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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1914)
IG HOME AM) FARM MAGAZIN E S ECTION Work of Luther Burbank Is Explained WeTeadi You To Play Hints to Gardener and Orchardist Are Given From Career of Wizard of Plant Life, 'I N T H IS , th e early npring days, when 1 th e men and women whose d iv er A n y Instrument Easily— Quickly AU Seeds Are Saved. Here, perhaps, lies th e secret of his sion involves work in th e garden success, fo r by th is he accomplishes, and in the orchard, it m ight be well to w ithin a com paratively short tim e, w hat ta k e a lesson from th e resu ltfu l methods would otherw ise ta k e y ears to do. A fter of th e g reatest of all h o rticu ltu rists, Iiis atten tio n is a ttra c te d to a p lan t, L u th e r B urbank. W hile th e world Burbank saves all of th e seeds hud know s much of his achievem ents iu the sows them la soil placed in green house creatio n o f new form s o f p lan t life, boxes about 1H inches square and four only a very small num ber o f thoss and one-half inches deep. The soil itself fa m ilia r w ith his w ork really know is prepared by m ixing 50 p arts of pure how he gets the phenomenal results th a t sand, fo rty p a rts of loam containing have made him the genius th a t he is. leaf mold, eight p arts powdered moss L u th er B urbank has several fu n d a or peat and two p a rts bone fertilizer. m ental m ethods of procedure— perhaps The soil is m oistened by dropping boxes th e most im portant being th e hybridiz iuto a tu b of w ater. The seeds are in g of more or less closely related sown on th o surface and covered light species and varieties o f plants. E arly in ly w ith a th in lay er o f soil and pow his career he discovered th a t he could dered moss. produce new varieties, and in some The seedlings are tra n sp la n te d into a eases n ew species, by cross fertilizin g d iffe re n t species o f plants. As te s ti field and th en subjected to a rigid in m onials to his success in th is field, we spection—out o f m any thousand seed have his well known plum eot, a cross lings B urbank m ay select less th a n a betw een th e plum and th e apricot, dozen for fu rth e r experim ent. In his crosses betw een th e apple and th e pear, selection he lay s p a rticu lar stress on apple and quince, quince and pear, tho stu rd in ess of th e stock, the peach and lemon, orange and lemon. By branches, round f a t buds, large th ick crossing d iffe re n t v a rie tie s w ithin the leaves, rich color, vigor and tendency to species, he has produced hundreds of uprig h t grow th. H ow H e Saves Time. new v arieties of plums, prunes, peaches, In order to bridge tim e and to apples, pears, cherries and quince. H is stoneless plum and prune and his g i breathe in to tho complex hybrid, and g an tic cherries are n o tab le instances various trees of th e d iffe re n t species, o f his creations by crossing d iffe re n t he gets a seedling from its own root and g ra fts it as a scion on th e branch v a rieties of th e same species of a m ature tree. H e g ra fts his seed Judgment Is Keen. ling, as a rule, on a tw ig n earest As a supplem ent to the process of th e end of a branch. The scions h y b rid izatio n conies his keen ju dgm ent thus placed usually b ear f r u it in in th e selection o f vary in g individuals the second year, w hereas, if th ey had o f th e same specie o r v ariety . By t a k been le f t to grow on th e ir own roots, in g a cherry th a t bare fru it e arly in five or six y ears o f grow th would be th e season, he developed his presen t necessary to secure a bearing. Because early app earin g cherry. B y selection he of th is m ethod experim ents are carried evolved th e B urbank sugar prune w ith on through fiv e or six generations in a 23 per cent su g ar content. th e tu n e t h a t would o riginally be re B u rb an k s m ethod precludes guess quired for tw o generations. work. He alw ays knows exactly w hat A t the B urbank proving grounds at he ie striv in g fo r and only uses such Sebastopol, w ill be found m any trees exam ples as contain in th e em bryo th e w ith a score or more of g ra ftin g s on u ltim ate qualities desired. I f he desires each and every one o f them. to m ake th e cherry larg er, wider, redder All of B u rb a n k 's work has a p erm a and ju icier he reduces the size of the nent q u ality in it, and the methods th a t p la n t an d shortens th e stem to make he employs, m ight be used by anyone th e tree a hardy and a prolific bearer. who has more th an a mere cursory in H e bler.ds th e rig h t h eredities and terest in p lan t developm ent. a f te r securing plants th a t show a given com bination in a sup erlativ e degree, be N ever work * team of colts together until th en proceeds to produce a g reat q u an they sre thoroughly broken, as they w ill ti ty o f seedlings. worry each other. Getting More Money From Egg Crop Forest Fire Season Gets Early Start AD EGOS cause farm ers a loss of IRST R EPO R TS of forest fires betw een three and four million have begun to come in to W ash dollars annually. G overnm ent e x ington from th e n atio n al forests p e rts estim ate th a t 5 per cent o f the and they in d icate to the federal o ffi eggs m arketed have developing chick cers an early s ta rt of th e fire season, ens and th a t 3 per cent are “ r o ts ” dae w ith u n fav o rab le w eatl er conditions to the em bryo decaying. All these from th e very beginning. In the N orth losses could be avoided b y keeping west th ere w a s less snow on th e moun roosters out of the flocks, thus h a v ta in : at the end of the w inter th an for in g only in te rtile eggs produced. I f m any years p ast. R ailroad rig h ts of farm ers would follow tltis plan, they way which w ere last y ear deep in snow could save one and th ree fo u rth s m il are reported clear now and dry enough lions of dollars annually. to burn readily. In f e rtile eggs produced by flocks in Prom the C anadian border to Mexico w hich th ere is no male b ird are th e th e rep o rts are sim ilar, and th ere have only k in d th a t can reach th e consum er already been extensiva fire s in C ali in good condition during th e hot sum fornia and A rizona. m er months. The only o b ject in having T he ch ief fo rester reports, however, a m ale bird in th e flock is to g et fertile th a t th e fire fig h tin g forces of the serv eggs for h atch in g purposes. Now th a t ice are organized b e tte r th a n ever be th e h atch in g season is over, colleges of fere, p articu larly in respect to th e fire a g ricu ltu re urge all farm ers to sell o ff detection system of lookout stations. By all th e roosters or shut them aw ay from means of tnese sta tio n s fires are re p o rt th o hens. ed quickly and aceu ra’ely, so th a t the L a st y ear in Ju ly and A ugust n early control forces m ay lie on th e ground a t one h a lf tho eggs le a v .jg tho farm ’s the earliest possiblo moment. w ere u n fit fo r food. The farm er, as a In those sta te s wh re th e gravest resu lt, received a low price. P rev en t th a t loss th is y ear by g ettin g rid of danger th reaten s, special e ffo rts are be th e rooster. Now is th e tim e to act to ing mado by th e governm ent fo resters and by co o p erativ e fire protection a s p re v e n t f r n r e losses. teria* . Ona organized among tim berland owners, to ae< ure care w ith fire on the p a rt of erm pors, prospectors, loggers The Note. and by railroads. 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