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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1903)
METATMOSIER. Enthusiastic Fruit Growers - Meeting, , Concluded. SRTTINU Ol'T AND CULTIVATING. Chairman I wouldlike for Mr. Mason to explain how to Bet out and cultivate an orchard. Down our way he is getting to ho known ns the crank on setting out mi urcimru. Mr. Mason I will give you my view uui anything 1 may say 1 do not want you to take for law and gospel. I am as ynt only experimenting This system is wnai i:iey can uie equilateral or hex agonal system, in which the trees are all an eon ul distance anart. and in whfoh any one tree is in the center of six other trees. In this system you will find that you get aoout 18 per cent more trees than in the square system. You do not weaken the ground any more thin you uu in me square system, rou will no tice in this illustration that in the square system there is quite a space that is not utilized, while in the hexagonal sys tem there is no space unoccumed One of my friends in Hood Iiiversaid he wanted to set his orchard square with the world, and you will find that this system is just as much so as the square system. .Let the top oi una illustration m me norm and you win see the rows run north and south, while it also possessed of the merit of having the rows run in five other different directions. Mr. Mason then gave a very lucid detailed explanation of the hexagonal system illustrating his remarks, with diagram comparing the two systems and described his two methods of laying off an orctiard, one with two chains, the other with three boards in the form of a triangle, marking the site of each tree with a small stake as he proceeds. This description we will reserve for another issue when we will publish a diagram also. The Glacier printed this diagram seven or eight years ago when J. K. Oalligan set out his orchard by this sys tern. Mr. Mason also said in his re marks that we can grow our trees closer together than they do in the Eastern states, because our trees do not grow so large as they do there; for the reason, he thinks that the soil is stronger there inan it is tiere. In regard to cultivation, Mr. Mason said: 1 don't know any more about cultivating an orchard than I do about making a success of apple growing, but I will give you my ideas. It is one of the moat important subjects for consid cration and is one of the least compre- heiided and systematized of all the different branches of the applo growing iiKiii8iry in our valley. A practical or chard cultivator has not been invented yet. I am going to get me a cultivator that is made in Salem, called, I think, the Kimball. It has three-inch steel, half-twist blades which run at right angles and are just the thing to kill the ferns and blackberries which are our worst weed pests. It is a perfect shallow cultivator and so arranged that you can ride it or walk and cultivate. It is in expensive, costing gome where between $10 and $18. E. L. Smith bought one, the only one in the valley. With this you can get close up to the tree. I do not like the right lap plow, the side draft spoils it. This machine is far better. It pulverizes the surface, cutting the weeds off just below the ground, leaving them stand so that you hardly know they are cut until the sun wilts them. I am also going to use a drag in my or chard. I will make the drag 11 feet wide with runners 12 feet long to keep the drag from dipping into the ruts or low places and so it will catch the tops of the ridges. I will use thespringtooth harrow in connection with this drag. Mr. Mosier Are you going to use the springtooth to loosen up the ground in the first place? Don't the ground get hard under w here the springtooth is used? Mr.Mason-No,Ithink not. I am making ridges in my orchard by plowingit. The sprinutooth loosens only the surface but your right lap don't go over three or four incheB deep. . MrMosiur f find that in using the spring tooth ii the ground is not loos ened with a plow every two or three years a hard crust forms under the springtooth. Mr. Mason That is what I said in my initial remarks, there is no instrument yet invented that makes a practical or chard cultivator. Anything that has wheels and a neck-yoke and tongue may do to plow corn with, but they will not do iu an orchard. The horse gets mad, vou get mad and your trees get scarred" up. Mr. Bellinger I don't know anything about any of these machines. I culti vate my orchard with a plow The epringtooth leaves a hard crust after a few years. . Mr. Mason How do you get to the trw? Sir. Sellinger You have got to trim them up. Mr. Mason In this orchard which I have illustrated vou can cultivate three dit)'rent ways. 1'he rows are ju. wide enough these ways, which you cannot do in any other system of setting them out. There is another thing and that is iu re gard to spraying. You will see that under the square system, with the wind from the northwest the spray from the man on the north side of the sprayer will cover the horse, the driver or the man with the otker line of hose, while with this system, one man can atop just before the tree on one side and the other man just after tho tree on the other with -the sprayer between tlieni so that the spray will not get on either the horse, driver or the other man. Mr. Carroll Mr. Mason says he has ridges in his orchard. I have plowed mine for six years and have no ridges in it. My orchard ie six years old and from now on I will continue to plow it when I want to and jet have no ridges. I plow it then harrow it crosswise. If you will do that and do it thoroughly vou will not get ridges in your orchard. 1 huve never had any trouble in that line. 1 plow one way, then springtooth crosswise, then harrow. My trees are 25 feet apart. I just cultivated with a springtooth last year and harrowed with a steel harrow. That is the way I rultivate my orchard. Last year I kept the moisture within two or three inches of the top of the ground, I believe the plow is much the best thing in the or chard. Mr. Mason Yes, you might plow the orchard in that way the first six years and keep it level; but after that lime, after the trees are 8 or 10 years old how will it be, as the limbs grow longer? Lton't the plow interefere with the roots? Mr. Carroll It is just owing to how von cultivate the first year. If vou cul tivate shallow the first year the root will run shallow, but if you cultivate dip the roots will go deep. The root will go below your plowing all the time. Chairman I think a great deal de pends on the K'il. In (me soils the rits will run deep while in other soils they ki-ep near the top. Let u hear from Mr. Kennedv on spraying. Mr. Kennedy 1 hey call Mr. Mason the crunk on loving out an orchard, but tluy call me the i-pray-crank. I find that 1 cannot get any one in this neigh lorhocd to admit that he net-da a winter spray. With the winter spray we kill off aohis.fungus, scale, etc. The South ern Oregon growers spray with Paris green, but they use more powerful ma chines than is necessary to use with qur arseuite of soda.. Sulphur, lime and salt, Kchanno'a formula, 60 ponnda of sulphur,60 pounds of limeand 50 pounds oi eau to iou gallons, one pound to the gallon. This is our principal winter spray and should be used now, if you n.ou iiibuic your orciiaru Hgainsi ine pests just mentioned. Last year used only half the quantity of the salt, I would rather use 17 Dounds of sulDhur. 17 pounds of lime and 10 pounds of salt to oiiuiiB ui wnier. j. nseu vo uiiiik 1 knew something about slaking lime cm mere was a man working with at the other day who showed me how it should be done; Ho took 17 pounds of lime and put it in the bottom of the vat and poured a little bit of water on ii. i waicnea mm ana thought it. was going to burn when he ooured on a lit tie more water. As it began to steam up good 1 said: "fierce, is that the way to slake lime?" He said "Yes, that is the way to do it," and I watched him put in a little more water and he kept it hot and worked the water in just fast enough to keep it trom burning, and in about 10 minutes he had it slaked so that there was no roughness in it, no hard lumps that make you think the lime ie no good, but it was smooth like paste. lie men poured in more water and we stirred it up and titer we strained it there was not to exceed a pound in 60 of stun left from the lime. I think you are all familiar with summer spray.. I would not recommend sulphur spray for codlin moth nor the Bordeaux mix ture, but for a summer spray for rust it might do. 1 have just wondered wheth er you have any rust here in Mosier or not. ; , : ' ' - Mr. Brown In regard to winter spray my experience is that it is very valuable to us. 1 had one tree of hue nectarines one year,but afterward we never got one DH ot truit on ot it. Last year l sprayed it and my peaches and "apricots. My nectarines nere fine, and my peaches were fine and fmooth as were also my apricots. 1 sprayed three times last winter. Last year my apricots were the finest I have ever had. I am in favor of winter spray. , 'I Mr. Kennedy ion all know my place. There was lots of scale on all my trees, especially on .my Swaar trees, which grew down low and " spraddled out like rose bushes. The apples were very speckled, worse than this old apple. My neighbors were very anxious to see the scale cleaned out of the orchard, and I sprayed it, now, there ,is .not a cleaner orchard, or clearer skinned Swaars to be found anywhere," "and we lay it to winter spraying. t .. Carroll I wish you would explain how and when you commence to spray for codlin moth. ' Mr. Kennedv The proDer time to apply the arseuite of soda spray the first time is when the blossoms are two thirds gone, and every two weeks there after until the apples are gathered. Mr. Clark had me make him some spray using one pound of arsenic to four pounds of soda. He bad 2,000 or 3,000 boxes of apples vi percent lies from worms. He said he did not want me to change my formula on his account. If any one else wanted to change it, he said they could do it, but that- it was good enough for him. If I can see any particles coming up on the surface to dissolve, I put in more soda, Using just enougn soda to dissolve the arsenic. Air. Carroll In Hood Kiver, how did ou and the men proceed with the spray ing alter you got your lime BU.kod and our spray mixed?. Mr. KeniiedrWhtle I was"watchlmi the man with the lime the men with the spray outfit went on to spraying, while this man at the house eot another uar relful ready. They had about 15 feet of lose and would go nearly around the tree. "What are you doing, finishing the trees as you go?" I asked him. "Yes, that's what we are doing." In looking over the tree I saw there was. a. strip he had never touched at all, you could see where this yellowish spray touched. He was spraying.! do thorough work. If he had done one side of the tree as he went down the row and then came back ou the other side and finished it he would have dune good work. It is not necessary to spray oftener than two weeks, but keep it up till gathering time. Spray up to ten days . before gathering time. In the fprmg even thing is a little tender and it is better, to . use a little less than the full amount of the formula, which is three-quarters of a quart of arseuite to 50 gallons. Later in the summer you can use ' it stronger Spray in the blossom end so as : to get the particles of spray inside tho calyx. This is very desirable, so that when the egg hatches the spray will get the worm. If this is not done the worm that gets in at the calyx will work its way into the apple and sooner or later will come out leaving a hole in the side of the apple. Mr. Mason Iu regard to the sal soda, there is a controversy as to -whether to use two or four pounds of sal soda. The only object I see in using the sal soda is to get the arsenic dissolved and united with it in the spray on tho apple. ; In regard to the winter spray, wheu I mix my sulphur and lime 1 mix the sulphur in the lime as I slack it. I slow slack the lime and when I haveit in a good hot dough I work the sulphur into it. You can get the sulphur to dissolve much better in that way. Don't let the lime burn or turn yellow. Mr. Kennedy is a rprayer. He says to spray every two weeeks up to 'en days before gathering the apples. I am pretty certain, he is the only man who sprays that often. Some pretty progressive growers spray ev ery 21 days. I have always sprayed every 21 days.If you spray thoroughly every 21 days yon will get the codliu moth. Out of 143 boxes I only had two boxes -of culls. and had one box of A tier apples, the balance were four tier apples. They were sprayed with arsenite of soda, and sprayed every 21 days thoroughly. Mr. Carroll This is a question which I think we ought to take a great deal of notice of. Two years ar;o I raised 2,000 boxes of apples, and out of that number I harvested about 200 boxes free from w orms. I thought if I could not do bet ter than that 1 would quit. I heard about Mr. Kennedv being a sprayer and went to see him. He told me be would furnish me the spray and that if I would spray thoroughly every two weeks I would save 75 per cent of my apple. s I got the spray and did the work and beat that a great deal. I believe Mr. Kennedy is right about the time and number of times to spray. We need to spray often and hit every one of them square in the face. Mr. Evans did not spray until I had sprayed twice. I don't go anvlhiiig at all on those men at Corvallis who say to spray but five or six times. It may do all fight there but it itl not here.' They sav there are but tw'o" broods in" a reason. We have a dor.en. I sprayed my trees nine times and sprayed tltt-m thor oughly. It is just si Mr. Kennedy savs, no man can spray a Ire -thoroughly from one side. I spray in the center of my tree, 1 sprav a quarter of my tre a 1 come to it and a quarter of it a 1 get past it, I spray one half of my trees as I go down the row and the other half as come back on the other side, and I did not lose three pereeot by wornryapph't. No man can do that if he does not do his work thoroughly. 1 have "00 trees and it takes me and two other the tale. If you miss the first spraying or tan to spray the blossom ends well you will have the codlin moth the whole year.. " Mr. Mason I think these meetings will do as as much good as the experi ment station's work. I like to hear the results of sdeh experiments as Mr. Car roll made. PRUNING. Mr. widdleswart v hen 1 came u here I found my orchard so close that could not get through with a plow They told me to cut my young trees back to 18 inches from the ground and I have been trying eversince to get my trees high enough to get under them. I am finding my neighbors cutting their un der limbs off their trees so that they can get to them to cultivate. I trim the limbs off so I can get under them. Mr. Kennedys Did you lose any pies next year? ' Mr. Middleswart No, sir. Mr. Kennedy Did you cut off the lower limbs? : Mr.Middleswart Yes.sir. Mr. Kennedy The reason I ask i that everybody asks me what in the world I ha.e been cutiing the lower limbs off for, and I think I am doing right yet. Mr. Mosier I have a patch of plum and prune trees. 1 was told to allow the limbs to come out as low down as possible so as to shade the body of the tree and protect it, and 1 did so and I had to take a hoe and hoe the weeds ou trom under the trees. I cut out every thing out of every tree nil over the or chard so that if could drive a team up to the trees and cultivate them, and did not damage my trees whatever. Mr. Kennedv One great reason whv I cut the limbs off underneath was that I was using that ideal orchard cultiva tor, the California right lap, which 1 think is a first class, practical machine. I had a vonnir horse and an old horse and that little side draft Mr. Mason is scared at, was a little too hard for .the young horse, but there is a way to adjust the machine to overcome it and reduce the side draft to practically nothing. My neighbor came over and said "My, that does fine work, but the more you cut them ferns the thicker they cume up; but you all know that is just the way to kill them. The more vou cut them and make them bleed, the easier they can be cleaned out. Mr. Middleswart lam one of those who believes in low topped trees. topped my trees to the height ot my knees.or about 20 inches. There are some advantagea iu the matter of culti vation in high topped trees, but there are so many other advantages in favor of a low top tree after they get to be 10 or 12 years old, especially in spraying and picking. Uan you get a horse, say ten or twelve hands high under your nigh topped trees without ekinning the trees or knocking off lots of the apples, when you cultivate I UeBides the low limbs will be a protection from the sun and prevent sun spot. Mr. Kennedy 1 have had experience in handling low topped trees cut to 20 inches. I don't want any more of it in mine. I believe in clearing out from under the tree so the sun and air can get at iK Mr. Mosier I do not believe a good thrifty tree will sun spot. Borers will get in a low top tree as well as a high topped tree, and I do not see that the limbs would be any protection from the cold, Mr. Carroll You take a tree and cut it off up here four feet high. What kind of shape will that tree be in iu few years in this valley? What kind of a body will it have in three years? No Uuokav tlitiM-- ou'o . 4imwlx X1ulua cut my trees all off low down. I am going to show you that I can get up as close to a low top tree as you can to a tree cut off four feet up. If you cut tree back to twenty inches the limbs will come out and turn up while if you cut them off up four feet high the limbs will come out and turn down in the way of your plow, so that yon can t get your horse under them. - Jiow this is a fact Did you ever see a heavy trunk on one of these tall trees? The thicker and heavier the trunk the straighter your tree stands. Then again there is a great saving of labor in favor of the low topped tree. My men picked 100 boxes of ap ples a day off of my low topped trees this year, while they could not have picked more than 20 off of your high trees." You very seldom see a sun spot on a low tree, while 1 think you will see three out of five so affected where the trees are trimmed high. I think this is done" in the winter, and not, as many suppose in the heat of the sum mer. I think the sun shines on them during the warm days drawing tip the sap and the cold nights freeze them, bursting the sap cells, causing the de cay. Warm days and cold . nights ac count for most of the loss from sun scald, I think if the limbs are low down they break the wind from the trees while if the trees are high it is colder, the bare trunk being the most exposed part of the tree. There is an other idea that I differ with most men on, and that is in thinning out the top. Some men will leave only three or four limbs w here I will leave, a dozen. I think there is such a thing as thinning out so thin that yon can't raise good ap ples.) ou can put a few hue apples on lots of limbs, but not lots of fine apples on a few limbs. If you have lots of limbs you can leave a few apples ou each one, making a good heavy crop in the aggre gate, and of good marketable size; while if vou have but few limbs you will be sure to leave too many on thelimbcrowd ing them so that they will be small and an over-burden to the limb.or if properly thinned, will have too few on the tree to make a fair crop. That is my exper ience. Mr. Mosier I have a tree about three years old. The first spring it was about eight feet high and I cut it back to four feet,when the limbs, instead of coming out and going to the ground, they came out and went straight up. It does not follow that because you cut your tree at four feet the limbs should go down and go up when cut at 20 inches, Except in the Swaar, and perhaps the Hen Davis, w Inch might go down. I think either way. has some good features, buUf -von cattow down vou will have to cut off some of your side limbs. If yon don't.I don't know how you w ill get np to your trees. , Mr. Mason 1 want to give a practical illustration of protection of the tree by low pruning. Mr. Winchell complains that a large number of his Ben Davis, which were pruned high, cracked 18 to 20 inches, while mine, which are cut low, were under the snow out of danger. Another thing is how to prune different varieUu. iou cannot prune any two varieties alike. One man spoke about the Ben Davis. I have more trouble with the Ben Davis than any other tree. It grows lust like a weeping willow. Any one can prune a Newtown, the Spitxen berg is the problem. The SpiUenberg as yon know, grows great big, long hm!-. ..They have a fad that you must stop top pruning when a tree is two or three years old. I don't think much of tljis new idea. They used to do too much cutting, now, I don't think thev do enough, and I am afraid they will go to the opposite extreme. Mr. Hvpke says you can get limbs enough on the pilneoriergs if you will tnn cutting hack. You will get two or three yonng ccfw's nets each year, and you can nip so day and a ball to spray tneta. l 0eiHvei on ail out two limbs in each one, and the first spraying la the one that tellil n the same way keep it up until you get your top. Mr. Rand is another man who had the cutting fever, and you will notice that his Spiteenbergs cannot be improved upon in the top pruning The manner of pruning tor one tree wi not be adaptable to another, we wi have to study the nature of your tree and prune accordingly. Take the Law ver, you cannot cut the Lawyer back at all. l ou will make a crau-tree oi it yon do. Chairman I am very much gratified to see so many out today. It shows that you are interested in high class fruit and that you mean business, l thougt when we sent up the notices that w could get 25 or 30 out to attend the meeting, but I am delighted to see twice that number here and to note the inter est that is manifested. Thinning the fruit has not been touched upon yet far. Some say you need to employ Chinaman or an Indian who has no feeling in the matter at all in order do your thinning properly. Mr. Mosier I always thin mine when they get ready to pick. Mr. Mason I know the Spitzenbergi must be thinned. They grow in clusters like cherries, one in the center and five or six around it. If these little ones are all allowed to remain on the tree nine out of ten of them will die when they get to be about the size of dove's eggs. I don't know whether you people know what the size of a dove s is, as it is a scarce article in this country. When you thin your apples pull off these little ones from around the center one. 1 never leave more than three in a cluster. If these little apples are not pulled off they make the best kind ef a harbor for the codlin moth. I try to thin to a sm gle Newtown in a place. I also pull t he leaves off that you so frequently find around a cluster of apples. It takes little extra time but your apples will color up better. Mr. Koot 1 am like Mr. Mosier, thin my apples when they are ready to pick. Mr. Mason Mr. Orr said, in thinning they tried to thin to four inches. 1 hey have no sale for anything smaller than a four-tier Newtown, and that was about all the kind they raised. I asked him how they did it, and he said by thinning and summer pruning. ChairmanIs that true of tho Spitzes bergf Mr. Mason 1 think it 1b. Mr. Henningsen What is the best time to prune? Mr. uarroil 1 generally prune in May or June if I can get to it. If you prune late it heals quicker and don't water-sprout. It is an old saving, "If you want wood prune early, if apples, prune late. " 1 generalfy prune in May I would rather wait until the leaves come out. Mr. Mosier I think June would be still better. Mr. Carroll If you prune late as Au gust ithas a tendency to throw the sap into the limbs you leave on and they will grow longer than if you prune in June. If you cultivate your ground late they will do the same thing, your trees will grow late and are apt to winter kill I seldom cultivate later than the first of August. Mr. Mason It is an important ones' tion, this cultivating in the fall. I have one neighbor who cultivates in Novem ber. 1 think it makes but little differ ence in the growth of the tree whether we cultivate after August or not. If there is to be any second growth it will be after the rains come and I like to keep the weeds out of my orchard in the tall. Mr. Carroll I find in September when it rains that if there are any seeds in the ground they will start.' t hen 1 taKe aiignt narrow atiuiui niese" ntxie weeds and it will not hurt the trees. Mr. Mason I would prune in the early part of the winter. I prefer June totliehrstol the year; but 1 would prune the first of December. We often tiave rain, snow and sleet during the winter and if vou cut out vour extra wood before that comes, you lessen the chances for damage to your trees just that much. Chairman There is one question about heading a tree I would like to ask and that is when you can best do that? Mr. Carroll If you have a tree two or three years old you are not liable to get any top ; but. to cut a yearling tree ou can cnt it wherever you want it. 1 cut off some high two-year old trees. Some never came out. 1 pulled them up. You can do no good heading an old tree back. Mr. Carroll When is it time to graft? Mr. Mosier I have never seen top rafting on big limbs successfully done, have never seen a bud nut in a big imb do any good. As to smaller limbs don't know; but 1 do know that a budded tree on a yearling stock is bet ter than a grafted tree. 1'ut a bud in about three inches from the ground bout the last of July, wrapt with any old string and let it alone for about two weeks, when the string 'may come off. have never nad any success with cherries, but apples, peaches, or any thing else that way, I have good success always. Mr. Mason I am changing some trees in my orchard. I have 4U0 that I did not buy, and I don't know how many more that I bought that I am changing by top grafting. They are all five year old trees. Mr. Kolis did my top grafting. He uses the side graft. Take a tree five years old, or any tree , from three to nve years old, pick out the limbs that will give you the best top. In a limb the Bize of your finger put two or three scions, in a two-inch limb put our. After the union is completed you ill cut out to the best limb. I would not cut a limb over two inches in diame ter, but would take the limbs that are smaller and put the grafts in ' these. I . as very successiui in my ia8t year s rafting, which was my first experience. have a triend at iKiise, Idaho, where ley are making his trees over into Jon athans. He cute thefr trees back about half to let them grow sprouts and the next year buds into the sprouts. I have some six-year-old Ben Davis trees that I will work over in this manner. I ave had good success, about 95 per cent of my grafts grew. Mr. Carroll 1 have put in a good many grafts myself. Some of them grew nd some ol them did not. 1 nnd that a graft freezes it is not apt to grow. Mr. Mason We never do our grafting"' ntil in June, when all danger of frost past. Mr. Carroll We sometimes have frosts quite late and caught some of my grafts. Mr. Mosier In my grafting I used what we call the cleft graft. Mr. Mason We use the side-graft. Mr. Mosier GrafU should be cut in December and put in sand in the cellar. They will nearly every one grow. Mr. Root I have used both those cut in the tall and those taken directly from the tree. Those I took off in the fall ?:rew, but of those I took off the tree very ew grew. Mr. Mosier That's it I will tell yet how I graft When I put the scion in the cleft 1 do nut set it straight with tL'- grain of the wood as ia customarv, but I act it just a little quartering. In this way you will be sure to get the bark of the tree and that of the scion together so as to insure a union. I have grafted limbs 2t and three inches in diameter. Mr. Mason You would not recom mend cutting limbs over two inches iu diamtter? Mr. Carroll No, sir, and one inch is better. Mr. Mason I will tell you about the side graft. nere the reporter ran out of paper. pui it is no reflection upon Mr. Mason'i integrity to say that he is a great grafter as he has had great success in his oper atioiiB while making over his orchard The meeting was lively, interesting ain instructive, and the close attention that was given every speaker throughout the enure session, maniiesteu an interest on the part of the Mosier fruit growers that speaks well for the future of that industry in Mosier valley. After a few minutes further discussion the meeting adjourned. ineso meetings should become a per manent feature and be held at Btated periods, as there is no better way to die- 6enunate a thorough knowledge of the business of fruit growing throughout the valley ,and nothing that has a great er influence in stimulating the spirit of observation and experimental research so necessary to tho highest develop ment ot the industry. Apple Trees f or Sale CHEAP. I lmve 1200 young applet tret wlil-h I wish to Bi'll Immediately. They lire Yellow nmuwn, .loiiHinun, uen juhvik, uhiio, spii. enbeiv and Umvpimtelu. The greater num ber are Newtown and Upitzeubeigs. tot lurtnur tutornintlon see M US. It. L. HOWE. Wanted. A ninn in make irood money for himself in the next few weekH. A man who umierKtumts pruning fruit treex preferred. Call at HANNA'H UlitK'KHY. Hack for Sale. One-horse hack for sale. Innutreof W V. A. COUVfKYMAN. Buggy for Sale. A sccond-haau iiuirirv forsale I'll KAP. An. Notice This! One of the very choicest fruit-uroduetns ranches In Hood River valley, close in. No belter soil for apples can be found. A fine commercial orchard on the place, which will soon produce the price asked for it,, and which it-f-x man iihii wiihi. Kimiiur places are sell ing for. For un Investment or permanent home, nothing In the vallev eoiials thin. Per fect title. Immediate possesion. Letts than four miles train town. Investigate this snap, correspond or can quicaiy upon Cows for Sale. Fresh Jersey and Durham covs. vour choice roriHU, lor sale by j. A. iii-;mu-:ksun, maris lSlngen, Wash. Incubator for Sale. 200 egg Incubator and brooder for sale cheap, maris B. K. HHoKMAKKH. Pay Your Money. Subscribers to the road fund for the Kant. Side grade ure hereby notified that 1 lie work will begin soon, and therefore the mouev MUST HE PAID AT ONCE. Pay vour sub scription at liuui-r 9 baiiK. Ily onlcr of t he (JUMMITTKH. Land to Rent. Apply at the Pratber Investment Co.'s of- nce, or to n. H. Kit WIN. L. H. RICHMOND, Contractor and Builder. Plans furnished and Kstimates on Buildings. given ai For Sale. Four good family Cows: 8 Calves: a eentle riding pony, 7 years old, win work in har ness; chickens, ducks, one uofden pheasant, 15 canary birds. Incubator nnd brooder: 10 gain. niM M. DUMAS, Mt. Hood Fresh Cows. I have 2 or S fresh cows for sale at Riverside Farm, 3 miles west of town. rj) J, W. AlOHJUJN. Hogs for Sale. 1 have 8 young brood sows for sale. Also, a good Jersey cow, 11. W. WAIT, Government Land. lean locate home-seekers on government land good fruit land, with springs: some Willi water to Irrigate; easily cleared: 12 to 13 miles from Hood Kiver; near county road. n21 E. V. MlLLKIt, Hood Kiver, Or, B. F. BELIEU, Contractor and Builder. irrr.ANS ash Estimates FritNiHHEi-6 the Barber Shop, On the Hill, S. C. JACKSON. Proprietor. Will do picture framing in connection. Room mokltnpH and all kindsof pietureand window etHH8 connluntly ou hand. Call and see sain- plew of wall paper. ' Get Your Shoes. All shoes repaired in J. W Hood Kiver. left over : days will be sol the cost of repairing. Oi ii. W.. UIUU.S, Hlggs' shop In d lor Clianees May Come And lime may go, hut we will con tinue to do all kinds of plain and fancy Job Printing at the same old stand, satisfactorily and expeditiously. Your ordere respectfully solicited. E. R. BRADLEY. P. F. Friday F. B. Jlarne FRIDAY & BARNES, Real Estate Town and country property put into our hand! will be promptly brought to iho buyer a attention. We also do liifuninee and ,utaf y Public work. TESTIMONIALS. Hood Kiver," Ogn., Jan. 2S, 1MB. David, son Fruit Co. Gentle men: I bought a l'o mona Hpray Pump from you three years ago, and 1 want to say that I think the roniona is all o. k. Have sprayed several orehards with It oaeh year besides my own, and it has always given good satisfac tion. If I were buy ing a dozen spray C 11 inns today I woulil uy Pomonivs straight through. They cuu't be beat. Yonrs truly, W. H. HKARH. Liberty Home.Hood River, Ogn., Jan. 5, 1UU3. Davidson Fruit Co. Gentlemen: A year (go I purchased from you one of the Gould Pump Co.'s Kentlnel Jr. Spray Pumps. I have used It one season In my 2d ore orchard, and ean truthfully nay that I am well pleased with the results obtAtned. For simplicity In con struction, durability In wear, convenience In cleaning and re pairing, easy opera tion and thorough work, It receives my hearty commenda tion. Yours respect fully, A. I. MASON. rOMONA. Hood River Ogn., Jan. 10, 1D03.-Davidson Fruit Oo.-Gentlemen: After using four other makes of SSnrnv I'm in 11s 1 honirhl Pmmm ami f,.i,rt u . 1 ...... un of orchard with It for two seasons and It was still a new and had cost nothing for repairs. i.asi season, tor my increasing business, 1 bought a Sentinel Jr., and find it equal to any de mands that I CHU make Oil IL It is nowerfiil. dnrnhla nuirflii.- Alu.nuH ...H ... . 1. eveu at 100 to 125 pounds pressure. I consider it unequaled. Yours truly, WM. K.FJNN EDY. ' We are nents for spray pumps and other thine-s that the fruit growers need. Davidson Fruit Co., The Spot Cash Grocery Groceries, Flour, Feed, Hay, Grain, Buckwheat Flour, Vegetables, Butter, DEALS IN Salt Salmon, Lard, Bacon, Hams, Dry Herring, Hominy, Fruit, Eggs, And all Country Produce taken in exchange for goods. J. E. HANNA. SEXTON & WALTHER, Of The Dalles, Or., Agents for the celebrated Smith linrhmniY Marhtrta VJl UASftSlli ITlUVlllllV And can fill orders promptly. They also carry the best Wire Cable for Stump Pulling; Rope Shorten ed, Snatch Blocks and extra hooks. . Write for prices. m20 GET IT AT fl An f IP"! h Fi r1 1 I Uy UU lLia rri n When in need of Anyth ino In the line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints and Oils Get it at CLARKE'S Opposite Post Office. Williams Pharmacy, Otten Building, G. E. WILLIAMS, Prop'r. Headquarters for Pure Drugs, Toilet Articles, PATENT MEDICINES, SPRAYING MATERIALS. Prescriptions my Specialty. Millinery at Cost. All our Pattern, Street and Tailored Hats at cost. See our show window for prices that defy competition. Gentlemen, Make your wives, daughters or sweethearts a Xmas" present of one of those lovely Pattern HaU. MAE B. ROE, Milliner. t C, Haynes James K lh lior BON TON BARBER SHOP. The place to gi t an easy shave, an up-to-dnte hair cut, and to enjoy the luxury of a porcvluiu bath tub. THE NEW FEED STORE. Ou Hie Mount Hood roa.l, South of tow n, keep constantly 011 hand the best quality of Hay, Grain and Fml, Al IxiWft Irlr. d21 l. K. LAMAK, I'mr. Contractor and Builder Plans and Estimates Furnish ko. S. H. COX. COLUMBIA NURSERY. Established 1802. Offers a full line of Gal Imf Stock, On ml Tio-p-l We And other Fruit Trees, Plants, Shrubs and Vines. You are Invited To examine the stock and let us know what yon wat. H. C. BATEHAM, Proprietor. Telephone 604. W. G. Snow and W. L. Upson a flret-elasH Blacksmith and Wagon diop on the comer of Riv er and Fourth streets, where they are prepared to do all kinds of BMsiiiii ni Mm ml Km M wet Special atteution given to horses with bad feet. Our work neat I v and promptly done. Giveusacall. SNOW & TJPS0N.