ipip 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 43 



used and an incomplete and ineffective 

 coating. Some control might be ob- 

 tained under these conditions, but we 

 have to contend with more than a light 

 breeze during a greater portion of our 

 spraying season. Ours is a real breeze, 

 and in some sections in fact might be 

 called a wind. With a breeze of con- 

 siderable magnitude blowing, effective 

 work is absolutely prohibited. The 

 trees cannot be reached for more than 

 half their heights and the material that 

 is used passes by and out of the 

 orchard with the speed of an express 

 train, taking no time to alight upon 

 fruit or foliage. In Hood River during 

 a greater part of the spraying season 

 our atmospheric conditions are inclined 

 to be windy. This condition existing 

 often weeks at a time with only a let-up 

 usually very early in the morning. The 

 dust was applied in practically all of 

 the writer's experimental plots between 

 4 and 6 o'clock in the morning, and 

 even at this hour the work quite often 

 had to be postponed to a more favor- 

 able day. After 8 o'clock in the morn- 

 ing it can safely be stated that there 

 would be too much air current present 



WAS $100 -NOW $57 



Here Is the famous Oliver Typewriter of- 

 fering you a saving of $43. The $57 Oliver 

 is our identical $100 model, brand new, never 

 used. Not second-hand nor rebuilt. The 

 same as used by many of the biggest con- 

 cerns. Over 700,000 sold. We send an Oliver 

 for Free Trial. Not one cent down. If you 

 want to keep It, pay us at the rate of $3 

 per month until the $57 is paid. This la the 

 greatest typewriter bar- 

 -^ gain In the world. 



Write today for our new 

 book. "The Typewriter on 

 the Farm." 



TKe Oliver Typewriter Co. 



39640uver Typewriter BWg. 

 Chicaco, i;i. (tl.G7) 



They Rt All Tractors 



Disk Harrows 



THIS Double Action Light Tractor Harrow is designed 

 for use with all light tractors. It embraces every im- 

 portant feature of our heavy engine type. Once over 

 thoroughly pulverizes every inch of soil — rear disks split- 

 ing furrow turned by front disks. 



All Clark "Cutaway" Disks, both cutout and solid 

 style, are made of high grade cutlery steel, forged sharp. 

 They dig deeper and pull easier, and without breaking, 

 bending and cracking like ordinary disks. 



Write now for interesting free book "The Soil and Its 

 Tillage". Information that you will surely profit by. Ask 

 your dealer about the genuine ClaRK 

 "Cutaway" tillage tools for tractors 

 and horses. 



The Cutaway Harrow Co. 



ClARK "CUTAWAY" Disk*, 

 cutout or lolKl^r.e made t>f 



79 Main Street Higganum, Contiecticut 



Maier of the original CLARK 

 Disk Harrows and Plows 



Clsrk "Cl'TAWAY" Double Action Tractor Harrow 

 Used Successfully with Every Tractor Made. 



.J.1 



.-iig^ijp&iiii „ 5,1.«£ji: 



■JSs.Ji^..^s.'- 'S&l^jJl-aAt^-i 



at Hood River to permit effective worli 

 ■with dust. 



Several orchardists in this section 

 possess power dusters. I have noticed 

 that practically all of them have dusted 

 under weather conditions that could 

 not be called favorable. During the 

 past fall countings of fruit were made 

 in a number of these orchards. Though 

 no scab was present — a condition which 

 was general — the losses resulting from 

 worm infestations were excessive, 

 ranging from 15 to 45 per cent. Most 

 of these growers look now with more 

 or less disfavor upon this method of 

 insect control. There is nothing magic 

 about applying dust. If it does not 

 cover the tree each time that it is used, 

 control of a given trouble cannot be 

 obtained. Our unfavorable weather 

 conditions do not tend to assist the 

 grower along these lines and many are 

 inclined to dust when the weather is 



not right and let it go at that. This 

 practice can only result disastrously. 



The fact that the use of dust is not 

 adaptable to the control of all of our 

 orchard pests makes its use in the aver- 

 age orchard impracticable. The pos- 

 session of a duster increases the over- 

 head and the average orchardist cannot 

 support much more than he is doing at 

 the present time. Perhaps I have con- 

 demned this system — very meritori- 

 ous — in many respects, excessively. It, 

 however, is not adapted to the average 

 Western orchard, and the only real pur- 

 pose that I can see for it is as an 

 auxiliary to the liquid method in 

 orchards of large acreage. Occasionally 

 conditions arise that demand a quick 

 application of spray, and under these 

 conditions the duster would come in 

 liandy provided, of course, existing 

 weather conditions would permit favor- 

 able work. 



WHEN W»1TING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTim nUIT 



