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Miss Evelyn Woods was home Sunday.
Miss Bender was a visitor to Salem,
Saturday.
Mr. Chalcraft made a flying trip to Sa
lem, Monday.
Miss Skipton spent . Sunday with
friends in. Salem.
Ethel Parrish from Salem was visiting
Miss Dohse last week.
Mrs. Susan Stevenson, mother of Mrs.
Fickle, is here on a visit from Newark,
Ohio.
The electricians are putting in more
lights in the old gym for the girls, bas
ketball team.
A number of Chemawa people attend
ed the Maud Powell concert in Salem on
Monday night. .
Mr. Rhodes and Miss DeLong from
Salem and Miss Steponeck were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Woods Sunday.
The American was glad to receive a
subscription from William D. Minor from
North Yakima, Washington. Mr. Minor
is at present in North Yakima following
his trade which he learned at Chemawa,
being a member of the class of 1897. R.
D. Holt of the class of 1897 can still be
found at the old stand as a merchant
tailor in North Yakima, Washington.
MR. WESTLEY'S LECTURE.
The industrial lecture Monday even
ing was given by Mr. J. Westley, the
gardener. His subject was "Fruit Rais
ing.7' He spoke of the past experience
' he has had in the fruit business,
having started in this locality thirty-
three years ago, and made a special
study of apple growing. He first called
attention to the kind of soil best suited
for apple trees, stating that thousands of
acres of apple orchards in this country
werecomplete failures because the land
was hot the right kind.
-The soil should not be flat and wet or
in a place where it would require drain-
age. Only good rolling land'is good for
apple trees. The ground should no
plowed ten inches deep.
He showed from drawings on the
blackboard the line and ring system us
ed for setting out trees, thu.s keeping them
the same distance apart "and in straight
rows in all directions. The trees should
he planted twelve feet from the fence and
thirty feet apart, giving, plenty 'cf room
for the plows and the cultivators to turn
in. 1 he tops and rrots should not be
crowded.
Digging the holes is the next import
ant step. The place where the tree is to
set is marked by a peg driven into the
ground. The hole should he dug about
six inches higger than the tree and roots
in eveiy way. The tree is placed where
the peg stood by the use of a hoard
called the yoke. Each tree is set in this
manner and left in line. '."
He explained how pruning should be
done. The trees should always be. trim
med from the center: Different varieties
should not be pruned the same, and dif
ferent species of one kind of fruit should
not be trimmed in the same manner.
Tie demonstrated with the assistance
of Harry Queachpalma how trees are
grafted, lie showed the difference be
tween not grafting, stock .-grafting and
top grafting and told why it. was neces
sary to graft trees. He closed his interest
ing lecture by answering different ques
tions which were asked by the attentive
audience.