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mind to feel the necessity or propriety 

 of co-operating seriously with the 

 growers of M'enatchee or Southern 

 Idaho, and this same thought applies to 

 many growers in all of the prominent 

 sections. 



Experience shows that there is an- 

 other class of gentlemen, who are 

 fewer in nuniher, most of whom see 

 the handwriting on the wall, and it 

 appears to be up to these gentlemen, 

 the shippers, to work out a practical 

 plan for Ihe nmtual protection of them- 

 selves and the growers that will pre- 

 serve the fruit industry of the North- 

 west on a basis that will be profitable 

 to the growers as well as themselves. 

 To the shippers must be added the in- 

 fluence and advice of another class of 

 gentlemen in the Northwest who are 

 becoming vitally interested in the 

 proposition, and who will become more 

 interested if the unpaid notes become 

 musty, and they are the bankers, the 

 gentlemen who must finance the grow- 

 ing and harvesting of the crops if 

 enough revenue is to be produced to 

 enable the note makers — the growers — 

 to pay up. 



The question before the house is, 

 \\'ill enough men out of the large num- 

 ber of practical shipiiers and practical 

 bankers get together and give this mat- 

 ter sufficient attention to work out the 

 proper solution. The proposition is not 

 seriously complicated from this angle, 

 but it will retiuire an honest, energetic, 

 intelligent efl'ort on the part of a num- 

 ber of loyal gentlemen to solve the 

 problem. The intelligence is easily 

 available. Enough experimenting has 

 been done and enough experience has 

 been gained to reduce the task largely 

 to that of energy and effort to bring 

 Ihe fruit industry of the Northwest 

 from a condition of chaotic disappoint- 

 ment to one of satisfaction and profit 

 to growers, shippers and bankers and 

 merchants. The industry is estimated 

 to represent an investment of over 

 .*2fl0.rin0,0n0, and while a very large 

 percentage of this investment has not 

 reached the full-bearing age, yet it 

 should produce an income of from 

 .?15,0fln,000 to .'?2(),nfin,()00 in 1916 and 

 should show a gradual increase from 

 vear to year. 



.4 Good Word for Apph- l)iel. — Mrs. .1. H. 

 Kline wrote a short article, \\hich aj)pearec! 

 in the San Francisco Chroncile, stating that 

 slie is the matron of a I)oys' honie and has 

 found l)y experience and ohservation that the 

 kinds of ftind that tlie l)nys eat are serious 

 factors in llieii" dispositions. Tlie most in- 

 teresting ol)Sei-vation to tlie fruitgrower in 

 connection with !ier sludies is that slle notices 

 that a Iil)eral supply of apples mixed with 

 their diet acts wonderfully fr>r their better- 

 ment, observing also that chemists h.ave never 

 been able to produce anything that acts so well 

 on the liver as apple juice, not the pressed- 

 out juice or cider, but the juice chewed out 

 of an apple by Ihe leeth; and what is etjually 

 important in the way of increasing consump- 

 lion is licT- statement "that no boy evei' refuses 

 an apple." 



Brilish Colninhin Apples for San Diego Expo- 

 fiition. — Tin S;in Diego Exposition is to be 

 continued for another year. It is interesting 

 in connection \\ilh this statement to know that 

 the Dei)artment of .Agrieultm-e of the Dominion 

 (iovernment, Ottawa, in a))preciaIion of the 

 value of this splendid oppoT-tunity for i>ub- 

 licity. have instructed the Province of Hi-itish 

 rolnnibia to prepai-e and ship 1,000 boxes for 

 exhibition. 



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 death to pests. Can't injure foliage. Easy to ship, store 

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Earn Big Pay as a Tree Expert 



From a farm hand at $25 a month to a tree expert 

 at $3,000 a year — from monotonous grind to a fas- 

 cinating, healthful, respected profession — that is 

 the rise of the man pictured here. P. E. Hudson, 

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the Davey course of training 

 by mail hundreds of young 

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J. B. PILKINGTON, Nurseryman, Portland, Ore. 



Apple Exports. — Up to alxmt Ihe first <)f 

 .January the apple exports have been light 

 compared with last year, the fpiantity already 

 exported only being about one-half of what 

 was exported up to the same time in the year 

 1911. The falling off of the export trade is 

 due principally to the fact that it is dilTicult 

 to obtain space on freight steamers, and also 

 to the fact that the rates are so exceedingly 

 high. 



the OfTice of Markets and Rural Organization. 

 United States Department of Agriculture, on 

 *'Cold Storage," there was on cold storage De- 

 cember 1, 1915. 4.206,825 barrels of apples, 

 showing an increase over last year. Figures 

 for December 1, 1914, were 3,2.^4.829 barrels. 

 The situation is reversed in the box business, 

 1915 showing .T.;i75,997 boxes, against 4,147,5(Hi 

 boxes December 1, 191 i, a reduction of 771,509 

 boxes. 



Oregon Ilcns. — The final reports of the oHi- 

 cial records made by the Oregon Agricultural 

 ("lub hens at the Panama I-'xposition show 

 that while Ihe White Leghorns won by a hand- 

 son U' margin over all Cfunpetitors. the olher 

 two college pens, the Oregon and Barred 



Rocks, lied for second place over all other 

 competitors. The pen of Leghorns laid 1.(>1(» 

 eggs during Ihe year; the other Iwo pens 

 referred to 1.407 eggs each. 



Tilt' Consolidating of Two Fruit Districts. — 

 Under wood and White Salmon districts are 

 working to cond)ine the two existing organi- 

 zations under one head, which seems a step in 

 the right direction, as the kind and quality of 

 fruit produced in both districts arc the same. 



^Vhitc Salmon .Apples Win First I'rizvs in 

 Sew York. — The Stale College of Agriculture, 

 according to the White Salmon KiUerprise. 

 White Salmon w :is aw aided first prizes on 

 the following varieties: Hydcs King, Ortlcy, 

 Winter Banana and Gravenslein. 



Death of Mr. \V. It. f,lafke.—.\U fruitgrow- 

 ers will learn with nuich regret of Ihe death 

 of W. H. r.lafke. who has long been identified 

 with Ihe fruit industry as one of the leading 

 commission merchants f)f Portland, where he 

 was in l)usiness for the nasi thirty years. Mr. 

 Glafke was one of Ihe best-liked men on Ihe 

 street, and know n f(^r his kind hearted ness 

 and geneii>us way of dealing. 



