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BETTER FRUIT 



September 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of The Northwest Fruit Growers' Association 

 A Monthly Illustrated Magazine Published in the 

 Interest of Modern Fruit Growing and Marketing 



All Communications Should Be Addressed and Remittances 

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Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H. SHEPARD. Editor and Publisher 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



OREGON 



C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist Corvallls 



WASHINGTON 



Dr. A. L. Melander, Entomologist Pullman 



O. M. Morris. Horticulturist Pullman 



W. S. Thomber, Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette. Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



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



Engineering, State Agricultural College Fort Collins 



ARIZONA 



E. P. Taylor. Horticulturist Tucson 



WISCONSIN 



Dr. E. D. Ball. Director and Entomologist Madison 



MONTANA 



O. B. Whipple. Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



C. W. Woodworth. Entomologist Berkeley 



W. H. Volck. Entomologist Watsonville 



Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist Riverside 



INDIANA 



H. S. Jackson, Pathologist Lafayette 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 R. M. Wlnslow, Provincial Horticulturist Victoria 



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of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



More Cars for Apples. — The orange 



crop of Southern California, on account 

 of drouth, has suffered very severely, 

 and orange growers are entitled to the 

 sympathy of the fruit growers through- 

 out the country. It is stated the orange 

 crop will be about 50 per cent of a 

 normal crop. The average crop of 

 oranges is 50,000 cars per year, conse- 

 quently there will be 25,000 cars less of 

 oranges to be shipped this year than 

 ordinarily. As the total crop of apples 

 of the Northwest will not exceed 20,000 

 cars there is every reason why urgent 

 steps should be taken to have these 

 fruit-express cars placed, as far as nec- 

 essary, at the service of the Northwest- 

 ern apple growers. Mr. J. Curtis Robin- 

 son, chairman of the Transportation 

 and Storage Committee of the Fruit 

 Growers' Agency, has taken this matter 

 very ably in hand and is conferring 

 with the committee on car service of 

 the National Board of Defense, the 

 Agricultural Department of Transporta- 

 tion Service, and through Senator Wes- 

 ley L. Jones the matter will be called to 

 the attention of the president and secre- 

 tary of agriculture. 



a great many farmers and fruit grow- 

 ers cannot resist the temptation and are 

 even selling their brood sows; the con- 

 sequence will be the supply of hogs in 

 the Northwest will go down, so it seems 

 wise not only to suggest but to advise 

 every farmer and fruit grower in the 

 Northwest, who can possibly take care 

 of a few hogs, to get a few brood sows 

 and go into the business, so far as he 

 can without interfering with other 

 farming and orchard work. This can 

 easily be done by fruit growers, as a 

 great many fruit growers sow alfalfa in 

 the. orchard for cover crops, for the 

 reason cover crops are found very 

 beneficial in producing the necessary 

 supply of humus and nitrogen at prac- 

 tically no cost. Alfalfa makes excellent 

 feed for hogs. Through the campaign 

 and propaganda put up by the O.-W. 

 R. R. & N. Co. a great deal of corn has 

 been produced in the Northwest. It has 

 been ascertained that corn can be 

 grown successfully in many sections of 

 the Northwest, consequently this sug- 

 gestion in connection with hogs comes 

 in appropriate for the reason that corn 

 can be grown successfully, and corn is 

 one of the best feeds in the world for 

 hogs. 



Hogs. — Three or four years ago the 



editor of Better Fruit ascertained, 

 through information compiled by the 

 Union Meat Company, that immense 

 quantities of hogs were being shipped 

 from Kansas. Prices of hogs locally, 

 so long as this condition continued, was 

 the price of hogs in Kansas, plus freight 

 to the Northwest. The Union Meat 

 Company carried on a propaganda edu- 

 cational campaign for the purpose of 

 stimulating the raising of hogs in the 

 Northwest with splendid results. The 

 increased quantity of hogs has created 

 an extra income for the farmer and 

 fruit grower. The regrettable part of 

 the hog situation at the present time is 

 that, on account of the extremely high 

 prices of hogs (20 cents last quotation), 



The Washington State Fair will be 

 held September 17 to 22 at North 

 Yakima, the center of fruit growing in 

 the State of Washington. The ship- 

 ments from this valley amount to many 

 thousands of cars a year, making the 

 horticultural department of the Wash- 

 ington Fair a most prominent feature. 

 The exhibits of fruit are always ex- 

 tensive and at the same time magnifi- 

 cent. Fruit growers attend the Wash- 

 ington State Fair in large numbers, 

 affording every fruit grower an oppor- 

 tunity by personal contact with other 

 fruit growers to learn many new meth- 

 ods and improved ways of producing 

 and handling his crop. Yakima people 

 are very hospitable and the fair is 

 made a great annual event, assuring 

 everybody in attendance a splendid 

 time. 



Farm Implements. — Farm implements, 



which naturally includes orchard im- 

 plements as well, to a greater or less 

 extent, have been estimated to increase 

 the farmer's productive ability eighty 

 times. This is a surprising statement 

 and one that very few have any concep- 

 tion of without having given the matter 

 thought and study. A shortage of im- 

 plements among the farmers or fruit 

 growers naturally will affect the food 

 shortage, and as the farming industry 

 of the country is the basic structure of 

 the life of the United States, everything 

 should be done in the government 

 propaganda being carried on to see that 

 implement manufacturers can turn out 

 sufficient implements for operating the 

 farms. It would seem that the imple- 

 ment manufacturers are entitled to 

 priority, because no matter how much 

 ammunition we have if we do not feed 

 the army and the nation we cannot suc- 

 ceed in ending successfully at an early 

 dale the immense war that the United 

 States is engaged in at the present time. 



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Distribution of Apples. — This issue 

 contains an article by the editor on the 

 "Distribution and Sale of the Apple 

 Crop," with some statistics, showing all 

 of the small towns in the United States 

 under 3,000 population that have been 

 sold direct in carloads. The surprising 

 part of this investigation is that many 

 towns under 1,000, some as low as 400 

 and even as low as 200, have been sold 

 apples in carload lots. When you take 

 into consideration that there are over 

 30,000 small towns in the United States, 

 of which only about 300 have been sold, 

 it seems reasonable to assume that if 

 the Northwestern selling concerns 

 would put salesmen in the states where 

 the opportunity is best, covering the 

 country thoroughly, that a great many 

 more towns could be sold direct. By 

 increasing distribution and increasing 

 consumption a higher level of prices 

 will be maintained. The editor, how- 

 ever, wishes to state distinctly in con- 

 nection with the articles that have ap- 

 peared in Better Fruit and the edi- 

 torials that it is a fact well known by 

 apple shippers and the editor himself, 

 that there are many small towns near 

 jobbing centers which are supplied reg- 

 ularly and probably more satisfactorily 

 in small lots than they could be sup- 

 plied in carloads. But the editor wishes 

 to impress upon the apple growers of 

 the Northwest and those interested in 

 the industry that wherever small towns 

 are not properly supplied by the job- 

 bing trade or are too remote to be sup- 

 plied to the best advantage where a 

 carlot can be sold direct that it is the 

 advisable policy. 



