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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1921)
MiLLIOH trees and plants at killer nursery at MM. ore. f 1 From Small Beginning in 1878 Business Has Grown Until it is Now One of Largest Nurser-- ' - ics in Northwest. A Arter stiinln In business with 19 country. Tills advantage is foil In Mr. Hobbs. An apple seed Is plunt iwes or land, a slight knowledge of the fact that the prunes itrown In the !ed In the spring and it prows during: 4 h numcry business, and bu filial of Miiton-rreewuter section can he ship- the summer. Kuring the second year, till own about the possibilities that ped nil over the world in their natural this 'seedling is transplanted and Inter could tie realised In the work A. Mate. When other sections whne the varlrtv of nnnle which the tree is Miller, a 2-year-minK pioneer of primes must he dried for shipment are jdertrcd to produce Is budded on the 1 i.i.wuB roomy, louuymiH the satis- having laciion iiiiii comes from dream come true. a . their - crops, Mdton-l'YoewaU-r orch-Isevered and the tree that is ready to hard time In disposing of ' seedinir. inukfnj; ! ardista can sit hark at rose and fiaure be set out In Us permanent home nt i'he monument of his labors Is the'Out the year's profits. Shipments are j three, years old is a "combination" Milton Nursey Co. It is the blasest sometimes made to Liverpool. Oopen-(tree; It has the root system of the concern of Its kind In Hustern Oregon i hiiften. Franc : and other foreign seedlinsf, and the top is of the variety and one of the blRftcst nursery es- i countries, and the imdried fruit en- of the bud. The company produces quite a lot of the seedlings used In the buding and grafting, but some are shipped In labissnnienls in the .Northwest. From 1 joys a popularity that makes a .mar- the ortidnul 10 acres, the land hold-iket relatively sure every year. lns in the company, all in one com-1 Many kinds of shrubs arc v-rown on pact block Just east of Milton-Free- '. the (.-rounds, too. 1'lants. vines and ! from foreiirn countries. water, has been added to until today ; roses are a part of the production ac- Have Wklo Market there are 260 acre, devoted to the j urity of the company, and the variety Varlng the ong of career business of Krowlnc trees, plants and carried is .,, keeping with the pro- thB com . ha9 bulll n a wdt ah rub. and a few flowers. J m-esslve spirit of tho company. In market. Tne terrHor , whlch tlle Of course, this big concern does not ; eluded In t Ii Is branch of the business ; Ulllk of jle business is done consists owe all of Its present success to Mr. lure small frultf and berries of differ-jf tne ;ates 0 Oregon, Washington Miller alone. Mrs. Miller has been ajont kinds and varieties. j California, Idaho. Montana and Rrlt- partner in the business throughout all I-anl All Irrigated. . ish Columbia. Many orders are filled these years, and at the age of 7S. she j All of the land owned by tho com- Ifor other states in the union, and many Is still hale and hearty and taking , ,any is under irrigation. Puring the j times customers rrom foreign conn pleasure in the success that has early years when Mr. Miller was op- tries send to Milton for their nursery crowned the venture that was started j crating by himself, it was r.ot known 'stock fiT L HalfMm"tU.7 JfSk Then whether the m-clted hill or wheat I There are at 'least SO orchanls in , t ,r, f ln"a t0Ul1 "C t0 a,,van,aKO "' Greece, too. that owe their origin to them who devote their time and ener-,, he nursery g,xme. An experiment was jstook tnut orlgially came from the gle to the business, and C I). Hobbs, made on a smaller plot, water was ptitM1Uon mirser, Several years ago. a the company, secretary, is a relative,, the soil, and it proved to be an :Greek worked on tho f aml then by oia.rr.age, ideal place for the propagation of j ne decllled to go home he carried with i Start,! on Small Scale. .quality young tree and shrubs. jhlm a varietv of fruit. u wns It was back jin 1ST8 that Mr. Miller j There is some expense to irrigation !inegal to lm)01.t rnlit tI.eeSi so he tatted the present business. He had 11 pramceu me company, dui threw his stock, overboard on coming. 1 acres of laml, aome knowledge of I"""1" " " "i-iop toimiuon lor t0 land and the rescued tnem lllter the rudiments of grafting as practiced 'ptting water just where It ought tofl.ora tne water- Trained in the busl- in assisting Mother Nature to improve ,be J"st w,ien ,he grower wants 't iness, he started a small nurserv of his fruit, tree, and a firm conviction that !tll'p- There is one mile of concrete jowni aml he has funilsried the, trees thera was a future to the nursery bus- piflf- ,0 ronv(v ,he water and the.for utK)llt 30 orchards In his native lnesa tn the Northwnt to which he wooden flumes have a tola' length ofCountrV- had come from his former home in !veral miles. I -Trees are not the only product lowi. j The nursery is one of the blggert, if !around here. either." if. A. Miller, Tor many yars, the production "ot ,ne biggest, pay roll concerns in!manager of t)ie company and Incl work aa carried on in the river bof- the Milton:Freewater section. From j dentally representative from Fmatilla tohi small plota of land being added to 50 t0 35 men on un average are am-lcounty t0 Nie state legislature, raid, the original 10-acre plot as the Infant P'o all year, and In 1920. the Uiborj..We have one man whose boy H Industry waxed successful and made It perues were J35.000. This does notworkng or ug. The Tuthcr has been tiecssary to expand the area on which uk.e Into consideration the office help here 15 years, and this summer his treea had to be grown. Then in Use an "le raianes paia me executive ; 10-year-old boy has done some light Indians ia Parade at tht Eound-Up. a A. Miller, the oldest of the three .officers, so the total of money paid boys, aecured an interest In the boat- 0,lt very"year which is distributed ness, and a little later O. W. and ;over ,he community by the employed C. B. Miller were added to the firm. jforce nelPs materially. Mr. Hobbs secured an Interest fol-j 1.000,000 Trees ami Plants, lowiag this, and tn 190. production j This season here Jias been about ha rtachd aueh a scale that it Was 1,000,000 trees and plants on the place. founil advisable to Incorporate forjOf this number, about 350.000 are deavor. arc constantly on the look t50,00. (budded trees and' then there are 150.-lout for new varieties of fruit that Hare Big; Prune On -hard. 00 apple grafts. Other plants and show promise of being an improve- work. So you see, we keep men in our employ and then give Jobs to their boys when they get old enough to Want a job." Originate Specialties. Nurserymen, In common with men in every other line of business en the distinction of being one of the biggest apples in sio thut grows. ltesides nursery stock and orchard, there is a sliirht Hti-in of u-round on the farm that Is devoted to alfalfa. This year about 30 acres of beans were grown. "We find bears about the best crop we can grow for the benefit of our land." Mr. Hobbs said. "The nl.int stores nitrogen in the soil while it Is igrowlng, and then .we use the hull, after the crop Is threshed for fertili zer, spreading it over the ground and j plowing it under.' We find this the . must satisfactory method we have jever tried of setting quick results iwith natural fertilisers. The beans are worth something, on tho market, 'loo. but that Is a secondary consider ation wilh us." . Of the 260 acres of the holdings of ishrubs are grown in sufficient tium-jment over existing varieties. the-company, 80 acres is devoted to;bers to brijig the total to the million The Milton Nursery Co. has three prunes, and this orchard will come In- jmark. 'specialties in which it takes partieu- to bearing next year. The orchard Is 1 During blooming season, a eight of lar pride. The Perfection peach is a well cultivated and is absolutelv free the peony plots is one that is well. variety that was discovered and in of weeds, and the trees look thrifty, worth a long trip to see. Three acres jtroduced by them. It had its origin This year prunes have been a good j are devoted to'peonies, and c.it flow- on Wild Horse. crop, and orchardists have realized ers and bulbs are sold. The company Then there are two kinds of np nice sums from their trees. Kastern ihas a wide selection of varieties. . pies that claim the nursery for home. Oregon has an advantage in this prune It requires three years before a One is the Early Goodwin, which has business that Is shared by only two I budded apple tree Is- ready to be proved popular, and the Spokane other prune-growing districts in the planted in an orchard, according to Beauty, discovered in Washington, has i.Jli - fh"f&.- : X P H This Is the latest photo ot Charles B. Warren, new amliauadoi to Japan, made just before leaving Detroit for his new post. ilh Uia tu cu ths-H sons, Charles B., Jr- Robert and John. 1 ' '41,1 tMiiiiH -4t 1' I t; i-.l. - j h 'it "I t If . ( ' I I. 1 " - , !,tf - ' , Is t- t' "1 V J I ' Billiard Parlors SHEEHAN BROTHERS We have just enlarged our floor space and added new equipment and are now Eastern Ore gon's largest and best equipped - parlors, Bil liards, pocket billiards and snooker.; ' i Everything modern and arranged for your convenience. . ' :,, :; Leading Brands of . . CIGARS, TOBACCOS, BOXED CANDIES Complete line of high-class smokers articles. Our Box Sweets are unexcelled. Try our Malted Milks they arc so different. 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