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Show - m -1 y . . , . Prosperity In Fruit Growing IVrinutcal. f : ' ' At fiii iuBtitutq meeting of fruit. " , . growers in Hichigan;- onespeuker ' v in the course of' his rerafiiks ;decl-, ; ; ared that tlio periods of prosperity ; i for large fruits were about twenty;' -years apart; for small ' crtno f ruils about eight years apart; '(and for' : V strawberries about threer,r .'fourj .t v,' , years." Cycles of . " prujs'pt-iiy and ; of depression are alike' inevitable;-" be the causes what they muv. ; - In California our; standard has. , ' pleased to bnso our estimates upon seasons when crops w 10 abundant, and the country generally prosper- - , ous and prices good. Last year ' wo had a very largo crop, and for various reasons low prices prevailed. prevail-ed. This year the crop will bo light, excepting prunes p3rhap.3, and prices for all fruit quality will . be better. The light crop comes to meet us half way in a season of very scant rainfall. If nature had not thinned the crop hired labor must have done it, for with the amount of fcoisture available most, orchards could not have matured n full yield. Leonard Coates in California Fruit Grower. |
