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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1919)
VHNINO NEWS SATURDAY. JANUARY Si?, 10IU THREB STEE, FIT Distinction . We are now showing a large assortment of Spring Suits and , Hats. Knowing that a great number of the boys would soon be coming home, also realizing an early demand for Snappy Styles, we ordered a number of new styles to be sent at once. "We are now ready to back up our . motto. STYLE, FIT and DISTINCTION TRVSTMt. , Have your fruit or ornamental trees, ilnea or Dush pruned by a man witn practical experience; writs. LOUIS H. BERGOLD - - Roseburg, Oregon LKOTURE ON PSYCHOIXXir. , Eagle Hall every Sunday evening at 7:30 by. Mrs. Tucker, lata of Loa Angeles, Demonstration at aloe Collection. U ... ' Oet your spray materials at the Marstera Drug Store. ' tt OALIi FOR SOHOOIj WARRANTS Notice Is hereby given that all school1 warrants of School District No. 4, Douglas County, Oregon, to and including No. 3131. endorsed August 27, 1918, not paid tor want of funds, and prior thereto, are this day called, for payment by the un dersigned, and all Interest thereon will cease from the date of this notice. . Dated this 22nd day of Jan., 1919. ROSCOE N. GREEN, Clerk of School District No. 4, Douglas County, Oregon. - 1-28 !The Best Store For! Winter Coats! NliAT, NIFTY GARMENTS IX A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT ARB NOW READY FOR YOUR INSPECTION. , ; ". .. i- Our Line of Silks Is the Best KVKH SHOWN- D ROSEBURO IT HAS NO EQUAL AND SUNT ; BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS ABB AT YOUR DISPOSAL. A-Nice Line of Furs FOR WIMlltf IS NOW ON DISPLAY. CALL AND INSPECT OUR . : WINTER LINE OF GOODS WHICH IS COMPLETE IN EVERY PARTICULAR. : . ' 1 i ROSEBURQ I. ABRAHAM; !0REU0N ORCIIARDISTS ATTENTION! Pruning knives, shears and saw. The famous swlss shear 'Corsell Reiser' on hand, but made In the good old U. 3. A. and priced at only $3.60. - - And how about that spray rig. Do you need repairs In way of rods etc. We have on hand the Bean 'Pilot' rodj 1 ahead of anything yet brought out. Continually under your control, or spray shut oil entirely, when mov ing from one tree to another by simply releasing pressure of hand. Perhaps you need a whole outfit, If so, call and see No; 615, "The ACME" of spray machines for any. orchard. ' t . . . J i Churchill Hardware Co. THE UMPQUA FAMOUS AFTER THE FLU-WHAT? After the sign Is down: After the Dr. Is dismissed: ., . . . ' .. "... After the time has come when you shall feel well, but don't that s the time you need Rexall Celery and Iron Tonic ' $1.00 to build up on--tb give you ood, red blood to put ginger In your step , ' ' AT ' ln , ' Nathan P?kins Fullerton 72t Storm j. . Building (By EARL PEARCY, County Fruit , ...... Inspector.) ( Concluded from yesterday.) '. We estimate a loss from these three causes death of trees, lower ing nf the vitality and money spent on remedies at no less than $100,000 for Douglas Colinty aloao in a year. The experiment station at CorvnlliB has taken up tills proolsin in.earnesi, and it Is to be hoped that some so lution may be discovered which will relieve the prune industry . or mis heavy toll. , It is ooen knowledge that tho average prune orchard in Oregon is not elven the care and attention that its return on the investment de mands. ' The youne trees are looked after fairly well, but as soon as they begin. to produce prunes, many grow ers seem to be or the opinion that their Interest in the matter haB ended and that the orohard will take care of Itself from then on aside from an occasoanal cultivation and spraying. Our Beures indicate that with the soil factor considered the average orchard will -produce in proportion to the condition it is kept in by the owner. Certainly the high producing orchards year in and year out are the best cared for orchards. Tho prune tree responds to attention more so than most species, some tracts apparently are BUrely, broody and re sentful of their neglect while their neighbors are proud, well groomed and prodigal in their thanks. Like horses, we have known, they can be driven by some owners, but not by others. . . . The mossy, orushy, no-growth orchard! 1b not a money maker even In these days of prosperity in the prune business. Fifty per cent of the best prunes are found on the 2 and 3 year 'Old wood. Where pruning, spraying, or eariy, level and contin ual cultivation can remedy the siotn ful habits of an orchard we have no suggestions to make, since there is no excuse for su ;h a condition. But where a failure to grow healthy and strong new wood or to eet and ma ture a heavy anual crop of fruit is due to humus, nitrogenous or moist ure conditions, we are hopeful that certain practices may be put into effect which will convert many of these old orchards over into tne profit column, or, in other words, will tend to stay the hand of old age. Western Orogon and Washington are not in the so-called Irrigation belt, yet as is well known to every farmer there are oo:.aons, when un usual weather conditions prevail dur ing1 the growing period, which makes the country similar to semi-arid re gions where the , lack of sufficient moisture must be supplied artifciaiiy. The seaBon of 1918 was very dry, and In Douglas county the orchards suf fered greatly - for-' want. of water, where had an emergency irrigation been present, .the tonnage would! have been much greater. r In other words, while irrigation is not necessary un der normal conditions, . there are times when It would have paid for Itself many times over, and growers in this county recognizing this who happen to be situated along tne river bottoms, are preparing to install irri gation systems. As many of these men have already added tractors to their orchard equipment, the coBt of Installation will not be great. The entire outfit, counting pump, pipe and flumes, aside from the tractor, cost-one grower -less than 1400 which irrigated more than 16 acres, the capacity of which :was sufficient to water much more acreage. : He estimated' that this cost was more than returned by the increased size of the prunes in one season. In ad dition to which he had to his crodit which return a profit the next" year. which return a.protfl the next year. Where the moisture condition is the limiting factor, it is possible that Ir rigation if practical would remedy the matter. Many orchards, however, are locat ed in the red hills where it Is out of the question to practice Irrigation. Successful orchardists attempt to in crease the humus content of the soil by turning under covor crops of vetch, oats or rye, and when it may be secured, manuring heavily. The itamd of a cover crop depends upon the weathor conditions in September, largely, and many failures occur. Every cron that is turned under In- 1 ureases tl.a chances for succeeding vlth the next crop, since ic adds to tho humus content, which in turn holds the moisture better, and does 1 not dry out so quickly in the summer. The usual practice is to sow the cover crop In August or early in September previous to the harvest rains. Or chards that are deficient in humus as a rule are also lacking In nitro gen, since the humus has a tendency to prevent the burning out of thlB valuable 'element in the summer and the leeching away during the rainy season. The vetchos and nitrogen and it Is common observation that orchards respond quickly to this prac tice. The soil becomes easier to work early in the- spring, docs not run together badly in the winter and holds the moisture better in the sum mer. The trees take on a darker green hue, the fruit hangs on better and is larger. We know of one grower who eecured $2481 from two acres simply by plowing under very large amounts of manure for several suc cessive seasons. Another man got splendid! results with sheep manure which he was in position to get, causing the old orchard to take on renewed life and to bear heavy. Manure Is not available In most of the iprune sections, and we have been watching with Interest a number of prominent growers who have been re duced to the expedlencey of Nitrate or Soda, a quick acting nitrogenous fertilizer of great value. This was first brought to the notice of fruit where some very remarkable results were secured In rejuvenating old apple orchards. " These prune men, despite the wartime price of the fer tilizer, assert that 130 an acre added la the form of a quick acting chemi cal plant rood is well worth the cost If no other effect than to stimulate new growth is secured the Investment theoretically would pay. A Douglas county grower noted for his aggres siveness, claims,' after one seasons trial that the fruit avertod the un- UBual pre-harvest drofp of last season, leaving the prunes to increase their weight appreciably. A heavy use of Nitrates iB expected' In the Umpqua valley tniB spring. Through the County Agent enough orders have been secured for a carload which by this co-operative effort win reduce the cast very much, bringing it with in the reach of tne average grower. A close study of the crop and acre age figures of the Northwest discloses a condition not at all suBpocted. Prune men assert with a great deal of optimism that the tonnage will in crease many fold In the course of the next few years. .Is this really the case? It can be recalled that the matter of overproduction "-has been preached every year for a number of years, and yet the figures prove that the increase If far fram keeping pace with the acreage coming into bearing each year. We thus come back again to the problem of old age, senile de- teriotlon, -decrease in production, or whatever we are a mind to term it. The truth Is, that the "productive mortality" which is used for want of a better phrase, by which is meant that without the actual death of the old trees the production is falling off so rapidly as to warrant some such designation. Is - groater than sus pected, i Every Industry has itB deterioatlon charge reckoned on a basis of the cost of replacing the wear and tear. Speaking horticulturally this would be calculated in trems of the acreage necessary to be planted each year to make up for the productive mortality or to keep the Industry up to normal. Considering this matter from a theo retical viewpoint, for instance, sup pose we asume that with, a given 1000 acres of prunes a 10 per cent productive mortality 1b recorded1: This would mean that a hundred acres planted each year would Blmply keep the average production up, instead of Increasing the total , production by another hundred, acres each -year, which is the way these men figure. What then is the productive mortal ity rate of prunes? DouglaB county has a crop of 8, 500,000 'pounds of dried prunes in 1918. During tne Inst 8 years a large acreage of trees have come into bear ing, adding their crop to tho crop of the older trees. The 1918 season was certainly a normal prune season and this figure does not represent a short year, yet on referring to the yield of 1910 we are somewhat surprised to learn that the crop was 7,500,000 pounds. In short, the addition of S years has made little Increase in our total production; this, too, when we know that It 1b these young tracts that bear the heaviest. Statistics for Marlon county show that there are 3083 acres 5 years and under, an average of 400 acres per year that will come Into bearing in the next 6 years. Assuming Blnce we nave no way or checking exactly that an average of 400 acres has come Into bearing a year In Marlon county during the last 8 years, which would give 3200 acres of the heaviest pro ducing trees we learn with sunprlse that at the average rate of production of 2400 pounds, which was the Mar lon County figure for 1918. close to 8,000,000 pounds of the total crop of 12,000,000 pounds came from some orchards 'under 13 or 14 years of age, In short, that the orchards which Bould now be in the prime of life, above 14 years produced only 4,000,- 000 pounds or the 12,000,000 pounds. Does anyone suppose that in 1910 the yield was only 4,000,000. Here, then, we have a way or cauculatln'g the rate of decrease or productivity which re verts back once more to the original question asked) at the beginning or this ipaper, "When is a prune tree old"? .-, A study of these figures indicates that the decline is rapid after the 15th year, yet every prune grower knows of orchards which are in heavy productivity at better than 26 yearB. A 30 year old orchard belonging to uounty uommissioner Edwin Weaver, or Myrtle Creek, yielded" 2 tons to the acre In 1918, and, better than tnat, over 2 tons In 1917. and 3 tons In 1916. When the high prlcOB Bubslde It is expected that the care1 that many old tracts are receiving will tie replaced by easier methods, which will quickly reduce the ton nage now received from the old or chard. With better facilities for marketing prunes, an educated con suming public and a standardization of the product, Is the danger of over production as apfparent as we are often give to believe? , . LAND IS GOING UP. ' '" If you Intend to buy a farm now Is your chance. - Here are a few of our bargains: No. 60. 209 acres 11 miles from Roseburg; 60 acres of farm land, bal ance good pasture. On county road; one-fourth mile to school and church. On rural route, daily '. mail; , good house and Darn: young orchard. Pos session in October. Price $6-600. No. 49. 169 acres, 10 miles from Roseburg; 40 acres that has been farmed; 75 could be; good house and barn; two chicken houses; half-mile to school. All Inclosed with good fence and cross fenced; well watered;, dally mail; good site; good free, soli and a good neighborhood. Price $6,000. Terms $2,000 down, balanco on easy terms at 6 per cent,, No. 43 920 acres on Pacific high way; 400 acres under plow in grain, alfalfa and clover; Irrigation ditch to cover 600 acres; O.j acres of bot tom land; 160 acres of bench land1; balance hills; some goad timber; li... acres of this Blashed and seeded to grass; good outside rango, 8 housos, 2 barns, 3 hay sheds. Price $50,000. No. 14. 48 acres; 18 acres or river bottom land in orchard; 700 apples, Newton and Spitzenberg, 6 and 7 year old trees; 150 peach trees', 50 prunes, 35 pears, 7 walnut, 7 oherries. All in high state 6r culti vation ; modern , ,8-room' ' 'house,-; hot and cold water from a reservoir on the place that furnishes water to the barn and chicken houses and yar'dB, also to irrigate in the dry season. A good barn, two chicken houses; Ideal, home. The following goes with the place: Good team, harness, 2 wag ons, spraying outfit,. 2 plows, 2 cul tivators, 1 harrow, .broccoli plantev, and a number of small tools, fur niture and -.dishes ln::the. house) 1 brood sow, 2 1 shoats, 1 heifer, -36 chickens. Six miles out on good road and half-mile to school; on rural route. Price $8,500.' ' No. 34. 1'GOO acres, eight miles from station S. P, R. R.; oil good road traveled the year round By au to; 100 acres of .level creek .bottom farm land; 100 more could be fann ed; all Inclosed witn a woven'wlre fence and cross-fenced. The. best put aide rangeMrt. the -county; Bll'.gond grasB range and well watered by run ning stream and -springs; 7 room house, modern; 6 'barnes; one silo: Price $32,000. t - No. 67. 15 acres, ' i mile out; 5 acres In orohard; 60 pear trees, 25 in bearing; 30 supples, Newton and Spitzenberg, coming in bearing; about 450 prune trees, 200 bearing. Sold off of 1918 crop: Prunes $184; corn, $50; pears, $60.49; hay $248. 25, total, $542.74, besides what the family used and note the number of trees that are not bearing yet. - Price $3,000. . , v We have a large listing all over the county and can furnish you any kind of a place from a 6-acre chicken ranch to the largest and hett farm in the state. See N. Rice of Rice and Rice, Masonic Temple, Roseburg,' Ore. 0 cm CITY NEWS Mrs. C. W. Parker, left this morn ing for Eugene, where she has friends and relatives with whom sho will spend a few days visiting. j , Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Graham,! or Canyonvllle, arrived in the city yes terday afternoon and epent a few hours here looking after business matters. "'')!. Market price paid for clean white beans. Bring or send samples to E. A. Petty, 1122 N. Jackson Street, Roseburg, Oregon. 30 B. F, Bates, who has been attend ing to , business matters at Eugene for the past few days, returned to hiB home In this city last night. ! The RoBehurg School of Muslo de sires to thank the people of the city and vicinity for their generous re sponse and patronage. The oppor tunity for modern instruction In pla noand voice is being finely app elated. .... II . , JACK AND JILL Jack You have heard the story of anct Jill, Who took the tumble down the hill. The dirt was black and the grass was green, So they sent us all their clothes to clean. When they got them, back after the fall. You would! sever have known they were Boiled at all. IMPEKIAL CLEANERS. (Try Our Way! ) We call and deliver. Phor. ! 277. We have a special line of Indies' coats, tailored to fit you. Call and look them over. . Honest bread and honest milk are essential to life. The folly of dena turing bread and substituting milk Is obvious. Such a diet not only lowers resistance, it destroys resistance. Where bread and mlik or milk pro ducts are all tnat they should be your health will not be Impaired, for Make An Investment r In Sutherlin Lots 25x100 feet,' closa in, ; until February 1st' $20.00 Per Lot CITIZENS COMMITTEE MARK N. TISDALE, Chairman pure sweet wholesome milk phone men In the Northwest by the Hood 186, Roseburg Dairy & Soda Works. River Branch Experiment Station tf Time to Spray LIME SULPHUR SOLUTION ! - .1 30 degrees and better $11.00 per barrel I. o. b. Sutherlin; $1.60 Rebate on return of container In good condition. If you . can use 60 barrels or more, write for prices, i Sutherlin Spray Manufacturing Co. FISHERS BIG CLEAN-UP WILL CLOSE ON Every dollar's worth of merchandise purchased at . this saje means a saving of 20 io 25 cents.' You can'! afford to'overlool4-thisj)portunity to, 'add to the urdMsini powerbf'yourj)llar. I- 335 feiauctiofi"onIHadies' musliiil . i::'uhdeirweanvi 25 per cent reductloii onf all coats, suits :and dresses.' ' j' 20 per centreductibnilall piece! .-.J goods hosiery ndcunJderwearl i!0 per ceht?reductiorif:ona!l shoes , - . i rubbers and slippers. j ; For the closing week of this sale we have selected! out nf niir sfonk nf R Xr. Ci Cnraeta. nhnnt. K rln7fni discontinued moaeis not an sizes m eacn moaeu: but your size is in some model, and have marketfi them at 1-2 FORMER PRICE. Don't miss this chance.' FRENCH TRANSFER COMPANY j .; !; Contracts Token and Kstlmatea Fur. ,,. - , ' nished on All Work In Our Idne. .. , p Household Goods Promptly and ' ' Carefully Moved i QUICK, EFFICIENT SERVICE f IT'S SOME GAR -THE t40'Mitchdl Six Let Us Show You I. F. Barker $ Co. Roseburg .r.;.'V ,' r . ' . Oregon .TRAD d MAtm TONIC DIGESTIVE ' A serious loss Is Iobs of appetite. If you are run 'own, can't eat, no appetite, yon need Merltol Tonic Digestive. It improves the appe tite, it Is an aid to weak stomachs, tones up the system, and gives strength and vigor to the body. If you are feeling "all run down" try a treatment of this tonic. Bold only by us. $1.00 the bottle. - 1 RED CROSS PHARMACY A MAN IS; WHAT HE FEEDS ON ! The housewife, looking to the family health, will buy where she can get Frcnb, Clean Groceries. Our Stock Is Clean and Sanitarily Kept and all goods are of the best manufacture. Orders personally look ed after. - - WALTER PATTERSON, IHE CASS STREET GROCERY,'. PHONE 279 Safety deposit boxes at the Hose burg National Bank. Secure one for the safe keeping of your bonds and otber valuables. , . tf Jersey Creamery Butter .Jl-4 lb. Print ? : , .FRE8H5An'T',. . DOUGLAS COUNTY CREAMERY .. FURNITURE REPAIRING. ' ' ' UPHOLSTERING, i ' 4 REP1NISHINO. . . ! " ' All work guaranteed. 702 Mill St., or Phone Ol-Y. ...v RliAli KHTATfl ; City and Farm Property, Winches ter bay and , WeotUke Town Lota. GBORGH RFTRR. . tit Wtat Oak Btreot. j