November, ipip 



BETTER FRUIT 



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plant to make all the runners it will. 

 This makes a thickly matted row which 

 produces small, inferior berries. 



We have found two very successful 

 ways for setting plants. In both cases 

 corrugation should be made first. In 

 one way we turn a small stream of 

 water in each corrugation and when the 

 ground is thoroughly soaked we set the 

 plants. This should be done when the 

 water is running. You should never 

 attempt to set plants in soil after it has 

 begun to dry, as it gets soggy. It cements 

 on either side, and you can notice that 

 throughout the season, and it is very 

 hard to get the plants to take root. 



In the other way we set the plants 

 two inches from the corrugation in the 

 dry soil before any water is turned on, 

 and the water should then be turned on 

 immediately after setting. The plants 

 should be watered two or three times, 

 or until they start growing, before cul- 

 tivating. Of course, if you have a very 

 small garden, just a few hundred plants, 

 they could be cultivated after water- 

 ing, where you can make cultivation 

 with a hoe, but growing on a large scale 

 it is impossible to get the ditch as close 

 to the plants as it ought to be. I have 

 found by experience that if you let the 

 plants get dry, after they have started 

 to grow, they often die in a few hours. 



Cultivating. 



Strawberries should be cultivated 

 about the same as most garden crops. 

 The roots should not be disturbed by 

 deep cultivating too near the plants, and 

 they should not be cultivated during 

 fruiting season. There should be thor- 

 ough cultivation before the strawber- 

 ries come on, and then continuous culti- 

 vation or cultivating every week or two, 

 when the weather permits, after the 

 crop has been gathered. If you are 

 growing ever-bearing varieties, they 

 fruit throughout the growing season 



SULPHUR 



It has been proven and 

 so recommended by the 

 University of California 

 that if you sulphur your 

 grape vines and orchards 

 6 times they w/ill not be 

 affected by MILDEW or 

 RED SPIDERS. 



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 vet Flowers of Sulphur, 

 also EAGLE Brand, 

 Fieur de Soufre, packed 

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 sulphurs that money can 

 buy; the best for vine- 

 yards; the best for 

 bleaching purposes, 

 LEAVING NO ASH. 



VENTILATED Sublimed Sulpiiur — impalpable Powder. 

 100% pure, in double saclis, for Dry Dusting and malting 

 Paste — Sulphur. 



For LIME-SULPHUR SOLUTION, use our DIAMOND 

 '■$" BRAND REFINED FLOUR SULPHUR. 



To create additional available plant food, drill into the 

 ■oil 100 to 400 pounds per acre DIAMOND "S" BRAND 

 POWDERED SULPHUR, 100% pure. This has Increased 

 various crops up to 500%. The sulphur may be applied 

 broadcast by hand or with a duster, but usually an ordi- 

 nary land piaster sower or lime spreader is used. 



Also PREPARED DRY DUSTING MATERIALS, To- 

 bacco Dust, Dry Bordeaux, Dusting Sulphur Mixtures, etc. 



And Standard LIME-SULPHUR SOLUTION 33° BE.. 

 Fungicides and tns«cticldes. 



Carried In stoci( and mixed to order. 



San Francisco Sulphur Co. 



t24 CaUfomia St San Francisco, Cal. 



We are equipped to maite Immediate shipments. Send 

 tor "ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET"; also booi<let "NEW 

 USES FOR SULPHUR," Pries-list, and Samples. 



Please state for what purpose you usa the sulphur, 

 quantity needed, and data of shipment preferred. 



and it is necessary to cultivate occa- 

 sionally. 



The blossoms should be removed the 

 first year set. With the ever-bearing 

 varieties the blossoms should be picked 

 two or three times until about July 1, 

 and from then on they can be allowed 

 to fruit without injuring the plant in 

 any way. They will bear a fine crop 

 the first year, averaging about one quart 

 per plant. 



Mulching. 



I am sure it pays to protect plants 

 during severe winter weather in high 

 altitudes, especially when first set. 

 Straw, stable manure or most anything 

 of the sort is suitable. It should be put 

 on at the beginning of the freezing 

 weather and should not be put on too 

 deep. In the spring after the frosts are 

 past you should remove the mulching. 

 There should be planty of moisture in 

 the groimd at the beginning of freezing 

 weather. Dry freezing is very hard on 

 plants. 



At the beginning of the picking sea- 

 son one should have crates on hand and 

 pickers engaged. When the berries are 

 ripe they should be picked immediately, 

 or there is a loss. They should be 

 picked with short stems and not 

 stripped off the vines. The berries 

 should not be overripe and no ill- 

 shaped or small berries should be put 

 in, and the boxes should be well filled. 



Strawberries are very profitable when 

 handled in a business way. There is no 

 other small fruit that will return the 

 profits of strawberries. They are very 

 easily grown. Anyone can make a suc- 

 cess of growing the berries if they work. 

 And in closing let me say, remember to 

 get good plants adapted to your locality, 

 have the soil fertile and well prepared, 

 cultivate and water thoroughly, protect 

 during the severe freezing weather, 

 pick every day, giving good measure, 

 pack in neat crates, putting in only good 

 fruit, and the selling will be a very easy 

 matter. 



Decrease in Estimate of North- 

 west Apple Crop 



The commercial apple crop for the 

 United States for October was estimated 

 at 23,177,000 barrels, or 105,000 barrels 

 increase over the September estimate 

 and compared with a production of 

 24,724,000 barrels in 1918, according to 

 the report issued by the Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates through its fruit crop spe- 

 cialists. Changes have occurred in the 

 Yakima Valley, which has decreased 

 about 1,500 cars from the September 

 estimate, and in Southern Idaho, which 

 has decreased about 500 cars, due in 

 both cases principally to late infesta- 

 tion of codling moth. Colorado has also 

 decreased about 10 per cent and quality 

 is extremely poor, particularly in the 

 Grand Valley. On the other hand, Cali- 

 fornia and Oregon have increased over 

 the earlier estimate. 



There has been an increase in the 

 barreled apple crop in the Hudson Val- 

 ley and parts of New England. Arkan- 

 sas is harvesting a bumper crop of fine 

 fruit under extremely unfavorable con- 

 ditions, there being a very serious car 



shortage, which threatens to keep much 

 of the fruit from market. 



The barreled apple crop is now esti- 

 mated at 13,332,000 barrels, or 76 per 

 cent of last year, while the box apple 

 crop is estimated at 29,535,000 boxes, or 

 139 per cent of last year. 



ST.4TE1IENT OP THE OWNEBSmP, MANAGEMENT. 



CIRCULATION. ETC., REQUIRED BT THE ACT 



OF CONGRESS OP AUGUST 24, 1912. 



of the Better Fruit, pubUslied monttily at Portland. Oregon. 



for October 1st. 1919. 



State of Oregon, County of Multnomah — Before me, a 

 notary public in and for the state and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared D. L. Carpenter, who, having Ijeen 

 duly sworn according to law. deposes and says that he 18 

 the business manager of Better Fruit, and that the fol- 

 lowing Is, to the best of lia knowledge and belief, a true 

 statement of the ownership, management (and IJf a daily 

 paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication 

 for the date shown in the al>ove caption, required by the 

 act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, postal 

 laws and regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, 

 to-wit: 



1. That the names and addressee of the publisher, 

 editor, managing editor and business managers are: 



Publisher. Better Fruit Publishing Co.. Inc., 800 Orego- 

 nlan Building, Portland. Oregon. 



Editor, E. E. Parille, 800 Oregonlan Building, Portland, 

 Oregon. 



Managing editor, none. 



Business manager, D. L. Carpenter, 800 Oregonlan Build- 

 ing. Portland, Oregon. 



2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of 

 Individual owners, or. If a corporation, give Its name and 

 the names and addresses of sto(*holders owning or holding 

 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) 



Owner, Better Fruit Publishing Co., Ina. Portland, 

 Oregon. 



Stockholders, D. L. Carpenter, 800 Oregonlan Building, 

 Portland. Oregon. 



E. E. Pavilie, 800 Oregonlan Building, Portland. Oregon, 



A. W. Stypes, 800 Oregonlan Building, Portland, Oregon, 



3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other 

 security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of 

 total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities are: 

 (If there are none, so state.). None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the 

 names of the owners, stockholders and security holders, if 

 any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security 

 holders as they appear upon the boolis of the company, but 

 also, in cases wliere the stockholder or security holder 

 appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any 

 other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corpo- 

 ration for whom such trustee is acting is given : also that 

 the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing 

 affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the clrcumstancea 

 and conditions under which stod^olders and security hold- 

 ers who do not appear upon the books of the company at 

 trustees, hold stoci^ and securities in a capacity other than 

 that of a tfona flde owner, and this affiant has no reason 

 to l>elieve that any other person, association or corpora- , 

 tion has any interest, direct or indirect, in the said stock, 

 bonds or other securities than as so stated by him. 



5. That the average number of copies of each issue of 

 this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or 

 otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months pre- 

 ceding the date shown above is: (The Information la re- 

 quired from daily publications only.) 



D. L. CARPENTER. 

 Business Manager. 

 Sworn fo and subscribed before me this 24th day of Sep- 

 tember. 1919. H R. SHAW. 

 (Seal.) Notary Public for Oregon. 

 (Riy commission expires September 21. 1921.) 



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