Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-02
NOTES FROM THE EXPERIMENT
STATIONS.


(From Washington Experiment Station,
Pullman Wash.)
The only remedy for China lettuce
is absolutely clean cultivation. A cul-
tivator or harrow should be rugged
with knives, SO that it is possible to
shear" two or three inches below
the ground, and completely cut off
all young vegetation. You should go
over the ground often enough to pre-
vent any leaves from appearing
above the ground. This kind of treat
ment will gradually wear out the
weed However, If you neglect the
cultivation in busy times, the good
you have accomplished will be lost,
and you will have to begin over
again. 1t is by reason of this neglect
that many people are led to say
that clean cultivation is not a sue
cess. 1t is a success, and the only
method, when it is thoroughly done.
The best method OF keeping the
gophers away from your trees is to
rid the orchard of gophers. This can
be done with comparative ease and
with very small expense if the owner
will carefully go over the field with
pieces of poisoned carrots, and place
a piece in every place where the
gopher shows fresh work in the soil
The carrots should be cut into pieces
about the size of a quail egg, with a
small slit made in the side of the
piece in which a few crystals of
strychnine are inserted. This dis
solves to poison the entire piece OF
carrot 1t will be necessary to go
over the field twice or three times
during the fall or early spring before
one can be sure that it is entirely
free from this troublesome orchard
pest.
Strawberry mildew' is an old
Eastern disease of the strawberry
which in recent seasons has been
found in the West. Where it is
found, carefully rake off as much of
the trash and leaves in the spring as
possible. Do this just after growth
starts. Destroy all of the leaves, for
mildew will live over in these
leaves, and be there to bother the
plants another year After thorough |
ly cleaning up the patch, give it
spraying with Bordeaux
This is to be done before !
the plants start into active growth |
Watch your plants very carefully |
Turing the growing season, and spray /
again If it is necessary.
Logged-off lands treated with an I
application OF well-rotted stable ma
nure should produce good crops of I
potatoes. If the manure is not avail |
able in large quantities, light appli-
cations of nitrate of soda put on soon
after they start to grow produce
good results. This fertilizer should
be used at the rate of rs to $50
pounds per acre, and should be given
lust as the crop needs it. 1t will
therefore be necessary to give two or
sven three applications during the
growing season.
One should not experience difficulty
n growing potatoes on bottom land
" sandy SOIL However, il land is
oeaty, it may dry out a little too
sarly II it happens to be in a com
)aratively dry section. II early po-
atoes are desired, probably the hest
'ariety would be the Early Ohio.
But If you desire to grow late pota-
oes, the Burbank is satisfactory +
me Some people are very much in
avor of the Beauty of Hebron, while
,thers think there is nothing equal
o the Early Rose.
Persons who wish to plant flowers
n the spring that will grow during
he summer and be in good shape
Turing the fall could make use Of
he very late varieties Of sweet peas |
my Of the asters, zinnias and pos {
IDLY a few pansies. Another plant
5 the cosmos. Get the late Towering +;
orts of these. and delightful results
will be secured.