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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1916)
Monday, May 20, 1010 Ashland Trnrvos PAGE SEVEH FRUIT and FflRffi Don't Be a Quitter Is Advice to Grower (From The Fruit-Grower, St. Joseph, Missouri.) "Hindsight is better than fore sight,",, says an old proverb. And how true it is. Usually, after an event has taken place, we are able to see how our own affairs could have been Improved if we had acted in some other way. We plant an orch ard and frost takes the fruit. Then we realiez that if we iad provided orchard heaters the fruit would have been saved and bur profit Increased. But there is no use in crying over spilled milk, notwithstanding the fact that a fellow sometimes can't help doing so. And when a fellow drops ell of his money in a venture, no mat ter whether it is fruit-growing, min ing, merchandising or speculation, be freauently feels like "cussing" the whole world for his loss. Just read this letter that comes from a western subscriber: "No, thanks; awfully. I don't want your paper any more. If I had never seen it, nor nursery lit erature that reads like a circus bill, I wouldn't be broke by having stuck all of thirty-five years of accumula tion into a fool would-be fruit farm over in Rogue River valley. "There should be a law made whereby anyone who publishes a fruit paper or prints a nursery advertise ment ,or has any fruit land exploita tions, like Morrisania, for instance, should be sentenced to hard labor for life. But they should be well fed J When your FIRE INSURANCE POLICY comes from this office you can depend upon it being REAL IN SURANCE, for we would not repre sent a company that would not meet a Just loss PROMPTLY and FAIRLY, You want FIRE INSURANCE that will not disappoint you; you want an agent who will look after your inter ests both before and after a fire. Buy your insurance at an insurance office. Billings Agency Established 1883. Real Estate' and Real Insurance and housed, so they would live a long time to enjoy it. "Talk about growing better fruit bah! The more you grow the more you lose, as none pay for the cost of production and transportation. When one sees his lifetime savings go to smash, one can't have a kindly feel ing for people who make their living by statements contrary to the real facts. Old orchards are being grubbed out over in the Rogue River valley now, and the land put to other sensible crops. You can't find a fruit man in Medford now that's got a dol lar. "I put $7,000 in land and improve ments close to Grants Pass in 1909. It cost $45 an acre to clear it. In ten months I was broke and had to go back to work at my trade. I have earned $9,000 since, and it has all gone into the place. Now I can't get 30 cents for each dollar that I have put In. I planted, among other trees, 250 Bing and Lambert cherries. They all died from gummosis. Noth ing can stop it. "Those letters of Louis Meyer in the November and December Issues tell Borne noble truths. I am aston ished at your fairness to print them, but take away his 'Josh' of restored health, $10,000, and experience, $2,000, and you find a deficit of $11, 442. He could have got his health by growing alfalfa, pigs and chickens Just as well, and which he finally had to do, anyway." This is a real letter, full of the irony that comes with failure, and the pity of it Is, that It is true. It is bitter In the extreme to lose the sav ings of thirty-five years of toil, and few indeed are the men who can suf fer such a loss and smile. And the unfortunate part of it all Is that the writer of this letter is not alone in his losses, nor is he the only one who will ever be' taken in on the same kind of a proposition. But if orchards are being cut down and other crops planted, isin't It to be believed that now Is a good time to stick tight to your own orchard, and to give it better care than ever? Is anything worth while in this world to be gained without a struggle? No business of any magnitude has ever been developed without having to endure hardships that would break the courage of any but a man of iron, and while bankruptcy has faced many a man, those who come out on top are the ones who stick to the fight and never know when they are whipped. Many difficulties confront the or chardists of the Pacific northwest, and In the struggle for existence the weak-hearted are certain to fall by the wayside. But fruit will be grown in the northwest for all time to come, and the men who stick through the, present struggle are the ones who will reap the reward. The ones who win are the ones who are putting brains as well as brawn into their fights, and who are willing to suffer the embarrassments of the present for the rewards that are sure to come if they but stick to the fight. What would have been the condition of all agriculture today if Cyrus McCormlck had given up his reaper because he failed to find people falling over themselves to buy the first one he made? What would have been the if RADEatHO ME id 1 T & A. I COn rnnniMAmr I t i u cam ci y j Paints OMS ASHLAND WalIpaper,Buildinq f Coffee will and Roofina Paner. t vince you that " ' r ai i j. cucc oti 1 mere is no neeu Villi J J, I . , I of paying more. we are next to the paint i Three pounds for i Butter and Ice Cream game It in need ol pamt 5I.UU. get next to us. Paint Mixed (o Order ASHLAND TRADING i f 0. DICKERSON f COMPANY i Phone 122 manufacturers of When Buying Butter Ask (or Ashland Creamery Butter BEEBE&KINNEY T VI .1 i Phone 24 D.Perozzi, Mgr. i Asniana, vregon Ashland's Exclusive Paint, Paper and Glass House THERE ARE A LOT OF C00D SOUND REASONS WHY YOU SH01LD COME HERE FOR YOUR NEW SHOES. s Our prices are exceptionally low. Our styles exemplify the very latest style tendencies. Our qualities are so thor oughly dependable that good service and satisfaction are as sured. You'll have no after-regrets if you inspect our offerings be fore you buy. n Li Park Garage l MORRIS BROS., Props. Used Cars for Sale Automobile Supplies and Repairs Mkhelin, Goodrich and Fisk Tires in Stock Other Makes on Short Notice rtione 152 Park Ave Why shouldn't the Stand ard Oil Company make the best oil-with over 40 years experience in refining-with un equalled plant equipment? And Zerolene is scientifically refined from selected California crude-asphalt-base. Prominent authori ties have recently declared that an oil correctly refined from asphalt base crude can be made not only equal but superior to paraffine base oils. Next time you empty thecrank-caserefillwithZerplene. Dealers everywhere and at service stations and agencies of the Standard Oil Company. thititzkrd Oil fir Ifotar Cars Satisfied! Customers 1 Built our business. Have your suit cleaned and pressed I by expert tailors. Only $1.00 Paulserudj & Barrett! HI C 1 9 1 H I M t"H THIS LAST LOT OF COATS WE pilBlf TURNED OUT IS WAY BELOW STAN- giirHimT-11111 MfnS7tiFKrtFfB ; 11 wfTfrn w$ p BUY HOME!; PRODUCTS ; We carry the following ; ; home products: Ashland Canned Goods : Ashland Milling Co.'s Goods :: Ashland Batter ' Ashland Brooms White House ; GROCERY ft If vou lake the! MURPHY Tidings, you win. Motorcar Company J J X 7 Plaza Ashland, Ore. The Cartoon Tells The Story IN EVERY town in the country you will find that the retail merchant in that town stands ready to duplicate any quotation made In the catalogues of the mall ordor houses in most instances will do much better In fact, on the same character of merchandise If you will pay cash and accept Inferior goods, upon which no reputable manufacturer's name Is to be found, your local merchant will sell you for less money. It is a notorious fact that no reputable manufacturer will sell his out put to the catalogue houses. The only thing the mall order house is after Is your money and the money you send them goeB out of your community forever. Your local merchant Is in his place or business every day of the year, ready to back up every article he soils. His business is legitimate, the success of his business contributes to the general prosperity of the entire community. This Is the economic principle upon which the Internal commerce of this country has been built. Dodge Brothers Motor Cars Emphasize the art of master building. A large production and experience enable them to produce a car of exceptional Quality for the money. 5 Gallons i Of Medium Zerolene t Agent for Ford Automobile We carry a full line of Acces sories and Tires. All kinds of repair work done. Garage, East Main Street, rhone 100. $2.35- Merit, Worth and . Value FIXampS il Vcgc(a4s,Hay ! and Grain We carry a full line of Garden X and Field Seeds i J. N. Dennis Grocery J Notice! You have some thing yon do not need, some one else does, let them know about it thru the Classified Columsofthe Tid ings, everybody sees it there. We Sell Shoes of Simpson's j Briggs&Ilmore Hardware i Successors to Briggs & Shinn i ProvosiBros. Builders' Hardware, Hoof ing. Plumbing and Heating Majestic Ranges We Compete Give l'n a Trial. 38-40 E. Main Phone 86 condition of transportation If George Westlnghouse had yielded to the dis couragements that faced the market ing of his airbrake? , What would have been the position of the United States if our forefathers had submit ted to the dictates, of British rule? What . would be the condUlpi .of, , or? charting lq the. United State if fruit growers did not have to fight and fight continually to produce and to market their crops? ' Take courage, Mr; Man, for while life may, be dark and dreary, and bankruptcy may come, there Is a fu ture of unbounded opportunity In or charding in the northwest and the big rewards will come only to those who are wining, to stay with, the bus iness , to the bitter end. , Another seven years may seem like a long time to wait, but In that Interval there will be many orchardists In the Paclfio northwest who will reap a fortune through the Intelligent appli cation of modern business methods to their chosen occupation. "Don't be a Quitter."' i Phone news items to the Tidings. Mrs. J. A. Churchill, wife of the superintendent of public Instruction, died at Salem on Tuesday, aged 48. She was a native of Racine, Wis. Her husband and three daughters survive the wife and mother.. Kr. Churchill was to have delivered the address be fore the graduates of the high school hre, but was prevented from coming owing to hi wife's Illness;'
