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thing neither picture nor article can 

 describe, only in a limited way. In the 

 evening the streets in the tenement dis- 

 tricts are so filled with push-carts and 

 people that it is absolutely impossible 

 to walk on the sidewalk, and frequently 

 the street is so filled that it is with diffi- 

 culty one can go through the street. 

 The Editor visited the tenement dis- 

 tricts when in New York a few years 

 ago, finding it one of the most interest- 

 ing sights in connection with the fruit 

 industry that he visited while on a very 

 extensive tour throughout the United 

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 practically every large city in the 

 United States. 



Page 15 



Normal Schools. — For a considerable 



time there has been an apparent short- 

 age of school teachers. By that is meant 

 a shortage of school teachers of train- 

 ing and ability. The fact of the matter 

 being there are not enough first-class 

 school teachers to fill all of the schools, 

 and naturally most school teachers pre- 

 fer to teach in the large cities, conse- 

 quently the large cities absorb a large 

 part of the first-class teachers, making 

 it very difficult for the balance of the 

 state to obtain satisfactory instructors. 

 In view of this fact it seems the state is 

 justified in maintaining more than one 

 normal school. The Editor being a col- 

 lege graduate, speaks with a great deal 

 of earnestness and has read consider- 

 able upon this subject and educational 

 subjects, and does not hesitate to say 

 that Oregon .should follow plans in ref- 

 erence to normal schools adopted in 

 some of the other progressive states, 

 that is, maintaining more normal 

 schools. In fact, the State of Oregon 

 should have three normal schools. 

 These should be located in the thickly 

 settled districts, one in the eastern por- 

 tion of the state, one at Monmouth and 

 one in Southern Oregon. It is a well 

 known fact that a great many more 

 pupils will attend a school or college 

 close to home than will attend if they 

 have to go a long distance. Conse- 

 quently one or two more normal 

 schools would certainly create a greater 

 attendance, producing a larger number 

 of teachers, and in a short time the 

 supply would be sufTicient. 



The Keeping Qualities of Apples. — 

 Mr. Charles L. Hamilton, one of the 

 inspectors for the North Pacific Fruit 

 Distributors, and long connected with 

 the Yakima Valley Fruit (Irowers* Asso- 

 ciation as inspector, through many 

 years' experience has accumulated some 

 very valuable information for the bene- 

 fit of the apple grower, which is given 

 in detail in an article appearing else- 

 where in this edition. Such informa- 

 tion is important. Mr. Hamilton knows 

 and he has told you what he knows. 

 Fruit growers should bear in mind that 

 the keeping quality of an ai)ple is im- 

 paired both by being picked too early 

 or being picked too late. Some growers 

 pick too early, others pick too late. 

 This should be correcte(l. Mr. Hamil- 

 ton also lays jKuticular stress on the 

 fact that apples after being picked are 



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