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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



The Orchard Ladder A Pruner 

 of Quality 



must bear the name 

 "Northwest." Thous- 

 ands are sold on their merits. Ask your 

 dealer to let you see our ladder. 



which does the 

 work twice as fast 



as any other make, and costs no more. 



Why not use^the.best? 



It's the Bastian 



If your dealer does not carry our Ladder and Pruner in stock, write us direct for prices. 

 Information on our Orchard Supplies gladly given on request. 



N. W. Fence & Supply Co, 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



like consistency. The disease is very 

 prevalent on certain open types of soil. 

 Sandy or gravelly soils which are de- 

 ficient in humus and which have very 

 free underdrainage are usually found 

 in connection with this disease. Our 

 investigations lead to the conclusion 

 that this trouble is a drouth reaction 

 resulting from a water shortage early in 

 the season. Where irrigation is ade- 

 quately given from the time of blossom- 



ing on the disease is eliminated or 

 greatly reduced. Cork was formerly 

 quite prevalent in certain sections 

 which have only recently established 

 irrigation systems. Reports from such 

 sections indicate that since irrigation 

 has been practiced the losses from the 

 disease are much less. 



The remedy for this class of diseases 

 is, of course, prevention of drouth. 

 After the disastrous season referred to 



The Final Test 



Are you producing clean 

 fruit at low cost? 



This is the final test of 

 your methods. 



In the fall it is too late to 

 repair errors. 



Now is the time to review 

 last season's results and 

 plan forJthe future. 



Latimer's Dry Arsenate of Lead 



Will help you produce cleaner fruit. 



We'can convince you of this. 



Use Latimer's Dry on only a part of your orchard the first 

 year. Compare your results. Then you will know. 



High combined arsenate makes Latimer's Dry quick to kill. 



Extreme fineness gives covering power and adhesiveness. 



Uniformity in composition assures uniform results. 



The Latimer Chemical Company 



GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. 



in the Wenatchee country the growers 

 assumed control of the canal themselves 

 and have since operated it most suc- 

 cessfully. But with the most reliable 

 irrigation service it may sometimes 

 happen that a portion of the orchard 

 will become very dry. There may be 

 spots which are difficult to cover, or 

 the soil may be very open. In either 

 case the remedy is largely in the hands 

 of the grower. He can rearrange his 

 flumes to cover the high spots and he 

 can put more humus into his soil to 

 help hold the moisture. If there is a 

 water shortage, the supply should be 

 spread out as far as possible. Begin- 

 ning with one furrow to a row as many 

 rows as possible should be covered. 

 After the entire orchard is gone over 

 with this furrow the process should be 

 repeated with another, and so on until 

 the entire space is covered. At such 

 times it is better to irrigate with one 

 furrow and do it thoroughly than to 

 wet the surface only of several furrows. 

 Passing now to the other extreme we 

 find several diseases caused by an over- 

 abundance of water. Possibly the one 

 which first occurs to us is the one 

 caused by alkali. It so happens that 

 the soil in our arid and semi-arid fruit 

 districts is filled with a number of 

 soluble salts popularly spoken of as 

 "alkali," and that some of these salts 

 when present in excessive amount are 

 harmful to vegetation. It would seem 

 that knowledge of this fact, which is 

 so generally recognized, would lead to 

 more precautions than are ordinarily 

 met with to guard against the injury. 

 Only this last summer I visited a promi- 

 nent and widely advertised irrigation 

 project where hundreds of young trees 

 had been killed by alkali. They had 

 been planted in a pocket on low ground 

 and no drainage was supplied. Seepage 

 from higher ground had carried down 

 among the trees quantities of injurious 

 salts and there was only one result pos- 

 sible in the absence of a drainage out- 

 let. It was an expensive object lesson, 

 for not only was there the loss of the 

 trees in question and of several years' 

 effort in growing them, but a rather 

 unsavory reputation for the project was 

 established. Growers should always 

 see that there is no possibility for the 

 accumulation of seepage or drainage 

 water on their orchards. In the irriga- 

 tion scheme of orcharding there is as 



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