The Ordway new era., 1911-03-17
NEWS NOTES FROM OREGON
Our Correspondent Writes En-
tertainingly of the Paci6cl
Coast Country

AUu'U kuVW, uoNcu occu hcAS p''
six weeks. Is it a cold climate? Don''
know. Been shivering ever since |
came, but that's because you "ain''
used tn IT," am told. You know that
fool horse up and died just when they
got him down to u straw day-hr
couldn't get used to it," When ]
have been here year or so III try and
tell you something about the Beaver
state, but at present what l writ"
you must take las 1t impres>es me-"
This western quarter OF Oregon j.
eternally green. Grass Is waving all
winter when you would think IT would
freeze brass monkey. The stock
wanders over pastures green through
the whole winter and gives oceans OF
milk-rich milk too. So it is needless
for one to say the dairymen prosper
for butter is higher in price than al
Ordway. The climate Is English an.
told and this probably accounts f"i
the many fine Jersey cows here. But
ter IL low now, only 80 cents: eggs. 20
Poultry business seems to prosper.
The old hen wanders over the lawns
and back yards. getting her I'LL of
grass aud other green shoots and
laughing In her pleasant song, at th'
tenderfont who buttons his overcoa'
and wnnders why old biddy is out IL
such weather.
Turnips and cabbage grow all win
ter and see many evidences OF a veg
etable paradise. They grow SO spon'
taneously and 10 every garden patch
that there IL no mnney In raising such
crops. Something like this is true OF
small fruits. The strawberry luxur-
iates from April till September-thr
finest Of fruit, am tnld, but SO com
mon and 10 easy To raise there Is NJ.
profit In them. This seems To be tn"
general cnnditIon Of Oregon and has
been for half a century. Everything
grows 10 such abundance and the peo.
Die luxuriate 10 cheap living but the
markets have been nil. Competing
railroads are now helping them and
when the canal Is done IL will be still
better and then the vast immigration
each month is helping, and to the
strayer It looks very hopeful but-"it
impresses ne'-that, we'll, | don't
know.
The golden era Of speculation in
Oregon lands Is probably gone by.
Occasionally some old Rip Van Win
kle may be found still sleeping. but
farms are nearly as high as at Ordwny.
Some improved ones with good COM
mercial orchards are much higher.
Bearing orchards OF apples. cherry or
pruue, ETC., sell from $3.50 to $500 per
acre.
The English walnut seems to do well
here and many are planting for future
years, from eight To ten years to ma
turity. The Loganberry is one OF the
wonderfully prolific small fruits and
Is found quite profitable to dry. 1t is
larger than the large blackberry. less
seeds. and tastes like the latter flaw
ored with raspberry. These fruits all
are very profitable To the professional
fruit grower but quite different TO the
general farmer, who has his oats and
vetch and wheat to attend to just
when the fruit needs attention. And
then. 10 this almost winterless eli
mate, the microbes and fungi all
thrive and the attention necessary to
produce commercial fruits is marvel
Gus. Spraying goes .n the Who'll"
year through. We think IL Il burden
At Ordway to spray once or twice with
arseuate Of lead. but here they have
the San jose scale and fungus
growth that are very destructive a.
we'll as cOdling moth and Il dozen
other bugs to fight, ~ the lime and
sulphur spray Is applied In November
or December and again In March as
soon az buds swell and then the arse.
nate OF lead is applied every tw"
weeks, after blossnmlng, until Sep
tember, making about eight to ten
spraylngs. and then the pruning is
done much more vigorously than in
Colorado. Only enough top is left for
fruit bearing-about one half to one.
third as much as we leave in Colora.
do orchard.
The paying commercial orchard
must be treated In this way from
time OF setting out-sprayed and
pruned from the tlrst-or the work is
useless and worse than thrown away.
The moss grows necessarily here on
all trees. on house roofs, on fences,
and even on peoples backs II they let
it. Spray, spray, spray is the remedy.
II this Is done l see no reason why
Oregon should not lead the world in