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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1906)
6 THE MEDFORD MAIL, Friday, March 9, 1806 OTHER FRUITS v. PRODUCED HERE C'ontlnucil from pug" 3). Loqnn borrlaa hero would be the best ou the continent, Not only uro 1 er rloa vfiy productive, but pricos rcul lzod iu t'jo loan! umrkot uro exoollont, while t' Is vullay, lu tha ninrket ulford eel by the milieu of Norths Culifor niu and tho tlniber CHUipj cf all this portion Bulla un outlet for It a uurpl.'S whloh 1b equal to a city. It is doubtful If n bo't.r showing In atrawborry culture has ever baeu made anywhere then that nmdo by Mr. Job '1. Wilder during the past gave thou) the uecemiary attention and from this little tract sold seven bun drefl and niuety-eight dollars' worth of berries, bringing them Into murket regularly throughout the summer, and retailing them ou the street of Med' tuis character iB found In the Blen heim aprioot, as grown in -the foot bill orchards of the Kogue River Val ley, There is no eeotion of Califor nia, not even the region about Vaca- ville, which can produce fluur aprl- furd up to November, at flfteou cents cots than we produce here, and tbey nr box Thuy wore of largo size and , huve been found to oe very proauo as finely flavored as the best of borrieB in thotr regular season, Care a id ir ritation did it, but the growers Bny tive and immensely profitable. One of the utti'fotivi' foaturcB of this in dustry is that the high laud which Is that the conditions must bo right to , particularly fltted for 'he pro luotlon ml( It potisibK and :he conditions p of hlgb-grado apricots, is very obeap are right bore in Southern Oregon, ' iu price and another iuducem ut to The crop of b-Trios was not tbe only P'I"K iu large acreBtro is the fact inoome from this patoh, for the owner tlwt tho troes come into full bearing t'dls us that b!s sale of plantB during in n very few years after being set, the winter season from the borry patch ' It Is nothing unusual for npi'inots will amount to not Iosb than one bun- j to mnturj perfoot Bpeoimens of frlut d red and fifty dollars, Of course, suohi the Hrst year after the nursory stook orolltB are excentioiial : but what has . in Bet There are hundreds of acres beeu done cau be done agaiu, and we prediot that within a few yeara there 11 i t t i V J v I- , . I rxJ : w w j?Kf Tax 4 A Table ' f Dartlett Puais fhoto by Hull season, ai hla pretty little place at Fboenlx, four miles Boutnot Bedford Mr, Wilder bus learned the mystery of making strawberries extend their eeaaon on through tho summer mouths and witb two "nrieties with wnlob he baa experimented, last summer buo oeeded In breaking more tbau oue re oord with yield and prices obtained for bis soasou'a crop of Senator Dun lap and Magoon berries The previous easou, with a patch but nine by oue buudrod and twenty loet iu fIzo practically two-Ufths of an acre he obtained about four hundred dollars In ylold, aud know he bad not douo bis best with two varieties, lu 1000, with the pluuts tu their prims, he are diBtriote in the Kogue Uiver Val ley wbiob wiil outrank any other part of the ocast as a beny distriot. A large pottlou of the lands at the head of Kogue River are especially adapted to tbs production of large, Urm-llesb- e l berrlts of exceptional flavor ber ries which will staud trausportuion to the ends of the earth iu good condi tion iu refrigerator cars. The Blenheim Apricot Certain seutiouB of America, usually very limited iu extent, happen to be ooudusive to the growiui! in perfec tion of some ouu fruit, which in its limited ar. u, surpasses any ot the same variety produced elsewhere. One oi the happiest adaptations of of these foothill slop s which ere ; adapted to the production of the high I cat type of apricots, and similar lai'da "jare sjlliug lu souie ot tho California j v .Hoys f r more than ids thousand dollars per aore. and our landa will ! produce more and better apricota 'eaoh year, than the best of California i lauds. This means a big acreago bere, jevontually, for the world wauta un abundance of suoh fruit. Beautiful Peaches The absence of a cannery bes so fur prevented the planting of many large ! pouch orohards in the foothill belt i ubout the lower valley, but it is a rucogn Ized tact that the pnuchea grown ! there ure the finest un earth. Lurgo ' In sly.o, high in uolor, luscious in qual- ity and possessing a flavor wnioh bus , olhiii oompared to oondensed sun ' shine, it is the red foothill laud "h'"'n i- host It peaches, for while the granite soil will produce a hand s') ..e peach, it is destitute of the Hue lluvor whlob distinguisnes the fruit grown on tbe free red aoil, rlob in iron and all the other elements essential to th? productiou of the rare fruit whloh iB making Oregon 1 famous in th? fruit trade today. Tbe j Muira. Elbertas, early uud lute Craw j ford peaches have given the best re 1 BultB so far in peach culture, and each ; Beason the cities to tbe north await : the arrival of tbe brat Rogue River pouohes, as they look for the Ueorgia ! produot in New York. Many orohards last year yielded from oue hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars per aoro, aa returns for careful handling of pencil product. , While the tree is here, aa elsewnere, abort lived, oom pared with an apple or pear, there can usually be from six to ten good orops sooured before the trees begin to de cay. The pi aob la oue of tbe easiest frulta to grow bore. Better Times for Prunes It 1b true, that until the past two years, tbe prune growers have not ' made muon money. It la also true 'that the world's great surplus cf 1 prunes Is used up, and tbe high-class ot petite prunes grown in this valley j seooud to none, Insures some hand some profits within tbe next year or two, and perhaps permanently great profits. On good soil hero, tho prune tree is a steady, persistent bearer of line trult, is not subject to Insect or other pestB, and some excellent prune orohards are ou tbe market at veiy reasonable figures. The Mail oau con sistently reoommend any careful hor ticulturist to give careful attention to the prune question, before turning it down. It has been found profitable to ship the Fellenberg or- Italian prune green iu carlouds of Bartlett peurs sent east during tbe lust few yearB, where it Bells on the fruit stands ob "blue plums," and it par takes of the good carrying qualities cf all our produots, aonsoquent upon our having the right altitude. i Tbe past year was not a favorable season for fruit in the Rcgue River Valley ; in foot, it was Jtne only light orop wo have had beru iu eight yeais. Yet we leurn that Mr. J. VV. Myers sold from one hundred and twenty Uve apple trees ou hi' place at tho east end of the Hear crook bridge at Central Point, fruit to the imiouut of one thousand and fifty dollars. Tho trooa were fairly well loaded, but there were onl" a limited amount ot bigu pried hpitzeubergs and NewtorU8 uu-uug the apples, aud yet the total showing is very creditable. The type of fruit wub of the highest, and bore out the reputation of this little orcb a.'J, made many years ago. Mr. My ers, by the way.Jwas prior to his seitle ment in this volliy, a professional or ek bottom which is uu:'erkid win, heavy sub soil, just the right tblug for tbe Spitzeuberg apple. j It is a matter of common oouiuiont among fruit nieu, tbut tho best fruit laud lu this county is not yet sn to orchards The succues of the noted 1 Lirudcbaw orohards, east of .M'dfoid, 1 is illustrative of this fuot. There is i no orchard iu any land wbioli regular ly yields suoh a mint of money as does I this, place, without irrigation, the1 i natural sub-irrigati"ii bulng ample to I produce phenomenal orops each.year. Annually there are Newtown apples J grown here whloh are aotunlly too lurge to be successfully puoked lu tho I ordinary trude pad'uge It wu a box of these Newto" ns wbicb, sent to : Portland for exhibition purposes some years ago, seuc Hon. bl L Smith post haste'to Hood River to bud some thing to -xoel them tint the Port land repoiters, who guyed bim a gocd 2 THE HUMBLE BARTLETT. h ! A tree on Mr. F L. Huwell'B pluo', south of Modford, iu 1006 yield . d 8'2u 50 net cash, but the produot from this ' ree sold in Montreal for $'M 40 and HIub- gblHLUtl tlSbltliaulUll 114 BUIUH our Burtletts are held abroad ThiB tree was merely fortunate iu baring due credit given it 6 There were many Bartlett. trees P on the orchards of tne Burrell c.' Investment uo . adioimuc Mr. 5 TVuVelle'a which oxoeded tnia 3 tree in tho amount of .ruit pro- X duued. 'i . ' Notwithstanding tbe faot that tne population of the Rogue Kiver Valley has increased wonderfully in tbe last i decade tbe rummber of farms baa j luoreaabed considerably more and is j numbered among one of the few sec tions that haB added more to its agri cultural than to its otb r population, i For tbe farmer in tbe Kogue Kiver I Valley tbe working time is in tbe autumn, winter and spring. His leoreation time comee in the hot summer, when he can enjoy it. The only farmers who do not get a summer vacation are tbe dairymeu and the owners of mixed deciduous orchards. They never get any vacation unless they leave their work and take it. rTeais Orchard -Near Wedford h Greybeal'a Orchard, Near Med ford Photo by Hull. fruit buyer, who tor thirty years bad inurneved all over America hnvinir fnr eastern house-, and until be reeched tne Kogue Kiver ValJey, never found a place which was adapted to the pro duction of the highest type of Spit zeuberg apples. Aside from tbe small bearing orchard on bis place, which induced him to buy the tract seme years ug, be now has fi.'tben acres of young tipitzenberg trees, which w ill be in bearing in about four years, which are bard tu beat in any country, being located in that portiou of Bear deal over the matter, stated that the gentleman 'uever came back. In tbe territory iu which hese apples are grown, theie is a large distriot capable of producing tbem, and some i nice orchards are now set there It I is under tbe flow of tbe Fish Lake :ditob, which makes It possible to irri gate them if ever needed, and there cau be no question that this will one 'day rank as one of tbe leadiug apple districts oi tbe entire state. As there ; is a great deal of such territory un 1 planted ub yet to fruit, the homeaeek er cau rest assured be is not reacbiug the land of promise too late for eti'eo tive action. 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