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BETTER FRUIT 



July 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of Tie Northwest Fruit Growers' Association 

 A Monthly Illustrated Magazine PublLshed in the 

 Interest of Modem Fruit Growing and Marketing 



All Communications Should Bo Addressed and Remittances 

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Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H. SHEPARD, Editor and Publisher 



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OREGON 



C. I. Lewis. Horticulturist Corvallls 



WASHINGTON 



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O. M. Morris. Horticulturist Pullman 



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COLORADO 



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E. B. House. Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation 



Engineering. State Agricultural College Fort Collins 



ARIZONA 



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WISCONSIN 



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MONTANA 



0. B. Whipple. Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



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Leon D. Batchelor. Horticulturist Riverside 



INDIANA 



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Liberty Bonds. — The people of the 



United States have shown their partiot- 

 ism and support of the administration 

 by overly subscribing to the Liberty 

 Bond quota by 52 per cent— a positive 

 indication that the people of the United 

 States realize fully the magnitude of 

 the war condition, and a positive indi- 

 cation they will support the Govern- 

 ment to the fullest extent, with every 

 means necessary to prosecute the war 

 and bring it to an early satisfactory 

 conclusion. The United States realizes 

 fully the seriousness of the situation. 

 Being engaged in the war, the people 

 appreciate fully the importance of 

 bringing it to a quick conclusion. This 

 can only be done by the most thorough 

 preparation on an immense scale in the 

 quickest possible time, supplying all 

 of our troops with every necessity in 

 the way of ammunition and supplies; 

 and equally important is also the mat- 

 ter of food. The United States must 

 realize fully the food supply is short 

 with European nations engaged in the 

 war, and we must endeavor to the 

 fullest extent possible to supply them 

 in the most liberal way. 



The Editor of "Better Fruit," with 



many others, has believed for many 

 years that in a large measure the un- 

 satisfactory prices realized on apples 

 during some of the past years have 

 been due to a lack of distribution 

 more than to overproduction. The 

 editor has given the matter careful 

 study in connection with consider- 

 able research work covering a long 

 period. Some facts in connection with 

 these views are presented in an article 

 by the editor elsewhere in this edition. 

 The price of wheat in Liverpool sets 

 the price of wheat all over the world. 

 It is also a fact, to a large extent, that 

 the prices of apples in the large dis- 

 tributing centers set the prices in all 

 of the surrounding territories. There- 

 fore, if the fruitgrowers can avoid 



crowding the large centers by greater 

 distribution throughout the small towns 

 in the United States, the pressure can 

 be relieved and a better level of prices 

 maintained in all markets. It is the 

 editor's belief that if each one of the 

 associations would do as every job- 

 ber or manufacturer does, divide the 

 territory into districts and put on a 

 reasonable number of salesmen — or, in 

 plain English, "drummers" — to sell the 

 towns that have not been sold, that con- 

 sumption can be increased by greater 

 distribution and a better demand cre- 

 ated and better prices obtained. If the 

 different selling concerns, sales man- 

 agers and directors would give this 

 matter proper attention and add on a 

 sufficient number of salesmen, properly 

 distributed, the 1917 apple crop can be 

 disposed of, in the opinion of the edi- 

 tor, without any doubt at satisfactory 

 prices. 



Winter Kill, or Die Back, has caused 



the fruitgrowers of the Northwest more 

 or less anxiety in different sections. It 

 is similar to the trouble called Bosette 

 in some districts. While this trouble 

 has caused more or less damage for 

 many years, it is comparatively little 

 understood, but investigation of the 

 trouble in the Northwest points to 

 drouth being at least the main factor 

 as to the cause. However, the editor 

 desires to call attention to the fact that, 

 in his opinion, it may not be so much 

 drouth as the nature of drouth. An 

 orchard may not be irrigated at all and 

 show very little winter kill. While an 

 orchard that is irrigated that is allowed 

 to become very dry in summer or fall 

 may show up winter kill the next 

 spring. So it seems, at least to the edi- 

 tor, that a change from wet to dry is 

 more a factor than just simply dryness. 

 Two articles on this subject, one by 

 Leroy Childs of the Experiment Station 

 at Hood Biver and one by A. J. Mix of 

 Geneva, New York, appear in this issue, 

 giving the result of their investigations 

 and their conclusions, both well worth 

 reading. Apparently it seems that the 

 only remedy so far known is one of 

 prevention, which is to maintain even- 

 ness of moisture condition and suffi- 

 cient moisture throughout the season. 



Economy in Harvesting. — The in- 

 creasing cost of boxes, paper and all 

 other supplies connected with harvest- 

 ing the fruit crops apparently at the 

 present time is unavoidable. With the 

 increasing cost of living labor is de- 

 manding and is entitled to prices in 

 accordance with living costs. It is im- 

 portant that every fruitgrower should 

 introduce efficiency methods to the 

 fullest possible extent to make up for 

 increased costs so far as possible. It is 

 a well-known fact that the expense of 

 handling unpacked and packed boxes in 

 the packing house and loading stations 

 and warehouses is a large item, as most 

 of this work has been done by hand. 

 Some few up-to-date handling concerns 

 and community packing houses have 

 introduced gravity carriers, finding by 

 so doing the cost of handling is greatly 

 reduced. Without question if our ware- 

 houses had been equipped with gravity 

 carriers last season the work would 



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