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BETTER FRUIT 



August 



"BLUE RIBBON" 



(EXTRA F="AINJCY) 



"RED RIBBON" 



(RAIMCY) 



Quality Brands of Yakima Fruits 



We specialize in mixed cars of 



BERRIES AND CHERRIES 



and will also have straight and mixed cars of the earliest Apricots, 



Prunes, Pears and Peaches grown in the Yakima Valley. 



Write or wire for information. 



Yakima County Horticultural Union 



FRED EBERLE, Manager 



NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OF w«"'H»»iss 

 PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



The only complete, thorough manual of fruit growing published— 

 covering every ieature— placling, pruning, cultivating, spraying, dia- 

 eases, harvesting, etc., as used and approved by Northwest fruitgrowers. 

 Cnntains valuable statistics. All reading matter arranged conveniently 

 for reference and indexed. 



It tells how to do the things that every fruit grower must do who 

 is growing fruit as a business. 



iiness. 

 THREE LARGE VOLUMES HANDSOMELY BOUND 



Write lor circulars containing full descriptive matter and prices. 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE, ^"" ^'"^^ ^"'"""^ 



North Yakima, Wash. 



Ridley,Houlding&Co. 



COYENT GARDEN, LONDON 



Points to remember when consigning 

 apples to the London Market 



1.— We Specialize in Apples 



2.— All Consignments Receive our 

 Personal Attention 



3.-The Fruit is Sold by 

 Private Treaty 



CABLE ADDRESS: BOTANIZING, LONDON 



the United States is well adapted to the 

 crop." What will then be the fate of 

 existing plantings? The question re- 

 solves itself into one of competition. 

 Apples must be produced, and the indi- 

 viduals and communities that can pro- 

 duce the required grades of fruit at the 

 least cost will outcompete others. Mon- 

 tana and Colorado districts cannot avail 

 themselves of the Panama Canal all- 

 water shipments to the East and to 

 South American and European markets, 

 as can, for instance. Hood River, Ore- 

 gon. That is, of course, not the only 

 factor in competition, and it may or 

 may not be the deciding one, but this 

 factor gives Hood River an advantage, 

 and it is just such factors as this which 

 will determine the survival of the most 

 fit. To quote Mr. Shepard again: "An 

 elimination process is going on. There 

 are some sections in the Northwest 

 where apples cannot be grown of sufTic- 

 ient quantity and flavor, color, keep and 

 perfection to justify Eastern shipment. 

 Such sections, as you can readily under- 

 stand, must necessarily pass out. Blight 

 is another factor in wiping out an 

 immense area already set to apple trees. 

 Large tracts set by promotion compan- 

 ies to be sold on lO-acre plan in some 

 instances have already passed out. Oth- 

 ers are passing." 



The general opinion of men with 

 whom the writer has talked is that the 

 best apple districts will produce the 

 future apples and that the small grower 

 in the less favored districts will have 

 to be content to supply his own table. 

 New England corn cannot compete with 

 Iowa corn because it cannot Idc raised 

 as well in New England — the soil and 

 climate are an insurmountable handi- 

 cap to New England. The writer is 

 convinced that the same thing will 

 evolve out of the heavy future crops, 

 and he sees no reason why the best 

 farmers of the New York growers, of 

 the Virginia growers, and even of the 

 North Pacific growers, may not continue 

 to operate their orchards at a normal 

 profit over a period of years, while the 

 cycle juggernaut is forcing out all the 

 absurd recent, steep-hillside, poor-soil, 

 and out-of-the-way plantings; forcing 

 out, let us say, thousands of acres in 

 poorly favored Missouri. 



(To be continued) 



Famous Scientist to Speak 



Bacterial diseases of California fruits; 

 proper cultivation and the treatment of 

 soils; causes that hinder potato produc- 

 tion, and the remedy for blights and 

 fruit pests, will be a few of the subjects 

 which will come up for consideration 

 at the Exposition convention of the 

 California State Fruit Growers' Associ- 

 ation at Stanford University during the 

 last week in .luly. Many famous agri- 

 cultural scientists and experts have ac- 

 cepted invitations to read papers and 

 make speeches on these and other top- 

 ics of great interest to the thousands 

 of orchardists throughout the state. A 

 feature of the sessions will be a sympo- 

 sium on the outlook of the various 

 fruits grown in California, by men who 

 have made a notable success of their 



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