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and this will have a tendency to allow 

 the scale to increase. In some of the 

 orchards located in sticky soil in the 

 past week or two attempts to spray re- 

 sulted in the spraying apparatus being 

 mired so fast in the mud that it was 

 with great difficulty that the spraying 

 wagons and horses were extricated and 

 gotten back to the barns. 



Idaho Outlook Encouraging 



Moscow, Idaho, March 19. 

 Better Fruit: 



The outlook for the fruit industry in 

 Idaho is very encouraging, and if pres- 

 ent indications mean anything the fruit 

 growers can look for a bumper crop of 

 fruit this coming year. Fruit trees of 

 all kinds have come through the winter 

 in fine shape, and fruit buds and spurs 

 are in evidence on practically all varie- 

 ties. If the frost later in the season, 

 and the "June drop," do not play 

 havoc with the various crops, the 

 orchardists of Idaho will have at least 

 5,000 cars of apples for sale and will 

 make larger shipments of peaches, 

 pears, prunes and cherries than any pre- 

 vious year. With this prospect in view 

 the growers are taking all precau- 

 tionery measures possible to protect 

 their crops ,and are planning to follow 

 the correct methods of spraying, prun- 

 ing, irrigation, fertilization, etc. 



There appears to be an optimistic 

 feeling among the fruit growers con- 

 cerning the future of the fruit industry 

 in the state, notwithstanding the fact 

 that they have met with reverses during 

 the past few years, such as unsatisfac- 

 tory returns, killing frosts, the Euro- 



pean war, lack of co-operation and the 

 reduction of the acreage from over 

 100,000 acres to approximately 60,000 to 

 70,000 acres. The following good rea- 

 sons are cited by many of the growers 

 for the eventual success of the industry: 

 (DA depression of the citrus industry 

 a few years ago in California and its 

 later recovery since the organization 

 and perfection of the California Fruit 

 I-^xchange. (2) The war has opened 

 new markets. (3) Plantings have 

 stopped. (4) The population is in- 

 creasing faster than the new plantings. 

 (5) Many of the old orchards in parts 

 of the Northwest have ceased to be 

 high producers. (6) Dissatisfied grow- 

 ers and non-resident owners grubbing 

 up their orchards. (7) Federal aid has 

 been instrumental in causing the fruit 

 industry to take on new life. (8) The 

 important legisalation enacted during 

 the session of the last legislature, 

 whereby the fruit growers will receive 

 state protection against unscrupulous 

 dealers. (9) Those who have been in 

 the business for a period of years have 

 made money, when the average for the 

 entire period is considered. 



If the industry in the Pacific North- 

 west is to become one of the great 

 factors of our agricultural and com- 

 mercial world, it will necessitate the 

 closest co-operation among all the 

 growers in the future. Furthermore, 

 immediate legislation should be enacted, 

 standardizing the grade and pack, if 

 the present high prices are to be main- 

 tained. The Government believes that 

 it is only through standardization of the 

 products and co-operative organization 

 that the fruit industry of the Northwest 

 can be placed upon a good substantial 

 basis. Co-operative organizations ap- 

 plied to the needs and requirements of 

 the fruit industry as defined by one 

 authority implies a partnership and 

 union of interests, supported by co- 

 operative elTort and joint actions. 



If co-operation and standardization, 

 therefore, will eliminate the petty 

 rivalry which now exists here in the 

 Northwest, and will be instrumental in 

 strengthening our present markets and 

 extending new markets, let us secure 

 it, and the sooner it is accomplished 

 the more permanent will become our 

 industry. 



C. C. VINCENT, 

 Horticulturist, 

 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. 



Advises Growers to Be Careful 

 Pullman, Washington, March 17. 

 Better Fruit: 



Your letter of March 12th at hand. I 

 fear I am not as well posted on the 

 present condition of the fruit prospects 

 of this state as you believe me to be. 

 Basing my opinion, however, on com- 

 parative visits to Okanogan, Wenatchee, 

 Kennewick and Walla Walla regions, I 

 can say that conditions are promising. 

 I think that I have seen the trees more 

 heavily laden with fruit buds, but still 

 everything is favorable for a fair crop. 

 There has been very little winter in- 

 jury, and most of the trees went into 

 winter quarters in good condtion. 

 There has been some injury to trees by 



mice in orchards planted to alfalfa or 

 permitted to grow up to weeds. This, 

 however, is local, but more widely dis- 

 tributed than one would be at first in- 

 clined to believe. The ^Jery mild winter 

 give possibilities of some fruit-bud in- 

 jury at blossoming time and for abun- 

 dance of insect pests during the fol- 

 lowing summer. There is no reason to 

 believe that the start that may be 

 obtained by good opening prospects 

 cannot be entirely destroyed by a bit of 

 neglect in fighting pests long before the 

 summer is over. 



Very truly yours, 



0. M. MORRIS, 

 Department of Horticulture, 

 Washington State College of Agriculture. 



Hood River Prospects Bright 



The outlook for Northwestern fruits 

 the coming season is unusually promis- 

 ing, according to C. W. McCuUagh, 

 manager of the Hood River Apple 

 Growers Association, who bases his 

 opinion upon what he saw and heard 

 while attending the recent annual con- 

 vention of the Western Fruit Jobbers' 

 Association in Chicago. 



The prospects are bright not only for 

 apples, but for cherries and strawber- 

 ries. Mr. McCullagh states in the Fruit 

 Trade Journal that he had repeated 

 offers for the purchase of the associa- 

 tion's entire cherry crop at handsome 

 figures. A prominent Chicago dealer 

 also made an offer for several carloads 

 of strawberries, to be sold on the 

 Chicago market. 



"We turned down the berry offer 

 from Chicago," says Mr. McCullagh, 

 "with the explanation that it was out 

 of our territory. But as for our cher- 

 ries, Chicago is determined to have 

 them." 



Montana Expects Bumper Crop 



Bozeman, Montana, March 20. 

 Better Fruit: 



Prospects were never brighter for a 

 bumper crop than they are at present. 

 The trees set buds last summer in good 



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