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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



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E. A. FRANZ CO., Hood River, Oregon 



peated in 1915, all application.s being 

 made at tlie same time, March 13 and 

 1!) respectively, upon the two orchards. 

 An atlditional plat was adtled to the 

 experiment this season, designed to 

 strengthen the work in determining if 

 there is a perceptible invigorating in- 

 fluence upon the tree resulting from 

 api)l\ ing nitrate of soda to the branches 

 and i)reventing its reaching the roots 

 upon falling to the ground. 



From the long-continued practice of 

 clean culture in the orchards in the 

 valley has resulteil a seriously depleted 

 supply of organic matter and nitrogen 

 in the soil. With the loss of organic 

 matter and increase in size and demand 

 of the trees, drouth as well as short- 

 age of nitrogen has contributed to the 

 serious weakening of many fruit trees. 

 This process had advanced to such an 

 extent in some of the older and more 

 persistently cultivated orchards that 

 the trees had for some time been very 

 yellow in appearance, weak and un- 

 productive. A heavy crop of blossoms, 

 that were weak in character and much 

 under normal size, usually appeared 

 each spring, but only a small number 

 were able to develop and iiroduce fruit. 

 .\lthough the trees were known to be 

 badly in need of nitrogen as a constit- 

 uent of the soil, it was decided, upon 

 taking up fertilizer work, to find if the 

 methods of spraying trees with nitro- 

 gen reported b\- Ballard and Volck as 

 having increased production were of 

 practical and economic value for the 

 conditions existing in the Hood River 

 \'alley. For this purpose it was neces- 

 sary to determine if the presence of 

 nitrate of soda ujjon the branches 

 exerted a beneficial influence, or if the 

 resull came entirely from the excess 

 of the spray which fell to the ground, 

 conveying its nitrogen to the roots of 

 the trees. It was for this purpose that 

 nitrate of soda was applied to the trees 

 and ground in the manner described 

 above. 



As space will not permit all the im- 

 portant data being given for both 

 experiments, from which very similar 

 results were derived, only the one 

 giving the most striking results will be 

 discussed. The plats were treated as 

 follows: (1) Check plat, no fertilizer. 

 (2) Nitrate of soda, 1 pound per gallon 

 of water, applied to the tree in form of 

 spray, the excess being allowed to fall 

 to the ground. (3) Same solution as 

 applied to the trees in No. 2 applied to 

 the ground about the trees. (4) Nitrate 

 of soda cr\slals aiiplied to the ground 

 about the trees and worked in with the 

 spring cultivation. 



The nitrate solution applied to plats 

 two and three was made up by dis- 

 solving 135 pounds nitrate of soda in 

 as many gallons of water. To this 

 solution was added 19 pounds of caustic 

 soda. This quantity of spray was 

 applied to each plat, giving 6% gallons 

 of the liquid and as many pounds of 

 nitrate of soda to each tree. To plat 

 four was applied 135 pounds nitrate of 

 soda, an equal quantity per tree. This 

 application gave to each of the trees 

 1.08 pounds of nitrogen, which is 



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