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THE MOKNESG OKEGONIAJS, MQNDAX, JANUARY 2, 190g. 28 LAND ABOUNDING IN. FRUIT IT YIELDS GREAT PROFITS ON 'SMALL IN VESTMENT OF CAPITAL, LABOR AND SKILL "L AND OP BED APPLES" is be coming as familiar a name for Oregon as "Land of Bis Trees." "Land of Salmon" or "Land of Wheat." Almost every section of the state gives rich returns to the horticulturist -who carefully selects land well adapted to each but It Is so great a factor In contributing to the certainty of a 'crop and improving its quality that this necessity is a price Jess advantage when results are summed up. In the extreme eastern part of Oregon tho flats and benches of the Snake Blver COST OF APPLE ORCHARD IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY. . (By E. L. Smith. President State Board of Horticulture.) Per acre. Land ready for planting -SS Eighteen trees at 10 cents each -- Digging holes and planting trees at 6 cents each...... -SS Cuim-atlng with sprlngtooth harrow three times each way S2.S0 Cultivating with weed exterminator, twice each way 1.40 Pruning Hoeing about base of trees .-. LOO Besetting trees -oQ Total for one year. J7-"0 . Total for first four years 20-80 Plowing and cultivating, second and third years -w Grand total for five years (interest and taxes must be added to thls J2C Yield. rifth year, enough to pay expenses and yield small profit. ' Seventh year, profit per acre ir5 Tenth year onward, per acre. $300.00 to 600-w Price of Apples In 1904. Per box. Spltienbergs : Newton Pippins lts Brother Jonathan LjO Baldwin ...................... Lw- Cost of cultivation, pruning, spraying, picking, packing and hauling to market, per box ' 50 particular fruit, who cares for his orchard with skill and industry, and packs his fruit carefully, leaving out all that Is de fective. There is hardly a limit to the variety of fruits peculiar to the temperate are dotted with Irrigated orchards, where pears, apples, prunes, peaches, grapes- and melons are found in luscious abundance. The gold medal at the Chicago World's Fair was won by a bunch of Snake Blver APPLE ORCHARD NEAR GRANTS PASS, SOUTHERN OREGON COST PER ACRE. Land - J10O.O0 Plowing and preparing ground..... .. 3.00 Sixty-nine trees 2 years old at 124 cents each (this is a high esti mate, as trees can be bought in large quantities at 6 to 7 cents each) 8. Digging holes, planting and laying out ground..'. 4.00 Cultivating and pruning seven years at $6 42.00 Boxes for apples up to seventh year SJ50 Packing and picking, 10 cents a box 6.90 Hauling to depot five miles. Viz a box 103 Total .$172.45 Production up to seventh year, 69 boxes of apples at $1.50 a box f. o. b. cars $103.50 Net cost per acre at end of seven years 68.90 Production eighth year, 276 boxes at $1.50 414.00 Production ninth year and afterward, 10 boxes per tree, or 690 boxes per acre, at $1-50 1025.00 Deduct Annual cost of cultivation, spraying and pruning.. ..$ 10.00' Cost of boxes, picking, packing and'haullng, 214 -cents box. 14S.S5 153.35 Net profit, subject to deduction of Interest on net cost -for first seven years and taxes ?.... $876.65 Apples of market value should be planted in order to obtain, these; re sults. Such are Spltzenbergs, Newtown pippins, red-cheek pippins, 'yel low or golden pippins, Brother Johnathans and Bellflowers. rone which canbe grown in this state. In most sections the subject is closeljr re lated to that of irrigation, for that is es sential to success In Eastern Oregon and contributes thereto in Southern Oregon, Grapes. In the valleys of the Blue Sloun. tains grow apples, pears, cherries, prunes strawberries and raspberries perfect in size, flavor, color and good keeplnc aual itles. Baker County has produced a new PEACH ORCHARD OF TEN ACRES OR MORE IN SOUTHERN OREGON. (By Max Pracht, Ashland, Or.) Expenses Per Acre. " . Land .....J J........... ..........';.$100.00 Clearing and grubbing.., 99.00 Plowing and. subsorting, first year. .". i 6.00 Laying out and digging holes '. 8.00 Trees and setting out, 160 per acre 20.00 Pruning and shaping, first year 1.00 Fencing, estimated at 16.00 Plowing, cultivating and pruning, four years 40.00 Replacing sickly or ill-shapen trees, second and third year. 3.00 Digging Dores, four years 4.00 Slack-llmlng. fifth year 4.00 Hand-thinning fruit, fifth year , LOO Interest on annual cost at 10 per cent a year. 9L30 Total .. .1. .$323.30 Production. Fifth year. 20 pounds per tree at 24 cents per pound on the tree (price ranges up to 4 cents) .' $80.00 Fifth year, culls and scrubs for homo consumption 10.00 Sixth year, 40 pounds per tree 160.00 Seventh year, 60 pounds per tree . 240.00 Eighth year. SO pounds per tree 330.00 Total $aaoo Period of profitable life, years 30 Annual production, per acre $320.00 Annual cost per acre, including Interest on first five years outlay.... 43.90 peach of rich flavor and large size, which ripens late in October. Hood Blver has gained world-wide fame for producing the largest, soundest, best colored, best flavored and best keeping apples in America, and owing o care, in selection and packing they command the highest prices. Hood Blver also leads the world for the size, flavor and abundance of Its strawberries, which are. snipped in refrigerator cars throughout the North west , and as far East as Kansas, Ne braska and Iowa. Hood Blver also grows raspberries, cherries, blackberries, pears and other fruit. In the Willamette Valley fruit reaches equal perfection In size, color and Savor, though the moist climate, detracts from the keeping properties of apples.. Not only do, the apple, pear, prune, cherry, peach, apricot, walnut, almond, chestnut, all kinds of berries and bush fruits flour ish there, but grapes do as well there as In Germany, France or California, though there are but few commercial vineyards In the valley. These are on the red hills of 'Washington County, and. In competi tion with other states, have won the high est medal at expositions for their wines, which are said to Improve with age. Fruitgrowing on a commercial scale In the Willamette Valley has been confined mainly to strawberries, prunes and apples, and prunes have been the largest crop, but of late years skilled horticulturists have engagco In mora varied fruitgrowing. Prunegrowlng Is one of the great indus tries, and despite an occasional failure is highly profitable. The Rogue and Umpaua t Valleys, In Southern Oregon, are steadily gaining an International fame for their fine apples. the yield of which bqq been greatly ln- COST PER ACRE OF VINE YARD IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY. (Br WUbw K. Newell, of DlUejr.) Land , ....$ 50.00 Plowing, deep 2.50 Harrowing LOO Digging holes 15.00 Stakes 8.00 Planting 12.00 800 vines at 4 cents each 32.00 Cultivating first season, eight times 8.00 Hoeing twice. 3.00 Tleing to stakes and pinch ing back laterals 4.00 Pruning In Winter, 2d year.. 2.50 Plowing, cultivating and boe- - Ing; 2d year 20.00 Wire and posts for trellis, 3d year ; 27.50 Setting posts and stretching wire. 3d year 15.00 Pruning, cultivation, etc, 3d year .. 25.00 -Total .$225.00 After the third year the crop should pay Its own way and the vineyard should be In full bear ing in the eighth or ninth year and continue tor 50 to 100 years. An average yield should be four tons per acre, and, if it falls be low that amount, there is some thing seriously wrong with the grower or his vineyard. creased In some cases by irrigation. They also grow peaches, pears, prunes, walnuts, almonds, chestnuts, filberts, grapes and watermelons without stint. The grapes of inn Bogue Valley are pronounced equal to those of Burgundy Valley, in' France, for wine-making. The valleys of the belt west of the .Coast Bange of Mountains have the same advantages as the Willam ette Valley for fruitgrowing. Experiments with nutgrowlng trees have been highly 'successful In all parts of Ore gonV one orchard of eight-year-old wal nutsk having paid $2 a tree. The growing of berries as a by-product to larger fruit Is also recommended, as they all do well and come Into market at a time when other crops are not ready. Oregon's market for fruit Is rapidly spreading, largely through correspond ence of the State Board of Horticulture with the boards of other states and with American Consuls throughout Europe. China and Japan. South America would welcome Oregon apples, England and Ger many receive them eagerly, and exports of -fresh fruit to Asia and Australia have more than quadrupled in , the last six years. FRUIT CROP OF OREGON. Short prune Crop Almost Offset by Increase of Other Crops, c; BUTT brought nearly two and 1 quarter million dollars to Oregon In 1904, according to the report of G. H. Lamberson, secretary of the State PRUNE-GROWING IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY BY ACTUAL EXPERIENCE. - . " Coat and Profits on an Orchard of Twelve Acre. Investment per acre: k Land Teady for plow. 0.00 Plowing 15 Inches deep and harrowing Young trees, 108 per acre, at 8 cents each , s.64 Planting trees, one acre per day LW Cutting trees to height of 12 inches soon as planted ......... .30 Cultivation, five times in season, with -one horse and plow, three acres per day, each cultivation 70 cents . 3.50 Interest at 6 per cent on $55.94 - .......... 3.35 -sa.w Second year: Pruning every "three weeks from June 15 to August 1. one man can prune 4 acres a day. each pruning 35 cents per acre $ l.o Cultivation, five times In the season 3.50 - Interest at 6 per cent on 3. ? s.33 Third year: - ... Pruning and cultivation, same as second 4.5a - Interest at 6 per cent on $7i31 44-$.S9 Fourth year: Pruning-to form tops of trees -W Plowing and harrowing in Spring i- ' Harrowing seven times in season Interest at 6 per cent on $32.22 .4.3 10.53 Taxes, $1 per acre per year Total investment until orchard begins bearing $91.15 Fifth year: , , r Cost of cultivation and pruning XVX Cost of picking and hauling crop. "f cents per bushel 2.10 Cost of ........................ ....................... 1.00 Interest at S per cent on Investment $9L15 6.47 14.23 Crop, 30 bushels at 40 cents if-") Net cost fifth year Z-g Total Investment, end of filth year ; $33.37 The sixth, year the crop a little more than pays expenses, but with the s areata year the orchard comes into full bearing and tho average of the four succeeding years Is as follows: Crop, 112 bushels at ) cents, sold fresh $44.80 Expenses: Pruning Cultivating k 3.65 Tax.....:. Annual pjoflV per acre on $337, 32.46 per cent $30.31 If crop is sold dried, the result would be: Crop. 112 bushels (2240 pounds), dried, at 3 cents per pound, . average price of four years 54-w Expenses: Already enumerated : iS-Jx Curing, VA cents per pound , "3-3 Hauling to market L65 JAM Profit, 42.63 per cent, on $53.37 $39- This Is an illustration of the cost for an orchard to which a man does not wish to give his entire time and -on which he does not wish to make his home. An orchard of 30 acres would justify his'llving on It and mak ing It his main business. Then he would Incur the following additional expenses for Investment: House E00.O5 Barn 200- Team and harness 2Sr!5 Wagon H.00 Plow Disc harrow .". jj5.B Small tools , ,2000 Evaporator - 3,ooo.cp Cost of bringing orchard to bearing 30 times. $93.37 : SMx Five years' Interest on $2100 at 6 per cent Total investment for 30 acres ; $o,53Lio Annual results: Crop. 112 bushels per acre at 34 cents per pound $2,520.00 Expenses, same as before, except curing and Interest ......JS32.SO Curing at 1 cent per pound 672.00 L324.S0 Profit on 30-acro orchard. 2L65 per cent $L19-20 Board of Horticulture, despite the ubortage in the prune crop. In fact, the increase in the production of other fruits was enough to make up $329.000 orchard having sold $20,000 worth of apples and pears. There is a large increase in the pro ductlon of strawberries and grapes. HOW A HOOD RIVER STRAWBERRY-GROWER MADE MONEY ON SEVENTEEN ACRES OF LAND. Investment. Wild land at $50 an acre $ S50.00 Clearing and preparing land ." S50.00 Plants for eight acres. 14.000 at $L50 per 1000 16S.00 Planting, two men eight days at $3 each 32.00 Total ... $1,900.00 Expenses First Year. Cultivation $ 240.00 Picking and packing 620 crates at 60 cents 372.00 Interest on Investment at 8 per cent .'. 152.00 Total $ 764.00 Crop. 620 crates at $2.50 .'. $1,550.00 Profit, 4L37 per cent on" $1900 756.00 Expenses Second Year. Cultivation $ 325.00 Picking and packing 975 crates at 60 cents : 5S5.00 Interest 152.00 Total $1,062.00 Crop. 975 crates at $2.70 $2,6320 Profit, S2.66 per cent on $1900 1,570.50 This statement does not Include cost of buildings, but all that is need ed besides a dwelling Is a cheaply constructed shed for packing. Nor does It Include tools, those necessary being the ordinary stirring plow,- the smoothing harrow, the horses hoe and hand hoe. For hauling tho berries to the shipping station, a spring wagon should be used to prevent damage to the fruit In transit. The labor Is light and .healthful, women, children and even invalids who have gone to Hood Blver for their health engaging In the cultivation, picking and packing of berries. While strawberry land In a high state of cultivation and set to bear ing, plants lying near Hood Blver sells readily at from $300 to $373 per acre; just as good land In the wild state, lying further out. may be bought for from $35 to $150 par acre. of the decrease of $590,000 In the pro auction of prunes. It- has been a re markably good year for apples, one EXHIBIT OF LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. "' ' " 1 ' " T ' " ' 1 ' ' ' "' "" 1111 - - - -i--- . . . though it is impossible to give even approximate figures, as they are lumped with cherries, blackberries, raspberries, currants nnrl cnniohaiiiKi under the general head of small fruit! It is known, hnwnvor i-Viot- t,A tltiu ette Valley produced $50,000 worth of grapes ana 4inat Hood Blver Valley inuuubcu uuuul uu,uuu in strawber ries. Tho report follows: variety isoi. Apples $ SS5.000 Prunes 310,000 Bears 160.000 Peaches 175,000 Strawberries and other small fruits... 710.000 1902. S 640.000 900.000 148.500 x 75.000 652.500 totals $2,240,000 $2,501,000 voc STOCKINGSTREAMS Government Fish Commission Re plenishes Oregon's Supply of-Trout 1903. 1004 211.931 to Trout planted 111.409 yilSTOBIA. Or.. Dec. 3L (Special.) While tho State of Oregon seeks protect the trout and other game fish that inhabit Its streams, it has a v absolutely nothing toward restocking the wj agency or artificial ptuy.ijid.uon. ivnatever nas been done that line has hepn linilsp tn .11- .1 the united States Bureau of Fisheries. During the months of May. June and July of the present year this bureau ha3 planted a total of 211.934 young trout In Oregon streams, while last year 111,499 were planted, and the Indications are the ioi-k 01 resiocKing will be carried on ever more extensively next spptnn Tk eties of trout and the streams In which xney nave peen planted this year are a; follows: Baker County Bock Creek. S000 rain bow. Clackamas Countv Clear rainbow and 5069 Eastern brook; Deer owv -n.ii5i.ern Drooitr Eajrle Creek 12.000 Eastern broolc. Clatsop County Ncanlcum Creek. 9000 iaiuuuw ana ivfiM oiacK spotted. Columbia County Clatskanle Blver 000 Eastern brook. Coos County Jordan and Perkins Lakes, jj.uuv .Lrfute oupenor. Jackson County Roctia rti n black spotted; Spring Lake, 10.000 Eastern brook. Lincoln County Spring Pond, 3000 rain bow: Beaver Creek. 1500 rainbow; Ya- quina iver. w,mj eastern bro&k. Marion Countv Bntt Pnv inswi -r-i ern brook; Little North Fork of Santiam. 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