The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-06-15

ington that for more than one hundred
feet was higher than my head. |
have frequently seen the common ell
der bush (sambucus Canadensis)
more than a foot in diameter and
twenty feet high. l once climbed up
into a sumach bush and sat in the
forks five feet from the ground and
wrote an article for a paper. This
bush was nearly a foot in diameter
at the ground!
The prospect for a large fruit crop
continues good. There are some ex-
ceptions In some sections the peaches
were badly killed by freeze in
March or frosts at blooming time.
About Eugene, Oregon, l was inform
ed that the peaches were all killed.
Further south in Oregon in the Rogue
River country the prospect is said
to be good. The prune crop on the
Pacific coast promises to be good in
most localities. But it is believed that
evaporated prunes will sell unusually
we'll during the coming season for the
reason that the old crop is we'll cleaned
up. Apples promise well in most Sec
lions, but in some sections the drop"
is unusually heavy. My son reports
from the Yakima valley that fruit is
dropping heavily-in some cases too
heavily. While the general outlook
is that the fruit crop will be large
it is not thought that it will be phe-
nomenally large in any variety. There
is every reason to believe that prices
will hold up well. The country is
so prosperous that the people will buy
fruit almost without limitation. We
are now in the midst of the straw
berry season and the crop is large
but prices are high. The reason for
this is that the consumption is enor-
NOUS Who is so poor that he can
not afford strawberry shortcake?'
We may reasonably expect this con-
dition of things. to continue through
out the entire fruit season.
The papers report that trainload
of apple trees, consisting of 100000
trees, came into the Wenatchee valley
this spring The shipment was from
Stark Brothers, Louisiana, Mo. |
have dealt somewhat with this firm
and have always found them reliable.
The trees are reported to have passed
the ground in that famous valley. |
have before said what l now repeat,
that no section in the world can sur
pass the Wenatchee and other valleys
in Chelan and OkanOgan counties for
apple raising. Then good deal de
ponds upon the men behind their
fruit growing enterprises. The right
men are there. Thousands upon thou
sands of apple trees are planted ev-
cry spring in some sections that will
never amount to much. They will
be neglected and disappointment come
to the growers. But this is not ex-
pected from this great shipment OF
trees. The fruit growers of that sec
ton in our state are made of better
stuff than to allow that result.
Many diseases that affict the hill
man family as well as trees and
plants are bacterial in their origin.
In fact many people think that bac
terra are all bent on evil. That is
mistake, for many of them are useful
and do much good in the great work
house of nature. This matter will not
be followed further now. All dis
eases are not bacterial in their or
igin. Malarial diseases are said not
to be caused by bacterial germ but
by an animal germ. Prof w. F. Mas
sey, the scholarly editor of the Prac-
tical Farmer has the following to say
on this subject: There is one disease
germ which does not belong to the
bacteria, but it is of an animal ma
ture. This is the plasmodium of ma
laria. 1t has been we'll proven that
the air of malarious sections is as
pure as that in any section, and that
malaria is taken into the system by
drinking the water from shallow sur