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opens. Insist upon the use of standard solutions of iime- 

 sulphur and salt, and use your best efforts to see that owners 

 of public spraying outfits give good service at reasonable 

 prices. There has been a great deal of complaint, and with 

 good reason, along this line. 



Outside of Hood River and parts of Rogue River valleys, 

 one of the greatest questions confronting the fruit grower is 

 that of marketing. The individual, unless engaged on a 

 tremendous scale, is at a great disadvantage in marketing, no 

 matter how smart he may be. He must pay more for all his 

 supplies, he can not possibly secure as well trained help as 

 though he were one of a number of growers working to- 

 gether. The advantages of union are so obvious that it is 

 superfluous to mention them. Of course a successful union 

 cannot be formed all at once; it must be a matter of slow 

 growth, but encourage growers everywhere to make a begin- 

 ning; if nothing more, induce two men to order their boxes 

 together; the usual price is 11 cents per hundred, but 500 

 lots can be had at 10 cents. If only two men can work to- 

 gether one season they will show good results enough to in- 

 duce two more men to want to join them next year, and then 

 the remainder is easy. , 



And then, to secure most satisfactory results, there should 

 be uniformity of planting in each locality. The State of 

 Oregon is so diverse in climate and soil that almost every 

 fruit of the temperate zone can be successfully grown, but 

 there are localities in which each particular fruit will succeed 

 perhaps a little better than anywhere else. Find out what 

 fruit will make the best specialty for each locality and induce 

 the growers to produce enough of that fruit to make it an 

 object for buyers to hunt them up. Just in a general way, as 

 an illustration, I would cite the success of Hood River, with 

 its one strawberry and two apples (varieties I mean, not 

 number) ; Rogue River with its pears and winter apples ; Ash- 

 land for peaches; the Dalles with peaches, apricots and cher- 

 ries; Cove with strawberries and cherries, etc. , 



Every fruit-growing locality should have some specialty; 

 the country around Grants Pass should profit by the example 

 of Mr. Carson and make Grants Pass Tokay grapes famous 



