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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



THE 



TheLaborSaver 



Use Only Niagara 

 Dusting Sulphur 



AND 



Dusting Mixtures 



They have been PROVED 

 and approved by those 

 who have made a success 

 of dusting. 



A leading fruit grower of White 

 Salmon Valley (Washington) 

 says: "It took three men fifty 

 hours to apply one spray of 

 liquid in my orchard, while two 

 of us DUSTED it with equal 

 thoroughness in eight hours." 

 Reports like these come from 

 Hood River, Yakima, We- 

 natchee and every place where 

 the Niagara has been used. 



The Niagara 

 Dusting 

 Machines 



WITH 



NIAGARA 



DUSTING 



MATERIALS 



are responsible for the 



Success of 

 Modern Dusting 



They make possible the best 

 DISTRIBUTION in the most 

 effective form. 



Niagara Dusting Machines 

 and Dusting Materials 



Are distributed from 

 supply stations at 



Oakland, Los Angeles 

 and Portland 



F. A. FRAZIER, Western Distributing Agent, 325 13th St., Oakland, California 



Use Niagara Soluble Sulphur for Dormant and Spring Spraying 



ton, due to the fact that after drying 

 these must be picked out. When left in 

 they injure the quality of the product. 

 Another factor is the tendency not to 

 fill the trays to their greatest capacity. 

 This has been found to account for a 

 loss in the drying cost of $4.27 per ton. 

 This is based on the fact that it costs 

 just as much to send a tray through the 

 dryer filled to 80 per cent of its capaci- 

 ty as it would to send it through com- 

 pletely filled. I was glad to hear Mr. 



Nice Bright Western Pine 



FRUIT BOXES 



AND CRATES 



Good standard grades. Well made. Quick shipments. 

 Carloads or less. Get our prices. 



Western Pine Box Sales Co. 



SPOKANE, WASH 



True-to-Name Nursery 



Offers for spring planting all leading varieties 

 of apple, pear, cherry, apricot and peach trees. 



Address all communications to 



TRUE-TO-NAME NURSERY 



H.S.Galligan, Prop. Phone 4796. Hood River, Oregon 



Portland Wholesale Nursery Company 



Rooms 6 & 7. 122' ■ Grand Ave.. Portland. Oregon 



Wholesalers of Nursery Stock and Nursery Supplies 



A very complete line of 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Shrubs, Vines. Etc. 



SPECIALTIES 



Clean Coast Grown Seedlings 



Oregon Champion Gooseberries and Perfection Currant 



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Paulus make the statement that the 

 prune which has been lyed heavily does 

 not process as nicely as do those dried 

 without the use of lye. I have this same 

 statement from all of the principal 

 prune-packing plants in Oregon. From 

 experiments carried out on a commer- 

 cial scale we have found out that with 

 proper drying methods the use of lye 

 is not necessary and not only affects 

 the processing quality of the prunes but 

 the appearance and quality of the pro- 

 duct itself. I think some steps should 

 be taken to grade the prunes into two 

 sizes before they go into the evaporator, 

 since it is a well-known fact that the 

 small prunes on the same tray with the 

 larger ones will not dry in the same 

 length of time. This mean that either 

 the small prunes will be over-dried or 

 the large prunes under-dried, or both. 

 In either case hand sorting will be 

 necessary. 



There are a number of factors which 

 influence the evaporation of prunes. 

 For the most part growers are content 

 to base their conclusion as to the effi- 

 ciency of any particular evaporator on 

 the time required to dry a tray of 

 prunes. This is not necessarily a cor- 

 rect basis, since the difference in drying 

 time very often is not sufficient to war- 

 rant the difference in dried weight. In 

 other words, since we are selling by the 

 pound it would seem the more logical 

 way to base our conclusions on the 

 weight of dried fruit obtained from any 

 given amount of green fruit. Climatic 

 conditions assert a marked effect under 

 our present conditions. Experiments 



and observations covering a period 

 from 1911 to 1917 shows that the aver- 

 age weight of dried prunes per bushel 

 of fresh is 17 pounds for rainy seasons 

 and 19 Vi pounds for dry seasons. Care- 

 ful experiments during the same period 

 brought to light the fact that where 

 conditions could be controlled 20.3 

 pounds for rainy seasons and 24.4 

 pounds per bushel, for dry seasons 

 could be obtained. An average increase 

 of 4.1 pounds per bushel, or 22.5 per 

 cent. This is no doubt too high, but 

 shows that a great saving may be made. 



Spray Hose 



"GUARANTEED" BRAND 



Buy something good, it pays, 

 If your merchants do not carry 

 it, we will sell you direct, express 

 charges prepaid, 25c per foot. 



Gutta Percha & Rubber Mfg. Co. 



544 1st Ave. So., SEATTLE 



NOW is the time to send to 



Milton Nursery Company 



MILTON, OREGON 



FOR THEIR 1918 CATALOG. 



FULL LINE OF NURSERY STOCK. 



"Genuineness and Quality" 



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