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FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1913. Forest Grove Steam Laundry Wood, HGME COURSE FRUITS AND BERRIES Coal, Cold Storage THE FIRST SEASON WITH THE PEACH ORCHARD. and Ice. By M A U R I C E A. BLAKE of the N ew Jersey Agricultural Experi ment Station. MERTZ & LATTA Cor. 5th .\ve. and 2nd St., Forest Grove, T Ore. J) Watch and Use the Want Ads and you’ll not need to be a mind reader The thought has often come to you perhaps, that you could easily solve most difficulties if you were a mind reader if you could for instance,KNOW who would be glad to rent your property, or to buy it; who would be glad to employ you. Want advertisers, and those who watch the want ads, learn these things in a BUSINESS W AY not through occult means. S. A. WAL KK It H E selection of the site for the orchard is one of the flrst con siderations in tlie planting of a peach orchard, and a very Im portant one, for it may mean success or failure according to the character of the soil, exposure and elevation which Is chosen. .Most fruit growers realize the im portance of selecting a site which is som ew hat elevated above the sur rounding land level. A site which is severely exposed to strong prevailing winds, however, should he avoided, as the young trees are likely to be blown over or loosened from the soil during the first season of grow th. If one plans to develop extensive orchards he should choose a site th at will permit of uniform and economical develop ment and avoid areas with distinct ir regularities. S e le c tio n of a S ite . The selection of n site also involves the selection of the soil, and this is of II LI DY AK D WALKER & LIDYARD S H O EMAKERS 1st Ave. N., near Main St. We are prepared to do the very best of all kind of shoe work. UP-TO-DATE MACHINERY Special attention gi ven to crippled feet. D E S IR A B L E FORM O F G RO W TH BY PEACH TU FIi H E A D E D AB OU T TW O F E E T H lO U WHEN BET. | the greatest importance. The peach will succeed on a great variety of soils, hut a well drained sandy loam is con sidered Best. The adaptability of the soil for peach growing Is much W M . W EITZEL surface modified by the character of the sub soil and underlying strata. Some of the heavier loams and even soils con- \ tabling some clay may he made to pro- Tinning and Plumbing, Sheet j dace line peaches if the subsoil is por ous and affords good drainage. The Metal Work and Re Better so culled “chestnut soils" are pair Shop. well adapted to peaches, and the trees live longer than upon the sandy soils. The purchase of trees for peach grow big is a troublesome and puzzling one North First Avenue, between Main and to many frail growers. In a general way It makes very lit “ A” Streets; phone 8(>:i. tie difference where the trees are grown if they are well grown and are free from Injurious Insects and diseases. Some believe that peach trees grown In the south and set In a locality a con siderable distance to the north are llke- i ly to start into grow th too early In the ! spring, lait this will not tie the case, even the first year, if the trees are properly handled. T em perature large , ly determ ines the time when the trees will start Into growth. The top of a peach tree may lie placed In a green From llic preparing of house in w inter and brought Into bloom th e food to the serving, with llic roots frozen solidly outside, nr the roots may in* Kept warm to the a b s o lu te cleanliness and greenhouse and the top exposed out painstaking care is observ side, with the result that the portion of the trunk Inside will send out new ed by the grow ths, while the part exposed to low will remain dorm ant. Forest Grove Oyster House tem One perature should aim to avoid buying trees which are grown In a locality where Everything to Fat any serious disease, such 11 s peach yel lows or root gall, is known to lie O ysters and Shellfish a established It Is very desirable also Specialty. to secure trees free from scale, but this Is not as Im portant as the diseases mentioned, as the scale can he control led by proper spraying, and tills opera Open Day and Night tion will lie necessary each year, even ED. BOOS. P ro p rie to r If stock free from scale Is set. I*o not order trees from an ageut who represents a firm of whose relia bility you are not certain, and It is bet ter In any ease to order directly from tlie nurserym an. W h e n to O rd e r T r e e i, BUTTER WRAPPER PRINTING at the FOREST GROVE PRESS 100 for $1.25 250 for $1.75 500 for $2.25 Trees are graded by nurserym en In two way»—by height ami By caliper. The height Is m easured from the point where the tree was budded, and the caliper is tlie diam eter of the trunk three »idles “above the bud." The latter Is the more accurate and better system of grading Ordering the trees Is a m atter which Is often neglected until a short time before the trees are actually needed for planting This Is a serious mistake. One should decide upon the varieties and the num ber of trees to Be planted, anil the trees slum Id he ordered not Inter than February. If there is no local nursery where good tre«>s cau he obtained w rite to some reliable grow er and ask hltu If he cau supply you. You will theu receive • reply as to w hether the trees desired can be supplied, and If so you can place your order. If you are planning to purchase a considerable num ber of trees a good method is to order by samples by requesting the nurserym an to ship you samples of the kinds of trees you desire. Always order a few more trees than you actually need. This will perm it of discarding any poor or Injured ones. Have your trees shipped to arrive a considerable tim e in advance of the day or week In which they are to be set and "heel them In.” You will then have your trees at hand ready to set when the conditions for planting are best. If one understands "heeling them In" properly, so they will not he damaged during the w inter, it is a good practice to purchase the trees in the fall. As soon as the trees arrive from the nurseiym an they should be unpacked to note their condition. If the trees ure dry the roots should he placed lu w a ter for a time until the hark on the trunk and branches of the trees re gains its full, bright appearnuce. If the soil Is In workable condition when the trees arrive they should he taken to the proposed site of the orchard and pruned uud heeled In. They will theu be near at hand when needed for planting. P ro p e r H e ig h t to “ C u t B ack ." START CAMPAIGN FOR VACANT LOT GARDENS. A m e ric a n C iv ic A sso cia tio n U tiliz e W a s ts L a n d . Absolutely Safe and Reliable The Bankers & Merchants Mutual Fire Association W o u ld O f Forest Grove, Oregon A feature of particular interest in connection with the annual convention of the American Civic association, which was held in W ashington, Dec. 13. 14 and 15. was the outliuiug of a program for wbat will be known as the "vacant lot gardens" campaigu, upon which much of the attention of the association's workers will be con centrated during the ensuing year. An Illustrative example of the civic bet term ent which may be secured through the cultivation and beautification of vacant lots In cities was offered to the convention delegates in an address by Leroy J. Boughuer of Minneapolis. Mr. Boughner had an Im portant place in the program of the session, which was •evoted to discussion of “T he Com munities We Live In." This club in 1911 had planted In vege tables and flowers 3tX) vacant lots, or approxim ately 2,225,000 square feet, of which 2,000.000 square feet w ere plant ed to vegetables. The city was divid ed Into six districts, about sixty gar dens to a district, nnd each district was in charge of an assistant garden er furnished by the M innesota farm school. Each individual having a va cant lot garden thus received careful instruction in gardening. An idea of the extent of the work will be offered In a statem ent showing th at the club gave out 28,000 cabbage and tomato plants on May 25. and there also were given out on May 11 22.000 packages of nasturtium seeds. So great was the stim ulus to gardening in the city that the stores in the sam e season sold 40,000 packages of nasturtium seeds, and It was estim ated that fully 25.000 to 30,000 homes were decorated with j these plants, most of which were in bloom by July 1. W ith the Garden club acting as Interm ediary every va- | cant lot on Hennepin avenue, one of the principal thoroughfares of Minne- j apolis, was cleaned nnd planted to grass and flowers. About 000 vacant lots in other parts of tlie city were j cleared of rubbish. Tw enty thousand | feet frontage of vacant lots were screened with sunflowers or other busby plants. Through the Influence of the Garden club, too, hundreds of pri vate Individuals were inspired to culti vate vacant lots, and a sum m ary of the year showed 1,000 vacant lot gar dens under the control of the club, of an area of 150 acres, and 18,000 home gardens, of an area of 1,000 acres. It was shown by Mr. Boughner that the total cost of all the cleaning, seeds, in struction, supervision and machinery was $4.000, while with the experience gained the sam e work could be dupli cated for $1,800. Two to tw o and one-half feet above the hud is about the proper height to “cut hack” peach trees for planting. Good trees can be formed when cut tinck to eighteen Inches, but anything more severe than this is not to he rec ommended. Sometimes the roots of peach trees which have been grow n upon saDdy soil show an infestation of black peach aphides or plant lice. T hese are likely to check seriously the grow th of the trees where they are planted upon the sandy soils, and it Is recommended th at the roots of Infested trees be dipped In a solution of whule oil soap at the rate of one pound to three to four gal lons of water. One of the soluble oils for killing scale would also probably he a safe dipping solution made up at the rate of one part of oil to sixteen or eighteen parts of water. The w riter has used lime .sulphur successfully for this work, hut other authorities have report ed injury from this m aterial, so. if tried. It should lie used with caution. As early as the soil Is in proper con dition to work la the spring the site of the orchard should lie well plowed and thoroughly harrowed. Make the land ns level as conditions perm it and avoid leaving any "dead furrow s.” In other words, prepare tlie land as thoroughly for peach trees ns for a crop of pota toes or one of the truck crops. The im portance of early preparation of the land after It Is in workable con dition cannot be overemphasized. It rem ains much more moist, and the trees have much more favorable conditions In which to begin growth. If the land Is plowed late it is often dried out, and the trees do not find the most favorable moisture conditions. DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE. This is an im portant feature and one which will show the results of good or T w o S uccessful M e tho ds A d o p te d by poor judgm ent during the whole life A m e ric a n C itie s . time of the orchard. There are various At least two methods of garbage dls- system s of tree planting, blit the most I » o s a l have proved effective In typical common and the one to be generally American cities—incineration and re recommended for peaches is the setting duction. In the incinerating type all of the trees in squares. kinds of refuse, ushes. paper, rags, scraps of food, kitchen waste, etc., are D ire c tio n s F o r P la n tin g . Three is a good num ber to make up a fed together luto crem atories nnd planting gang—two men to set and n burned, in European works of this hoy or man to drop the trees. If the type the heat generated by the comfius planting Is done upon a bright day the tion w ith a forced draft is a source roots of the trees should he kept cov of considerable revenue. One of the ered with a piece of moist burlap or best exam ples of an incinerator plant sim ilar m aterial ns they are carried In this country is the M ilwaukee iuciu- out to tie set. nnd only n few trees should be dropped ahead of the men who are setting. If the w eather Is dull and rainy at planting time a consider able num ber of trees may lie dropped ahead of the men who nre planting, and the man who does the distributing can also assist In setting. If the land Is well furrowed out where the trees nre to he planted It will only he necessary to move from two to four shovelfuls of soli in order to make a hole of sufficient width and depth to receive each tree. One man should then hold the tree In place while the other shovels in some of the loose, moist surface soil about the roots. Most any vegetable crop tuny be grown N't ween the trees the first sum R E D U C E R AT M IL W A U K E E . mer without dam age to the orchard, and It usually proves to lie nil indirect erator, which has been in full opera Benefit. The truck crop Is likely to since May. 1910. At the old Mil receive attention in the form of good tlou waukee the cost of disposal cultivation, ami tills Is of much value reached as plant high $1.37 per ton of to the trees. W here the orchard is garbage, w hile the as cost a t the uew not planted with some m arketable Is less than GO cents per ton. If crop the cultivation is seldom as well plant the excess supply of steam generated done. at the plant is economically used the Such crops ns tomatoes, sweet (iota- actual toes. melons, sweet corn nnd hush duced. cost will be further greatly re lima beans may tie grown successfully garbage reduction works the sort in tlie young pouch orchard and under ed In garbage is passed through vnrloiis average conditions will at least pay digesters, tanks and roller presses with the cost of tlie cultivation of the or a view to extracting the valuable por chard for th a t season. tions, especially the fats and the nitro C a u tio n In S u m m o r P ru n in g . genous m atters. The Columbus iO.( Unless the young peach trees are plant, put In operation In July. 1910. Is upon fertile soli nnd are m aking n tlie flrst reduction plant in this country rapid grow th It Is liest not to practice designed and constructed by a munici any sum m er pruning the first season. pality. Successful financial operation In the past there have been too of this plant appears in the fact that It many orchard failures th at could have netted $2.000 a month for the first six boon prevented, nnd too many such months. failures are occurring today. I.ack of thorough cultivation Is responsible for W o u ld H a v * C lea n es t C ity . more partial nnd complete failures The Spokane Realty association is In than any other one thing, not even ex augnm tlng a cam paign to clean up ceptlng peach yellows, little peach or fhe city, especially the vacant lot.- scale. The flrst work wtll be done in clean The peach orchard should be kept tug up the vneant lots within a radlu» thoroughly cultivated from early of three or four blocks from the ends spring until midsummer, when a cov of Monroe street bridge prior to er crop should he grown. It cannot the the opening of the bridge for traffic he left without cultivation for a sin After this work is done the work will gle season without incurring tem po t>e extended to include all of the va rary and perm anent Injury. cant lots under control of the real es One must spray the trees thoroughly tate men. nnd Individual property each year !>efore the Buds open with a ers will be requested to Join lu own the g'«>il lime sulphur m ixture to control movement to make Spokane the clean the S’ ale and leaf curl. sat city la the United States. Conducted on Economic and Business Principles. T h e H om e Company That Has M ade G ood . Insure Your Business or Dwelling in T h e Bankers & Merchants G ILTNER’S ROCERY Phene Main 701 South Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. Fresh Vegetables Every D ay Log Cabin Bread Fresh Each Morning Amber and Golden Gate COFFEE Neat Printing is something every business man desires when he orders station ery. 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