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kinds be limited. Here is a lesson that
the fruit growers of Washington must
heed: Wo must not allow the cities to
manipulate our legislature so as to
liav«- laws passed that would work all
right for them but would be ruinous
for the farming community. My sym
pathies are with the laboring class In
all just demands, but I never could see
any sense in not allowing a man to
work overtime and thereby secure
greater wages if he or she wanted to.
In my orchard in Yakima county we
have some places where the Rome
Beauty apple colors to perfection
and we have at least one place where
It does not color well. Why this
difference? I do not know. I have
an opinion and in order that I may see
whether I am right in that opinion or
not I am trying an experiment. My
opinion is that where the apples do not
color properly there is a deficiency of
potash in the soil, or if it is there it
is not in the available form, which is
not probable. So I bought 100 pounds
of sulphate of potash and scattered it
under about forty trees. We know that
potash is essential to the formation of
chlorophyll grains and they are abso
lutely essential to the elaboration of
the sap and fruit will not color prop
erly if the sap is not elaborated; in
fact, trees will die if this process is
not carried on. But what is chloro
phyll? No one knows its chemical com
position but we do know that its grains
cause the green color in all vegetation.
How important and indlspensible chloro
phyll is in order to the existence of
organic life in the world is shown by
the following statement copied from
Dr. Paul Sorauer's valuable work, "A
Treatise on the Physiology of Plants,"
page 110: "As we see that without
chlorophyll granules a cell is not able
to form any new organic matter, we
must come to the conclusion that the
most important and essential formative
body in the vegetable kingdom is the
chlorophyll grain. We are therefore
completely justified in saying that
"without chlorophyll there can be no
organic life." For, as a matter of fact,
the existence of animal organism is de
pendent upon the presence of vegetable
organisms. Carnivorous animals feed
exclusively upon herbivorous animals,
and the food of the latter, the product
of the vegetable kingdom, depend upon
the activity of the chlorophyll grain.
The objection which might be raised,
that the fungi represents a large group
of plants which may produce a consider
able amount of matter without possess
ing any chlorophyll, does not hold good,
for fungi can only live on organic sub
stances."
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the Mississippi valley. Kansas, Mis
souri, Illinois, lowa and Nebraska will
undoubtedly be short. None of these
states will have 25 per cent of a crop.
Many other sections will be short. It
is safe to predict that this will be a
year notable for the shortness of the
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some sections have suffered seriously
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apples on our ranch are not seriously
hurt but our peaches will not produce
over 10 per cent of a full crop. Yakima
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The man who has a big crop of
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Apples and pears must be high. Every
effort should be made to keep our fruit
clean and have it well developed and
highly colored. Men in the east are
inquiring about our high grade fruit
and are trying to contract it at good
prices but are not meeting with suc
cess. My advice is take good care oi
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It appears that the supreme court of
the state of Washington has declared
the law appointing county fruit In
spectors by the county commissioners
to be unconstitutional. They cite arti
cle 11, section 6, of the State Constitu
tion as the ground of their decision.
The section reads as follows: "The
legislature, by general and uniform
laws, shall provide for the election in
the several counties of boards of coun
ty commissioners, sheriffs, county
clerks, treasurers, prosecuting attorneys
and other county, township or precinct
and district officers, as public conveni
ence may require, and shall prescribe
their duties and fix their term of office."
This seems to be very plain and un
doubtedly requires all county, town
ship, precinct or district officers to be
elected and not appointed. The wonder
now is that this provision of the con
stitution should have been so long
overlooked. This decision not only af
fects county fruit inspectors but the
game wardens, road supervisors, health
officers and other county officials ap
pointed by the county commissioners.
It does no good to say this ought not
to be so, for that cannot affect the
constitutionality of laws. We must
abide by the constitution or we will
unhinge our whole legal system.
One trouble that comes out of this
decision is, It will leave us practically
two years without fruit inspectors un
less the legislature is called in extra
session. Whether county fruit Inspect
ors will be any better If elected by
popular vote than when appointed by
the commissioners is a point not easily
decided. This much can be said in
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of fruit inspector. With the aid of the
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with the old appointive system this
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of the voters were the only ones who
had a voice in the matter. I pointed
out this condition three or four years
ago, so this cannot be construed into
a fling at any one in the office now.
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who were appointed in this way were
not efficient or are not efficient now.
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