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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



more 



than a scrap of paper 

 -the GhirardelH label 



The Ghirardelli label on the Ghir- 

 ardelH can is more than a scrap of 

 paper. It is a dependable assurance 

 of Ghirardelli quality. It carries with 

 it the certainty that you are getting 

 the chocolate of highest purity and 

 nutriment. 



Ghirardelli' s Ground Chocolate is 

 put up only in cans — to safeguard 

 your health and to pro- 

 tedl you against inferior 

 substitutes. Look for 

 the label. Then you 

 will be doubly sure that 

 you are getting the 

 original Ghirardelli' s 

 Ground Chocolate. 



"Say Gear-ar-delly" 

 D. GHIRARDELLI CO. 



Since 1852 San Francisco 



Always dependable 

 — never disappoin ts I 



At the store where 

 yoii do your trading 

 —inVolb.,1 Ib.and 

 3 lb. cans. 



Ghirardelirs 

 Ground Chocolate 



RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 . PRUNING S 



RHODES MFG. 



520 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



'TOE only 

 pruner 

 made that cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the hmb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all styles and sizes. All 

 shears delivered free 

 to your door. 



Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



unpromising future; and third, the 

 drooping wood; all it has is a past. In 

 other words, the staghorn wood is be- 

 ginning to bear, and in the near future 

 will not only produce the most of the 

 prunes on the tree, but also the largest 

 ones. The horizontal wood, while still 

 producing lots of prunes, is setting less 

 and less blossoms and is tending to pro- 

 duce small fruit. The drooping wood 

 may bloom, but it is generally too weak 

 to produce fruit, or if it does produce, 

 the fruit will be found to be of inferior 



quality. The problem of the prune, 

 then, is to keep plenty of staghorn wood 

 coming into the tree, removing the 

 drooping wood. Many of our old prune 

 trees should sacrifice one-fourth to one- 

 half of their wood. Such a removal 

 would immediately revitalize the re- 

 maining spurs and buds left on the 

 trees; more fruit, larger sizes and new, 

 vigorous wood is the result. Much of 

 this drooping wood can be most cheaply 

 and easily removed by putting on an 

 old pair of gloves and simply breaking 



it out. Where a good vigorous sprout 

 appears on the prune tree, remove some 

 of the older wood next to it and give 

 the sprout a chance to develop. Badly 

 devitalized trees can be dehorned and 

 new sprouts developed into fruitful 

 tops in four years, but this should not 

 be done unless necessary, as a vigorous 

 thinning out will often revitalize many 

 trees without the loss of the crop for 

 three or four years. 



Magness of the Oregon Station, in his 

 Bud Study, has shown that each branch 

 to a large extent is independent of 

 other branches on the tree and must be 

 pruned as an individual branch, so to 

 speak. 



We will now consider a few of the 

 questions dealing with the season of 

 pruning. At this time many growers 

 would like to know how early they can 

 start pruning. Owing to shortage of 

 labor this is an economic question. 

 Under normal conditions, there is no 

 reason why pruning should not begin 

 in late fall and extend on through the 

 winter until early spring. One should 

 avoid ever pruning frozen wood and 

 should prune the older trees first. Any 

 cuts exposed to abnormally low tem- 

 peratures sometimes causes injury 

 which leads to a sort of die back or 

 killing of some of the tissues. This 

 occurred in a few orchards in 1908, but 

 would not commonly occur in an aver- 

 age winter. Many growers have been 

 following too religiously the statement 

 that winter pruning produces wood 

 growth and summer pruning produces 

 fruit. To a certain extent the results 

 obtained from pruning in summer have 

 not been materially different from 



Ask the Man Who 

 Has Used It 



Whether or not he has made good 

 crops with Nitrate. Why specu- 

 late with Non-Nitrated forms of 

 Nitrogen when, by using Nitrate, 

 you can insure crops against ad- 

 verse conditions? With the 

 rational use of Acid Phosphate, 

 always recommended by us, there 

 will be no interference with nor- 

 mal soil conditions, either in one 

 year or in one hundred. 



W. LAMBERT MYERS 



Chilean Nitrate Committee 

 P. O. Box 248 Berkeley, Cal. 



NOW is tlie time to send to 



Milton Nursery Company 



MILTON, OREGON 



FOR THEIR 1918 CATALOG. 



FULL LINE OF NURSERY STOCK. 



"Genuinenasa and Quality" 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



