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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of The Norlliwest Fruit Growers' Association 

 A Monthli' Illustrated Magazine Publislied in the 

 Interest of Modem Fniit Gromng and Marketing 



All Communications Should Be Addressed and Remittances 

 Made Payable to 



Better Fruit Publisliins; Company 



E. H. SHEPARD. Editor and Publisher 

 STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



OREGON 



C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist Coirailis 



H. S. Jacltson. Pathologist Corvaliis 



H. P. Wilson, Entomologist Corvallis 



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 Agrictiltural College Fort Collins 



E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist Grand Junction 



IDAHO 



W, H. Wicks, Horticulturist Moscow 



W. S. Thorn t>er. Horticulturist LeMiston 



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 Watsonville 



Leon D. Batchelor, Horiiculturist Riverside 



BRITISH COLUAreiA 

 R. M. Winslow, Provincial Horticulturist Victoria 



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The Second Manufacturers' and Land 

 Produces Show will be hcltl in Portlaiiii 

 October 25 to November 13. An un- 

 iLsiKiIly attractive program i.s ofTered 

 thi.s year, with special features for 

 every clay. Thi.s show is of special 

 interest to the Northwest for the rea- 

 son that the exhibits cover all the pro- 

 ducts of the soil and include all kinds 

 of manufactured goods which are made 

 in the Northwest. It is a splentlid 

 opportunity for all manufacturers to 

 exhibit their manufactures and secure 

 a great deal of publicity, and help 

 secure atlditiontil business. It affords 

 a splendid opportunitx' for the farmers 

 to exhibit all products of the soil, which 

 will certainly do much to encourage 

 people to locate in the Northwest and 

 help build up our agricultural commu- 

 nities where there is much land yet to 

 be placeil under cultivation, and which 

 can be obtained at very reasonable 

 prices. The mana.gers of the Manufac- 

 turers' and Land Products Show show 

 excellent .judgment in making this a 

 diversity show, because the future pros- 

 perity of the Northwest depends not 

 upon the producing of one crop alone, 

 but a large number of crops; in other 

 words, "diversity farming." 



The Northwest Apple Crop for 1915. 

 While a great many estimators placed 

 the apple crop of the Northwest at 

 12,0(10 cars, the Editor of "Better Fruit" 

 early in the season estimated the cro]) 

 around i).000 cars. (.\t the time the 

 Editor furnished this estimate he stateil 

 many things might arise between that 

 time and harvesting to reduce the crop 

 below that figure, more of which has 

 hajjpcned than could reasonably be ex- 

 pected.) Since this estimate was made 

 considerable damage has resulted in 

 various districts from the following 



causes: Hailstorms, codling moth, fun- 

 gus, drouth, lack of water on the part 

 of some of the irrigation companies, — 

 all of which has changed contlitions 

 very much in the last thirty to sixty 

 days. The consensus of opinion now 

 seems to point to a much smaller yield 

 than originally estimated, ('onsecpiently 

 it looks very much as if the commercial 

 crop would be as follows: Washing- 

 ton, about 4,.")00 cars; Oregon, about 

 1,500 cars; Idaho, 500 to 700 cars. There 

 will be a reasonable proportion of 

 Extra Fancies, but not as large in some 

 districts as was anticipated early in the 

 season, while in other districts the 

 ([uantity of Extra Fancies will be 

 larger than originallv estimated. 



Fall Spraying for Anthraenose. — An- 



thracnose is one of the most serious 

 iliseases that can infest an orchard, for 

 the reason that when the trees become 

 badly infested the large limbs die, and 

 in a young orchard when the canker 

 attacks the trunk of the tree the fruit 

 grower may lose the whole tree. Rec- 

 ommendations for anthraenose is a fall 

 spraying of bordeaux mixture. Of 

 course the earlier this spray is ajiplied 

 in the fall the better. However, when 

 there is a crop of apples on the trees 

 the grower cannot use bortleaux strong 

 enough to be absolutely effective in 

 controlling anthraenose, therefore it is 

 necessary to spray with bordeaux mix- 

 ture, winter strength. This should be 

 done immediately after the apples are 

 harvested. Where antliracnose is more 

 or less prevalent in an orchard it is 

 recommended by pathologists that bor- 

 deaux of summer strength should be 

 applied to the trees before the fall rains 

 stiU't in, which can be done without 

 injury to the fruit. Every .grower who 

 has an orchard infested with anthrae- 

 nose .should spray this fall with bor- 

 deaux immediately after the harvesting 

 season. 



The LTnited States Department of 

 Labor has sent Inspector R. P. Bon- 

 ham to Hood River to assist the fruit 

 arowers in securing help during the 

 harvesting season. Splendid work was 

 rendered this valley by the United 

 States Department of Labor during the 

 strawberry season. Mr. Bonham's work 

 during the apple harvesting season is to 

 assist growers to secure the necessary 

 amount of competent help. The L'nited 

 .States Department of Labor, Immigra- 

 tion Service, maintains an ollice in 

 Portland, 424 Railway Exchange Build- 



The Eighth National Apple Show will 

 be helil in .Spokane November 15 to 20. 

 Everyone who has attemleil the Na- 

 tional .\pple Shows at Spokane realizes 

 fully their importance and value to the 

 fruit indusrty of the Northwest. The 

 people of Spokane are showing great 

 enterprise in prognniiming this show 

 this year, esi)ecially so because it has 

 been dillicult to iinance anything on 

 account of the tightness of the money 

 market. One of the main features of 

 the show will be the meeting of the 



Washington State Horticultural Society, 

 which will hold its sessions in .Spokane 

 during the week of the Apple Show, 

 under date of November 18 and 19. 

 "Next Year's ]\larketing Problem" is one 

 of the vital subjects that will come up 

 before the growers who attend the 

 Apple Show this year. Every fruit 

 grower who can send an exhibit to this 

 show should do so, and every fruit 

 grower shoultl attend. The National 

 Apple Show has always been good and 

 is entitled to the support of every fruit 

 grower of the Northwest. 



Marketing the 1915 Apple Crop. — The 



experience in marketing apples in past 

 seasons, especially in 1!)14, when the 

 crop was rushed on the market in bulk 

 at harvesting season, realizing the low- 

 est prices that have been obtained for 

 box apples in many years, ought to be 

 a good lesson to apple growers for 1!)15 

 and future years, indicating the neces- 

 sity and imijortmice of avoiding glutting 

 the market at any particular time, espe- 

 cially in harvesting season. The supply 

 of apples should go to the consuming 

 public regularly month by month in 

 ample quantities, without overcrowding 

 the market during any of the marketing 

 months. Of course this means that a 

 great many apples shoulil be placed in 

 cold storage, and it is well in using cold 

 storage to distribute the crop so that 

 the supply is within close distance of 

 the large consuming centers and trihu- 

 tarv territorv. 



Fall Spraying. — Generally throughout 

 the Northwest orchards have been 

 pretty free from San Jose scale, conse- 

 quently growers have not been spray- 

 ing for San Jose scale in the last year 

 or two, therefore San Jose scale has 

 increased very considerably in various 

 fruit districts throughout the Northwest 

 recently. In some cases the scale is re- 

 ported as being very plentiful. Growers 

 are beginning to realize this, but a word 

 of advice seems well worth while to 

 those who may not be aware how ser- 

 ious this pest is if allowed to continue, 

 as San Jose scale breeils very rapidly 

 and only a small number this season 

 may mean a seriously infested orchard 

 next year. Therefore it is advisable to 

 suggest that where scale is present in 

 the orchard the fruit grower should 

 spray either this fall of next spring. 

 Of course if a man has comparatively 

 little scale he can gel along with one 

 spray. 



-A New Grafting Wax. — Mr. August 



Niehans, after a long iieriod of experi- 

 mental work, has succeeded in making 

 a grafting wax which is being reported 

 on favorably by growers who have used 

 it, especially on account of its conven- 

 ience, as every fruit grower knows all 

 grafting wax generallv has to be heated 

 and kept warm when being used. Mr. 

 Niehans is making a |)liable grafting 

 wax that can be applied without being 

 heated. Therefore it will be found to 

 be a great convenience to the fruit 

 grower who has grafting to do or who 

 wants to cover the wounds after he has 



