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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



Dust Spray 



Saves 60 7r of Spraying Cost 



Ideal Power Dusting Outfit. 



Endorsed and used by 



Cornell University. 



For Catalog and Full Information 

 write 



DUST SPRAYER MFG. CO. 



1415 St. Louis St., Kansas City, Mo. 



**Finc Work! 



— that's what you'll say when you see 

 the soil, manure and stubble mixed over 

 and over with the 



"Acme" Pulverizing Harrow 



"The coulters do the work." They cut 

 and crush clods, turn the soil twice, 



?ulverize and mulch at one operation. 

 here'3 an "Acme" for every purpose— sizes 

 3 to 17 1-2 feet in width. Send for tree book— 

 noiy-— and leam more about these most de- 

 pendable of all seedbed builders. 



Duane H. Nasb Inc. 



345 East 

 Morrison St, 



No. 23 



Portland 

 Oregon 



LABELS-CARTONS 



Schmidt Lithograph Co. 



SAN FRANCISCO 



Los ANGELES. Fresno. PORTLAND. Seattle 

 Salt Lake City. Honolulu 



Wenatchee Fruit and 

 Vegetable Picking Bags 



(Patented April 27. 1915) 



The mouth of this bag is a novel shape, ad- 

 mitting the putting of the fruit or vegetables in 

 the bag, using both hands at the same time, and 

 bag is emptied by releasing a snap. The bag 

 will hold about a bushel. When snapped at the 

 frame it will hold about a half bushel. The frame 

 is made of steel, the canvas is 10-oz. and every 

 point is reenforced with leather where from ex- 

 perience it has been found necessary. This bag 

 is acknowledged by the growers of the We- 

 natchee, Yakima and Hood River Valleys to be 

 the best bag now on the market. Price $1.75 

 post paid to all parts of the United States where 

 we have no agents. 



Wenatchee Hardware Company 

 Sole (Manufacturers Wenatchee, Wash. 



Siiaranteeing an advance, with good 

 promises of splendid prices. If these 

 did not materialize, then they signed 

 up with a selling concern, crowding a 

 hig tannage onto the selling concern 

 late in the season, which was imex- 

 pected and for which no preparation 

 had been made for cfTicicnt selling. 

 Selling concerns must be protected 

 against such practices if they are ex- 

 pected to get the best results. They 

 must know in advance what volume of 

 fruit they will control for market, and 

 he prepared in advance and have time 

 to look up markets and make the nec- 

 essary connections for disposing of 

 their product to the best possible ad- 

 vantage. They must not be hampered 

 by being compelled to devote their 

 time to securing signatures to con- 

 tracts in order to acquire the necessary 

 tonnage to pay running expenses. It is 

 essential that economy must be ob- 

 served in tonnage campaigns; growers 

 are getting tired of paying money out 

 of their pockets for high-priced men 

 to solicit their tonnage; they are get- 

 ting tired of buying automobiles for 

 this purpose and paying for the gaso- 

 line which is burned up in this way. 



Preparation for selling should begin 

 in July and continue throughout 

 August and September, and be thor- 

 ough in securing a knowledge of the 

 best opportunities and the best meth- 

 ods of disposing of the coming crop. 

 All this knowledge .should be available 

 and secured in advance of the selling 

 season. 



Growers have been to blame for 

 many disastrous conditions in the past. 

 It has been common in many districts 

 for growers to hold out for cash buy- 

 ers; when they did not materialize at 

 the last moment, to sign up with some 

 selling concern and swamp it with an 

 unexpected tonnage late in the season. 



This contract will cut out this evil 

 by requiring all growers to sign up by 

 ,Iuly first. This date will protect grow- 

 ers against their own follies and cut 

 out the extra and continued expensive 

 tonnage campaign of solicitation which 

 the .growers have paid for in the past. 



The minimum nimiber of cars re- 

 quired for membership as a selling 

 concern in this agency will be 100. 

 As a matter of fact it is more or less 

 the opinion of the government officials 

 that a tonnage of 500 cars is actually 

 necessary in order to enable a selling 

 concern to provide itself with an effi- 

 cient system for handling and selling 

 to the best advantage. However, it 

 was decided to make the limit neces- 

 sary for member.ship a minimum of 100 

 cars. The trustees will be composed 

 of five men connected with the selling 

 agencies, five representative fruitgrow- 

 ers and one trustee to be selected by 

 these ten. 



Active niembershi]) will be $100 per 

 year, giving full voting ])owei'. Passive 

 mendterships will be .¥5.00 per year, 

 with all i)rivileges except voting and 

 office hohhng. 



X uniform system of accoimting, 

 showing the iirices for the varieties, 

 grades and sizes, will be adopted so 



Spraying Suggestions 



In the control of orchard pests during 

 the growing season it is important that 

 all spray materials used be properly 

 balanced chemically, manufactured for 

 a defini te purpose and of the best quality 

 obtainable in order togive effective con- 

 trol of insects and diseases without 

 injury to the trees, foliage or fruit. 



ATOMIC SULPHUR PASTE, a non 



caustic fungicide, is safe to use and 

 gives effective and lasting results with- 

 out injury to trees, foliage or fruit when 

 properly applied. It can be safely com- 

 bined with Orchard Brand Arsenate of 

 Lead when spraying for codling moth 

 control and it is important that it be 

 first added at the time of the calyx 

 spray in order to start the stimulation 

 which results in increased vigor to the 

 tree, the setting of more uniform crop 

 of fruit and a proper control of mildew, 

 which disease is becoming more gen- 

 eral throughout the Northwest each 

 year. When thoroughly applied after 

 blooming time at proper intervals it is 

 also effective in preventing any further 

 growth of scab fungus and will control 

 red spiders and mites on fruit trees. 

 Atomic Sulphur is the best material 

 known to control brown rot and scab 

 on prunes, peaches, plums and similar 

 stone fruits and for the control of mil- 

 dew on all classes of fruit trees, grape 

 vines and ornamental plants. 



ORCHARD BRAND ARSENATE OF LEAD 

 PASTE is now easy to handle and mix 

 with water because it is so manufac- 

 tured as to prevent settling in a hard 

 mass to the bottom of containers, and 

 is a soft, fluffy paste which, after dilut- 

 ing in water, maintains the best possi- 

 ble suspension which insures an even 

 coating of poison, closely adhering to 

 the surface of fruit and foliage, giving 

 lasting and effective results. Chemical 

 ingredients guaranteed. Those grow- 

 ers desiring the dry form of lead will 

 find the Orchard Brand lead powder 

 convenient to use and effective. 



Complete stocks of both Atomic Sulphur and 

 Arsenate of Lead, together with other neces- 

 sary Orchard Brand Spray materials carried in 

 the Northwest with the following distributors: 



GILBERT & DeWITT, 



Hood River. Oregon. 

 BALFOUR. GUTHRIE & CO.. 



Portland, Oregon. 

 ROGUE RIVER COOPERATIVE FRUIT 

 GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, 



Medford, Oregon. 

 MORGAN, McKAIG COMPANY. 



North Yakima. Washington. 

 WELLS & WADE, 



Wenatchee. Washington. 

 McGOWAN BROTHERS HARDWARE 

 COMPANY, 



Spokane, Washington. 

 SAMUEL LONEY & COMPANY. 



Walla Walla. Washington. 

 C. J. SINSEL. 



Boise. Idaho. 



Fruit Growers will do well to write us giving 

 full description of pests and troubles on their 

 orchards, and we will reply by personal letter 

 as fully as possible. 



General Chemical Company 



San Francisco, California 

 Manufacturers of 



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