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BETTER FRUIT 



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February 



The Washington Shite Horticultural 

 Meeting held at Kennewick, Washing- 

 ton, in January was a most successful 

 meeting. Unfortunately the editor of 

 Better Fruit was unable to be present, 

 but the secretary, in a personal letter, 

 has staled that the address on pruning 

 by Professor Gardner was unquestion- 

 ably one of the best on this subject ever 

 given. The address on transportation 

 by J. Curtis Robinson of the Northwest- 

 ern Fruit Exchange was highly in- 

 structive and valuable. Incidentally, 

 the editor wishes to call attention to the 

 fact that no matter how clean your crop 

 is or how large, if transportation facili- 

 ties are not adequate the fruit grower 

 is up against it. Therefore transporta- 

 tion is primarily the first consideration 

 of the fruit grower. The subject "Al- 

 falfa as Conserving Moisture," by 

 Mr. P. S. Darlington was especially 

 good, and "The Abuse of Water," by 

 Mr. Fisher gave the fruit grower some 

 valuable information, so that these few 

 talks, not mentioning any others on the 

 program were so valuable that the 

 expense of attending was only a 

 small item, comparatively. Unfortu- 

 nately weather conditions and flood 

 damages prevented many growers from 

 being present. One hundred and fifty 

 had bought tickets at Yakima, but on 

 account of the washouts were unable to 

 reach Kennewick. 



The orchardist, especially if he has 

 young trees, or where the orchard is in 

 cover crops, should watch out for go- 

 phers this spring, because they do dam- 

 age that cannot be repaid, frequently 

 eating off the roots of the tree so that 

 the fruit grower loses the tree. When- 

 ever a grower is troubled with gophers 

 he should make it a point to rid his 

 place of them as rapidly as possible. 

 There are two ways to get rid of go- 

 phers — by the use of poisons or the use 

 of traps. There are a number of good 

 traps on the market and a few brands 

 of gopher poison that have given the 

 growers who have used them excellent 

 results. If you buy poison for killing 

 gophers be sure and get a first-class 

 brand, one that is known to do the busi- 

 ness. If you buy traps be sure to buy a 

 kind that has proved effective. 



The Great Northern Railway Com- 

 pany of St. Paul has issued a very at- 

 tractive booklet, "The Silo, a Mark of 

 Progress," which gives some very val- 

 uable information about silos in gen- 

 eral, which can be secured by any of 

 the fruit growers in Minnesota, North 

 and South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, 

 Oregon and Montana by having their 

 banker inform the Great Northern Rail- 

 road of St. Paul that they are thinking 

 of purchasing a silo. 



Mr. Gerald Da Costa of London, 

 through Fruit Better, sends very 

 hearty greetings to his friends in the 

 Western States wishing them a prosper- 

 ous New Year, and fervently hopes that 

 the promise of brighter times may be 

 fulfilled in order that business may be 

 resumed with America, as previously. 



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