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BETTER FRUIT 



November 



Oregon Nursery Company 



ORENCO, OREGON 



Extensive growers of all lines of Fruit, Nut and Shade Trees, Evergreens, 

 Flowering: Shrubs, Vines, Roses, etc. Introducers of the VROOMAN 

 FRANQUETTE walnut, recognized as the best walnut. Our large 

 complete stock consists of varieties suitable for every kind of climate. 

 Write us about your wants before buying. 



Don't 

 J\[eglect 

 Fall 

 Spraying/ 



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"PERFECT" Cement Coated NaUs 



OUE PRODUCTS ARE OF SUPERIOR QUALITY 



AND GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. 



PRICE and QUALITY always right. 



PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 A. C. RULOFSON CO. 



"The Cement Coated Nail People" 



Monadnock Building, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 

 PACIFIC COAST SALES MANAGERS 



Alpha Combination Power Sprayer 



F-ITTED WITH THE 



Alpha Automatic Pressure Governor 



ELIMINATES the trouble caused by relletvalve. 

 IN81IRE8 safety and absolute uniform pressure 



regulation. 

 SAVES in power when nozzles are not in use. 



Equipped with 2!.$ H. P. Alpha Engine that furnishes ample power for high pressure 

 with four nozzles In use. Send for catalog G-2. 



Seattle Dc LaVal Dairy Supply Co. San Francisco 



Increase your crop— preserve the vigor 

 of you trees by Fall spraying 



[ Remember scale is softer, less resistant and easier to kill 

 It the Fall. 



Scale hardens and saps the vitality of your trees during 

 the Winter months, making the tree less vigorous, the scale 

 more resistant. 



Write for prices on Lime SulptlUr 



Bordeaux Mixture, Scalecide 



Free Spray Booklet and our Annual Autumn 

 Catalog of Trees and Nursery Stock and Sup- 

 plies now ready. Ask for Catalog No. 201. 



Portland Seed Co. 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



the rea.sons; the fact of the matter 

 being that last year prices were so low 

 that the grower did well to make liis 

 expenses, many growers not even doing 

 this. Conseciiiently, they have been 

 short of funds and will be up to the 

 time they receive money for this year's 

 crop. The weather being beautiful, 

 every fruit grower was busily engaged 

 in harvesting his crop, putting forth 

 every effort to finish before the rains 

 set in. For these reasons he felt unable 

 to make exhibits on account of lack of 

 funds and did not feel inclined to delay 

 his harvesting in preparing exhibits. 

 This was the condition this year, but it 



is to be hoped that next year conditions 

 will change s(( that the apple grower 

 will take more interest in making 

 exhibits. These are opportunities they 

 should not miss, as this kind of pub- 

 licit\- is the best kind of advertising at 

 llie lowest cost, which the fruit grower 

 can avail himself of. The show was 

 particularly attractive on account of it 

 being high class in every respect. Every 

 exhibit was one of merit. 



The Growers' Council. — While a 



great many people are unreasonable in 

 their expectations in reference to the 

 Growers' Council, it seems apparent to 



the writer that the (Irowers' Council 

 has accomplished a wonderful amount 

 of good by creating a splendid influ- 

 ence. Some i)eople expected the Fruit 

 Growers' Council to have tlie power to 

 dictate and set prices. Sudi expecta- 

 tions were unjustified and unreason- 

 able. No organization can set or fix 

 prices without being a trust and abso- 

 lutely controlling the situation. If any 

 shipping concern or combination of 

 shipping concerns had a sufficient con- 

 trol of the situation and the tonnage to 

 fix ])rices by dictation, such a condi- 

 tion might be construed as a violation 

 of the trust laws. Hut to return to the 

 subject — the (irowers' Council suc- 

 ceeded in calling a number of promi- 

 nent growers together from all over, 

 in two large meetings, one in Seattle 

 and one in Tacoma, and also succeeded 

 in getting representatives, officials, 

 salesmen and attorneys of the various 

 shipping concerns together for a con- 

 ference. In these meetings a great 

 many things were threshed out. All 

 the different .shipping concerns found 

 out that the others had some mighty 

 good men, and every one present con- 

 cluded that the other fellow was not 

 entirely to blame for the disastrous 

 condition that had prevailed. The 

 result of these meetings has been a bet- 

 ter feeling of the shipping concerns, 

 which has resulted in a more harmoni- 

 ous condition and less unnecessary 

 comiietition. This has been a big fac- 

 tor in assisting the selling concerns to 

 otjlain more satisfactory prices for the 

 apple growers in the season of 1915. 



The 1915 Apple Movement. — The 



local jobjjing and trade centers of the 

 Northwest, like Portland, Seattle, Spo- 

 kane and Tacoma, at the present time 

 are pretty well filled up with apples of 

 the fall varieties and the very early 

 winter varieties, also low grades. Prac- 

 tically all of the apples that are not 

 in first-class keeping condition are 

 being rushed on to the market very 

 rapiilly, especially by those districts 

 which have no cold storage facilities. 

 (Consequently the market is pretty well 

 filled up with low-grade fruit, very 

 lillle of the extra fancy and fancy win- 

 ter varieties being in evidence. Due to 

 the unusual amount of apples affected 

 by codling moth this year and the 

 prevalence of scab in some districts, 

 both of which would affect the value 

 of apples, much of this kind of fruit is 

 being turned loose on the market for 

 the reason that the\ do not justify cold 

 storage expense. 



Stampede Among Fruit Growers. — 



The fruit induslrj of the Northwest has 

 certainl.\' gone through a very wonder- 

 ful and interesting development and 

 evolution. In this development atten- 

 tion is called to the marked stampede 

 among fruit growers, first in one direc- 

 tion, Ihen in another. A few years ago 

 apple growers of the Northwest con- 

 centrated all their efforts in an earnest 

 endeavor lo produce (lualily fruit, 

 doing Iheir work well and thoroughly. 

 In fact, Ihey spai'ed no expense, and it 

 might be said Ihey did Iheir work 



