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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
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#111 Uphold one In trimming
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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.
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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
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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»
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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 •
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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’ 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
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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.
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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
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