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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



Live Stock and the Orchard — Care for What We Have 



I. D. Graham, Editor Rural Spirit, Portland, Before Oregon State Horticultural Society Meeting at Corvallis 



EVERY humnn being is interested 

 in some form of animnl life, and 

 the natural and more inmiediate 

 interest of civilized man centers in the 

 domestic animals. Moreover, the wel- 

 fare of the human race has always and 

 everywhere been largely dependent 

 upon our animal friends and neigh- 

 bors. The wild man of the forest and 

 plain is no more dei)endent for his 

 welfare upon the animal life within his 

 reach than is the up-to-date horticul- 

 turist, who represents the highest type 

 of civilization. It is because of the 

 lack of a full realization of this fact 

 and of its importance that serious mis- 

 takes have been made in our work of 

 developing our country, and of pre- 

 serving its rich heritage for future 

 generations as well as for our own 

 declining years. That's what's the 

 matter with Oregon today. 



Ever since it has been my privilege 

 to reside in Oregon I have been hear- 

 ing, on all hands, that the great and 

 immediate need of this state is more 

 people — a large population to aid in the 

 development of our boundless re- 

 sources. If this state only had more 

 people all would be well and pros- 

 perity would take up her i)ermanent 

 abode in the territory lying between 

 California and Washington. This is all 

 wrong. What Oregon needs is to take 

 care of the people she already has. 

 When these become unduly prosperous 

 plenty of others will come and they 

 will not need to be urged. The first 



thing to do, the first step toward a 

 larger i)opulation, is to get rid of our 

 present reputation. Sounds strange, 

 doesn't it. But that is exactly what I 

 mean. All over this broad land and 

 wherever the State of Oregon is known 

 her reputation rests almost entirely 

 upon only two of the creative indus- 

 tries — fish and fruit — and we must get 

 away from this. 



Now don't misunderstand me. Don't 

 get away from the fishing and don't 

 get away from the fruit, but do get 

 away from the reputation that these 

 are the only things that Oregon can 

 or does produce. Get away from the 

 reputation that this is a one-crop state, 

 but don't harm a single tree or bush or 

 vine. No one is more proud of the 

 fact that Oregon is one of the greatest 

 fruit-producing states in the world 

 than I am. No one is more proud of 

 the quality of the fruit we produce, 

 and there is nothing better that grows, 

 but I do feel chagrin that the world 

 does not know that we produce other 

 things as well. Such a reputation is 

 harmful rather than beneficial and 

 settlers are not tempted to a state with 

 a one-crop reputation only. We must 

 get away from it and this can be done 

 only by working together. First, we 

 must co-operate with associations and 

 individuals. Co-operation and not com- 

 petition is the real foundation of mod- 

 ern success. The great business inter- 

 ests of today, the widespread of our 

 public utilities, even the inroads which 



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we make against vice and ignorance 

 are the results of community eflforts. 

 Real and permanent success can come 

 only by working together — each doing 

 his part for the general good and each 

 undeistanding the viewpoint and needs 

 of the other fellow. Second, raise 

 more fruit, with live stock. In the 

 production of fruit tliis state has not 

 even approached the possibilities. 

 Living as we do upon the rim of the 

 world, where the wilderness has made 

 its last stand and where we occupy 

 the last land, with our population in- 

 creasing by leaps and bounds, there 

 is no more promising field of industry, 

 no greater inducement for a successful 

 career and no safer or more remuner- 

 ative vocation in any field of human 

 endeavor than can be found upon the 

 American farm. More fruit can be 

 raised by planting more ground, of 

 course, but the land is all taken and 

 many of us do not have the help or the 

 equipment with which to handle more 

 land, if we had it. There remains but 

 one thing — get more out of the land 

 we have, and this can be done in only 

 one way. Make of live stock an im- 

 portant factor in all orchard and farm- 

 ing operations. 



Rotation of crops, green manures 

 and artificial fertilizers are all helps 

 to immediate results, but they are but 

 temporary makeshifts at best. The 

 alternating of a deep-rooted crop with 

 one of shallow growth serves to in- 

 crease present yields, but will ulti- 

 mately exhaust both layers of soil. The 

 plowing under of green manures is an 

 excellent practice, but serves barely to 

 prevent a marked decrease in soil fer- 

 tility, while the use of most chemical 

 fertilizers produces a temporary stim- 

 ulation and not a real fertilization of 

 the soil, and is at best but an expensive 

 substitute for barnyard manure. 



In addition to maintaining the fer- 

 tility of the soil in nature's own way, 

 which is most important, live stock is 

 a money-maker of no mean quality on 

 its own account, and it has this pre- 

 eminent advantage: It enables you to 

 make money all the year round and 

 not during the crop season only. With- 

 out live stock your plant must lie idle 

 many months of the year; with it you 

 woi-k the plant on full time. Live stock 

 furnishes a pleasant employment. I 

 think most men, and I am sure most 

 boys, enjoy working with animals, and 

 I am equally positive that if there is 

 any solution to the question of why 

 the boy leaves the farm it is most often 

 answered favorably by live stock — 

 when the boy owns it. The products 

 of live stock are always in demand and 

 at more stable prices than any other 

 farm product, and this demand will 

 increase as population increases, while 

 the beginner in orcharding — the man 

 wIki is starting his orchard to growing 

 and who has a cow, a hen and a sow, 

 does not need to worry about some- 

 thing to eat while he waits for his 



