Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-09-21
Farm, Orchard and Garden
EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF STATE BOARD
OF HORTICULTURE.

EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF STATE BOARD
OF HORTICULTURE.
Those who expect to set fruit trees in
the spring should begin preparations now
The ground should be plowed very deep
this fall, and in the spring stir the earth
by blowing crosswise and narrowing.
Fall blowing exposes many insects which
become chilled and destroyed. If the
ground is reasonably fertile you will need
no manure the first year. 1t is objection
able to use it the first year, as it invites
grubs, beetles, etc., before the tree be-
comes established.
To obtain the highest prices great care
should be taken in the marketing of fruit,
both in the time of picking and the man
ner OF packing. The cherry, peach, plum
and nectarine, in fact most stone fruit,
should be ripe before picking, to have
their sull haver The Bartlett pears are
better if picked before ripening and laid
away few days, as they become coarse
and grainy if allowed to ripen on the tree.
If fruit is to be shipped to distance it
should be wrapped separately before box
ing. 1t will bring better price even in
the home market.
All fruit should be carefully sorted and
graded. The No. packed by itself and
so marked, the No. 9 by itself, and all
over-ripe or bruised should be utilized at
home or shipped as "culls." In packing
turn the box upside down, and place the
fruit in layers with the colored side down,
so when the top is taken off it will pre-
sent tempting appearance. Enough
extra can be obtained for carefully packed
and sorted fruit to more than pay for the
trouble. Get stencil and put your name
and address on the box and build up
reputation, it will pay.
r. Wyatt, of 10 Harmon Bay, has
quite a chicken ranch, having about two
hundred ducks and three hundred chick
ems. He has three houses for them about
fourteen feet wide and from twenty-four
to thirty-two feet long, well-lighted with
windows, and has laid the foundation for
another Mason County Journal.
A California farmer describes his way
OF producing seedless watermelons. He
plants i'll the usual way. When the vines
are two or three feet long he covers them
of ho ;,,tc h.
with earth. In week or so they take
root at these joints. He then cuts off the
vine between the first and the present
stem and the new rooted vines do the
rest, seedless melons are the result.
An Orcas island fruit raiser has been
experimenting with the Japanese per-
simmon for the past three years, and he
believes that he can make at least par
tial success of raising this fruit, although
he admits the summer may not be hot
enough to bring it to the perfection he
would desire.-Fairhaven World.
The local wheat market has developed
better feeling during the past week for
the first time since the continued decline
commenced. and the effect of stronger
cables, higher eastern markets and more
available money for handling the crops,
has been slight revovery-not much to |
be sure, but full cent and half at |
DESIGNATING inside figures for little
club 521ac. These figures are all export
ers are bidding, though local dealers hold
that 54c could be secured for good round
lot of desirable wheat. Arrivals are still
light and farmers, wherever possible, are
holding their crop for an advance, though
it is the general belief that the next thirty
days will see active selling.-West Coast
Trade.
Crop reports for the past week show
that the estimate OF the oat crop in West
ern Washington, as given the previous
week was conservative rather than other
wise. Apples and pears are coming into
market in portions Of Chehalis and Lewis
counties. The rains Of the last few days
have been of great benefit to vegetables. |
Harvesting is progressing satisfactorily
in Eastern Washington, and confirming
the previous predictions.
Here are some hints on dairying in Ore
gon, taken from an article by Hon.
Thomas Paulsen, in Resources of Oregon.
The conditions in Washington being SIM
lar to those in Oregon, except that sweet
corn will have to be substituted for field
corn, they will be of interest to our farm
ers. He says:
"While summer dairying may be called
natural system, depending entirely or