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f„i™™f i"'^''* be regarded as a second edition of the following sanctum's dictum 
hand thev?:?.^ f'^Ti ^'^^"<"''^ P«°P'« don't want Prunes S eat out of 
hand-they prefer peanuts; but they want 'sass'-millions of tons of it " (Eds Pacific 
Kural Press . Now are we to abide by resolutions adopted by a prejud ced '^uit Grow 
Pr„ZlTi:°°.'. ^""^ '^/.l^'T."^ ' prejudiced editor, and gi^e up the idea of p epar?ng 
fhev nvi?,, 11 f °* ''■S""""" ^^"^'"^ ^'-""^ growers admit themsdves that 
tney are unable to prepare such Prunes? 
^•""^/''T'''?""""'''^'' ^y"'^ aforesaid Convention are un-American 
like doing injustice to American spirit and enterprise. We claim that if the American 
people IS given soft, nicely flavored, well prepared Dessert Prunes, as they know whaHs 
good as well as any other people on the surface of the earth, they will buy them arauick 
as they do the imported article; but if the American people is given^ to eat out of hand 
prunes hat rattle or that are hard, insipid sweet, with little fllvor 'abou t hem, who wui 
^^IZ^^'^'f^^^'fi'^,'"'^^ fall back on dates and figs or 
TnnwJ tn „ California prune growers might admit that to this day they have been 
unable to produce Dessert Prunes, to be eaten out of hand; they may think that the 
fh.Tl^^rr'"''' own in preparing such prunes, ^hic/irKe case; but 
th^t the AZri^Znrl *7 " r'"''', by advancing that silly assertion 
have -.ai" J Tl' ^"K"^'' ^""i'' *° 0°' °f l^and, and will rather 
''lelnnt^^ J^ th^^' f^^^ "T^." time, and that "sass and 
peanuts are the beau ideal of the American people in all that is good and palatable 
ci«P„ n,nn?hw''™ '"^ 1°"" " ^^f'''^ P'"?^ S'"'^^'' °* ^^'^ S"''^' Published in a San Fran- 
CISCO monthly we read more of such curious and queer ideas about the Prune 
1< ranee, says the writer, "has devoted much labor and skill in preparing the prune 
the ai ifio1a?lt °^ '^^ '"''^'"'^ ''"^ out^side Lrld^ but 
the aitificial means employed in the processes have robbgd the fruit of the natural char- 
acteristics of color and flavor which the climate of California is so well suited to product 
If r« 1?°'^'° processing the prune should be largely in imUation 
of the old and time-houored French system, though their prunes "neither tickled the 
fancy or the eye of the American people;' and we soon learned that the ' brTgh sunshine 
of our sunset State ' was preferable to the ' bake oven of France ' for our purpose '" 
We will say that only a certain portion of the Dessert Prunes produced in France are 
consumed in that country; that nine-tenths of their immense crop of Prunes is exported 
to t& I'^U^V"'''' '7^oftlLO"sands of boxes of Dessert Pmnes finding thek ly 
boxes vpJill 7r '^f " Francisco, where fourth grade prunes packed in fancy 
boxes retail at 75 cents a two-pound box. So it seems that other people besides the 
French people have a palate hard to suit. We had better do like the French and make 
°* ""'^''"^ ^« enlarge the Xe oTour 
prune industry. So we say what is the use of writing and talking in that wav 
In Its issue of October 18th, 1890, the Fruit Qroiver, of San Francisco a feariess little 
frl^f.rt °* P'^P^^'^ °" ^'-"i' ''"d Fruit Trade in th; UnHed Stat s 
xeiected and Z ""'7 f t^e^t? carioads of prunes sold for Eastern account had been 
Sedt^'o^^he'rhip^^fsan JoTe''' ^"'"^ '^^"^ ^ the East and 
P^P^" ''"'■^'^ rejected mouldy prunes, cured throuoh the 
the "bake"nv %°^,?"''"?f!f^'*'''':'^'''^ ^'^''^ '^^'^ packing a little touch of 
the bake-oven of France," they probably had " tickled the fancy and the eve" of the 
American people better than they did. ^ 
'^^^7^^}^y of tjie Lot in France, where all the French prunes are raised, has the verv 
™ ti"""'"."?! ?\ ^"^"'^ ^''"ey' ""-^ « French do Aot cure the'r 
knr biuei-^ " likely because thj; 
Jn pI^"!'^'' '"'^ capable of preparing " Dessert Prunes " in California as well as they do 
in France is a question that has been settled by us, for we have been producing fo. sev 
eral years, and have produced this season (1891) in larger quantitienegulai' Dessert 
Prunes to eat out of hand, of the D'Ente or French PrunI varlty, grown by u^ and pre 
pared by our own process, and which we offer to the public in wo-pound boxes made 
out of sugar pine, at 50 cents per box, or 85 cents by mail to any part of the Dnited States 
hi lots o7ir8 P"'T^nrP"^^ by the same process, that we offer at 10 cents per pound 
ni lots of 25, 50 and 100 pounds. F. 0. B. (taken on our place). ^ 
WHAT I.S A mnNB. 
As now-a-days every plum is claimed to be a prune, it might not be out of place here 
to give a clear description of what constitutes a prune: ^ 
n^rr^i^^A^^ IS simply 8 cured plum, but so cured and prepared that it will keep in a 
aX" » ' condition without moulding, and, besides, be soft to the touch and sweet, ex 
HCiiy as raisius. 
