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't?VAJ'yfcW J Vr - tt f m rw .yfct. pttoe six. MTDFORT) MATL TRIBUNE. MEBFORD, OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY .1. mil mmrm, i . i i . iq . i t IH-llTj. H. M STATION SEEKS MOSDSIA !LE PEAR VARIETIES Experiment Farm at Talent Reports Efforts Made to Secure Blight Re sistant Stock and New Species MAX F.irOHED liY PUESMEXT WILSON FOli CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY Experiments With Fertilizers Under Way Orchard Ccvcr Crops Given Trials. (By Prof. K. C. Kdmcr.) Tho Kxpcrlnient Stntlons wero established lu this county for a (loflnlto purpose. Those responsible for their establishment Intended that thpy should actually experiment with plnnts and animals; that these Insti tutions should discover, by experi mentation, new facts regarding plants and animals. To make such work of permanent value and of Beneral application it should deal with fundamental principles. The Experiment Station Is not a Demonstration or Model .Farm. It was not established as such and should not bo maintained as such. Wherever experiment stations have attempted the model farm plan they , have evaded tho law, and in most Instances have accomplished very little permanent good. Work of Southern Oregon Station Tho Southern Oregon Experiment Station is a stato Institution, and is supported solely by tho state. The work at this station is devoted pri marily to experiments with fruits and vegetables. This does not Imply that this station woutd neglect other lines of agriculture In southern Oro- gon, but at present some of the most difficult and urcont problems need ing solution hero are purelr horticul tural problems, and all of oar ooei gles are being devoted to a solution of theso problems. Tho work, then. Is for tho purpose of solving prob lems for the farmer which the far mer cannot bo expected to solve for himself. TextliiK Variolic of Fruit Tho station Is devoting consider able time and space to the testing. of new and promising varieties of fruits. Valuable varieties of fruits from all sections of tho United States and Europe have been planted and are. being tested to determine, their suitability to the climatic and soil conditions prevailing here. Special attention will also bo given to deter mine their residence or susceptibil ity to dUease. We are making a special effort to find new and vat uablo varieties of pears which will not be as susceptible to pear blight as most of tho standard varieties now grown. This will bo by far tho largest variety collection of pears ever assembled in America. To make this work of as great value as possi ble the station has arranged with orchardlbts In different sections of the valley to co-operate In this work. They will bo supplied with and will plant a few trees of each of the most promising varieties of pears. In this way the soil requirements of these varieties will soon bo determined. Wo have also planted all of tho newest aud most promising varieties of raspberries, and some of them produced fruit the first summer af ter planting. One variety produced fruit which measured an Inch long. Another ripens its fruit earlier than uny of tho varieties heretofore culti vated. Wo are also testing forty eight varieties of strawberries. Some of these havo proved of very great value In other states, and it Is hoped thut these will prove as valuable here. Included In this collection are all tho famous now fall bearing varieties. Some of theso produced fruit thu first fall after planting. All tho finest new varieties of cur rantH havo boon planted, with thu liopo of finding varieties which are larger, better flavored and more pro ductive than tliOBy now grown. New varieties of peaches, plums, primes, cherries, Japanese and Chi nese persimmons, pecans, figs, olives, ii nd jujubes have been planted, and theso collections will be enlarged this winter, might KchlMani Slocks for IVars Tho experiences that pear growers liuvo passed through during tho past two seasoim hao bhown conclusively that tho old Trench pear stock, for merly used so oxtenslvoly, is very Horlously affected with blight, and that mora resistant stocks muBt bo found, This station has been Intro ducing ull tho resistant strains of pears of which pear growers throughout tho - world havo any knowledgo. Kxteuslvo experiments have boon begun In budding and grafting our standard varieties und Bit tho promising new varieties of I, . ..- . mm -gr v9HHisSSSBSBSBSH BBBBMBBBKAiW ' 'SsBSH fKliP '.'' -.BBBBBBBBBbI K ?J; jSr tV IHLbHBBBBBBBBBBBBBbI HHkt -SSbSkstWcbsHBBbB ;HkiVflcFfe94W.i-jl ; -MBMHaT - j " r ABBBFBnaBBBBBBBl ssfcHBBP'rTVHj!' "KVIHK&t 'S? 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The member of the New York (limits of the National lenRAie ami Hie Cliiengo White Sox of lln Ami'rieiut liniiit It other methods hav0 also been tried. nrrjVC)l ,,lro ,ollnv from Hri-slmiieon THREATENSTRIKETO END COPPER STRIKE MAHQUKTTK, .Mich., Jan. 3.-A .itriko of 30,000 ii)per .Micliigiiu iron miners threatened today. If culled, it will ho to force ii set tlement of the Mit'lilim eoppor inina itnke. The vote in it favor wui taken onlv liv lint Klmlinnin mut N't'Kiuinoe loenls, but the miiierV lead ers siini the fteutiineiit win ueiioral tlmHiglumt tho upper Michigan dis tuet. It wni added that, if mvesnrv, a stuko would ho eallod ill the iron in dustry throughout the country. The Nliphemiiii; nnd Xt'irnunec resolutions demanded federal inter vention in tho copper strike mid n voiigrosioniil iinc.xtigntion of its causes nnd of tho deportation of President Charles II. Mover of (ho Wvtorn Federation of Miners from the co)Hr country. Otherwise, it n.s declared, n strike would follow. Compliance with llicir demands, too, Hie iron miners insisted, must bo piompt. GIANTS-WHITE SOX TEAMS IN SYDNEY MRS. H. L. LEACH Export Corsottoro 32G North Bartlett. Phono G03. M. Singer Sewing Machines Machines (or rent, phono S1G-X, Hvpalrs, cleunliiK. oils, needles, parti, phonograph ropalrlug, At INdlt.UI.VM, MANWOKIt 17 South Holly Ht., Medfortl N0O Y.BBBBBBBBS' -mibbHRbbbbbbbbbV2. riV CPVSBiBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBT W S4KB- JbbbbbbbbbbVI'' "IbsbbbbbbBbbbbbbbbbbU "jbbsbbbbbbbbbIbHP TSBBBBBM BBBll WA B bVW BBBBBBBBl 4bVSbtIJ49bbb7 L.1 I" ' MI'll ' "III lM'M CALENDARS and DAIRIES for 1914 Solwl 'PhtMii Now Medford Book Store Chalmers V MOTOR CARS ARE THE BEST FOR THE MONEY Wheit.it rains pears on there resistant stocks Is only reasonable to expect that ( One of these consists In dissolving tUoir Ldobe-oirrliiii: trip, from thche various blight resistant the fertilizer In water and spraying i ' strains new and valuable pears It directly onto the trees early In the I stocks will be found which will be ' spring. Some Interesting and val-' well adapted to this valley. In this I uablo results were obtained from, connection It should be stated that I this method In California. This the writer Is corresponding wtt) method of appllng It In the form of auu naming me co-opcraiion oito a spray was first tried In this valley pear growers and experimented during the summer of 1912. Tho throughout the Tnlted States. Kur- results of this wor ope and Asia. Ho has been able to ' In the near future. procure scion wood for propagatln? j Orchard Cover Crops purposes of alt the valuable now i The great need of orchard cover species of Chinese and Japanese crops has become very apparent In pears discovered by government and some of the orchards In recent years. The old methods of seeding and growing these usually gave unsatis factory results. We have shown that by early seeding with n seed drill, and by using larger quantities of seed than wero formerly used, very 111 be published private plant collectors. With tho new strains and species which ar being propagated by the station wo will have growing next summer at least, twenty-two dlstluct species of pears. In addition to this there wl I be between seven and eight hundred satisfactory results can be obtained,) cultivated varieties. vu are also trying legumes at tho V..... C.ft- ..a. It....liiu. . . ..(-. .. . ."" ii m I-...,..-. .station wnitn are entirely new it tho valley. This oar we have found at least two new legumes which ap- 'Miches Wo have also received seed and trees of. tho famous wild Chinese peach which will be tested here as a stock on which to grow our standard varieties of peaches, plums, prunes, and apricots. This stock has been tried in two other sections of the country and there has proved far superior to other peaches or pluni. as a stock for these fruits. It H hoped that It will provo equally val uable here. Hi-ceiling Valuable Xevv Pours Ono of tho most Important lines of work being conducted by this sta tion is the breeding of new and more desirable varieties of pears. W are crossing the very flnoat flavored var ieties with the blight resistant Chi- neiso strains and growing them In very large numbers with tbc expecta tion of combining the desirable char acteristics of both In no variety. According to tho best blight experts vory valuable and promising results should bo accomplished from such work. That thlB Is possible Is ovl dent from some of the promising hybrids of tbeso two species of pears which have appeared in recont ean. The writer knows from the results obtained from his grape breeding work In tho east that the possibilities of such breeding work are almot unlimited. In this breeding work at tention will also bo given to other characteristics besides resistance to blight, such as quality, early and heavy bearing, sUe, keeping and shipping quality. Experiments With l'ertlIU"rs We are conducting ver elaborato fertilizer experiments In various sec tions of tho valley, to determine tho fertilizer needs of tho various types of soil. Most of theso experiments are being carried on with fruits: but durluK the past two seasons con siderable attention has ulna been givon to fertilizing alfalfa. Some very valuable results havo already been obtained with alfalfa. In some instances the alfalfa crop has been doubled and in ono Instanco an In crease of COO per cent was obtained, by tho use of superphosphate. It has also been shown that other fer tilizers, as potash and nitrogen, aro of Ilttlo value on alfalfa In this valley. Tho action of fertilizers on fruit trees is much slower and tho results so far huvo not been so mark ed as on alfulfa; but In some of tho orchards It is already apparent that certain feitlllzers aro having marked effects. In our work the fort"1 -has been applied In varlouH ways. Usually It Js upplled to tho soil, but pear far mure valuable than Oregon vetch, which Is the cover crop usual ly grown here. Tho Indications now are that those new legumes may en tirely replace tho old Oregon vetch as a cover crop In this valley In tho future. It might ho stated that ono of the legumes which we are testing this year, and which was planted last September, already has tho lar gest nitrogen nodules on tho roots of any legume ever grown In this valley. We arc atso giving special atten tion to the amount of eced to sow for best results, and our cover crop plots aro giving some very .valuablo results from this. It has been founJ that tho usual seeding Is too light for best results, Pruning KvperimcnM Kxtcnslvo pruning experiments -with fruit trees havo been started and tho work will be continued for niany year's. It Is hoped as a result of this work thut the best methods of pruning may bo worked out for our conditions. From some of tho cq-operatlvo pruning experiments In young bearing orchards It has al ready beon found that far better re sults can be obtained In such orch ards by materially reducing tho amount of pruning now being dono by many orchardlsts. Kxperimenti Willi Vegetables During tho past season a limited amount of work was carried on with vegetables. Limited space prevents going into a discussion of this work. Wo wish to say, howover, that work was carried on with tomatoes, pota toes, lima beans, garden beans, sweet corn, ogg plants, cabbago, and pop pers. A detulled report of this work will be published In tho near future. I ll .! AJ ' T Ws Alt J,l3 J K liP '" dotou pml on r do you Vffr m Fish Brand Reflex Slicker am enjoy tK rain bt- uum chj dry id (..1.1 l. R.I.J.I.. imniuiiavNC mwivi routh ud rtly Mr , and o waftr proof iKl not a Jrvp iticnii you rvtn inrougn mm oinii Mwmb tK buttona. rough hm OMniitftf TUKSiE4Uii. .00 '. Siiufacikm 0t(4 A. J. Tower Co. 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