•^ 4^-VvV I i - •W ; - I80c ^be Identic presa \ \J>CV yz • * - .,•/ # VOL. 2. No. 16. PENTICTON, B.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1907. $1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. were described, the hill system planted their strawberries in Local and Personal. THE CANADIAN BANK and the matted row system. In rows thirty inches apart and the former the plants were put sixteen inches apart in the rows. OF COMMERCE W. F. Kydd gives most interesting about eighteen inches apart in In starting an orchard it was M. C. Kendall has in his offiice the rows, kept thoroughly culti­ IILAD OFFICE, TORONTO ESTABLISUMl 1807 talk to Fruit-Growers and as necessary to make a careful two apples weighing 24 oz. each. Horsemen vated, the runners kept cut off, selection as it was in stocking a' They were grown on Jas. Grant's B. E. WALKER, Presidtnt Paid-up Capital, $10,000,000 and the plants induced to grow ALEX. LA1KD, General Manager farm. He did not know any-! farm at White Lake. Rest, - - - 5,000,000 Mr. Cash, of Hood River, also like bushes. The latter plan was thing about nurserymen in Brit­ A. H. IRELAND, Superintendent a! Gordon Harris leaves for the Branches Total Assets, - 113,000,000 speaks to grow in continuous rows and ish Columbia but in the United to keep well cultivated between. States they were very dishonest south on a business trip at the beginning of the week. He will The Provincial Farmers' Insti­ He preferred the hill system as and a person could never be cer- BANK MONEY ORDERS ! be away nearly a week. ISSUCD AT THE FOLLOWING RATES : tute met on Monday, as an­ it was easier to keep the patch tain about the variety of his trees j $5 and under 3 cents clean. He believed spring plant­ Over i5 and not exceeding $10 6 cents nounced, in the Hotel Penticton until they began to bear. The ! The local W. C. T. U. will " $10 " " $30 10 cents °7 hall, with the exception that the ing was just as good as fall, as speaker's advice was for the I hold the second Demorest Medal " $30 " " $50 15 cents no fruit should be allowed to These Orders are payable at par .it any office ill Canada ol a Chartered Bunk morning and afternoon sessions grower to raise his onw trees. contest on Thursday evening, (Yukon excepted), and at the principal hanking1 points ill the United Stales. were cut out. The speakers, W. grow upon the plants the first He could procure the seedling- ! November 14th., in the Method- They are negotiable al $4.90 to the £ Sterling in Great Britain and Ireland. F. Kydd and Miss Blanche Mad- year, and those planted in the stock from any wholesale nur­ , ist Church. They form an excellent method of remitting small sums of money with safety spring would be foCind as far ad­ and at (.mall cost, and may be obtained without delay at any office of the Bank dock, accompanied by Jas. Wilks, sery and by selecting grafts A meeting to re-organize the the secretary of the Kelowna vanced by the following spring from good bearing trees do his Penticton Branch J. J. HUNTER, Manager. as those planted the fall previous. Literary Society will be held in branch of the Farmers' Institute, own grafting. The process of Steward's Hall on the evening driving in from Summerland In his own patch he did not let budding or grafting could be his plants bear move than one of Thursday, the 7th. inst, at Monday morning, did not arrive learned in a few minutes. Grafts 8 o'clock. Everybody come. until nearly noon, consequently year, but in certain cases two should be cut in the fall, and the too late to hold a morning session. good crops might be obtained. young trees grafted and set out A. Claarson and son, P. O. \ are You Building ? ( After some consultation it was When strawberries were planted in the following spring. When Ciaarson, recently of Edmonton, thought that there would be few, between the rows of fruit trees, young trees are set out they are making preparations to open We can supply you with anything you require, J if any, attendants at an after­ they should be kept away from should be headed to within eigh­ up a grocery store in the McDon­ LUMBER, SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, and J noon session so it was decided to the trees. teen inches of the ground. The ald building. They will build t later at the corner of Main and BUILDING PAPER. We also keep on hand j concentrate their efforts upon GRAPES trees would then be low and most a large stock of Fluming Material. Try some f the evening session and to em­ Mr. Kydd next took up the of the fruit could be picked from Fairview. of our Vulcanized Rubber Roofing on your ploy the intervening time seeing subject of grape culture. On the ground by women and A special Thanksgiving service the sights. W. T. Shatford, the the American side of the line children. will be held in the Methodist outbuildings; it is the best. We keep Corru- 1 manager of the S. 0. Land Co., growers thought they were doing gated Carpet Felt to put under carpet. Try it. J Every care should be exercised church next Sunday evening at drove the party over the sur­ well if they received two cents a in picking and packing fruit so 7 p. m. Special music by the rounding country, visiting Dog pound for their grapes. In this that it might not be bruised in choir will be a leading feature of / S. e. Smith Lumber Go. V Lake and the principal points on country- when he had bought the slightest degree. Where the service. A cordial invitation the flat and the bench. grapes he had paid 15c. a pound possible the packing should be is extended to every one to be W. J. Clement occupied the for them. The Okanagan should done in the orchards as convey­ present. chair at the evening meeting, prove an ideal place for the ing the fruit to a central packing growing of this fruit. People ' Chas. Hind, the man commit­ and Mr. Kydd was greeted by a house was likely to bruise it and ted for trial for shooting Nglson ^p» very fair audience. He said that sometimes said that it was too brown spots would soon show. much trouble to grow grapes, Chance at Keremeos last week, he had been simply staggered at Apples should be carefully wiped escaped on Monday night at Shu- the opearance of the orchards in but they would find that there and sorted. This cost about six 20th Century was trouble in growing any kind swap while being conducted to this vicinity, fie had been all cents per box at Hood River. jail at Kamloops by Const. Gard- over Ontario and in many other of fruit. Grapes could hang on Thirteen different grades were Has Just Arrived the vines a considerable time ham of Enderby. He has not Clothing places, but had never seen or­ made. yet been recaptured. chards looking better or better after ripe. Consequently there And now we have the finest range of patterns and styles was more time in which to pick At Hood River a union, with a F. D. Blakely, publisher of ever seen in Penticton. Call and select your fall suit. looked after, if as well, in any the fruit, a very important con­ well paid business man as man­ "Canadian Farm Implements," a other place. It was consequent­ ager, had been formed, and this NORMAN HILL ly useless to lecture upon culti­ sideration where labor was trade paper published at Winni­ scarce. union contracted with the grow­ peg, called at the Press office The Up-To=Date Ladies and Gents Furnisher vation, spraying or pruning to ers. The growers had nothing the owners of the best kept of In planting out grape vines, this week. This is Mr. Blakely's to do with the grading or pack­ first trip to the Okanagan, and, the orchards. He would, there­ holes should be dug large enough ing of the apples and buyers in fore, talk on other matters, tak­ to take in all the spreading roots like every one else, he is delight­ the east dealt exclusively with ed with the climate, orchards, SADDLES! SADDLES! ing as his subject, " Straw­ without compressing them. Only the manager. In this way it was berries, Grapes, and the Horse." three buds should be left above people and everything in general certain that the fruit sent out he has met with in the valley. Just arrived, a choice assortment of He had noticed while driving in the ground and when these have would be as near perfect as it the vicinity that many of the started all but the strongest was possible for it to be. Rev. A. N. Miller of Enderby, Stock Saddles, Bridles, Schapps, Spurs, and general fruit lots were held by wealthy should be removed. The speaker chairman of this district of the In order to pack all apples well Riding Equipment at close prices. men who did not live here, while explained and illustrated the Methodist Conference, accompan­ men of less means had taken up best kind of trellises to use and it had been found necessary to j ied by Rev. Dr. White, Supt. of their residence and were endeav­ how the vines should be trained. use two sizes of boxes, the Cali­ Methodist missions for B.