The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-01

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of the prosperity of the fruit grow
ers. But they must not expect prices
to be as high every year
M M. Burton, Lowden, Wash, asks
will you kindly inform me and your
numerous readers what variety OF
grape or grapes sell best in the seat
tle market? Can they be successfully
grown in eastern Oregon and WASH
ington at an elevation of 45O teel
above sea level in the Columbia val
lev? The American varieties do wen
here but have not tried the Call
fornia grapes"
7 think | remember friend Burton
as a man whom H. e. Van Deman
introduced to me at the Lewis ana
Clark fair at Portland and aoVlseu
him to take The Ranch, which he die.
AS | remember, he is an Old acqualht-
ance and friend of Van Demans.
am glad to hear from him again.
There is no question about growing
what are called American grapes
where friend Burton lives. On our
fruit ranch in the Yakima valley,
which is about 800 feet above sea
level we have successfully raised the
Concord, Worden, Moore's early
Clinton and Delaware and also
brown grape of fine flavor. These
American grapes are nearly all de-
rived from what our bOtanists call
Wits Labruska Gray says OF this
grape: ct is the original OF Con.
cord. Hartford and many Others
Now there is no grape known dis
tinctly as California grape. The
European grape is known as Wits
venifera. These are grown in the
northern states chiefly in greenhouses.
They are too tender for our winters II
grown out doors. However, in the
mild climate of California they are
successfully raised out doors-some
of them only in the extreme southern
part of California or in southern rex
as. The "Seedless Sultan" grape is
one of the grapes than can not be
raised in the north except under glass
notwithstanding an effort was recent
ly made to introduce it in the north
as an outdoors grape and a fit COM
panion of the ''seedless apple" None
of these dollhouse grapes can be
grown in the north There are some
of the European grapes-the flaming
tokay and the black Hamburg-that
the successfully raised in the Yakima
valley. Any grape that can be sue
cessfully grown in the Yakima valley
can be raised where friend Burton is
located and possibly some that we
cannot raise, for he is lower and the
climate warmer than where we are.
There is no question about grape rails
ing in eastern Oregon and Washing
ton.
F. A. Johnson, Mt Vernon, Wash,
asks: Can you inform we what to
do for the bark louse?-it kills the
trees" I suppose that by bark louise
friend Johnson means the oyster
shell bark louise for it is quite pest
in all Puget Sound regions. Spray in
the early spring with the lime-sul-
nhur wash. Some good can be done
by thoroughly whitewashing the trees.
But it is difficult to reach all the
limbs with a white wash brush.
F. E. Fairbanks, Route 3, North
Yakima, Wash, under date OF Octo,
Der 81, makes the following statement
and inquiry: Last spring l set un
der favorable circumstances about
one thousand apple trees-Jonathans
Winesaps. Rome Beauties and Spit
zenburgs. I have plOwed, irrigated
and cultivated the land without grow
ing a crop among them. The trees
generally have made fine CROWN
but there are some of the trees that
have made poor showing along side
of their neighbors that have done
fine-making only few inches OF
growth while the next tree has made
4x,o IN tbraa foot nf growth | have