The Kennewick courier-reporter., October 02, 1919, Page 2, Image 2

About The Kennewick courier-reporter. (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938

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It 8 There With the PULL
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Whether hitched to a holow, or
cultivator or a threshing ma
chine. , .
L I Equally well adapted to orchard
or general farm work.
Now is the time to figure On a
' Fordson for fall work on the
farm. ‘_
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'— The Produce Co.
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Kennewrck Garage
Notwithstanding the fact that most nurseries
are entirely out of Concords we have a fairly
large stock of nice vines.
Asparagus V.
We have a good stock of strictly first class
Palmetto Asparagus. .
Everbearlng \ ‘
, Strawberries
Plants are now full of berries. We are grow
ing the above stock in Kennewick west of. the
Slaughenhaupt green house. .
Roses, Gladiolas,
Cannas, Dahllas ‘
I The Dahlias are now blooming and fanciers
of this flower are invited to call and get some.
I Italian Prunes, Bing and Lambert
Cherries, Delicious, Winesap
and Winter Banana Apples,
Bartlett Pears . / '
While the above varieties are very scarce we
will have a limited quantity of all of them
and nearly all other varieties.
We also have our usual assortment of flower
ing vines, shrubs and shade trees. .
Nursery stock was never so scarce before and
we are advising our friends that it is a necessity
to place orders early.
Home Nursery Company
FRED P. FREEMAN, Proprietor
Richland, Wash. ' “1°99 35“
THE COURIER-REPORTER, KENNEWICK. WASHINGTON
6hr Kennemirk Gautier-Eepnmr
Is'sued Thursdays by the
KENNEWICK PRINTING CO., Inc.
The Courier—
Est. Mar. 27, 1902
The Reporter—
Est. Jan. 24, 1908
Consolidated—
April lat. 19 1 4
Entered as Second-Class Matter April 2. 1914, Vat the Post-Oflice at
Kennewick, Washington, under the act of March 3, 1879.
What Next? '
HAT’S coming next? Now 3“
(D comes an astute Bostonian r u
Wlth a shiny star and a job, and th
makes the astounding discovery VG
that Northwest boxed apples are m
[éovered with “visible spray test- f 0
ing arsenate.” Most remarkable! to
\ We are reminded of the story a 1
of two Irishmen. Pat was a reg- pe
\ular attendant at church, but ’5:
iMike, altho a communicant, had, ls:
ibecome careless and had not w
'adorned a pew for months. The s 1
two met one Sunday morning. d
“‘And it’s going to choirch with e‘
me this momin,’ ye air, Moike,” u
l said fat. “We been after fixin’ b
the o d church up a bit since ye 1‘
have been away.” The two went .
and Mike looked in admiration 3
and amazement at all of the :2
beautiful imagery which had t
been installed around the altar.
‘After he had taken it all in tho- ‘
roly he whispered to Pat: “An’ ;
’it does bate the divil, Pat.” “An’ 1
‘shure, Moike, an’ that’s what we
put it there for,” answered Pat. ‘1
l It does beat the devil that 1
those Bostonians are just awak- 1
ening to the fact that the North
‘west apples have spray on them
nand that the spray tests arsen
ate. . That’s just exactly why -
the spray is on the apple, be— <
cause it does test arsenate. Bos
ton’s discovery speaks well for
the diligence ,of the Northwest
apple grower and the honesty of
-'- the sellers of spray material..
, The fact that the apples ‘do h'aVe
:a “large amount of visible spray
itesting arsenate” is the very
Lthing that took them to Boston.
1 Otherwise the spray spots would
2have been worm holes and the
'cider mill, not Boston, would
have gotten the apples.
‘ ,The Northwest has been ship
. iping apples to eastern markets
ifor twenty-five years and for the
ilast ten years at least those ap
gplos have been more or, less cov
‘ered with arsenate of lead spray,
g—if they had not they would
;never have been shipped. We
i have yet to hear of any} long cas
uality lists from arsenate pois
oning among the consumers 01
Northwest apples. Growers,
ipickers, packers, kids, innocenl
bystanders, petty thieves and
other folk out in this country eal
promiscuously and recklessly 01
apples as they come from th¢
tree or the packing shed and liv¢
to eat again. The only thing:
the spray has killed around hen
, are the worms and the bone:
' ‘bees. As a matter of fact if th¢
' records were available it coulc
_ ‘be proven that Boston ‘ bakec
. ‘be proven that Boston bake¢
beans have caused more belly
aches than have the North
west’s apples. If the truth wer
, known it isn’t the spray that’
objectionable, it’s the apple, an
3 the fellow who is hurt is not th
' Bostonian who buys Northwesi
1 ern apples, but the Easter
grower who raises barreled a;
ples.
'- There is no question but the
if Boston’s example is follows
,by other eastern cities a seriou
handicap will be worked on th
3 [apple growers of the ‘ ortl
V 3west. Under present conEition
‘the growers are going to :0 we
to get sufficient labor to p" k an
pack the crop without tagging 0
I the added work of wipi .g t}
spray spots off of each Vappl
The Northwest grower has m:
U every reasonable demand of ti
trade and prides himself in pu
A. R. GARDNER. Editor
Member of
Yakima-Benton Div.
U. T. & F. C. A.
ting out a quality product. Year
after year the grade and pack
rules have become more rigid,
the legal restrictions more se
vere and the rubber stamps more
‘numerous. Today the grower is
forced, either by custom or law,
to carefully sort and grade his 1
apples, wrap them in tissue pa- I
per, pack them neatly in a box .
and rubber stamp the box until '
it goes out looking like a tatooed
’sailor. At this end the fellow
with the shiny star and a job
stands over him and makes him
dump every apple, which hasn’t
enough spray on it to keep the ‘
worms from biting, into the cull
i bin, and at the other end the fel
: low with the shiny star and a
; job gets busy and says that all
‘ apples with enough spray on
i them to keep the worms from
biting must be dumped into the
‘ garbage can. The next thing
; we expect to hear is that no
, Northwest apples will be per
: mitted to enter Boston until the
_' peeling has been removed 'and
" i the cores taken out. The cider
P mill grinds slowly and it will get
"\the apple grower yet.
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Subscription Rates:
Payablei in Advance
One Year-"”5290
Six Months.... 1.00
Is It a Fire Alarm?
HE fire department prob
-6 ably knows its business,
but to us it seems that the of
‘tener the fire whistle is sounded
‘when there is no fire the less ef
ifective it will become as an
alarm. The primary purpose of
the siren is, of course, to sum
~mon members of the department
in case of fire, but it should
serve the further purpose of g
warning the people of the com
munity that they may prepare
to protect their property should
the fire be in their neighbor
' hood and to render such assist
’ ance as may be necessary to con
‘ trol the conflagration. In a town
' like this where there is no regu—
' larly paid fire department and
' every man is more or less a fire
-1 man, it is certamly bad policy
3 to encourage the indifference of
' the public to the sounding of the
' fire whistle. Sounding the alarm
f for the purpose of- calling the
" members of the department out
t to meetings may be necessary,
1 but to us it seems that this prac
t tice will tend to make an indif
f ferent department as well as an
e indifferent public. '
8 When the alarm sounds in the
: evening after business hours the
y first thought of every business
.e man is for the safety of his place
d of business. When he calls cen
id tral to ascertain the location of
*d the. fire he is told that no in
: formation can be given out. If
re he is still concerned for the safe
’B ty of his place of business he
1d must leave his home and come
1e down town only to find that the
1" whole community has been
‘1 aroused by the alarm of fire in
p- order that the members of the
at volunteer department might bel
ad called together, not for a prac-
IS tice run or drill, but just for a
1e business meeting.
:1; If the siren whistle is not to
'3l] be used as warning signal in
1d case of fire, but as a sort of long
m distance “Come on over Skin
he nay,” not a few of us could use
le. it very advantageously on nights
et when we want to get down town
he and are unable tu frame up any
It- valid excuse.
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We shall be pleased to send a
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to your home on trial. If you
don’t like it bring it back and '
it costs you nothing. _
Victrolas are Going to Advance
in Price. Place youriforder now
We have just received a large line of
_Kantleek Water Bottles and Fountain
Syringes.
Eastman Kodaks
Waterman and Parker Fountain Pens
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