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Figure 33—225 Apples 

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How to Start a 2/2 

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How to Start a 3, 

 Diagonal Pack 



Note: It being impossible to get cuts 

 made of the 113 and 125 paclis, we trust 

 the following explanation will be sulli- 

 ciently clear. The 113 pack is made 

 similar to 138 pack, consisting of five 

 layers and five rows, the rows having 

 five apples in the long rows and four 

 ajiplos in the short rows, respectively. 

 The 125 pack is packed similar to the 

 138, consisting of five layers, with five 

 rows in the layer, each row being five 

 apples long. 



Interest of the Railroads in the Fruit Industry 



Mr. R. M. Roberts, before State Fruit Growers' Convention, Davis, California, .lune 1-6, 1911 



THE discussion this evening is rela- 

 tive to the interest, one with the 

 other, of the fruitgrower and tiie rail- 

 road. With your permission I (k'sire 

 to broaden this somewhat, that it may 

 include the farmer and not alone the 

 fruitgrower. The principles applicable 

 to a part are applicable to Ihe whole. 

 11 is to overwork a platitude to say that 

 the interests of the raihoad and the 

 farmer arc identical. They are identi- 

 cal and always will be. The great prob- 

 lem is to determine what procedure 

 will best conserve the interests of both. 



All of the larger railway systems are 

 feeling their way in an endeavor to 

 solve the problem, and it is in relation 

 to the methods adopted by the Santa 

 Fe system that I wish to speak. 



Now let us see just what the problem 

 is. The railroads above all things de- 

 sM-e settlers to build U]) and develop 

 unoccupied territory. In addition, they 

 naturally desire the best possible |)ros- 

 ])erit,\ in sections already developed, as 

 the prosperity of the railroad is rela- 

 tive to that of the farmer. In years 

 past the moving of the farmer from one 



part of the country to another was not 

 an exceedingly diflicult matter. A few 

 well-chosen words, a little waving of 

 the great American flag and the lure of 

 that which was "out yonder and over 

 the hill" accomplished the desired re- 

 sult. They moved by thousands to the 

 land of promise, often to find that they 

 had not yet quite reached the en<l of 

 the rainbow. Other countries looked 

 on and copied. Canada in the past few 

 years has taken from the Middle West 

 100,000 good American farmers and 

 probably one hundred million of good 

 American dollars. Both have been ab- 

 sorbed in the upbuilding of the lands of 

 our northern friends. Few of these 

 farmers have returned. They have 

 found it almost impossible. The way 

 of this does not concern us here to- 

 night, but I simply use it to illustrate 

 the increasing difficulty in the way of 

 the American general colonization 

 agent. Middle-Western farmers are 

 increasingly prosperous and corre- 

 spondingly harder to move. The cream 

 of the Middle West has been skimmed. 

 The real farmer, the man who is 

 needed, he with some little capital, is, 

 I say, dillicult to move and this fact 

 must be faced. 



The great body of successful settlers 

 from now on will be the plain man, 

 with rather too little capital and prob- 

 ably not well equipped by w^ay of agri- 

 cultural knowledge to cope with Cali- 

 fornia conditions and methods. That 

 othei- hope of the man with a country 

 to develop, the man from the city, is 

 a problem of another sort. To pass 

 over him quickly, I can only say that 

 in tlie main, unless he is well pro- 

 tected by way of capital or income, he 

 is possibly best advised when told to 

 go slow and perhaps advised to remain 

 where he is and practice plain, old- 

 fashioned thrift as a method of "get 

 rich (piick." Our one great hope is 

 the real farmer, with some capital, a 

 strong back and not too weak mind. 

 It is with this man that we are vitally 

 concerned, and the corporation which 

 I have the honor to represent is blazing 

 a trail in California which we hope 

 will prove a worthy path to follow. 

 In this work, so far as conducted in 

 California, we have the hearty support 

 of this increasingly great and service- 

 able agricultural college of the State of 

 California. 



Now we are in the business of se- 

 curing settlers, in developing a great 

 country and also, — and to me this is 

 the most important thing, — we are aid- 

 ing them to become, as rapidly as pos- 

 sible, .self-supi)orting and i)rosperous. 

 Certainly the re(|iiirements of coloniza- 

 tion and settlement are not being ig- 

 nored. Let us mention briefly these 

 reciuirements. The first is that Ihe 

 l)rospective settler be not encouraged, 

 nor allowed if possible, to take up land 

 w'hen he is ill equipped by way of ca|)i- 

 fal and skill in farming to successfully 

 fight Ihe battle. To this end we en- 

 deavor to find out, before the man and 

 his family leaves his Faslern home, 

 whether or not he is likely to become 

 a successful settler, lie is informed 



