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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1914)
THK OMATTA SUNDAY BKE: DKCKMDEn 1.1, 1014. 1 LLI Big Canal Will Make Chile Our Winter Fruit Garden (Copyrlsht, 1014. by Frank O. Carpenter i ANTIAOO. Chile-How would you UKe to have luscious peachea at Christmas, ripe plums, peara and chprrle in the heart of midwinter, and I great white munkmolona when lh ground la covered with (now? Thla la what you may expect from Chile now that the Panama canal in completed and the war daman 1 for American Roods la turning our shipping that way. The i vessel! carrying our wares to rn.-m-: j South .America will furnlFh cheap re turn freights, and the project !e that I In the near future many of them will come loaded with fruit. The seasons on thla aide of the equator are the oppos'ti of oura. The fruit begins to ripen here j late In our fall, and the Chileans have I pluma, peachea and peara ready fur the market In the midst of our winter. From now on Valparaiso will be within two weeka of New York, and' the canal has placed a South American California, with Its summer products, almott at our doors. The prospect of a great exporta tion of Chilean fruits to the United Statea Is agitating the farmers. The gov ernment Is Investigating the subject, and schools for teaching fruit growing and. the packing and exportation of fmlts are being established. Chile has long been' the chief fruit-growing country of the lower half of our hemisphere. It al ready has orchards of hundreds of acres and Its vineyards are yielding about 60.. 400,000 gallons of wine every year. There la no land upon earth that has better fruit possibilities and its products are now to be dropped upon Uncle Sam's tables. Bmlli( Special Plants. in oraer lo give you some Idea of what this great Industry may do for the United Statea I have spent a day Hh Tl C 1 m . ..... ".v.. ..K.i ouvwor izquierao . in go ing over his fruit and nursery nlanta Hons, situated near the town of Nos ana about twelve miles from Santiago. Hon Salvador Is the fruit king of Chile, I and I might almost call him thp Luther Burbank of our sister continent. He has an Irrigated hacienda of about 1,400 acres. I covered with gardens and orchards, and plantatlona for the raising of flowers, ' plants and trees of almost every variety! j He has now more than 13,0)0,000 In dividual nlnnla I. . V. - .... .... . . I . , ... i., email, tnu ne snips plants by the tens of thousands to all parts of Chile, and also across the Andea to Argentina, Uruguay and Brail!. He is not only a grower of nursery stock, but Is likewise a scientific breeder of new varieties. Altogether he has Introduced into Chile more than 4,800 new varieties of fruit, and plants, and he has himself originated by cross breeding hundreds of valuable treea and flowers. Some of his experiments have been along the line of creating trees hot subject to certain blights and pests. He hae already created tlTJ?Z V varlctle PPI not af fected by the insect known as the achlao- auntei , 0,14 " nW our apples of many Dart r th. ... . u.j - t ' . rlE " i i ?v-I ltfV ' - -4. I ...V. ; VV- ! L: -tL ,.o , V--v. .v , -,, H - .aiJ-WM-vX. .-V,- . . ',.'. It J ra chief Industries for the future Is to be In raising fruit for the north. We shall soon be able to land fruit In New York In fourteen daya after the ships leavo Vram!. tin with propor fruit ftesm- we ran son-1 sura varioiiea na mn frs brlna the hlshest prices nl there Is no other f r'i't to them. At present yo I ret finlts from Australia and a time lien compete with some Inter ("ape Colony, ..ny puriS or the vnrM Tl.. ZZ? e" "trafted onto the -talk, the stalk, but It stop, where the grafts begin, and the tree, and their fruhTare found to be safe. Training; Roots of Trees. Among the other eiDeriment. e - Iiqulerdo S. is the elongating; of the root, of the eucalyptus and other treea so that they can be gTown :upon the dry lands f the tops of jhe mountains. This is done by sprouting them Id pots, where i young trees are fed with nitrate of 1S t . . A'. ... - .1-. 1. , : T V ft 4 V ar va - -"i'llr' -V i Si- v I- r ! 1 .s..- aaaft s , 1 W" Threshing by electric power al SsmJLa. hx&9 out the boundary lines is common throughout the central valley of Chile. This adds greatly to the beauty of the country. It changea the ft oe of tlae land scape and makes It look greatly like the farming regions of France. It Is safe to say that the country has tens of millions of these beautiful trees. Trees Divide tfca Estate. This great estate la divided by such trees Into sections. Some are devoted to grain, some to vegetables and fruit-growing, and others to the raising of plants. flowers and trees like our large nurseries at home. Going onward, we are soon In the nursery part of the eeteAe. We pass rapidly from one great tree-wallod en closure to another, riding on the railway. .There are so many separate plantations, and the varieties are so different, that I cannot describe them. Don Salvador oda and treated In'.uch a way that their i1"' th?1 AXT wl sells a half-million eucalyptus trees every year, and receives single orders for as many as 40,000 trees, at one time. He has one plantation of clturus trees In their various stages of cultivation, and here you may see oranges, lemons and grape fruit of every variety. He has long lines of poplars from stock that came from South Carolina, and In one of the nurse ries there are 20,000 acacias. In another section we find 250,000 peach trees, ready for sale, and as we pass this we come Into acres of apple trees, ranging In site from mere sprouts to almost as high as our heads. There are 160.000 apple trees In this field, and they are twice as tall and as thrifty as trees of the same age In our American nurseries. 1 had a snap- roots are about four Being planted, these long roots go far down Into the .oil and tap the under ground layers of water, and are therefore able to resist the drouth, it was In recognition of this discovery that the Jioval Agricultural society of ILondon has just unanimously elected Don Salvador Ltqulerdo 8. a member of that body. But I cannot give you a better Idea of the possibilities of fruit raining; in Chile than by taking you with Dn Salvador over his great fruit estate. We start at the station In Santiago and within an .C Z rMden out t0 th '""a nation of Nos Our way I. through the central I? f Ch.1,e' Dd w ' 'arms and vineyards on both sides of th. Mn road At mnm - , . the private " n ?7 Uka!"t de of Don Salvador and myself "" away. The car is pulled by a horse but the Chilean driver makes the animal go on the gallop. We go over a road lined with poplars a hundred feet hlh. by great fields in which fat cattle are grazing and within a short time are on Don Salvador's property. The estate is surrounded by magnificent scenery. It lies on a plain at the foot of the moun tains, sloping toward them just enough to ! u thB Jf11 requlres to' the Irrigation d tches. These are fed by a branch of the Wapocho river, a rushing stream so large and swift that It not only irrigates the 1.000 acres of plant., but also furnlshe. the electric current that run. all the machinery. One of the canals turns a tur- mat gives the estate 120 horsepower. This . plant lights the hacienda and other buildings, it runs saw mill. and threshes and move, the machines of a large fruit Packing and canning eatabll.hment. Uae America Warhiaery. As we ride In we pas. a threshing ma chine which I. moved by this plant It waa imported from America and Its noise carries us back to our farms at home. The grain is coming In from the fields In enormous oxcart, and It la fed directly from the carts to the thresher. As the barley pours forth It Is caught In buckets made of skin holding a bushel or more and carried by men to a great pile on the ground. We next walk to the sawmill nearby, where the men are making lumber out of some of the trees that Don Salvador has planted within the last twenty years. The soli and climate hero are suoh that trees will grow twice as fast ss In our own country. There are euoalyptus 100 feet high that are not over fifteen years of age, and palms as big around as a hogshead that have been planted within she last generation. The big trees on this atat are numbered by the hundreds of thousands and they have all been planted Sinoe 84. which was h. tm- .v,.. Don Salvador began to turn his ancestors grain and dairy farm Into a nursery. Borne of these tree, are ralaed solely for wood and there are little forests of eucalyptus containing thousands of Indi vidual trees that are bein, growa for this purpose. Rome of these trees are only a year or so old while others are from seventy-five to 100 feet high. Around the large field. 'making up the plantation are rows of Lombardy poplars 100 feet hlg. These are the fences of the estate, and they make walls of green of wonderful beauty. They often follow the Irrigation ditches, making a double row of these tree., walling the orchard or pastures within. The row. of poplar, are often 150 feet high, and that although they are only sixteen year. old. The cus tom of using them for fence, and to mark height of the trees. Our next visit U to a plot containing 150,000 cypress trees. These were planted out only a few daya ago, and they are now about as long as my finger. I pick up a bunch out of the plot and count them. I have thirty-one trees In my hand, each of which 1 an evergreen that will soon be decorating some lawn of Argentina or Chile, These trees are raised under great tents of brush or arbors, with brush spread over them. Thejsjmake me think of the tobacco tent. In the states. A little further on is a plot of plum trees that contains 300,000. Farther still - are oranges, lemons and flga, and other semi-tropical fruits. Twelve Miles of Railroad. Taking the car. we ride to the floral part of the establishment There are more than twelve miles' of railroad on the estate, and we can go rapidly from one place to another. The flowers are a wonder. They are of almost every variety of the temperate and tropical tones. . There are great hothouses con taining thousands of orchids, and In one section are 20,000 rose trees, including more than 1,500 varieties. ' There are also vast beds of lotuses and water lilies, and near them are groves of persimmons, which Don Salvador Is Introducing Into Chile. He ha forty varieties of this fruit brought in from Japan, Korea and China, and he expects to make the Asiatic persimmon as popular In Chile as It is now in the state.. Don Salvador is also experimenting In creating dwarf varieties of plants and trees. He thowed ma a peach tree a high a. my knee that had ripe fruit on It. and a fig tree In bearing that was of the same else. He Is making the famous dwarf pine, of Japan, and ha. some which are now a foot high and will re main so for year. He is Importing fruit, and tree, from everywhere, and that at great cost. As I walked through the plantation he showed me forty new varietie. of vlnea that had Just been unpacked. They came from Europe and were In excellenl condi tion. But this was not so of some other flowers, an order costing 10,000 having all died on the way. During my stay I vlatted the packing establishments where fruit and vegetables are put up I might almost say by the ton. The hacienda has great cement warehouses equipped with ' the most moderns machinery for drying, preserving and canning. It has great buildings fiUel with tin plates made by the stael trust of the United States and brought her for the purpose. The cans are made in ..." t . .. , triclty and managed by Chlleno men, I women and children. The peachea are peeled by a machine that does the work of 150 women, and all of the fruit and vegetables are cooked by steam in the cans. The factory can make 10,000 cans In a day, and it ships Its product away by the carload. Breed Special Frnlt Treea. In connection with the canning, I want to tell you about the vegetables and the fruit In the fields. I visited one section where ninety acres of vegetables were ;eady for the factory. There were great section, of ripe, red tomatoes, long row. of green beans and an enormous quantity Of sweet corn. From there I went to the peach orchards, which now have 45,000 trees loaded with ripe fruit. The trees are 7 years old, and some of the peaches are as big as my fist, and of an ex quisite flavor. Many of. the varieties have been created by Don Salvador, and In some of these he has succeeded In reducing the slse of the stones to half that of the common peach of our coun try. The orchard. I saw have now about 100 pounds of fruit to the tree, and at this average Don Salvador estimates that he has 1500,000 pounds of fruit, or at least 2,200 wagon loads. All of this Is ripe and ready for canning. At five peaches to the pound he has 22,500,000 peaches, and he believes that they coull all be landed In good shape In New York If fast cold storage steamers were ready to take them there via the Panama canal. Don Salvador tells me that such peaches can easily be cariicM that distance In cold storage, and -still have four or five days In which to be marketed. These peaches are ripe here m the midst ot our winter and they would surely bring a high price. As I looked at this great orchard I could see that even now Chile could al ready supply a vast deal of fruit for our winter markets. There are many big or chards. These people can do business In the large, and they understand all about scientlflo fruit growing. Don Salvador is perhaps the best among them, but there are many other fruit raisers who manage their plantations almost as well, and who. whea the demand has been created, will devote themselves to raising fruit for us. Take the peach orchard of which I am writing. It Is as clean and well kept as any I have ever seen In the United States. It Is trimmed every year and the trees are cut low, so that the bra tches grow out from the ground. At the same time the limbs are thin, so that the. sun' gives a dally kiss to every peach on the tree, bringing a ripe, rosy blush - to Its oheeks. Around( .the trunk of each" tree is a little ditch 'for Irrigation, and n rln kled over this after watering Is nitrate of soda, which Is fed to the trees .t the rate of 2O0 pounds to the acre. They have no San Jose scale here, but Don Salvador j Uses the lime and sulphur spray every winter to guard against Insect pests ef all kinds. Salvador Aaotner Barhaak. The same careful treatment Is observed as to all kinds of trees. I am told that the ordinary native workmen are skilled In the handling of fruit and they learn easily to cara for the trees. Don Salvador has about 400 employes onl his hacienda. They are all native Chileans, and amo g them are men who can bud and gralt and who understand almost every phase of fruit cultivation. As w sat In Santa Ines, the great coun try house of the plantation, where Don Salvador lives during a .part, of the sum mer, I asked him to give me some Idea of the possibilities of Chile as a winter fruit market for the United States. He replied: "There Is no doubt that one of our but they arc twcnty-nl lay or more from V York, ar-.l you Invc to pay a 'freight upon them thnt In aevernl tl'iies ins much as the freight from Chile wou'd Icwt. Tasmania and New Zealand have to pnv from ll.: to $1.r. freight rn i box 'of fifty po-.-nds on a bushel to the rult-.t I States. If we could ship oi.r f rcl? :it h't ithct jtl'-e we would hnve an ndvnl, 'of T5 cen'.s per bushel. We expert to tin ia Rrent don! better thuti that. The tll'rcrenoo In distance would le a iHffrrenre of thouPVils of nillen. The T:imnnlan. fer Instance, are now ship- : ,plng fruit to Kuropc. They sold 1.0"0 00 .boxes of apples there last year and re xlved therefrom something like I:.,f00.ii01. ! Chile ran raise tia cood aPPlea as any art of the world, and we shall send oui fruit north through the canal to Kurope a well. It 1. said that w ought to be able to ahlp apple, there at a freight rate oi 10 or M cent, a box or from 112 to 114 a ton." 'Ha. Chile fruit plantatlona large enough to sipply the American demand?" I asked. ' "We have the plantations In bearjng to start the business, and we have o much soil a'apted to three fruits that we can furnish enough orchards to feed nearly every American city. All kinds of fruit produce abundantly here. A single acre will yield from N.onn to S0.0M pounds nnd we have millions of acre, yet to be planted." "How about the nursery stock?" "That could be supplied right here In Chile. I am ready to :ut my lamia and nurseries at the disposal or any com bination with large enough capital an ships to go Into this business. I would do all that 1 could do to help and that not only for the aake of profit, but for the good of my country." "Do you know of any syndicates who are considering thla business?" I do not know absolutely of any plans that have been completed aa to Its organ isation and development. I know, how ever, that tho United Fruit company haa Lbecn conalderlng the . project an J that there are other capitalists who couU probably be Induced to put money Into It If they realised Its great possibilities. The Chilean government would do all It could to encourage the traffic and It would. I am sure, give rebates on the freights of the government railroads In carrying the fruit, to the porta. In addi tion there will be no difficulty In raising considerable capital here. The profit, can be easily demonstrated, and I look upon the Inauguration of the business at an early date after our first ships go from here north to New York." FRANK O. CARPENTER. A'4 i'V' f -i . -silk.; rf-a .SU . w tz v 1 Mane it a 1 . KODAK . Christmas TV outdoor jollity, all the rood things that -weigh down the Christmas tnble, tho jovial faoos, the eurprie of tho younRpters may be enjoyed over and river again if there is a Kodnk in the family on Christmas Day. KimIhUs SVMlO to K74.00 Urmnlo, M.OO to .5l.eo Watch our Windowi for Kodak ChTi:lrnasSarre$tion THE ROBERT DEMPSTER CO. EASTMAN KODAK CO 1813 Farnara St. 3Q8 South 15th St. Dsi.BcnkFBajUS, Sanatorium HOW TO USE A DOCTOR CHAPTER VII, "Is there any joy of sertios to be com pared with that of the invsstlg-ator who haa wrung; a mew secret from the heart of nature, listening when she haa whis- psred a single syllable of truth unuttered before, who has been able to add a single stone to the temple of learning, the noblest of all the struotures ever rsareu by man." a. Stanley Hall. The worth of a physician to his com munity depends upon his ability to save human life, and to promote health, sanity and efficiency. For many years', I have devoted my efforts to trying to put the Burgeon, the Hospital for the Insane and other Hospitals, the Penitentiary and. Un dertaker out of business, and I have come very near stampeding several thou- and Medical Collego Professors, who see, In the readiness that my methods have been appropriated by the larger profes sional body, a strong probability ot their losing a Job. I have long since acquired TUB FACULTY OF LOOKINO INTO THB FUTURE and of effectively In creasing my patients acuity of mental vision In such a manner as to enable them to become the possessors of a physi cal body whose chemical and nervoua mechanisms of co-ordination GIVE RISE TO NO FHT8ICIAL DISCOMFORT. There are among us, walking about on the streets and In the various abodes of human lite, many sick people suffering from abnormal chemical and nervous mechanisms of co-ordination which causes their reaction to the stimuli of environment to be manifested In painful sensibilities. Insomnia, nervousness, la digestion, constipation, weakness and un due fatigue. Intestinal stasis, autotox aemia and ail or the resulting conse quences characteristic of INCIPIENT ORGANIC PI8EA6E FOLLOWS. The resistive powers of suoh parsons to baterlological Invasion are lessened) the body is thus "PREPARED SOIL" for bacteriological and parasltlo Infection with their destructive con.equence. to human life. To merely treat the "LOCAL FOCI OF INFECTION" I. not enough, The causa which makes bacteriological and parasitic invasion possible should be treated as well. Not only should the "BE ED" be removed, but the condition of the "SOIL" Improved. Thus even cancer and tuberculosis are preventable diseases, because we not only remove the exciting factor but correct the predisposing cause which makes parasltlo invasion possible. Thus do we conserve the health, effici ency, sanity, usefulness and happiness of our patients. BUCH PROFESSIONAL SERVICE IS A SUCCESS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF BOTH THE rHY- ICIAN AND PATIENT. Tho co-operation between the physician and the people is simply a matter of understanding, or of EDUCATION. Hence tlia necessity ot this method of enlighten ment I take those who come to me aa patients, learn what they are, who they are, what it Is that has made them aa they are, finding out the cause ot their disturbed nervous and chemical equilib rium, and lve them treatment, not only for results (WITH THB AID OF A SPE CIALIST IF NEEDED), but show them the cause of their condition In the light and knowledge of the present dsy pro gress In medical science biology, psy chology, physiology, chemistry, chemical pathology, bacteriology, anthropology, soology, palleontology, physical geology, astronomy and other branches of AC QUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND PRAC TICAL MEDICAL ART THUS MAKING EMPLOYMENT OF THB PATIENT'S INTELLIGENCE A3 AN INDISPRN BIBLE FACTOR IN THE CURB OF DISEASE AND FOR THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH, SANITY AND EFFICI ENCY. 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