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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-04-15

peaches are killed. No doubt but this
is true, but there is fallacy lurking
in such reports that ought to be de-
tected by any man cOnversant with
peach growing. Early peaches do not
kill any easier than late ones, neither
do they bloom any earlier. The har-
diest peach we have on our ranch is
the Alexander and it is the earliest In
ripening. The idea is very prevalent
that early fruits of any kind bloom
earlier than the late ones OF the same
class. So deep rooted is this mlscon-
ception that many fruit growers fall
into this mistake, but in doing so pro-
claim themselves as not close observ-
ers. The earliest plums to bloom on
my ranch are the Japan plums, Bur
banks Abundance and Satsuma, and
yet the peach plum that blooms much
later ripens it's fruit long before the
Japan plums. The Ben Davis apple
blooms before the Rome Beauty and
vet the latter is mellow and gone be-
fore the former is fit to eat. The yell
low Transparent, Red June, early
Harvest and Duchess, all early apples,
bloom at the same time with many OF
our winter apples. If any one thinks
I am mistaken in this matter let him
keep a record of the time of blooming
and ripening of some of our standard
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ter about this matter than |, for the
reason that they claim to have maze
an extensive examination of the scale
and | have not. 1t is true that L eX-
amined the condition of the scale just
before the cold spell in my own Or
chards but found very few alive, and
they have been examined again since
the storm and none were found alive.
What killed them before the cold
spell? Nothing, they just died. 1t is
quite a mistake to suppose that this
scale lives on indefinitely. Prof. Brit
ton, of Connecticut, who is one OF the
best authorities in the United States
on such matters, says that all the old
insects of this class die during the
winter. BY old insects he does not
mean all that are alive when winter
sets in but perhaps all that are year
old, or, in other words, that the same
scales do not pass through two Win
tiers. Those that are young in the fall
and get housed over with what we call
the scale rarely die till the next winter.
They have been known to go through
a temperature of 20 to 80 below zero
and come through unframed. 1t is
extremely doubtful if any of this age
were killed by the cold weather re-
ferred to. You can find dead scale
any spring, but unfortunately for us
you can find some live ones and
enough to make a great army of young
ones if they are not killed
One county fruit inspector is report
ed to have said that the scale are oil
dead and there is no need of spraying;
another is reported to have said the
scale are all dead but men must spray.
AS inconsistent as the second one may
seem, he has pursued the wiser course.
Without doubt where the scale was
abundant last year it will be more
abundant this year if we do not curtall
it by thorough spraying.
About a half dozen fruit inspectors
are reporting that some of the early
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fruits, apples, peaches and plums, and
will publish the same.
=
H. C.. Atwell of Forest Grove, Ore,
under date of March 80, writes as fol-
lows: 81 have read with much inter
est and profit your valuable article
in the March 1 Ranch, relative to the
treatment for the San Jose scale. l
would like to inquire of what material
your tanks are made and what sort OF
hoops they have? l have understood
that the best tanks are made of east
ern cypress and the next best are of
California redwood. 1 don't find Ell
Their in Portland. Where did you get
yours and what did they cost?" l
described my tanks two or three years
ago in The Ranch but they should
have been described again in my arti-
Gle on the San Jose scale and | am
glad that friend Atwell has called my
attention to the omission. On account
of the greatly increased circulation of
The Ranch we have many readers who
need the information given in former
issues. For this reason we must re-
aim to keep The Ranch in touch with
the fruit growers and try to furnish
them with just what they want. For
this reason we are glad to have our
readers send in inquiries. The same
is true of other departments as we'll
as the horticultural.
Our tanks are not made of wood at
all. They are made of galvanized
sheet iron. They were made by the
Yakima Hardware company. One
holds $50 gallons and the other
400. The two tanks cost me $38
and after being used three years
seem to be as good as when new.
We boil our lime-sulphur wash for
killing the San Jose scale in these
tanks and also run the water we use
in spraying for the codling moth
through them. We use them in the
latter case merely as a matter of con-
venience. By running the water
through them we save the labor OF
handling any water used in fighting
the cooling moth except what we use
in Stacking the lime and in making
the Paris green or arsenate of lead
into a thin paste. If we did not use
hillside for these tanks, as described
in my article on the scale, we could
not use them in the manner here de-
scribed. We nailed two by four
scantling around the tops of these
tanks to stiffen them. Each one sits
on a brick furnace. Of course these
tanks cannot be used for handling the
Bordeaux mixture for the sulphate of
copper (blue stone) would eat through
them very quickly. Wooden vessels
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may live for a time on the leaves, they
will never live through the allotted
time and produce another crop OF
worms. And this leads me to say That
a tree having no fruit on it need never
be sprayed for the codling moth nor
need it be banded. In fact, no kind
of spraying is ever needed as a pre-
ventive. If a man should shoot into
the air where there is no game he
would never kill a duck or any other
bird.
Last spring when I was on my fruit
ranch in the Yakima valley l was
called up by phone by lady VINO
asked how to prepare the lime-sulphur
wash for the scale. I asked her IL
there were any scale on her trees and
she answered that she did not know
but that some one had told her that
she must spray. advised her 10
have some one who knows the scale
examine her trees. This was done and
no scale could be found. This only
proves that in all cases we must know
what it is for which we spray and then
we must use the right material and
at the right time.
I see by the papers that a man over
in Wenatchee valley has been giving
the apple growers some advice. Ii
he is correctly reported some one
ought to take care of him for fear he
may run into the Columbia river some
day to get out of a shower of rain.
AS an illustration, l quote what ne
says about spraying for the cooling
moth SPRAY for cooling moth with
the copper solution as soon as the
bloom falls off the trees" l am
pretty we'll informed on the cooling
moth but why any one should spray
with the copper solution for that In
sect is more than l know. The cop
per solution is used as fungicide and
not as an insecticide.
I again quote from this wise 20
man as follows: "There are but SIX
fancy commercial varieties of apples,
viz: Yellow and Newton Pippin, ESQ
pus, Spitzenberg, Jonathan and Rome
Beauty" Now for the life of me l
cannot make out but four varieties,
viz: Yellow Newtown Pippin, ESQ
pus Spitzenberg, Jonathan and Rome
Beauty. For root aphis this man
says dig in unleached green ashes"
What is meant by green" in this con-
nection l do not know. He informs
the good people of the Wenatchee val
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!. 6, HARRISON & SONS : :g:;'a. *5.

Have 1000 acres in peach, apple, pear,
plum and cherry trees, strawberry
plants, asparagus roots and grape
vines. By choosing small trees ana
having them sent by express the hortt-
cultural editor Of The Ranch finds that
he can get them for much less than
they can be bought in the Northwest
Send for price list
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HORTICULTURE
THE report has
F. WALDEN.

THE report has
been published in
the papers that the
cold snap about
the middle of Feb
ruary killed the
San Jose scale and
l have been asked
about the matter.
The men VINO
made these reports
ought to know bet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
New Supreme Court Rules.

Clerk of the Circuit Court Nissen
P. Stenjem is distributing among the
attorneys of the city new rules of
practice for that tribunal which he
recently received.
The rules are promulgated by the
supreme court of Wisconsin and took
effect on June 81 of this year. Be-
cause of the fact that there was no
session after the first of June in this
city the books were not sent here un-
til now.
There are large number of chang
es from the last issue, chief among
which is one pertaining to complying
with certain requirements before the
clerk can put a case on the court cal
endar. The new ruling says that no
case shall be put on the calendar un-
less the state tax and the So clerks
fee shall have been paid, and all plead
ings in the case shall have been filed
in the office of the clerk of the court
at least eight days before the opening
of the term.
In former years it has not been
necessary to pay the tax and fee un-
til the case was tried, but with the
new decision this must be done be-
fore the case can get place on the
calendar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
SUMMARY OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items Of News Gathered
from All Parts Of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
POLITICAL.

Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, in an
address ut Lewiston, Me-, said: y
have no prejudice against the Fedora
ton of Labor. My sympathies are
with 1t in all efforts and struggles tc
improve the material condition and Sc
cure a larger share of the profits OF
production for the wage earners. dc
not, however, believe in prescription
in politics. | am opposed to Mr.. Com
pers' political methods Of blackl1stlne
men who vote as their consciences and
Judgment and the welfare of their con
stituents dictate"
William Jennings Bryan made per-
sonal appeal to the Democrats OF ILL
nois to drum Roger G. Sullivan out
of the national committee. In care
fully prepared statement, the NeDras-
kan brought pandemonium to the JeI-
ferson club banquet at Chicago by
announcing that he took his indorse-
ment by the Peoria convention as far
from a compliment, that he rejected
Sullivan as a political associate and
that it is up to the party to "speW
out those who traffic In politics"
William jennings Bryan returned
to his Lincoln home, and the home
folks" welcomed him with every evil
dence of approval and satisfaction.
The Davidson majority over Lenroot
Cor the nomination for governor OF
Wisconsin will be at least $4,000. The
vote on the Democratic candidates in
dictates Awkward and Blenski will lead
the ticket
John M. Nelson, Republican, was
elected to congress in the Second Wis
consin district for the unexpired term
of Henry G. Adams, deceased.
James c. Mclaughlin, of Muske-
gon, defeated Congressman Roswell,
p. Bishop, of Ludington, for congress
man from the Ninth Michigan dis
trict.
Congressman Washington Gardner
was renominated at the Third Michi-
gan congressional district Republican
primaries.
T. H. B. Jones was nominated for
congress by the Democrats of the
Tenth Ohio congressional district.
The Democrats of the Third Ohio
congressional district nominated e. j.
Jones for congress.
Not only was Gov John A. Johnson
renominated for the Office which he is
now holding on the Democratic ticket
at the Minnesota Democratic conven-
ton, but he was also spoken of as
the logical running mate for William
Jennings Bryan on the national ticket
in 1908
At meeting of social democratic
and social revolutionist university
students at st. Petersburg it was de-
cided not to oppose the reopening OF
the universities, which is scheduled
for October Ia, thereby furnishing a
strong possibility that the paralysis
of the educational life of the country
which has lasted for two school years
may soon be ended.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
MExIco's VAST SODA LAKES
The Government Will Not Dispose OF
Them to Anyone.

Mexico is the possessor of such
vast and valuable soda lakes that the
government refuses to dispose of them
to anyone or at any price. President
Diaz believing that they are yet to be-
come sources OF enormous income TO
the country, just as the nitrate OF soda
beds are to Chini.
At only one other place in the world
is natural soda found under conditions
which admit of industrial develop
ment. and even there it must be
shipped hundreds OF miles by ran and
many tons of water must be evapo-
rated by coal, to obtain ton of the
product
But at the Bay of Adair, only mile
from the coast Of Lower California,
under the blazing sun of the desert, lie
vast lakes of crystals of carbonate of
soda, with the appearance of masses
of snow and ice, but from which will
be made millions of tons of soap and
other millions of tons of glass.
The worlds consumption amounts
TO hundreds of thousands of tons annu-
ally, and nearly all of it is manufac-
tured from common salt with the use
of expensive machinery, while at
Adair bay nature does all the work in
producing an article worth SIS per
ton. 1t is estimated that there IL
enough soda on top of the ground to
produce 100 tons day for rs years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS REvENGED
Killing of Two of Their Number Starts
Reign of Terror.

Observation-Disclosures Saturday eve
ming shot and killed two soldiers
guarding a government alcohol store
at Siedice. A detachment of infantry
rushed up and fired volley into the
crowd, killing two persons and wound
ing two.
Sunday morning the terrorists retail
lated by beginning a massacre of po-
licemen and soldiers patrolling the
street and at noon the Infatuated
troops attacked the Jewish quarters of
Siedice, destroying the houses and
shops.
1t is reported that over a hundred
persons were killed or wounded and
that the town is in flames.
A regiment of infantry has been
sent from Della to Siedice to restore
order.
The Jews here are panic stricken.
Alarming reports are being circulated
in the city.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
VICE consul is SHOT
TARTAR INsURGENT HERO VIC
TIM OF AssAssINs.
BULLETS MISS VITAL SPOT
Fired on at Short Range by Desperate
British Official Has Narrow Es-
cape from Death at Hands
of Assailants.

Baku.-Leslie Urquhart, the British
vice consul here, who was decorated
by King Edward for heroism in rescu-
ing English isolated at Balakhna from
Tartar insurgents during the massa-
cres of 1905, and who is one of the
most prominent men in the oil region,
was the victim of serious attack Sat-
urday night in the center of the city,
and miraculously escaped death.
Though he was fired at eight times
at short range his only injuries were
six slight flesh wounds. The motive
for the crime has not been estab-
lished, but it is believed to be a rev.
dictionary act planned after the at
tack on Germans at Warsaw preced-
ing the attempt on the life of Gov.
Gen.. Skallon.
Mr.. Urquhart, who was unarmed,
was driving in his carriage at seven
o'clock Saturday evening, when a shot
was fired from the pavement, the bull
let passing through the back of his
carriage.
Immediately a second assailant
leaped from the crowd to the step of
the carriage and fired a bullet which
penetrated the fieshy part of his
hand.
Mr.. Urquhart, who is tall and
strongly built, jumped up to grapple
with his assailant, but the horse bolt
ed, throwing him violently to the
pavement, where he lay half stunned.
His assailant was the first to rise,
and emptied the other six shots from
his automatic revolver at the pros
trate body, four of them going through
the vice consuls waistcoat and two
through his trousers
MIR. Urquhart was able taD rise and
pursue the man who had attacked
him, but he escaped in the crowd.
When Mr.. Urquhart was undressed
and examined it was found that he
had been grazed five times on the
abdomen and wounded on the hand.
The authorities are actively investi-
eating the affair, but thus far no ar
rests have. been made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13

iNSW 0cIt t-tICs
An interurban line through Madison
to GAINESVILLE, to connect with the cleo
trio railway which runs to northern
Illinois and ultimately to Chicago, at
last seems assured.
1t has nothing to do with the Madi-
son Interurban and Traction company.
1t was learned from no other source
than the heads of the interurban
project themselves that the right of
way of the company will enter South
Madison at point west of the Battle
Creek sanitarium, cross the lake par
allel with the Northwestern tracks,
cross those tracks and those of the
st. Paul, near the foot of South Ham
ilton street, and has it's terminus some
where in the Fourth ward.
Mindful of the provisions of the
franchise of the Madison Interurban
and Traction company, which appar-
emily prevents any competing line
from running within approximately
three blocks of the local company, the
interurban people will approach as
near, but no nearer, to the capitol
park than the franchise allows.
This, they declare, will bring them
close enough to the business center of
Madison to give the people of the city
opportunity to patronize the railway
with comfort and convenience.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
WHEN THE BED GOES ROUND
But Smith Was Too Wise to Wait on
the Procession.

THAT was an amusing story about
the congressman who caught his bed
the fourth time it came around 1t
reminded me-" continued the narrator
"of the first time l heard the bed
phrase. 1t happened in Harrisburg,
where / was then stationed and it
happened to legislator whom shall
call Smith.
"At the first session Smith became
famous for his ability to comfortably
carry more liquor than any other man
in the legislature. At the opening OF
the second session some Philadel-
phians got together and put up job
on Smith. They arranged relays, so
that when one party had enough an
other should take hold, and thus keep
going until they had Smith down and
out. Well, they began with Smith
one evening, and after two relays had
succumbed their successors noted
with much satisfaction that Smith
was mixing his heverages--they
didn't know that was his custom, and
he fooled them all. The bout con-
tinued all night and all Of the next
day, and when the second evening
came Smith was the only man able
to get away unaided
Several days later / asked Smith
how he got along after he reached his
hotel when ! got into my room,
he replied, II saw a procession OF
beds coming in my direction.
grabbed the first one, fell into it, and
woke up the next afternoon Pitts
burg Telegraph.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
Circus May Winter in Madison.

Madison is likely to become the
wintering place for the Forepaugh-
Sells circus. The Ringing Brothers
who recently became the owners of
the Forepaugh-Sells show, are nego-
tiating for the sale of the property
between the Chicago e Northwestern
and st. Paul tracks, near the North
western roundhouse. The Ringlings
have a splendid circus ground in Bara-
boo, with excellent railroad facilities.
However, the purchase of the Fore
paugh-Sells show makes necessary a
larger space than is available in Bara-
boo, and the Madison grounds, situat-
ed between the tracks Of the railroads,
make an excellent spot for circus
wintering place.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t is said at the state department
there probably will be no difficulty in
fetching Stensland away from Moroc-
co on any merchant vessel, providing
the ship does not touch at a French
port
A dispatch was received at the state
department from Mr.. Gummere, Amer
lean minister to Morocco, conveying
the information that Paul o. Stems
land, the president of the Milwaukee
Avenue State bank of Chicago, was
turned over to Managing Editor
Kelley of the Chicago Tribune and
Assistant States Attorney olsen. of
Illinois, who apprehended the fugitive
banker at Tangier.
Count Ludwig Won Arnim, for the
past u years chief steward of the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, whose
grandfather was ambassador of Ger
many to France, died at the Reception
hospital, Coney Island.
Delegates and visitors to the num-
Der of 10000 present in Springfield.
ILL.,, at the opening session of the ma
tional convention of German Catholic
Societies of United States.
Rev Father A. GarStka, rector of the
Polish Catholic church of Glassport.
Pa, is under arrest for the shooting
of Joe Kiavenski. The shooting was
the elimination of factional quarrel
in the congregation.
Fire destroyed the building within
the Ohio reformatory grounds at
Mansfield occupied by the Bromwell
Brush & Wire Goods company.
Inspector Frank Voges, of the post
office department, was drowned at
Bayou Grande, five miles from Pensa-
cola, Fla
Asphyxiation, chloroform and drown
ing We're the methods used by Claude
Unger. wealthy business man to
commit suicide at ST. Louis.
Henry Potts killed his wife at Eu-
faula, l. T., by cutting her throat and
was himself shot twice during a des-
perate fight with deputy marshals.
The sultan of Morocco's troops have
defeated the forces of the pretender.
and Blu Hamara has fled from Zelouan.
Dr. F. B. Gault, of Tacoma, Wash,
has been appointed president of the
South Dakota university at Aberdeen.
This ends long controversy and po-
litical fight
Abel Anderson, president of the
Northwestern National bank, died at
his home in Sioux City, Ia, of Brights
disease, aged 81 years.
Pope Plus appointed J. McGrain, of
New York, the conductor of the latest
American pilgrimage to Rome, a
Knight of st. Gregory
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-13
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our Special CORES.
pendent at Madison.

Madison.-Wisconsin hunters have
begun an agitation to obtain legisla-
ton which will require sportsmen who
confine themselves to fishing to help
pay for the protection of game and the
support of the large force of game
wardens who overrun the state.
The hunters assert that as the law
now stands they are taxed for a pur-
pose which benefits anglers as much
as it does the men who get their sport
out of handling a rifle or a shotgun.
They fail to see any justice under the
present statutes by which hunters are
required under penalty to provide
themselves with state licenses while
the individuals who devote their vaca-
lions to handling a reel and net are
permitted to go without taxation.
Although the hunting season does
not open for some time complaints are
being made by the hunters all over
the state about the present laws.
While they are compelled to go armed
with the authority of the law permit
ting them to hunt, the people who
wish to fish are working nearly every
lake and stream in the state which
contain game fish.
Attention is directed by the hunters
to the fact that the state annually
spends large sums of money to stock
lakes and streams with fry for the
benefit of the anglers. Yet the class of
persons who derive the most benefit
from this kind of paternalism are not
required to make any heavier contri-
button than their neighbors who never
think of going fishing.