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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



The 



FRUIT GROWER 



says- 



t€ 



for tiVQ planting 

 o^Qnuine .<^f is 

 most satistactoiy* 



The Gian? Farm Powders— Eureka Stumping and Giant 



Stumping — loosen and pulverize the soil instead ot packmg it 



and throwing it high in the air. 



Western fruit growers have used hundreds of tons of these 



Giant Powders for blasting beds for trees. They have proved 



that blasting with genuine Giant Powders provides free 



drainage, increases moisture-storage capacity and insures 



vigorous growth and early bearing. 



"My trees planted three years ago in beds blasted with Giant 



Powder are 75 to 100 per cent bigger and better than the 



trees that I planted in dug holes," writes H. H. bmith, 



Oregon City. 



Yoa u;,7/.n/oy reading "Better Farming with Giant Farm Powders "It de- 



scribes all the new and money-saving methods of bastmg beds for trees sub- 



soiling established groves and orchards, clearmg land, ditchmg, etc. Write 



for it now. THE GIANT POWDER CO., CON. 



^'Everything for Blasting" 



202First National Bank BIdK., San Franciscn 

 Branch Offices : Denver, Portland, bait Lake City, beattle. Spokane 



STUMPING 



EUREKA 



is nearly mature you can alTord to dis- 

 continue the work after the fruit is 

 picked, when the vines can be sprayed 

 with arsenate of lead. It is possible 

 that the worms could be killed by 

 .spraying with helebore, or a solution 

 of buhaek powder. These substances 

 will not poison the fruit. I Have not 

 tested either of them against the grape- 

 leaf skeletonizer. If you adopt the fore- 

 going suggestions in regard to hand 

 picking the infested leaves and find that 

 it is requiring too much time, then I 

 would suggest that you try the use of 

 helebore or buhaek powder. The hele- 

 bore should be used at the rate of one 

 ounce steeped in two quarts of water, 

 and the buhaek should be used at the 

 rate of an ounce of the powder mixed 

 in one quart of hot water." 



soning the vines before the grapes are 

 half grown, and, of course, there will 

 be none after the crop is picked. When 

 poison can be used, powdered arsenate 

 of lead is recommended at the rate of 

 one ounce in a gallon of water. 



"First attention should be given to 

 controlling these insects by other 

 means than spraying. During the win- 

 ter season the leaves and weeds in the 

 vineyard should be thoroughly cleaned 

 up and burned. After the leaves appear 

 in the spring a close watch should be 

 kept of the vines, and when the first lot 

 of young larvae is discovered the vines 



should be gone over and all the infested 

 leaves removed and burned as far as 

 practicable. It is advisable to go over 

 the vines in this way every five or six 

 days after the first larvae are discov- 

 ered. If there are no other vineyards 

 in your neighborhood, and your efforts 

 to locate the colonies of the larvae are 

 successful, you will probably have very 

 few, if any, of the worms during the 

 season when they are normally most 

 abundant. This period is very likely to 

 be when the grapes are maturing. If 

 you can keep the insects in check by 

 the hand-picking method until the crop 



Consider Bees When Spraying 



By A. L. Melander. Entomologist Washington 

 State College. Pullman 



In his desire to overwhelm the cod- 

 ling moth the fruit grower should not 

 overlook the rights of the honey bee. 

 Undoubtedly many bees are killed by 

 poisonous sprays; so many, in fact, that 

 prominent beekeepers have declared 

 their intention of removing their bees 

 from the orchard districts to the safer 

 alfalfa fields. Such a condition can be 

 largely avoided, and should be avoided. 

 There is no justification in fruit grow- 

 ers slaughtering honey bees when the 

 bees, through their pollinating visits, 

 are so beneficial to the fruit trees. 

 These insects ordinarily outnumber the 

 other pollinators a hundred to one and 

 materially help to increase the setting, 

 maturing, sizing and coloring of fruit. 

 It is to the mutual interest of beekeep- 

 ers and fruit growers to work harmoni- 

 ously together, for bees are as impor- 

 tant to the orchard industry as fruit 

 blossoms are to honey production. 



SULPHUR 



It hai been proven and 

 so recommended by the 

 University of California 

 that If you sulphur your 

 grape vine* and orchard* 

 6 times they will not b« 

 affected by MILDEW or 

 . ^ ^><V."'*^ RED SPIDERS. 



^X^P^V ' ANCHOR Brand Vel- 



^ ^^ ^, vet Flowers of Sulphur, 

 X. ^S ^i also EAGLE Brand, 

 %^^/^ 1 Fleur de Soufre, packed 

 ^^^ 1 In double sacks, are the 

 fluffiest and PUREST 

 sulphurs that money can 

 buy; the best for vine- 

 yards; the best for 

 bleaching purposes, 

 LEAVING NO ASH. 

 Try our new brand of 



,, » VENTILATED Sublimed 



Sulphur, 100 per cent pure, for making Paste 

 — (Atomic Sulphur) and for Dusting. 



For Lime-Sulphur Solution, use our DIA- 

 MOND "S" Brand Refined Flour Sulphur. We 

 can furnish you this sulphur at such a low 

 price that It will pay you to mix your own 

 solution. . . , i « J 



To create additional available plant food, 

 drill Into the soil 100 to 400 pounds per acre 

 of our Diamond "S" Brand Powdered Sulphur. 

 It has been proven that sulphur has In- 

 creased various crops up to 350%. 

 Write Immediately to 



San Francisco Sulphur Co. 



624 California St San Francisco, CaL 



W» «r» MulPStd to make lmmedl«t« ihlpnient. S«nd l«r 

 lllultrited booklet, (rlce-lUt and lamnle*. and pleau •tsp 

 tor what pursoM you uio tht lulphur. fluaotlty omsm, 

 • nd data of itilpmint prelerral. Tol. Kearny »7I. 





FLOUR 

 SULPHUR 



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