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BETTER FRUIT 



Jaiiuarv 



"BLUE RIBBON" 



(EXTRA RAIMCY) 



"RED RIBBON" 



(F-AIMCY) 



Quality Brands of Yakima Apples 



When ordering apples specify Blue Ribbon Brand and 

 be assured of the best the market affords. All apples 

 packed under our personal supervision and inspection. 



WRITE FOR INFORMATJON 

 AND PRICES 



Yakima County Horticultural Union 



FRED EBERLE, Manager 



NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 



CHERRY TREES FOR SALE 



We offer extra fine trees with big roots and heavy bodies at bed-rock prices. 



Write today for samples of grades and prices. They are going fast. 



Otlier first-class nursery stock for sale at low prices. 



BENEDICT NURSERY CO., 185 E. 87th Street N., Portland, Oregon 



Lime Sulphur 

 Lead Arsenate 

 Bordeaux Paste 

 Spra-Sulphur 



The most serious pests and diseases doing the most dam- 

 age to trees in the Northwest are San Jose Scale and Anthrac- 

 nose. The ones doing the most damage to crops and causing 

 a loss of millions annually to fruit growers, are Codling Moth 

 and Seal). 



Growers Must Have Sprays that are Efficient 



We make the above sprays of the highest degree of effi- 

 ciency and sell at reasonable jirices. 



Clean crops are necessary if you expect to sell your apples 

 at good prices. 



Use Our Sprays and Grow Clean Fruit 



Factory at Clackamas. Oregon. 

 New factory being built at Hood River, Oregon. 



For the present direct all correspondence to 



Oregon Arsenical Spray Co. 



CLACKAMAS, OREGON 



of the tree, then finish by spraying 

 from the outside of the tree and go all 

 the way arountl the tree. Do not at- 

 lempl to spray large trees from only 

 I wo sides, bul make a complete circle 

 and exercise special care wherever an 

 ai)ple touches another apple or a leaf 

 or limb. When worms are plentiful or 

 indications are they likely will be so, 

 spray the trees often enough to keep 

 the surface of the fruit covered with 

 poison to within a few weeks of har- 

 vest time. In all spraying for codling- 

 moth control, use arsenate of lead 

 Ijaste containing 15 per cent arsenic 

 oxide at the rate of 4 pounds or its 

 equivalent, if powder is used, to each 

 100 gallons of spray. 



Future of the Fruit Industry 

 of the Northwest 



By W. S. Thornber, Director of Extension Depart- 

 ment. Washington State College. 



IT seems like a great deal of presmnp- 

 tion on my part today to undertake 

 to talk to a group of fruitmen like 

 yourselves upon the future of our in- 

 dustry after listening, as we have, to 

 the many fine addresses by practical 

 men as well as college men upon the 

 life cycles of bugs and bees and rust 

 and disease, but nevertheless I feel that 

 at .just this time it is wise to stop and 

 consider rather carefully just what the 

 future is going to mean for many of we 

 fruit producers, lest we now make a 

 more seiious mistake in pulling up our 

 apple orchards than we made eight or 

 ten years ago in the planting of them. 

 It is a remarkable fact, nevertheless it 

 is emphatically true, that almost every- 

 thing works in cycles or waves. During 

 a certain jieriod farmers everywhere 

 run almost exclusively to stock, while 

 during another it is grain and so on; 

 first one fad and then another imtil we 

 go bankrui)t buying machinery or 

 equipment to fit the numerous changes 

 that inojcct themselves upon us. 



The Present Condition. — For the sake 

 of hettei- understanding our problem 

 let us critically analyze our real condi- 

 tions as fruitgiowers, and I wonder if 

 the conditions of one of our most suc- 

 cessful valleys would not represent the 

 universal conditions of fruitdom in the 

 Northwest? If so, here they are: 

 Seventy-five per cent of the growers 

 are dissatisfied because they have made 

 no money tluring the last three years. 

 But what class of people has made any- 

 thing beyond a good living during the 

 past four or even five years. Ninety- 

 five per cent of the growers would 

 gladly sell their holdings now for con- 

 siderably less than they paid for them 

 and willingly lose their time and in- 

 terest in the bargain. Again, this is not 

 remarkable when we come to realize 

 that it is an almost universal rule to 

 man,\- people that something else always 

 looks better than what they are doing. 

 Hence the desire to change. -Sixty-live 

 per cent of the orchard area of the val- 

 ley during the past two years has been 

 so seriously neglected that it is a (pies- 

 tion in mv mind now whether or not it 



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