Emery County Progress | 1907-09-07 | Page 2 | He Had to Have Fruit

HE HAD TO HAVE FRUIT grapes beyond his purse boy took humble substitute tames allson the secretary of agriculture was lascu sing in washington the aid which his department gives the american farmer he out the benefit that had been derived from the introduction of darum wheat of the wl eat testing machine and of the method of extracting potash from granite in fact said mr wilson smiling I 1 believe that eventually ir finest products will be cheap enough to be within the reach of all then the story of the boy and the hothouse grapes will be as dead and antiquated as the theater hat stories of the past this boy he was a bootblack entered a grocer s store one day and pointing to some superb grapes said wot s the price them there one dollar a pound my lad the clerk replied A look of anguish passed over the boy s falce and he said hastily then give us a cents worth carrots I 1 m dead nuts on fruit