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BETTER FRUIT 



Aphid highly 



KillApliis 



Before'Aptfis^A 

 KiUsYourProfips 



/This tiny.sap-sucking insect, "f 

 scarcely larger than apin-head,^ 



is destroying apple profits all"^ 

 over the country. Feeding with^ 

 its sharp, mosquito-like bill, it 

 causes dwarfed, deformed, un- 

 marketable fruit. Curls foliage. 

 Weakens trees. Spray with 



Black Leaf 40 



j^OVoNICOTINE 



and control Aphis,RedBug,Leaf Hopper and other soft- J|'^J'jJ^"l^j_ 

 \ bodied, sucking insects. Aphis ismaking its appearance in Best limey, 

 many sections f orthe firsttime. Regarded by many grow- to ^^"'ififfi 

 ers as the most destructive apple insect. One aphid pro- (f 

 duces thousands in a few weeks. Spray with Black 

 1 Leaf 40 and save your profits. Can be used with lime- 

 sulphur, arsenate of lead, bordeaux and other sprays as 

 recommended, or may be used separately, if desired. 

 Mixes perfectly with water. Costs only about Ic per 

 gallon diluted for the trees. Recommended by agri. 

 cultural colleges and experiment stations. Send for 

 F'ree Sprav Chart and I-,eaflets 

 showing wKen and how to spray and ho'.v to protect fruit trees, 

 vines and vegetables fiom these pro&t-killing insect pests. 



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325 13th Street, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 



March 



Statistics for Marion County show 

 that there are 2,083 acres five years and 

 under, an average of 400 acres per 

 year that will come into bearing in the 

 next five years. Assuming, since we 

 have no way of checking exactly, that 

 an average of 400 acres a year has come 

 into bearing in Marion County during 

 the last eight years, which would give 

 3,200 acres of the heaviest producing 

 trees, we learn with surprise that at 

 the average rate of production of 2,400 

 pounds per acre, which was the 

 Marion County figure for 1918, close to 

 8,000,000 pounds of the total crop of 

 12,000,000 pounds came from orchards 

 under thirteen or fourteen years of age. 

 In short, it seems that the orchards 

 which should now be in the prime of 

 life, above fourteen vears, produced 

 only 4,000,000 pounds of the 12,000,000 

 pounds. Does anyone suppose that in 

 1910 the yield was only 4,000,000 

 pounds? Here, then, we have a way 

 of calculating the rate of decrease of 

 productivity which brings us back once 

 more to the original question asked at 

 the beginning of this article, "When is 

 a prune tree old?" 



A study of these figures indicates 

 that the decline is rapid after the 

 fifteenth year, yet every prune grower 

 knows of orchards which are in heavy 

 productivity at more than twenty-five 

 years. A thirty-year-old orchard be- 

 longing to County Commissioner Edwin 

 Weaver of Myrtle Creek, yielded two 

 and one-half tons to the acre in 1918, 

 and, better than that, over two and one- 

 half tons in 1917 and three and one- 

 quarter tons in 1916. When the high 

 prices subside it is expected that the 

 care which many old tracts are now 

 receiving will be replaced by easier 

 methods, which will quickly reduce the 

 tonnage now secured from the old 

 orchard. With better facilities for mar- 

 keting prunes, with an educated con- 

 suming public and with a standardiza- 

 tion of the product, is the danger of 

 overproduction as apparent as we are 

 often given to believe? 



When It's Nitrate 

 Time for Apples 



Use 200 pounds of 

 Nitrate of Soda 

 broadcast per acre 

 in late February 

 or early March, 

 or use at Blossom 

 Time. 



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 Fruit Books— Free 



W. LAMBERT MYERS 



Chilean Nitrate Committee 

 P. O. Box 248 Berkeley, CaJ. 



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