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BETTER FRUIT 



Julv 



Grade Your 

 Fruit 



WITH A 



BRITTON 



Fruit Grader 



A marvel of effleieney. Largest 

 capacity; easily operated; can- 

 not bruise or even leave a mark 

 on the most delicate apple or 

 peach. Weight about 300 pounds. 

 Made almost entirely of steel. 

 Will not get out of order or wear 

 out. 



Price $60.00 



f.o.b. Rochester, N.Y. 



Send for descriptive circular. 



Britton Grader Company 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Henninger, Ayes & Co. 



AGENTS 

 Portland, Oregon 



WINANS' PATENT ] 



FIRST AID TO FRUIT TREES 



Winans' Net Tree Support 



Prevents fruit-laden trees from breaking, holding 

 the limbs up more efficiently and at much less ez- 

 penae than propping. Holds limbs in place, pre- 

 venting damage and dropping when the wind blows. 



Meehea are large enough so fniil can be picked 

 through them — open at bottom so picker can get 

 Inside the net, or net can be removed at picking 

 time. 



This net of finer mesh will keep the birds from 

 eating the blossoms or fruit In diatricta which are 

 thus troubled. 



For further particulars, descriptive circulars and 

 price lists, write 



W. ROSS:WINANS.Hood River, Ore. 



These few typical illustrations will 

 show that hogs in the orchard are prof- 

 itable if ])roperly fed. 



The above recouiniendalions on plant- 

 ing cover crops, the kind of cover crops 

 and the use of thcni, are made only 

 after going over more than seven hun- 

 dred farms in the Yakima and Colum- 

 bia River valleys and studying in de- 

 tail every ])lan of cover cropping and 

 clean cultivation in orchards of differ- 

 ent kinds and ages and discussing the 

 subject from every angle with the 

 owners. After this study a cover croj) 

 of some kind is strongly recommended, 

 both to improve the soil, save water 

 and the expense of clean cultivation, 

 and the pasturing of the cover crops 

 is recommended because it has been 

 found to pay. 



Method and Value of 

 Thinning Fruit 



"It is becoming more and more ap- 

 parent that under our present market 

 conditions Oregon growers must pro- 

 duce the very highest percentage pos- 

 sible of first-class fruit if they are to 

 make good money from their orchards," 

 says Professor W. S. Brown, extension 

 horticulturist of the Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College. "Thinning fruit, espe- 

 cially apples, pears and peaches, is a 

 practice which has been tried for some 

 time in most of the specialized fruit 

 districts of the Northwest and has 

 proved to be of great value in growing 

 fruit of the best merchantable quality. 

 Fruit growing districts of the East are 

 beginning the practice also. 



"Thinning may be done either by 

 pinching or twisting off the stem with 

 the thumb and fingers or by using small 

 shears or pruners. In either case great 

 care must be taken not to loosen the 

 stem of the remaining fruit or to break 

 the fruit spur. An orchard foreman 

 must watch the ground carefully to 

 notice when workmen are careless in 

 this respect. 



"The specimens should be left widely 

 separated enough so that when mature 

 they will not touch. Whenever they 

 come in contact with each other fruits 

 are apt to rub, or may offer a conveni- 

 ent place for codling moth larvae to 

 start their burrows, or in the case of 

 highly colored varieties, cause the fruit 

 to be off-color at that spot. To avoid 

 touching, young apples, pears and 

 peaches are thinned to four to seven 

 inches apart, depending upon the 

 variety. 



"On apples and pears thinning is 

 done for the most part just after the 

 June drop. Peaches grow so rapidly 

 and set so abundantly, as a rule, that 

 they are often thinned before the 'drop' 

 is over. Many growers, however, make 

 a secondary thinning of apples and 

 pears in the latter part of summer, 

 when cultivation is over and the work 

 is slack, in which they take off speci- 

 mens that have bad scab spots, worm 

 infestations, rubs, sunburn and the like. 



"Thinning is a form of harvesting, in 

 a sense, and what it may cost may be 

 rightfully charged to harvesting. It has 



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the advantage, however, of coming dur- 

 ing the long days of sunnncr, when the 

 work is not so rushing as at harvest; 

 of saving the vitality of the tree, which 

 would be ex]jended in maturing the 

 crop; of avoiding breakage in the limbs, 

 due to overloading in years of heavy 

 crops, and of greatly reducing the num- 

 ber of culls which would otherwise be 

 handled at harvest time. 



"In considering the amount of thin- 

 ning to be done the fruiting habits of 

 each variety must be caiefully consid- 



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