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MrUford. Oregon
Qf T. JONKS,
COUNTY HtmVKYOH.
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AMMOND A NARRHGAN
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K.KIRCHCKSSNER.
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' Contrnl I'olnt, Oragoo.
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April 10. 'w.
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HUUVKYOIt AND (J1VII. KNU1NKKH
0. B. DopulJ Mineral Hurvoyor tor Hid 8Ul
Of Oregon. I'ontomcc Kdilrimn:
Medford, Oregon.
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rilVHICIAN 'AND bllKCRUN,
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O. II. I.INKI.BY, OMhlnr.
Jackson County Haul'
...CAPITAL, 130,000...
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Digests what you eat.
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dlKostuiits and (HhchIs nil kinds of
food, KkIvch Innlnnti rcllvrnnd novor
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tlm food you want. The most scnsltlvo
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thoiiHiinds of dyspeptics havo boon
cured after overythlntr. else Titlled, ' It
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FltlJIT LAND
FOOT llll.l 71 tii'n'N.HO uuri'N In inilllviillon
hiillillnUM. l.lvlnu wiiliir trnlii
14 NcruH Niioiliitt to mriiirii.
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r 1IOI.MK.S HROI .... CENTRAL POINT J
Pacific
i cast Seeders
I Plows Marrows
j All kinds of farming machin-
ery. New stock just being
I received
HUBBARD BROS.
Medford, Oregon
New Lumber Yard
'is
IV
Rough and Dressed Lumber
.. .. Fir and Pine Shingles
Rustic and Flooring (
Three Years Old.
Thoroughly Seasoned.
Medford Oregon
1 am proparcd to furnish
HARNESS, SADDLES, ETC.
First-Class Goods. Moderate Prices
Gall and soo mo
7th Street
Bedford. Machine Shops
Boiler and Encino renairinc
Engines, Boilers and Pumps Bought and Sold
EXPE11T MACHINE WOllK OF ALL KINDS
Gasoline Engines and Spray Pumps o.i Sale
&AULT & COOK,
BEDFORD PLANING MILL,
MEDFORD PLANING
We mnnufnoturo Doors, Sash,
Kstimatos furnished on Store
soft wood ' ' ,
Contrnotinpt and Buildinn
Mill on North D Street
MEDFORD,
Advertise in THE MAIL and get good results
Fine Job Printing a Specialty
MEDFOBD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 6, 1902
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I'AINTj and OILS
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Prescription Carefully Contponndrd
7th St., Medford. Oregon
O. E. GORSLINE & SONS
MANUPACTUKERS OF AND OEALRItS IN
rd Pouth of
man's
WartnouBu
all kinds of
f?
J. G. TAYLOR,
Medford, Oregon
sr. e-. r-. r e-. e-. n
a "pecialtv. Second hand
Mill CO., Proprietors
mouldings, Rustio and Floori
and Office fixtures in hard or
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Located In the Southern Part
this Great State.
of
from ttio Halcirn Pacific Hutmmtead :
"Snowy Butte" orchard, owned
by Olwell Bros., udjoins the city
limits of Central Point, Jackson
County, Oregon. They had about
$40,000 in cash and ccood notes, and
n 188!) purchased 800 acres of land
for which they paid $15,000 cash.
One hundred and sixty acres were
set to apples and winter pears 150
acres being set to apples. There
were 5000 SpiUonbergs, 1500 New
towns, 1500 Gravonsteins, 1500 Ben
Davis, 500 Winesups, 100 Petite
prunes, 500 Win tor Nellies and 400
trees of 8war, Ked Astrachans, Red
Cheek Pippins and Bartletta. The
trefscosl them $40 per thousand
and there were 12,000 trees in the
orchard. The land is what might
bo called heavy, and ii very dark,
ft was nine years before the trees
came into bearing. Had the land
been lighter they would havo come
into bearing two years earlier, but
l be trees would not have lasted so
lung. Between the rows of trees
was grown corn and watermelons
which, for the first three or four
years, paid for caring for the or
chard. The amount was decreased
each year as the trees got larger
and discontinued altogether after
the fifth year.
The land requires constant culti
vation until the middle of July,
hence a crop requiring cultivation
can just as well be grown for the
first few years. One year sixty
acres were devoted to watermelons.
When the land was purcbaFed
there were no buildings of any kind
on it. Buildings had to be con
structed, horses and machinery had
to be purchased. When the trees
came into bearing in 1S97, of course
there was only a small crop pro
duced about 2400 boxes; they had
used up the entire $40,000. This
partial crop was sold f. o. b. the
card at Central Point for 90 cents
per box. Since that the average
crop has been 35 carloads, or 21,000
boxes, per year. Some years more
and some years lees. In 1898 they
were offered 75 cents per box f. o. b.
care at Central Point for .common
varieties and $1.10 for fancy grades
and had they sold would have
netted about $8000. This was when
they were just beginning to see
"daylight" in the orchard business.
They were then inexperienced in
the marketing of fruits and held
the crop thinking that prices would
advance in late winter. Early in
Maroh they shipped'the bulk of tbe
crop to New . York which reached
there about five days after the fruit
held in cold storage had been put
upon the market and prices were
away down. They would have been
better off had they never harvested
their fruit. Yet, as one of them re
marked to the writer, "It was prob
ably worth to us all it cost, as it
taught us a lesson."
Tbe net profits on the farm were
for 1899, $6000; 1900, $12,000; and
for 1901, $20,000. ,
For the beBt care of a large bear
ing orchard it will cost per year
from $15 to $25 per acre; this is for
cultivation, spraying, pruning, thin
ning, etc The oodt for' picking,
packing, wrapping, etc. that is
from tho tree to the oar where the
station or siding is near the or
chard i3 from 25 to 80- oents per
box. The paper alone for one year's
crop will cost about $1000, boxes
$1800, and nails $150. This will
give some idea of the opst of a large
commercial orchard. Pickers are
paid $1 por day and board. Pick
ing season lasts for about three
weeks and from. 40 to. 80 piokers
are employed 50 boing the aver
ago. Tho packing is done by girls.
Kniploy about sixteen who aro ex
perioncod, It lakes about two years
HO. 39.
to becooie an expert packer; some
never can become expert in that
lino.
The apples are picked off the
trees by band, placed in what are
called orchard boxes and hauled to
the packing house' on long racks
with springs under them, 60 to 70
boxes being hauled at each load,
and they are stacked up. The red
varieties are run through a polisher
and are assorted into two sizes. The
polishor is made by fastening
nruflnes 00 a wfieeI. "er bBng a
circular strip upon which brushes'
are also fastened, all being attached '
to springs. Tbe wheel is revolved
quite rapidly, the apples passing
through between the bushes on the
wbeel and those attached to the
circular strip which gives them a
glossy appearance. The imperfect
apples are set aside. Tbe perfect
apples are than wrapped in fruit
papper, each piece having the ad
vertisement of the orchard, and
packed in standard boxes. The
green-colored varieties are assorted,
wrapped, and packed, but not pol
ished. A good packer under favorable
conditions can wrap and pack from
40 to 50 boxes per day of eleven
hours. Ordinarily they 'pack from
25 to 30 boxes. The boxes are
lined with paper, a blue cardboard
id placed between each layer and in
top and bottom of the box. Tbe
art in filling, a box is in building
it up as each variety of apples is
placed in differently. r
Immediately after packing the
apples are shipped in car load lots.
Newtowns go to the English mar
kiits, Spitzenbergs to the large cities
of tbe tfast, Ben Davis and Red
Cheeked Pippins' usually to the
southern states, and some to Alaska.
If any of tbe crop is held it in not
tdvieableto pack , until ready for
shipment. Apples for the Englifb
market are billed to London but if,
when they reach New YorTc, the
market tn London is not what is de
sired the apples are put in cold
storage at New York to await an
advance in the London market. If
there is a considerable amount tbe
cost of cold storage is 5 cents per
box per montb. .
Fruit that is sold in London is
sold at auction at 9 a. m., and by
reason of tbe difference in time a
cablegram is sometimes received
at 8 :30 a. m. at Central Point an
nouncing tbe price for which it was
sold at 9 a. m. the tame day.
lue uiweii tiros, nave bum up
a reputation for 1 on"s?y of pack
hence they sometimes sell ten
thousand dollars' w;orth of fruit on a
telegraphic order. The buyer knows
that he will get just what he orders,
and the seller knows that the buyer
will be pleased.
When they begin' hand pumps
were used and the spraying of 160
acres beoame quite a problem es
pecially when men refused to work
when asked to operate the pumps.
Finally they made a gasoline en
gine, which operated the pump and
also tbe agitator, aha placed it on
a wagon, three men with one
machine will spray about 400 trees
per day. The spraying is thoroughly
done, every apple is covered, and
the tree after it has been-. sprayed
has the appearance of having been
washed.
A Farson's Noble Act.
"I want all the world to .know,"
writes Kev.fJ. J. bud Ion?, o! Asbaway,
R. I., "what a thoroughly good and re
liable medicine I found in Electric Bit
ters. They cured me of jaundice and
liver troubles that had oaueed me great
suffering for many years. For a gen'
ulne, all-around oure they excel any
thing I ever saw." Electric Bitters are
the surprise of all lor thoir wonderful
work In liver, kidney and stomach
troubles. Don't fail to try them. Only
50 cts. Satisfaction Is guaranteed by
Unas. Strang, druggist.
The largest library in the world
is the National Library, of Paris,
which contains forty ;miles of
sbolves, holdin" 1 400,000 books
Thora are also 175,000 manuscripts
300,000 maps and charts and 150,
.000 coins and medals. -
ON
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, CriWAy'ril Jiu on
i, a.m. iilllun, IioIiik flrHtdulynworn,
of 'rim MKDn l. MATr . weekly nown.
paper pnlillnlied In the City of Medford.
Juoknyn (Jounty, Or.iiri, ihnt tho nnm!
Iior of Medford Mnlln printed each
weok In 2Mt. i, nd that ihla minihur han
boon printed ench week for the past
eight months and oror.
A. 8. BLITON
8u.6j0ib1l'1"1-"worn 10 before mo
thin 2lt day of July. lri
Z?lTI M STEWAUT
A
OF EVERYTHINfi. .
The native runners postman of;
Natal are strikingly pictaresqtte
when on business bent.. With their
sandaled feet and headdress of
dried leaves, which rattle as they
run, and a military greatcoat, un
derneath which is a garment called
tbe mucetu, thay travel for miles
at a jog trot at four miles an hour
and receive as payment $5 a month.
Most men know that corn, lees
than any other of our cereal crops.
depletes the fertility of the soil on
which it is grown, yet not all know
why this is. Corn to a greater ex
tent than any other cereal is car-'
bonaceous or fat producing, and as
this carbon element is all derived'
from the sun and air the crop there
fore draws lightly on the soil.
The study of curl leaf in .Italian
prunes is the subject of a trip on
which Prof. Cordley, of the Oregon
Experiment Station, has just sturted
through Southern Oregon. He if
to go as far Fouth as Ashland..
i
Much work on tbe disease has been '
done in the s ation laboratories,
and it is hoped that ultimately the
cause of the trouble may be. dis
covered and a remedy applied. ,
Pacific, Homestead.
The United States government is
spending $10,000,000 annually for
i he furtherance of agricultural in
terests. . Every state in tbe United
States has an experiment , station
for the investigation of agricultural
problems. Agricultural colleges are
teaching the "new science" of farm
ing and it is proposed to establish
a rustic kindergarten in every school
by teaching "nature study" and
primary agriculture to the little
folks. Pacific Homestead.
"Nothing new under the sun,1,
said the preacher. Yet many people
think that he did not foresee the
bicycle., Neveatheless, Mr. Yang. .
Yu, late Chinese minister , to , this
cuntrp, dpcHrps - that they used
l'ii;M-.i-ri hi !ii - Flowery kingdom
twenty centuries ago. He adds'
that their manufacturer was finally
prohibited by the Emperiorbecaueo
the Chinese, women rode so con
stantly that they neglected their
families and domestic duties. . This
bit of satire indicates that Mr. Yank'
Yu ba attained a very intelligent,
appreciation of occidental humor,
during his residence in thib country.
What is Btated to be the oldest
ship in the world has recently been
sold at Teneriffe. to be brokeu up.
Ibis is the Italian ship Anita, reg-.
istered at the port of Genoa. The
Anita, which resembled Christopher
Columbus' ship, the Santa Marie,
was built in Genoa in 1548, and
effected her last voyage at the end
of March, 1902, from . Naples to
Teneriffe, five or six months ago.;
The Anita was of tremendously stout
build, and had weathered countless
storms and tornadoes all over - tho
world, but it was also the slowest
ship afloat, taking 205 days on one
voyage from Baltimore to Rio de
Janeiro.
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