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• • ——- -»-»-■ - ■ H • ' Yh* ..... Farm I Garden THE EUCALYPTUS FOR PROFIT It Ha* Been Demonstrated That It I* a Paying Crop. By NORMAN D. INGHAM Eucalyptus planting has now passed the ex(>erimental stage and may be considered without question as a com mercial proposition. The value of the crop and the possibilities of growing it in California hate been sufficiently X #111 Uphold one In trimming •• THE FARMER’S BOY. the overhanging limbs from trees frowjpk J 1st over the liuP on a neigh trt Many Instances th His a Mistaken bor's prenUse». • but it <l*es not give Idea of City Life. • lone the yight to cut the trees down or The'grvat trouble with country ls>y» girdle theftf'sd that they w ill die. Is that they are not aware of the dr-», cumstum-es. qtider whic h ihe coy bov 1 his stranici is new, is • »ugly built anJ Jirted with tne lairst ¡in’ ovemen? r I will Au liderestlng fact hi connection is eoiupelh-il to live and work if lie lias with frog life is that if frogs are . * * caught and put in boxes after they to earn his living by the swi-.it of his have sought their winter hiding places brow. The idea held up i<> tit'** <-<-i;nfr» . . . I IM they will live for months without any boy Is pv go to town mill thing to eat, while if caught two or easy, soft -snap such tn So.ind so li s three weeks liefore the time men How iiiauy of them d>> it? N >t • lit . tioned they will starve to death. thousand. Fur more go there Jo find E. WALSTltOM, Agent, Banlou. Oregon. wotk bi some close, • stagnant mill, to t The chief objection to lie urged sweat amid the fumes E. T. Knue, managing agent, 24 California St., San Fr of .steam o. to New 'l eai » resolutions are liable Io ‘ go up against the full setting of fruit trees bu> co smoke. or |s*rhaps in s>me iron in smoke but you should be careful to keep and shrubs seems to lie in the fact mill or foundry, surrounded by the 1 this on»—to take a course in the that when done at this time of year .-tiroes of their fellow men, toil out a there is greater likelihood that the weary day of eleven or thirteen hours Miller-Cleaver Business root system will tend to dry out and and after tiie day Is over go home for this reason be less able to with and to such a home! I'p some tittle College stand extremely low temperatures dur buck street in a baiullsix built of brick Resolve lo make your elf more valuabl ing the winter months. 11ml named a house more than likely competent office man or woman our workman has his home, there to In the interior of Africa grows a pass away the weary hours of the “DO IT NOW tree from w hich a good quality of but night amid the heat and stagnation of ter is produced. It resembles the probably a filthy street only a tew feet American oak, and its fruit, from wide, hot, ■ lose and dirty. In uay which the butter is derived, reeemblea large city on some sultry night one the olive. One English traveler of may see the workmen aud their fiimi week or month. Sample Room in Connection note declared the butter produced lies in these little narrow from the tree was superior to any stretched about the steps made in England from cow's milk. NORTH BEND OREGON meats in nil conditions. Th slums either, but fairly Official statistics issued by the Japa neighborhoods. nese government report the rice crtip To such a condition of life many Coquille River Transportation for the year as an abundant one, ex of our country boys have gone, and ceeding the production of last year by many more are today preparing to Co.’s Schedule over 18 | mt cent. The present year's go. ■v. Fat pay and aud big pay envel crop totals 272,850,000 bushels and is Opes? Not in these times. If our city valued at $380,000,000. This means I it bore t averages $12 a week he is a Coquille levaes Bandon, 6:30 a prosperity and good times for the little lucky man. Tens of thousands get les- arrives at Coquille 8:30 a tn brown man the coming year, as rice is rather than more, Country boy. before Dispatch leives Bandon 7:00 a his cereal mainstay. you make the change, in the mime of arrives at Coquille, io:oo a ni that country yon have been taught to BRIDGE A BEACI 1 Stoves, Ranges and I L-alers have in them so nm.y ■ • -ncie* One of uature's strange creations is hold in reverence, look and do not Favorite leaves Coquille 7:30 a that they are now acknowh-'li- I the greatest sellers on the coast and th--y ?.r >«ing the vegetable tallow tree which grows leap! If you understand farming there arrives at Bandon 10:30 a tn in favor every year. We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for th ;• hold near the Cape of Go<sl Hope, in the ■are just as many chances on the land and olin e necessities, ami prices ranye exceedingly modest in eitli -i a -, Azores, as well as in Sumatra, Al to be worked out as there are in the Coquille leaves Coquille 9:30 a tn; geria and China. The tree is of small city. arrives at Bandon 11:30 a tn TINNING YND PLUMBING A SPI'.< l\ size, and it is from its berries that This is a great country, and if Dispatch leaves Coquille 1:00pm; the oil is extracted from which the you do not like the kind of farming Our Assortment of Hardware, Tinware and Edged Tools is M , • tallow is made. The berries are gath you are working at there are many arrives in Bandon 5:00 p m ered in November and I tecember after others. If you belong to a family that Favorite leaves Bandon 1:30 p tn; the trees have fallen. follows the grind, grind system of all arrives at Coquille 4:00 p tn work and no play, when you reach The Coquille connects with the The 250 egg hen is clearly a perver your majority and start for yourself sion of the purpose of Dame Nature, follow out an easier system. Do not trains at Gcquille for Marshfield and who doubtless originally intended that condemn country life just lieeause you Myrtle Point. old Biddy should lay just about enough have liecit uiit'orl uiiale enough to Ive The up river passengers can cotnc I eggs to perpetuate her kind. Yet this brought up in lite home of a man who perverted standard is one that the en knows nothing but grind. Do not over to Bandon on the Favorite and have! First Class La.und.-y’ Work Guaranteed. Special terprising poultryman may work to look the fact that if such a man was three hours here in which to do attention given to fine woolen goods. ward if he will use the trap nest, se your boss in the city he would grind lect as breeders only those hens w’hich your life away. Long, long before* you their trading and other business. Cleaning ami pressing Men-' Suits ami La lies' line skirts given make the best showing and use intelli were twenty one years old you would a prompt attention gence in the care and feed which he lie occupying some six feet of green i turf, where at last you would not hear gives his flock. the dreaded call and curse of the boss A noteworthy fact which came un Country life may not be aud probably lu der the notice of an Iowa farmer who is not what many would like to color recently traveled some 200 miles in it; but. all things being equal, it Is fit « Wisconsin was that he did not notice preferable to city life. That is Just a single field of corn in his trip which where it comes in. City life is never J .s had not been cut up for silage or dry compared with country life on an REGISTERED OPTICIAN fodder. Tlds state of affairs is trace equal plane. Remember that if yon Wagons of .Ml Kinds Made to Order Horseslnwin. & K ally Reliable Work and Goods. able to the fact that the price of Wis must work hi th»* country for a living Job Work <il<-nd* <i '.*> pioi..;> ly anu all work -iiarantct to Prices consin lands is such that the owners you will have to work In the city fot Every Saturday at The Gallier reasonable. Shop on Atwater Street, Bandon, Oregon. cannot afford to follow a slipshod type one, too, ami if you possess the ability of agriculture and to the further fact in yourself to rise above the ordinary Hotel 10a. ni. to 4 p. tn. that a majority of the farmers of the workman in the city that same ahilit* state are dairymen and utilize the corn will carve out a home for you In th plant as a valuable ration for their country. I.ook liefore you leap, con sider all things, and if you are sun milk cows. you can liettei yourself in the city go; A fact that will be noted with much If not, stay on the old farm. concern by farmers living in sections Plowing For Grape Leaf Hopper. where quack grass is getting a foot Plowing is sometimes done by Cali hold is that the pest will multiply from the seed contained in the appar fornia vineyardists during I be wiuter ently green grass at the time the oats season for the purpose of destroying are harvested. Tests made at the Iowa the grape leaf hoppers. This is partly experiment station at Ames with based upon the supposition that the quack grass seed taken from a bundle eggs may be in the leaves or in the of oats showed that 8 per cent of the ground or that the adult hoppers are in seed grew. The discovery of the above some way killed in the operation. So fact, while discouraging, will serve to far as having a direct effect in de emphasize the necessity of taking ad stroying the hoppers is concerned, ditional precautions to stamp out this plowing is of little avail. The only ones that will be killed are a few’ that worst of weed pests. may not be disturbed from their rest A dispatch appearing in the uaily ing places among the leaves or other papers under date of Oct. 18 tells of wise accidentally buried by the plow. an interesting Jackrabbit drive which During the cold or rainy days there took place in Antelope valley, near may be a few thus turned under, but Lancaster, Cal., a day or two before. ordinarily they are active enough to Five hundred men, women and chil escape readily before the plow. Plowing, however, may have an in dren are sitld to have formed a mon ster semicircle and driven 10,000 jacks direct effect on the hoppers by depriv into a wire corral half a mile in length Ing them of food or of suitable shelter and triangular in shape, where they ing places during unfavorable weather wore di patched with clubs in fifty- conditions, and if this practice Is gen sov<*ti minutes. The rabbits, which erally carried out in a neighborhood j :>4 been In- ren-lng with great rapid- it will no doubt result in reducing I' <1 n i e<l a Inrge part of the the numbers somewhat. However, a 11 Pt 1' ■ vl Inlly, and tiie drive field may be free from bop|»ers during the winter, but tills is not necessarily fdopted ns a relief measure. an indication of freedom from spring '.til • i i th.’ uc- i-ss of the coun- infestation. The insects are more gen • ; ! • ’ ’ i 'stilnte depends ns large erally distributed in the winter sea ly u[ :i ■ > 'r>!u ting the discussions son, but tile bulk of them will usually be found in the vineyard or on the as to dr ■ till t'ie definite, practical vegetation of the borders immediately experl. :i of the firmer* present or upon hailug l:a-iur<s upon the differ ent subjects by n r! ullural authori ties of note. It l< well to emphasize both features. In.' in no case should the former be neglected \\ e have known of Instances where mon were present in the audience on such occa sions who were chock full of just the $1.50 A YEAR information that was wanted on a given subject, yet who, because of bashfulness or modesty, contributed notblug to the discussion. On the oth er hand, had the officers of the In stitute or the director asked the right kind of questions and called ui>on these men personally to reply the de sired information would have been forthcoming and In a form that all present would have been able to com prehend. This Socratic method—the surrounding it. They may come in, RINTING THAT’S DONE RIGHT adds dignity and disti eliciting of information by questions therefore, from vineyards closely ad and answers—Is always excellent, and joining. so that plowing a single vine- tion to your business. Do all your cot-responding on n When tn no place Is ft more effective than In yard may be of little help. the farmers' Institute. ly printed letter heads. Neatly printed return enve'e the plowing Is done In a single vine yard or over a small area it is likely are a safeguard' against your letters being lost in the mails. We c to result simply in drlvlng them into other fields where there is a I letter your work when you want it and guarantee satisfaction food supply. Once in these other aft nations they may er may not come hack Into the v Incyard where they wi re originally. iti 1 Í J T 1 ZABETir First-class Passenger Fare. $3 on Up i I MILLER-CLEAVER Business College Bandon JKOVK OF EUCALYPTUS, SUMMER. END OK FIRST demonstrated to make Judicious plant ings even on a large scale perfectly safe, with an assurance of sure and reasonably large profits. It is impor tant, however, for the planter to con sider in the light of the best informa tion the nature of the product which he will produce, or, in other words, the market which he will attempt to supply with his eucalyptus trees. Eucalypts may be used either for fuel or for hardwood lumber. For the former purpose the prevailing prices of wood in most of our cities and large towns during the past few years have been such as to make the fuel proposition appear extremely attrac tive, Many glowing prospectuses are being offered to the public on this basis, It should be remembered, how- ever, that the production and use of natural oil are rapidly increasing, that gas and electricity for heating pur poses are cheap in the cities and that all three are coming more and more into use every day in the place of wood. InWact, wood as fuel is rapid ly becoming a luxury, aud there is in the mind of the writer no reason for expecting any increase in its use as fuel by the general public, He there- fore believes- it unprofitable and un wise to enter upon eucalyptus plant ing with the sole idea of raising wood for fuel. The profits to lie derived from eucalyptus in tiie future will be found In hardwood lumber for wagon work, farm aud other implements, rail road, coach and house finishings, fur niture, etc. Ties, telephone poles and bridge timber will also prove profita ble. For any of the above named products of eucalyptus at least ten years’ growth will be required, and of course the older the trees th«1 greater the profits in proportion. The wood of most of the eucalypts makes good fuel. A grove of blue gums five years old, set out t! by 0 feet apart, under favorable conditions lUCALYlTUS ULOIlULt'S FOUR YEARS OLD. should yield from fifty to eighty cords of wood per acre, while at ten years of age 80 to 150 cords may be expect ed. Groves under irrigation will un doubtedly do better than the above figures indicate, while the quality of the land will also, of course, have a great Influence. Eucalyptus planting commercially has a number of points in its favor as an investment over the fruit industry, principally because the fruit business Is more or less of an uncertainty, while the timber proposition is com paratively sure. A heavy rain during the blooming period of the fruit trees checks fertilization, a small crop be ing the result. This is not the case with the wood crop, where the more rain the greater growth and profits. The harvesting period of most fruits extends over but a few weeks, and if it is not gathered at that time the crop is a total loss, while, on the other hand, the harvesting period of the timber trees extends over a lifetime. The price of lalxjr may is* high or the value of the wood much lower than usual. If either is tiie case the trees may be allowed to stand. The follow ing year they will be larger and morsf valuable. Bave the expense of buying a sparw gu* planta, They are easily grow» from seed 1- EX -2 \ Y I I I ? . XT THE HARDWARE MAN BANDON STEAM LAUND.1Y Family Washing a Speciali' M 1»() II F. A. BATES, Pro-Tit tor Keep posted on the new community exponent oi the men5 Coquille Valley 1