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BETTER FRUIT 



There wbs 

 a Crowd in 

 the Store 



and they were trying to 



"Have a chew on 

 me,"says he."Break 

 off just two or three 

 squares. That's a 

 man's size chew of 

 Real Gravely. It 

 holds its good taste 



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each piece packed in a pouch 



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josh the Tobacco Man 



so long it costs noth- 

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 this class of tobac- 

 co." .... 



It goes further— that's 

 why you can get the good 

 taste of this class of tobac- 

 co without extra cost. 



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WHEN WRITING ADVEKTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



February 



growth, and make a weaker growth the 

 following spring than do other buds on 

 the same shoots not defoliated. This is 

 more noticeable in some varieties than 

 in others. 



"6. One shoot seems to be very 

 largely independent of other shoots 

 about it so far as fruit-bud formation 

 is concerned. It is apparently largely 

 dependent upon its own leaves for 

 nourishment. 



"7. Removing leaves from individual 

 spurs tends to prevent the formation of 

 fruit buds upon those spurs, although 

 it does not entirely check the develop- 

 ment of flower parts. 



"8. On those spurs which form fruit 

 buds, notwithstanding defoliation, the 

 blossoms are, on the average, consider- 

 ably later in opening in the spring. 



"9. Axillary buds of the Wagener 

 seem to be almost entirely dependent 

 upon the immediate subtending leaf for 

 the carbohydrate supply with which 

 they are nourished. Removing the sub- 

 tending leaf entirely prevents fruit-bud 

 formation. Buds so treated either re- 

 mained entirely dormant during the 

 following growing season or pushed out 

 into very weak growth. Very few of 

 them showed a development approach- 

 ing normal. 



"10. Microscopic examination of 

 buds, both defoliated and undefoliated, 

 taken at intervals during the summer, 

 show little influence of the defoliation 

 so far as development is concerned. 

 No buds were studied that were taken 

 later than Setpember 12. 



"11. There is a very decided decrease 

 in the number of calcium oxalate crys- 

 tals deposited in the tissues of defoli- 

 ated as compared to undefoliated buds. 

 This may be indicative of a small supply 

 of soluble carbohydrates and general 

 slow metabolism in the bud tissue. 



"12. Injury to the bark on the trunk 

 of the tree very greatly stimulated fruit- 

 bud formation. This injury brings 

 about very different conditions of nutri- 

 tion in the tree from those produced by 

 defoliation, for by preventing the nor- 

 mal flow of elaborated foods to the 

 roots, the supply in the top of the tree 

 is greatly increased by the injury of 

 the bark." 



The results obtained by various in- 

 vestigators will in some respects seem 

 to be perhaps contradictory. However, 

 before coming to such a conclusion one 

 should study the amount of pruning 

 which was done at the time at which it 

 was done. Alderman and Auchter, 

 working in West Virginia, came to the 

 general conclusion that summer prun- 

 ing checked the tree growth and 

 greatly decreased its fruit production; 

 that on some trees five and six years of 

 age, summer pruning decreased both 

 their vigor and fruitfulness. Other in- 

 vestigators have had similar experi- 

 ences; however, we find our experi- 

 ments in the Oregon Experiment Sta- 

 tion have produced somewhat different 

 results. We have been able to gain a 

 year in building the framework of the 

 young trees; have also been able to 

 bring fruit spurs on certain portions 

 of the tree earlier with certain trees 

 and have been able to keep them in a 



