story. Ana observation or severallarger cherry orchards in nearby terri-tory seems to indicate that they havemet with a like fate. A difference inlatitude of 150 miles seems to make allthe difference between success andfailure in the cherry business.

In them. A reference of the query tothe plant specialists at the state experi-ment station elicits a reply which statesthat the disease which has attacked theturnips Is due to jwspecies of bacteriaand Is the same which sometimes at-tacks rutabagas and cabbages. Theonly suggestion made in the way ofpreventing the trouble is to sow freshseeds grown in another locality uponclean soil not previously used for tur-nip,culture, and keep them away fromcabbages as far as possible. Care isurged in the matter of securing cleanturnip seed, as the disease has beenknown 'to be conveyed through thespores of the bacteria being attachedto the seed of the turnip. If our cor-respondent cannot secure a new pieceof lam] handily it would be well forhim

'raise some other; crop on the

plot v.hk-h he has hitherto had in tur-nips.Many a parent has himself to thank,

for the sulky disposition of his child.

In the United States alone 9,000,000plows are required in the plowing ofthe tillable land, which represents anInvestment of about $80,000,000.

With prime, sound mules selling re-cently at as high as $237 per head,there is reason to believe that there isone line of animal husbandry that isnot being seriously overdone.

We are just now reaping a substan-tial reward for p^lns taken in trans-planting some early lettuce. The full,crisp heads are tender and furnish oneof the finest delicacies for the table.

Job was afflicted witha spell of boils,but the historic account makes no men-tion of the fact that he had to put upwith the nuisance of being overrunwith his neighbors' chickens. It Is aquestion which is the more trying toa fellow's patience and sweetness oftemper.

Other things being equal, the manvith an education has just the advan-tage of his ignorant fellow that theman with a sharp ax has over the onewith a dull tool. And his educationopens up to him a reajm in which histhoughts may dwell even ifhis body isoccupied in manual toil.

The dog poisoner and the anonymousletter writer belong to the same spe-.cles of humanivy and are as a generalthing cowardly, malignant and con-temptible specimens of the genus homo.'In the first case one seeks to shirk re-sponsibility for the things he does, Inthe second for the things he says.

It is usually the man who suffersmost from a failure to help himselfwho takes most stock in the power ofheredity. He is wont to put great storeon the Scripture phrase, "The sins ofthe father are visited upon the childrenunto the third and fourth generation,"when he should rather emphasize theprofane maxim, "God helps those whohelp themselves," and straightway be-gin to scratch gravel.

Perhaps because he is not very nu-merous it is amusing to come acrossthe perpetual pessimist, farmer or gar-dener, who complains of the evils of adrought or of excessive moisture andwho seldom sees anything but starkruin staring him in the face. In hisimagination the frost always destroysall and never a part of his crop, andyet rarely are his anticipations real-ized, nature dealing much more boun-tifully with him than he expects anda great deal more so than he deserves.

In consequence of the successful op-eration of the grazing policy of thegovernment as applied to the nationalforest reserves those having supervi-sion of the open grazing lands, whichoutside of the forest reserves amountto about 400,000,000 acres, are contem-plating the application of the samegeneral policy of regulation and over-sight to this enormous area. At pres-ent grazing on these lands is whollyunrestrained by law. Commercial in-terests have competed for its use, withthe result that millions of acres havebeen overgrazed and practically ruined.In his last message to congress Presi-dent Roosevelt said: "It is probablethat the present grazing value of theopen public range is scarcely more thanhalf what itonce was or might easilybe again under careful supervision.The wide open policy which has pre-vailed has resulted in a few of themore powerful stockmen seizing con-trol of the more valuable portions ofthe public grazing land, Includingstreams, springs and other sources ofwater supply, with the result that greatinjustice has been done to other citi-zens who under the law are entitledto just as good a chance. Not onlythis, but there have been numerous in-stances of fraudulent entry, illegalfencing, those responsible for the of-fense often going so far as to defendtheir unjust claims by force of arms.An extension of the general forest re-serve policy to the open grazing lands,as is contemplated, will tend to rem-edy the evils mentioned and will pro-vide a careful examination and classi-fication of the lands with a view togiving each settler land enough to sup-port his family and no more." The pas-sage of a law giving the control con-templated promises definite and prac-

tical results.

CONTROL OF GRAZING LANDS.

While the mature fruit of the orangetree is a familiar sight in practicallyevery town in the United States, theconditions under which the same is

jgrown may not be so well known, andwith a view to getting hold of the in-formation desired we subjected an or-

iange grower of Redlands. Cal., to aseries of rapid fire questions the 4>tlierday and got the following results: Theorchard in question is fifteen years oldand contains some 600 orange trees, aswelJ as olives, apricots and other fruit.The trees are set in the orchard twentyfeet apart each way, thus allowingcrisscross cultivation. The orchard isgiven a thorough plowing inFebruary,late* handling of the soil being withdisks and cultivators. As soon as theland la^ready cowpeas are sown, andwhen they have attained a good growththey are disked under, this serving notonly to keep the weeds in check, butalso to supply nitrogen to the soil. Wa-ter rights are bought with the land, thesupply for irrigation purposes costing

in the neighborhood of $5 per acre an-nually. The orchard is irrigated everythirty-five days during the. dry season,the water being turned on graduallyand allowed to run for about fourdays. At the end of this time theground is thoroughly .soaked so thatone willsink tobis shoe tops anywhere

in the orchard. As soon as the surfaceof the land is sufficiently dry afterirrigating it is given v thorough har-rowing, which pulverizes the surfaceof the soil and teuds to conserve themoisture. The chief enemy of this or-chard is the gopher, which often bur-rows near the trunk of the tree andgirdles the main roots, resulting in se-rious damage if not the death of thetree. The chief weed pest is the marsh-mallow, which seems to thrive remark-ably under the conditions which pre-vailin the orchard. While fruitis pick-ed in some orchards in the southernpart of the state in December, itis notripe, the bulk of the picking beingdone during January and February.

Some of the fruit is so large as to runonly ninety oranges to the box, but themost popular size and that whichbrings the best price runs much small-er, about 225 to the box. As a rulethere is good money in an orange crop,but occasionally as a result of an un-usually large crop itpays to pick onlythe best of the fruit,and instances areknown where it has taken more thanthe price received for the orange cropto pay the transportation charges. Or-ange groves of the above descriptionare worth from $1,000 an acre up to$1,800.

ORANGE CULTURE.

"Dear, dear" (turning to the sex-ton). "A little more water, Mr. Per-kins, if you please."— X.ondon Tit-Bits!

"Augustus Philip Ferdinand Codrin-ton Chesterfield Livingstone Snooks."

Measure For Measure."And the name is to be"— asked the

fuave minister as he approached thefont with the precious armful of fatand flounces.

The language of the heart whichcomes from the heart and goes to theheart is always simple, graceful andfull of power, but no art of rhetoriccan teach it Itis at once the easiestand most difficult language— difficultsince itneeds a heart to speak it;easybecause its periods, though roundedand full of harmony, are still un-studied.—Bovee.

Language of the Heart.

With the very poorest of soft woodboards and strips costing all the wayfrom $25 to $30 per thousand and withthe prospect that the next few yearswill see a decided advance on theseprices, the problem of a future lumbersupply should receive serious and gen-eral attention. In this connection wewish to emphasize the recommenda-tion of a reader of these notes, whosesuggestion as to the planting of cotton-wood trees with a view to furnishinga future lumber supply was comment-ed upon in this department not longago. We ace led to do so by notingthe case of a central lowa farmer whohas an acre of cottonwoods plantedtwenty-five or thirty years, the lumbervalue of which is today estimated atfrom $1,000 to $1,200, and it is quitesafe to say that inside of twenty-fiveyears more a similar tract would beworth a half more than the amountnamed. For all rougher uses on thefarm we see no good reason why cot-tonwood lumber would not answer thepurposes served by the poorer grades

of soft pine lumber sold today. Higherprices of all kinds of lumber are adead certainty for the future, andnow is the proper time for the exerciseof horticultural faith and the plantingof generous areas for the use of fu-ture generations.

MONEY IN TIMBER LOTS.

A bulletin recently issued by thedairy division of the bureau of animalindustry at Washington gives some in-teresting data relative to the experi-ments which have been conducted dur-ing the past year in the making ufiifistorage of butter. Last summer (5.000

pounds of butter made in Kansas andlowa were placed in cold storage inChicago. Some of the questions as towhich these experiments were expectedto give results weri

"(1) the effect of

pasteurization, (2) the amount of saltto be used, (3) temperature of the stor-age rooms, (4) the use of cans hermeti-cally sealed for storing butter, (5) thekeeping qualities of good comparedwith poor butter, and (6) the action ofair in contact with butter in storage.The butter was made from five lots ofcream, three of which were sour whenreceived at the creamery and twosweet. From each lot of cream two lotsof butter were made, one pasteurizedand the other not, and part of each lotof butter was lightly salted and partheavily salted. The butter was packedin tubs and cans, some of the cans be-ing only partly filled, so as to test theeffect of air. A part of each lot ofbutter was stored at different tempera-tures, and the whole lot remained instorage eight months. The resultsshowed that the butter containing alow percentage of salt kept better thanthat heavily salted, that butter in fullcans kept better than in cans onlypartly full, and, lastly, that buttermade from cream received sweet keptbetter both in storage and after re-moval than butter made from the sourcream.

BUTTER STORAGE EXPERIMENTS.

There is littlequestion that many afarm has become contaminated withthe Canada thistle, quack grass andother noxious weeds through the im-portation of the hay and litter whichare often wrapped around fruit trees orused in the packing of dishes. Unlessone knows positively as to the pedigreeof such packing itis far better to burnit on the spot than to put it on themanure pile, where such stuff is usual-lydumped. Where the latter Is doneItis placed directly on the plow land ofthe farm and at once gains a foothold.Care as to this matter in season willoften save much vexation and expense.

Among: some of the creations of thehorticultural wizard, Luther Burbankof California, are the rrinius berry, across between a blackberry and rasp-bery, a white blackberry, beautiful inappearance and of delicate flavor—the"phenomenal" berry, a cross between araspberry and a California dewberry,surpassing both in size, productivenessand flavor; the plumcot, the result of aunion of the apricot and plum, and.lastly and perhaps of greatest practicalvalue to the arid sections of the west,

a thornless cactus which bears a fruituseful as a food for both man andbeast

Wisdom and honor are the aTenurato a happy immortality.—Plato.

"Ihave never given the matter muchconsideration," was the young lady'sresponse. "Suppose you stay awayfor five or six years and we'll see. w

—Pittsburg Post

Ready For a Test.

"Do you think that absence reallymakes the heart grow fonder?" in-quired the young man who was not aparticularly welcome caller.

Following a careful trial of a num-ber of years past the lowa experimentstation reports the following varietiesof early red sour cherries as most de-serving of mention: Tlmme, Duchessde Angouleme, Orel No. 23, Early Rich-mond and Montmorency. This listwould therefore seem to be safe forlatitude 42 and for those localitiesnorth of this belt where the climate ismoderated by other influences. Ofthirty cherry trees which were set outin our home orchard some ten yearsajro not one is left today to tell the

Time appears longonly to those whodon't know how to use It

A reader of these notes livingat Ot-tumwa, la., writes asking informationrelative to blight or disease that hasattacked his turnip crop for the pasttwo years. Our correspondent states

that he sowed his turnip seeds early inAugust in rows t > feet apart andthins .with hoe to six inches apart inthe**row. He keeps them free from

weeds and says they seem to do nicelyuntil about the size of a teacup, whenthe tops turn yellow and the whole tur-nip rots in a short time. While ourfriend's letter gives practically no datarelative to conditions of soil or location,the trouble would not seem to be found

DAMAGE FROM TURNIP ROT.

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Trnnks 25c in city, 35c outside. All £j£?} orders carefully attended to. Trnnks BX stored ;25c a month. .^ $j

Wheat for your chickens. DesertGrain Co., Imperial.

Ihave 160 acres of good land isWater Co. No. 1 and 160 shares ofwater stock all for $20 per acre.Cash payment of $500. Pay the bal-ance in work, leveling and putting incrop on adjoining land. See me atonce. D. H. CHAPLIN,

EICentro, Cal.

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If you want to take home a itwloaves of bread we keep it; none bet-ter. Also we csm supply you withmeat as we are nicely fixed Inour newquarters now. You can see the sign,,just back of Franklin hotel.

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