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Oregon Anotner Million
Authority for Dry Beans
(Following is Extension Ball
tin 207 department of farm crops
otihe Oregon Agricultural col
lege, the' ajitpbeing Geo., R.
Jlyalop,, professor of farm crops:)
1 Tlie f i5ftJ ifctan is one of the
great topfyffjo&f of , the world.'
Very few other edible seed crops
produce'; more nutrition to the
acre.' Beans represent one of the
. world's most concentrated food
products, and consequently are In
great demand in places where it
. is difficult to transport food. As
.- a food Btuf f in mines,'; lumber
camps, construction camps, on the
frontier, and in the army , and
. the navy, beans are always pop
' ular because of their immense
. food value in comparison with
their bulk and normal cost. A
bushel of beans has a food value
equivalent to 108 pounds of round
steak, ..
Beans are a splendid food crop
to srow, and Oregon has never
produced enough of them. Census
. statistics of 1909 indicate that
C 52 acres were planted to beans
In ( Oregon in,; that year, with an
average production of .72 pounds
per capita of the total population.
The ; production , for, the United
for th same year was a little less
. than 8 pounds per capita. Indicat
ing that we are far below thfi av
erage of the United States iu the
production of beans.; We ,do not
. produce nearly enough beans for
our own needs, and there la a
large bean consuming territory
north of us that we might supply
with this crop. --
Indications are that in 1917
Oregon will produce enough beans
for her own use, if weather con
ditions are favorable . and . the
yields are- goodA We should not
'only extend our acreage of beans
at. least to the point of supplying
fully own needs, but should alo
engage in the industry extensively
. enough so that we may market
rbe excess crop in the eastern and
northern states.
Beans are more concentrated
and more valuable pound for
pound than the ordinary grain
They re valuable enough so that
they may be' profitably shipped
for consfderable "distances in nor
maI-yeai,srTBeydnstitute a cul
tivated, cash crop which is well
suited 'to oar' Venditions, and for
which there is usually a good
market. , - -
w iThe-ISoil and Its PreparatloriT
When land is too poor to grow
- little white beans, it is said to be
too" poor to grow anything. The
little navy type cf bean-, or the
, biiBh field -been, grows very well
on many soils that are exceed
ingly poor, both in physical con
dition and ia their supply of. plant
food.
. Beans grow sucessfully on red
hill land, good white land, hlack
land, and gray land. They do
better, however, on soils that are
. mellow, well drained and warm,
such as sandy river bottom land
It is not a good plan to make
4 heavy applications of t raw barn
yard manure previous to planting
beans. Early plowing 'is desir
able With late plowing! the har
row should usually follow the
plow as closely as possible. 7 The
noil for beans should be worked
, down to a , fine, firm seed bed;
fine in order that the roots may
"properly permeate, the entire soil
Preparing the land for beans
should take place as early as pos
wible.: Harowing at intervals of
from 6 to 10 days from time the
land Is plowed until it Is seeded.
wiji save m nth weeding later on
in some cases of . very badly
run-down soils an application of
acid phosphate M 100 : to 150
Pounds an acre, or in-some other
.instances, an application of, calci
um sulphate or gypsnmat 40 to
50 pounds an acre is likely to give
sausiactory results with beans.
Successful Varieties Hem
The only types of beans that
are likely to' be successful In the
Willamette valley are certain
eariy and uniform, maturing varl
eties. Of these, the Lady Wash
inrton is best for the heavier
typos of soil. On the more tnel
ES
and. Western. Oregon Ought
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wieinoas Aavisea Dy uonege
low typos, the Mexican Tree bean
is a splendid variety. The ilea
Mexican is also a very, good va
riety, and meets a: ready sale, es
pecially in the western states. In
Chosiug a variety of beaus, alawys
choose one, if possible, that is un
iform and that has small to me-
dium sized seeds. The uniformity
of maturity is very important be
cause of our wet fall weather.
The smaller sizes of beans are
very much more In demand than
the larger sizes; the white varie
ties are more strongly . desired
than the red ones. -
Planting the Beans
Seeding of beans takes place as
early as possible after the ground
warms up well and frost danger is
over. Beans are usually seeded
in rows 30 inches apart, and
about 2 to 4 inches apart in the
row, Under irrigated conditions,
they are sometimes planted in
double rows, with about 3-0 to. .16
Inches between the double row's.
Under dryfarming conditions the
rows are 4 to 6 feet apart and the
plants G to 8 inches apart in the
row. Beans are a good crop on
summer fallow. They may be
planted with a corn ''planter or
with a regular bean planter; the
small varieties are often planted
with ordinary' grain drills. Plant
ing in hills, io to 15 Inches apart
in the row, is a common practice,
with usually about 3 or 4 beans
to . the - hill. Beans should be
planted Just deep enough to in
sure moisture for germination,
which is usually about 2 inches.
Methods of' Cultivation "'
As soon as 'the beans emerge
from the soil, cultivation should
begin. The first cultivation should
be thorough, stirring all the soil
to a depth of -about 3 inches. Lat
er cultivations 'must be made to
kill weeds while they are still
small. These cultivations may be'
made . somewhat shallower - than
the first. Beans'should never be
cultivated when wet with dew or
rain, as that is a means ot spread
ing disease. ,
Harvesting 'Bonn Crop v
The "crop is ready to harvest
when the pod turns yellow, since
the beans are' then in an advanced
hard-dough stage. They" are os
ually harvested with a bean har
vester, although on small areas
they are often pulled by hand. It
is usually, not possiWe-. to cut
beans satisfactorily with a mow
ing machine or self-rake reaper,
because the pods hang so close to
the ground that this kind.-of ma
chine cuts them and causes much
loss. The Important thing Is to
get the beans harvested as
promptly as possible after they
are mature- This is especially Im
portant on red land which ia like
ly to stain the beans-if they are
left after the rainy season begins.
j For a considerable acreage of
beans, it is very desirable to ha've
on hand a supply of hay caps.
These are made of heavy tin-
bleached muslin or light-weight
canvass. 3 feet to3 feet-sauare.
and either weighted at each corn
er with a half DOiind to three-
fourths pound weigfit, or fastened
i si-n "ni wiifwa ugni staae.
Blapk " nute. ' smalK Castings, con
crete .weights, or ?vett. flat stones
or pieces of heavy wood ray be
tied to the cornew anything , in
short, of sufficient weight to keep
the eajj from blowing off. In" some
respects It Is probably cheaper to
use light stakes, which are tied
up close to the corner of the hay
cap. These stakes should bo
notched on-the sides so they" may
pushed Into the shock and will
not slip ouj readily." Caps of this
sort will kep the bean shocks dry
and prevent spoilage in wet "aeJ
sons, . '
- Thnsliing the RoaiiM
As soon as Hli e bx&ns have dried
out. so that they will thresh read
ily, they roust be threshed at once
or put under cover. They should
be hauled to the machine on tight
bdtomed, or' : canvass covered
racks, so that there will be no
shattering and loss of the high.
pricea oean seed, wbcra there la
- mat .
uiucieni acreace, a lieaa tarerter
should be purchased. Such ma-j
chines are especially adapted to J
threshing the pods, so that the t
beans are all recovered from the
straw, with a minimum number
split or damaged.
Where a regular bean thresher
is not available, the beans are in
i some cases threshed out with an
ridinar5: tbre.wm? machine -with
all ot the concaves removed and
replaced with woodt-n blanks. The
r
grate bars mnt be covered with
tin in order that no sharp corners
are presented against whic hthe
beans may strike. The cylinders
should "be speeded very slowly,
and In some instances it is neces
sary to take out the cylinder
teeth. The cylinder bars alone1
will-sufficiently thresh out the
beans to do very good work. This
is only possible. however, on
beans which have matured very
uniformly andf among which there
are no late matured tough beans.
Beans are also threshed out with
flails or pounded out with forks:
and in some instances they are
spread out in a large circle and
tramped out with live stock.
The beans aftor being threshed
should be put through a reelean
er, and polisher, of which there
are several kinds on the market.
These machines sort, clean and
brush off the dirt if any is pres
ent and thus put the beans in an
atractive condition for market.
Beans that have failed to ma
ture, tor which have molded
slightly and are discolored, are
sometimes so nearly the same
size and weight of good beans
that the screens and air blasts
will not make the separations.
These are picked out by hand.
Various hand picking machines
are available. The principle in the
hand, or the warehouse picking
machine is simply that of passing
a thin layer of boans "before t ho
operator on an endless belt. The
discolored boans are picked out
as they go by,' and the good beans
are emptied Into the sack- Beans
should be uniformly and carefully
sacked up for marketing purposes.
It Is. not a good plan to attempt
to market beans that are not
sorted into sizes, and that are not
uniform in color as they do not
command good prices.
Cull beans and bean - straw
make excellent stock feed. , When
weevil are present, the beans
should be heated to 120 degrees
V. for 3 or 4 immediately after
harvest,
, Yields
Beans' produce in eastern Ore
gon 8 to 10 bushel an -acre on
summer fallow; on irrigated land
15 to 30 bushels an acre.
Western Oregon yields vary
from 1 to 30 bushels ah acje.
Oregon should produce 1,000,-
000 bushels a year on summer
fallow alone, besides another
1,000.000 bushels in western Ore
gon. . . .
.At normal Oregon prices beans
are a splendid cultivated legume
cash rop and they will worlrwell
in rotations.
SALEM CiilRIES''
Starr Cannery Was the Last
: One to Finish Pack of
Year, Last Week
The, Salem canneries will all
stand by now till the latter part
of May, when gooseberries will
uegin to be ready for- the 1926
pack. . . " , ; v
The Starr cannery "wis the last
to close down for the 1925 sea
son, running till the latter part
of last week. The: last of the
pack was made with canning cull
apples from the .Hod River and
Yakima districts. v
v It Is certain that the total pack
of the Salem canneries for 1923
will show a larger total than waa
puC up the year befdre. :
Though it is not certain that a
jeport of the number of cases of
each fruit and vegetable put up
in Salem, will be, available.
It is a safe prediction that,
with a noma! year, the 1926 pack
here will he larger than the one
of t"Is year' '
All the canneries will put up all
the lines of this year, aud there
ill be Improvements and short
cuts euought adopted to make cer
tain an . Increased ontDut. with
i Rood to fair fruit and veiretahu
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THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN
DID YOU KNOW that Saldm is in the center of what will
become a great bean growing and shipping industry;
that the raising of green beans for canning is already
becoming. an important branch of our farming, and will
steadily grow to be much more so; that there is a chance
for this district to make a great name and large profits
in growing salad beans for the world markets; that
beans make a profitable crop to grow, in rotation with
other crops, and as a succession crop; that .we should'
grew hundreds of thousands of pounds more of dry
beans, and also we should grow. all pi our own Lima
beans; and that there will in time be vast room here for
more bean growers?
Dates of Slogans in
(In, Twice-a-) eck Statesman iipllowinj; Day)
(With a few oHiIe changes)
Ijngan berries, October 1
JYune, October 8
Dallying, October 15
Ha., October 22
Filbert", October 29
Walnuts, November 5
Strawberries, November J
Apples, November 19
Itiispberries, November 20
Mint, DecemVieT 3
lieans, Ktc, December 10
Black berries, December 17
Cherries, December 24 , .
Pears, December iit .
tiooscberrlcK, January 7, 1925
Corn, January 14
Celery, Jannary 21
Kpinach, Ktc, January 28
Onions, Ktc, Febinary 4
Potatoes, Ftc, February 11
Ilecs, February 18
Poultry and Pet Slock, Feb. 2J
City Itenutiful. Ftc, March 4
Great Cows, March 11
lavcd Highway!", ;.Ian1i 18
Head Ijettuce, March 23
Kilos. KtC, April I
Iecumes, April 8
AnparaircH, I" te April 15
irHpes, Etc, April 22
Iriir Garden, April 29,
A PEAN TO
BY ELLA Mc.MUNN
(Republished from The Statesman of March 18.1920)
I don't .know much about relative food Values, and the things that
make muscle and those that make fat and some that make brains. And
I never will know, because it makes me tired to read about them. My
very first choice in the way of solid food, three times; a day. the year
round, would be chocolate creams. But for reasons that will be
apparent to anyone who has bought any chocolate creams since the
beginning of the war. it has seemed a patriotic duty to abstain from
this confection in order fhat the Rrench girls may have all they wont.
But right after chocolate, my 'choice falls on heaps. As soon as
the war was declared I took' a sack of beans under one arm and a ts
under the other, and retired to my cave at Lake Labish, and I came
through the whole dreadful skirmish without a scratch.
Iork and beans! That is a wondG.fu, combination to greet you
with its fragrant, steamy odor when you come in these cold March
days justabout-Jaged tnit,trom
beauties in the pasture
latch on the batfk'gate;
a snort lonutcicaaUs iu-fUHd
uhu uil
ouse your hands. into tha-rain barre4d eail them Washed, and then
flop Into your chair ia tjlje Wttle-ozy kitchen ands-r$acji across the red j
ablectoth for the beans the firstlhing. Vou don't even want to talk, i
until, they have warmed you and comforted you and strengthened you.
which 1hey will do even better than chocolate creams and then you
thaw out and are civil and decent, and you decide, after a few more i
helping?, that you will go back and
you may have thought that you were ctiite dead when you came in.
, Of course, you will sometimes get tired of beans, just as you get
tired of your husband, and your religion! and the weather, .bat take
them the year around, hus-bands, religion, weather and beans they
Till an Important place In the scheme of existence, and you learn that
here is-no real substitute for any ol them.- (P. S. My address is
oute Ji.)
Hut all beans are not as good as those grown la Oregon, nor are
any beans as good as freshly grown ones, for no vegetable seems to
fairly petrify without showing signs of external deterioration" to a
greater extent than they do. I mean by this that a jean might look
pin nip, white and youthful after ten1 years of storage,; and might even
retain its flavor to some extent, butt there would be a toughness that
H day cooking would not overcome. : ,; - ' ;
In Colorado, where the short summer season prevented bean grow
ing to any extent. Mexico and Texas shipped In large tmantities 0f the
Iried product, but a mess of beansi meant an all day fire to cook them
ifter they had been soaker! all'higb The high altitude and the hard
water were given as the cause of this, but I believe now that the
bcan3 were a hundred years old a'nd petrified and no good to begin
with. Added to this the fact that wa had beans on wash day (because
there would bo a fire all day) and the odor ot the soapsuds ot that old
yellow soap I don't see any more thank Ood was more smelly than
tbe lea:i, in my.infantile foolishness 1 thought that Monday was the
drcariefct. crosrest,' horrihlest day in "the week and by till means should
be abolishc-i. ; Or at least the beara and the washing. as both. Inter
fered to a great extent with my personal rrcedom, for every little whjle
or about a million times anyway, my mother would ask mc to put a
stitk of wo(m! in the flov.and it must have been very evident to her
that I preferred to wado In. the dilth'or to make mud pies.
-Well.' I am. willing to Jet by-goncs be bygones, having come to a
country where neitherlmud nor water are so scarce zi they were in
my native state. IJut-I-must get back to my subject, which, as you
may have, guessed by4liia-Ume, is beaas.
Friends, countrymen, All! riant Beans. And remember, In these
days of high cost ot everftoThg else, .that this humble vegetable wilt
put fat on your bones. as surely as education, chewing rum and
profanity tollow the tlaj;.:- v- v
Daily .Statesman
Sugar Beets, : Sorghum, Etc,
May 6
Water Powers, May 13
Irrigation, May 20
Mining, May 27
liaixl. Irrigation, Etc, June 3
Floriculture, June lO
Hops. Cabbage, Etc., June 17
Wholesaling and jobbing,
June 24
CucumbeiB, Etc., July 1
logs, July 8
Goats, July 15
Schools, Etc, July 22
Sheep, July 29
National Advertising, August O
Seeds, Etc., August 13
Livestock, August 19
Grain and Grain Products, Aug
ust 20
Manufacturing, September 2
Automotive Industries, Septem
ber 0
Woodworking, Etc, September
10
PaiH-r Mills, September 23
(Hack cop!.-s ot the Thurs
day edition of The Daily Ore
gon Statesman are nand.
Thry are ffr ue: aUlO cents
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Current copies 5 Cents).
THE BEAN
difgi po9t"jhles qr picking spring
. " You et the tmrHflfe jiiu soon you lift the
; iHfr yoa' knoy wfcafjytming. " So you make
olto aoe-with-a uip, and uist
your WM98-Hinr'B tuip,
dig a few more post holes, although
GET THOW EfiRLY.'GET THEM GOOD
. II GET THEM CLEAN. IPOSliT
They Are the One, Two, Three of Growing Snap Beans
Commercially or for Home Use Especially Important
to Get the Pests Very Early in the Life of the Plants
II C- J. MclXTOSH
CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 9.
(Special to The Statesman.)
Get them early, get them good
and get them "clean" is the one,
two, three of grpwing snap beans
in the home garden for home use
or. market. The early bean, two
or. three weeks,ahead of the local
season free from insects and to
bacco stain, .not. only brings a
much better price than either im
ported article or the full-season
lot, but tastes better and is better
in every way.
In getting a snap bean ready
for the table or market thus early
variety and Kind have something
to do with it, but far more than
either of these is the- matter of
culture. The early kind may be
grown for the frst crop, while' for
successions this same crop may
be planted, at successful dates
throughout the planting season,
or rather better. I think the later
crops may come from the planting
of pole beans or'limas. j
As to Varieties
At any rate I open the bean
planting season with enough hills
of some good early bush bean,
either green pod or wax, to pro
vide the early or pre-seanson de
mand, if the extra early demand
promises to be strong it has paid
me will to make a second plant
ing, lighter than the first, of the
tarty sort. Either the first oi
second of these plantings is ac
companied with a planting of pole
leans Kentucky Wonder always
taste better to me than any other
and likewise break up well into
pieces for canning. Still later in,
the season a second planting ol
pole beans is made, and after the
weather has made a thorough job
of warming up the soils I plant
my Oregon limas.
A good soil in good condition
and well packed down about the
seed i.s the first thing to be sure
of in these plantings. A light
loam well supplied with plant
food has been the best for me.
If the beans are soaked overnight
in water the soil is moderately
clamp they will germinate in good
time without extra water. If they
are planted dry and the soil is
dry I run a small stream of water
irom the garden hose in a tiny
furrow beside the. row of beans.
This soaks them up well and pro
vides enough water to bring them
up good and strong.
.Rightly prepared soil will re
quire but litle cultivation except
what is necessary to keep down
the weeds, or to break, a crust
before it gets dry and hard after
rains. All the cultivation my
beans get at the early growing
stage is an . occasional raking or
shallow- plowing with a garden
wheel hoe. There is something
elese the beans are likely to need
a thousand times worse than fuss
ing around- with the soils, and
that is precaution against later
aphis attacks.
The Troublesome Pests
Aphis are the bane of. the
hohie-grown - snap bean crop ' in
many parts "of Oregon; Commer
cial growers have utilized their
past experiences and learned the
simple, inexpensive steps that
ward off this otherwise most bit
ter ajid disconcerting attack. Tliat
is, Ihe spray- early- early while
the plants are just beginning their
great growth,- even' though signs
of the intended infestation are
almostV possibly nearly altogether
lacking. . ' . .
It is the early aphis that means
scores and hundreds later. And
these early pioneers know the
gentle art of pioneering for, the
future success- of" their colonies.
They scramble away to the under
side of the lower leaves and start
their breeding operation -by bud
ding off from "stem mothers," by
egg laying and goodness knows
how many other mysterious ways
whereby a few aphis may become
colonies of thousands seemingly
overnight. An when -these colon
tes are once developed on the un
J5END A COPY EAST
der side of the leaves in hidden
places in general, they lose their
modesty'and sally forth In search
of the dainty tidbits of beans
the newest leaves, and the young
tender pods just shedding the
faded petals. j
Of course this is no time for
mourning over lost opportunities.
On the principle that it is better
late than never, it pays big even
then to take up arms against the
invaders and dislodge them at
whatsoever expense of time, mon
ey and worry may be involved.
Yes, and spoliation or at least
damage to much of the. fruit of
the vine, the otherwise fine, clean
and healthy looking pods. The
pods will lack the size and quali
ty they would have but for the
attacks of the insects", which have
left their mark on the clear shin
ing surface of the pods, . now
stained with tobacco juice and
looking anything but atractive. ;
Earl j- Work Important
To rout the. enemy when so
strongly 'established will take a
great deal of material and may re
BEAKS WILL PERSIST IN GROWING -!
-ifliomi Stakes im-uiisE
An Experience at Growing Bdans by a Mew Comertr-rSold
About a Hundred and Fifty Dollars' Worth Frorn Hall
Acre; and It Was Poor Year and Some Mistakes Were
Made - - i M
Editor Statesman:
A piece of upland had lain idle
about four years, and was grown
up with weeds. This was plowed
with tractor and thoroughly drag
ged late in April, the weeds being
well covered, as.tbe.soil was in
ood condition 'for the plow: After
three weeks the field was dragged
tgain. marked. in rows forty Inch
es apart, and planted to Kentucky
Wonder beans a pace apart In the
rows. . !
There were four thousand hills
covering a, halt acre ot ground
One load of edgings, at a cost of
fifty cents, answered for stakes as
they were set one between each
two hills so that it required only
two thousand.-The beans ; Were,
cultivated- shallow with one horse
cultivator three- times before they
got 4oo large for a'orse to pass
between. .The stakes were sharp
ened at one end and driven into
the ground about eight inches and
standing about five feet tall. .
The vines w'ere l trained when
the runners were a foot or two ia
length, slits being cut on the cor
ners of the stakes with, a broad
knife blade to hold them. The
training was not a very" hard job
as most of the:vines found the
stakes all right.' Three of us did
the training in about a day, as I
remember. ; " .- 1 .
.As. the season was very dry the
bean erpp was light until the raiu
that came' about August 20, ahd
the usual fair week rain. ' after
which the vines were soon - well
loaded until, frozen down about
the middle of November.
The crop was contracted, before
planted, to the - Oregon Packing
company, at three and' a quarter
cents a pound, about a hundred
dollars' worth . of . beans being
delivered to the cannery before it
closed, in October. After this date,
enough .were sold to the grocery
stores at four or five cents to
bring the total income qn the half
ere up to near one hundred and
fifty dollars. , As, we were out only
twenty'dollars for plowing, seed,
etc.. vrp were well : pleased with
the experiment, especially as," we
being new here,, some of our
friends had sympathized with' us
and predicted .that - the r.bean
would not make anything. . r
quire . several i applications of
tpray. j The underleaf tan be
reached ; only with an angle nozzle
spray skillfully manipulated- But
thorough workj even so .late will
clear out most ot the and make
possible; a good clean crop of later
beans. i Yet ' when one . considers
the cost and results of postponing
the first spraying, he will hardly
feel inclined to make the same
mistake a second time. j i-
Of course the same principle
applies to keeping other vegetable
plants -tree from these pests, but
hardly ia. the same "degree except
with squash plantB. Here as with
the bean t'he earlyi comers find
the underside of the leaves for
colonization to , supply " foragers
for attacks, on the susceptible
parts of the plant later. In both
cases it pays to get the first com
ers and to keep on getting them
till the Dig growth starts, ,when
11, seenis the" pests cannot ' do - a
great deal of harm! i! f .
A little 'shallow cultivation with
ridging up and copious watering
are the only steps needed from
blossom time on to insure a boun
tiful crop. By frequent watering
with a litle raking about of the
top soil to keep crusts from form
ing, the vines may be kept in
bearing a long time. This is par
ticularly true if the crop is re
moved in moderation, a little at
a time, rather than waiting till
tbe first crop of mature beans is
large and the vines begin to Bettle
themselves to ripen their fruits
for seed. - . .
(Mr. Mcintosh is the publicity
man of the Oregon Agricultural
college. Ed.) . iMuiUiV
Same mistakes:
1. Not plowing in thejtail.:
. Not setting the stakes jtrh lie
the ground was still soft jlrj.
3. Trying at first to train the
vines the wrong way arotirid. iThey
werejvery obstinate, and! iprfisted
in growing aror.nd Ihe stakes anti
clockwise contrary to all my
theories.
4. Letting seme of the beans
get too large for canning by not
picking often enough.
E. W. EMMETT
Salem. Ore., IU. i, Box 9 6 A,
December 9. 1925.
Mr, Dickens of West Stayton
Tells How He Grows Ken
tucky Wonders '
Editor Statesman:
To the Slogan Editor: I plant
my beans in rows of four feet1
apart; plant three feet apart in
the row; thin out to three vines
to; the hill: set my posts 50 feet
apart in the rows ; put two or
three props between the posts, to
keep; the vines from sagging.
. I put two wires, the lowest one
eight inches from the ground," the
top one six feet from the ground.
Then I twine them, tie tbejwine
to top wire, 'come, "down Tunder
bottom wire at each hill, then up
over the wire go along that way.
Use the small balls, three ply.
The small balls are the best to
handle . This is the way I raise
the Kentuck Wonder.
7 Gravelly land is the best. It
ground has been in crop for sev
eral years, fertilize heavily, it you
want a good crop,
J. - T. DICKENS
West Stayton Ore, Dec. 8, 1325
DfTl'II AMXimiLL BOUGHT
THE HAGUE The windmill at
Blaricum, one of , the best known'
old mills in Holland, is reported
to- have been bought by a New
York lawyer. It will be removed
to the purchaser's estate, at Rhine
beck on the Hudson, r V .