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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of Tlie Northwest I-Vuit Growers' Association 

 A Monthly Illuetrated Magazine Published in the 

 Interest of Modem Fruit Growing and Marketing 



All Conimunicationa Should Be Addressed and Remittimces 

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Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H- SHEPARD, Editor and Publisher 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



OREGON 



C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist Corvallia 



WASHINGTON 



Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomoloflst Pullman 



O. M. Morris. Horilculturist Pullman 



W. S. Thomber. Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C P Gillette. Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



E B House. Chief of Department of Civil and Inigation 



Enitlncering. State Acricultural College Fort Collins 



E. P. Tajior. Horticulturist Grand Junction 



UTAH 



Dr. E. D. Ball. Director and Entomologist Logan 



MONTANA 



O B. Whipple. Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA. 



C W. Woodworth. Entomologist BerKeley 



W. H VoIcS. Entomologist WatBonvllle 



Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist Riverside 



INDIANA 



H S. Jackson. Pathologist Lafayette 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 



R. M. Wlnslow. ProTindai Horticulturist Victoria 



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Postofflce at Hood River. Oregon, under Act 



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The Fruit Crop for the State of Wash- 

 ington. — Attention is called to tliis 

 report, appearing elsewhere in this 

 edition, on account of the very thor- 

 ough manner in which it has been com- 

 piled and the valuahle information it 

 contains. It must be borne in mind 

 that this estimate was made July 3d, 

 consequently it was too early to be 

 regarded as authentic. It is possible 

 the crop may be either more or less. 

 It will be interesting to preserve for 

 comparison with the actual quantity 

 shipped, which will be known at the 

 end of the season. 



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The Wenatchee-North Central report 

 is the most thorough and complete of 

 any section in the State of Washington 

 and probably compiled with the most 

 care. It shows the actual number of 

 cars estimated shipped from each sta- 

 tion in that district on the following 

 varieties of fruit: Apples, peaches, 

 pears, plums, apricots and cherries. 

 Equally important, in fact more impor- 

 tant, as apples are the main fruit crop 

 of the Northwest, is the percentage in- 

 formation, showing the percentage of 

 each variety as shipped in the year 1914 

 (1914 was a very heavy crop), as esti- 

 mated with the year 1916. Due credit 

 is given in this report to the inspectors 

 and assistants who made the estimates 

 in their various districts. Fruit men in 

 general, inspectors in particular, in 

 various fruit sections, not only in the 

 State of Washington but in other North- 

 western states, should take this report 

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 crop in the most intelligent manner it 

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