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. .
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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
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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. Now is the
time to join the Apple Consumers'
League. The St Joseph, Mis.onri
Fruit Grower,.
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