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per car, or a total of $4,r>00,00n. Sonip 1,.-)0II 

 people will need to l)e imported to help local 

 residents to harvest the crop. We estimate 

 ^50,000 will he lost on over-ripe .Jonathans 

 because or a lack of cold storages. And if.'iO,- 

 000 would help pay quite a numljcr of mort- 

 gaites. Two large dirt .storage cellars that are 

 Iieing l)uilt by 1,. E. Peter.son and Henry Heins 

 as an experiment are expected to save nianv 

 cars of Junathuns. 



MOKTAITA. 



Fire blight appealed in many orchards in 

 .June and July. .\s a rule not over six or 

 eight branches per tree were infected. Jona- 

 than, Rome Beauty and Crabs were the varie- 

 ties which showed tlie most injury. 



One new outbreak of coddling moth was 

 found in the Bitter Root Valley. ,\1I orchards 

 in the near vicinity have liecn carefully in- 

 spected and plans are being made to prevent 

 further spreading. All possible precautions 

 will be taken to maintain the past reputation 

 as the home of the "wormless" apple. 



On account of the favorable weather condi- 

 tions, and the spraying program followed by 

 the growers, scab is conspicuous liy its ab- 

 sence. Only where wilful neglect is the sys- 

 tem followed can traces of scab be found As 

 will be remembered, there was practicallv no 

 scab last year. 



Despite the late spring frosts there was a 

 good crop of sour cherries which found a 

 ready market at five cents per pound at the 

 canneries. Many crate shipments netted the 

 grower eight cents per pound. The few sweet 

 cherries grown in the valley sold readily at 

 ten and twelve cents per pound on the trees. 



The apple crop is much better than reported 

 early in the season. While all varieties will 

 be slightly smaller than usual, thev will be 

 very well-colored. 



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.\t his own re(|iiest Janus M. Hamilton, who 

 has for l.'i years successfully administered the 

 affairs of the .Montana State .Vgricultural Col- 

 lege as president, has been retired and is suc- 

 ceeded by Alfred Atkinson, who has been con- 

 necte<l with the institution for many years. 

 Mr. Hamilton will remain with the institution 

 as dean of men and professor of economics 

 at the same salary he was receiving as presi- 

 dent. President .\tkinson, the new executive, 

 is said to he specially iiualified for his new 

 position and the affairs of the college arc 

 expected to go forward successfully and har- 

 nioniousl.\' under his guidance. 



Scptcinhcr. igip 



Timely Topics and Advice 

 for Fruitgrowers 



To destroy walnut aphis and the walnut 

 worm, dust spraying has been found very 

 beneficial. Results from this treatment in 

 California have been even more gratifying 

 than was expected. In orchards that had an 

 infestation of .')0 per cent worms last year 

 and which were dusted, it is reported to be 

 difficult to find even a single infested walnut 

 this year. 



Correct open pruning is wciitli dollars and 

 cents to the orchardist, both from the stand- 

 point of crop production and disease reduc- 

 tion. Pruning for an open condition of the 

 top of the tree so as to admit plenty of air 

 and light to all parts of the tree is also an 

 important means by which los.ses of fungus 

 infections may be lessened. The most suc- 

 cessful fruitmen know this fact and bear it in 

 mind when pruning. The continued presence 

 on fruits or foliage of moisture from rain, 

 dew or fog is exceedingly favorable to the 

 germination of such fungus spores as those 

 of apple or pear scab, anthracnose, tjrown rot, 

 peach blight, leaf spots, etc., while any con- 

 dition which tends to liriiig about a rapid 



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drying off of tlle leaves and fruit is decidedly 

 unfavorable to infections. Sunliglit and air 

 movement are nature's great drying agencies. 

 Open pruning by judicious thinning is there- 

 fore of great value because it permits air cir- 

 culation and sunshine within the tree while 

 ordinary heading back without thinning fa- 

 vors the formation of a dense lop and thus 

 retards evapoi-ation. 



It is generally agreed to be a mistake to 

 consider that the direct application of a con- 

 centrated chemical fertilizer, such as nitrate 

 of soda, to the soil is as effective in securing 

 the best growth and vigor of the plants as 

 would be secured by the addition of nitrogen 

 in the form of organic matter. While nitrate 

 of soda will stimulate trees and bring them 

 from a devitalized condition back to a normal 

 condition, in many cases it will not, however, 

 exert much influence on the soil and there- 

 fore, in order to imprt)ve the physical condi- 

 tion of the soil in many orchards, it is neces- 

 .sary to add organic matter also. One of the 

 best ways of introducing needed organic mat- 

 ter and nitrogen in an orchard is the growing 

 of alfalfa or some other equally good cover 

 crop, a method much to be preferred to 

 the clean cultivation that was so long favored 

 by leading orchardists and that it is still ad- 

 hered to by many. 



Finds Better Fruit 7,000 

 Miles from Home 



H. V. Davidson, of Hood River, Ore., 

 who recently returned from a 14,000- 

 mile tran.s-continental and trans-Atlan- 

 tic trip to investigate apple marketing 

 conditions abroad, says that he is now 

 convinced that publicity throws its 

 ])itiless glare into the four corners of 

 the globe. 



While away Mr. Davidson visited 

 Hngland, Denmark, Norway, and Swe- 

 den, .lust before he left he wrote an 

 article for Better Fhuit on the "Fu- 

 ture of the Apple Industry in the 

 XorthwesI," which was illustrated with 

 his picture. On arriving in Stockholm, 

 7.000 miles away from Hood River, 

 he secured an interpreter and started 

 to make the rounds of the fruit deal- 

 ers. He says that on entering the door 

 of the first place he visited, the pro- 

 prietor took a look at him, didn't say 

 a word, but went to a table, took up 

 a copy of Better Fruit, turned over 

 the leaves and pointed to his picture. 

 Mr. Davidson nodded in assent that 

 the picture was of him, and the 

 Swedish apple man told him that he 

 couldn't read the text but that he could 

 understand the ])iclures. 



The Stockholm apple man told Mr. 

 Davidson that they taught English in 

 the Swedish schools and that his chil- 

 dren could read the articles in the 

 magazine to him. 



He then went over the magazine 

 with his American visitor, asking 

 about the various illustrations through 

 the interpreter. The things that in- 

 terested the foreigner most were the 

 jjictures of orchard equipment used in 

 the Northwest, among others the Cut- 

 ler apple grader, the mechanism of 

 which he traced out with his fin.ger 

 and asked where the apples went in 

 and where they came out and other 

 things pertaining to the machine. Mr. 

 Davidson also learned in Norway that 

 one Norwegian orchardist had pur- 

 chased a Cutler grader and that others 

 were contemplating getting these ma- 

 chines and other up-to-date orchard 

 etiuipment. 



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