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growers to do this; but success finally crowned their efforts, and they have attained 

 a reputation, and created a demand for these goods far above expectations. There 

 is no denying the fact that fig growing possessed no commercial importance until the 

 Calimyrna was successfully produced ard marketed. It was difficult to convince 

 Eastern buyers that there was a difference, but today they are ready to admit it, 

 and they do not hesitate to give the Calimyrna the praise it deserves. They now 

 admit that their sweeping declaration that California could never produce good figs 

 must be modified. 



Smyrna Figs, enjoying a wide reputation, are exported to all parts of the world, 

 and nothing has done more to create a name and reputation for Smyrna than its figs. 

 No wonder the industry has been so carefully guarded; its loss means much to the 

 people of Smyrna, and her growers engaged in its culture. Our intelligent efforts, 

 improved machinery, and more cleanly methods of handling the fruit must in the end 

 win in the markets of the world. The culture of the Calimyrna Fig will not be 

 confined to limited areas, because it finds congenial environments throughout an 

 immense scope of country on the Pacific Slope. Once let its culture become established 

 on a commercial footing, and we will command the markets of the world. Just as 

 surely as the sun rises and sets, so surely will the Calimyrna enter into competition 

 with the mother fig in Asia Minor, and in the end drive it out of the field. This has 

 been the case with other lines of dried fruits, where they have entered into com- 

 petition with the products of the Old World, and the same results will in the course 

 of events follow with the Calimyrna Fig. American push, energy and the inclination to 

 surmount every difficulty, no matter how great it may be, must in a short time 

 redound to the growers of Calimyrna Figs; they may not have the experience in the 

 matter of marketing their goods, but this will keep pace with the industry as it grows 

 and increases in importance. 



No fruit adapts itself to such a variety of uses as the fig, and leaving out the 

 matter of export, an important factor of course, the home consumption must increase 

 enormously, for the fig can be crystalized, preserved in cans, pickeled, the poor and 

 defective figs can be distilled or manufactured into coffee, so that this product in the 

 variety of its uses, has a field before it, equalled by no other fruit. 



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