The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-10-17
FRANK A. CRAM.

Captain ]. p. Shaw arrived in Hood
River Friday morning in time to take in
the best part of our apple show. Cap
tain Shaw will make his home in Hood
River and his friends will find him, and
his family at the pleasant home of Mrs,
E. E. Savage. The Glacier extends the
right hand of fellowship to Captain
Shaw and welcomes him to Hood River.
L. M. Bangle, brother of Mrs. W. S.
Boorman and son-in-law of VIM. Ell
lis fell from building at Oberon, North
Dakota, and was killed on October 4.
Mr.. Bangle was on his way to Hood
River with the intention OF making this
place his future home, and had stopped
over for few days in North Dakota to
visit relatives. The remains were TAX
en- to his old home as Augusta, Wiscon-
sin, for interment.
Governor and Mrs. Geer were in Hood
River last Friday, viewing the big apple
display at the fair. Hon. E. L. Smith
took the governor for a drive through
the valley in the afternoon, and Mr..
Geer expressed surprise at the size and
resources of the valley. He had formed
the opinion that it was of very limited
extent, as it could not be seen from the
train, but the view when he reached
the top of the hill was revelation To
him.
L. R. French of Grass Valley, prom.
inent wheat and stock raiser of that
country, stopped off at Hood River on
, his way home from Portland, to attend
to some business and visit his old friend
Frank Gregory. Mr.. Gregory took him
for drive over the valley, visiting some
of the best orchards, and he expressed
his surprise and pleasure at what he
found, and took with him some speci-
mems of the famous Hood Riverfraits to
display to bis people at home.
One OF the interesting exhibits at the
fair were two planks that formed the
front of section OF the tables on the
north side of the pavilion. They were
of yellow fir, 16 feet long, 3S inches wide
and one was inch, and the other one,
| ~ inches in thickness. These
planks were cut by the Washington
fine specimens, being perfectly free from
check, seam or knot, and were doubtless
overlooked by many visitors to the fair.
One of the prettiest show windows on
Oak street was that of e. j. Rand. 1t
was an elegant table spread as il for
lunch. 1t was covered with a fine,
real Irish linen table-cloth of exquisite
workmanship, upon which was taste
fully arranged numerous pieces OF Mr..
Rand,s stock of fine china and silver
ware, the center piece being an elegant
china fruit dish heaped up with Hood
Rivers choicest fruits. 1t was sight
to draw ordinations of delight from the
most fastidious.
Did you see the show windows Of G.
f. Williams, the druggist? If you didn't
stop and examine it you missed one OF
the most forcible and practical lessons
in horticulture. In his west window
Mr.. Williams had branch of aphis-in-
tested apple tree with its dull, curled-up
leaves, and on and underneath it were
numerous specimens OF gnarly, wormy
apples, and card bearing the inscrip-
ton: "This is what you get when you
don't spray" In his east window was
barnch from clean, vigorous apple
tree with ht,glistening, green leaves
and on and underneath it was displayed
an abundant supply of Hood Rivers
finest "Big Red Apples" with not a
biemish on them, and the card in this
window said: "This is what we gel
when we spray" While "rubber.
ing" at the show and wondering at Eds
ingenuity, we heard one Of our ranchers
remark: '"That's as true as the gospel
Last year did not spray my little or.
chard which is just coming into bearing
and out of my crop of 100 boxes ! was
able to select but six boxes of first-class
apples, while this year, will have near
or quite 800 boxes, with not more than
a half dozen boxes Of wormy ones. II
will pay us to spray thoroughly even il
at an expense double or treble what
it is now" And we thought so too
| Another thing we noticed in connection
with spraying, and that was display
of some splendid apples raised at the
forks of Hood river without spraying and
a card attached saying: 1--WE don't need
to spray, "and claiming for the location
that the elevation renders it immune
as regards the Goblin moth. We are Of
the same opinion as our state entomolo-
gist, Professor A. B. Cordley, of Corval.
lis, who claims there is no location that
will produce apples that will remain
immune from the Goblin moth, and he
cites numerous localities in our state as
well as elsewhere, where the hope and
claim of this immunity has been ruth
lessly brushed aside by the appearance
and gradual increase of the Goblin moth
in these localities. Among these pl ces
were some where the element OF protec-
tion relied upon was the elevation, OF 9TH
eTs it was the salt air Of the Pacific. Prof.
lessor Cordley, we think, very logically
attributes the immunity to isolation.
We would therefore desire very kindly
to register a warning 10 our good friends
1t the Forks, to keep both eyes open
for the appearance Of the Goblin moth,
and to assure them that il will surely
come 10 them with the further settle.
ment of their neighborhood, and sugg 81
that their permanent immunity from
this pest can only be obtained at tnt
price Of eternal vigilance and thorough
work in spraying when it does appear.