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THE DAILY STATESMAN dedicates two or more -pages each week in the .-interests biF - onjs-'of -the ;-fTO to a hundred basic industries of the Salem district Letters and articles from people with viddn'-:are'8olicif:Thib is if i r your page. Help malce balem grow. , a 1 . 1 - t ft' i i r j ( 1 i. 1 I i .-. II 1- 4 li 3 PEOPLE KICKED TO 8SSE A YEftR AGQ LAST FALL ON THE WEST : STMil GiOlS t . iA Prosperous and Contented Group of farmers on Jthe Jr "f Host Extensive Pfqject of the Kind in the Salem Dis- ' i & r... PmoIahJ DnnfUnUlA PAn -.CimI-it onrl ITJUtT-prAJVVHIU Ul CUl cUlU ri uuiauio uyo uyiu cum I a Quarter Tons to the Acre of Kentucky Wonder Beans Twentv Tons of Tomatoes to the Acre- The Pro- iect That Looked Like a . UlctlVUc Ul oiyiidi ouwwcaa May 18fc l?25r E. Thompson . "of Portland wrote in part astfol- lows for the annual Slogan num j Vfcer of The Statesman of Ias year: ! i ' "The Willamette Valley Irriga i .tion Land company - has passed "through a. very serious, experience. ' , When the' company was organized li about "13 years ago. the prospects were extremely favorable for 'the successful development of the dis trict between West Stayton. TurJ fceTrnd Marion. A group of citi zens of Portland invested about $125,000 in good faith and pur chased lands after a careful inves tigation made by one of the best irrigation engineers .available. The state engineer approved the -plan. The Oregon Agricultural college lent - their support and Indorse--xnent. j "A canal was constructed from " West Stayton 'on toward Turner. Approximately 4000 acres were either purchased or taken under option, and withal approximately a quarter of a million dollars was invested within the first two years Then came, the World war. Sales had been made to people who - were not experienced in irriga tion. The, very .neighborhood seemed antagonistic and one thing 'after another developed and if A 1 "The' Kentuck Wonder beans Rrown- last year on the West-Stay-ton Gardens traet-of Oscar Stoll caused the company to go Into the 'hands, of. a receiver! 'n'ajfohe greater number of the members of 'the stock' company lost interest, n ' addfjon to losing ' their' original Investment. H " . ..... .. . . . After tnineen years or sirug: gles. conditions now seem to oe more favorable. ;V The last few 'years there has been a" growing sentiment in favor of irrigation. In 1924the land was so dry that . it fairly cried for water. . -"The latT. B. Wilcox had been tone of the strongest advocates of irrigation, and before .his death 5 had urged the writer to Join with fJiint and save ihe property and the project, it possible, ; and recom mended that the underlying mort gages, delinquent taxes, and the old Judgments against the "project be bought in to avoid the entire remaining assets from going into the hands of outside parties. .. "Since purchasing these mort gages. -we have endeavored . to re organize the project and have en- ; rged Mr. Peteir Thomason to look fter the physical properties, and " have associated with us Mr. Percy r"Ctrpper tf Salemi who -aids" ns In the engineering matters, I Thts yearwe hope to be of jreal rerTice to the community and pro- -vide Irrigation for those that are in pOSlUOa 0 URIC juuu use ui it. The flax grown In that locality list year under irrigation showed the great value of Irrigation. The soil seems to be especially; suited to irrigation. A growth of flax on the same land under dry farming methods ; and under .irrigation proves , the great value if water nroperly applied ' ' "We are now : coin g forward with our work vigorously, develop ing and extending our laterals, and cleaning out the canals, and we feel that our original faith is soon frt'h Jtittffied.;- There has been a wondsrful change in tha sentiment IRRIBATIDN PROJECT Dismal Failure Takes on Sem- ' - r no. longer feel antagonistic, but rather are encouraging our efforts. and giving ns their support. "This season a considerable in crease of acreage will be under ir-i rigatlon, and we believe tnere will follow an era ; of Increased pros- perity and largely increased crops in tbe' district ; near West Stayton and toward Turner, and as these demonstrations prove - for them- selTes the value-of wate. it is 1 only a question of time until prac- tically the entire acreage, approx-l imating over 15,000 acres, will be under irrigation, handled by farm- ers who will become experienced J in the proper use of water. we look forward to a time when the I district will become a garden of flowers; as well as producing prof- j itable crops. ; While some years! ir rlgatlon may not be as necessary. 1 Irrigation on the land will act as a crop Insurance to be used when needed." , - Three People Then, SOr Now When P. E. Thomason took charge of .the irrigation project, as stated by Mr. Thompson, there were three people on the land, or tbe part of the land on which may be found now 86 people. . Mr. -Thomason todTTcharge as manager , ? 5; - 4 on Irrigated land, producing eight and a Quarter tons of beans to the acre. . ; . - , t: ... m wai eA list falf ATirV Vi a frtTinA .ul :..v ' . -v o the ditches grown up to weeks and brush, the . flumes out of repair. the dwellings tumbling down, the Xences badly needing attention and all the tract In a condition one might expect on abandoned farms. ." yjt wa9 a disc0uraging outlook. But there has - been since that time a wonderful change. The peo-, pie now on the land are thrifty. They are hard workers. "They are making progress.) , and "making money. . The dwellings are In re - pair, the premises j tidied up gen- erally, and : there j is an air of cheerfulness and contentment. Be stdes the people on me iana, merei are at harvest times several hun-j dred ' people employed, men, wo - men and children, earning fair wages: the expert ones large pay. Low charges have so far been generally made foe the use of the water; as low as $2 an acre, and! up to $3.50 an acre. It is expect- ed that about $5 an acre will be charged on future .'contracts, ' or $7.50 an acre: for both the rental of the land and the use of the water. . 1 . " The company owns outright- yet some 1200 to 1500 acres of the land. Some tracts are .being "sold as well as rented! ' i 4 i M As indicated by wr. Tnompson-s letter of a year ago, there will f i- nally be some' 15.000 acres under irrigation in this iroJe, around) West Stayton. Marion, Tufner and Aumsville. . The water comes from the Santlam river at Stayton. IGvcn Xew Name . The project bas been given a new name, r It is "west stayton ... . . Gardens," a very appropriate des- lunation, because It his whole 15. - 000 acres -will one day , be one rreat truck garden and orchard.! with a rotation of annuav cash crops, and dairying, poultry rals Jng, swine breeding,, bee keeping, etc. ; The name of the company own-1 lug and operating the project, and owning part of tbe land, has been changed to tbe Elteo Investment company, appropriate also, the first three letters being the Ini tials and first letter of tbe name of E. L Thompson, tbe moving plrtt Of tbe enterprise. r,-'": The preliminary rates for the use of the water were made low. in order to get farmers on the land ; Ttl was a wi?e policy is proved by the fart that all of them are maklne d Th e is a fine spirit of helpfulness among them. They are a cbeertui. neighborly lot. lllZrXTn tne land. Trey man a nucleus (for one of , t"e most prosperous and uniformly contented groups of people in" this whole country. Thdse Irrigated farms are worth seeing now. They will be more attractive in the main harvest times in the, late summer and falL ecause ; : b and the man wentd The Men. On tbe Land , J. T. Dickens owns nine, and a half acres, his tract being the sec ond one east of West Stayton. He grows strawberries and black cap raspberries, principally, and he clears $800 a year net, besides his nTing for the family, from his home place. He also has 10 acres leased from tbe Elteo Investment eqmpany, part of this being now In Kentucky Wonder beans. ." from which he expects to clear $187.50 an acre if he gets five tons to the acre -and he is certain that he wm ret at least that tonnage, he cause he has the benefit of irriga tion. This is clear of fertilizer, picking and all other costs. He has three seres of his own land in strawberries, which he also irri gates. He is now harvesting this crop. - They are Gold Dollar ber ries, and he gets over two tons to the acre. He has several acres of black cap raspberries, with the vines t thick with growing ber ries. The strawberries go to Ba ker. Kelly & MeLaughlin. and are barreled. The same with the black dps. He gets 7 cents a pound for his strawberries, and 9 cents for his black caps. He expects to get better than two tons to the acre from his black cap vines. ' Mr. Dickens has several acres of Ore gon strawberries on his rented land, from which he is also har vesting' a good crop, though some of. the vines were set out only last year. He raised some cucumbers last year, getting 10 to 12 tons to the acre, receiving about $12 a ton. He also arrows some fine po tato crops, and some tomatoes. He has produced tomatoes at the rate of 20 tons to the acre; the Puget Sound Special variety, selling to the Stayton co-operative cannery. Mr. Dickens has grown corn 12 feet high. land paf snips weighing 12 to 14 pounds. Mrs. Dickens has a jar of honey that was brought across the plains by her parents. Wm. Royee and wire, in- 1864. tl was used as I medicine In the trip across the 1 , , , " . ., puijus., int. uiruiw uh ( yii t1 fled Barlow knife', found on the Oregon coast. It Is quite a curl osity. ' ; i ; .. Ed Olds has five acres of irri gated land next to , the Dickens I place, and he has 200 laying hens and 400 pullets. He Is making a I success of the poultry Industry, and la planning large extensions In ! this line. 1 W. O. Royse is a new-comer. j near the Dickens place. He has I about 11 -acres, five and a half I acres being in Marshall. Gold Dol- tar ana uregon strawoerries. , ne expects better than two tons to 1 the acre. They sold to Baker, Kel- ley & McLaughlin, He has also Ian acre and a halt. of Kentucky I wonder beans and an acre of torn I atoes. These crops will go to the Stayton cannery. J Mrs. Royse has an eighth of an J acre of everbearing red raspber I ries from which he has sold $ S 0 worth of fruit since last Septem I ber. He has received as high, as 1 $4.50 a crate for the raspberries He" sold a crate last Friday, and j the vines are loaded with ripe and f ripening berries. ' His neighbors are getting: slips from im. and 1 mai irrigauon oisirici is uxeiy 10 j become famous on account . of I these wonderful raspberries. They go to high class Portland trade. I through the Pacific Fruit & Pro J duce company. I 1 Mr. Royse also is successful I with . everbearing strawberries. I , Oscar Stoll is one of the . most 'IS i . successful or West Stayton Gar- dens farmers, ale haa 7.08 acres. 1 an acre each In blackcap and red raspberries and Oregon strawber ries. He gets nine cents a pound I for his raspberries, and produces - t more. than two tons to the acre I He ttin a. great , a tonnage from his strawberries, and he grows THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That the farmers of the Salem dis trict are rapidly learning the uses of irrigation, especial ly in exceptionally dry years; that pumps for irrigation (the best for the purpose known and the longest lived and cheapest) are being made in large numbers in Salem; that irrigation districts are coming to life here, with many more to follow ; that every farmer who has running water on his land where it can be made avail able for irrigation purposes has begun to realize that he has something better than a small gold mine; that, with some crops, water available for irrigation represents the difference between total loss and 100 per cent crops, in unusually dry summers; that the Oregon Agricultural college people are ready to give all help possible in the matter of irrigation information, and that preparation for irrigation must be made 100 per cent efficient here in due course, and that-this ought to be soon? Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman (Itt'Twlce--Veek SUtesman Following Day) (With a few possible ebaaeeei Ixgan berriea, October . 1, -1925 llntnes, October 8 Dairying. October IS Flax, October 23 Filbert, October 29 . Walnnta, Koveraber B ' , Strawberries, November 12 Apples, November 19 Raspberriee, November Mint, December 3 Beans, te December 10 BlacJtbexrlea, December 17 ' Cherriee, December 24 Pears, December' 81 Gooseberries, January 7, 1920 Corn, January 14 Celery, Jaaaary 21 Spinach, tc January 28 Onions, Etc February 4 Itatoee, Ftc February H Does, February 18 ' Poultry and Pet Stock, Feb. 25 City Beautiful, Etc March 4 : Great Cows, March 11 Paved Highways, March 18 Head Lettuce, March 25 Silos, HtcvAprU 1 Legumes, April 8 . .Asparagus, Etc, April, 18 4 Grapes, Etc April 22 Drue Garden, April 29 spinach, potatoes, head lettuce and several other, truck garden crops. Also tomatoes. He has raised torn? atoes that have brought at the rate of $1000 an acre. ' . . a Last year he raised eight and At quarter tons to the acre of Ken tucky Wonder beans. Accompany ing this article there is a cut from a snapshot of this bean patch of last yea, together with the build ings on te Stoll form.' The poles for the wires for the -beans are about six feet high. , ' ' ' ' B, R. Clark has 22 &cre3leased from the Eltco Investment com pany. He has three acres of Kei- tnck Wonder beans, an . acre ; Of tomatoes, two and a half acres of uoia .juoiiar sirawDerries,; ; some corn, potatoes and . other; diyersf fled crops. .- He realized. $215 he! from three-fourths of .fan -acre of strawberries last year.'- He grew 27 tons of cucumbers? from three acres; with about $30 a ton aver age quality. i- k J W. Nipple has twenty-seven and a half acres, two being in tom atoes, three "acres in apples and the rest in wheat, oats and other crops. But his principal line: is poultry, -with which he is success ful. He has 250 laying hens. , He sella his eggs in Portland, to the Brandes company. Mr.and: Mrs; Nipple came from Spokane - in 1912. . . ; Mr. Stoll was formerly an east era Washington irrigated land farmer. He prefers the West Stay- ton irrigated district. T ' The above are only UTew of the samples of what Is being done. ; en the West Stayton Gardens' tracts, under irrigation, as gathered by the Slogan editor of The States" man In a short visit there late last Sunday evening. There are a num ber -of new, comers In that irr gated land district who are doing well in dairying, swine' breeding and other -lines; one-man hai a herd of fine registered. Jerseys The time is going to tome soon when the canneries of the Salem district, and the barreling plants, will be able to rely on that dls trict for an immense tonnage an nually of fruits end vegetables.1 ' Tomato 'growing there, on ; a considerable. scale, for the Stayton cannery, .will be watched with in terest ; this year.. The growers claim to be able to produce a su perior j tomato for: canning, and with v immense r yields, running aboTe 20 tons to the acre." - ; More of the Growers. . Ed Hankla has put out five and a half acres of strawberries and is SEND A ,GOPY''EAST Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Et& May O, 1926 Water Powers, May IS Irrigation, May 20 Alining, May 27 Land, Irrigation, Etc, June S Floriculture, June lO Hops, Cabbage, Ete June 17 Wholesaling and Jobbing, June 24 ' - - 'Cucumbers, Eta, Jnly 1 slogs, July 8 Goats, July 18 Schools, Etc July 29 Sheep, July f29 National Advertising, August B Seeds, Et&, August 12 Livestock, August 19 Grain and Grata Froduota, Aug ust 20 Manufactnring, September 2 Automotive Industries, Septen- : ber 9 Woodworking, Etc September 10 i Paper Mills, Sept. 23, 1920 (Back copies of the Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore gon Statesman are c: band. They are for sale at 10 cents eac, mailed to any address. Current copies S cents). planting four acres of KentuCk) Wonder beans on wires for the cannery. He is also giving atten tion to several other varieties of vegetables. . Harry Stewart is putting out t large acreage of string beans, to matoes, potatoes and strawberries, and other garden truck. - Mr. Snoddy is putting out toma tOes, beans and strawberries anc" other garden crops. A. S. Worsley is planting: a large acreage of beans, tomatoes anc strawberries. John Kitchen has out 10 acre of strawberries, and be is alsc planting other garden vegetables Ed Martin, has out a large acre age of strawberries and other gar den truck." ; J. R. Davis, on the West Stay ton Gardens lands. Is a breeder o purebred Jerseys. He owns Cotil lion Sunny Maid No. 339970. She is a silver and gold medal cow dropped March 21. 1914. She sold for $760 at nine year old. Mr Davis also owns Tax Hall Cotil lion, dropped September 9, 1925 She la a daughter of Cotillion Sun ny Maid and was sired by Tax Hall Fern Lad., '"'.4W " Vest Pocket" Motors May Set New Speedway Records INDIANAPOLIS. -( By Assoc! ated Press.) Great : as was the speed of the eight-cylinder motor cars, which competed, last year in the 600-mile automobile race here, the velocity of the pistons and su perchargers of the new "vest pock et": engines which will be used In the Memorial Day race will be greater. - V Motors in cars., which compete May 31 must have - a piston dis placement not greater than 91 cubic . inches. - The first race ir 1911, was for motors, of 631 cubir inches or under. . .Engines bull for the approaching: race will be only about two-thirds as large a t the smallest engine in use ir America in commercial or passen ger automobiles. ... . 'J K Engineers of these machines say the crank shafts will revolve at a maximum of 7000 times a minute as against 5800 revolutions for the engines used last year. The super chargers are :- expected ' to attain 30,000 revolutions while the crank shaft Is revolving 7000 times.' i Some officials predict there 'Is a chance for the record average of 101,13- miles an hour for 500 miles being bettered. The record was established by Pete DePaolo ia an Indianapolis-made car. QAC AUTHORITY SAYS HAL ACRES VALLEY Ui BEEiS IlfilTl Experiments Show Increases of , Representative Field Crops Running From 27 to 186 Per Cent-The Soils That Are Best Suited to Supplemental Irrigation, Here in the Salem District . f . ' Prof. W. L. Powers, chief of the department of soils, Oregon Agri cultural college, is the author of Circular 67, toe introductory par agraphs of which are as follows:) Frequent recurrence of periods of drouth during the late summer has developed considerable inter est in the possibility of supple mental-irrigation in the Willam ette valley. In 1907 the office of irrigation investigations. United States department of agriculture, began some irrigation tests at Cor- vallis and other points, to deter mine the value of irrigation water as . a supplement to - the limited summer rainfall, as a means of in creasing - production and profit. particularly with the more inten sive agriculture that was begin ning to take the place of grain growing. Increases in yields of representative field crops ranged from 27 per cent to 186 per cent. indicating that supplementary irri gation wisely used with most late season crops would prove profit able on the naturally drained, free working soils of the valley where accessible to water. In 1910 the experiments , were extended to Include soil moisture investigations; water variation trials, or duty-of-water experi ments to determine how much irri gation would be needed; also to develop practices for ' securing highest efficiency and the greatest net profit from the pumped water. Water requirement studies were added and also observations Of the effects of irrigation on soils and crops. ' t Soils best suited to supplement al Irrigation in the Willamette val ley are those that are free work ing, without being too heavy or sticky on the one hand or too coarse and sieve-like on the other hand. The sandy loam soils oc curring along the Willamette and other stream bottoms, or soils be longing to the Newberg and Che halls series, and the lighter, types of soils on the valley floor, such as Willamette loam or silt loam, are fultable for irrigation. Soil sur veys of two-thirds of this valley Indicate that perhaps half a mo tion acres, or about one-sixth of '.he Improved land In the valley will give good response to supple nental irrigation. i ' Crops found to give: best re sponse to supplemental irrigation "iere are the truck crops, the crops ?rown for intensive dairying, such x& late summer pasture and late cuttings o legume crops, or row TRENCH SYSTEM FOB HE GARDEN Twice as Good, Goes Twice as Far as Use of the Lawn Sprinkler Water supplied from the hydrant to the home garden by the trench system will gb just about twice as far : and do more than twice as much good as the same amount applied with the lawn sprinkler. It leaves the plants and the soil In better condition at "the time and encourages the roots of plants to seek . deeper .strata, where they range through a wider: feeding area' and withstand drought much better. " But more expensive 'and unsatisfactory than any other-way, it seems to me, is that of squirt ing the water from a' high-power hydrant through a . compressed 'noxxle. This bruises the ' tender leaves of the plant, sometimes rips great holes in them, and puddles the soil till it fairly cracks when the sun comes out, T-. Use of a little water from the nozzle tinder light pressure may accomplish some good and no harm. If used : to supplement the trench, watering, as it washes off the plants and tends to freshen np the : leaves : and give them 'better transpiration.:- But used alone this system encourages shallow root ing, as few ; gardeners haTe the time and patience needed to cover the same area long enough to give It a thorough wetting. Many shallow-wettings are expensive both mwi crops that make i their J maximum growth late in the season, such as roots, and corn. Potatoes and beans are cash crops which give large returns from irrigation and are likely, to pay for proper irriga tion. Advantages of supplemental 'ir rigation: The chief advantages' of supplemental Irrigation for free working, naturally drained Will amette valley soils,..are as follows: ( 1 ) Irrigation controls soil mois ture, overcomes, drouth; (2) pro vides green pasture and green feed late in the summer: (3) saves the elover stand and makes a cutting the first season; (4) makes double cropping possible late crops after early crops; f (5) aids the benefi cial .bacterial and, chemical activi ties in soil; (6) aids control of crop, pests and diseases; (7) in creases, efficiency of soil moisture during the best growing weather; (8) is an. aid to deep, or early plowing and intensive cropping; ( 9 ) softens i clods and dissolves plant foods; 10) proper irrigation pays in. Increased yields, net prof Its, and productive values. . For supplemental irrigation to be highly profitable, Jn the Will amette valley it must, be used on the naturally drained, free, work ing soils and applied to crops that respond to late season irrigation and that are of good value. The greatest profit is "secured -where water is effectively used. The ex periment "station has sought to de termine, the minimum amount of water 'which, together with the best time and manner of use and cultivation,' would 'yield crops of highest values and .greatest re turns upon the land and water employed. If the Increase from irrigation is sufficient to pay for water when I pumped a moderate life and applied to staple . field crops it would certainly pay to use gravity1 irrigation on the more in tensive crops. The station experi ments have ' been conducted with water pumped from a creek and discharged at a level of 20 feet above the creek for use upon Will amette silty clay loam with staple field crops. ? Water supply: The water-avail able for irrigation In this valley is of good quality and a suitable supply will be- found In the "nn derflow." which occurs, In the gra vel substratum under' the river- bottom soils! or along the bottoms of other large streams. : Water can also be pumped for Irrigation from perennial streams . entering - the valley from the foothills. of water and r of. crop.- - Use of ' sprinkler laf likely - to be rather better, as it can be set and left to operate itself. - . But the trouble here is an, uneven watering of (dif ferent spots, - some getting- :Coo much and others too little water No doubt, the overhead sprinkling is very effective and desirable, but costs a good deal and seems rather poorly suited to a small home gar den,; though, really, I know but little bout it. - Having; determined' on use of the trench system of' watering, the next thing is to level the ground with just enough slope , to carry the water to all parts of the gar den rather quickly but without force enough; to tear up the sur face of the soil. - By making one corner slightly higher than the op posite corner - the: soil is given a two-way slope that turns the trick with minimam waste by over watering certain parts. The water is applied at I the high "corner, and run In a main channel along the side thai crosses the- rows, down which distribution ' trenches are laid off.'' Since the upper . part of these trenches is bound to get the first water as well as the last. It Is' best to have 'the surf ace slope away a little faster at the upper end, ' gradually "straightening put so the water slows up as ft gets nearer the farther ends of the Frenches. This provides maximum percolation at the point on which the flow Is shortest- ' V :" 4 -The best way. to carry the Water along the main headline, as far as I have been! able to find. Is 1 to make a -reshape trough out of two 6-inch hoards,' about 12 feet long, for carrying Uxe water quickly and without waste, 'and for regulated distribution Into the trenches. This trough la . laid on the ground so that the side: next the trenches Is nekrly, not' quite; flat with the earth, leaving the other side al- V most perpendicular. On this up right side are tacked cleats in sets i. f Itwo at row-width Intervals, for I holding shut-off blocks that can ! be I raised ' or lowered, to govern the amount of water carried along t or turned Into the trench. In start-V J ing the flow, most of these blocks r- are; raised to permit the. water toUv rust to or near - the end of the Jr trough at the farther aide of tbe garden. As the one or two. trench es into which.' the water' Is dis charged begin to fill up . toward tne lower - end." tne mocks next above are lowered. ' turning th flow into other trenches. ' If it is desirable, as it usually is, to keep the water in the first trenches for ; a lpnger time, Just enough may be allowed to get' by the turn-off blocks to keep the trench supplied to the end.' The main flow is di verted Into trenches nearer the in- tageand aistnoution regulated to suit-the seeds. A 12-foot trough is generally long enough to keep 10-p trenches going over 50-foot rows os fairly compact soil. -After the first group of trenches have been well watered, the trough is drawn its length nearer the hy drant, where the process is re peated. jThls plan wastes no water or time, gives tbe plants the right anjount of water, just where they need' it at the roots and does no call for continuous supervision wnue watering is going on. Of coarse," the main channel can be run along a Jitch at the upper1 end of (the rows, but tbe uneven wash ing or tne sou ana dimcuity or constructing stable ' shut-offs for the trenches, makes It Inadvisable. Likewise, - it washes' holes ,in the sou, and If a mole hole is crossed a reat deal of water is lost and son damage done. The little v shaped trough turns the trick to a iilcety, averting all these forms of damage and permitting the gar dener to attend to other work or "rist in the shade of his vine and . f igj tree", while ithe processes of nature are duplicated in' a refine and effective manner. -. Success - with ' this ' method d '' pesds a good deal on the charefi of (the trenches and the mannert handling the soil after It is irrl, gated. ? Shallow, ?, very shallow, trenches, I -hare found, are much better for getting the water near th roots of shallow rooted plants. W$ile it Is best to avoid bringing free water about these roots it is sure to come within their reach. When the' plants are quite1 young anfc liberally spaced between rows, I have found it effective to run the i the oneV J trench close to-obe row on on side and close to the next row, so bn. " The trenches are posit! no deeper than necesasry to carry the; flow without flooding a small flow, at that. v ? ' V. small T-shaped trencher, sawed from a hardwood board and bolted to the wheel hoe, is a good tokjl for trenching.' Toi give the J trench enough body in loose soil to cafry the flow; a small three-cornered drtg may attached just back of .tms trencher.. In compact sea this- la not needed. - good watering once a week or so-j has- proved often enough to keep the plants goin and tender. i. CJ-ST'INTOSH. Corvallis, Or.,' May 19, 1926. (Mr. Mcintosh Is the publicity man of the department of indus trial journalism of the Oregon Ag ricultural college, and he Is a suc cessful home gardener. He prac tices what he preaches.-Ed.) Survivor Recalls Scene of Gen Lee's Surrender . ? KANSAS CITT (By Assoc?,1 11' ress.j uaptain Aiirea oiiril nf Ik TTnlnnaitr .at Vis it very erect and soldierly on sdvVVv 191 1865, as he watched LffrfA J M malities of Lee's .. surrenef-rxi ,V ST Grant, beneath the trees in yard of .the JdcClain home at A pomatox court house, Virginia. Captain oBregard was SI then, and now, at 92 and not quite so erect hut with a certain millUry bearing,, nevertheless, the captain sits most of the day In a swivel chair in his tiny notary office. He Is the only. If not one of the few survivors of, the score or more of ficers and men who witnessed Lee's formal capitulation. : "General Lee, accompanied by an adjutant and two orderlies. rode Into the yard." recalls, p? eaptaln. rone of the orderlta; I Jum!ped from hls .horse and held I the bridle of Lee's mount while V the f Confederate 1 chieftain dls-v rn - mounted. . . a.' In 1 9 2 5, Oresham Prult Grow era shipped 450 ears of raspber rieflj. For "1926 "they expect 600 ears, and 10,000" pickers will be employed.' - 6 J " 1 f