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reoon culture is getting a substan
tial boom, t’hoiee varieties are being
extensively propagated and planted.
The chances of ultimate protit In grow
ing this popular nut would appear
quite promising where plantings are
made on the right soil in a suitable
climate, says Uural New Yorker in
notes on the pecan and, more particu
larly. too hickory nut. The pecan is, •|* *!*'! ■
however, a southern species and is not
successfully grown in the east north
of the Ohio valley. The trees are fair
ly hardy even in the latitude of Long
Island, but a longer season is needed
to ripen the nuts.
Pecuus are most at home in rich allu
vial soils in the gulf states. Great
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Its climatic, commercial, social and educa
tional advantages are unsurpassed and at the present low
prices, every parcel o f our property is a RARE BARGAIN.
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NoW is the time to invest, before an ad
Call on or address:
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gie told him That his father had done
I R C FE S iO L A L
so. hut she knew not by what con
trivance.
1 The Key to a Fortune I
Peter obtained employment near by
and nights and holidays went to his
DR. P L E A S A N T S
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father's workshop to find a remedy
[O riginal.]
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e n tra l P o in t, O r e g o n
for the defect. As his father had been
John Nettleton was nn Inventor. Ha encouraged by Maggie, so was the son.
Invented a number of small devices for
She would go into the workshop,
various purposes, but none of them
which was in the rear of the house,
when he was there, and when she
turned out to be of vlue, or, If they
found him despondent would remind
W M . W . I\ H O L T , M . D.
did, some one who fu.
ed the means
to put them on the market reaped the him that his father had overcome It,
P h y s ic la n a n d S u rg e o n
benefit. Nettletou’s w ife and a girl and what had been done once could be
done again. Often lute at night the
E A G L E P O IN T , O R E G O N
she bad adopted stood by him through
shop door would open to reveal Mag
all bis disappointments. His son Peter,
gie's sympathetic face while she held
as soon as be became old enough to In her hand a plate on which she had
Shift for himself, became a machinist placed a simple supper.
MRS. M A R Y A SH U R ST
•nd drifted away from home.
But Peter had not the genius of bis
Peter knew enough of such matters father and at last made up Ills mind
— Teacher o f —
to feel sure that if his father had in that If he did not give up hunting for
the
secret
ho
would
go
mad.
Then,
vented moans of overcoming the de
P i a n o a ra d O r g a n
fect he had made a model of the con and not till then, Maggie advised him
to
give
It
up
and
reminded
him
that
trivance. He and Maggie hunted all
there were fortunes to be made in
Inquire o f Pleasants’ Hotel.
over the house for such a model. Ev
other ways.
ery closet was ransacked, spaces un
Peter decided to go hack to the work
der the eaves of the roof, cellar and he had done before his father's death,
workshop, to no purpose. The model but when he came to part with Maggie D R . A . B . S W E E T
was not to be found.
he found that he had won a greater
P H Y S IC IA N A N D SURGEON.
The pet scheme of John Nettloton’s treasure than fortune—the heart of a
life was a machine for saving labor, pure young girl whose disposition Diseases o f Women and Children a
Specialty
the object of which he alone under would render her the most valuable of
stood. While thus engaged he dreamed wives. With this discovery he made
Day and Night Calls Answered
at night of great fortunes secured, or another—that he could not go and
MEDFORD, OREGON.
that some one was destroying bis model leave Maggie. lie must take her with
Just as he had perfected It. Often his him.
w ife would awaken him when he was ,
Peter bought a plain gold ring whic h
struggling In nightmare. But before he took to Maggie. Not finding her in
he accomplished Ills object she died, the house he went to the shop. She
leaving no one hut Maggie Thorpe, her was there soldering a kettle that had
adopted daughter, to care for him. become leaky. Peter produced the ring
She remained with him anil was a per and as he was about to slip it on her
petual l>ow of promise.
finger dropped it. It rolled into one of
It was several years after his wife’s the great scams between the boards In
death before Nettleton struck the fun the floor.
damental idea of his machine. But on
There was nothing to do hut take up
applying It he fonnd that a device was a board. Peter took up two and found
necessary to overcome a defect which, the ring on a box placed between the
though trifling In itself, rendered the Joists. lie took out both the ring and
machine useless. He worked three the box, and seeing that the latter was
years over this and overcame It. Then locked Maggie went for John Nettle-
he made a model of his machine, and n ton's keys, which she had kept since
separate model of his contrivance to his death. She unlocked the box and
overcome the defect. He hail lteen so displayed a model.
swindled by persons appropriating his
Something told them both at once
Inventions that he chose to keep a key that here was the missing key to a
to this one, which would alone unlock fortune. Taking out the model Peter
the secret The model of the machine turned with it to the model o f the ma
he kept In his workroom. The model chine, but Maggie espied a paper In the
of the contrivance he kept no one knew bottom of the box.
where.
Cod, If necessary, w ill direct m y little
But with all his precaution John girl to this.
Nettleton never reaped the benefit of
Peter saw at once how the connection
his Invention. Death took him away so svns to he applied to the machine and
snddenly that he had no time to reveal catching up a screwdriver made the
to any one where he kept the model attachment. Then setting the whole
he called his key model. Peter was In motion they lioth watched It working
called home to bury his father and smoothly.
“ Peter,” said Maggie at last, handing
fonnd nothing to represent an Inheri
tance except a will bequeathing the him the [taper, “ see vliat your father
little bonse and the Invention to Mag said about our finding the key to a
gie Thorpe Peter saw the model of fortune."
the machine, and, being a machinist, ' “ The key to a fortune.” he said after
All kinds o f stationery, blank books,
was delighted with It; but, setting It ' ren ling I t "I* often the goodness of a fancy letter papers, mourning note,
In motion, he soon saw the d efect It weman. At ary rate it Is so In this
Japanese goods—from cheapest grades
FLORA M ILLIG AN .
seemed a simple matter to remedy . cave.”
to finest quality—at the Central Point
*'.u:t. . 1 !.o set to work to do so. Mag
harmacy
Hay & Learned
Tlootlnsr
Many growers have trouble In root
Ink their poLniettla cultlngx. It Is a
Rood plan about u week before taking
the cuitiug from the parent plant to
make a nick or uppercut In the stalk
at the place It is Intended to take the
cutting. This may Is- done In much
the same way that u cut Is made In a
rubber plant before wrapping It with
moss, though the knife should not go
too deep, as a very slight cut will
bleed a polnsettla
In about a week
u callus will have formed, and the rut
ting should then be removed and
placed In the sand. It will root better
than one whleli has not been so treat
ed.—Gardening.
U j m m l n a o f P e n c il T r e e * .
Excessive gumming of peneb and
plum trees muy I k ; relieved by slitting
! the hark and the first layer from the
ground to the branching, making the
■ slits u 1 'out three Inches apart. The
trouble may be termed hide bound, the
sap cannot flow as It should and bursts
Its bounds. The cuts give the treo u
chance to clear Itself and resume
healthy action. E. 8. Htnrr.
H r « O n ly On«* In««*«*t E n e m y ,
The only Insect enemy of the goose
berry Is the currant worm. It makes ;
Its appearance about the 1st of May
It begins at one end of a row and goes '
from hush to bust) across the field to
the end. I f rows are some distance
apart the Insects cross to snothcr row
and go back again. Spray with parts
green or dust with white hellebore when
tho dew Is on,—Western Fruit Grower.
C m
P o is o n in g .
After four years’ experience with
street tree* I conclude that the sudden
death of a rigorous street tree Is prt-
ma facie evidence o f a gas leak. As
for example, I have noted several
trees which were vigorous last sum
mer that failed to put out leaves the
past spring. A p ; leak was found In
each ca-e, says a write» on this sub
ject.
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residence property at $50 and upwards.
vance in prices is made..
L S. MOORE
s h a g ija r k h ic k o r y n u t .
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We are offering choice business lots at from $150 each and upwards; and choice
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w ir e
progress lias been made in the com
mercial propagation of pecans. While
DEALER IN
wo of the north cannot hope to fruit
pecans, we have In our shagbark hick
Cigars,
Tobaccos,
Confectioneries
and Soft Drinks
ory n uui far superior in flavor to the
ICE CREAM PARLORS IN CONNECTION
best pecan and a tree entirely suitable
to our climate.
Many excellent shagbarks have been
P o s ti Office B nidlu g
Central Point, Oregon
described, but up to this time only
one. H alf ’s paper shell, is known to bo
propagated and disseminated. Hale’s
is a medium sized nut, with a shell
thinner than some pecans, but with a t- H - H - H - l- H - !—H -l-!-H -H -l-H -H -;-!-:-H -H -l-l-l"l-M -l-H -l-H -l- l- l- l- I- H - l
very plump kernel o f high, sweet qual
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ity.
The cut represents the Wiker hick
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ory as exhibited by Dr. J. G. Hush at ;
the last meeting of the Pennsylvania X
Horticultural society.
It Is reliable
and productive in the original tree and
Is now being propagated In a Florida
D «in tir »tt , D e c o r iit ln g a n d P a p e r «
nursery. It is not a paper shell sort,
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though the shell Is thin enough easily
to crack away from the plump and
meaty kernel. The quality Is excel
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lent, not surpassed by any hickory we
have tested.
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Planters will have a long wait for
their crop, but a desirable nut tree jl-l—
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that may last a century Is surely
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have been able to Increase hickories
by grafting. Better success is report •••H -l-M - I- l- l- l- W -M -I- l- l-H -l- l- l- H - l- l- l- H - H - H - l-l- l- l- H - H - H - H - H - H - K
ed from budding by the annular or
, flute bud method. They may also be
S T R IC T L Y FIR S T-C LA S S
ONLY WHITE HELP EMPLOYED
propagated when on their own roots
by sprouts or suckers that occasional
ly spring from bared or upturned
roots.
The pecan (Ilicorla pecan) and the
shagbark (H. ovata) meet In the Mis
sissippi valley as the latter extends Its
Central Point, Oregon
range from Canada quite to Texas and
Florida. It would appear possible that
hybrids between these valuable spe
Rates—$1,00 Up.
S p e c ia l A tte n t io n
cies inay be produced in time, and It
Special by the Week
P aid to T r ave lin g M en
Is easy to Imagine the good qualities
they should possess.
A supposed hybrid between the west •i- -I-M 1 .|..l..l..|"M"l- l-!"H - H - l- l- l- H - l- l- H «'l"H"iM
l"l1,I
ern shellbark (II. laclnosa) and (he pe
can was figured and described by the
late A. 8. Fuller In 1884 under the
name of N ubs ban mer’s hybrid. The
R. L. HALB
nuts were described as large, thin
shelled, sweet and good.
J. H. FITZGERALD
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We now have the exclusive sale of some fine alfalfa
. farms, grain and fruit lands, stock ranches, unimproved
timber lands and gold-bearing quartz ledges, partly devel
op« I. Business and residence property at reasonable prices.
W e respectfully solicit the homeseekers’ patronage. Our
motto is, “ Small Commission and Square Dealing.”
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