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IO SHORT PRUNE CROP. 1 lie prune crop of several Willam ette Valley. Ore., counties and Clarke county, Wash.. has been badly damaged by cold rains and a frost. Thli is especially true ot orchards in the lowland!, where the trees were m blossom early and the pollen was exposed. In the foothills the bloom was late. :;r.:l no damage was done by the told weather. The trees which suf fered most were of the Italian variety, i hey will not yield much more than half of a crop, but the fruit will be larger and of a better quality, and will (ommand better prices than last year. Comparatively little damage was done to the Petite trees; The prune crop of 1!K)L" in Polk coun ty. Ore., will be considerably smallei than that of last year. On a general average this year's crop will he about 80 per cent of the output of 1901. The main reason for this, the growers say, is that the unfavorable weather of the past month has caused a great many of the prunes to drop off the trees. The orchards in the eastern part of the county growing on the lowlands have been the greatest sufferers. From information gathered from prune men from all parts of Clarke county, Wash., the yield is estimated at 125 carloads of dried fruit, or about one-half of last year's yield. Esti mates of the various prune growers. vary from 75 to liOO carloads. This variation is largely due lo the fact I hat the crop is decidedly spotted i'nd that while in this vicinity Uw treed bear all they can develop, in another locality the crop is an entire failure. The prune crop in Yamhill county, Ore., is worse than decimated, and only favorable weather for the remainder of the season will secure a crop even in favored localit'es. At the present time four-fifthl of a crop is predict c I for" this Bection cf the county by Dr. (}. S. Wright, one of the largp;t prune growers in McMinnvllle. The orchards on the low or valley lands Immediately contiguous to McMlnnville will have practically no fruit, but the prospects In tiie hill orchards are ..bout the same as last year. The reason given for the advantage of the orchards on the high lands over Lhe valley orchards the pre-ent year is thfti the cees in the latter locations bloomed about a week earllei '.ban tho?e in the hills, and the fruit being in full flower, the pollen was exposed to the cold rains which <ame on at that time. Manager Johnson, of the Corvallis and BentOS County Prune Company, which owns a 155-acre orchard north of Corvalllß, says: "The prune crop is badly Injured, and v hile it would be difficult to make an acmrate statement of the damage at this time, a conservative estimate would not place thia year's prune crop in this county at more than one-fifth of last year's. What fruit we have, however, ought to lie unusually lars<e and tine. It was Impossible for evap orator-; to handle tin; immense crop of last year, and for that reason the Output of dried piunos this fall will not be proportionately as small as the crop would indicate." L. I. Reynolds, treasure of the Ore ron State Board of Horticulture at Sa lem, says: "As near as can be esti mated, the prune crop of (his locality will not exceed 30 per cent, of the crop of last your. The above is for the prune orchards north of Salem. I have not y< jt received enough reports from the district as a whole to give an accurate estimate of the prune crop of the second district." CTS4OO foTTHg LARGEST SHEEP JOsI WORLD V* offer $400.00c B sh^ three wUne^e, to be <~^^tfg223%gg3gg^^ I K§HP»H"^BBBB^^S-*V to l-o fed in small-sized feed, in connection with the regular grain. It hat ten, Stotk In 80 I. 80 D.™le» thn, Locate I M^^^ , *v>- ""^H it aids Digestion and Assimilation. In this way it saves a Urge amount of Gram. The use of "INTERNATIONAL HIOCK ■ ■■•^ >v » \ 'i«^B l'001»"onlvcosts»S-3 FEEDS for ONK CENT."S3) Ask your dealer for It and refuse any of the many •übstitutes or ■ Ik ,v 1/ 11 A $3000.00 STOCK BOOK FREE \ m |\»> V A PTMAILED TO EVERY READER OF THIS PAPER.-®* t ._ 1) A *•*.'■» 11 A|^^^^H This Book Contains 183 Large Colored Engravings of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry etc. "Kent that k\ A >i^ _i /^^^^^■tohweourAr«stßa*d"gr^ It conUin. a finely Illustrated VeUrinary Department th»t |J 1 HI y^tetd^^BW /l^^B^^H will iv??ouilind^dl of Dollar.. Gives description and history of the Breed,,of Horses, Cattle. Sheer, l*g« l*g- I ■ H) XJB& B» /HI TheKdltoror thin I>aprr will tell yon that you ought to have a copy of this finely Illustrated Book for reference. ■ B mMM (W| ■ B M wAjm "r." !?, »ii ,K. Lrth V,f «INTERXATIOXAL hTOCK FOOD" if Book is not exactly as represented. ■ ■ 3W IL3 3 \J THIS BOOK FREE. Postage Prepaid. I! You Write Us a Postal Card and Answer 3 Questions: ■ ■ Xl Bh- itß Hist-Nainothis Paper. 2nd-How much stock have you? Srd-Did you ever use "INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD ■ I mtBBssBBBR s^ wtS^^teo^^»w^^%^s r. Hi^ Book. -.• .>.: ■ W | u^^Md^h^H^i INTERNATIONAL STOCK FOOD CO., 8 /^ W- -m I Capital Paid in gl,OOO.O00.0". | MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., U. S.A.^^^^ APPLES IN JAPAN. Nearly all of our readers remember H. B. Miller, who was for years so prominently identified with Northwest horticultural interests. He has been in he Orient for a couple of years as tTnited States consul at New Chwang, Ch;na. He has written to the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, under d:t? of May 2, as follows: Apple growing in Japan has attract ed my attention, and I have endeav ored to learn the extent of it, as I have seen many Japanese-grown apples in the markets of China as well as in Japan. Some of these apples are still in the markets of New Chwang and Port Arthur on May 1. The following information I have secured from official sources, on spe c'.al request, and presume it is correct: Apple growing in Japan is carried on mostly in the northern part of the Is land of Hokkaido. It is in this local ity that the Agricultural College of Japan is located. The country is es pecially noted for its coal and timber wealth, but is being developed in ag riculture and horticulture and apple arowing is taking on the appearance ;,r' a permanent commercial industry. The present acreage on the island is 5,000. Trees are planted at about 20 feet apart, and begin bearing the sev enth year after planting, and bear at about the following rate: 7-year-old trees, 7 catties, or 10 lbs. J 0-year-old trees, 25 catties, or 34 lbs. 15-year-old trees, 100 catties, or 134 lbs. 18-year-old trees, 180 catties, or 250 lbs. The prices usually paid to the pro ducers are as follows: Early apples 2 sen per catty Fall apples 3 sen per catty Winter apples 8.5 sen per catty March apples 8 sen per catty May latest 14 sen per catty A catty is 1 1-3 pounds, and a sen is equal to one-half a gold cent. These apples are packed in dry, hardwood sawdust and shipped in boxes and casks of various sizes. While these apples are not equal in quality to the Oregon apples, many of them are very good, and the best of all the apples of the Orient, except those grown at Chefoo from American stock. I have never seen any Codlin moth in Japanese fruit, although I have seen both the moth and San Jose scale on the Chefoo fruit, both on apples and Bartlett pears. The worst disease, and one that is so bad as to seriously in jure the fruit is bitter rot, such as is common to the Baldwin apple in the I'nited States. This, together with a black, soft fungus that covers the ap ples in small spots, are serious defects that seem to develop on all varieties, ami increases with time, until it en tirely ruins the apple. Much of this is no doubt due to climatic conditions, THE RANCH. The success of CAPITOL HILL has been most phe nomenal. Property in this addition with in a few months will double in value. MOORE INVESTMENT COMPANY, and unless some means are taken to prevent it, the apples of Japan will not interfere much with the Pacific Coast fruit in the Orient. A NEW THRESHER. A great deal of interest is being manifested on account of the introduc tion in this territory of the Livermore Self-Feeder made especially for thresh ing machines. It is such a simple ar rangement that wherever grain is cut by headers it is safe to say no thresher will be running with anything but a Livermore Feeder before many months pass by. It practically does away with nearly the entire item of expense in keeping up the feeder in repairs. It .landles all kinds of grain. Baker & Hamilton of San Francisco, who first introduced the Benicia Rotary Disc Plow into this territory are the sell ing agents and are ready to give full particulars regarding same. 112 COLUMBIA ST. J. + + + ++ + + + + With proper facilities any one who understands the principle of butter making can make a grade of buttei that will command the highest price. When you have a really fine grade of butter it is not difficult to sell it for a good price. If you are close enough to a good town, private customers can easily be secured that will take all you make at a good price. If you haven't a good large town close by, then you can ship to a city market and get gooci prices. The chick probably gathers less feed on his own account than any other bird, but it Is not as great a consumer of food as other fowls. Chicks love green stuff and a small patch of oats is a nice thing to sow for these .fowl* to graze on, so to speak.