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BETTER FRUIT 



August 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Offldal Organ of The 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 



B. H. SHEPARD, Editor and Publisher 

 H. B. VAN DEMAN. Contributing Editor 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 

 OREGON 



C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist.,./ Corrallis 



H, S, Jackson, Pathologist CorvallU 



H. P. WilsoTi, Entomologist Corvallls 



WASHINGTON 



Dr, A. L, Melander, Entomologist Pullman 



O. M. Morris, Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette, Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



E. B. House. Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation 



Engineering. State Agricultural College Fort Collins 



E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist Grand Junction 



IDAHO 



W. H. Wicks. Horticulturist Moscow 



W. S. Thomber. Horticulturist Lewiston 



UTAH 



Dr. E. D. Ball. Director and Entomologist Logan 



MONTANA 



O. B. Whipple, Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



C W, Woodworth, Entomologist Berkeley 



W. H. Volck, Entomologist Watsonyille 



Leon D, Batchelor. Horticulturist Riverside 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 R. M. Wlnslow, PTOTindal Horticulturist Victoria 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; 



In the United States, $1.00 per year In advance 



Canada and foreign, including postage. $1.50 



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Entered as second-class matter December 27. 1906, at the 



Postofflce at Hood River. Oregon, under Act 



of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



Canning and Home Canning. — A good 



many fruit growers in the Xnrtliwost 

 have experimented in a small way with 

 home canning outfits and found that 

 the business can be conducted so as to 

 save a great deal of fruit that otherwise 

 might go to waste during the season 

 when the markets are glutted. There 

 is always a good demand for home 

 canned fruits and particularly peaches 

 and pears, which are consumed in im- 

 mense quantities. It seems well worth 

 while to suggest to fruit growers that 

 they give the matter of home canning 

 the proper consideration, and it cer- 

 tainly seems to the editor of Better 

 Fruit that this work is well worth 

 every fruit grower trying out, particu- 

 larly where he has a family to look 

 after this work without extra expense. 

 The steam pressure outfits made by 

 many of the canning machinery manu- 

 facturers certainly simplifies the pro- 

 cess, enabling a canner to do tlie work 

 much more rapidly at much less ex- 

 pense and turn out a product that is 

 certainlv far more reliable. 



"The Development of the Fruit Pack- 

 age," the leading article in the July 

 edition of "Better Fruit," written by 

 E. D. Lake and W. B. Arens, was pre- 

 pared as a special essay in a course of 

 study at the Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege known as "Commercial Pomology," 

 in the Division of Horliculture in 

 charge of Professor C. I. Lewis. Pro- 

 fessor Lewis has made a study of the 

 development of practical ideas in his 

 classes by suggesting topics similar to 

 this one and other sub.jects like picking, 

 packing, transportation, storing and 

 selling fruit, all of which conies in the 

 course of "Commercial Pomology." 

 About thirtv of the voung men register 



in this course annually. Half of the 

 year is given to the subject of problems 

 in connection with the distribution of 

 fruit crops. The editor desires to state 

 in addition that the article on the 

 "Status of the American Fruit Trade" 

 in our July, 1914, edition, by R. M. 

 Rutledge, a student at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College, was written in a simi- 

 lar way at the suggestion and under the 

 direction of Professor C. I. Lewis. 



Fruit Graders. — The fruit growers of 

 the Northwest have learned during the 

 two hard years of 1912 and 1914 that 

 two things are necessary in the fruit 

 business in the production of fruit, 

 namely. Efficiency and Economy. There 

 are many modern conveniences that 

 are being introduced which supply ef- 

 ficiency, enabling the grower to do his 

 work much more economically. Per- 

 haps no article which has been put 

 on the market recently has rendered 

 more service than fruit-grading ma- 

 chines, which are saving fruit growers 

 all the way from 5 cents to 10 cents 

 per box in packing, grading and sizing. 

 Therefore, it seems advisable to sug- 

 gest that every fruit grower should 

 look into this matter for himself and 

 see if he cannot do his work cheaper 

 and save some money by using a grad- 

 ing machine. 



to publish an interesting account jier- 

 taining to the walnut orchard of John 

 H. ^\Tleeler, Saint Helena, California, 

 showing his success. Mr. Wieeler at- 

 tended the University of California at 

 the same time the editor was a student 

 at that institution. Mr. Wheeler has 

 made a specialty of walnut growing, 

 and told the editor at the ctmvention of 

 California fruit growers at Davis, Cali- 

 fornia, last year, that he had an espe- 

 cially fine strain of Franquette walnuts. 

 The article in this edition will prove 

 interesting and valuable to the fruit 

 growers of the Northwest who are 

 thinking about planting walnuts. Wal- 

 nut growers' associations have achieved 

 the greatest success of any of the sell- 

 ing organizations, having been able to 

 secure extremely satisfactory prices 

 every year for their walnuts. 



Walnuts. — The walnut industry has 



been a paying proposition with nut 

 growers who have good groves in bear- 

 ing. Therefore, Better Fruit is pleased 



Prunes and Plums. — The prune and 



plum industry is one which has made 

 good money for the growers in the 

 Northwest except in occasional years. 

 Plums are grown extensively in Cali- 

 fornia and shipped East in immense 

 quantities by carloads. The Northwest 

 has done very little in the plum indus- 

 try, but has grown prunes quite exten- 

 sively. With the profit made in these 

 two varieties of fruits in the past in the 

 Northwest, and in other sections as 

 well, it would seem that the fruit 

 grower would be justified in investigat- 

 ing the plum and prune industry, and 

 therefore Professor Lewis has contrib- 

 uted a very interesting article which 



THE SHOTWELL 

 Box Marking Machine 



This machine patented Mav 11, 1915. 



Patent No. 113S985. 

 An.v infiingemeiit will he prosecuted. 



Is desi.?ned to print all the stamps required 

 on a box of apples or other fruit at one stioke. 

 in perfect ali,i?nment, sa\'ing time and labor. 

 The macliine i>rints tlie tiox to look as follows: 



125 EXTRA FANCY WINESAP 40LBS.NET JOHN DOE 



WENATCttEE.WASH. 



It eliminates untidiness and unevenness in 

 marlting. 



Saves time in picking- up five different 

 stamps separately, as all these stamps are 

 placed on a wheel and the entire marking of 

 the box as shown above is done in one move- 

 ment and as quickly as one stamp is put on 

 by the old method. The machine works auto- 

 matically and is self-inking. 



The Shotwell Box Marking Machine is a 

 device that saves labor, does it neatly with 

 dispatch. Made to be attached to any open 

 end press and can be adjusted to mark any 

 standard fruit box of any variety, apples, 

 pears, peaches, oranges and lemons, etc. 



It is made of malleable Iron, assembled 

 ready for use. 



With each machine is included, without 

 extra charge, eighteen number stamps, three 

 grade stamps, one net weight stamp, one two- 

 line grower's address stamp, ten variety 

 stamps and an ink pad. Price, neatly packed 

 ready for shipment, $15.00, f.o.b. Wenatchee, 

 AVashington. 



Ready for delivery July 15. Order promptly, 

 as only a limited number will be assembled 

 this year as orders are taken. For full de- 

 scriptive illustrated cnlaltig and further par- 

 ticulars, write 



Shotwell & Wilmeroth 



WENATCHEE. WASH. 



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