CENTRAL POINT HERALD, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 100S.
fruit Growers Meeting.
HE STOLE ONIONS
The milk cow s will do much better
during the winter months If, in addi
tion to their hay and grain, they cats
By Charles Meeerve.
To handle a modern orchard is a prob be given a dally ration o f beets, which
lem as difficult as to handle a modern have a high sugar content and seem to
Increase an animal’s capacity for di
warship. The modern fruit tree is as
gesting and assimilating other foods.
highly and delicately bred as is the
modern dairy cow ur fine horse and to
Expressed appreciation for worls
make it p r .’iti b e takes the s me thor well done often furnishes as strong an
ough, intelligent car» that the dairy Lncentire to effort as the money which
man or the horseman gives to the cow Is paid In the shape o f wages at the
Uncle Sam has gone wrong again. Yesterday he beat a customerout o f two
or horse. And as is the finely bred cow end o f the week or month, and It is a
pounds o f onions but when his consience whacked him on the head with a club
or horse, the finely bred fruit tree is kind o f Incentive that Is not utilised
he promised never do it again and, by way o f penance for hia sin, he will sell
far more subject to disease and the aa much os It ought to be.
Groceries and Provisions cheaper than ever. Call and make him prove this at
ravages o f pests than was the hardy,
To tbe tiller o f tbe soil more than to
coarsely bred tree that grew in the any other class o f people Is the country
orchards o f our forefathers. This lack as a whole Indebted for a perpetuation
o f vigor and resistant power o f the o f good time*. When crops are boun-
DEALERS IN GOOD THINGS TO EAT
modern fruit tree is the sequence that tlfnl good times are assured, but when
comes in seenuing the quality o f fruit there is a failure hard times come, no
that the market o f to-day demands matter what political administration
and the productiveness that the modem may be In power.
Uncle Sam Goes Wrong Again but Makes Full Con
fession. Which is Good for the Soul-Will Never
Do it Again but Still O ffers Surprising Grocery Values
Murray &
NOTICE!
fruit grow er requires o f his orchard.
When members of the home circle
When man disturbs the balance o f
leave It for a visit or take the long
nature to secure finer quality or greater
Journey w hose end Is not on earth we
productiveness in an animal or a tree realize with greater clearness than be
the penalty is a loss of vigor and dis fore that It Is the folks rather than
ease resistant power.
the furniture and fixings of the dwell
And while the modem orchardist has ing place that constitute the home.
been so breeding his trees that they j When they are gone It Is but at best
readily fall a victim to any pest that j a cheerless, lonesome place.
may attack them, he has been making j
a further unbalancing o f nature’ s ar- ] The excellence of a man's digestion
Is quite often In Inverse ratio to the
rangements and has made conditions
measure of success which he achieves
exceedingly favorable for the develop- j In tbe business world. There Is many
ment o f a multitude o f pests, b o th ! a captain of Industry and millionaire
animal and vegetable, that seek to j who would gladly give thousands o f |
destroy his trees and the fruit they j dollars to tbe humblest laborer In bis
bear. The experts o f the Department ] employ In exchange for a good diges
o f Agriculture and o f the various agri tive apparatus.
cultural colleges have identified over
The necessity o f sufficient rain for j
eleven hundred pests that are found in
tbe eorn at earing time Is shown from |
the orchards, gardens and fields o f the
the fact that for the production oC
United States. And to make this prob every pound o f dry matter in stalk or
lem all the more serious to the farmer ear there must pass through the stalk j
this number o f kinds o f pests is in from 275 to 300 pounds of water. Thus
creasing each year, four new pests hav when there Is a shortage of moleturo j
ing been identified the past year. An In the soil the size and weight o f the
instance o f the development o f a pest stalk and ear ore likely to be reduced
is that of the pear thrips
Prior to 111 In tbe game proportion.
years ago the thrips was known as a
A friend Inquires how he can ezter- !
harmless insect found on fruit trees,
mtnate a patch of quack grass that j
roses and other shrubs. Then for some has gullied a foothold lu bis Lawn, tbe '
cause unknown to entomologists a patch being about 4 by 10 fe e t In a I
specieB found in California began to case o f this kind the best as well as j
feed upon fruit buds, especially the the most effective method to follow |
pear. So serious is its ravages that it would be to cover the patch with tar i
is rapidly becoming one o f the most paper, covering the outer edges with I
dangerous pests that California or- dirt as well as the edge where the two
chardists have to contend with. And pieces of paper lapped. Six or eight
weeks of this kind of a dose will put
this pest has started out on a cam
the quack grass, root and branch, out
paign o f conquest, as did the San Jose o f business.
scale that started at San Jose, Cali
fornia, and has in but a few years
Many farm animals which are killed
reached every state in the Union. No In pasture during summer thunder
pear thrips has so far been found in storms get tbe fatal charge at electrtol-
Rogue River Valley, but last spring ty from being In too close proximity to
Prof. O ’ Gara found many in an orchard wire fences Inclosing the pasture. Loss
from this source could bo completely
near Salem, which evidently had been
done away with. An Ohio fanners’
imported from California. The pear mutual Insurance company requires all
blight has been in existance as long as members who take out Insurance for
pear trees have grown, but it is only live stock to ground the wire fences
a little over one hundred years ago that on their premises. This Is done by con
the blight began its ravages upon pear necting short wires o f the proper
trees. It began its destruction in Con length to the several wires comprising
necticut and from there it has spread the fence and grounding them at Inter
until it is now found in every section i vals of about six rods by running them
down the posts. Tho lower end of the
in the United States, Canada and
wire should extend Into the ground
Mexico.
about six Inches.
That the fruit growers o f Rogue
River Valley may be able to identify
Figures given us recently by tho rep
the most serious o f the 1100 pests that resentative of a lending lightning rod
threaten destruction to their orchards manufacturing company show that a
and that are most likely to soon appear bam 40 by 50 feet and 50 feet high at
here the Rogue River Horticultural the gable can he equipped with three
effective rods and the wires necessary
Society has arranged with Prof. P. J.
to ground them properly for $11.50.
O ’Gara, from the Department o f A gri
Considering the fact that the Insur
culture at Washington, D. C. to give a ance rate on fnrm buildings thus pro
lecture in Medford on Saturday, Dec tected Is considerably less than on
ember 12, on fruit pe^ s. In his des those not protected and In view of the
cription o f pests Prof. O ’Oaro will show large number o f hams which are burn
by means o f stereopticon views about ed to the ground every year, with their
150, o f them, the slides for the lantern contents of liny, grain and live stork,
having been sent to him from the De protection of property at tbe above cost
would not seem to be a matter of ex
partment this past week for the pur
travagance, but one o f good business
pose. The lecture will begin promptly
Judgment. It goes without saying that
at 1:30 p. m as Prof. O ’Gara has to to l>e worth anything tbe Job o f rod-
leave on the 3:20 train for California, ding a building sbonhl be carefully and
where he goes to join a farmers insti scientifically done, but wheu It Is no
tute train that will traverse a part o f done there ts as nearly complete pro
tection from loes by lightning as can
this month.
Fruit growers, who propose to make well be.
th .ir orchards pay the big dividends
that are certain where the trees and
fruit are protected from the pests, will
be quite certain to attend this meeting
and gain the valuable information that
Prof O'Garo will give in his address
Alleged fruit growers, who declare
that they have no time to nttend such
meeting and have no knowledge o f the
pests and consequently no fea rof them,
will not attend, but they will think
differently later on when the receipts
from their orchards are so small that
no profit is left after the expenses are
paid.
Chief of Colite Hiqgy Suicides.
Chief o f Police Biggy, o f San Fran
cisco, disappeared from a gasoline lunch
while crossing the bay Monday night
under circumstances
which point
strongly to suicide. Biggy has been
severely criticized since the attempt on
Francis J. Henry’ s life and the suicide
o f his assailant in the city jail and it
is believed lhat he preferred death to
faring an official investigation o f his
private and official conduct.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stevens were up
from Tolo Friday. They have just
completed a tine new residence on their
farm.
Trespass notices, p rin t«! on cloth,
for sale at this office. 50 rents per
dozen.
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don’t fail to examine my
stock and prices.
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R a ilr o a d K xpnnM on and B usiness.
Odd Contrasts In Climats.
New York is usually thought o f as
being directly west from Loudon. It
Is, however, despite its fur mure rigor
ous climate, 000 miles uearer the equa
tor than la tbe British capital. The
bleak coast o f Labrador Is directly
west o f London. Tbe same line passes
the southern part o f Hudsou bay and
Lake Winnipeg. On tbe other side of
the continent It touches the southern
extremity o f Alaska and continues
through the center o f the Isthmus of
Kamchatka and Siberia and Russia to
Homburg.
It Is astonishing, too, to reflect on
the fact that Montreal, with Its win
ters o f extraordinary severity. Is 350
miles nearer the equator tlmu Is Lon
don. Montreal, Indeed, Is on the same
degree o f latitude as Venice.
Another Illustration o f the unexpect
ed lu contrasts Is found In a compari
son o f St. John's, Newfoundland, with
Parts. Paris has a winter o f compara
tive mildness, while St. John's Is a re
gion o f bitter cold aud fogs, with drift
ing Icebergs along Its const. Yet St.
John’s Is 100 miles nearer the equator.
—New York Tribune.
Mystery.
"I wonder why It ts?’’ said tbe man
who seemed to be thinking aloud.
"W h y what Is?” queried the friend
who had overheard.
"T hat people who are so different
from ns seem to b# satisfied with
themselves?” concluded the noisy
thinker.—Pittsburg Post.
Why She Couldn't.
"Oh, I couldn’t love him!”
“ W hy not?”
"H e wears a wig. The very idea!”
Then the dear creature removed two
rats, some puffs, a coronet braid, a
pompadour, a switch nud Rat down to
peruse a novel. — St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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There’ll be no net saving on the cut
rate postage from 5 cents to 2 cents on
English mall If you start In sending
throe letters now where you sent one
before.
Martin J. Reddy.
Early lu the year the Iron Trade Re
view discussed the quesliou o f railroad
expansion and stagnation and the ef
fect of both upon business. The argu
ment of the Review was that a period
of dullness In railroad building and re-
news! might follow the year 1907
without reference to the general de
pression of business. This dullness
might either be broken or extended by
the state of business, which must af
fect railroad earniugs. In a recent Is
sue the paper re|>eats Its argument aud
concludes that norma! business, be Its
advent early or late, will bring the rail
roads to tbe front as large buyers and
therefore Important factors In the gen
eral prosperity.
From a source o f authority In the
railroad world there has recently come
confirmation e f the Review's opinions.
Speaking to the firemen and engineers
at their convention In Ohio, B. F.
Yoakum explained the does relation
between railroad expansion and the
general trade. Every ton o f rails, he
says, represents three and one-half tons
of raw material that has been produced
by labor, and tho movement of the
8,000,000 tons of rails and fastenings
purchased by the railroads of the coun
try In 1907 Involved the movement of
13,500,000 tons of raw material and
finished product. The production and
[ movement of this material and the
putting o f It In place give work to mil
lions of hands, and, as tbe railroads
are good and steady paymasters, rail
road expansion puts new money In cir
culation.
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In Doubt.
“ That’s a curious looking mule
you’ re driving." remarked the roan
who was whittling a pine stick.
"Yasslr," answered Erastus Plnkley.
“ He Is kind o’ cur’us."
“ What will you take for him?”
“ What’ ll I take foh him? Say, boss.
Is you referrln’ to dat mule as a piece
o’ property or an affllctlonT’—Wash-
Ington Star.
Near Post Office.
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Come in and be convinced.
some fifteen carloads o f Wealthy and
other varieties o f fall npples. A few
days before It wss time to pick them
First Door West of Post Office.
a hard wind blew through the orchards
for several hours, with the result that
two-thirds o f the fruit on the trees
was precipitated to the ground and
rendered worthless for packing pur
poses. In no Instance were any o f
these orchards protected by a Umber
belt as a windbreak. As a result the
ripening fruit was an easy prey for
the «wishing winds. The Importance
of a windbreak for the orchard In lo
calities where heavy winds are likely
to blow from a given quarter can
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hardly be overestimated.
If a site
cannot tie chosen for g>e orchard
which already has a belt of natural
timber to the windward. It la well to
set out several rows o f quick growing
| trees, such as cottonwoods, willows or
elm«, which will furnish the needed
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Into besrlug.
Next to hall, damage
from 'rind the orchanllat has most to
fear, and against serious loss from
thle source be cau largely Insure him
On and after Sunday. October 18, 1908, our
self with a timber belt o f the above !;
type. In the writer's orchard this pro
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sales-room will remain closed on Sundays from
tection Is fifrnlshed by a belt of uaf-
nral timber to the south and west, 5
12:00 M. to 5:00 P. M.
which has proved invaluable since
tbe orchard came Into bearing.
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