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BETTER FRUIT 



Noz'cinbcr 



SPRAYINC-PAINTING-DISINFErriNG 



Get your orchards and trees in prime condition this 

 Fall and they will require but liule attention next Spnng. 

 for FaJI spraying with a Myers Spray Pump destroys 

 scale and similar diseases at the nght time. 



The MYERS POWER SPRAY RIG shov\-n below is 

 buiJt for high pressure work where extensive spraying 

 operations are carried on. and is complete wiih tank. 

 tower, pump and accessones ra::!y for engine and wagon 

 trucks. Oiherlypesof Myers Spray Ouifiis include small 

 Bucket and Knapsack Sprayers, and medium and large 

 capacity Barrel and Tank Oulfils for hand or power 

 operalion— All are proven, tested and completely equipp- 

 ed with Nozzles. Hose and Accessones, ready to spray. 



Send today for 64 page Catalog — MYERS SPRAY 

 PUMPS for SPRAYING. PAINTING. DISINFECTING 

 ll shows all styles and gives Tables. Formulas and 

 DirecUons How and When to Spray. 



ASHLAND PUMP AND HAY TOOLWORKS 



120 ORANGE ST. ASHLAND, OHIO. 



THE WEIGHT 



is given on page 4. 



There are also other points of interest 



to orchardists. 



The 



First 



National 



Bank 



Hood River, Oregon 



Capital and Surplus 

 $135,000 



4% Interest Paid on Savings 

 and Term Deposits 



F. S. STANLEY, President 

 E. 0. BLANCHAR, Cashier 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



will be shown in operation, conducted 

 by Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Bitting, the most 

 noted technologists in America. The 

 cannery exhibit will demonstrate the 

 various processes involved in fruit can- 

 ning, from the moment the fruit is re- 

 ceived in boxes to the final detail of 

 being crated for delivery to the grocer. 

 There will be a com])rehensive exhibit 

 of dried fruits in airtight sanitary pack- 

 ages. An ingenious display of horti- 

 cultural machinery will be a feature, 

 showing everything up-to-date in the 

 line of appliances and implements. In 

 general the exhibits cover every detail 

 pertaining to the soil, its cultivation 

 and adornment. 



Destroy Insects by Fall Plowing 



If you want to kill the army worms, 

 cutworms, Hessian Hies, grasshoi)pers 

 and otlier highly injurious insects plow 

 your fields this fall. Fall plowing, 

 disking and harrowing within the next 

 few weeks will break up the nests, 

 cells and protecting cases of many in- 

 sects and exjjose them to the rigors of 

 winter weather. This will completely 

 destroy many of our most injurious in- 

 sects and greatly diminish the numbers 

 of others. Fall plowing does not afi'ect 

 all insects alike because they pass the 

 winter in the soil in different stages. 

 The grasshfippers and the corn root 

 lice pass the winter in the egg .stage; 

 the cutworms, army worms, wire 

 worms and white grubs hibernate in 

 the soil in the worm stage; the fall 

 army worms, corn-ear worms and 

 garden-web worms pass the winter in 

 the pupa or resting stage: and the click 

 beetles. May beetles and potato beetles 

 hibernate in the soil as adult beetles. 

 Many insects are crushed and destroyed 

 in their wintering stages by plowing 

 and disking. Others are brought up 

 nearer the surface, and not being able 

 to go deeper into the soil or to con- 

 struct new cases are exposed to the 

 ravages of birds and other animals. 

 They are also subjected to excessive 

 cold and moisture, to alternate freezing 

 and thawing, and are killed. Old 

 wheat stubble fields full of volunteer 

 wheat, weeds and grass arc now har- 

 boring Hessian flies, army worms, cut- 

 worms, grasshopper eggs and plant 

 lice, all of which may be destroyed by 

 fall i)lowing. If these old stubble fields 

 are not plowed until next spring 

 serious injury may occur to corn, 

 wheat and other crops in the neigh- 

 borhood. The Hessian files coming 

 from the volunteer wheat next spring 

 may completely destroy late - sown 

 wheat. — T. .1. Talbert, University of 

 Missouri, College of Agriculture. 



How to Make Vinegar 

 The housewife, either on tlie farm or 

 in the city, who makes her own vinegar 

 may be assured of both its purity and 

 strength if she follows certain specific 

 directions, according to Miss Carrie 

 Pancoast of the Missouri College of 

 Agriculture, (iood vinegar can be pre- 

 l)aicd from cider. Fill a barrel or cask 

 half or two-thirds full. A considerable 

 surface of the liquid must be exposed 



to the air. For this purpose, bore two- 

 inch holes in opposite sides of the bar- 

 rel — one near the surface of the liquid 

 and one near the top of the barrel. 

 Cover the holes with wire netting to 

 prevent the entrance of files. One of 

 three metliods may be pursued in the 

 formation of vinegar from the cider — 

 (1) allow the cider to stand until 

 souring occurs; (2) add a little vinegar 

 of good (luality, or (3) hasten the 

 process by the addition of the "mother 

 of vinegar," a portion of the film which 

 has developed on the surface of vine- 

 gar previously prepared. Fart of the 

 vinegar may be drawn ofT and the loss 

 made good with fresh cider, using care 

 not to break the film. The added cider 

 will rapidly be converted into vinegar, 

 and the process may be repeated in 

 three or four weeks. When drawn ofi", 

 the vinegar should be strained and 

 placed in tightl\-stop])ered Vi'ssels — 

 otherwise it will lose its strength. — 

 University of ^lissouri. 



The Pacific International Live .Stock 

 Fxijosition will be held in Portland at 

 the Union Stock Yards, North Portland, 

 December (i-ll. As many fruitgrowers 

 are going extensively into the dairying 

 business, hogs and sheep as side lines, 

 this exposition, which is one of the 

 finest held in the Northwest, or any- 

 where else in the United States for that 

 mailer, will give every visitor wonder- 

 ful opportunities to learn about stock, 

 the care of stock, and the kind of stock 

 that pays to raise. No fruitgrower who 

 is I'aising stock or expecting to should 

 fail to attend this show. 



The Oregon Nursery Company, Oren- 

 co, Oregon, one of the largest and most 

 progressive nurseries in the Northwest, 

 has added a landscape gardening de- 

 partment, having secured the services 

 of a specialist, Mr. H. F. Burdette, who 

 is a practical man in this line of work, 

 for the inn-pose of assisting all patrons 

 of this company to enable them to lay 

 out their gardens, lawns, etc., around 

 their homes in the most attractive man- 

 ner possible. 



PORTLAND WHOLESALE NURSERY COMPANY 



Rooms 6 & 7. 122' 2 Grand Ave., Portland, Oregron 



"Wholesalers of Nursery Stock and Nursery Supplies 



A very complete line of 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 



SPECIALTIES 



Clean Coast GrowTi Seedlinps 



Oregon Champion Gooseberries and 



Write Now Perfection Currants Write Now 



Caught 51 Rats One Week 



Trap resets Itself: 22 Inches high ; will last 

 for years; can't get out of order; weighs 

 7 pounds. Cheese Is used, doing away with 

 poisons. This trap does its work, never 

 fails and is always ready for the next rat. 

 When rats and mice pass device they die. 

 Rats are disease carriers, also cause fires. 

 Rat catcher sent prepaid on receipt of J:i.OO: 

 Mouse catcher. 10 inches high, $1.00. Money 

 backif not satisfied. One of these rat catchers 

 should be in every school building. 



H. D. SWiRTS, INVENTOR AND MANUFACTURER 



I'niversal Rat and Mouse Trap 

 Box ,566 SCRANTON. PA. 



WUEN WRITING .\nVF.RTISERS MENTION BETTKR FBCIT 



