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injurious fungous diseases and insect pests, and the remedy 

 for the same. The interest taken by so many fruit-growers at 

 these orchard demonstrations, and the attention they gave the 

 Professors while lecturing in the field convinced me that our 

 visit to Coos will see better methods inaugurated and more 

 careful thought given to better fruit in that county. 



Professor Reimer was active at all times on the trip, testing 

 various soils found in that county. Also he, with others of 

 our party, pointed out the possibilities of the future of the 

 loganberry in that county, and the Gravenstein apple from 

 a commercial standpoint. 



Coos County can grow the finest loganberries, and Graven- 

 stein apples of any section I have visited in Oregon. In fact, 

 that county can, if her people will take hold of the production 

 of these two specialties, have a monopoly, with rail trans- 

 portation. There is hardly a limit to the yield of the logan- 

 berry in that county on her various soils. A few years ago 

 it was thought that this berry was limited to the local market, 

 and, as a matter of course, its planting in large quantities was 

 not encouraged. It has been found it will not thrive east 

 of the Rockies ; then, as our people learned how easy it was 

 to evaporate, and the demand in the eastern markets for 

 evaporated loganberries, the planting of them has increased. 

 Again, it has been found there is no fruit equals the logan- 

 berry for unfermented juice for soft drinks. Where this juice 

 has been used it has become so populär that it has taken the 

 place of grape juice and all other unfermented fruit Juices. 

 This being true, in such favored places for its growth as is 

 Coos county, it is only a question of time and push of the 

 people when they can build up an industry with the loganberry 

 for its foundation that as a wealth producer will soon divide 

 the honors with her dairy Output. 



One of the prime factors of the loganberry raised on com- 

 mercial lines is the large amount of labor that enters into its 

 production. It ripens at a season of the year, in June and 

 July, when our public schools are closed and make available a 

 host of school children to gather the berries. This fact makes 

 it possible for women and children to earn many a dollar 

 towards their annual living that they could not earn in more 

 laborious work. The gathering of loganberries is light labor, 

 a labor that would give out-door employment, and could not 

 in any way impair the health of the growing boy or girl. Any 

 Community that can build up an industry which will make it 

 possible for women and children of the poor to earn a reason- 

 able wage is building up its local wealth and welfare. 



