Raisin Day

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

April 30 is Raisin Day for the raisin producers of California. They are sending choice raisins and good literature to all parts of the country. They want the people of the land to sample them. They want their raisins tested. "By their fruits" would they advertise. People ought to know about them. All through the East men and women will pay from ten to fifteen cents a pound for old, dried, wormy, and candied raisins, when California has thousands and thousands of tons of splendid raisins to sell, sun-grown and sun-cured, full of sunshine. Raisins are splendid food. One man, a government forester, lives on them solely for weeks at a time, eating seeds and all; and he gets along finely. If the East knew what a food raisins are, there would be a demand which would greatly exceed California's annual crop of 60,000 tons.