The record-union., 1899-06-19

five bushels Of fruit, and his predeces-
sor had harvested a crop OF ITO BUSH
els from the same five branches. By
careful measurement the circumfer-
ence Of the trunk one foot above the
ground above all enlargements of the
roots is . feet s inches. The girth of
the largest limb is feet 8 inches The
hight of the tree has been carefully
measured and found to be sixty feet.
and the spread Of the branches as the
apples fall is 100 feet, or six rods. The
fruit Is rather small. sweet and of
moderate excellence
LARGE POTATOES.
California Cultivator: I am con-
WINGED from my experiments, writes
C. H. Andrus to the Orange Judd Far
mer," that it will pay to thin potatoes
to one stack in a place, and so give all
the strength and moisture of the land
to those that remain. 1t might be we'll
to cut out all eyes Of the potatoes when
planted, except such as are desired to
grow, and so save the trouble of thin
ming out of the field to some extent.
There is no profit in growing large
crop of potatoes unless they are of mer-
chantable size. The largest potatoes
are always found where the largest and
strongest stalks grow, and the small
ones where they are small and weak.
1t is mistake, In my judgment, to
plant small seed, or to cut the large
ones to one or two eyes to save seed
and to reduce the number of plants, as
the common practice is. 1t is much
better to plant whole potatoes of good
size, or if large. to cut them at most
only in halves. OF course it costs more
to seed field. but with good seed prop
erly thinned, much better results can
be obtained.
OREGON CROPS.
California Fruit Grower:A dispatch
from Eugene says fruit growers are de-
spondent. It is setted that the prune
crop is a, failure, the cherry crop will
be light and undoubtedly all other fruit
will be scarce. When the blooming sea-
son came and prune trees were full of
blooms, it was thought that there would
be a fair crop of italians, but the fruit
barely formed and then ceased to grow,
and is now falling.
A mail advice from Oregon City says:
diMgent inquiry discloses that there
will be material shortage in the fruit
crop of Clackamas County. The heavy
freeze in February practically ruined
prunes in the vicinity of Clackamas, but
prospects were fairly good in the Can
by district until the hailstorm a few
days ago, which literally stripped the
trees of their buds
Indications are that the peach crop
of Oregon, outside of Rogue river val
ley, will be light.
WASHINGTON'S OUTLOOK.
Seattle Post acknowledgements: State Hort
icultural Commissioner Baker, after
making tour of Eastern Washington
reports the fruit crop in worse con-
dition than generally believed In the
Palouse district there is not a bud on
the trees. Walla Walla is worst of ALL
Peachs and plums are seriously affect
ed, and only in the most favorable sit
uation will there be any crop at all.
Throughout the southern tier of coun-
ties, particularly Cowlitz. Pacific. Kick
itat and Walla Walla, the prune crop
has been somewhat hurt, but owing to
the increased acreage of trees coming
into bearing Mr.. Baker does not expect
a less aggregate product than last year,
and if anything there will be a SUBJ
stantial increase.
Late frosts have everywhere hurt the
cherries, but the harder varieties have
come through all right, and there will
be an average crop.
Winter apples have only been slightly
injured, and the probabilities are that
the crop will be above the average in
stead of below it.