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entirely aioiind the trunk ;it or Just 

 above the surface of tlie soil or snow. 

 In handlin.i,' such injuries. Professor 

 O. M. Morris, horticulturist of the 

 Washington As,'riculfuial Kxperinient 

 Station at Pullman, advises that the 

 winter-killed twigs should be cut back 

 lo sound or live wood. .Sonietiuies the 

 sa|) wood is injui'ed and turns brown, 

 but is not killed. If cutting away .ill 

 such injured wood necessitates ex- 

 tremely severe pruning it should not 

 be (lone. However, all wood on which 

 the bark is killed should be pruned 

 away. The sidit hark on the trunk and 

 laiger limljs should be iirevented from 

 curling back by banding or by the use 

 of lacks and small nails. If the bark 

 is killed back from the edge of the split 

 an inch or more on each side this 

 should be covered by bridge grafting. 



The winter injury that is most liable 

 to kill the tree is that form in which 

 the trunk is girdled. This can be bridge 

 grafted and the tree saved with onl\ 

 slightly checking its growth. The 

 pruning away of injured parts should 

 be done as soon as possible after the 

 harm has been done. The bridge graft- 

 ing should be done just before rapid 

 growth starts in the spring. This 

 process is described in Popular Bulletin 

 No. 67 of the Experiment Station. — 

 Washington State Experiment Station 

 Bulletin. 



Good Hoads. — It is stated that l.dlMI miles 

 of perfect roadway have been constructed by 

 the prisoners of the penitentiai-y of Colorado. 

 This \\ork was first done under armed giutrds, 

 but later the honor system \vas introduced and 

 is still in voj^uc. Colorado's plan was suc- 

 cessful in securing gootl roads at a vei-y low 

 cost of production. Good roads are essential 

 to the upbuildins of every comnumity and arc 

 a necessity for economy in trans[)orfation for 

 every farmer. The automobiles have done 

 more to bring al)out good roads than any 

 other industry of the United States. Automo- 

 biles have made good roads popular, and good 

 roads in turn are making the automobile 

 popular. Originally autonioi)iles w ei-e princi- 

 pally used for pleasure, but now they arc 

 becoming a Ijusiness necessity. With good 

 roads and automobiles there will be nnich 

 more traveling, and the combination presents 

 an cpportunity for sight-seeing, pleasure, 

 health and increased business. Nothing wouUi 

 be more succes.sful in bringing settlers to the 

 Pacific Coast than a good overland automobile 

 road Iietwecn the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 

 Iowa has long been celebrated for good rt>ads, 

 the result being a passenger automobile to 

 every fifteen people. In Kansas many of the 

 blacksmith sliops are being converted into 

 garages. There are over 73,000 auti>mobilcs 

 in Kansas. New .Jersey is another state wliere 

 good roads has increased prosperity. Although 

 only a small slate it contains 7fl,.')00 passen- 

 ger cars and 11,0(M) motor trucks, paying an- 

 nual license fees of .ft .1 ,■,.3,000. California, the 

 state noted for good roads and delightful 

 weather for traveling the year rouiul, has 

 l(;it.n(H) automobiles. The good-road movement 

 ill ()rri;nii and ^^■ashlngton has resulted in 

 iuiprovenieut on all roads. The completion 

 of ttie Colundjia Highway between Poi-tland 

 and Hood River is the most wonderful achieve- 

 ment of roail building in the I'nited States 

 in every particular. The scenery along the 

 Columbia River, which the CoUmdjia Highway 

 parallels, is uiu>qualed in any similar mileage 

 in the United States. Those who have traveled 

 all over the world are frank to admit that 

 this piece of roadway has the most wonderful 

 scenery of any roadway of similar length any- 

 where in the world. 



The Shippers' League Defer Completinu Or- 

 gan izalioit. — The movement on foot to incor- 

 porate a Shippers' League has been deferred 

 until a rciKU-t shall be rendered by the gov- 

 ernment oflicials who have been engaged in 

 studying marketing conditions in the North- 

 west. The last session was held in North 

 Yakima in the middle of December. The fol- 

 lowing resolutions were adopted, which will 

 be of interest to the fruitgrowers, indicating 

 a strong desire on the part of all selling con- 

 cerns to co-operate with any ])lan for the bet- 

 terment of marketing conditions that may be 

 suggested by the governnu'nt oflicials now en- 

 gaged in formulating a iilan for the improve- 

 nient of the fruit industry of the Northwest: 

 "Whereas, the pri'seni fruit marketing silna- 

 tion can be met only hy gi-o\\ ei-s and shipijers 

 wdrking irilelligenlly together lo bring all [be 

 Idimage inidci- niderly control that will ]U'e- 

 venl demni ali/ali'in of mai-kets and will niake 

 possil>Ie tlu' e\|)ausion of markets lo provide 

 an outlet for the increasing (piantity of fruit; 

 and whereas, there exists an oppoT-timlty to 

 secure co-operation of the I'ederal Trade Com- 

 nn'ssi<m and the U. S. OITice of Markets In 

 making a eomiilete sur\i'y and recommenda- 

 tion on this situation; and whereas, iniited 

 action <,f the strong shipping factors of the 

 Xorthwest Is ne<'essary to secure this federal 

 co-oi)eralion ; ami whereas, we believe that 

 generally conceiMcd action of these same ship- 

 pers can greatl.N' incr-case the outlet and dis- 

 tribidion of our Northwestern fruits; tlierc- 

 fore be it resolved I>y thet members of the 

 Noi'thwest Fi'uil Shipper's' C<iuTU'iI: That wc 



When It's Nitrate 

 Time for Apples 



Use 200 pounds of 

 Nitrate of Soda 

 broadcast per acre 

 in late February 

 or early March, 

 or use at Blossom 

 Time. 



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plcdtii' oursch cs to unilcd :u'tinn niui to yiN e 

 iHir iinilcii assislani'o in helping; I he \\ (iik of 

 the rc'picscii til lives of tlu* ^"Vi'iiiiiu'iil ; and 

 that we express our eaiiiest d el ernii nation 

 to work to^^etlipi- and to ineorporatc a pcr-nia- 

 nenl ncni-prodl-sharinu corporation to (ieveioj) 

 methods and ways and means o(" meeting the 

 cxistinti siliiatinn by \\<)rkint^ <inl a plan of 

 niarkelinfi and ol" maiket extension that will 

 ('nal)le us lo sell llie box-apple crop of 1916 

 and sneocedin;; yea is at pi'iees that will be 

 profitable to the grower." The following in- 

 terests were represented at the meeting: J. H. 

 Hctbbins of Spokane. 1'. V.. Siekels of the 

 North Paeide I'rnil Dislributtirs ; \V. V. C.win 

 and Worrall Wilson of Seattle, the North- 

 western I'"riiit Ivxehange; L. .1. Ulol of Spokane, 

 the Spokam* l*'rnit (Jrowers' Association; Wil- 

 mer Seig of Ilnnd Hiver. the II<hu1 River Apple 



