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BETTER FRUIT 



November 



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ORCHARD BRAND SPRAY MATERIALS 



are manufactured by one company. They are made in one way — the right way- 

 mixed in the proper proportions, where the physical 



and chemical properties form to give elTcctive ..■■ ^t'^r:-*'.'^ 



results for tlie longest time. ..^"^ij 



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DORMANT SOLUBLE OIL met with general success throughout the North- 

 west last winter, as a general clean-up spray, during the dormant season. It is 

 especially prepared for the control of scale insects — and to kill aphis eggs. 



ORCHARD BRAND Bordeaux Mixture— Lime-Sulphur Solution— Arsenate 

 of Lead paste and other ORCHARD BRAND products are kept in stock for 

 distribution at the proper seasons. 



Our information Bureau is at your disposal, free of charge. When writing 

 state quantity and kind of material desired; or the age, number and kind of trees, 

 and the pest you wish to control. 



Visit the ORCHARD BRAND products booth at the Spokane Fair. 



The General Chemical Company 



201 Sansome Street SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



Spend a Nickle and Save a Dime 



Use Peerless 

 Duplex Strapping 



ON YOUR 



Shipping Boxes 



and 



(1) You will prevent pilfering. 



(2) You will prevent damage in 

 handling. 



No. 3 Duplex Strapping is made of higli grade Cold Rolled 

 Steel of considerable tensile strength and pliability. The turned 

 edge protects the packer's hands; the knurled center prevents 

 the nail from slipping while being driven. 



Discounts and Information from 

 Pacific Coast Representatives 



A. C. RULOFSON CO. 



No. 359 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California 



No. 3 Peerless Duplex Strapping in 

 coils of 6,500 feet each — $14.63 per 

 coil with liberal discount. 



TWISTED WIRE AND STEEL CO. 

 515-521 Greenwich Street, New York, N. Y. 



lies for which :i short storage i.s de- 

 .sirc'd, coinnion storage may be made as 

 .sati.sf'actor,\' as cold stoiage. 



The tables used are from "Cold 

 Storage of Ap])les, with Special Refer- 

 ence to Conditions in the Pacilic North- 

 west," V. S. Department of Agiiculture 

 Bulletin, to be published at Washing- 

 ton in the near future, and for a more 

 full account of the results of the apple 

 storage experiments, I would recom- 

 mend this bulletin to your attention. 



Trained Dairymen Employed 

 Every mendx-r of the classes gradu- 

 ating in dairying at the Oregon Agricul- 

 tnial College in the years 1914 and 1915, 

 twenty-five in all, has taken employ- 

 ment in industries directly related to 

 the work of his special training in 

 college. The eighteen members of the 

 class of 'If) have employment in their 

 specialties, lai-gely as a result of the 

 policy of the dairy department in plac- 

 ing its graduates in positions advan- 

 tageous to themselves and to their 

 employers. Six of the eighteen are 

 employed as official testers in cow- 

 testing associations. Three have found 

 positions as superintendents of public 

 institutions interested in dairying. Two 

 are managing co-operative creamerie.s. 

 One is milk inspector in a metropolitan 

 bureau of health. Two are butter 

 makers in commercial creameries, and 

 two are taking advanced work in col- 

 lege. Of these the manager of a large 

 dairy ranch receives the highest salary, 

 •SI, 200 per year, with residence accom- 

 modations. Three others receive $1,200 

 without accessoiies. Two receive SI, 000 

 each, and several receive $750 each in 

 mone>' and their board and rooms, 

 approximating as much more. The 

 seven graduates of the 1914 class also 

 receive satisfactory salaries in jierform- 

 ing the work that the college trained 

 them to do. By thus following the 

 careers of its graduates and noting the 

 degree of eiliciency of their work, the 

 college is able to determine the eili- 

 ciency of its own work so far as those 

 students are concerned. This situation 

 rarely prevails in educational work, 

 wherein the relation between the train- 

 ing and the later life work is a ballling 

 problem. Those who sui)port public 

 education as well as those who make 

 use of its opportunities are beginning to 

 insist on an answer to this problem, 

 which to a considerable ilegree is found 

 in the data collected. 



The British Columbia fruit crop, — 

 peach and apricot, — show a consider- 

 able increase over last year, although 

 in some districts leaf-curl has been 

 quite extensive. The pear crop is 

 about 25 per cent larger than in 1914; 

 the plum crop about 90 per cent of last 

 year; the cherry crop was larger than 

 the 1914 crop and the apple crop is re- 

 ported about 70 per cent of last year. 



Southern Idaho expects to ship 1,500 

 carloads of apples this season (prob- 

 ably an overestimate. The greater pro- 

 I)ortion of these will be shipped from 

 I'ayette, which will jirobably ship 

 somewhere around 500 cars. 



WHEN WRITING ADVEBTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



