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BETTER FRUIT 



April, ig20 



GROWERS' AND PACKERS' 



EQUIPMENT 



Labor Saving Devices for Handling 

 Fruit and Vegetables 



Automatic Elevators, Sizers, Box 

 Presses, Box Making Benches, 

 Ladders, Packers Supplies. 



Write for catalog. 



Price Manufacturing Co. Inc. ^^X^ 



desired manner and the main brandies 

 top-worked to Bartlett aljoiit tlie tliird 

 year. Many have aslced if tlie Bartlett 

 malces a safe nnion with the Surprise. 

 All that can be said on this point at the 

 present time is that four or five years 

 of growth have shown no evidence of 

 weakness. 



No Orchard or Farm is Complete 

 Without Our Latest Model 



COMIVIERCIAL SIZE 



All Purpose Evaporator 



Write for Folder 



HOME EVAPORATOR CO. 

 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 



p. O. Box 817 Central Station 



Are You Going to Build 

 A Drier? 



See me before building. 



I can save you money. 



$20 gets blue prints complete. 



I run six tunnels to one stove. 



Have right ideas of size of air cham- 

 ber and proper radiating surface. 



Dried 82 tons of prunes at a total 

 cost of $16.50 per ton. 



Every drier my type is a success. 



EDWARD DENCER 



R-3, Box 158 SALEM, OREGON 



Liming Soils 



Farmers of acid soils have often won- 

 dered why liming increases the yield 

 of crops on some acid soils and does 

 not on others. Investigations by the 

 Oregon Agricultural College experi- 

 ment station chemists have developed 

 the fact that increases may be expected 

 wherever the calcium forms combina- 

 tions with humus bodies. 



Since the composition of the soil so- 

 lutions is a governing factor in plant 

 growth, the effect of lime on the com- 

 position of these soil solutions may be 

 an index to the inconsistent action of 

 lime acid soils, says the report of the 

 chemists. The solutions from various 

 acid soils were analyzed at successive 

 intervals after liming with calcium car- 

 bonate, calcium oxide or calcium sul- 

 phate. 



The analysis showed that nitrates 

 increased in those soils that respond to 

 lime treatment, large quantities of sol- 

 uble potassiuin were caused in all soils 

 treated with calcium sulphate, the cal- 

 cium content remained nearly constant 

 whatever the treatment, soluble phos- 

 phorus decreased slightly under all 

 treatments, and sulfo-flcation occurred 

 in all soils responding to liming. Alka- 

 linity was present in soils treated with 

 the carbonate and oxide forms, while 

 acidity was present in untreated soils 

 and those treated with the sulphate 

 forms. 



These findings fortify the soils de- 

 partment findings that drainage of wet 

 lands and incorporation of organic mat- 

 ter in rundown lands should precede 



'TKe boxes on this terrible ride 

 All gapped a joint or split a side; 



Did we say all? Well, all but one — 

 niie B-D box finds riding fun. 



Your goods are safe 

 when packed in 

 Bloedel Donovan 



super-strong boxes. 



Sawed right, carefully graded, skillfully built 

 and delivered promptly. 



BLOEDEL DONOVAN LUMBER MILLS 



1020 White Building, Seattle, Wash. 



Douglas Fir, Western Cedar. Hemlock, Spruce, Red Cedar Shingles 



e.\ tensive liming. They do not indicate 

 any lessening of the use of lime, biit 

 do go far to establish the soundness of 

 Dean Cordley's recommendation that 

 every farmer of acid soils conduct lime 

 experiments to see whether his soils 

 will respond, and then govern his or- 

 ders for lime accordingly. 



Bush Fruit Culture. 



If a currant or gooseberry planta- 

 tion is properly cared for, at least eight 

 to ten crops may be expected before it 

 becomes unprofitable because of its age. 

 Productive fields over twenty years old 

 are not uncommon in some sections. 

 Although the number of years a planta- 

 tion will continue in good bearing con- 

 dition depends to some extent upon lo- 

 cation and soil, the most important 

 factor is the care which it receives. 

 The period of productiveness of both 

 currant and gooseberry plants is longer 

 in northern regions than towards the 

 southern limits of their culture and 

 longer on heavy soil than on sandy soil 



Providing More Money for 

 Higher Education 



The splendid advance of progressive 

 agriculture in Oregon as well as agri- 

 cultural education and higher educa- 

 tion in general, is threatened with a 

 serious check unless the relief prayed 

 for in the Higher Educational Tax act, 

 to be voted on by the people of Oregon 

 at the special election May 21, is 

 granted. 



The results of extensive research 

 work by the experiment station at the 

 Agricultural College, Corvallis, and the 

 seven branch stations representing the 

 peculiar climatic and soils conditions 

 of the seven agricultural regions of the 

 state, have been rapidly brought into 

 intimate touch with the farmer through 

 the extension service. The practice of 

 these results in production and protec- 

 tion of farm crops, livestock, dairying, 

 poultry raising and farm and soil man- 

 agement have increased tremendously 

 the production of high class produce 

 and at the same time tended toward re- 

 duction of production costs. 



Rapid as has been this extension of 

 scientific agriculture, it has scarcely 

 kept pace with the growth of college 

 attendance — a growth in which the 

 State University has shared. Rising 

 living costs, the costs of equipment, 

 buildings, supplies and instruction have 

 climbed continuously throughout the 

 war and reconstruction periods, while 

 the funds for support of the institutions 

 and the research and extension work 

 have remained about stationary in 

 nominal proceeds, but in reality have 

 shrunk about 100 per cent in purchasing 

 power. 



In view of these emergencies the col- 

 lege and the university and normal 

 school have joined in asking for an ad- 

 ditional 1.26 mills for relief, and the 

 matter has been referred to the people 

 by the legislature to be passed upon at 

 the special election in May. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



