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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS. OREGON MAY 1. 1903 PROFESSIONAL CA BPS Dr. M. O. Find!? has' gone for boat six months study in Germany, after which be will he in hia offloe usual. The doctor has kept hit reo orde carefully and broken glasses can be promptly replaced by tending them to hia office. Hia practice if left io Dr. Lougrhldge's care. Dr. Lonah- ridge tests eyea and hua had several years experience. ROGIIE RIVER VALLEHRCUABD NOTES IIV CIIAItLIi-W MESERVE Seoretary Oranta Paaa Fruit Grower Association g LOUGHRIDGE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Ilea. I'hone 714 City or country culls attended night or day t'ixwi anil U, TulT'a building. Otfice i'hooe 261. Grabw Pass . Oheoon. I)R. C. A. CAMPBELL ObTKOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteopathy, Klrkuville, Mo. Cbronic'DlsesHea and DiHcawa of Women and Children a "penalty CONSULTATION rit EE Rooms 1. 2, 8, Find National Dank Bldg. Phones: OHlce.771, lies. 7U3 Obants I'aks Oasooa JJR. ALMEDA M. MAkTIN, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 8woializra on Dlsesees of Women and Children Room 20(1, Conklin Bldg. Hours 9 to 0. Other botira by appoint ment. , D. NORTON, ATTORNEYAT-LAW, Practioo la all SUteand Federal Courta. Ofiloe In Opera House Building. Ghakts Pass, Oreoon Jt C. HOUGH, ATTORN KY-AT-LAW, Fractions In all BUte and Federal Courta Oflloe over Hair-Kiddle Hard ware Co. Qbants Pahh, . Obiooh QLIVER & BROWN, LAWYER. Office over Dixons Store Chants Pass, Obkgon O. S. BLANCHARD, ATTOHNEY-AT-LAW. Practice in all State and Federal courts. Banking and Trust Company's Building. U bants Pab, , . . OaiooN. H. B. HENDRICKS COUNSELI.OUH-AT-LAW Civil and criminal matters attended to In all the court. Heal dilate and Iuiuranoe. Oflloe, tth street, opposite Poatoffloe. Will Begirt Spraying Next Week. J. H. Kobinion, president of the (iranta Pass Fruit Growers Associa tion, and with hia eons haviug the largeat orchard in the Applegate Val ley, wai in Urauta Paaa Monday. Mr. Robinson stated toat the froit prospects were very promising in hia orchard and all others abnot Wilder vllle. That part of the Valley ia mostly in the thermal -belt and only tlioa orchards located on lo ground where there wat no air drainage or movement and on which the cold air from the higher adjoining lands nettled have been damaged by tlie recent on uanally heavy front. Even tlieae or obatda will have a fair crop of fruit Iu regard to spraying for oodliu moth President Robinson stated that twice they bad lost couajderable fro it by being too late with the first spray ing, they would begin aprayina in their orodard next Mooday and rush the work until the job ia completed, Mr. Robinson holds that the blosom cavity of the apple mint be Blind with poison before the caytix closes and to insure a good job the spray mast be forced onto the trees under heavy pressure to insure Oiling all the caylix cavities, as well as cover lng all the apples. The thoroughness of the first spraying will govern the number of motfil of the seoond brood that will infest the orchards. As to the time to sprsy for the second and third broods of moths Mr. Robinson stated that they spray in about a week after the drat spraying and a third spraying in July. The time for spraying the second, third and fourth timea Is now a matter ot gneis with the average fruit grower the seasons vary lug the date when the broods ap pear. To ascertain whon these sprayings are to be done to be most effective will require a close atndy of the cod tin moth each season and this Mr. Robinson hopes the fruit growers association will be able hereafter to have done. WILLIAM P WRIGHT, 0. H. DEPUTY SURVEYOR MINING ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSMAN ttth St., north of Josephine Hotel. G slants Pars, . Obkqon. The Popular Barber Shop Ovt your tonsoiial work done at IRA TOMPKINS Oo Sixth Stteet Three chairs Rath Room In connection N. E. McGREW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture and 1'lano Mevlng GRANTS PASS, OREGON. E. A. WADE Dry Hoods, Underwear, Notions, Etc. Front Street west of Palace hotel GRANTS PASS. OREGON. . rAAAAAAAAAAA GRRANTS PASS Commercial Clob W til furnish information of t Josephine county free of J charge. Correspondence so ej licited. L. B. lUu. President i M. L. Andbiws Secretary VVWWV vvvw4 Experimenting With Sawdust. That sawdust is a valuable mnlch and fertiliser on a Rogue River valley farm Is the opinion of Robert Huck, one of the new setters who are mak ing Fro I .dale on of the most pro grrasive sections of Josephine ooanty. Mr. Hnok's farm ia on hill land and be has no Irrigation system. The soil is very rich bot owing to a lark of moisture does not produce to its full capacity. Thorough cultiva tion with a dost mulch produces a fair yield bnt to increase the pro ductiveness of his farm is the problem that Mr. Hook is working on. As an experiment last spring he covered a part of his bluckberry natch with sawdust to a depth of six inches. The result was that with no cultivation whatever to this secitou it yielded fully doable the qnnatity of berries and of a much finer quality than did the aeotiou that he cultivated thoroughly. He also tried the saw duet mulch on potatoes, tie took a small section of his potato patch and covered it to a depth of four inches with sawdust. The planting waa made late in May and the sawdust covered potatoes were given no culti vation while the other part of the patch was well plowed, yet the yield of the former waa nearly double that of the latter, and the tubers were Urge and smooth while those fiom the ootlvaUsl part were many of tht'in small and lllthaped. The saw dust waa taken from the pile at au old mill setting aud wait largely sugar piue with' some fir. Mr. Hack will give the sawdust mulch a more ex tended trial this spring oo bis berries and potatoes and also on vegetables. That sawdust "poisons" the soil, as Is the belief ef the average farmer, is not Mr. Huck' opinion. As a -fur ther teat of sawdust as a fertiliser and as a loosener for heavy clay soil Mr Hnok has plowed the land he had iu potatoes last . season, iuoluding that that had the sawdust upon it, and will plant It to corn this spring. He will ue no aawduat on the com field out win thoroughly cultivate it all I alike and then uote the yield of the two sootlous, the one that had the sawdust mulch aud the one that waa cultivated. Mr. K. A. Clements, of Kruitdale, whose well kept farm and tidy buildings is proof of his industry, j but who vouddeutially informs bis friends that he ia chronically opposed ! to hard work, is giving the sawdust mulch a trial this 'aeaaon, being en couraged to the experiment by the soccttMs of his ueighbor Mr. Huck in harvesting big crops with little work. a year and a half ago and nousnt tne Deveny place ,on Louse Creek near Merlin and he it making it in'o one of the most attractive placet in the cdanty and demonstrating that he is a thorough orcbardist. Last J ear he planted 150 cherries priucipally Royal Annt and small nomb-r of fliogs and Black Tartariaus . and a few of other varieties. He also planted 70 peach treet, principally Early Crawfnrds. This psst winter he set out 17 aores to apples aud five acres to pears. Of the apple trees 50 are Winter Banmas and SO Delicious and the remainder of the trees are Kewtowns and Spitzen borgs in equal number. The tree are making a fine start this spring except a fw on which anthracnose has developed. Thes-. diseased trees came from a California norsery and prove that the nursery oouipuny was dishonest in seuding out diseased trees and also that the law governing the inspection of fruit trees was not en forced neither in California nor in ibis cobnty. Little Damage By Frost, Last Friday night. April 24, all the lower levels of Rogoe River Valley were hit by a frost of more than usual severity. Oo the low lauds where the soil was wet and cold the frost was quite severe and early fruit of all kinds were mote or lest injured io tnese spoil wnere there was no air drainage or currents to carry off the cold air that settled from the higher land the early cherries were mostly killed and early peaches, pears and applet were injured but the late varieties were little hurt and some not at all. On the bills in the ther mal belt where tne warm air rose from the valley there was no frost and fruit of all kinds are in fine shape. Exoept in a few orchards the apple crop is not injured and the yield of the county will be larger than it waa last year. The pear crop though will be short as most of the trees are on the low land and the bloom being earlier than that of apples the heavv frost killed fully half of the crop. The strawberry patches on the bill laud are Injured but little and manv ill have a full crop. Repot ts In dicate that the frost was as stvere iu Jackson county at here and that on the low lands the early frnit was In- jurde. The early frnit waa also hurt iu the Uinpqna Valley. Yearling Fruit Trees Blossom. Mr. and Mrs. E. Badger, who re side near Provolt. were in Grants Past Mouday. Mr. Badger reports two intsauces of the early bearing of apple trees, for which Rogue River valley Is noted. In March of Just year he cut off at the crown a yeir Hug seedling apple tree and grafted it with a Bismark Solon. It made a fine growth last season and is now out with tix clusters of bloom that give promise of developing, fruit. Auotlier Instance of precocious blooming is that of an apple tree that he budded lait July. Mr. Badger took the bud from tne grarted top of the apple tree above mentioned and piaced it in an other tree. The bud grew ami made a flue twig and uow this twig has a large cluster of bloaaoiu . on it. Mr. Badger stated that the fruit crop In Applegate Valley about Pro volt does not appear to be seriously lujured by the frost of last Krdiay uight. Iu some of the orchards the treet are badly tninued but there is every Indication that there will be aua average yield of fruit in Apple gate vallev. i First Ripe Strawberries April 23 so tar at reported the honor of haviug the first ripe strawberries of the crop of 11WS io Grauts Pass viciulty belongs to H. V. Doxsee. who has an eu-ht-acre berry aud fruit inrin on north Tenth street. Mr. inlaw was aoie to pic ripe straw berries from his patch on Thuriday or last week, April 33. They wre of the Excelsor variety and were of good sue and well colored. The Ex pernor is one ol the earliest terries gnwn in Rogue River Valley aud had the spring beennot so backward, with eo inucn oold, cloudy weather, MrT Doxsee wonld have had "ripe straw- bonumption i run. t 'h Drinking. Fruit-growers bave for a long time claimed that the man who ate quan tities of fresh fruits had no desire for strong drink. Now conies a report from Birmingham, Ala., which shows that the man who drinks liquor will consume fruit instead if the liquor it not provided. Here is the report of actual results of the adoption of the prohibition law in Alabama, this telegram coming from Birmingha in where the saloons were all closed for good on December SI. "One of the remarkable things that baa taken place under prohibition is the great in"reae in the trade in fruits. A prominent dealer in fruits showed the writer his books compar ing his busiue s in the months of Jan uary and February 1907, with the same months in 1908, an1 the increase this year over that of last year was just 100 per cent In 1907 at this time everything was working in the dis trict, yet the average sales on Satur day waa about $50, while the same date in Feiruary, 1908, with more than half the people out of work, the sales ran over 1120 all cash. The ex hibit was day after day the came and not on any special day, Bhcwing that the trade it continuous and increas ing." We believe this statement is true. We believe too, that the per sons who are consuming the increased quantities of fruit, especially the acid fruits, such at oranges and apples, will soon lose their appetite for liquor. The one who urges the in creased consumption of fruits is doing real missionary work. 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