and O. A. Hoffman to A. Niehans, tract in Dukes Valley WILL LECTURE ON BIRDS U. of O. Professor to Interest Children of State in Nature Study At the request of State Game War den Finley, Professor John F. Bovard, of the department of zoology at the University at Eugene, will give illus trated lectures on birds and bird stud les before the public schools of Ore gon. In this manner an effort will be made to interest the children in birds so that they w ill be able to distinguish beween the harmful and beneficial birds. The lectures will be given both in the country and city schools of the state. A course in bird study and In a study of the more common insects for the older persons Interested in nature study has been prepared by Professor Bovard as part of the extension, or correspondence study, department of the university. This is conducted by mall and is open to any resident of Oregon. Don't snore In church, keep others awake. It's mean to f XtoCAL jEfoPLE ALK WENATCHEE SHIPS 4,243 CARLOADS According to a comprehensive re port made by P. S. Darlington, horti cultural inspector, the Wenatchee dis trict, comprised of Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Okanogan counties, produc ed this season 4, 948 cars of market able fruit. Of this quantity, Chelan county led with more than 4,500 cars Douglas was second with 280 can. Okanogan third with 60 cars, and Grant fourth with 24 cars. Apples, of course, constituted tao major part of the orchard yield. They totalled 3,990 cars, Chelan producing 3,779 cars; Douglas 140; Okanogan, t'O, and Grant, 21. The apple shipments from the Wen atchee station are figured at 4.U31 cars and from the Cashmere station, 891 cars. Of the entiro eppli produc tion in the whole district of four cone- ties, there are 419 cars held in local storage, nai.iely, 200 at Wenatchee; 150 at Cashmere; 17 at Monitor; 22 at Dryden; 34 at Pehastin; 12 at Malaga; 2 at Coulee City, and 4 at Wheeler. A fact of great consequence is that, according to the inspector, probably not more than 1 per cent, and certain ly not to exceed 2 per cent, of the ap ples in the entire district were of cull or unmarketable nature. The report gives the number of fruit trees of all kinds and ages In the four counties of the district. Chelan has 731,381 bearing apple trees; Douglas 623; Grant, 15,335, acd Okanogan, 76,658. The official figures of the inspector treat in detailed fashion not only of apples, but also of peaches, pears, plums, apricots and cherries, and like wise give complete statistics on spray materials and nursery stock. BULK APPLES HURT TRADE Demand for Box Goods Lessened by Cheap Grades Apple peddlers in cities througout the Middle West and East are reaping a rich harvest this year in bulk apples. Considerable quantities of Colorado bulk fruit have changed hands at less than 65 cents per bushel delivered at the car. The quality and condition of the fruit graded choice and the huck sters promptly sold it to consumers at $1 per bushel. "There is do doubt whatever," said a prominent Chicago operator, "but that the sale of Chicago bulk apples has hurt the demand for box goods to a considerable extent this season. Cer tain dealers are always glad to pur chase this stuff and often pack it so that it presents a fairly good appear ance, and they make a lot of money at it while the real fruit goes begging. 'This bulk stuff has been offered in hundreds of small towns in the West and East anywhere from 50 to 75 cents a bushel delivered, and doled out to peddlers in any quantity desired. Some box apples have sold in Denver as low as 75 cents delivered, and the fruit stands in the large cities which heretofore have loaded up with fancy apples seem satisfied w ith the cheaper grades. "Even the jobbing trade in some in stances showed a preference for the cheap apples and this detererd the wholesale houses from buying as liber ally as usual." MOSIER GROWERS RECEIVE $1 Shipping Association Gets Fairly Satisfactory Prices Mosier Hundreds of acres of apple trees will come Into bearing in this section thU year. The orchards are located on the slopes of the hills sur rounding this station and are well kept and non-irrigated. R. D. Chatfleld, manager of the Mos ier Fruit Growers' Association, states that the past season has been a satis factory one and that the prices they received for their apples were unus ually good considering the prices pre vailing on the various markets of the country. Mr. Chatfleld states that the average received by his association on the three grades will be a little more than $1 f. o. b. this station. The prin cipal varieties are Spitzenbergs and Newtowns. Various Interests here contemplate erecting a storage plant at this station to handle the crop. Mr. I lasers built a plant here this fall and manufactur ed about 75 barrels of vinegar and 4,000 bottles of pasteurized cider. He expects to enlarge his plant for next season. The building of the Tower of Babel was progressing nicely when suddenly some one asked: "How are we going to solve the trust question?" Thence arose such a confusion of tongues that no one has been able to understand any one else since. The News for fine printing. I I LOOMIS TELLS OF DEALERS' VIEW Edward N. Loomis of New York president of the International Apple Shippers' Association, thinks the grow er of apples esteems his orchard prod uct to tho point of idolatry. "The middleman," he declares, "may be either a dealer in apples, or he may be a commission merchaut. As dealer, he generally is held in but slight regard by the growers, because In the opinion of the grower he gen e rally tries to steal the apples. His supreme disgrace comes, however, when he dares to act as commission merchant. " It is time that the horticultural societies appreciated the exact func tion tuat I tie commission man per forms in distributing a crop of apples "Growers haave done marvelous work in building orchards which can produce large outputs. They have done marvelous work in the develop ment of those orchards, capable of producing splendid quality. They have devoted years of time and study to the diseases of apples, and how to prevent them. They have become chemists in apple culture. Compliment Paid Growers "The growth of apples has become one of the chief industrial businesses of the country; it has attracted to its support many of the best minds of the young men of our country. Col lege men have gone freely into this industry, and today all over the land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, there are centers of production where the men who have taken up the culture of apples are among the representative citizens of our country. While the apple grower has shown so much wisdom in the development and the growth of apples, he has shown very little intelligence in the marketing of the apples. He has bow ed down to worship the apple. The apple has become his god. As the Israelites who bowed down to worship the golden calf in the wilderness, so the grower has bowed down to wor ship, as a center of all things, the apple which he has spent so much time to produce. He has lost his bal ance, in the sense of proportion, and in so doing, he has committed two great errors 'He has forgotten that great eco nomic truth, that any crop at the place It is produced is worthless. You can not eat the apples that you produce on your farm. They are not produced for that purpose. They are produced for the purpose of turning them into money, so that money may provide the support and happiness of your family. I say again, any crop at the point of production is worthless. It must be moved from that point to the various centers of consumption before it can reach the people who are willing to pay any value for the crop. Conse quently when a grower has produced his wonderful crop of apples, his work and his purpose is but half accom plished. "From now on the attention of the grower of Lpples mus tbe turned in a businesslike way toward the market ing of apples. Growers' organizations must be formed at -each producing cen ter to study the best standard of pack ing and grading the fruit, the best methods to distribute the apples and obtain the largest amount of money possible." Regarding the threatened bugbear of overproduction, Mr. Loomis said that "there is bound to be an overpro duction of apples if the present meth ods of packing, particularly in the East, continue. In fact, that period of overproduction has already b"en reach ed, and prices are becoming lower and lower, because of the quality packed Is not equal to the amount shipped to our markets. There Is one way and only one way in which we can prevent and remedy this overproduction. That is to raise the standards of packing and permit no poor apples to be packed whatsoever." STRAWBERRIES ARE GROWNJN ALASKA More than 100 varieties of straw berries now grow In Alaska, accord ing to the annual report of Alaska agricultural experimental stations of the department of agriculture. Because of the climatic conditions InAlaska it was a hard problem at first to get strawberries to thrive, but by hybridizing cultivated varieties with pollen from the wild native Alaska strawberry of the coast region, splen did results were obtained. The most remarkable feature about these hybrid plants is that they were much more vigorous than either parent, yielding more, growing larger and seemingly suited to almost any climate in the territory. In connection with the growing of apples, the experts In Alaska wrote that only trees with crabapple blood produced fruit. An apple is being made Try the Made from Oregon's Finest Wheat by Oregon's Finest Mill In compliance with the pure food Lawo Therefore not bleached for color, but made To Suit the Taste "fllakes Better, igfiter Bread" Jow at your Grocers IE y-1 Our Rates For Light and Power Get Our And Be Hood River Gas & Electric Co. 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