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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1905)
HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905 FINDS DUST SPRAY VERY SUCCESSFUL II. T. Williams, formerly of tbis city, writes the following interest ng uucouut of fruit culture in the Ozark ( omitry, Arkausaa, iu a letter to E. II. Shepard : As you kuow, I left Hoo1 River to attend tbo World's Fate at St. Louis 1 tit year, mid f om the e I came to my fruit fa ru here, where I have been HpVudin? some tin e building hui put ting out now orcbi r s here, mostly of bite peaches, so my time has been well cccupiei. I .' ave now about 20,000 trues (rowing, which probably you will euy is too umc. If I were iu an irr itated countiy I would want to get r'd of ho muai, but somehow here whe e it ruins, we hold on to it afl wo k is not so laborious. Yet for re sults I suppose the irrigates fields of the far Wed will equal more than three times the same space here. I desire to say, however, that we do have t 'e most beautiful colored and llavo ed fruit he e I have ever seen. S01110 Ma'deu Blush apples which rip ened here on my place in early July, were so ext emely b illiant in color that I wondered where I could find their match. I was amused the other day at my .youngest boy. We were talking of the best apples to eat, and of course we all ag eed 011 the ti.imes Uolden, that it could not be beat. The po ch covered up with baskets of apples just brought in from the orchard. This little fellow said: "I will show you which is my favorite appple to eat; you can put me down for that eve.y ' Hire." 80 he wont to the baskets and looked them over and handed one to me and said, "Here it is." I said to him: "Why, liennie, that is a Ben Duvis." "Well," he said, "that's the apple for me; that is the sweetest apple in the orchard." It seemed to me so strange that the apple eveiy one rejected nhoiild be the one the boys b ant. 1 always pass by the Ben Davis I art of the orchard as not much to me. But thi remark of the boy led me to invo tigate, and to my u' prise the applet were sweet and juicy and good, just as be taid. Th's account ioi the feelings of attachment that some hare for old lien. But I found it was due wholly to where it is grown, mill when it is gathered from the tree. It gathered early and grown in a arm, sunny country, it will be weet and juicy and good, but elsewhere it i useless for the tiller of the ground. 1 am glad to see so much interest rising in better apples. The Jonathan i good enough lor any table, and here it is my tirnt choice for the or chard. I have 12 acres now of them alnio t ready to Lear. They are so satisfactory every way iu growth, health and productiveness. Our most protilable apples here are the early apples. Some early apples at various times have sold this reason in Kansas City and St. Louis for $1.75 and 8:2.00 a bushel; of course these were very fancy. But I can sell 50 carloads as easy as one of early apples. 1 havo used the dust spray a good deal on my applo trees this season and it suio is a buuellt. We have so much dew that we do not need to carry m ound the water. We take the same dry chemicals and line in powdered form, very tine, and after mixing, we have a powder gun of great force and capacity, and we just travel from tree (; tree and cover as wo go along with n cloud of dust, and it seems to do the work very nicely. I believe it goes into the interior of the tree more effectively than the liquid spray. I do not suppose, though, that it at taches itself so close to the apple as the liquid spray, but from my obser vation, iu blooming time for spray ing the blooms and holding the spray in the end of the blosoms, it is as good as any one could wish. We can get over so much more ground iu a dny than by the liquid spra . It is rnro to lind a worm able to penetrate to the interior of the apple after thorough spraying with the dust spray in time of bloom, or of falling of the bloom. In dry countries where there is lit tle dew this ay of spraying could not be satisfactory. H is certainly wonderful bo " much good it is to tqiruj, if only for once in time of bloom ; it seems to save more than half the crop. We have fungus trou bles here that are worse than else "here because this is a high pressure climate. (ireat moisture and then great heat following and the tvo make havoc with the fruit, producing rot. I may have to give up some plums, because of this great trouble. But it may bp g iiu to me io do so, ;s 1 can plant iu t ho Delaware grape, which brings in II ore money and is certainly more pleasure. It is a wonder to see the markets of the country going after the grower, hunting him up and get ling his products. The cities are gro ing so fast and the people are I muing more and more to fruit, and the trade finds thoy cannot got enough by consignments; so with one consent every good bouse is now sending out its representative into the field every where to got its sup"lies so as to have enough and have them regular. To give you an idea of how great the de mand is in specialties, an entire train load of lettuce has been shl ped from certaili joints in Florida to New York, besides the customary daily fdiipineuts. One dealer iu New York receives 'M cars of produce daily to mi rly hia trade. This is mostly Southern vegetables. The trade is building up into mammoth propor tions everywhere for everything that is eatablo. In the yards of one rail road, the Pennsylvania, at New York, Oiere are unloaded every day 300 cars of produce for use in the city, and for transference East. This may not include general fruit from California; if, is mostly Eastern produce. As the conle get into better circumstances, tbo demand for better fruit comes rdso, and no price now is an obetae'e if the fruit is worthy. Good peaches ui'l briiia :i.00 a bushel right on tne l.eels of half that money from some sections uot as good When Idaho 11 ars brine ?!.00 a bushel in New ) ork because so handsome, there is a iiance for the Hood River grower to tee how near the mark he can come of making his apples or his cherries rome to their actual weight in money. J have never beard a criticism of Hood Hirer excent one. One man said it, 11 ud I guess he was jealous, "they are inch terrible advertisers." We have blackberries here and fine. Thnv brine 81.50 a crate of 21 quarts. Thj most popular crop on the farm is upHiiuts. Every crew in the country makes daily trips and sits on the fences waiting for the Harvest ana me mr lipvs travel up and down. the rows in. spectiug the patch daily. It is a crop (if universal happiness fiom the small i.nv no or down in creation. A dish nnanuta buttered anJ salt pd is better than the best beef steak in solid nourishment. This is a great fruit section, The two counties north of me receive mi'lion dol ars each yearly lor men fruit cron. whenever they have any. This valley is devoted mostly to peaches.- - One grower this season re ceived 118,000 from bis crop. When there la crop this val'er ships oou cara of peaches. Buyers take every thing at the depot North of me is the strawberry land and there are places that ship over 200 cars of strawberries Prices this year were extra high over $2.00 a orate. Here's a Tongs. One. Special to the Glacier. Portland, bept. as. in tne Manu factures building at the Lewis and Clark exposition is a biscuit of marvel ous toughness, tougher than the bis ouits described in the funny papers. and a tnonsand times as large ana heavy. This biscuit is of rubber, and it weighs 70 pounds. It Is worth about $100. The big biscuit la of Para rubber. the most valuable kind, and was made by natives in tne jungles of Boutn America, three thousand miles from the mouth of the Amazon river. Para rubber, named for Para, a town near the mouth of the Amazon, originally was gathered uear that plaoe, but the ravages of the rubber gatherers des troyed the industry, and now rub ber trees grow only in the far inland valleys. Under scientific methods now in vogue the limit of rubber tak en from each tree is about three pounds. The rubber as it comes from the tree is about as thick as molasses. The natives coagulate it in smoke, us ing a stick as the center. The big bis cuit now at the Western World's Fair was made in that way. Rubber from South Africa is not to valuable. King Leopold of Belgium now con trols the output. In the old days the natives used to coagulate the rubber about a rook, and sell it by weight, rock and all, but this practice has been stopped. The only rubber produoed in Uncle Bam s domain comes from the southern islands of the Philippine group. Dr. Adams and Tainted Money. Hood River, Aug. 27. 1905. Editor Glacier: I think your statement not long ago regarding Percival S. Adams, needs a little correcting. Instead of two years, as you state, he was at Cor- vallis college four years, and graduated with honors. Not satisfied with such knowledge as he oould obtain there, he wanted to complete his education at a higher university. My grandson, Rev. Herbert Johneon, w ho preaches in Bostou, called on me lately and in sisted that he go to Bostou instead of of California and graduute at the In situte of Technology, the best Institu tion in the United States. He left for Boston September 15. I see by the pa pers that the Institute of Technology has formed an alliance with Harvard University, which increase the facil ities for a thorough equipment of stu dents anxious to qualify themselves to successfully grapple with obstacles in the way of making a success in life. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson is the Bap tist preacher who lately so successful ly stirred up the Rockefeller nest by denouncing John D. Rockefeller's "tainted money," derived from his Standard oil monopoly, which brought to the front a Baptist preacher in Portland in the defense of Rockefel ler, and brought out the Oregon mn iu defence of Johnson's position. The great question which is now be ing agitated in the theological world, dividing the churches and causing hair pulling among its I). D. 's, is-can a missionary seut and supported with "tainted money" be fully equippod for saving the tools of cannibals The next questiou ought to be, can t missionary save many souls who b "tainted" himself, and leaves the heathen to come back to impose upon honest people here? If such men can be of any use to the heathen (we huve a fair sample In Hood River) we are ready with the poet Watt to cry out; ''Great God I On what a fickle thread hangs everlasting things!" W. H ADAMS. The Coil-Spring Apple Buyer. Chicago Packer. All signs point to high priced applos by Christmas time. In Western New York state $2 to $2.50 are now being paid for No. 1 fruit as it hangs on the trees. This naturally means that this same fruit cannot be taken out in the winter for less than $1 to $4.50 per barrel by the operators. Tack on the profit of the jobbers, and you already have iu the neighborhood of $5 apples. Last season the buyers were pract ically Inactive in accordance with the crop conditions ruling at that time. The natural inclination of the apple buyer is to be always on the go. In one respect he is a good deal like a coil spring; burden him with condi tions as existed during the winter of 1901-5, keep him tied down thus for en entire season and then all of a sud den raise the burden and he springs out iuto the field of aotion with twice the vigor and activity that he dis played before the check was put upon him. The proceedings of the apple buyer, just at this time at least, warrant drawing the above simile. The first dash out of the box the operators be gin gathering in the fruit at $2 per barrel. This price was advanced to $2.25 and later to $2.50. The latter figure being paid right now by some of the most spectacular operators. The crop certainly Is a short one. In western New York state the 40 per cent estimate a few weeks ago by the Packer could easly be reduced now to 30 per cent. The Michigan crop will not make over 30 per cent and in Missouri and Illinois the yield is also cut down con siderably. The above estimates are made with last year's bumper crop in mind. But how about Colorado and the coast where there will be large volums of tine Iiuit. These great sections, where packing hag been brought down to a science must be reckoned with. The P cker does not believe in cry ing low price ; on the other hand, it does not consider excessive prices a good thing for the apple grower. High prices when there should not be high prices benefit a few but are a detri ment to many. The advanced prices being paid for early fruit are all right because the season for that stock is short-lived and the fruit can be moved within a a few days or a week after it is gath ered. The growers of late apples should have good healthy figures for their fruit this year, but, at the same time, the operators should be careful and not get wild. They must remember that every. barrel of apples that goes into coolers must come out. Pleasantly Effective. Xpvpr in the wnv. nn tmnhlA in orrv nay to take, pleasant and nevs failing :.. l li .i':..' t 1 i 1 1: 111 irr.ii 1 lo mi? inr,, m uuie lariy ivis- era. These famous little pills are a cer- ImIh criiur&lltfHf MffAlnut liA1.Hftr.l10 hll. iousness, torpid liver and all of the ills resulting iroru constipation. luey tonic and strengthen the liver. Cure Jauudiee, Hold by O, E. Williams. Two-quart combination hot water bottle and fountain syringe guaranteed lor one year. Only fl.oO at Clarke s. THERE IS PROFIT IN FANCY FRUIT The followiug article on successful Hood River methods of fruit culture appears in the September number of the Northwest Horticulturist, prepar ed by E. H. Shepard, secretary and manager of the local fruit anions: In the first place, a section must f;row good fruit. In the second place, t is absolutely essential to pack the same properly, which requires great care and additionally, a very thorough and rigid inspection by the associa tion or union. Our people raise good fruit and put up a high grade pack. Strawberries, we are compelled to market the pack of each grower, it not being practicable to handle the crop In any other way. However, these are all inspected and graded at the union office when received, and the grower Is paid in accordance with his grade and the returns. Apples, we find it more satisfactory to have packed by the association, and no grower is permitted to pack his own apples. They are all packed by a force of packers employed by the union and acting under instructions of the management. In the fruit bus iness we are coming to the specialty stage, the same as all other lines of business are doing. A locality to achieve great auocess and large profits must find out what fruit or variety is best adapted to its soil and climate, and then grow that fruit and put it up in the best manner possible. To aohieve success in the fruit business a district must either grow something better, earlier or later than all other districts. In apples our growers give very thorough cultivation, and when it comes to thinning, we thin so that no two apples hang from the sumo fruit stem and so as to have tbem six inches apart. Growers thin from one to three times, each time picking off along with the regular thinning e ery apple that is imperfect in any way. We grow fancy fruit, and In fancy fruit there is profit. I almost believe that 1 am justified in man ing the state ment that if a grower bad 100 boxes of apples that were good and packed out 90 boxes that were fine, throwing out the other 10, he would realize more money than if be packed the whole 100. Our facilities are good. We have two unions, the Hood River Fruit Growers' union, handling straw berries, blackberries, raspberries, cherries and other e a ly fruits, and the Hood River Apple Growers' un ion, handling pears and apples. The two unions, although handling differ eut classes of fruit, are in perfect har mony and both are growing stronger. Our Apple Growers' union the firtt year had 47 names and the second year I increased it to 110, and it now represents over 90 per cent of the growers in the valley. Our growers, apparently, believe in securing a man who has tLe con 11 deuce of the (. rowers, and 1 am plud to say they bUleve In retaining Lim, reajlng that the more expericLced i. man is in the business the bett r le sults be cau recure for them. 1 was elected mai agor of both associations last year and again re-elected this yeur, making two years iu eaob union. It is uot an eisy positon to fill, but, so far, 1 am pleased to say that har mony has revailed between the buyer and the management and between the manngen.ei t and the grower. Each union Iihs a warehouse and a sidetrack, 'lhc n pie growers are just building tin ir new warehouse, which is 100 feet h Kg. 10 feet wide and two stories high. We ship over the O. It. A N., the N. P. My., using both the Armour and the Itohn cars. Both roads and both companies have given us excellent service Our berry crop this year was over 100,000 crates. there was KW.uuu nipie net prott this year, for the growers than last year. Our apple crop this j ear is comparatively light and will probably be between 50, oou and 60,000 boxes; but with the present acreage set it will gradually increase and in lite years our estimated crop of apples will be 600,000 boxes. Our rnliio ciop of Newtowns and Spitzen bergs was sold on August 10th on a contract with a deposit. We do not Delicto in consignment business and do us little as possible. A straight sale at a reasonable figure is better thau the hope of a big price with low returns. Last year our Spitzen bergs aud Newtowus sold at $2.10 and $1.75 respectively; the price this year 1 am tot at the present time at liberty to state. Interesting Railroad Statistics. The number of persons on the pay rolls of the railroa is iu the United States as returned for June 30, 1904, was 1.296.121, or 611 per 100 miles of lne, a decrease for the year of 16,416, or 2M per 10U miles, lne wage and salares paid for the year amount to $87,598,80. The par value of the amount of railway capital outstanding on June 30, 1904, was $13,213,124,679, which represents a capltaliaztiou of $64,265 a mile. Of this capital SG,- 31)9, 89i), 329 existed as stock, of which $5,050,529,469 w s common and II, 289,369,860 prefer! ed aud the remain ing part, $6,873,225,350, as funded debt, which consisted of mortgage bonds, $5,740,898,983; miscellaneous obligations, $723,114,896; . income bonds, $229,876,687, and equipment trust obligations, $173,334,694. Cur rent liabilities for tne year amounted to $881,628,720, or $4,288 per mile of line. VI tne total capital stock out standing $2,696,472,010, or 42.53 per i An staid ftrt slllflani4u TVtA amnimf tlOII l .' I VA UUU4VIUVUMCTI A. OlliWUUb of dividends declared during the year was $221,941,049, being equivalent to e.UU per cent on dividend paying- stock. The nubmer of passengers reported as carried by the railways in the year was 71o,419,t82,an Increase of 20,508, 147. The number of tons of freight carried was 1.309,899,165. which ex ceeds the tonage f the previous year by 5,504,842 tons. The gross earnings were $1,975,174,091, beiug $74,327,148 greater than for the previous year. Operating expenses were $,1338,890, 253, an ncrease of $81,357,401. The total number of casualties to persons on the railways was 94,201, of which 10,046 represented the number of per sons killed, and 84,155 the number in jured. Of the persons kill 1 441 were passengers and the wounded 9,111, or one killed out of every 1,622,267 car ried, and one injured out of every 78,523 carried. A Remedy Without a Peer. "I find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets more beneflcaltban any other remedy lever used for stomach trouble," says J. P. Klote, of Edina, Mo. For any disorder of tlie stomach, biliousness or constipation, these Tab lets are without a peer. For wile by Williams' Pharmacy. Apple Growers We wish to correspond with yon about apples. Will pay cash for right varieties aud prices. A. P. Blowers & Co., Seattle, Wash. - Save Something Its the sure way to success. Everybody can save soim thing, if it is only a small amount, and the small sinus Baved and deposited REG I LA RLY soon yield large re sults. It may mean the building of n home, the foundation of a business, or a college edu cation. We receive deposits of one dollar or more at any tune and pay interest at the ru;e of four per cent per annum, compounded semi-annually. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Do Yon Suffer with Pysjx p -ia or lnuigestionr name s j: si . mh , Tablets willcure vou. Price ni,lv ,"!),. i J. R. NICKELSEN i i : a i . i : i : in Vehiclesand Agricultural Implements . ,u..Ji of Plows, Harrows, Cull i vatt's an.l repairs, I irubbiiiu Machines and '. i c Cable, Aermoter WiiM Mills, I'.urKeye rumps, llnlsler Siu-ings, Uoyt's Tree Supports, and llant'onl's Hals.ini n( Myirh. il . ::i5S Extra Bmnsy 'IVps. Cushion, hashes, Poles, Shafts, inul. trees mill Neekycikes. When you buy a Wagon buy a RUSHFORD b PPPJl 1CP The NORTON & SMITH Tinners, Plumbers and Steam Fitters Unndlo Pumps. Windmills, Spray Fittings and Hose a U a DUAL Staple and je? jz? Fancy Groceries AND HARDWARE. SOLE AGENTS I'OIt Majestic & Mesaba Ranges add Stiletto Cutlery. HOOD RIVER HEIGHTS, The FOR BARGAINS IN Ice Cold Refrigerators, Furniture, Stoves, Ranges, Crockery, Tin &!Granite ware and in fact ovcrvthin in the Ik u.c furnishing line. Big reductions this month. We Exchange New Furniture for Old. Picture Framing. Furniture Repairing. Stove Repairing. Cheapest Outfitters. l'lioxr: r,i. BUILDING MATERIAL Sharpies lobular TilK l,ATIT AND NEST CREAM SEPARATORS Ru,liford is built for Sturdy right way- the wagon (or the harilhc.vlfd fanner who lightly wants full value (or every, dollar, ll'j a wagon that Stands the racket-has more real Strength and wear than you ever saw (or the same money; and yet a Rusliord X'at;on is neither over heavy nor cluiiey. :: Forty Mti fiavf ))ntir 10 itir m.ilin ol lhc Rinhford U'-igon i-'ui .lion - you 11 wt,y that count it you H look ot ov. Want to iliow YOU . KurlifoH -com in J look today. ;: :; ;i " - 11 :i J. R. Nickelsen of Hood River, Oregon 3 i:u i. OREGON. - THE BIG SECOND-HAND STORE, JTJST DECEIVED Another Car of those Fine Cedar Shingles FULL LINE OF on hand. We solicit your orders. on Lumber Co Hood River, Oregon. WHOLESALE ItKTAIL THE DALLES NURSERIES R. II. WEBER, Prop. THE DALLES, OREGON. GROWIR AND DSALKR IN FRUIT, SHADE AND TREES ORNAMENTAL Evergreens, Rosea and Shrubbery. Remember, Our Trees are Grown Strictly Withaut Irrigation. MT. HOOD MILL CO. All kinds of Seasoned Lumber in stock. The Little .Mill with the Little Prices. Everything as cheap as the cheapest and good as good as the best. Mill one-fouth mile west of S. A. Helmers' store. Kelly . Wishart, Telephone. CENTRAL MARKET MAYES BROS., Proprietors. DKALEKS IN ALL KINDS OF Fresh Si Cured Meats VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. ..Mount Hood Store... W. S. GIUBBLE, Proprietor. Fine Fishing Tackle Hardware Hay (irain Flour THE MILL WILL NEVER GRIND with the water that in pant, hut unlike tht! mill, our ptiHt onlt'ra have bevti tilled mo HUcivHhl'ully that new oiien are coimtantly coming in from our old putroiiH. Art you to lie one of them? Our IliilliH 1'uleiit and White Kiver Hour in the finest that in milled, and U ground from the U-Mt Helecled wheat; In fact the eream of the wheatflelda, unil it iniiki'H the moHt delicious bread white and palatable. FOK 8AI.I HY STRANAHAN & SHEETS Hood River, Or. TRY - 23 m ffltiiiilLli) econd-hand Store 0. P. DABNEY TIIONE 51. GRAPE VINES AND SMALL FRUITS Proprietors. Ammunition Oraniteware Dry Goods Notions Feed Full lino of Groceries Monmouth State Normal Begin Its 24th year September 20. Three Courses of Study preparing for County and Stato certifi cates. Higher courxes recognized in Washington and other states. Demand for Normal Trained Tencliers. Longer terms, higher wuijub ami letter opportunities (or promotion award tlio Normal graduate for his enterprise. Hchool directors appreciate tlio superior ability of Monmouth graduates and tin demand far exceeds the supply. Special attention given to methods work in graded and ungraded schools. Catalogues Containing Full Informa tion will be sent on application. Cor respondence Invited. AddretiH, E. D. RESSLER, IWU.nl, or J. B. V. BUTLKH, Secretary. & CO., Proprietors.