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Show NOT PLOWING UP THEIR APPLES Out in Oregon orchardists are not looking to the government govern-ment to do everything for them. - On the contrary, they are fending fend-ing for themselves. The apple men are trying to meet the public taste in this fruit and get as much as they can from the crop. "Instead of digging up their apples because the market for most of the varieties had become poor," says the Portland (Oregon) Journal, "they top-grafted the trees and this year they harvested a beautiful crop of Yellow Newtons, Ortleys, Red Delicious De-licious and Red Gravensteins. "Among the varieties eliminated were Spitzberges, King-David, King-David, Northern Spys and Grimes Golden all good apples, but not in popular demand." Here,' says the Journal, "was an organization threatened with failure. Several varieties in the orchard had lost caste with the public, but the owners did not despair. They didn't decry their bad luck in having filled their orchards with unpopular varieties.-- Full of the spirit of the Oregon pioneer they' top-grafted top-grafted -their trees with varieties of apples that the public wants." - If these orchardists had bull-headedly insisted on trying to sell what is not being bought they would have lost heavily, but they Had the good sense to cater to the popular demand. There is a lesson in this for all men who seek a living from the soil. In sections where fanners have clung to cash crops which were .not paying them they have suffered a maximum loss. Farmers who have diversified and undertaken to feed their families and their stock have fared comparatively well. Their heads are above water. Their stomachs are filled' . Their stock is in good health. Charleston Newfe and Courier. |