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tricf. Other fruits that arc gro>\n there are 

 apricots, pears, poaches, firapes and prunes. 

 One of the largest walnut orchards in tlic 

 world is located there. This orchard is 500 

 acres in extent and is three miles west of 

 Linden. 



More than 800,000 almond trees will be 

 planted in San Luis Obispo County this year. 

 Only the shortage of stock prevented the plant- 

 ings from being much more extensive. 



Two hundred thousand fruit trees of differ- 

 ent varieties have been set out in Stanislaus 

 County this season. Prospects of a greatly 

 increased yield of fruits from old trees is 

 being anticipated by the local canneries which 

 are building additions to their present plants 

 to take care of tlie increased production. 



The apple production at Watsonville last 

 year was one of the largest in the history of 



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the Pajaro V:i lev. I'igures that have recently 

 been given r,iii "show that 2,719,000 boxes of 

 fresh fruit - ;'S packed out; 5,.500 tons of dried 

 apples ptii up; 2,100 tons of green apples 

 canned ami 60,000 boxes of apples used for 

 cider. 



At a meeting of the nurserymen of Califor- 

 nia recently held at Sacramento, called by 

 GcorKc H. Hecke, director of (be Stale Depart- 

 ment "f Horticulture for the purpose of dis- 

 cussiriR the standardization nf the propagation 

 of tree fruits it was decided to only propagate 

 the varieties of fruit that the markets demand. 

 The nurserymen in attendance at the meet- 

 ings reported that the demand for nursery 

 stock is unprecedented and bids fair to con- 

 tinue for some time. For this reason the Cali- 

 fornia Nurserymen's Association has decided 

 lo keep the cost of propagation down to the 

 lowest point by the elimination of undesirable 

 varieties of fruit stock. 



June. IQ20 



Timely Topics and Advice for Fruitgrowers 



Many growers says W. L. Close, horticultural 

 inspector in Washington, who want grafting or 

 budding done and who are not familiar with 

 this phase of orchard work, neglect to get 

 their scions until it is too late in the season. 

 Wlien a grower is planning on working over 

 fruit trees he should locale some good thrifty 

 trees of the variety he wishes to use for scions 

 and make definite arrangements early enough 

 to be sure of the best stock. It is belter to 

 cut the scions before pruning, but if this is 

 not possible those from the prunings will do 

 if gathered before they are dried out. Scions 

 should be selected from good healthy last 

 year's stock, but not from water sprouts of 

 too rank a growth. This season growers should 

 be especially careful to get scions as free from 

 signs of winter injury as possible. 



If your orchard is being attacked by apple 

 aphids and you neglected to spray for them 

 during the green tip period a later treatment 

 is possible by the addition of nicotine sulphate 

 one pint to each 100 of arsenate of lead or 

 the same amount of nicotine sulphate to each 

 100 gallons of dilute lime-sulphur (1 to 40.) 

 This should be applied about three weeks 

 after the petals fall. 



Ravages of the apple leaf hopper can be ma- 

 .erially checked by a single spraying of 40 

 per cent nicotine suplhate in the proportions 

 of 1 to 1,500, combined with soap. The solu- 

 tion should be applied against the first brood 

 nymphs, the time being governed by whether 

 the growing season is early or late. 



W. L. Adams, a Zillah, Washington, straw- 

 berry grower, who has made a marked success 

 of growing strawberries, in planting sets the 

 plants in rows two feet wide and five feet 

 apart, removing all the first buds from the 

 slips and then turning the runners in the rows 

 toward each other. The runners are kept 

 thinned out making large sized slips and a 

 large yield of fruit buds. The plants are re- 

 set or worked to new slips every third year. 



If the fruit buds on your peach trees have 

 been endangered during the winter by low- 

 temperatures it will be advisable to delay 

 pruning until settled growing weather deter- 

 mines their conditions. This is especially 

 advisable if heavy heading in of the previous 

 season's growth is involved. The proportion 

 of live buds will determine the extent to 

 which the cutting back is necessary. In sum- 

 mer pruning the peach the trees should be 

 observed constantly. Whenever a branch is 

 seen that is so placed that it will need to be 

 pruned at the heavy pruning time it should be 

 taken off at once, thereby allowing more vigor 

 to go to the rest of the tree. 



In discussing the subject of thinning apples 

 Gordon G. Brown, horticulturist at the Hood 

 River Experiment Station, advises that the 

 aim of the grower should be to secure a maxi- 

 mum crop of best quality apples each year 

 rather than to sacrifice fruit with the idea of 

 insuring larger crops in subsequent years. Mr. 

 Brown bases his advice on his own observa- 

 tions and that of other experts who have se- 

 cured data that indicates that excessive thin- 

 ning to induce more regular annual bearing 

 does not in all cases accomplish its purpose. 

 "This is not," he says, "to suggest that no 

 influence is exerted on subsequent crops by 

 thinning, since such an inference would be 

 manifestly unreasonable and contrary to gen- 

 eral experience. If a tree is allowed to over- 

 bear it nearly always exhibits a tendency to 

 short crops and weakened vitality especially 

 during the following year. On the other hand 



Ihc point which it is desired lo bring out is 

 that there is little to support the idea that 

 moi-e regular annual bearing can be estab- 

 lished by removing more fruit than the tree is 

 capable of growing of the best quality. As a 

 rule it is doubtful if a tree can mature even 

 one fruit to every spur. This would apply 

 particularly to older trees and less so to young 

 ones. However, in few cases is the tree called 

 upon to carry such a heavy burden. In many 

 cases a good crop is insured if one spur in 

 three or four bear." 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruitgrowing 



A report received from Middlesex County, 

 Massachusetts, where growers have adopted the 

 box pack is to the effect that large acreages 

 of apples have been planted in that section 

 during the past ten years. Some of the prin- 

 cipal varieties grown are the Mcintosh Red, 

 Gravenstein and Baldwin. These varieties of 

 apples from this section during the past season 

 are reported to have brought from S4 for extra 

 fancies to $1.75 for windfalls. 



The Hood River Glacier reports that the cost 

 of packing apples will soar this coming sea- 

 son. While the box market is still indefinite, 

 indications point to 30-cent box shooks, as 

 compared with an average of 18 cents last 

 year. Growers will pay from 12i^ cents a 

 pound, for layer boards, to 17 and 18 cents 

 for light weight wrapping paper for papers 

 for their boxes this year. These prices are 

 from 25 to 50 per cent higher than last year. 

 The labor situation for orchardists is improv- 

 ing. While growers were finding it difllcull 

 two weeks ago to obtain men, an influx of new 

 workers has struck the valley and the help 

 supply now is fairly plentiful. Growers are 

 paying from $80 to si on a month. 



Australia, May 19, put into effect an ordei- 

 removing the embargo against the importation 

 of American apples. The prohibition against 

 the importation of American apples was put 

 into effect July 18, 1917. 



According to reports from British Columbia 

 jam plants in the strawberry growing districts 

 in that province have contracted with growers 

 this year for 250 tons of berries at 20 cents 

 per pound, or three cents higher than the price 

 paid last year. 



The Package Sales Corporation, which manu- 

 factures basket containers for fruit has re- 

 cently issued a booklet on how to load cars 

 properly. The booklet contains a number of 

 illustrations showing how to load and how not 

 to load with explanations that are valuable to 

 growers using this kind of a container. A 

 copy of the booklet can be obtained by appli- 

 cation to the company whose place of business 

 is at South Bend, Indiana. 



Falling in line with western packing and 

 marketing methods New York apple growers 

 are forming cooperative marketing associa- 

 tions to fit eastern conditions. Three of these 

 associations have been formed in Monroe 

 County, one of the heaviest apple growing dis- 

 tricts under the direction of the County Farm 

 Bureau. 



The engineering department of the Cleveland 

 Tractor Company is distributing a pamphlet 

 treating on the proper method of laying out 

 fields for tractor plowing. The pamphlet will 

 be found useful to orchardists and others hav- 

 ing occasion to use a tractor in plowing. It 



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