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VOL. XXII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1906. No. 20. t t 4 v WAR TO THE DEATH ON CODLIN MOTH 11aJ D 1 , Ho Can Get This Peal Off of Fruit Trees. The codlia moth is one of the worst enemies the frait growers of Rogue River Valley have to contend against Spraying will kill this pest, bat it has to be done at just the right time And A Aav fir tisn tnn aoplv m. fnA lofn J makes the work useless effort. How to keep the moth worms ont of upplps will be one of the principal subjects considered at the aeries of six frnit grwers meetings that will be held in this county the first week in Septem ber. , One of the speakers at these meet ly iags will be E. H. Shepard, manager of the Hood River Fruit Growers Union, and a big frnit raiser in that famons valley. Mr. Shepard baa been making a careful study of the habits of the codlin moth and he will be able to give the Josephine county grower some praotioal pointers that will aid them in fighting this persistent pest. The Oregonian.of Monday has the fol lowing intreview with Mr. Shepard that is worth being read by every or chard ist in Oregon : "By an experiment ' which had it t denuemeBt Wednesday, E. H. Shepard, manager of the Frnit Growers Union, has obtained information in regard to the propagation of the codlin moth k that may be the means of saving apple growers here many hundreds of dol lar. As is well known to entomolo gists, the exaot period between biooda of codlin moth is a fixed one. The com ing of the first brood, however, is said by apple growers, who have carefully watched them, to vary with the tem i peratore of the weather during the early Spring. If the coming of the first brood can be discovered, they say that it can then be determined exactly wheu to apray for the second and most ; disastrous brood. This process Mr. Shepard has deter mined, and this year fruit growers here will know exactly when to spray )in order to eliminate the wormy apple. In talking about this interesting ex periment the fruit growers manager said : " 'Of course we hav always sprayed oar trees thoroughly and carefully both during the Winter and Summer, but the system baa been more or less hap hazard. While it has produced good results, there has been some wormy frnit which it has been impossible to eradicate, owing to the fact that the moth propagated between tlie periods of spraying. By taking a few of the M first wormy apples that appeared in my orchard and placing them in a jar, I have hatched out a codlin moth, the first one that I have seen in the valley, although we have had undisputable evidence that they were here. The life of this moth will be four days, when it will lay eggs that will take 11 days to hatch. So you see we can de termine when to spray in order to de stroy the second brood. "'The late Spring this year was " very unfavorable to the first brood of cod in moth. But the weather during the past mouth has been the most fav- orable for that fruit pest that has been known in many years, as for 2(1 days during the month the minimum tem perature at night did not fall below 60 4 degrees. As the moth flies at night - and is not active iu a temperature of leas than 55 degrees, it can be seen that spraying at the proper time this year will be most important. It may ri mean the saving of manv hundreds of -sB.rinllari to -rowers, and tnere la no rea- 'son why this experiment, which as far Sell Real Estate as I know has never been tried before cannot be repeated each year until the moth is praotically exterminated.' The period of propagation of the moth aa determined by the experiment is SO days. The first brood of worms was in the apples 21 days, in the coooou seven days, io the period of transfor mation aeven days, life of moth four days, and eggs in hatching 11 days. This agrees with the time between broods aa announced by the State Ag ricultural College, which places it at from 49 to 60 days. Peetrs Wanted The Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union will make a shipment of Bart lett pears East about next Wednesday and will accept merchantable pears for three boxes np, delivered in Grants Pass from growers 'whether members of the Union or not. Call at the Secretary's office in Courier build ing or on President Reymera for an acceptance and for rnlea for picking and hauling. 8-10 It TO HAVE EXHIBIT OF FRUITS AND PESTS. Fruit Growers Arranging to Show the Good tvnd Bad of Their Industry. At the fruit growers meeting in Grants Pass on Monday, September 8d, there will be present from abroad, in addition to the speakers, many strang ers as well as fruit growers from Jack son county and other sections of South ern Oregon. It has been the current belief all over Oregon that Josepbnie county was only mining and timber seotion and that the fruit growing sec tion of Rogue River Valley was all in Jackson county. To prove to those at tending the frait growers meeting from a distance that this section of Rogae River Valley is one of the bauner dis tricts of Oregon for growing high class fruit it is the plan of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union to have a com plete exhibit at the meeting of all fruits that are in season in September. Even those not yet ripe are wanted as they will show the frnit men quite as well aa ripe friut their condition. As many farmera do not know how to recognize even eo geueral pest as the San Jose scale it is desired that or- cbardists bring in specimens of every kind of diseased trees, fruit vegetables, plants, etc., that they can find. These pests will be identified by Prof. Cord- ley, entomologist at the State Agrul tural College, who will be present and tell the farmers how to reognize the pests and how to successfully fight them. Thousands of boxes of fine ap ples and pears are aunually los'. io thia county because the farmers do aot know how to keep the peats off their trees. At these fruit growers meetings or- chardists will get more practical knowl edge and how to combat the pests than could be learned in six months spent intending on the subject. It will pay every farmer who has even a dozen frnit trees to attend this meeting and learn how to grow fruit that will bring a profitable price in the market instead of being only fit for hog feed. . Another Brick Block Clause Schmidt has purchased the lot 50x100 on the south west corner of Sixth and I streets, of Scott Griffin, who formerly lived in thia city but who now resides in San Francisco, paying 3350 for the property. There is now on the lot the most unsightly wooden building in Grants Pass, bat Mr. Schmidt plans in another year to replace it with -a brick structure. He owns the adjoining lot on which be last year built a brick block. AND Rent Houses W. ;L. IRELAND, G6e Real Estate Man. Ground Floor, Courier Bldg. Grants Pass, - Orboos. NEW PROCESS FOR SMELTING COPPER Invention of Portland Nan txnd Will Lessen the Expense of Making Copper. In a plain, old-fashioned frame build ing at the corner of Tenth and Davis streets, a Portland man has perfected a new invention with wkinh he prom ises to revolutionize the copper Indus try of the world. The process is known as the e.'ectrolytio apparatus for depos iting copper. The inventor is John II. Ryan, a mining engineer, who has ac complished his purpose ouly alter labor extending over a period of nearly eight long years, says the Oregonian. One filature of the new process, ac cording to the claims of the inventor, is that it will make the mine owners independent of the trust which now controls the copper market, and ia accused of paying the miner what it sees fit fcr the metal and charging large fee for the smelter work, besides which the electrolytic plant ia supposed to aavs all the other metals,, such aa gold, ailver and iron, for the operator. Under the present trust system, the mine owner gets nothing exoept to much per pound for his copper, after paying smelter charge of $5 per too. The freight from the mine to the smelter is also charged op to the mine owner, who, after paying the smelter fee, is allowed 11 cents a pound for the pnre copper. One of the advantages alleged for the electrolytio process is the fact that the plant may be Installed at the mine and the ore treated, made into "pigs" and sent to the market after having passed through but one melting vat At the smelters now in use the copper is melted three and four times before it is finally roady for shipment, which, Mr. Ryan says, has a tendmoy to weaken it. HOW RYAN REDUCES ORE. By use of the electrolytic plant for depositing copper, the work is done by electrloity instead of the melting pot. First, the crude ore is crushed and made into powder. Then it is treated to a roasting process, whenoe it goes to the leaching tubs. Here the copper is dissolved by a chemical solution poured into the vat and over the pow dered ore. It is then allowed to filter into another receptacle, after which the solution, which has now absorbed the copper, is transferred to the eleo- trolytic plant. The fluid rans slowly through a n amber of cell, which are equipped with thiu copper plates anJ charged with electricity. As the solu lion passes alwoly from one cell to an other, the copper is extracted aud de posited npon a cathode sheet, the neg ative being the anode plate. The ouly loss io this new process, the inveutor claims, is one-half of oue per cent of copper, no matter what the precentage contained in the ore. This losa is due to the moisture left in the tailings through which the chemical solution passes before enter ing the electrolytio plant. The differ ent metals, Bacb as gold, silver and iron, remain in the tailings and are treated afterward by aeveral processes to separate the different minerals. SULPHUR ELEMENT ALSO SAVED. Another saving Mr. Ryan claims for his process is that of tlie sulphur al waya found in copper ore. This is ob tained by the roasting method and made into sulphurous or sulphuric acid, which is used for leaching pur poses, lu many cases where the ore contains an nnusual amount of sulphur the mineral may be saved in market quantities. The tailings also contain mucu ox idn of iron, which goes to the alime table, is dried and then put np in bar rels for paiut. This is a new process for securing absolutely pore oxide of iron, or paint, and is in great demand on the market for the covering of iron aud wood works along railroad lines. It has a brown iron color, and is aim ply mixel with terpentine and oil and ia ready for nse. By the cold process the oxide of iron is said to invariably contain from 5 to 10 per cent clay, ob jectionable to painters. MAKES LOW GRADE ORE OF VALUE. A the new process la to be estab lishedat the copper inlneaandisex pec ted to save thousands of dollars an nually to tbs mks owners in freight rates and hauling fees, tbs low grade ores which are now of do use can be I treated at a profit Ore containing iK per cent of copper can be pat through the process and money made on the re sult, which cannot be done under pre ent conditions, the inventor claims. because of the transportation charges and the fee charged by the smelter peo pie. After eutering the electrolytio plant as chemical solution and being de posited as pure metallic copper on the cathode Bheet, the copper may be stripped off, melted and poured into pigs ready for the market. Under the Ryan treatment the copper comes to the melting point only this one time. Mr. Ryan claims his apparatus will produce pure copper at half the present cost. Copper is one of the great met ala on the markets of the world today. The numerous electrical inventions, all of which use copper in many forma, have helped to make the metal valu able. At preseut it is worth 18 cents pound. Mr. Ryan baa just reoeived hia final patents on his new invention. SOUND POTATOES HAD BY SPRAYING Cle-ckmas Farmer Kills Pest and R.alses Marketable Tubers Is a Cheap Method. The spraying of potatoes has been demonstrated to be an insurance of a crop of marketable tubers. District Frait Inspector J. H. Reid. of Mil waakie. ha been eiving practical lea-' sons in potato spraying in the sonth part of the county, and in a recent in terview he told the Canby Tribune the following facts: Spraying potatoes for blight is no longer an experiment but the farmer wants to be shown. We don't olalm that we can make more potatoes grow to the bill by reason of spraying, .but we assert that more marketable pota toes can be obtiaued from a hill using the Bordeaux mixture. An acre can be sprayed twice for f 1. which practi cally means a crop insurance of f 1 an acre. "Anyone can make the spray, and the expense . is nominal. The snray should be made by taking four pounds of bluestoue aud dissolving it in 25 gallons of water; four pounds of lime with just enough water to slack it, af ter which add 25 gallons of water. Both the blue'tone and lime when pre pared should be placed in separate bar rels, then take a f'ird barrel and poor a bucketful of blaestoue solution, and then a bucketful of lime solution. This makts the perfect spray. The blue- stone can be bought for 83 cants and the lime for 10 ceuts, making the total of 42 cents. This amount will spray an acre twice, the remainder of the dollar being extra expense for t'me of the ma'i and team. "At the Cluveland patch certain rows will not be sprayed, others will re ceive oue, two and three sprays respec tively. By this uietiiol oan be demon strated the value of spraying aud what amount of spraying ia necespaiy. " Got 25 Cents for Pears. G. W. Triplett who resides near Hugo, was in Grants Pshs Wednesday to join the Fruit Growers Union and arrange for the Union to ship bia fruit of which he will have a carload of apples and about 100 boxes of pesra. Mr. Triplett, like many frnit raisers in Josephine county without exception hai bad a hard deal from the commis sion men. Last fall he sent 60 boxes of fine Bartlett pears to Portland and got 25 cents a box, which paid the freight and the boxes, .leaving him nothing for growing and picking the pears. Mr. Triplett has a large orchard just coming into bearing, planted on hill land and the vigor of his trees and tbelr prolific hearing of extra fine frait is added proof that the red clay hills of Josephine couoty are ideal locations for orchardiaU. Being np in the thermal belt bia treea are never nipped by a late spring froat as is sometimes the case on the low wet bottoms and he baa a fruit crop evey year. Mr. Triplett was some what discouraged over his orchard venture aa he feared it would Dot be profitable bat now that the fruit grow ersjof Josephine county have formed a union and will be able hereafter to do their own marketing in carload lots be feels confident that frait raising will soon become the leading and most protfiabls industry of this section of Rogue River Valley. The Courier has the laregat circula tion of any paper in Southern Oregon. CHEAP HAY MAKES CREAMERY A NECESSITY More Hav Will be Revised Than Can be Sold Probexblv In This County. C. C. Englsh was a caller at the Courier office Wednesday to ascer tain what the prospects were for a oreauiery being built "either in""tne Applegate Valley orinGrants Pats. Mr. .ugii8ii is oue oi tlie receut set- tiers in the Applegate valley, having bought a fine pleoe of land in tha New'Hope diBtrictndbeT'is'one of the most progressive farmers of the oouuty. He has a 43 aore hop field, planted last year and 30 acres to alfal fa, 15 being sown last year and 15 thia year. He will add about 20 acres next year and increase hia acreage each year thereafter nntil he geta all hia land suitable to alfalfa sown. In less than five years Mr. English will have 75 or more aorea in alfalfa. With three to four crops each year giving a total of six to eight tons of hay per aore. Mr. English will then have about 600 tons of hay each year. To get a profitable market for this quantity of hay will be no small task, especial ly by five years hence whan the hay orop of Josephine oounty will be four or five times larger than it now is. In hia own neighborhood Mr. En glish stated that heretofore he and most of hia neighborhoods had bought hay, hauling it from Provolt and other sections of Applegate Valley. This year for the first time New Hope farmers will be in the markets with a larger quantity of hay to sell. At the price hay now brings in Grants Pass, which is the priuoipal market for Josephine connty hay, it will not pay to sell it even if bot a hanl of a mile has to be made. Sellng bay off a farm is selling at a very low price the fertility of the land. Mr. En glish is fully aware of this fact and proposes to feed on bis place all the bay it produces. A careful investiga tion of the conditions that govern the beef trade as now controlled by the paokers' trust, convinces " Mr. En glish that it will not be profitable to raise beef oattle on the high priced land of this seotion. Butter not being a commodity that a trust is ablo to oontrol is at saoh a price as to make dairying a profitable industry for Rogae River Valley farmers. As soon as he can bay the cows Mr. English Intends to go into the dairy business. His farm is well situated for dairy lug and he oould readily keep 25 to 60 cows more than a creamery conve Thomas The House Satitfaction Guaranteed I Our Motto Are You Going to Going to Going to Going to Going to Iff Not nient to take the cream. Mr. English it certain that when the land injtbe New Hopiedistrlctls"'all"iu" cultiva tion that can be irrigated that the settlers can readily keep 600 cows. As to location for a creamery Mr. En glish would prefer that lt be located on theApplegate, but he could readily deliver cream to a creamery In Grants Pass, aa his place is bat six miles from this city. He is of the opinion that were a stock company formed to raise the funds to put In a creamery that many farmers would take one or more shares. And the supply of cream Mr. English thiuks that the Apple gate Valley alone there will be 300 cows by next year and if the cream ery was run as it should be and the farmera paid the fall price for cream that the number would be doubled by the following year. ' The Classified Ad oolumus of the Courier contain many items which will be of interest to yon and yon should make it a point to read them each week. JACKSON COUNTY GOOD ROADS Has a Crew Who Are Doing Good Work. Josephine County Needs Roe-da. 2 Jackson county does most of its road work with a crew of men and teams hired by the month under the foremanahlp of a competent road builder. This crew has a camp out fit and are at home whereever they are at work. And this crew has an equipment for doing real road work, and not for aummer fallowing the roadbed and for deadlng the oak ahade trees by the road side. The latest improved graders, a rock crusher and a big steam roller that rolls the roads so bard that a freight team will net out ruts in the sorfaoe, and whloh also does duty aa a stationary engine to operate the crusher and as a trac tion engine to haul the crusher about the country is the equipment that Jackson has for its road builders. Of what is beinir Booomnllshed for the betterment of tlie roads about Cen tral Point the Herald of that place bas the following to say : Jackson oounty is getting to the front with many srtetchea of good roads and the value of adjaoeut prop erty is being thereby materially enhanced. A flue piece of work has lately been done near Agate and the winter time tribalations of the resi dents of Sams Valley and other locali ties will be considerably lesseued. Good roads are beoomiug a necessi ty In up-to-date communities and the people of this oounty are to be con. gratalated on the good work being done along that line. & O'Neill Furnishers Money Back If You Want It buy Furniture ? buy Crockery? buy Carpets? buy Ranges? buy Baby Go-Carts? You should, and can by askingSfor our prices. Costs you nothing to find out how low we are offering goods. Will you try?