THK SPRING FIBLD NEWS
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THURSDAY JANUARY 20. 1927
TWO
Lane County Farmers Union News
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F F IC IA L
FARM R EM INDERS
H A N D LIN G OREGON FR U IT
SH O R T COURSE SUBJECT
Oregon Agricultural College. Cor ' House fern» »tu ck ed by scale m-
vallis January SO—A general dis u: sect* »re controlled by fn q u en t ap-
»Ion of the handling of fruit will be licattons of » common laundry soap,
conducted by H Hartman, horticul-j says the entom ologist of the Oregon
turlst of the experiment station, at station. One-quarter pound of aoap
the sixth annual canner s school. is used to one gallon of water. It Is
beat to wash the solution from the
February 7 to 25.
Professor Hartman has been carry plants about two hours after applies
ing on experiment» for the past few , tlon
years collocting data on determining
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the maturity of fruit and the relation
winter is the time Oregon
of the time of picking to keeping and f!4rmers get their spray machinery In
canning quality. Fruit storage, dis- ’ „.„.ilness for the spraying season,
eases or fruit in storage and manage-
, h„ Oregon experiment station
ment of fruit storage plants will be som e orchardists find It necessary to
covered in these discussions.
increase the spray outfits because of
A. G. Bouquet, professor of »ego orchard growth
With the spray ap
table gardening, will lecture and lead paratus in good working condition
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discussions on the choice of varieties the spray for the control of Insects Is
and Influence of seed strains on the put on at the right time, thus saving
yield and quality of canning vege­ many dollars to the growers.
tables. Methods of culture of vege­
tables for the factory and the grow-
Oyster shell scale on apples pro­
M«‘ problems In producing the raw m ises to be an Important pest In Ore­
vegetable product for the cannery will gon in the coming season, says the
he covered
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- , experiment station
Growers who
Many other phases of commercial
pear shaped scales on
anning wtll be dealt with by special
fruit examine the bark
.ts of the college and other rerntnV-
he|r
(or (he scale. This part
d authority. Registration will be is controlled by spraying with llme-
tonday. February 7.
! sulfur. 12 gallons of the concentrated
solution to 100 gallons of water, am
C A L L A N D SE E Dr « W . Em ery
plied in February.
in prices on plate and other work. If
KAN TLEEK
Hot Water Bottle«
w e N K rm C iN
R U B R IC A T IO N ■ a LA
O U T N V T Y UNIT
U N IT isO.
nO H
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"Ths General“ Coming
her life at Thurston, and died at the
Pacific Chriatlan hospital January 11.
After negotiating sin es November l
The funeral was selil at Veatche's for a data for presentation of "The
Chapel January 15
The aervleoa General.'' Busier Keaton picture wltn
were conducted hy K V. Strlvcr».
Its locale In Lane county, Manarger
Jack Larson of the llell Theatre an
GARDEN WAY
nounced today that the show will te>
here February 13. 14 ami 15 < ullage
AM ERICA’S GREAT CORN BELT TH R E A TE N E D AS
At a recent meeting of the Bunahlne Grove was the center of activities of
ALL A T T E M P T S TO H A LT EUROPEAN BORER FAIL t’lub which was held at the home of I Keaton’s compauy last summer dur*
Mrs I'll»». Cole, the ladles decided
i , « e , to
o
n im llig of "The General, and
Appropriation «■» and contribute clothing for a many Sprlpgleld residents visited hi»
Exparts
Estimata
$3,000,000
Fcdoral
Farm
newly family. The work will be done Grove Io watch the taking of the pic*
and Fifty Mile Quarantine Belt will Be Neces­
nt the next meeting which will be held ture.
sary To H alt Pest's West-'
at the home of Mrs heater Cyr. Tltoae
ward March
who were present were Mr» H. 1.
Chase. Mrs Martin Chase, Maude i
W ritten especially for The Springfield News
Chase. Mrs. Homer Chase. Mrs. Murk I
By ROBERT FULLER
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Cole. Mrs. C. Cole. Mrs Lester Cyr. i
Chicago. Jan. 20—-Farm ers hi America's great corn belt. In Mr» Geo Fi»h. Mr» J Fish. Mrs. \\
Geo
dlana to the Rockies, are troubled over the advance of the Rum- R
“ Hardie. Mrs <
’-» Harrington. Mrs.
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pean corn borer. Reports that the destructive worm has pushed U. G McKlhnny. Mrs. \V J I’engra.
westward as far as Kalamazoo. Mich., have led to conferences Mrs Dewey Kay and Mrs H. B. Wyll- Richard Dix and Lois Wilson In
Mr. and Mrs. O. It Ftsh and son I
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betiween farm ers and the couut agents to devise some effective
Gilbert,
and
John
Lynch
were
guests
<1
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M
a
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l
cd
defense against the pest.
the llrlg<'» home Sunday
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Among tire proposals already made to combat the borer a r e , •• Ira
Cline has returned from a s»v
a $3,000,000 Federal appropriation and a fifty-mile quarantine eral months' stay at Sheridan, Mo
SUNDAY — JANUARY 23
belt around the infested region
.
Mr n|ne h-(|
,o h|, old
E l‘ rone O'Brien and
in the lust
h„n„, wtth ,h„ intention
in„ nu„ of
. The borer has done m uch damage In
Iasi two or three Mlsilourl
Mt!i#()Url h„ni„
of
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a » a. »1 .
k. — 1 . l.A tl.A it .. InMii, »11,1 la'»» I»»ASsriiXtXU
c /live Borden In
years
on both
sides of A
the
lakes In the Ontario and Krie regions. r „ midnln ) t ums «, but the lure of the
in
this V
country
hit hardest ...
are - western — New York, West.
Wr|>(
Oregon, was too
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A’U lltlJ the
X S»g- districts
itio»nc»o sail
A Great Pestilence Spreading
Throughout The Country
Bell Theatre
northern Pennsylvania. Ohio and southern Michigan
Spreads Despite Three Year Fight
In these regions the quarantine method has already been
tried, but on a sm aller scale. .Motorists then* are fam iliar with
waving lanterns that force hasty applications of brakes at night
aloug the roads leading from an infested county to one free from
the pest.
S tate and Federal agents in these states have halted
millions of autom obiles in an attem pt to prevent the westward
spread of the borer, but its appearance in regions beyond the
Insects cause an annual average quarantine indicates the m ethod is ineffectual.
loss In Oregon of 10 per cent or $500.-
Grave danger faces the farm ers of til«* corn belt If the borer
000 to the vegetable growers, »ays should succeed in digging himself in there. The borer might do
Don C. Mote, entom ollglst of the ex m ore dam age here than the boll weevil did in its raids on the
périment »tatlon. Vegetables suffer South, for this region is the center of the nation’s corn and pork
tw ice a» much as other crops from i production and of the dairy industry.
: Insect ravages, he says.
This westward advance of the coni borer Is consequently of
Vegetable growing is becoming a ' great im portance to the nation at large.
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I prominent industry In Oregon, pro-
The borer is a non-quota Immigrant from east central Eur-
i feasor Mote asserts. Vegetables now i ope. Although it has done much dam age in Europe, this has
, grown in Oregon exclusively for sale been lessened by the fa tt that the farm ers there use every scrap
bring more than I million dollars an­ of stalk. Since the borer lives in stalks and stubble through the
nually. In addition to the commer w inter even though the tem jierature drops to 40 below, It will be
! clal crop the farm garden has a value i m ore difficult to prevent its spread and consequent dam age in
‘ of 3 million dollars.
I this country w here much of the stalk is left standing.
Tiny Moths Have Range of Twenty Miles
During the past five year» severtl
W arm w eather finds the borer laying eggs which hatch into
truck crops such as broccoli, lettuce
and celery have developed a shipping m oths able to fly tw enty miles further irtto unlnfested territory.
business The pack of cannery vege­ Eating as it goes the borer burrows up the stalk until the corn
tables h »/ also greatly Increase,! in breaks and falls over before the ears have ripened. Som etimes It
the last live years. Greenhouses are i even devours the ears themselves.
Although no effectual remedy has been found, it has been
springing up everywhere. The larg­
est greenhouse in the state was built discovered that a wasp-like parasite feeds on the borer. In gen
eral, though, the best remedy known at present it to cut the corn
in 1»23.
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,re the best we ever had. Finest
Return From Spokane Mrs. Os­
born Pratt and mother In law v ere
here Saturday en route for their home
at Goshen following a visit at
Spokane, Washington. with
Mrs.
Pro«'» stater. Mrs. Roy Patterson.
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s A C H A N C E TO
ilece. so they can t leak. No n t i t t ° «
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BUY A HOUSE AND GET
latches, seams, splices or bind-
IT P A I N T E D
FREE
’ara Rubber, moulded in one
Guaranteed for two years
as early as possible and to destroy all the crop not list'd or put it
in silos, where the borer dies, and to plant some other crop the
following year.
Such remedy would be more difficult In the corn belt than
in the regions of more diversified farming.
Community News
UPPER W IL L A M E T T E
I have taken over the A. F Flowers
real estate businen» and have opened
The member» of the Chrtatlan En­
my oIBce at 312 Main street. To the deavor »oclety are busy practicing
first party buying a house through ! for their play "The Deacon'» Honey­
thia office 1 will give four gallons of moon” which they hope to give the
Heath t Milligan high grade bunga last of January.
low paint. So now is your chance to,
Several members of the Christian
buy that house and have it painted
Endeavor society went to Eugene
at the same time.
Sunday night to attend the revival
By Special
Corraapondanta
TH U R STO N
much for him.
r.iiun a
Kdlth
anil Alma Ij»nd»berry of
springfleM were gue»t» of Alma Flatt
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Sunday
Friends of Henry llukrlede received
new» ot hl» death which occurred re­
cently at Fllmore, California
M'
llukrlede formerly owned the Fish
llopyurd
Ava Erdman of Eugene vtalted with
her mother. Mr» Erdman Sunday.
Watch repairing done correctly
Work In today—-Gut tomorrow. Hoyt
321 Main at.
U
CALL AND SEE Dr N W Emery
on price» on plate and other work, it
New Cash
Discount System
We linve put Into operation it new Cash Diwount Sys­
tem which we believe will help our cuBtOinen* a« Well as
oursdvtMt.
Our Idea 1» to do away ua n inth ua pomilble
with the trouble and expense of keeping book« The sys­
tem 1« «iniilar to the Green Trading Stump, hut much bet­
ter. With us you get 6O4;i more discount than with the
Green Stamp, and It 1« much easier to handle. With eacn
cash purchase you get a ticket with date and am ount o.
purchased printed on It. When you return $20.00 worth of
these ticket« we pay you BOc In ca«h;- For example; If you
purchase I10.00 w orth per m onth, th at mean» you save
$0.00 |ier year on your m eat bill, and for us It mean« the
ca«h we get today we can put Into stock tomorrow. Keep
our money moving and thereby give better value« to you.
Any of our customer« who may not for any reason de
«¡re to take advantage of the Cash Discount but prefer to
run an account from month to m onth may do «0. We will
take care of their order« the sam e a« we have In the pa»t.
Several case» of chicken-pox have
been reported.
Jimmie Hill and
Prank Campbell are the most recent
victims.
Miss Mildred Price ha» recently
accepted a school near trlltcoo« Lake
where she will finish »the term.
Mrs U zzle Gray went to Eugene
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W. M. VASBY, Real Eestate, services being held there.
Monday to visit her little grand
312 Main St.
D. O. U nion and Bruce Wheeler daughter, Betty Jean, who underwent
were chosen as elders to take the an operation at the Northwest H os­
place of W. I.. Bristow, who resigned pital.
because of his health.
Several motored to Junction City'
The debating team s at the Pleas­ to see Buster Keaton in “The Gen i
ant Hill high school are working hatd eral'’ which was filmed at Cottage I
Grove last summer.
for (he coming debates.
The Pleasant Hill high school
Mr. Morly. a Jewelor from South I
basketball teams played the Walker Africa was an Interesting visitor nt
teams at Walker Thursday Jan. 13. Thurston Sul day.
The Pleasant Hill girls won by a
Ed Whittaker who has been III ex­
score of 24 to 9. while the boy» suf­ pects to change climate soon.
fered their first defeat the score be­
Perry Price, a graduate oB the
Is like Profit Sharing with our customers. Family needs
ing 17 to 9 In favor of Walker. Two
Thurston High school was recently
of the second team snbstltnted on
and all your personal wants can be supplied here at a
pledged Pl Kappa Phi at O. A. C.
i
the Pleasant Hill team as two of the
Mrs.
laiura
Hadley
Is
visiting
tier
regular learn were ont on account of
Great Saving.
mother, Mrs. Needham.
sickness.
There will be an all day meeting
After a siege of the flu. all the
of the Ladles Aid at the church
Linton family are well and back in
Thursday. Men are Invited to conje
school again.
Jerry Kahler Is sick with a severe and help fix up the grounds. There
will be a lunch served at noon.
cold and flu.
W alterville District Sunlay School
Five thousand baby chicks will be
received from the Inwood Leghorn Conference was I'"'' at the church
Clearing the racks at
Coats and dresses f o r
farm near Corvallis this week by two Sunday afternoon.
Cleanup Prices
Open Door to Business
poultry raisers of the Pleasant Hill! Leaburg Sunday School won the
Ladies,
Misses
and
Child­
The business man is now accessible by another
Men's Suits,
llstrlct. and 4400 will arrive February, banner for which the various schools I
r<>“,c »£««»
through the nil
doorway
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privat o f his privits
have been contesting.
1st.
ren
for
Less
Than
Cost.
A business call h y l on/t D ,ilal, „ 1,1,
Boys' Suits
Teddy Leavitt the ' evangelist h a»t Mrs. Rena Edmlston Is visiting her
merits ■ prompt answer and gain s immediate
Ladies Rain Coats, 5 2 .
been engaged to hold a series of re-; daughter, Hazel, at. Ashland.
interest and attention.
O'Coats ____
Mrs.
Jennie
Edmlston
returned
to,
* vlval meetings at Pleasant Hill n etti
Increasingly, business houses are augmenting
Childrens Rain Coats, 2 . 39
Eugene Tuesday to take care of her
Men’s Union Suits
summer.
regular salesmen's visits by "in-between" Long
daughter.
Mrs.
Rosa
Baugham,
who
Berry Manney and Daisy Winfrey ■
Distance calls. Results: Larger volume o f but’
-m e lot Silk Dresses, 5 .9 3
Boys Union Suits
nest and quicker turnover »t e reduced selling
represented the Pleasant Hill high Is 111.
Harvey Calvert, who has had a
cost, ff Many new and p r a c tic a l use» o f Long
school at the conference In Eugene
Distance are no doubt applicable to y»«r busi­
severe attack of the flu was able to
last Friday.
M EN'S BOOTS$ 2.95, $3.45. $3/95 — 10” Pack $3.15
ness. These will be ch eerfu lly discussed with
Many of the radio fans are very attend school Monday.
you upon request to the Business Office o f ths
BOYS’ BOOTS $1.98. $2.45, $2.95 — W ORK SHOES $1.89
Mr.
De
Witt
from
Seattle
was
ft
enthusiastic over the concerts being
Telephone Company.
broadcasted by KOEH Eugene. Ore- victim of the flu while visiting at
M EN'S DRESS SHOES $2.45, $3.95 — BOYS DRESS $1.89
¿«eg V'tlaHc.
gon. The concert Sunday night by the Weaver home.
Many grieve the death ol Mrs.
Melba Williams and Engeas
Ml
LADIES DRESS PUMPS and OXFORDS $1.95 and $2.95
Carrla Byler, ho had lived mo»t of
Tire PACIFIC UBLFPUONE AND TELEGRAPJI COMPANY
Gawles earns over tbs sir perfectly.
$2.50
Flanery’s
Drug Store
Swarts & Washburne
Breier’s Great
Million Dollar Sale
Men’s - Boys’
Wear
LADIES’
Ready-to-wear
iTTZ?
$ 1 4 .5 0
4 .9 5
11.50
J1.00
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