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BETTER FRUIT 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



Official Organ of Tlie 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 

 Made Payable to 



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. Thorober, Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette, Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



E. B. House. Chief of Department of CI* 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. Entomoloiast 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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Entered as second-class matter April 22, 1918, at the 



Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, under Act 



of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



EDWARD HENRY SHEPARD. 



Mr. Shepard is dead. There is sorrow 

 in his home. Friends and business asso- 

 ciates mourn. The announcement from 

 St. Vincent's Hospital Monday morning, 

 April 29, of his passing came as a shock. 

 Cheerful even in his illness, his friends 

 had believed he was soon to be with 

 them again, and their grief is keen. 



Mr. Shepard sacrificed his life in a 

 conscientious devotion to his work. 

 Fruit growers in the Pacific Northwest, 

 in whose interests he labored for more 

 than fifteen years, owe him a debt that 

 never could have been paid. It was 

 said of Mr. Shepard that no one man 

 did more to make fruit growing a busi- 

 ness enterprise and to direct the mar- 

 keting to profitable channels. 



Sixteen years ago Mr. Shepard pur- 

 chased an orchard in Hood River Val- 

 ley. Years before that he had devoted 

 his studies to horticulture, and with the 

 purchase of a farm he put his theories 

 into practice. The fruit growers of 

 Hood River soon recognized his ability, 

 and he was made manager of the Hood 

 River Apple Growers' Union. One of 

 his first acts was to improve the grade 

 and pack of apples, and he drew up the 

 original rules for grading and packing 

 which were adopted throughout the 

 Northwest. For twelve years he was a 

 director of this association, which later 

 became known as the Apple Growers' 

 Association of Hood River. He was 

 manager for six years of the Hood 

 River Fruit Growers' Union, which 

 shipped strawberries and small fruits. 

 The Hood River Fruit Growers' Union 

 later was merged into the Apple Grow- 

 ers' Association. 



In 1903 he established Retter Fruit, 

 a magazine, as its name implies, devoted 

 to the fruit growing industry. Readers 

 of Retter Fruit will testify to his great 

 work in helping orchardists and mar- 



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keting associations solve their vexing 

 problems. 



Mr. Shepard was an early advocate 

 of co-operation in the production and 

 marketing of fruit. For the past fifteen 

 years managers of the fruit fairs or 

 horticultural conventions in the Pacific 

 Northwest, and even in the far Eastern 

 states, never considered their program 

 complete without having Mr. Shepard 

 appear for an address. He gave freely 

 of his time, energy and money to make 

 these addresses, and there are many 

 who owe their success today to the 

 advice given by Mr. Shepard. 



Mr. Shepard was born in Marysville, 

 California, December 24, 1857. His 

 father, Mr. E. A. Shepard, was a skilled 

 horticulturist in New England many 

 years ago. and on moving to California 

 made a reputation as an authority on 

 matters of fruit culture. It may be said 

 that Mr. Shepard grew up in an atmo- 

 sphere of horticulture. In 1880 he 

 graduated from the University of Cali- 

 fornia. He always took an active in- 

 terest in collegiate affairs and was the 

 prime mover in organizing the Univer- 

 sity Club of Hood River several years 

 ago. At college he was a member of the 

 Zeta Psi fraternity. 



Mr. Shepard was a prominent mem- 

 ber of the American Pomological Soci- 

 ety and an honorary member of the 

 State Horticultural Societies of Oregon, 

 ■Washington and Idaho. He was also a 

 member of the International Apple 

 Shippers' Association, having been hon- 

 ored with a membership that was 

 unique in the fact he was the only 

 member of the association that was not 

 a shipper. 



Mr. Shepard is survived by his wife, 

 who was formerly Miss Alice Failing 

 of Portland, and five daughters. 



The funeral services were conducted 

 Tuesday afternoon from Mr. Shepard's 

 late residence, by Bishop Robert L. Pad- 

 dock of the Episcopal diocese of East- 

 ern Oregon, who was a warm friend of 

 Mr. Shepard. 



May 



distribution of the poison may be 

 equalized. 



Since arsenic is the active poison in 

 paris green, the potato farmer is quite 

 dependent upon an adequate supply of 

 arsenic compounds for combating the 

 destructive potato bug. It is, therefore, 

 planned to bring about co-operation by 

 the state potato growers' associations 

 and the makers of the insecticides. In 

 this way it is hoped that stocks of in- 

 secticides for local use may be main- 

 tained. Furthermore, it is important 

 that a sufficient supply of white arsenic 

 be available to meet needs next year 

 for grasshopper control. Grasshoppers 

 were numerous in many sections last 

 year. Dry weather, especially in win- 

 ter, is favorable for grasshoppers. The 

 grasshopper eggs remain over winter in 

 hard ground. Moisture in the soil sub- 

 jects the eggs to destructive freezing, 

 but when winters are relatively dry 

 comparatively larger numbers of the 

 eggs survive. Indications are that an 

 outbreak of grasshoppers is probable. 

 It is therefore urgent that preparations 

 be made in advance so that heavy losses 

 to cereal, forage, garden, and other 

 crops may be avoided. Arsenic is also 

 necessary for the control of cut worms, 

 army worms, and similar pests. 



In view of the necessity for still 

 greater production next spring and 

 summer, the University of Missouri 

 College of Agriculture has suggested 

 that no means which will lessen dam- 

 age from insect pests be overlooked. 

 It is folly to devote time, labor, land, 

 and money to a crop and then permit 

 insects to destroy it. 



Death of S. L. Allen 



It was with regret we learned of the 

 death of Mr. S. L. Allen, the inventor 

 of the Planet, Jr., tools, who passed 

 away a few weeks ago at his home in 

 Florida, aged seventy-seven years. Mr. 

 Allen was a farmer back in the early 

 seventies, when planting was done by 

 hand and hoeing was accomplished 

 with the primitive hand-hoe. He was 

 not content with the laborious methods 

 in use at that time, and this was the 

 commencement of the manufacturing 

 of the Planet, Jr., tools, which are 

 famous the world over. 



To Curb Insect Losses 

 Farm crops in the United States are 

 subject to millions of dollars' loss annu- 

 ally through the ravages of insects. 

 Arsenical insecticides are the chief pro- 

 tection against the biting insects which 

 devour the foliage of farm and garden 

 crops. A shortage of arsenic has de- 

 veloped in this country. President Wil- 

 son has placed the arsenic industry of 

 the United States under the direction of 

 the Food Administration so that the 



Boxes, Baskets, Containers, Etc. 



The increasing cost of containers for 

 fruit growers is becoming serious, and 

 in addition there may be a serious 

 shortage of boxes. It behooves fruit 

 growers to order early, because the 

 grower who postpones purchasing may 

 not be able to get the desired amount. 

 The shortage of boxes may be a boon to 

 the firms manufacturing basket contain- 

 ers. It has been tried and found ad- 

 visable in many sections to use baskets 

 for some varieties and some grades of 

 fruit, which are not only found to be 

 cheaper but will serve the purpose as 

 well, and by using baskets wherever it 

 is possible it will do much toward less- 

 ening the possible shortage of boxes. 



Vegetable Gardens. — No fruit grower 

 should fail to plant a vegetable garden 

 for his home use and one large enough 

 not only to supply his family through 

 the season, but sufficient to produce 

 enough vegetables so enough can be 

 canned to last throughout the entire 

 winter. This will be a good step in the 

 way of food conservation and at the 

 same time be one of economy on the 

 part of the fruit grower as well. Fruit 

 growers in their spare time will find it 

 wise to plant as large a sized garden as 

 can be properly cared for, as there is 

 no question but what there will be a 

 ready sale, not only for vegetables 

 fresh, but to canneries for canning 

 purposes. 



