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6 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1912 O Some Cocal TIME IS HERE TO TREAT GROWN ROT Crown rot of the apple tree la caus ed by a toadstool. This toadstool la ooe of the many fungi that give the farmer much concern. The structure and growth made by thla toadstool ahould be thoroughly understood aince a thorough know ledge la neceasary In case one at tempts to combat it and la success ful. The so-called vegetative part or the toadstool and the part which cor responds to the roots, stems and leaves of a tree for example, consists of minute but Invisible threads which live in the soil or in vegetable mat ter either dead or living. These threads may be simple or branched and when abundant in the soil form strands of almost countless numbers which are enclosed in a special cov ering of a black color. When occur ing in this form these bodies are known as the shoestring fungus. These shoestring-like strands attach themselves to all sorts of vegetable matter in the soil, among which are the roots of the apple tree. When the strings become attached to the tree they usually grow and finally develop the fruit which is as we know it the toadstool. If the strands are allowed to remain in contact with the roots they will gradually work their way through the bark. Soil conditions have a very de cided influence. on the activity of the threads, the more compact types be ing the more favorable. Should the bark of the roots be Injured In any manner so that the shoestrings may reach the unprotected wood, the fun gus becomes a parasite, growing In to the wood and attacking and des troying the more tender part between the bar and the wood. The entrance of the fungus Into the tree is characterized by the presence of cankers which most commonly are located at the crown and on the main roots where they diverge from the crown. Unless special search for the Infested treea is made it commonly happens that by the time the top of the tree shows that something is wrong with the root the tree is so badly Injured that it la only a case of time until It dies. At thla time of year the toadstools are forming . The location of these toadstools usually reveals the loca tion of all infested materials both decaying and living. One should go over every portion of the orchard and note if there are one or more brown mushrooms attached to the crown of the tree. It Is a good plan to do this work at least twice during the next Ave weeks. Be sure to mark every tree and the location in the orchard away from the trees where mush rooms put In their appearance. After the trees have been marked every mushroom should be collected and burned, for several reasons, prin cipal among which is that they are the fruiting bodies of the shoestrings and produce the seed like bodies (spores) that start the fungus grow ing in new locations in the orchard. After the mushrooms have been removed the dirt should be dug from the crow and large roots of these treea and the bark examined to see If there are any cankers in the bark. In case of cankers cut out all dead portions of the bark, leave the wood exposed for a few days and then coat the wood with thick Bordeaux mix ture. The dirt should not be placed in contact with the wood for at least a year. A burlap sack loosely wound around the Injured part will be suf ficient winter protection. Trees that have been entirely girdled should be bridged grafted the follow ing spring. Care should be taken to prune the top so as to remove as large a portion as necessary not to overtax the vitality of the tree until the flow of water and the movement of plant food throughout the tree becomes nor maL There is good proof that a mixture of air-alackad lime and dry sulphur (1-2 by volume of each) placed around the crowns of trees on which shoe strings are attached will kill the shoe strings and will not Injure the tree, The above mixture should be placed on the exposed crown and bases of the large roots and then covered with oil. W, H. LAWRENCE, Plant Pathologist. WOULD MAKE APPLE NATIONAL FRUIT Four northwestern states are ex I tried to observe Apple Day, Novem ber 18, as a holiday , and the Ides of the occasion will be made nation wide. W bare the national (tame, the national antbera, the national bird and tbe national this, that and the utbt tblntf, and with the Interest that U manifest la the culture of the Apple Tall O XX WOULD ERADICATE LAST OF SCALE San Jose Scale la only founi? on a very few trees in the Hood River valley. Fire blight, which is a much more difficult disease to combat; has been eradicated at least there is not a single canker known to exist in the valley at this time. With the co-operation of all concerned the same result can be accomplished rel ative to the San Jose Scale. During tne past monin or more an inspection of a large number of orchards shows that the scale is very rare within the orchards. There are however, trees of all descriptions and varieties, both old and young, stand ing near houses, barns, outbuildings, in fence rows and fence corners, in hedge rows, along ditches and flumes, seedlings standing in the pastures and along the creek bottoms, as well as such trees as the red alder and the wild haw that are well plastered with scale. This scale attacks a very few of the wild plants, principal among which is the red alder and the wild haw. The apple growers no doubt have carefully labeled all trees found to be Infested at the time the fruit was gathered. The further request is made that each rancher make a care ful survey of the ranch and destroy all plants in the out-of-way places that will carry scale and clean up such as he wishes to save. This search should include wild plants as well as the tame ones. It Is also requested that the peo ple of the city of Hood River co-operate in this work by digging up and burning all unsightly fruit trees and pruning and spraying those they wish to save. The campaign to eradicate the scale has been under way for several weeks. Kindly attend to such work as will facilitate the inspection de stroy worthless trees, prune and de stroy those that are worth saving. Kindly do this work at once. W. H. LAWRENCE, Inspector for Hood River County. EDUCATIONAL SIDE OF SHOW FEATURED The educational side of the Huo- kaneshow will consist of dallv confer ences from 10 12 aud from 2 4, three days of which will be devoted to cul tlvatloD, pruning, spraying, harvest Ing, financing, etc. Wednexday will be devoted to by-product: Thurs day to storage and traiiHportatton; Friday to marketing. The bent men of the Northwest will be used for one half of the Conference time, mid the other half will be open for general dlecUHHlon. Stenographic reimrts of the entire conference will lie taken. printed and dlMtrlliuted If poHxIble without charge. Other educational feature will lie: A free school to tench packing; the boys and girl' Judging ronttet, pre ceded by lriMt ruction on how to Judge; the tent of power spraying machines by experts to gather complete Infor mation la regard to design, construc tion, performance aud efficiency of modern spraying machinery ; exhibit from the StateCollege of Washington at Pullman and Illustrating by col ored transparencies of orchard views throughout the Northwest. apple, there In no reason why that fruit should not le given especial re cognition In the land. But Apple Day will be more than a mere dotting of the bat. to the queen of fruits. It will be made the occasion of a closer acquaintance with the lucloun mor sel that tempted man from the Gar den of Kden, for every man, woman and child In the nation will be asked to eat at least one apple on Novem ber IS. That looks like a little thing but It Is not so small as It appears at first glance. Suppose that on Ap pie Day the people of the United States would eat Just one apple each for breakfast. If 90,000,0)10 of our people were up In time lor breakfast there would be an even million empty apple boxes to carry to the basement for kindling wood when the meal was over, as a box of standard pack contains !M) apples. Fifteen hundred freight cars would have found em ployment In transporting these ap ples to market, and an army of men would have earned the price of break fast lo handling the fruit from the tree to the table. And that Is for but a single meal. It la better than an even break that if the apple served for breakfast was a Hood Itlver Spits or Newtown, the ration would le doubled for dinner. Hut we will stop with figures Ix-fore we get Into a maze that will cause the price of apple land to soar to something like Its true value, and be sides there would have been no Hood River apples left for dinner. Head the News. It tells It all. FRUITS GROW WHERE MERCURY FREEZES ')ver two years ago Frauk N. Mey er, explorer for the Tutted States Departuieut of Agriculture, was seut to Central Asia In search of cold-re sisting fruits for the benefit of the people living along the northern edge of the I'ntted States, and especially the upper valley of the Mississippi, mo he traveled Into Siberia aud Mau- churla as being likely regions, states Harper's Weekly. That his trip was a success. Is proved by the fact that Mr. Meyer has recently sent to the Agricultural IH-partmeut at Wash ington, several specluieus of fruit that will reelst a temperature tar lie low xero. Mr. Meyer, dressed In native attire. ate aud lived with the uatlves of the dlffereut countries he traversed aud was seldom heard from except when some rare and curious plaut or seed frotn some distant part of the world was received through the mall. Two of the best discoveries made lu his search tor cold restating fruits were an apricot that stands a teiu perature of 15 degrees below xero aud a Siberian cherry that grows out-of doors where mercury freexes and al cohol thermometerM have to lie used to record temperature. The apricot Is a small, cold stunted tree, but, al though the fruit Is not much to boast of, It Is nevertheless au apricot and cannot be killed by cold weather. It Is claimed that It this fruit Is uot good enough to suit the A inert can palate now. It Is only a matter of grafting and breeding from the hardy stock to develop any klud of taste desired. While the apricot Is considered a good And, the oue that promises to be the most popular aud more valuable Is the Siberian cherry. riil fruit grows on a tree that never gets a chance to grow more than two feet In height, owing to the win ter temperature of forty degrees lie- low zero, where It flourishes. The fruit Is only about the size of a huckleberry, but the bush fruits In In profusion. 2250 APPLE PIES RAKED PER HOUR Apple pie baked at the rate of 2250 per hour lu an oven 65 feet long aud served by 75 well known Spokane residents will be served tree on the opening of the National Apple Show, November 11 to 17. This will lie the penlng event of the Enakops, the amusement feature of the apple ex hlbltlon. The apples will first be made Into sauce In a huge kettle weighing 1S00 pound. Oas will be used to cook the sauce, It being esti mated by experts of the Spokane Gas Company that 4.S.C70 cubic feet of gas per hour will tie required. Five hun- Ired bushels of apples will be cooked at a time. When enclosed In a crust. the pies will lie placed on an eudless chain In the bake oven. Eduardo Kampan. chef nt Davenport's, and H.Cantrll will direct the cooking, while the populace will te served by leading men ol Spokane as waiters. It Is expected this novel undertaking will give the apple still greater favor as the king ol fruits. WENATCHEE CROP RELOW ESTIMATE About four-fifths of the fruit crop of the valley has been shipped say Wenatchee reports. Railway offic ials expect the daily average of ship ments to decrease from this time for ward. A larger number of cars pro vided with heating facilities will roll after freezing weather sets in than in any previou s season. This is due partly to scarcity of labor and partly to the present demoralization of the apple market. The Wenatchee valley apple crop was overestimated. Instead of 4000 to 4,500 carloads of all kinds of fruit it Is about 3,700 cars. This Is divid ed into 3000 cars to Wenatchee and 700 from Cashmere and Peshastian. Only 600 cars remain to be shipped from Wenatchee the total last night having reached 2,490. That the total shipment will now fall 300 cars short of the estimate is explained by the fact that growers were a little slow In their picking and were caught by the first of the regular fall winds. It is said that this caused Just about 300 carloads ti. C.JOHNSON Carpenter and Builder Third and State Sts. Phone Shop 3 I J Res. 87-L Regular Sunday excursion to Park dale. Pleasant trip for yourself and friends. Special Harvest Dances will be help at Hellbronner Hall every Saturday night from 9 to 12 p. m. Everyone welcome. 39tfc of windfalls, which had to be class ed as culls but which would have graded 70 per cent, extra fancy. Fifty cars were destroyed in the can nery fire. 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Reports are that many ap ple trees in the upper country have not yet had their loads of fruit pick ed, lack of help belugthe cause. AUTOMATIC 1 nty4 ton fA, is for a machine which will automatically and economically II is obtainable. This demand has at last been satisfied aires absolutely no care, thus saving the expense of a sala et durable , absolutely reliable in operation, and may be in- sible to keep the water in the city mains under direct and ipe. Where river water is unfit for house purposes the d from a well into the city mains. n Automatic Pump recommends itself as the ideal ma s system at a price which is within the reach of all. The re practically no parts to get out of order. The pump e turning of the faucet in the kitchen or at the barn will nd with intake pipe connected at any angle. g stream, water pressure being the motive power, and it ave a stream, a spring or irrigation ditch from which a stcd to write us ami we will be pleased to show them a ma- Freezing weather will begin up there very shortly, the season being several weeks earlier than down hero and it is feared that quantities of ap ples will be lost In this manner. PUMP Requires No Coal No Gasoline No Attention No Engineer No Fireman