Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1914 — Humble Fruit. [ARTICLE]

Humble Fruit.

James Wilson, the secretary of agriculture,, was discussing in Washington the aid which his department gives the American farmer. Secretary Wilson pointed out the benefit that bad been derived from the introduction of darnm wheat, of the wheat testing machine, and of the method of extracting potash from granite. “In fact," said Mr. Wilson, smiling, “I believe that eventually onr finest products will be cheap enough to be within the reach of all. Then the story of the boy and the hothouse grapes will be as dead and antiquated as the theatre hat stories of the past. “This boy—be was a bootblack—entered a grocer’s one day, aqd, pointing to some superb grapes said: “ ‘Wot’s the price o’ them there, mister?' “ ‘One dollar a pound, my lad,’ the clerk replied. “A look of anguish passed over the boy’s face, and he said hastily: “Then give us a cent’s worth o’ carrots. I’m dead nuts on fruit.*’