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story. Ana observation or several larger cherry orchards in nearby terri- tory seems to indicate that they have met with a like fate. A difference in latitude of 150 miles seems to make all the difference between success and failure in the cherry business. In them. A reference of the query to the plant specialists at the state experi- ment station elicits a reply which states that the disease which has attacked the turnips Is due to jwspecies of bacteria and Is the same which sometimes at- tacks rutabagas and cabbages. The only suggestion made in the way of preventing the trouble is to sow fresh seeds grown in another locality upon clean soil not previously used for tur- nip,culture, and keep them away from cabbages as far as possible. Care is urged in the matter of securing clean turnip seed, as the disease has been known 'to be conveyed through the spores of the bacteria being attached to the seed of the turnip. If our cor- respondent cannot secure a new piece of lam] handily it would be well for him ' 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 9,000,000 plows are required in the plowing of the tillable land, which represents an Investment 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 is one line of animal husbandry that is not 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 one of the finest delicacies for the table. Job was afflicted with a spell of boils, but the historic account makes no men- tion of the fact that he had to put up with the nuisance of being overrun with his neighbors' chickens. It Is a question which is the more trying to a fellow's patience and sweetness of temper. Other things being equal, the man vith an education has just the advan- tage of his ignorant fellow that the man with a sharp ax has over the one with a dull tool. And his education opens up to him a reajm in which his thoughts may dwell even ifhis body is occupied in manual toil. The dog poisoner and the anonymous letter writer belong to the same spe-. cles of humanivy and are as a general thing 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, In the second for the things he says. It is usually the man who suffers most from a failure to help himself who takes most stock in the power of heredity. He is wont to put great store on the Scripture phrase, "The sins of the father are visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation," when he should rather emphasize the profane maxim, "God helps those who help themselves," and straightway be- gin to scratch gravel. Perhaps because he is not very nu- merous it is amusing to come across the perpetual pessimist, farmer or gar- dener, who complains of the evils of a drought or of excessive moisture and who seldom sees anything but stark ruin staring him in the face. In his imagination the frost always destroys all and never a part of his crop, and yet rarely are his anticipations real- ized, nature dealing much more boun- tifully with him than he expects and a great deal more so than he deserves. In consequence of the successful op- eration of the grazing policy of the government as applied to the national forest reserves those having supervi- sion of the open grazing lands, which outside of the forest reserves amount to about 400,000,000 acres, are contem- plating the application of the same general policy of regulation and over- sight to this enormous area. At pres- ent grazing on these lands is wholly unrestrained by law. Commercial in- terests have competed for its use, with the result that millions of acres have been overgrazed and practically ruined. In his last message to congress Presi- dent Roosevelt said: "It is probable that the present grazing value of the open public range is scarcely more than half what it once was or might easily be again under careful supervision. The wide open policy which has pre- vailed has resulted in a few of the more powerful stockmen seizing con- trol of the more valuable portions of the public grazing land, Including streams, springs and other sources of water supply, with the result that great injustice has been done to other citi- zens who under the law are entitled to just as good a chance. Not only this, but there have been numerous in- stances of fraudulent entry, illegal fencing, those responsible for the of- fense often going so far as to defend their 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 to giving 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 orange tree is a familiar sight in practically every town in the United States, the conditions under which the same is jgrown may not be so well known, and with a view to getting hold of the in- formation desired we subjected an or- i ange grower of Redlands. Cal., to a series of rapid fire questions the 4>tlier day and got the following results: The orchard in question is fifteen years old and contains some 600 orange trees, as welJ as olives, apricots and other fruit. The trees are set in the orchard twenty feet apart each way, thus allowing crisscross cultivation. The orchard is given a thorough plowing in February, late* handling of the soil being with disks and cultivators. As soon as the land la^ ready cowpeas are sown, and when they have attained a good growth they are disked under, this serving not only to keep the weeds in check, but also to supply nitrogen to the soil. Wa- ter rights are bought with the land, the supply for irrigation purposes costing in the neighborhood of $5 per acre an- nually. The orchard is irrigated every thirty-five days during the. dry season, the water being turned on gradually and allowed to run for about four days. At the end of this time the ground is thoroughly .soaked so that one will sink to bis shoe tops anywhere in the orchard. As soon as the surface of the land is sufficiently dry after irrigating it is given v thorough har- rowing, which pulverizes the surface of the soil and teuds to conserve the moisture. The chief enemy of this or- chard is the gopher, which often bur- rows near the trunk of the tree and girdles the main roots, resulting in se- rious damage if not the death of the tree. The chief weed pest is the marsh- mallow, which seems to thrive remark- ably under the conditions which pre- vailin the orchard. While fruit is pick- ed in some orchards in the southern part of the state in December, itis not ripe, the bulk of the picking being done during January and February. Some of the fruit is so large as to run only ninety oranges to the box, but the most popular size and that which brings the best price runs much small- er, about 225 to the box. As a rule there is good money in an orange crop, but occasionally as a result of an un- usually large crop it pays to pick only the best of the fruit, and instances are known where it has taken more than the price received for the orange crop to pay the transportation charges. Or- ange groves of the above description are 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 the font with the precious armful of fat and flounces. The language of the heart which comes from the heart and goes to the heart is always simple, graceful and full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it It is at once the easiest and most difficult language— difficult since it needs a heart to speak it;easy because its periods, though rounded and full of harmony, are still un- studied.—Bovee. Language of the Heart. With the very poorest of soft wood boards and strips costing all the way from $25 to $30 per thousand and with the prospect that the next few years will see a decided advance on these prices, the problem of a future lumber supply should receive serious and gen- eral attention. In this connection we wish to emphasize the recommenda- tion of a reader of these notes, whose suggestion as to the planting of cotton- wood trees with a view to furnishing a future lumber supply was comment- ed upon in this department not long ago. We ace led to do so by noting the case of a central lowa farmer who has an acre of cottonwoods planted twenty-five or thirty years, the lumber value of which is today estimated at from $1,000 to $1,200, and it is quite safe to say that inside of twenty-five years more a similar tract would be worth a half more than the amount named. For all rougher uses on the farm we see no good reason why cot- tonwood lumber would not answer the purposes served by the poorer grades of soft pine lumber sold today. Higher prices of all kinds of lumber are a dead certainty for the future, and now is the proper time for the exercise of horticultural faith and the planting of generous areas for the use of fu- ture generations. MONEY IN TIMBER LOTS. A bulletin recently issued by the dairy division of the bureau of animal industry at Washington gives some in- teresting data relative to the experi- ments which have been conducted dur- ing the past year in the making ufiifi storage of butter. Last summer (5.000 pounds of butter made in Kansas and lowa were placed in cold storage in Chicago. Some of the questions as to which these experiments were expected to give results weri " (1) the effect of pasteurization, (2) the amount of salt to be used, (3) temperature of the stor- age rooms, (4) the use of cans hermeti- cally sealed for storing butter, (5) the keeping qualities of good compared with poor butter, and (6) the action of air in contact with butter in storage. The butter was made from five lots of cream, three of which were sour when received at the creamery and two sweet. From each lot of cream two lots of butter were made, one pasteurized and the other not, and part of each lot of butter was lightly salted and part heavily salted. The butter was packed in tubs and cans, some of the cans be- ing only partly filled, so as to test the effect of air. A part of each lot of butter was stored at different tempera- tures, and the whole lot remained in storage eight months. The results showed that the butter containing a low percentage of salt kept better than that heavily salted, that butter in full cans kept better than in cans only partly full, and, lastly, that butter made from cream received sweet kept better both in storage and after re- moval than butter made from the sour cream. BUTTER STORAGE EXPERIMENTS. There is little question that many a farm has become contaminated with the Canada thistle, quack grass and other noxious weeds through the im- portation of the hay and litter which are often wrapped around fruit trees or used in the packing of dishes. Unless one knows positively as to the pedigree of such packing it is far better to burn it on the spot than to put it on the manure pile, where such stuff is usual- ly dumped. Where the latter Is done It is placed directly on the plow land of the farm and at once gains a foothold. Care as to this matter in season will often save much vexation and expense. Among: some of the creations of the horticultural wizard, Luther Burbank of California, are the rrinius berry, a cross between a blackberry and rasp- bery, a white blackberry, beautiful in appearance and of delicate flavor— the "phenomenal" berry, a cross between a raspberry and a California dewberry, surpassing both in size, productiveness and flavor; the plumcot, the result of a union of the apricot and plum, and. lastly and perhaps of greatest practical value to the arid sections of the west, a thornless cactus which bears a fruit useful as a food for both man and beast Wisdom and honor are the aTenura to a happy immortality.— Plato. "I have never given the matter much consideration," was the young lady's response. "Suppose you stay away for five or six years and we'll see. w — Pittsburg Post Ready For a Test. "Do you think that absence really makes the heart grow fonder?" in- quired the young man who was not a particularly welcome caller. Following a careful trial of a num- ber of years past the lowa experiment station reports the following varieties of early red sour cherries as most de- serving of mention: Tlmme, Duchess de Angouleme, Orel No. 23, Early Rich- mond and Montmorency. This list would therefore seem to be safe for latitude 42 and for those localities north of this belt where the climate is moderated by other influences. Of thirty cherry trees which were set out in our home orchard some ten years ajro not one is left today to tell the Time appears long only to those who don't know how to use It A reader of these notes livingat Ot- tumwa, la., writes asking information relative to blight or disease that has attacked his turnip crop for the past two years. Our correspondent states that he sowed his turnip seeds early in August in rows t > feet apart and thins .with hoe to six inches apart in the**row. He keeps them free from weeds and says they seem to do nicely until about the size of a teacup, when the tops turn yellow and the whole tur- nip rots in a short time. While our friend's letter gives practically no data relative to conditions of soil or location, the trouble would not seem to be found DAMAGE FROM TURNIP ROT. FARM ORCHARD AND GARDEN It will pay you to see Wilson for the best bargains in the Imper-' ial Valley, or I have the best trad- ing list in the Valley. Go out and look them over with me. I keep rigs for that purpose and will offset my time against yours. Office Commercial Hotel, Imperial, Cal. | DlUWII o LApl foob dill] § S BAGGAGE DELIVERY I fctf D. A. Brown, Prop. Stand Cor. Ninth $5 p and Imperial Aye. 'Phoife Res. 159. s Trnnks 25c in city, 35c outside. All £j £?} orders carefully attended to. Trnnks B X stored ; 25c a month. .^ $j Wheat for your chickens. Desert Grain Co., Imperial. I have 160 acres of good land is Water Co. No. 1 and 160 shares of water stock all for $20 per acre. Cash payment of $500. Pay the bal- ance in work, leveling and putting in crop on adjoining land. See me at once. D. H. CHAPLIN, EI Centro, Cal. FARMERS— Do you want to buy % twenty-foot-cut Combined Horse Har- vester, good as new, easy terms, and guaranteed to give satisfaction? For |in formation, address Geo. H. Griffiths Jr., Covina. Ca3/ If you want to take home a itw loaves of bread we keep it; none bet- ter. Also we csm supply you with meat as we are nicely fixed In our new quarters now. You can see the sign,, just back of Franklin hotel. f|Homeseekers *-^ 1 | Colonists I U Should take advantage of the excellent Tourist Car service from M fVJ New Orleans to the Imperial Settlements maintained by (]\u25a0} X SOUTHERN PACIFIC H Inf J^^^l^^\ For In * ormat * on Write t»r Ask Agent, jQj M !^©^S : |iiES? ; 60 ° South Spring- Street, »J jqJ Los Angeles, Cal. jfy W. F. HOLT, A. G. HUBBARD, TRUE VENCILL PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT CASHIER •-s ci Centre, Cal Paid up Capital / $100,000.00 Surplus >> t> $ 2o,ooo»oo \u25a0 AH accommodations extended to Customers i Consistent with Conservative Banking i Your Business Solicited - . - _ I Kentucky Stables and Infirmary \ >~ « I LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLES 1 I Fine Rigs and Teams at Reasonable Rates : \ ' Sick and Lame Horses Cured. Horses : | Boarded by the Day, Week, 01 Month. I \ Don t Forget the KENTUCKY Stables \ t E. W. HARRINGTON, Prop. Corner Bth and J Streets I L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. T. B. Blarichard, Agent * El Centro, California
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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.
FARMORCHARDANDGARDEN
It willpay you to see Wilsonfor the best bargains in the Imper-'ial Valley, or Ihave the best trad-inglist in the Valley. Go out andlook them over with me. Ikeeprigs for that purpose and willoffsetmy time against yours. OfficeCommercial Hotel, Imperial, Cal.
|DlUWII o LAplfoob dill] §S BAGGAGE DELIVERY Ifctf D. A.Brown, Prop. Stand Cor. Ninth $5p and Imperial Aye. 'Phoife Res. 159. s
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.
FARMERS— Do you want to buy %twenty-foot-cut Combined Horse Har-vester, good as new, easy terms, andguaranteed to give satisfaction? For|information, address Geo. H. GriffithsJr., Covina. Ca3/
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.
f|Homeseekers *-^1| Colonists IU Should take advantage of the excellent Tourist Car service from MfVJ New Orleans to the Imperial Settlements maintained by (]\u25a0}
X SOUTHERN PACIFIC HInf J^^^l^^\ For In*
ormat*on Write t»r Ask Agent, jQj
M!^©^S:|iiES? ; 60°
South Spring- Street, »J
jqJ Los Angeles, Cal. jfy
W. F. HOLT, A. G. HUBBARD, TRUE VENCILL
PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT CASHIER
•-s
ciCentre, Cal
Paid up Capital / $100,000.00
Surplus >> t> $ 2o,ooo»oo \u25a0
AH accommodations extended to Customers i
Consistent with Conservative Banking
i Your Business Solicited-
.- _
I Kentucky Stables and Infirmary \>~ «
I LIVERY,FEED AND SALE STABLES 1I Fine Rigs and Teams at Reasonable Rates :
\ ' Sick and Lame Horses Cured. Horses :| Boarded by the Day, Week, 01 Month. I\ Don t Forget the KENTUCKY Stables \t E. W. HARRINGTON, Prop. Corner Bth and J Streets I
L. W. Blinn Lumber Co.
T. B. Blarichard, Agent
*
El Centro, California
