BETTER FRUIT 



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Volume XIV 



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SEx '^ /^EK, 1919 



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Number 3 



Features : 



THE BARTLETT PEAR AS SEEN ON THE TREE 



The Bartlett Pear is tKe most vJidely gro'oPn in the United States of anj» of the manj) pear 

 varieties. The pear crop of the Pacif c Northv3est this year is estimated at oOer 6,500,000 

 bushels, the greater proportion of which are Bartletts. Three-fourths of the entire pear crop of 

 the United States was produced this year in the states of Cahfornia.Washington and Oregon. 

 The Oiew gi^>en in the above illustration was taken in an orchard near Sheridan, Oregon. 



"Factors tKat Influence Diseases of Apples in Storage" 

 "Specific Results in Pollinating tKe Bartlett Pear" 

 "Packing Out tKe 1919 Apple Crop" 

 "DeKydration as a Factor in tKe Fruit World" 



BETTEK FBUI T PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, PORTLAND, OREGON 



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