Of course, Seattle is not particularly a fruit section, but 

 there was a great deal of fruit at the show. From there I 

 went to Puyallup, which is probabl}^ the greatest small fruit 

 town in the world, and saw some very interesting things. 

 particularly their co-operative association which runs sev- 

 eral canneries and two stores which each do a business of a 

 thousand dollars a daj^, and a number of other things that 

 would be interesting if we had the time to spend on them. 

 From there I went to Portland, Oregon and out to Hood 

 Kiver where I spent nearly a week. That, of course, is an- 

 other section we have all heard about for years, and .person- 

 ally if I could not live in New England I would rather live 

 in Hood River. 



I visited the Willamette Valley, famous for its English 

 walnuts and its prunes and I was much interested in looking 

 over the prune situation there to find that there was a great 

 difference in prunes. 



Now, I spent four years at college and six or eight years 

 after college before I was married and practically all that 

 time I took my lunch with me in a pail and I suppose that 75 

 per cent of the days I had prunes for dinner, so that I 

 thought I had a thorough course in prunes. But in the 

 Willamette Valley I found out there that there were vari- 

 ous types of prunes depending upon the particular plum 

 from which the prune was manufactured. T had always felt 

 like the Kansas City Star which said that some western 

 paper had tried to interest them in what they called Prune 

 de Lux. They said there was nothing doing, however, 

 "prunes was prunes to them," they said, "no matter how 

 dey looks." That was the feeling I had always had; 

 there was just one kind of prunes and that was the kind 

 T didn't care foi'. lint I found on going through their 

 prune drying establishments that there were some which 

 you would enjoy eating out of hand, very delicious. 



From there I went to Corvallis and looked over the 

 Agricultural College, and an extremely interesting college 

 it is, one of the most interesting and ])est equipped in the 



