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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1907)
DWARF FRUIT ORCHARD. Protcnor F. A. Wangrh'a HoTel ui Successful Euterprfse. Oue of the subjects relating to hor ticulture which demand deserved at tention is the experiment of Professor F. A. Waugh of the Massachusetts Ag ricultural college in the production of dwarf fruits. The one-fourth acre dwarf fruit -orchard there fruited heav- SWABP APPLE TREE IN FUtJIT. The kind they grow In Massachusetts. ily last season. An editorial repre sentative of the New England Home stead inspected the orchard when it was in fruit and found the enterprise an unqualified success. All of the com mon fruits, such as apples, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, etc., were found in the dwarf fruit garden. Fine large apples were seen growing on trees not half as tall as a man. The fruit in some Instances was within two or three inches of the ground. In the case of pears the trees were about as high as one's head, and the limbs were literally loaded with delicious fruit The peaches, too, were bearing heavily, and the close planting did not seem to injure the quality of the fruit. In Professor Waugh's opinion dwarf apples are the most interesting and valuable of dwarf fruits. Of the forms tinder which they may be cultivated the simplest is the bush or vase form. They succeed very well as upright cordons and all the simpler modifica tions of this form. As the trees can be planted very close together (easily as close as fifteen Indies), thus occupy ing very little room, a large number of them can be planted in very limited areas of the city lot or back yard. . The apple adapts itself admirably to horizontal cordons. Dwarf apples re quire practically the same cultivation and care as standard apples. The soil should be cultivated the early part of the summer and allowed to rest the latter part of the year. Cover crops may be sown during June or July, ac- APPLES IN UPRIGHT CORDONS. As grown at Massachusetts Agricultural college.! cording to the custom In the usual or chard management Practically all va rieties of apples can be grown as dwarfs, though some succeed better than others. Care la ITslus; Feed Cutters. Every little while we hear of a farm er losing a hand or arm in a silage cut terone this week. This is usually caused either by stalks getting wedged in the feed rolls or a loose jacket sleeve getting caught In the fodder and pulling in the arm. Don't wear any but tight fitting or buttoned up clothing around a cutter or machinery of any kind for that matter. If stalks get wedged in feed rolls, do not pat your hands near the rolls to straighten out matters. Use a large long stalk, or,! better still, shut off the feed and iltraighten out things. Do not crowd the cutter and push with all your might. It will cut more corn if it is not crowded. If you have one of the old style feed cutters, where the corn must be pushed up" to the rolls, stand so that yon pull it In rather than push; then your elbow is the point that comes nearest the feed roll, and there Is very little danger of an accident Bural New Yorker. Looking; lata Past and Future. As we look over the past year and take note of its conditions and of our own experience, we should be able to note wherein we might have done bet ter, lie is a wise .and practical person who Is willing to profit by mistakes to the extent of changing his vlevis and practices for what appears to lie the better. I VALUABLE NOVELTIES. t Alfalfa From Siberia Single Germ mr Beets, In the bureau of plant Industry at Washington the leading features of the work reported of the past year have been the co-operative demonstration work with farmers, fruit growers and others under the careful supervision of department experts and the intro duction of new crops of economic val ue. One of the most important achieve ments in this latter line is the discov ery of the existence of a Siberian al falfa, a plant native on the dry steppes of Siberia, where the mercury freezes without snow, thus proving the ability of the plant to withstand without pro tection a temperature of 40 degrees be low zero. This discovery may mark an epoch In the agriculture of the north west prairie regions of the United States. Among other valuable plants introduced are a vigorous alfalfa from Arabia and the Tangier pea, which has yielded as high as nine tons of green feed per acre. With a view to increas ing the matting industry the depart ment's explorers have secured living plants of the best foreign varieties of rushes. In the improvement of sugar beets the annual report further says: "Good results have attended work In securing high grade strains of sugar beet seed, and especially satisfactory results have been secured in the devel opment of the sugar beet seed contain ing a single germ, which will eliminate a considerable portion of the -work of thinning." MOSS IN PASTURES. Sodium Nitrate Is Found to Be an Ef fective Remedy. The moss knolls so common in our pastures are composed mainly of Poly trichum commune and less often of A PEST IN OLD PASTURES. a closely related species, Polytrichum juniperlum. A pasture belonging to the Vermont experiment station and considerably infested with moss was used in these experiments. Three plots, containing 100 square feet each, were measured off and lime, ! maple wood ashes and sodium nitrate ! applied at the rate of 5,000, 1,000 and ' 1,000 pounds respectively. Hade ap plication also on three plots containing ten square feet at the same rate, but worked into the soil. These materials were applied about Nov. 15, 1905, and about June 1 of the following year some action had already taken place. Plot No. 1, containing lime as a top dressing, was little affected. Plot No. 2, containing ashes as a top dressing, was little affected, exeeot in I those spots where the ashes happened to be particularly thick, in which places the moss was unhealthy and in some cases dead. '" Plot No. 3, containing sodium nitrate as a top dressing, was greatly changed. More than half the moss was killed, and the greatly Increased growth of grass bid fair to drive out the rest The three tilled portions were also considerably less acid, although not alkaline in reaction. The effect of lime when used as a top dressing is well known to be slow, and consequently later results may prove more favora ble. This action shows how much the mosses are dependent on a certain kind of habitat in order to thrive and suggests the practicability of using the nitrate on lawns, etc., that are infected with mosses. In any case the better and more luxuriant grass produced would usually more than pay for the cost of trouble of application, con cludes a writer in American Cultivator. Nitrate of soda is a salt extremely easy to apply and with scarcely any smell. Its solubility and quick action make it especially effective during a rainy season. Growing; Fruit In Nebraska. Not only Is there no question about the water supply in western Nebraska as long as the rivers run, but soil culti vation Is easier than under ditch Irri gation. Not only is the elevation less than some of Colorado's most famous fruit districts, tout the climate Is at least equal to and very little different Irom that of Colorado. Cool nights, ample moisture and bright sunshine all combine to give the high coloring and fine quality which have made Colorado fruit famous. Western Nebraska has all of these. EL F. S. m -Orange Judd Farmer. Manure In Cold Climates. Many experiments, notably those made by the Michigan and Wisconsin stations in this country, have shown that barnyard manure is one of the most effective means of increasing the productiveness of swamp or muck soils. This is thought to be due largely to the; increase of available nitrogen brought about by the' application of the manure. In cold climates, where the season is short and the conditions for rapid fermentation In the soil un favorable, the use of fermented ma nure is preferable. W. H. Bert. , THE HOUSE OF LOFIDS." I TTkat Tkta Gnat British I Uimtf 1 At first sight there is not much like ness between the comfortable country gentlemen, retired lawyers, blase men of fashion and liberal subscribers to party funds, who now drop Into rath er than frequent their magnificent hall, and "the mail covered barons, who proudly to battle led their vassals from Europe to Palestine's plain" In the days of the Henrys and Edwards, but in one point the house has always maintained its character through cen turiesit Is an aristocracy of birth, but It is still more emphatically one of wealth. The law of entail and primo geniture has kept the landed estates to gether as far as the law can. Many have passed by heiresses to new names or been sold by spendthrift lords, many holders of ancient titles have lost the wealth that gilded their ancestors cor onets, but new peers are almost al ways rich, and a title is still an at traction to an heiress. We sometimes hear that the house of lords represents nothing. This is false. It represents property. Tennyson's new Lincolnshire farmer, whose horse's hoof3 trotted "proputty, proputty. proputty," Is the type of a vast number of Englishmen. Such men are not only content but proud, to be represented by the house of lords. They know that as long as the lords have their say "proputty" will have a stanch body of organized champions. William Everett in At lantic. - . NATURAL KITCHENS. Places Where Cooking Is Done In Boiling: Spring's. There are one or two countries Ice land, for example where washday is not dreaded, because nature provides the hot water at one's very door in the shape of steaming springs of spouting geysers. But there is only one country where the native women do practically all their cooking by unaided nature, and that Is the North island of New Zealand. Here is a wonderland of a thousand square miles so volcanic that a fire may be lighted by Inserting a few sticks in the earth, and wherever one makes a hole he speedily has a pool of boiling water, into which a pudding may be lowered incased in a cloth and cooked expeditiously. Frequently in perfectly cold streams a boiling hot current may be seen and felt running along the edge of the river, and here the Maori women do their own and the white man's wash ing. Naturally the volcanic region of New Zealand is a dangerous country to wander in without a guide, and many tourists have lost their lives as the re suit of such carelessness. Maori serv ants boil coffee and eggs in this way. New York Tribune. A Vile Performance. On the occasion of his brother's bene fit Edwin Booth was standing behind the scenes when a character actor who had been giving imitations of noted actors was about to respond to an en core. "Whom do you imitate next?" ln- mired Booth. "Well," was the reply, "I was going co represent you in Hamlet's soliloquy, but if you look on I'm afraid I shall make a mess of it" '.'Suppose1 I Imitate myself?" remark ed the tragedian, and, hastily putting n the other actor's wig and buttoning ip his coat, he went on and delivered he well known lines. Next morning the newspapers stated hat the imitations ruined the perform mce, "the personation of Edwin Booth leing simply vile enough to make hat actor shudder had he seen it" Toledo Blade. Costly Windsor Castle. No royal castle has cost Great Britain more in hard cash than that f Windsor, says the London Chron "le. When George IV. announced his ntentlon of making it a family resi ence parliament granted him 300,000 award its reconstruction. For four ears the work went merrily on under fresh grants, and the king then took possession of the private apartments. That did not end the expenditure how ever. By the time William IV. had -satisfied himself that there was noth ing more to be done the castle had swallowed up close to a . million pounds. Pope's SlcmUL. The skull of Alexander Pope, the poet and satirist, is In the private collection of a phrenologist During some alter ations In the churchyard where Pope was burled it was necessary to move his coffin, which was opened at the time to ascertain the state of his re mains. By bribing the sexton of the church possession of the poefs skull was obtained for the night and In the morning a different skull was returned instead. The cost of the skull, includ ing the bribe, was 50. His Stubbornness. "Haven't you and your friend got through that argument yet?" asked a parent of his youngest son. "It isnt any argument" answered the boy. "I am merely telling Jimmie the facts In the case, and he Is so beastly stubborn that he won't under stand." Chums. I Escaping- the Organ Grinders. Reside close to a dentist's if you are not fond of street music. Itinerant organ men carefully 'avoid playing anywhere near the house of a prac titioner who can effectually stop or remove all troublesome grinders. Lon don Punch. A niggardly rich man does not own bis estate; his estate owns him. Blon ANOTHER WRECK. OnS. P. Caused Excitement in Corvallis" Friday. For the fecouu time within a month or six weeks there was a wrack on the S P. railroad, Friday, between ihi- city aud Portland. The train that is due i Corvallis at 11:45 did not jje. in until 4:30 and there was considerable excite ment and worry among local residents until it was learned that no Corvallis p tila had been injured. The storv ol tin- t 1 : wreck is told in baturdaj 's Oregoiiiau a? folio- s: - Tra'u No. 2, the Corvallis passenger which left Portland yesterday ujorsiug at? o'c'ock was derailed at II o' lock a miie north ot McCoy. Po'k county. Fourteen persons were hart, two serious. ly. . jjeDjamin Scho field, of Cornelius, re tained the most seiious ii.juries. vn. Scholfield is well kuown in the VVillam. ette Valley,-and is a regent oi the Mon mouth Normal School. E. N . Burwell, who UveB at 505 Wil liams avenue, the postal cleric on the train, was also quite badly hurt, but will recover. The five cars of the train, three of which were well filled with passengers, left the rails and turned ever, almost clear of the track. The locomotive re mained upright, witr only one truck off the rails. There were wil 1 scenes in the passen ger coaches when the crash came. Pas sengers were thrown from their Beats. A coal stove was overturned in one ol the cars and one woman's dress caught fire This caused intense excitement as the doors of the cars were jammed shut and escape from cremation seemed im poesiblb. The fire was extinguished. however, and the doors of the tars were beaten down, allowing the imprisoned passengers to escape. The cause of the accident was not re ported to the PortUnd offices of the Southern Pacific Saturday. Conflicting reports were received, a broken rail 2nd spreading rails be.ng assigned as causes of the accident. Additional Local. Jack Milne moved his cigar store yesterday into his new io cation one door north of the Spencer barber shop, formerly occupied Dy the J? is her music store. F. L. Miller had planned to go to uaiitornia since last October, but was afraid of earthquakes. He at last got up courage and started, arriving in San Fran i i mi i mi cisco last inursaay. xnat same evening there was an earth quake. He wrote to the clerks in his Corvallis store that at last, in his old age, he was rocked to sleep by an earthquake. B. W, Lacy is up from Portland for a visit with friends. Bert Yates, formerly of this city, is now at Pendleton. He is still in the emoloy of the North Bank railroad and his ralary has recently increased to $75 per month. Attorney W. E. Yates came up from Vancouver Sunday for a few days' visit He reports everything as moving along nicely with himselfand family. He returns today, The K. O. T, M. an tMadv Maccabee social given last week was a success f rom every standpoint. About IqO people were present at the clam and crab ban quet. The program rendered was an ex cellent one as follows: Grand march bv Degree team in uniform ; cornet solo, Prof. Harry Beard; recitation, Fen ton Starr; instrumental solo, Prof. Fraak White; vocal duet, Misses Hnbler and Kyle; instrumental solo, Mrs. Carl Hodes: recitation, Edgar Starr; comic ballad, Arthur Boquet; instrumental solo, MibsMcBride; instrumental solo. Prof. Frank White; cornet solo, (by special re quest). Prof. Harry Beard. How It Struck Her. "You seemed greatly Impressed." said the minister, "with my description of how they brought the head of John the Baptist before the king on a salver." "Yes," sighed Mrs. De Style; "I was thinking how much better 'they train ed servants in those days. Now. mine, when they bring me things, are forever forgetting the salver." Louisville Courier-Journal. A Sore "Way. First Author Oh, the unutterable monotony of existence! I am thor oughly disgusted with it all. Would that I might completely disappear for awhile. Second Author Then why don't you marry a famous woman? Judge. Her Monrnlng. Maud Why Is that lady over the way always in black? Is she mourn ing for any one? Bess Yes, a hus band. Maud I didn't know she'd been married. Bess No, but she's' mourn ing for a husband all the same. Of Conrse. Professor (a little distracted) I'm glad to see you. 'How's your wife? "I regret it, professor, but I'm not married." "Ah, yes. Then of course your wife's still single." Fliegende Blatter. A Serial Story Entitled "L I N COIN'S LOVE Soon be Published In the Gazette This entrancing by WARD HILL LAM0N Lincoln's . Lamcn was coln's Echcccf,5' a serial published In ill Gazette a year ago .... "Lincoln's Love Affairs" affords a vivid insight of the life and beautiful womanly attributes of Miss Ann Rut ledge, the object of Lincoln's first great affection, and unhappy mental condition on her death. His short courtship of Miss Mary Owens creates intense in terest and is historically correct. Final Courtship MISS MARY TODD Lincoln's early experiences as a law maker and other interesting incidents in the life of thei great emancipator. SUBSCRIBE EOR Published twice a annum, This Story Alone OUR JOB PRINTING AfFAIRS" story was written Law Partner the author of "Lin and Marriage of THE GAZETTE NOW week for $1.50 per in advance. is Worth the Price Facilities are the Best
