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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1918)
o HOOD K1VKU (iLAClEli, THL'tt.DAY, Jl'XE 2u, 191S To The People of Hood River County: 2XX ZXXL X "While the attention of the country has been centered recently upon the Liberty Loan, we must keep constantly at Heart the success of the War Savings movement. "Individual economy and the conservation of labor and material is an absolute necessity for the financing of the war on a sound basis. In order to bring this necessi ty home to the people of this country, there will be conducted under the direction of the Treasury department a campaign for pledges culminating on June 2Sth, designed by the President as National War Savings Day, when loyal Americans throughout the country will be asked to commit themselves to saving and economy. ' "Unfortunately the impression is held in some quarters that only the poorer classes and children are expected to save and invest in War Savings Stamps. It is nec essary that all classes men, women and children, rich and poor alike shall save and eliminate unnecessary expenditure and waste. The Government desires that every man, woman and child in the country shall pledge themselves to save to the utmost of their ability and to invest definite amounts in War Savings Stamps during the remain der of the year." Extracts from W. G. McAdoo's letter of June 5th, 1918. JnHE County Solicitors for this campaign will no doubt call upon you within the next few days. As they are giving up the time from their own work for the purpose of assisting the Government in raising the quota for Hood River County, the Executive Committee requests that you help the solicitors in their work as much as you can by having definitely determined in your mind how much you can afford to pledge and be ready to sign the pledge cards when they call upon you. We want Hood River County to be the first county to send a complete report to headquarters advising that the allotment has been filled. Executive Committee, Hood River County War Savings Committee. Courtesy of Mood River Garage and Cruikshank Company J A INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN FOR APPLE THINNING (Ity Uordou 0. Brown) Mont recommendations given out by myself have, during the past sea son been mainly directed towards quality iu fruit. The aim in this article is to discuss orchard practice from the same standpoint. Aguin I wish to emphasize the absolute need ol high quality In fruit this year, particularly with reference to sizes. Various selling organizations this pust spring have repeatedly urged that small-sized apples will not he acceptable in quantity this fall. This fact was closely reflected in returns for the 1Ji17 crop, prices being low for small fruit. The grower should keep in mind constantly that tem porarily our export market, which Ik retofore consumed a large per ( entago of our small fruit, Is gone and that our fruit crop this year must be sold at home and apparent Iv as it now seems with keen com petition. The Eastern apple crop is large and there have been unmistak- i hie rumblings from Eastern grow ers that their murket belongs to themselves. (Where then does the Western fruitgrower "get off,'' who ptoduces small fruit the market doesn't want and won't pay for when !!e apple crop is large, especially In view of the alarming advance in 1' .-eight rates? The writer urges the grower to t;ike no chances upon this point this ear. Hotter be safe than sorry 'I he importance of Irrigation and 1 1 it iv.il Inn has been discussed in I lovious articles. Their relation to the point in question is evident. Just now the problem .of thinning is at hand. First, let me urge that there is nothing to bo gained in fur iher delay in this work. The longer if is put off the more energy of the tice will be wasted in apples which llnally will he thinned off. This is lint to suggest, however, that those v ho do delay thinning beyond the norma! season should let it go alto gether. There is much evidence to sl ow that thinning as late as Aug ust 15 may do much in improving sizes and color, but such thinning i.uild sen reel y be expected to accom plish as much as where early thin ning had een done. It Is quite evi dent now what fruit will remain up on the tree so that thinning may be s.'fely done. The first question to be consider ed is: How much fruit should the tioe carry? This cannot be answer ed in any definite number of boxes. The age of the tree will have a good deal to do with thl There is a big acreage coining into bearing in this valley. Trees of this age will natur ally produce larger fruit than obi trees, hence the necessity of heavy thinning is less urgent. This is especially true with the Ortleys. On the other hand, most of these young trees are located at higher altitudes with a. shorter growing season than in the lower valley. The more this is true the greater the need of thin ning. With old trees, most of which are in the lower valley, the problem is different. They may be expected to bear anywhere from 10 to 25 loose boxes per tree and more. Where trees are vigorous, fertilizer applied and considerable cultivation riven, a higher yield of desirable sizes nny naturally be expected than from trees of lower vitality caused from lack of proper stimula tion. The amount of thinning to be done will have to be decided by the grower who knows what his trees have been doing. If the tendency has been for fruit to run small with a given load of fruit the chances are It will continue so unless chang ed by different orchard practice. With reference to spacing fruits, this can often be done to advantage where a heavy bloom has set well. This will tend to distribute the weight and make propping easier. On the other hand this often cannot be done without an undue sacrifice of fruit. With some of our old trees, especially Spitzenbergs, many of the fruit spurs are non-productive on the larger branches or have been broken off. Consequently the fruit is borne further out near the end of branch es. Assuming that in this manner there is borne approximately the tame number of fruits as where ell distributed along the whole branch, what, then should be th practice? Thin out only sufficiently to Insure enough light and air. Be yond that point so-called spacing as first suggested would result in. overthinning and reduce yields ab normally. On the other hand, where the natural drop of fruit ha been Heavy little or no thinning is required. Lastly, let me emphasize that thin ning pays. It pays In higher quality fruit. It saves much picking and. irracitng at narvest. it saves vour Ixwes for high-grade fruit. It helps: tf preserve shape in young trees. It saves in not value of fruit per acre. M hooping Cough In this disease it is important that the cough be kept loose and expector ation easy, which can be done by giv ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. P. H. Martin, Peru, Ind., writes, "My two daughters had whooping cough. I gave them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and it worked like a charm." MORE ABOUT TO BACCO AND SOLDIERS Hood River, Ore., June 14, 1018. Kditor Glacier: The Hood Kivar Glacier of June (i claims that the de mand for tobacco at the front is unani mous. There is good authority exist ing that this is not the case, although there are those who are addicted to the use of tobacco who might suffer in tensely for a time if deprived of their accustomed privilege ; there are others, mere boys from our schools and col leges, who have been taught that to bacco is injurious to the human system. Thirty years ago I was compelled by law to each my pupils that tobacco was extremely injurious. The same laws have existed ever since, and today in Washington, the minor who receives tobacco in any form, as well aB the man who sells or gives it to him, is subject to the penalty of the law pro hibiting sale of tobacco to minors. Are not our boys in France still Amer ican boys, protected by American laws? What about the individual in Washing ton who sends him a package of the weed: W l.at about the minor who re ceives it? Are they not both defying the laws of our government? Should they not be subject to the same penal ty as though the transactionvoccurred here .' One young man of 18, in an American cantonment, wrote home to Hood River that he had received 12 packages of smoking tobacco from various sources last Christmas. Is it sufficient to keep on with our feet set down hard against the cigarette as puffed by our imma ture schoolboys, only to tell them the day they don the olive drab they are immediately old enough to repudiate the laws that governed their training, and favor if they choose, their indi vidual inclinations? About the time congress declared a state of war existing between the U. S. and Germany there was much per turbation concerning the crippling of our tobacco industry. 1 have been un able to find anything in regard to the matter of date. Presuming that food is not overly abundant: nor facilities for transporta tion unlimited, 1 conclude that it might be not only legitimate but advanta geous to the general welfare if some means were adopted to discourage minors abroad, as well as at home, from forming the tobacco habit, at least while present conditions prevail. Minnie J. Vonder Ahe. The Glacier did not say anywhere or at anytime tnat the demand for tubac co by soldiers in France was unani mous. That is something we do not Know anytning about. We do know, however, that large number of the men, perhaps the majority, want to bacco, ami they should have it. If the government did not realize the neces sity of supplying these men with to- bacco.it most certainly would not have commandeered the output of a number of prominent manufactories. tr.iuil. IB K.'IIIK iO UC fllUUe O before he can receive packages from home. Again, perhaps the lad was not so unfortunate after all, for in receiv ing this tobacco he had the opportunity to make happy more than one of our boys who craved the tobacco and yet did not have friends so thoughtful of his comfort as to send it to him. GIBSON URGES SUGAR AND FLOUR SAVING No force smoking or chewing on anv sol dier, hut every effort will be made to provide the weed for those who want it. As for the youth who received 12 packages of tobacco.although he didn't smokft he was unfortunate. Such mis applied generosity of friends cannot happen again. For the soldier must now write a request, and it must be approved by his commanding officer, To the people of Hood River Coun ty: A severe shortage in sugar has made It necessary for the Federal I-cod Administration to restrict city purchases to two pounds and rural purchases to five pounds. This does not affect the buying of larger quan tities on the sugar card for canning end preserving. This sugar card thould he read closely before it is signed. Those who use sugar bought for canning and preserving for gen eral family use violate a serious pledge. Guard your sugar consump tion. The government is anxious that all white wheat flour shall bo return ed at once. Do a christian duty by taking any stocks of flour you may yet have, back to your local grocer. On account of this returning of flour Oregon released last week 7,000 bar rels of flour for shipment abroad. Isn't that a large and strong service to our armies over there? When our boys come marching home we'll have a jubilee and eat white wheat biscuit and chicken gravy, but in the meantime while we are hammering the Hun we'll eat alfalfa meal if necessary and say our grace to God over our alfalfa muffins, firing back your flour for the boys over there. It will pay you in a feeling of duty done. Sincerely, L. B. Gibson. MR. APPLE GROWER Don't place your order for a grading machine until you have seen the 1918 model CUTLER. A new sorting table is used, which will reduce your cost of sorting by 40 or 50 per cent. The fruit is moved across in front of the sorters and is revolved slow-lv so that the sort er can easily see any defects and only picks out the culls and lower grades. The predominant grade passes auto matically into the grader without any handling bv the sorter, and it is this fact which results in the maximum output per sorter with minimum cost per box. ' Don't buy a machine just because its first cost is low. It's very easy to dron $100 in wages bv using an ineffici ent grader. CUTLER GRADERS pay for themselves in a short .time. We will have a demonstration in Hood River iti the near future, notice of which will be given in the papres. CUTLER MANUFACTURING CO Rubber Ramps at Glacier office. THE BEEMAN WALKING TRACTOR will make your garden produce to the maximum. This little piant will do anything that one horse can clo, and it doesn't eat expensive feed. Ask for demonstration. USE THE SAMSON TRACTOR FOR ORCHARD WORK - VJ - . , ft w 1 ' Now is the time to turn that old car in on a new one. We have urgent calls for second hand cars. Most any old bout will bring money now days. We can fix it or make it, or yon can find it in some one ot our many departments : Hlacksmithing Woodworking Auto Repairing Horseshoeing Samson Tractors ( M C Trucks Overlands Tires All Makes Accessories Tractor Discs and Plows SNOW & FORDEN MOTOR CO. Tel. 2612 or 2611 Cor. Fourth and Cascade Sts., HOOD RIVER, OREGON SUBSTITUTE DEMON STRATION PLANNED The making of yeast bread with a minimum of wheat is the housewife's problem these days. To render all assistance possible, Mrs. W. II. Mc (Tain, director of home economics for Hood River county, has arrang ed for a bread making exhibit Satur day, June 22. in the vacant room east of the Red Cross rummage sale. - Mrs. If. J. Fredericks and Mrs. Ed. I.age will make bread, that the lad ies may see how the dough as well as the baked loaf will 1 00k. Mrs. Fredericks will use oat, rice and gra ham flour. Mrs. Lage will use cook ed rice, barley and white- flour. A sample of entirely wheatless biead, with the recipe, will also be exhibited. Ladies making bread with any of the other substitutes will be doing a patriotic work by bringing a sample and recipe with exact measurements which will help others. The demonstration will begin promptly at 2:30 p. m. When in Portland stop at the modern Palace Hotel, at Washington and 12th streets, in center of shopping and thea tre districts. 1 1 -tf o Butler Banking Company ESTABLISHED 1900 Total Resources May 10th, 1918 $904,926.93 czz: MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTES