f HOQD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, JULY 0, 1022 Sal f m. I I THIS WEEK AM) MEX1 1 Factory Stofemeat TO BE SOLD AT FACTORY PRICE .plus frejght. Evry (Refriger ator guaranteed 'highest quality, sanitary and -easy , to clean. Rpund corners canU extra heavy plated shelves, .best grade baked on enamel, some with porcelain 'interiors. Receiving this shipment rat -this time -compels us io .jelose Ithem out at very low price. 40lb.Jce Capacity UO lb. Ice J Capacity ,60 Jb. Ice Capacity tlOO lib. Jce iGqpacity 'Buy-your Tlefrjgerator 'before July 7th. and profit at iOur expense. OUR ;WINDOV5 TEhh THE STORY Kellw Bros. Co. Climb Mount Hood with the American fcegjon, 5Juy :XQtU r in' t"' ! i 'in., ii 1 1 1, ji, i.i ,' m u s s e n i FOR j Berry, Cherry ; Peach, Pear and ! i ! j&pj&e .Boxes ; ' . . . ....... . MADE TO ORDER AT THE O ,HQOD RIVER, :OREGON CONTROL FOR STRAW BERRY ROOT WEEVIL Many itrawberrv crowers in the valley will probably be interested in toe following article by W. Downs, as sistant Dominion entomologist, Van couver, B. C, Mr. Downs has been work ing for several vears on the life history of the itrawberrv root weevil antilis at present pne of .the leading aiitborities on this subject ,He writes Mi, part as ioiiows: i! Many measures leading towards control may be thrown out of consider ation as inenective, too expensive or unpractical. Among these may be mentioned, the application of soil in secticides, fumiganta or chemicals; surface fumigation; repellents; spray mg. Experiments with all these methods have been made from time to time and the ineffectiveness of such measures has been so well demon strated that it was not considered worth while to conduct further investi gations thereon. Two main lines of control, however, based upon the life habits of the weevil, have been shown to be practical. These are cultural methods (which includes the nlouehine t A i 1 a . t . i oi iniesiea neias bi tne proper time 01 year and rotation of crops), and the use of weevil-proof barriers. The first, namely cultural methods, nave been demonstrated without aues tion to be the only means whereby land infested with weevils ean be cleared of them without injury to the crops or land ana without expense, and the land subsequently to a great extent kept in good heart. But no cultural methods will keep land which has been freed from weevil from being reinfested by migrations irom nearby fields, ' and therefore the second method, that of weevil-proof barriers, is suggested as an adjunct to the nrst. Cultural methods of control. In re- Viewing the life history of the insect. several points must be drawn attention to i which have a bearing upon the course or action which he may follow in combating tne pest. Chief among these is tne lact that although many thousands of eggs are deposited, yet comparatively few of the larvae re sulting from them seem to survive and apparently die if favorable conditions are not present, of which conditions the chief is!an abundant supply of the right food. Therefore, the removal of the plants when the larvae are quite smallwill, it has been found, result in their being starved especially if care is taken to follow ur the Dlouehinsr of the land with several weeks of careful cultivation. The method to be, adopted. when an infested field is to be cleaned up is as follows : After the berries are i i At. i . picxeu ine straw may do leu on ine ground and the plants untouched until fall. The object of this is to induce as many weevils as possible to deposit their eggs in the field instead of mi grating. Were ' the plants to be re moved immediately the crop was there would be a general exodus of weevils to the nearest planation. It would even be desirable, if it could be done at moderate expense to erect a barrier around the field and prevent their es cape, the straw provides excellent cover for the weevils and would be a furher inducement to them to remain. Early in September the plants may be lifted and burned. The field should then be ploughed and, thorough cultiva tion, to remove any email strawberry roots and to keep down weeds, should be continued at intervals' for a . month or Bix weeks. As the weevil does not cease egg-laying until September it will not be advisable to plant any crop until a. sufficient time has elapsed for these eggs to hatch and the , larvae to be killed. The land may then be sown to some fall crop according -to the scheme of rotation which it is desired to follow. It has been proved - beyond Question during our experiments at iordon Head, B. C, that this plan, if properly carried out, will destroy all the larvae in the soil. Land that had been heavily infested on the experi mental ground was dealt with in the above manner and when ploughed again in the spring was thoroughly ex amined for larvaenut not one could be found; similar results have been ob tained in other fields as well and pri vate growers have also found the above measure most effective. Rotation of crops. The constant cropping or land by strawberries can not be too strongly condemned. Such practice not only exhausts the soil but is responsible for a tremendous increase and concentration of weevils and other strawberry pests. In a gen eral way it may be said that not more than two successive crops of ' berries should be taken off before planting the land to some other crop. In any method of rotation in which strawber ries are included care must be taken tbat a non-host crop such as potatoes should precede;the strawberry crop and thereby insure against the land being infected before the strawberry plants are set out. It is manifestly impos sible to lay down any definite rule or suggest a scheme of rotation that will be applicable to every farm or section of country. The most that can be said is that such a scheme of rotation should be so planned as to maintain the soil fertility and be so arranged that non-host crops precede the straw berry crops. bo far as conditions on Vancouver Island, B. C, are concerned we be lieve that the following rotation, which is being adopted in our experiments at Gordon Head, B.C., will prove suitable to Vancouver Island conditions, due re gard being given to market require ments. This rotation, originally sug gested by Prof. L. E. Stevenson of the Sidney Experimental Station of the Uominion Experimental k arms Branch, ts designed to maintain aoil fertility and at the same time prevent the in crease of the weevil : - I irst year, plant strawberries : sec ond year, first crop berries; third year, second crop berries, plough and plant fail wheat; fourth ytar,.fa)l wheat with clover; fifth year, clover, sod, manure if possible; sixth year, pota toes, prepare land fur strawberries the following spring. In the case of rew land the rotation may commence with strawberries, but with old land potatoes should precede the first planting of strawberries. Modifications in the rotation may. have to be made owing to special circum stances but in no case shook strawber ries be planted after clover sod on ac count of the risk of introducing the weevil. Weevil-proof barriers. Experiments with weevil-proof barriers have previ ously been tried by A. L. Lovett, at Corvallis, Oregon, and by K. C. Tre herne. at Hayxic. B. C. Although the ploughing ef inflated fields and the practice of a proper system of rotation will do much in the way of control, yet the moot careful cultivation will not prevent the fields bt ing re-infested by migrations of weevils from adjoining fields. The best etlorta of the farmer will avail him littk; if his newly-set plant on land that has been carefully freed from weevil, are infested by an invasion from an adjoining farm. That this will be the case in closely settled district is evident to anyone ho has given the matter thought, fur complete unity of action as to the dis position of plantations and rotation of crops will be almost impossible to bring about. In such a case a barrier which the weevils cannot cross would be invaluable and .solve the difficulty. At Gordon Head iwb types of barrier have' heen tried and both. have given excellent results. The crude oil barrier. The first bar rier of this type was designed by the owner of the farm, G. Vantreight, up on which our experiments were con ducted and jn principle it is simply a continuous, narrow, wooden trough filled with crude oil. This barrier is only suitable for situations that are levl or with a slight slope. Those that we are now using are constructed a.s follows : The fence consists of suitable lengths of 2-inch by 10-inch lumber set on edge and supported at the joints by posts of 2-inch by 6-ifich lumber 18 inches long to which the boards are bolted. The upper edge of the, boards, has a groove cut in it three-quarters of an inch wide and 1 inches deep. The ends ef each section of trough are blocked by small pieces of wood exactly fitting the groove. ..The barrier is set two or three inches in the ground on level land or deeper if necessary where the land is sloping. The groove is filled with crude oil and the short space where the lengths are joined together is smeared with a little tangle-foot to keep the weevils .from crossing. The first step in constructing this barrier is to plough a shallow furrow in which to set it. Holes are then dug to receive the posts and the ends of each seotion are brought together and bolted fo the posts. Bolts are superior to nails for this purpose as the tend ency of the lumber to draw away from the supports when warping occurs is largely overcome. The bolts should be square headed to facilitate removal and the threads should be well greased to prevent rusting. The lumber used should be dry, as free from knots as possible, and should receive a good coat of tar applied hot. A barrier erected in this way will last a number of years and may be taken apart and re-erected around another plantation. In 1921, the cost of such protection per acre was as follows : Materials and cost for one acre. 1,583 feet of lumber 2 inches by 10 inches by 6 inches selected common fir grooved to order at $25 per M, $39.50; 175 feet, 2 inches by 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches posts, sized, at $32, $2.75 ; haulage, $4.00; 40 bolts at 5c, x4J, $7.00; 8 gallons tar. $5.50:2 lbs. tan glefoot at 38c, $.76; 45 gallons crude oil, $7.00. Total, $66.51. The construction of such a barrier presents no difficulties on level or nearly level land and two handy men should be able to erect it in a couple of days, ir properly erected and cared for it should last several years and so the , cost chargeable against the indi vidual crop of berries will not be at all high. It needs no attention beyond seeing that the oil level is maintained and that the troughs do not leak. It is impossible for weevils -to gain access to a plantation with a barrier of this description around it and even .though weevils may crawl through the oil they never survive. On land tbat has much -slope, however, this barrier is difficult to construct owing to the amount, of work entailed by having to cut the sections in very short lengths to . keep them level and in such situa tiona the tanglefoot barrier is to be recommended. The tanglefoot barrier. This is formed of 1-inch by 12-inch i boards fastened end to end, by nails or bolts, to 2-inch by 6-inch posts in a similar way to the oil barrier. The boards are sunk about three inches below the soil surface. The lumber used should be dressed on one side and should be dry before being used. The parts in con tact with the ground should receive a coating of tar applied hot, and the boards will be greatly improved by a coat of paint which will not only help to preserve them but will prevent ab sorption of tanglefoot by the wood. A band of tanglefoot is spread along the upper outside edge about two inches wide and from one eighth to a quarter of an inch thick. As the surface tends to dry out and lose its stickiness it should be scraped occasionally with a wire brush or paddle of wood to break up and renew the surface. About once a fortnight will be sufficient, or as often as it is found that the tanglefoot has been damaged by dust settling upon it. Also in the course of the sea son it will be necessary to entirely re move . the first band and spread a new coat in its place. Care must be taken that all cracks in the barrier are filled, and we have found that the old used tanglefoot or a mixture of tanelefoot and dry earth.ia an admirable material for this purpose. Materials and costs of tanglefoot barrier in 1921.-1,000 ft., 1 inch by 12 inehe selected common fir, $31.50; 250 ft. posts, 2 inches by 6 inches by 1 foot 6 inches sized, at $22, $5.50; 8 gal. tar, $5.50; 60 bolts. by 3, $1.40; nails, $1.00; haulage. $4.00; 80 lb. tangle- root, amy ana ireigbt paid. $29.60. Total, $7&50. The time taken to erect this barrier will be much the tame as for the other. Its efficiency entirely depends unpn the care taken to keep the sticky band in good condition. Provided this is done it is entirely effective in keep ing the weevils .out of a plantation. The weevils are only repelled and are not caught on the sticky surface and we have found that large numbers of weevils can be destroyed by, sinking traps, formed of any flat sided tin can that is handy, level with the surface of the soil and touching the barrier. The traps are . filled .with water and coal oil and as the weevils have a ten dency to follow the I barrier along on the soil surface, large numbers fall in and are destroyed. Time to erect barriers Carejmost be taken to erect the barriers sufficiently early in the spring before the weevils come out of winter quarters. In the Saanich district on Vancouver Island, B. C. they may commence to appear from March 15 to 20, therefore a bar rier should :be in place not later than Karen is. Both types of barrier have been in use at Gordon Head, B. C. for three years and are giving satisfactory re sults: .frequent examinations have failed to disclose the presence of weevils in any of the strawberry plots. Experience in their use will no doubt suggest modifications to suit the indi vidual needs of the grower. MR. AND MRS. SMITH &&&4 BACK FROM SOUTH s oroaucea in ine - spite of the fact that it was the .ma! - , uonra and market conqj- Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Smith, .and v,o t.;na Pvaov and Billv. have re turned from a 2.000-mile motor trip that carried them as far south as San Francisco, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. Frank Tate, nH famiiv And Darticipated in the Shriner's convention. The party left here scheduled to travel into JJeYada onrt tn visit f .kfi Ttthoe. U7o rfiHMivpred. however, says mr, Smith, "that Tahoe was not open, and instead of penetrating Nevada, vwe struck out straight from Lakeview and Alturas for San Francisco, ine rpaus in the section below Lakeview make me think of the little girl, who, when ..ho wan oncA. was very good, but when hnri she was horrid. Those -raaiia. when thev wete good were .ex cellent, but when one struck a bad tret-h. thev were h L We snent three weeks in and around San Francisco. We visited the vHniia beaches on the Bay and out at Golden Gate park. The weather was warm. Bnd the beaches had an appeal. We hl nlanned on coming north by way of Eureka, but our adventures with bad roads in northern California caused us to keep right on the Pacific Highway, which is in fine shape prac tically all the way up. III! 1 HiM 11 111 1 1 Clipped Here and There 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 The services of the men who have been brouerht here as speakers before the MenB'JClub of the Congregational church are not for sale. They are not professional lecturers. They came in response to invitations that were based upon the club s objectives, as ex pressed in the by-laws, "we aim to stimulate intellectual and moral activ ities." The list of such, the result of this club's work, is an imposing one. This vear the members, and others who were invited to the meetings, heard D, Solis Cohen. Wallace McCuuiitnt, Dr, Penrose. Judge J. P. Cavanaugh, Dan J. Malarkev and Judge Stephen B. Lowell. The thought they represented is as varied as the sections from whence they came. Last year the club heard B. F. Ir vine, editor of the Oregon Journal, and Habbi Jonah B. Wise If the Dalles had offered money for these men there would have been no response. They are high in their re spective professions, and unlike Will iam Jennings Bryan, whom Edgar B. Piper felicitated last night, they have no time to go on the platform to in crease their emoluments. The Men's Club is, and at the same time is not, a sectarian organization. It is sponsored by the Congregational church, and usually meets at the church, but its membership is unlimit ed to that faith. A broad policy, the broadest possible, in throwing open discussion, has been adopted, and this has been wise for there are men who would not participate were the activi ties solely of a sectarian character. Thebreadth of this functioning is in dicated in the divergent beliefs of tions were unsatisfactory. The fresh .nnlA of 1921. had an estimated va ue of $163,200,000 to the grower. ar be low this amount came oranges, the second on the list, with an, estimated value of $64,300,000. In declining or der came peaches, with a viun9 $52,200,000; strawberries, $40,900,(hai, grapes, exclusive of grapes used fo r raisins and grape juice, $29.600,ouu, plums and prunes, $19,900,000; pears, $18,300,000; cranberries, ww. apricots. $5,400,000; figs. $1,400,000 snd at the foot of the list of individual fruits for which estimates are made . I .... I.i nflAfl AT came olives, wun a vbiubh"" $800,000. . .... The total value of fruit and fruit products produced on farms during the year is estimated at slightly more than $525,000,000. This amount was $229,- 600,000 less than the estimated vaiue of these products in 1919 and $218. 700,000 less than the estimated value for 1920. , , Th aharn decline in the total value for 1921 is accounted for chiefly by the short crop or orchard fruits in iski. The greatly reduced prices paid for raisins during 1921 was also among the important contributing factors. Orchard fruits chieflv apples, apr- cots. peaches, pears, plums, and prunes dominated all other classes of fruits in value. The estimated value of this class of fruits and their products jn 1921 was $271,000,000, or 62per cent or the value of all fruits and fruit products. The subtropical iruits, cnieny orang es, followed with a vaiuauon ui $87,200,000. or 17 per cent of the fruit total. Next came .the small fruits, mostly strawberries and cranberries with an estimated value for 1921 ef $74,500,000, or 14 per cent of the fruit total. Grapes and grape products had an . estimated value in 1921 of $68,- 500.000, or 13 per cent of the fruit total. For the three years of 1919, 1920. and 1921 the estimated values or or chard fruits were $463,400,000, $441, 900.000, and $270,800,000, respectively. For subtropical fruits these value were $84,200,000, $88,600,000 and $87,- 200,000; for small fruits, $63,300,000, $68,900.00, and $68,500,000. The frujt products of farms for which valuation estimates are made are grape juice, raisins, apple cider, apple-cider vine gar, and dried fruits. The total values of these products fell from 102.J5O0.0OO n 1919 to $66,000,000 in 1920, a de crease or 34 per cent. bpoKane Spokesman Review. When .Fatty Carbunkle was ar raigned by District Attorney Wool wine after the grand jury had said there was no evidence on which to hold him for manslaughter, this colm told the public that if it waited awhile, Mr. Woolwine's actions would be explained by his announcement for soma office ; The prediction has been fulfilled. Mr. Wool wine wants to be governor of California. Corvallis Gazette-Times. One A. E. Campbell swears that be spent $413.23 trying to nominate San ford Macdonald for congress from those men who have spoken before the , Fortiand on a light wine arfd be,r pUt club. D. Solis Cohen and Rabbr Wise form. We don't believe it ; no bunct of SeotehmeD ever spent tthat muci Malarkey are Catholics. . Of one . other man who addressed the club recenty although he does not publicly profess it, it js known to bis friends that he is a man of no faith ; an atheist in fact These things do not hurt the church They strengthen it for the church i thereby publicly stamped as a toleran organization, and there is a greater leaning toward tolerancy today than ever before. At the banquet last night, Mr. Piper apeaking along political lines and ad mitting the standing of the Democratic party said : "We need both sides. No one wants all to think the same way. We criti cize the means, but the general ends sought are the same. This preachment of tolerancy for political parties applies precisely to the churches. 1 he Dalles Chronicle. The keeping of hotels has long since graduated from the category of casual and leisurely occupations into the rari Med atmosphere of big business. A modern hotel is an impressive and complicated institution, offering more kinds of service than the inn-keeper of an earlier day would ever have dreamed or. Where once it was enough for the owner of a hotel to meet guests in an anaoie manner and to "setT i good table," today he has to be an ex ecutive, an organizer, an originator. ureat corporations own chains of hotels and make it difficult for comnrt. itors to keep up with them in multiply- uiK ine reiinemems oi luxury. it is, therefore, not easy for the room clerk or the head waiter to step I . L " . rr-1 ' uircvuy mm uwnerHmp. ine neces sary knowledge is too elaborate to be gained without special training. Flans it was announced recently, have been made for making a four-year college course in hotel management available to aspirants, ' instead of lust trrnw ng into his position, the new hotel man win be the product of university iraining, ine oinciai oi a notel men association said the other dav. This is part of a general tendency on the part of great business organiza tions to conceae mat only the university-trained man can hold up his end in our modern economic organization. The "self-made" executive is not as numerous or as successful as he used to be. Practical experience is still far from negligible as a factor in success, but it has to share honors with theoretical training. Spokane Spokesman Review. Christian and Missionary Alliance. Sunday School 9:43 A. M. II. C. Deiti Superintendent. Treadling at II A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Youn peoples meeting at 6.30, R. C. Samuel, Pres. Prayer moetin? Thurs. at 7.30 P. M. Oar Motto, 1 Cor. I ::W: "But of him are ye in Christ Je?u, Who of God is made unto n, vifrlom and rightpousne, and sanctiucation and redemption." W. P. Kirk, Pastor. Phone 3m3. m9tf A remarkable Bartlett pear orchard in the Hood River valley, owned by Lvroy Childs. pathologist of the Hood rviver experiment aiaiion, is reported as yielding the following tonnage: At nine years of age. in 1919. it produced 4.038 packed boxs of pears. In 1920 it produced 1.6X) packed boxes, li2l' S.034 packed boxes, and this season has a crop which is estimated a t 1 . "v-v Doxes. rroi. c raids ooes not folio some pear districts. He allows all of me new wooa to grow and merelv w: 1 1 .11 . nuns uui uia oiut Hearing wood. It necessary with this system to mav-nol Uim ..aa ... ....... . . 1 I . 1 - J ui W, w wi'iwik ic ioaa. ine Ore- guu vj rower. money Guard. for anything. bunch much Eugene Daily Jost Little Stories One day last week Mrs. J. W. Bick ford and daughter, of Salem, arrived in town by automobile, calling at the Elace of business of C. O. Huelat, rother of Mra. Bickford. They were accompanied by a stranger, who was introduced as a Mr. Burns. They pro ceeded to the Huelat home, and Mr. Burns still remained. Mr. Huelat noted the confident air of the stranger as he entered the home, depositing his hand baggage. He says he remarked to himself that he thought the fellow seemed pretty chesty for a stranger. Indeed, things developed to such a point that Mr. Huelat decided he would have to relieve himself of his feelings by talking the thing over with his wife. The joke, at this point, was too good to keep. The Mr. Burns was a cousin. Will Jordan, boyhood chum of the local merchant. The two men had nnt each other Bince they had raided orch ards 30 years ago in Salem. Earl Franz has been hllnv at Hxa Hood River Garage the past week answering queries of vouthfnl rnmir drivers eeeking red illuminating oiL One of the truckmen appeared, at the Vincent & Shank ernrerv ntnrs tk other day seeking oil for a tail lamp. C. tu. Hrett. arch-ioketr snH other fellows brought it about that the boy was told that the Hood River Garage was the only place in town where one could buy red illuminating fill T hno M v a,.. 5L Mark's Episcopal Church Sunday school evorv Stnn.i.. .1 o'clock. Morninn service will be v. r me uufu ui ine cnurcn every Sunday morninir at 11 oV.lork n.i service will include an address and the usual mueie. 9:45 con- Before VOU bn an .nt,.n,Ui. should see the nem- Kn,iQKL. iv Cameron Motor Co. m4,i ar Notice of Bond Sale Sealed bida will . hour of 3 o'clock p. m. on the 17th dav ' Ju'y. 192?. ancT immediately tbe ..w puuiiuj u xrea dv the I) Rtr t Board of -School District No. 9. HuS rtiver Countv. n house i s.iddisirTCMrHr6r gon. for the purchase nf ' ZZTl istrict issued for the Li --1 ?f ' Mw whool. building therein in the sum of $6.0.-0 on, iaml being m denomination f -uiy 1 UZL. and to become d . svatiie seriallv heirinnin,, i.Z'Z.r, and annua v 1 J. ! thereafter until m.1H X V""7 live ana nn h.lf bonds to The Hood River Sprar Co. is making CASEIN SPREADER lor nae with Ar senate of Lead sprays, potting It op in packages of soch eiae that one packaee can be used w ith each tank of spray. This makes mnch for the convenience of the orchardift. j2tf Announcement by the Hood River American Legion Pit that radio con certs will be a feature of the second Annual Mt Hoed Climb, scheduled for July this year, has created a surpriir inteiest. according to Kent Shoemaker chairman. It is proposed to open the camp in Ue future for a week or more withskiir and other snow Id p(.rta entered. This year it has been limited to two days. It is anticin.fi. k.. national and state Legion c facials. cit c 1 v, i , , . no win ail affair. State Legion Bulletin, cent o per cent) interest per annum, able in li V,nc'.1"1 "nd rest pay- e r iscai A ri - - u II a k LI v i A . "ie c,l,le or Oregon in New Urk City or at the office of thVCountT R verUro,f Hd KiverCounfyo Said bids with!i.1..:.ji certified rhpr from date of sale 7 'H len lbe D istrirt VmA .. . . to reject any oi all ttf . Th. . ""i valuation ef the U..M- Msl the S-hoo. Aft a mm -mWiiri r.r ri-.a v-i. i v - clusir , t I y1'"" district ex clusive of thwe bonds is ViH.OO. Clerk of School Dtrkt No. mi Hood. 9. O