Fruit Farming for Profit in California, 29 



A XEWSPAPEE CLIPPING ADDEESSED TO 

 CYXICS, GEUMBLEES, GEXEEAL FAILUEES. 



The world around, you will meet the above described, 

 and tbe only thing is to plod along and pass them by. 



They soon find their level, for they are of no nse in 

 this busy world. 



But now and again they make themselves heard, a 

 last spasm, as it were, before they return, like the 

 proverbial bad '' copper." 



This is what the San Francisco Chronicle says in 

 reference to a spasm of failure " that some poor man 

 who thought he knew everj-thing, has given vent to : — 



" The London Times has published a letter from San 

 Jose, California, in which the writer states that the 

 fruit industry has been wholly overdone in California. 

 VTe can hardly single him out for censure, because he 

 is merely repeating the stories which are set afloat by 

 men who are apprehensive that too great a development 

 will ruin the industry. But, somehow or other, it 

 continues to expand, and the fruit grower is constantly 

 finding new markets for his products, and is prospering 

 in spite of the pessimistic declaration that the fruit 

 business is being overdone. As for his charge that 

 ' an Englishman is at a disadvantage, and is looked 

 upon as an interloper by his American neighbours/ 



