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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-08-01
Horticulture

New Castle, California. 1 have
studied them only in a casual way but
am fully convinced that one of the
great mistakes made by growers Is to
either allow fruit to over-ripen before
picking or to leave the fruit punched
up in such a way as TO retain the
temperature of the day or possibly
both and thus hasten in place OF
delay ing tue rlpening process which
begins as soon as the fruit is picked.
[ should like to have your opinion on
this. either by letter or through The
Ranch. am sure, Brother Walden,
that we are doing very unprofessional
work in our commercial orchards,
but an pleased that there seems to
be an awakening along all the lines
and the effort of this letter is to
touch on only one of these lines. y
Had friend Lichty seen my article
IN The Ranch some two months or
more ago, he would have been saved
the trouble of asking these questions
about the woody apnis. l stated In
that article just what our experience
had been in our own orchard. We
have not claimed that we got entirely
rid of the woody aphis by irrigation
but we do claim that its ravages are
so far curtailed on our ranch that it
does but little harm. II we have ever
had a tree in our orchard seriously
damaged or killed by this pest, we do
not know it. We have found by
actual experience that il we let water
stand around a tree for few days
where this insect is in evidence on
the roots it disappears.
This is not guess work on our part
but the result of actual demonstra-
ton. This insect has shown itself
more or less in our orchards for the
last eighteen years. At first we we're
seriously alarmed and we resorted to
all the known remedies for its ex-
termination but it is still with us.
We discovered that where we irrigate
and allow the water at times to stand
around our trees for few days 1t
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-08-01
CROP PROSPECTS.

A prominent fruit handler recently
said: sit has come to be accepted
that a heavy crop means low prices.
This should not be so. The experience
ed marketing agent of today knows
that proper distribution can perform
miracles when contrasted with the old
style method of haphazard distribu-
ton. The problem confronting the
distributor is to reach the greatest
possible number of consumers in the
most direct manner and the least
possible time. - The very fact that
the fruit handlers are generally view
ing the matter in this way is very
encouraging sign. II this advice is
carried out this year fair prices will
be we'll sustained and | believe that
they will be. The firm of Sgobel 1t
Day, New York, say: "The general
expectations through nearly all the
sections producing box apples of huge
crops are gradually being modified
and there will be less than anticipat-
ed-still, quite enough to go round"
The California Fruit Grower is
authority for the statement that the
Grand junction Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION of Colorado, has cut it's
estimate of TOGO cars to 5000 cars.
The dropping of fruit. especially
apples, has caused this change. The
same paper says: ga fair crop of
apples is expected in New York, but
the yield will probably not BIZ as
heavy as was predicted earlier in the
season. The New York Journal of
Commerce has cut It's estimate of the
Georgia peach crop from 1000 cars to
5000 cars. A special to the Post In
telligencer, Seattle, of June 28th says:
"Tbe Hood river apple crop will fall
below the 1000. 600 box yield because
of the large amount of fruit that is
dropping from the trees as the result
of imperfect pollenation, caused by
the rains at blooming time. This
condition has never before prevailed
here. Estimates now put the output
at $50. 600 boxes" The papers report
that Michigan will have but 70 per
cent of an average apple crop and
only II per cent of peaches. Many
similar reports could be given. The
apple crop will not be excessive and
good prices should prevail
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GUMMOSIS.

Mr.. X. link, Port Orchard, Wash.
writes as follows, under date of June
18th:
81 am writing you in regard to a
cherry tree | have on my ranch. 1t
is seven year old Bling and has
seemed healthy until up to the last
few weeks. 1t looks as though il
would die; the rosin runs out in great
quantities and the leaves are all get
ting dry. spray my trees every
spring and so l don't think it is
caused by aphis. l have read your
good advice through The Ranch, as [
am subscriber, and l thought you
could tell me what to do for this
tree"
l have letter from Thomas w.
Musgrove. Sultan, WASH, under date
of July 3rd, in which he INQUIRIES
what can be done for cherry trees
which are dying with gummosIs. He
wants to know what will prevent the
disease or cure it.
These inquiries present a difficult
problem in tree pathology. In the
first place it is difficult to determine
what causes gummosis. 1t is disease
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confined to the stone fruits such as
cherries and peaches. We can de-
termine what are some of the favorable
conditions under which it makes 1t
appearance, and this may lead in
measure to it's prevention. Spraying
to destroy the aphis, as mentioned by
Mr.. link, even it it is successful in
killing the aphis, Will do no good for
the simple reason that no kind OF
aphis will cause gummosis.
1t has been found by careful OBJ
servers that gummosis is more likely
to attack trees that are in very rich
ground, than those IN poor ground.
Hence, it is recommended not to grow
cherry trees where the ground is rich,
and after they get started, not to
cultivate the ground. The gum is
more likely to exude where the bark
has been broken by being hit by the
single tree in cultivation or in some
other way. The lesson we may draw
from this is, not to break the bark of
cherry trees in any manner. | would
not prune cherry trees after the top
is once formed. 1t has been found
beneficial to grow some kind of sod
among cherry trees after they have
been we'll started in the orchard. In
our cherry orchard in Yakima county
we have cherry trees that have been
bearing eighteen years and are doing
we'll yet. We do nothing with these
trees but to NOW the weeds and grass
around them. We have had some
cherry trees to die but not with
gummosis. l think we have, this
year, the finest crop of cherries we
have ever had on Royal Annes,
Olivets, Late Dukes, Early Rich
monds, Bings, Lamberts, Black Re-
publIcans. Gov. Woods and English
Morellos.
When a cherry tree is once attack
ed by gummosis, know of no remedy
that will effect cure. In all cases
the trees do not die and sometimes
they seem to get we'll under the favor
able conditions | have mentioned.
The only thing can recommend
when trees are attacked is TO let them
alone and improve the conditions
favorable to them as much as you
can. The peripatetic tree doctor
may try to make you believe that he
can cure gummosis but have not
vet seen a case where he made good.
When he sells you his remedy he has
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mistaken about this matter, I will
say that 1 once lived long enough III
the great and good state of Missouri
to learn to say, Il will have TO be
shown
The matter of pre-cooliug fruit Is
vital one. Every precaution should
be used that is within our reach and
is not too costly. We try to use
every precaution within our reach.
Fruit should never be left standing
in the sun before or after packing.
The tiers of packed fruit should always
have spaces between them. The pack
ing house should not be close, stuffy
place but should te large and airy.
The doors OF the packing house should
never be closed at night when there
is a lot of fruit in it. The night air
near our snow-covered mountains and
and if allowed to circulate freely
among our fruit in the packing house,
will have a very beneficial effect.
Sprinkling water over the floor of the
packing house at the close of the
days work will do much good, for
any careful student knows that evap-
grafton takes away heat and cold is
simply the absence of heat. The sug-
gestion of friend Lichty about placing
the soft fruit in trays and placing
them over wet canvas or wet grass
is good one but cannot very we'll be
carried out on large scale. We ex-
poet this year to have to pack as many
as 1000 boxes of peaches some days in
the rush of our peach harvest. Think
of carrying over that many peaches
in trays on canvas or on the grass
In classical language, 1.-THE thing
can't be did," In former years |
have stayed in the iced Car where we
were loading peaches and know it
was cold enough to cause me to wear
an overcoat when not at work. We
always put our peach boxes in the car
so the tiers will not touch each other.
They are held in position by lacking
laths in such a manner as to keep the
tiers apart.
believe the time will come when
we will have pre- cooling house of some
kind at our shipping station and by
their use no soft fruits will be start
ed on their long journeys till they
are cooled to the pit Our experience
has been that fruit kept over night,
either packed or unpacked in our
packing house, is pretty thoroughly
cooled through by morning. I have
shipped peaches in iced cars to Seattle
where they we're held in the cars two
or three days after their arrival at
their destination and were in splen-
did condition till sold out. For long
distance shipment preceding will
doubtless be very good thing.
GUMMOSIS.
Mr.. r. link, Port Orchard. Wash.
writes as follows, under date of June
18th:
81 am writing you in regard to
cherry tree | have on my ranch. Tt
is seven year old Bling and has
seemed healthy until up to the last
faw uaaka r. 1ooLo nc tho,oL :.
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done his work and will not leone
back. ~
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-15

Charles Wilson of Reno is the
first man to be imprisoned in the
penitentiary for attempted suicide un-
der the new law in Nevada, making
il a criminal offense.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-15

A collision of three machines on a.
bridge in Philadelphia caused the
death of eight people.
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rather have him and al his aVoirdupois
in the sulky behind her than a ninety
pound boy.
When she won first by half length
In the Derby she showed NO evidence
OF fatigue and her body was as dry as
IL she had been simply having little
workoue over the track. She Is mass
OF nervous energy when in action, but
always has an ear little to one side.
SC that she, can hear the words OF
encouragement and advice that Elem
fnineg uses instead of a whip. sHh -
The day of the Derby she was limp
ing about the track for Ave minutes
before the start, but once turned sor
the line the lameness disappeared.
Back sin the stable and the race over,
the Imp came back and Cheeny SEEM
ed to suffer considerable pain while
the affected leg was being bather and
wrapped in bandages.
big John" Flemfning has never
been able to induce her Texas owner
to sci her. Flemming has her under
|1ase for.the Grand Circuit meetings,
and when the season is over he will
have to take her back to Waxahachie.
Cheeny is five years old and was
bred by L. W. Green & Son, of Indian
ola, I'll. She comes of a long line of
blooded ancestors, and when she was
two years old great things were phop-
hesied for her. She was raced last
year through the West and Southwest
and at Dallas, Texas, made record
OF 2:G91s. This. year she has been
raced eight times in Grand Circuit
meetings, and at Fort Erie lowered her
record to 2.0714. She was opposed by.
faster horses in the Derby, but It Wis
Ia. handicap event and none of the
cracks had chance against her from,
the start.
Her best race before the Derby was
AT Detroit, where she was second to
Chatty Direct in 2:07A and 2:07A.
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~ HEN Cheeny, little mare from
W the stable. OF John Muikey, of
" Waxahochie, Texas. trotted under
the wire at Readville, Mass,
few DAYS ago the winner of the $4,000
American Derby she won for. herself
the reputation Of being the gamest
horse on the Grand Circuit.
She had ben lame for weeks, so lame
that big John" F1e1dming, who drives
her. feared she would have to go to
the hospital, but she beat" the crack
horses of the country in Americas
greatest race without once showing
the sign of a limp, and as her driver.
led her into her stall she rubbed her
nose against his shoulder and looked
as pleased as If she were human and
realized what she had accomplished.
She knows more than some men.
FIemming said after the race, land
believe that she went out and won the
Derby just because she knew mat 1t
WAS my ambition to send her under
the wire first. Cheeny and Italk the
races over always, and 4 ain willing
to bet her weight In. -silyen that sile
kfows every word | say to her. She
is the most sensitive horse ever saw.
She never viciously resents and abuse,
but the look on her face, If any one
is unkind to heE to a person with
horse sense is more Of a rebuke than
a kick"
CHEEKY is perhaps the smallest rae
ing horse on the Grand Circuit She
weighs less than 900 pounds-about
the weight of pony-and her limbs
are so fine that one wonders wnere
she gets the remarkable strength that
is in them. She is called upon to do
more than the ordinary racing horse,
too, because her driver Fiemming is,
six feet in height and weighs 200
pounds.
She loves Flemming, though, and he
loves her, and believes that she would
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-15
Soccer and Track Men Show
Considerable Class and They
Should Make School Strong
Factor In the lnterscholastic
League

Kasnehameha School is going In
strong on athletics this year. One
division of athletics is no sooner
completed than another is taken up.
At present the school is deep in
baseball. After baseball, soccer com.
mences, and then track events will
be along to claim attention. .'s zEsas=
The school is divided into three
companies, A. B. and G, between
which great rivalry exists. The In.
ter-coInpai1y games in baseball. SOC
Ger and track will claim the schools
attention until about December 10Th.
between inter company games and IN.
aerscholastic games, Kamehameha
School will be extremely busy dur
ing the coming athletic season.
Z Besides baseball, soccer and track,
the companies compete In shooting,
military field work, and competitive
drills. Games OF some sort or other
are taking place every day except
Sunday and Monday. At present the
companies are completing their base
ball series, and two games are being
played daily. Each company has
three baseball teams and In other
events they will have two teams. At
the end Of the athletic season the
company that has the greatest num-
Der of points is treated to a dinner
and a dance by the rest of the
school.
The standing of the companies up
to date are: Company c. II points;
Company B. points; and Company
Ala points These points have all
been won IN baseball. The baseball
series began a week and a half ago
and will last until Wednesday of.
next week. there being about eleven
games yet to play. The third teams
play game each day and the first
and second teams saltefnate, the firsts
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GRAYS
BEAT NAIPAHU

KAHUKU, Oct 14,-Last Sunday,
18th Kahuku Grays and the Waipahu
Blues crossed pbats ON the Waipahu
|diamond. The game was won by the
former whose heavy hitting brought
them victory, by score of 12-1O.
srhe contest lasted ten innings Both
sides made good many errors; but
the errors of the Kahukus were
paclled up by the fine pitching Of
Janssen, the good catching of Plem-
nler and the sensational fielding of
M. Rod.
[ MegueI played HIS game at short,
and Travens did well at third. The
timely hits Of Plemmer, Dana, Juel
and Jansen saved the game for the
iKahuku Grays. JANSEN made a
home run, Plemmer and Dana each
had a three Dagger to their credit,
and Juef two-bagger. Caesar, the
sWaipahu pitcher was knocked out
OF the box. His place was taken by
Benny, an Aiea boy
The Waipahu's were leaders up to
the first half OF the ninth the score
being 81, but the Kahukus came in,
in the ninth and succeeded in getting
three men across the plate. That
made the score 1913 In favor of the
Grays. The Waipahu's brought in one
run in their half of the ninth which
tied the score In the tenth the
Kahukus adder two more runs to
their ten. The Waipahus came in and
were struck out one-twothree by the
Kahuku pitcher Jansen. Thus end
ed the ten inning battle.
Struck out by Caesar 5, by Benny
a; by Jansen u.
The line up OF the Victors was as
follows:
Dana, CT; Juel, 2b; Rod, 1b; Plem-
med, C; Megued, IS; ira ems, 3b;
Silva, RI; Joel. II; JaHsSen, p.
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INTER-CLASS FOOTBALL
AT HIGH ENDS IN TIE

The first football game OF the sea
son was played on the MaklN Ath-
letic Field Saturday, between the
Junior Freshmen and Senior Sopho-
more teams of Mckinley. The game
ended in a tie with score Of 6-6.
The line up Of the teams was as
follows:
ior-Soph0mo,e JunIor-F'reshman
Center
E. Crozier ........... NJ. Bolte
Right Guard
w. Gram6urg ............ En- Chol
Left Guard
Right Tackle
w ROsehill ID. Kahalawai-E. Long
Left Tackle
II. Dyson (captaiW $500. V. Harris
Quarterback
ID. Stone .............., {. Crozier
Left End
]. Morlta .......... +. Nong-J. Holt
Right End
II. Mott ................. Xii FOug
Left Half
$. Bush .... l.. Hisks-H. Moline
Right Half
H. zap .~..............< J. Silva
LS,Sllhoob
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Sport JETSAM ..
s.tag - ras a
and FLOTSAM

Umpire Perrine of the American
league is trying to arrange a game
between the umplres of the Ameri-
can and National leagues. There are
a lot of players who would like to
get a chance to umpire the contest.
To mis- take a guide for deer. and
pot him with a rifle, is favorite
sport in the Adirondacks. At present
however. the greatest danger is in
being taken for a Bull Moose and
having your hide punctured.
Bat Nelson coming to Honolulu Is
the latest. That will be the signal to
drag the HiIo Lion out Of his cage,
and poke him into action again.
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LAURENCE REDINGTON
SPORTING EDITOR
CHINESE WILL PLAY
SATURDAY BUT THEIR
OPPONENTS UNCERTAIN.
], A, Cts Willing to Take Them
On but League Management
Wants to Use the HaWafiS

With the return and reception of
the All-Chincse team yesterday, local
fans began to clamor for a chance
to see the travellers in action after
their long tour, and the cry is SO
insistant that probably a game will
be arranged for next Saturday after.
noon. The Chinese are anxious to
play, the fans are anxious to have
them, and more than one team of
the Oahu league is anxious to take
crack at the much-touted OrientaIs.
This Combination should be product
i've of results r
However, there is one stumbling
block, and that is the Oahu Senior
league management, which does not
care to have a league team play two
days in succession, for fear of crab
bling the regular Sunday league show
The league is quite willing to have
the swing team, that Is not schedul.
ed for a Sunday game, take on the
Chinese, but this does not accord
exactly with tentative plans. s~
II seems. that the J. A. C. players,
who won the first place of the league
series after the pIay-off with the
Stars, claim the right to. tackle the
Chinese first. and are anxious for a
game Saturday This suits the Chinese
down to the ground, but the league
wont stand for IL.
The league teams are too shy on
good pitchers, and don't practice
enough to allow them to play two
days In succession" said A. @. Mar
callino, manager of the Oahu Senior
League, this morning Nov the
have no game for next Sum
day, and / think they should go on
against the Chinese team this com
ing Saturday. Let the j. A. C.s have
the game the following Saturday,
when they have no game for the next
day
That's the way the matter stands
at present, but it's almost certain that
the Chinese will get game for this
coming Saturday, with one or other
Of the above mentioned league teams |
The banquet given last night by
the Chinese merchants of the city toll
the Chinese team, at Motley Hall, |
kukui street was success from
start to finish. Kim Tong Ho vast
and discharged the du-
lies of the office TO good effect
Speeches were made by the Chinese
consul Charles Cnillingwofth, A. @. |
Marcallino, and several others, while |
members of the team told some |
thing of their long trip. The trophy
cups presented to the team in Chi
cago and San Francisco. by Chinese
residents, were exhibited and much
admired.
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y BOWLERs PICK
TEAMS FOR
LEAGUE
Games Will Start Next Monday
and Continue Until the Mid
die of DeCember-SK Teams
to Play

The alley men of the, 4. NJ. G.. a.
Eot together last night and selected
teams 10 form the new league which
VIII roll a preliminary schedule be-
fore the first of the year. Six or,
each club to play schedule OF thirty
games, and games TO count in the
percentages, as was the case last
season. .#s
The captains who drew for choice
and then made their selections last
night we're Gear. Franz, Wilkinson,
Rletow, Edgecomb. and e. F. Schmidt.
When the selections were made il
was found that the teams shaped up
as follows:
Cherries Gear, Williams, Rasemal,
Mills, Swain, Andeloyie.
Dark Horses wilkinson, Harris,
Clark, r. Scott, Leslie Scott, James.
Splitters- Rietow, Winnie, Bernal,
Tinker Sr, Emmans. Guard; Fergu,
son.
- Breakers Franz. White, thinner.
merman, H. White, Tinker. Jr., Long
ley.
Expanders EdgecOmb, Milton, ely
ner, Wisdom, Atherton, Finch, Jones.
Rollers Schmidt, r.. F., Roberts,
Dyson, Barter. Franklin, Froelich.
Rietow, Gear and Wisdom will get
together within the next day or So
and draft the schedule fort the series.
II will provide plenty of rolling, and
should bring out some interesting
play.
AT the close of this League the
Club League win at once organize,
and start sometime in January. The
following Clubs viii probably enter,
Honolulans, Laeti4 Club, Stragglers,
Brunswick,E alkes and the Cosmos.
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Il he date Tor this tournament -
: is at present awaiting decision. >
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playing one day and the seconds the.
Iiext.
Soccer Next.
Soccers begins next week. The first
inter-company games Will be played
on Friday and Saturday, and viii
continue regularly thereafter until
the completion Of the series. After
the inter-company games will come
the ifterscholastic games The team
which will represent Kamehameha In
this series VIII be composed OF the
best players from each company
teams.
The company teams are headed by
the officers Of the battalion, and al
the teams are coached and supefIn-
tended by Lieutenant G.. E. Turner.
One or two soccer games VIII be
PLAYED with st. Louis before Christ
mas and they will mark the begin.
ming Of the soccer season. The series
win not be completed until after
Christmas. as Mckinley, which ID al
so going to have a soccer team, viii
not take up soccer until after fiis
football season.
Kan will not have q football team.
but win spend all her time develop.
ing her soccer team and is confident
that she can put out championship
eleven.
Crosse Country Run.
After the soccer series comes the
annual cross coantFy pan befwnenI
Kan and Pnnnhou- albis IS al event
that ruuses considerable interest ia
beth schools
The cross country run Is sort OF
preliminary to the track meet, which
comes Immediately after, and Is
probably the most important athletic
event of the year.
With such a schedule OF athletics
as Kan has this year. there viii be
chances for all stndents to- partici.
pate, for what one is not good IN ar
other is. and consequently eacn usam
should be composed Of the best afh
letes in that line II such Is the case
and Kan hopes il is, more than one
winning team will be wearerB Of tic
Blue and White.