Polk County observer., October 27, 1908, Image 4

Farm and
Garden
CAREFUL FRUIT GROWING.
The French Obtain Better Results
Than the Americans.
"In this country," Bays a French vis
itor, "you JUHt put things In the ground
and let them grow more or less hap
hazard, as far as I can see. You have
a soil so fertile that I suppose yon can
coatfiis If n lVh tviTx The f.w. how
ever, are kept very cnrefiii'ly pruned
find the product Ion of catli Is limited.
"Growers can at once retard fruit
and dwarf trees to such un extent that
It Is poselhle to purchase during the
winter fruit actually (trowing on little
trees small enough to he served, pot
and all. 0:1 the table. Teaches thus
grown (one on n tree only cost
about f20 a piece, oilier tiling in pro
portion, and the fruit Is sold usually
not to French people, but to visitors
with more money than discretion, wno
think it smart to Imitate what they
consider the luxury of our gay capital.
"All this care of detail may seem ab
surd to you who have a country so
large and so lavishly productive as
America. Still. I think It is an open
question whether even here, where
'time Is money' so much more than It
Is In Europe, the expenditure of care
and thought on some neglected details
might not lead to the financial profit ol
some growers."
Insects 16 " which Tt Ts partial. In win
ter, when there seems to be no activl
ty on the part of the Insects, one might
expect the birds to take a rest, but
there Is no cessation in the work of
those which live on Insects found on
the bark of trees.
Watch a flock of chickadees. They
alight in a tree and examine each twig
l'EACU THEE TItAINED ON WALL.
dispense with much that Is necessary
in our old country. But, all the same, I
think the fruit might he benefited If
you did some of the things that every
French grower does. France Is the
country of detail, you know, and we
think it pays in fruit growing just as
it does in cooking.
"The fruits we pet and pamper most
are the peach and the grape. The ma
Jorlty of peaches grown in this couu
try would seem to a Frenchman to be
distinctly of tlio second order that Is,
In the language of his fruit culture,
peach do plcln vent, or one grown on
trees In un orchard. Iietween peaches
grown thus, 'open to the wind,' nnd
those trained on trellises against walls
the French make a sharp distinction
"The trellis, or 'espalier,' peaches
are the only ones that appear on
carefully regulated table and are mil
versally cultivated. They always com-
maud a much higher price than the
tree peach, and at Montrcull the fruit
has been brought to such perfection
that they habitually sell for from 40 to
80 cents uplece.
Kven more elaborate Is tho proce-
dura with lino table grapes. Ilothouso
grapes are not highly In favor among
French epicures, for they are held to
lack tho rich ilavor of the fruit grown
In the open. At the samo time grapes
are so much In demand as a table
delicacy that It Is desirable that their
season should be prolonged as far as
possible Into tho winter. The difficulty
of this situation has been met by a
Bystem which, complicated ns It Is, Is
quite generally In use.
"The grapes are grown on trellises
exposed to tho sun anil six or seven
yards apart, like the peaches. When
the clusters are ripe they are put with
the stem and leaves In a sort of glass
box or bottle, which Is placed In a
I'WAllF l'EACU TllKK.
dark room. If the producer Is growing
fur the market the bunches are looked
at every day. fr the slightest eck of
lmrfectlcii will keep him from dis
posing of Ills sl.u k to the lH-st houses
"The same care III leswr degree runs
thmiicli nil the I'rem li grower docs
In certain place, but only In a few.
the apricot U treated with nil the care
Plimn t. t!.e pea. li. It Is less pmtlta
l ie t.i ( low. f.ir tt does not Keep we!
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DWARF APPLES.
They Will Be Grown on Account of
Their Convenience.
G. T. Powell of Columbia county, N.
Y., has been conducting some interest
ing experiments on the value of dwarf
apple trees In business orchards. It is
the Idea of Mr. Powell that trees of a
low habit of growth will be required
more and more because of the need of
convenience for spraying and harvest
ing. The scale Insects make it almost
Impossible to thoroughly treat large
trees, and the cost of labor makes a
saving at harvesting time of great im
portance.
Two styles of dwarf trees are under
trial. The so called Paradise Is very
dwarf and Is short lived. The Doucin
stock Is half dwarf, making trees six
teen to eighteen feet high, and prom
ises good results in commercial or
charding. The trees are planted two
or three Inches below the union of
stock nnd top. In Mr. Powell's or
chard the trees of Paradise stock are
set as fillers between those of the lar
ger dwarf kind. The rows In the or
chard are twenty feet apart and the
trees ten In a row. The wide spaces
between the rows allow plenty of room
for cultivation by horsepower, while
the trees In the rows will be thinned
out ns soon as they become crowded.
The dwarf trees give fruit In a few
years from planting, and the amount
gradually Increases. The small dwarf
kind lasts six to eight years and the
semldwarfs for about twenty years.
For dwarf trees the Spltzenheig, Jona
than and Mcintosh are found success
ful. They produce fruit of very fine
appearance and quality, suitable un
packing In boxes for the choicest trade.
For the half dwarfs the Northern Spy,
Itoxbury Ilussct, Twenty Ounce, Astra
khan, Baldwin and Greening are satisfactory.
The dwarf trees must receive good
culture, with plenty of plant food and
careful cultivation. The soil is plowed
and harrowed In the spring and Is kept
In a cover crop of clover during the
summer. Scale nnd other insects are
easily treated In the dwarf orchards.
The Idea appears so promising to Mr.
owell that he Is pruning his larger
trees on the dwarf plan, cutting back
the tops of the standard trees In order
to cause them to spread out and to re
move the high parts of tho tree, which
make so much difficulty in spraying
Old trees.
Excellent Pasturage For She'p.
The best pasture that we have ever
sed for our sheep, says Northwestern
Agriculturist, has been some sown
rop, like oats, mixed with rape.
oung standing corn makes an excel
lent pasturage. Their close bite does
no harm, and they do not trample
own your feed as cattle do. Sheep.
Is well known, are superior stock
o turn upon a gralntleld after harvest.
I'liey love the weeds. Here Is the
great benefit upon the farm In keeping
liccp. About the only weed that they
on't eat Is the thistle. They convert
l undesirable growth Into good
meat nnd wool. Fields that are to lie
so cleaned, however, must be properly
f eiued
WHITE BREASTED NUTHATCH KED HEADED
WOODPEC'KElt.
for grubs or eggs, the little black eyes
rarely missing a mouthful of food.
Birds even swing head down from the
branches that the underside may not
escape Inspection. Nuthatches and
brown creepers explore the trunk nnd
with their long, sharp bills dig many
an Insect from Its winter quarters.
The woodpeckers have a work all their
own. The small, downy woodpecker
Is a good representative of his family.
His bill Is strong and sharp. His tail
feathers are stiffened to serve as a
brace while he clings upright against
the trunk. He cocks bis head to one
side, and his quick ears hear a borer
under the bark. A few blows with
tho bill and a hole Is dug; then a long
tongue barbed at the tip Is shot out,
Hints to Mushroom Growers.
In turning up a portion of a bed
maggots may be discovered In the
manure. A few may do no percepti
ble harm, but a large number will eat
up the spawn, leaving not even a
thread to develop a single mushroom.
Manv kinds of insects are apt to
swarm in warm cellars, together with
the egg laying varieties which cause
the maggots, regardless of foul air
which may often accumulate ana
which Is an Injury to the mushrooms.
In each succeeding bed in targe cel
lars Insects follow up tne new Deas
nnd become more vigorous. A nign '
temperature such as we had last fall
Is conducive to their continued exist
ence in summer gsm. a goou Kiuy,
however, con be secured In spite of
them when the houses are kept at all
times cool.
When mushrooms are grown In glass
houses the return pipes are best run
undfr the walks. In the usual way
of heating, where the pipes run under
the benches, paper placed over the
beds will be found beneficial as a pro
tector from excessive heat and drying.
With good, rigorous spawn, properly
prepared compost and care about the
requirements of heat and moisture, a
good crop Is a positive certainty.
There are garden crops equal to If not
surpassing the mushroom as money
makers to the producer, but no one
seed complain of well managed mushrooms.
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Street Improvement Notice.
To Silas Orchard, Estate Johp Ellis,
deceased, Wm. Ellis, Trustee, Mark
Hayter, A. N. Hadley, Eliza Shelton,
Mary E. Berg, J. Hanson, Emma
Hanson, Mary E. Hayes, J. W. Boyer,
Julia Boyer, Mabel Martin :
Notice is hereby given that the City
Council of the City of Dallas, Oregon,
contemplates the passage of an ordi
nance requiring the improvement of
those certain streets or parts of streets
in said city, adjacent to and adjoining
the herein below described lots or
parts of lots or parcels of ground in
and the borer Is speared nnd snatched the manner following, to-wit: By the
KILL the COUGH
AND CURE the LUNGS
WITH
Dr. King's
New Discovery
PBICB
m m uuuna an a si.oo.
I un eOLDS Trial Bottle Free
AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES,
GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY,
OB MONEY REFUNDED.
THE PENALTY OF OVERWORK
Many
Dallas Readers Find Toll A
Daily Burden.
from Its resting place.
As Insects increase with the coming
of wanner weather, birds return from
the south to fight them. One watches
tho cheerful robin hopping over the
lawn. lie listens an Instant, then
pokes his bill deep Into the ground.
I'p comes his head, and he has cap
tured a worm. The flicker, though a
woodpecker. Is an Imitator of the robin,
lie Is fond of nuts, and his big bill
makes a good pick to dig them from
their hills. Meadow larks nnd quails
live entirely on insects found close to
the ground. Were these birds strictly
protected in the southwest Instead of
being hunted the boll weevil might not
have things quite so much his own way
In the cotton fields.
The trees when In foliage ore fnll of
birds. Small warblers and vlroes take
care of eggs nnd little worms, while
thrushes, orioles and catbirds attend to
those of larger size. The rose breast
ed groslicak earns the right to favor
USEFUL
Easy to
SONG EIRDS.
Show They Have an Actucl
Money Value.
In his war against Insects man's
most valuable ally Is the bird. The
reatcr nunilicr of birds live on In
sects. i:cii tlill!t. which live tin weds
hen fully griiuii me fed on Insects
liile In the neit. As young birds
I'hw fiist it takes inaiiv a worm In
itlsfy their lieiiriv unuetites.
A feature uf the warfare of bird on
blU Is the system with which it Is
uiied on. Nothing Is hat. haind. but
li stiMflfH of bird h;i lis nu n tiel I
of wink mid In many lni:iti iitt.i'i.
HOSE UHEA8TEO QltOSBEAK CATBIRD.
by the way he eats potato bugs. Some
birds cannot eat hairy caterpillars, but
they are a choke delicacy to the
cuckoo, which slips quietly through the
trees ns It hunts for them.
Insects on the whig are not safe, for
swallows and swifts In rapid flight
skim back and forth over the meadows
and without pausing catch many a
small gnat. The birds called flycatch
ers also take their prey on wing, but
they remain quiet on a perch and only
swoop down on Insects which come
near at hand.
Farm Notes.
The prosperous farmer Is seldom a
soli robber.
The garden should be well drained
and the soil should bo worm If the
best results are wanted.
A well cared for asparagus bed la a
permanent feature, and It brings a lot
of comfort to the one who has It
There Is room for improvement In
Ihe wads of the country. It doesn't
take much money either.
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COUGHS and COLDS
AND ALL THROAT and LUNG
DISEASES PREVENTS
PNEUMONIA CONSUMPTION
FOR
" Twt years ajr a frer.Mld.Mtt4 m toy lours and M completely p nitrated nt that I tu
nt.U U work u4 acarcely able u ua4. I tbe was .dnM ta try Dr. Klng't Kiw Discovery, and
ft using oct botUa I went bat U work, aJ well aa I ever was."
W. J. ATKUS, Banner Spring, Teas.
PRICE 600
:X SOLO AND GUARANTEED BY L
AND SI.OO
construction of a new sidewalk S feet
4 iochej wide (1) on the west side of
Stump Street adjoining lots 2,
3 and 4, Block 17, in Ellis Addi
tion to Dallas; (2) on the west side of
Stump Street adjoining Lot S Block 17.
in Ellis Addition to Dallas; (3) on the
South side of Ash Street, adjoiniog
Lot 6 in Block 1, Fairview addition to
Dallas; (4) on tbe west side of Hayter
Street, adjoiuing Lots 1 and 2 in Block
20 in Ellis Addition to Dallas; (5) on
the west side of Hayter Street adjoin
ing Lots 3 and 4 in Block 20 Ellis Addi
tion to Dallas; (6; on the west side of
Hayter Street adjoiniug Lots 6 and 6,
Block 20 Ellis Addition to Dallas; (7)
on the East side of the county road
adjoining Lot 1 Block 1, OermaotowD
Addition to Dallas; (8) on the East
side of the couoty road adjoining Lot
3, Block 2 Germantown addition to
Dallas; (9) ou the East side of the
county road adjoiniDg Lot 4, Block 2
Germantown addition to Dallas; (10)
on the East side of the county road
leading from Dallas to Salem, adjoin
ing that piecj or parcel of land
described as beginning 310j feet N. 21
degrees E. from where Dallas and
Salem County road intersects the S.
line of Old Dallas Townsite ; thence E.
216 feet; thence N. 108 feet; thence W.
173 feet; thence S. 21 degrees W. 11!)
feet to place of beginning; all of the
above described lands being in Dallas,
Tolk Couuty, Oregon.
That the said sidewalks will be con
structed of lumber at tho time and in
the manner to be hereafter preset ibed
by said Ordinance.
That the cost of said sidewalk will
be assessed to the above described
property fronting and abutting there
on. That the City council will sit In the
council chamber in said city oo the
2d day of November, 1908, at 7:30
o'clock in the evening, to hear and
determine objections and remon
strances thereto, if any there be; and
that all owners and other persons
In Interest may attend at said time
and place and show cause, If any they
have, why said sidewalks should not
be constructed.
Done by order of the city council of
the city of Dallas made on the 19th day
of October, A. D. 1908.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of the said city of Dallas, this 22d
day of October, 1908.
L. D. BROWN,
(.Seal) Auditor and Police Judge
of the City of Dallas, Oregon.
The heavy tax of overwork the strain
upon the back that is so common t)
many trades and occupations, is o
great. The kidneys begin to fail in tl eir
work, and there is a double danger to
health. The poisonous matter collects
in the system, and the kidneys them
selves begin to break down. Pain in
the back is onlv a warning of trouble in.
the kidneys. An inflammation has set
in, and a disordered condition of the
urine soon becomes apparent. Too
much or too little urine, with a constant
desiie to void the secretions ; any notice
able deviation from the normal color;
the appearance of a sandy sediment,
proves a disordered condition of the kid
neys that needs quick attention. If
vour work seems hard for you, if you
have a lame, weak or aching back, if
yon eeem tired and listless, and seem to
be running down without apparent
cause, begin at once with Doan s Kid
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It has given thousands of working men
and women strong, sound backs for
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Home proof is convincing evidence of
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Call at Belt A Clierrington's drug store
and ask to see statements of Dallas peo
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Remember the name Doan's and
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BELT & CHEREINQTON, Dallas, Oregon
INDEPENDENCE & MONMOUTH
Railway.
FROM isdepkshesck.
FOB DALLAS.
Train No M. Leave Inaenendenee dally, t 00
a. m.; Iv. Monmouth, 6:l& a. nr.; ar. liallaa. 6 40
a. m.
Train So. as. Imti Independence, dellr.
10 sea. m.; Iv. Mouuioulb, 11.06 a. m.; ar. Pal
las. 11 :). m.
Train No. TO. I .rare Imtrprnrienr, dl!y
:1 p. m.: Iv. Monmouth, t: Jo p. m.; ar leiiao!
t:&p. mt
ra aiblii.
Train No. T. lrave Indrprndenre. di;
7 . m.;W. Monmouth, ; j a. .; ar. Air.ie
S:U a. Ul.
Train No. Tl. IaTe!ndependrDce.dallT j an
p. m.; It. Moumoulh. S Jo p. m ; ar. Aliln l
p.m.
roa mov aom oblt.
Leave Independence, daily. I: p. a.
No. 101 amvea Monmouth 7:30 a m.
FROM DALLAS.
fob tnparaxbsxcB.
Train No. tv. Lear Dellaa 1iIt a,,.w..
S O a m : It. Monmouth, a .6 a. m.: ar ln.i
prudence. I:liia
Train No Kn. It. DaUaa. Bandar oaly. t 54
a. m.: ar. Independence. :.aa. m.
Train No. S. LraT Pella. dally. 1 p m - It
Monmouth. I a p. m.: ar ln.lrvndnr. 1 p. 1
m. (Thia train cuannna at Monmoath lor Air-;
He.)
Train No Tl. I ear tiallaa atallT 7 .
r. Moumvnlh, p. m.: ar. ladrwndraoJ a ii
p. m.
From airi.ie.
Train No a Lear Airtle. dailT. a m - It
Monan-ith. a. m : ar la.rlnoMHT. t
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Train No. Tl Lrar Alriie. dal'y. a-Ap m
It. Monmouth. i m . mt. ladnndrarel
m.
T-ain So l loarva MrUe 4 At p m itimi
arnrr Monatoath x p. m. amToa i4e
awhorr a a, p. m.
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