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Title: Eastern fruit
Identifier: easternfruit01phil (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Eastrn Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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In connection with the new Hummer grinder, the Luther Grinder Manufac- turing Co. have arranged an attachment that makes of the machine as fine a little farm Forge as can be had any- where. This additional cost is very slight indeed. They say it is so handy an article, that nearly half of the ma- chines they ship to fanners hav the I'orge Attachment sent along, too. It won't do any hurt to drop them a line, and they will send full information regarding it. Sussex County, N. J., Farm Bureau. The recently organized Sussex County Farm I'ureau has been pl.ice<l under the management of Mr. 11. W. Gilbertson, an expert born on a farm. educated in the best special schools .and graduated from the New York College of Agriculture. At a meeting of F.uterprise Grange he stated that he entered the work because of the fact that fully two hundred and fifty of the foremost farmers and a large number of local business men throughout .*susscx County had joined hands with the Cnited States (iovernment and the Del.i- w.ire, Lackawaua and Western kail- road to in.ike the st.art a success. The idea of farm bureaus, the -I)eaker said, had its birth in P.elgium. Denmark and Ireland, more than a I quarter of a century ago. In these I ce.untries farm bureaus had proven of I intrinsic value not only to cultivators ' iii the soil, but to the individu.il lo- calitie- in which they were -tatioiied. Official figures were producero- duced sjnee the inau.gnratioii of the movement, and al-o the very marked ad\;ince per .acre in the price ot farm land in those countries. Mr. Gilbertson said th.at hi- initial work would consist largely in visiting farm- and forming the person.il ac- qu.iintance of the farm owners and ; farm tenants of the county. His la- I bor would cf)nsi-t of endeavoring to solve i>rohlems that are ever .and ;inon confronting the farmer, ami that the greater the ntimber of problems sub- mitted, the longer the li-t of (nie-tion- jiropounded, the more ihfmitely it would be known at home .ami abroad, that there was a \igorons, living was drawn by the story of its remarkable climate, to Florida, after he had made a fortune in oil in the North and the East, and this New York boy built up Florida's most famous hotels and a great railroad sj'stcm. They Have Neglected Home Oppor- tunities. The boys of the Atlantic .Seaboard. . especially of New York, go forth from this metropolis of labor, of capital, of traffic, of population and of publicity, to develop far-off lands at the end of the rainbow, and they have neglected the opportunities at home. The .American Land and Irrig.atiou Exposition held in New York l.ist fall was the most import.ant showing : of the products of the stiil of various sections of America th.it has ever been made. There were import.mt showings from Alaska and from l.te county. Florida: from San Benito, in the Southern (iulf Coast Region of Texas, and from Aroostook county. .Maine. The Canadian I'acific Rail- way, stretching from the Atl.intic tn the Pacific, was quick to see that it , could secure the develoj)ment of its I territory through capital and fartners in New York City, therefore, that road made a spleuflid exhibit at this lir.st great l.ind show, i This exposition was held in .Madi- 1 son Square Garden la-t November, audience with a dees ' >l)tainable and the famous potato in- dustry of Ccdorado began. It was in -Vevv York and in New England that "Raymond-Whitccjuib Tours" secur- ed their patrons, whom they took to California. These Eastern boys later invested in Southern California land and inaugurated coinmcrcial orange orchards in that State, and they are now sending their oranges from River- side to New ^'ork and Boston. The South Invites Them Also. The South and the W^cst have re- ceived their first impetus and modern progressive development from capital .md labor secured in New York and on the Atlantic Seaboard. The bulk of new farmers coming into our country arrive in Xiw York (40.000 peasants from the Old World are among the 1.000,000 immigrants annually arriv- ing in New York), and these have been directed through immigration agents, through exhibits of the product of the soil in New York City and by and wa- ouiy op. n I'^r â l!ack-to-thc-soil" \\a~ tioii's slogan. .â itiht day- tl;e export What the Exposition Did. Since it- -howing at our l.uul show the Canadi.in P.acific Railway has is- sued a circular stating that as a result of its exhibit it took out of New York State alone $700,0(X) in the hands of settlers purchasing land to make homes in Canada \\'e-t The .\rcadia Orchard- '"ompany of Sf)ok.ine made an exhibit ,it this ex- position and sold $50,000 worth of its apple orchards tlierc. The Florida Pecan Endowment ('ompany made a i showing of what it i- doing near Tal- I lahassee. llorida. where it ha- e-tah ' lished the greatest pecan orchard of the world, .and this conip.any also sold $50,0(JO worth of (leean grove- in eight days at the New York L.ind Show. The Missoula Chamber of Comtncrce (Montana), marie a !"ne -liowing of its grains at our exi)o.sition, and its secret.ary -t.iic- that .-^.s a re.-ult Mis- soula has received 5000 ciiquiries from intending settlers and land pur- chasers riesirous of starting life anew in that Treasure State. The Empire State itself made a magnificent exhibit with a result that men went from the city to buy lands
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