The Fruit Industry.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1911, Page 3

The Fruit Industry.

The Manawatu Daily Times editorially remarks that this lias "been a remarkable* .season for growth of all kinds, and fruits have shared in the gonoral abandonee. Tho consequence has been that largo quantities of fnii£ have already been lost for want of picking, and much more will be lost. The. actual _ money shortage through the non-utilisation of sucli produce must be very considerable, and in consequence fruitgrowers arc wont to complain that their orchards do not pay, though others admit doing vevy well out of theirs. The fact" is that the fruit industry here 'badly wants organising and co-operation. "\Vhen_ little fruit was grown in California it was loudly proclaimed that there- was no market, that the industry was_ overdone, and that fruifc growing did not pay. There are 500 to 1000 trees to-day for every one there was tlhen, and the indnstrv is higihly profitable, with a practically unlimited market stretching round the globe and even taking the Manawatu into its sphere. All this has been accomplished] by absolutely svstomatising and organising the industry, by using the most scientific methods at every stage, by co-operative marketing under skilled officers who receive salaries very much greater than we pay to our Cabinet Ministers, the Chief of them receiving about three times what we pay the Premier. When tliero aro scores of orchards here for every one now, and the industry' is systematised. there is no doubt that it will Tiny better than at present. -\s it i<: there should now certainly be a iam facory and canning and bottling factory to take over the .surplus frm't for it is in the elimination of waste that the profits-of big industries lie.

The following are prVKtional entries for Abraham and Williams' Levin sale: IB fnt bullocks, 10 fat", and forward cows. "My Laclv T)an ,n ll.' the, drama so sneeessfullv nerformed in Levin, last month, bv the Lorin Amateur Dramatic Society, is to be played at Oaki this evening by the ?amo company. During the century since tbo Emperor Nnpoleon created the tobacco monopolv the Froncli-State's profit from fib's source has amounted fo c007.0n0.0n0. A nn beb between Levin and Otaki bowlers, for tbo Kinm'bunrh Foathors. is fining played this afternoon, on Otaki <rreet>. Levin is heing ronrosentor] bv W. TT. Wilson. J .Ryder. J. Pollock and G. P. Brown. The Levin Methodist O.E. Society met last night, when the Rev. T. P. Jones gave a helpful ami instructive address on some of the Okl Testament prophecies, showing how somo had come to pass, whije otliers were still being carried out. Next week tlio Y.M.O.A. Bible Class are going to conduct the meeting, and a pleasant evening is assured. California!] blii.stle is declared to 1)0 spreading throughout the whole (>;' ii'<' Cisborne <!.ist.rict. One sotllcr in tlio .M.aii!iat.n i« taking effective .'.tops to eradicate the. weed by eliippiiiLr t'lc thistle over his extensive property, ami covering the top for s::me distance round with- a heavy layer of salt. Ahout 125 tons of. salt is being used for this purpose. An. Ekc-tahnna resident, who rec."!][y rfiuinc:'i from a !ri]7 to the (!l:l v*-.si:::i. !">". s.iv-i an cx:i':a;:<ro. w;'s i :i : ! ■-!; .-li - ii;-.!< v,ii.:i ii'.;:> con tracts he U'iliirs.-:r.! :;i !v;g!a iui. '.h\ one !)■!!'.' i.!■; 1 , - , >'."as c, i'h n ■(.• i,f mil: ! i v.>:t!:!i cm! li:c cil.e: , , exiCine poverty. !u leu':)) , : ihere wen , lior.vJ '!::iM's r■ ■ n11i::r; i , .; (hi , -ai'ie tt!i<>rc>iuj;hi'i.s v.!;' l i!:: , n.o-u iiio'er;! electric t: i.'iis. In tlie ciiiuiiry ho n;;>ti:cd :> :■ r>! •;• I i >-;r < ,''i w'ifh a scythe. ■. .■: : /; :'. .:: a '.! :!■■ i: .J, licid a man V-':< |">!."i|i\:"iii:-!LC ''.n'l :■ lit■•:{:)!' plough.