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BETTER FRUIT 



Oregon's Rapid Development in Horticulture 



An Appreciation of the Progressive Work Done by Prof. C. I. Lewis and the Oregon 

 Agricultural College for Horticulture by Better Fruit 



Prof. C. I. Lew 



Prof. (".. I. Lewis, 

 who Tor thirteen 

 year.s h;i.s been Chief 

 of the Divi.sion of 

 Horticulture at the 

 Oregon Agricultural 

 College, anvl for the 

 pa.st six years Vice 

 Director of the Ex- 

 periment Station, has 

 resigned to accept the 

 position of organization and publicity 

 manager of the Oregon Growers' Coop- 

 erative Association. 



Prof. Lewis came to the Oregon Ag- 

 ricultural College on May 12, 1900. At 

 that time there had not been a pro- 

 fessor of pomology at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College for four years. Prof. 

 Lewis began at once to organize and 

 build up the work, and demonstrated 

 early that he recognized the essentials 

 of good organization, by making a 

 careful selection of men and sur- 

 rounding himself with strong men, giv- 

 ing them every facility and every op- 

 portunity for work. The department 

 of horticulture of the Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College was the first one to es- 

 tablish a strictly research man, to add 

 a fellow to the department, to raise 

 a man to the associate professorship, 

 and to a full professorship. It was 

 this policy which rapidly developed 



strong men in the Oregon horticul- 

 tural field. 



It was Prof. Lewis' policy to give 

 these men every facility and encour- 

 age them in every way. That the 

 policy was a wise one, the results of 

 the Division of Horticulture them- 

 selves testify. During the thirteen 

 years that Prof. Lewis was associated 

 with the Oregon Agricultural College 

 a large number of bulletins were is- 

 sued by the division of horticulture. 

 .Some of the most famous are the pol- 

 lenation series, which had to do with 

 the pollenation studies of apples, cher- 

 ries, and tomatoes; and the pruning 

 series, the nitrate .studies in Hood Riv- 

 er, Rogue River and the Willamette 

 Valley, with apples, pears, peaches, 

 and prunes. Perhaps the most impor- 

 tant bulletin issued was the Logan- 

 berry juice bulletin. If it had not been 

 for the work of Prof. Lewis and his 

 associates in 1911, 1912, and 1913, it 

 is doubtful if the Loganberry industry 

 would be what it is today. The fir.st 

 big commercial batch of high grade 

 juice, 3,000 gallons was made by the 

 division of horticulture at the Salem 

 Fruit Union. This demonstration was 

 so successful that it interested manu- 

 facturers and the result the following 

 year was that the Phez and Loju firms 

 began to manufacture this juice. It 

 was felt by many that the juice would 



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not keep. Prof. Lewis demonstrated 

 that it could be made easily, and kept, 

 and that it had a wonderful future. 

 Very helpful bulletins were is.sued 

 from time to time on the packing and 

 physical handling of fruit, walnuts, 

 and pears, and others too numerous 

 to mention. Prof. Lewis had great 

 faith in the horticultural products 

 work. Six or eight years ago he made 

 a motion at the National Apple Show 

 which was responsible for the forma- 

 tion of a committee to study the possi- 

 bility of horticultural products work. 

 For six years. Prof. Lewis worked 

 hard to get a horticultural products 

 building at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, and today the building is 

 erected and completed, the first build- 

 ing of its kind in America, having a 

 complete cannery, evaporation room, 

 equipped for the evaporation of wal- 

 nuts, vegetables, prunes, and apples, 

 a juice room for the manufacturing 

 of high grade juices of all kind.s, and 

 rooms equipped for the investigation 

 of glace and maraschino fruits, jams 

 and jells. 



The growth of the division of hor- 

 ticulture at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College was very rapid. In 1906, one 

 room in the old horticultural building, 

 which is now the poultry building, 

 was devoted to the work. The work 

 expanded so rapidly that new space 

 had to be provided, until today the 

 division of horticulture occupies two 

 floors and full basement of the large 

 horticultural wing of the agricultural 



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 acres per day at a cost of less 

 than one-half cent per tree, us- 

 ing the 



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Red Spider 



Curcuiio 



Aphis 



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