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BETTER FRUIT 



July 



BETTER FRUIT 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Official Organ of The Norlliwest Fruit Growers' Association 

 A Monthly Illustrated Alagazine Published in the 

 Interest of Modem Fruit Growing and Marketing 



All Communications Sliould Be Addressed and Remittances 

 Made Payable to 



Better Fruit Publishing Company 



E. H. SHEPARD. Etlltor and Piibllslier 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



OREGON 



C. I. Lewis. Horticulturist Coirallis 



WASHINGTON 



Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomologist Pullman 



O. M. Morris. Horticulturist Pullman 



W. S. Thomber, Horticulturist Pullman 



COLORADO 



C. P. Gillette, Director and Entomologist Fort Collins 



E. B. House, Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation 



Engineering. State Agricultural College Fort Collins 



E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist Grand Junction 



IDAHO 



W. U. Wicks. Horticulturist Moscow 



UTAH 



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



MONTANA 



O. B. Whipple, Horticulturist Bozeman 



CALIFORNIA 



C. W, Woodworth, Entomologist Berkeley 



W. H- Volck, Entomologist Watsonville 



Leon O. Batchelor. Horticvdlurist Riverside 



INDIANA 



H. S. Jackson, Pathologist Lafayette 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 

 R. M. Winslow. Provincial Horticulturist Victoria 



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The Fruit Growers' Agency, Incor- 

 porated. — The Fruit Growers' Agency 

 has made splendid progress, asserting 

 it now controls about 75 per cent of the 

 tonnage. Great credit is due the gov- 

 ernment ollicials, Messrs. Basett, Moo- 

 maw and Kerr, and to Captain Wey- 

 rauch, the president, who have worked 

 unceasingly and untiringly. The Agency 

 will render market service similar to 

 the service rendered on strawberries 

 and peaches, which has proved very 

 beneficial to selling concerns. There- 

 fore it is not entirely experimental, as 

 many people imagine. However, the 

 Agency will cover a much broader 

 field, doing much more than rendering 

 a service on market information. The 

 Agency has been endorsed by the gov- 

 ernment, by our governors and Experi- 

 ment Station men, bankers and busi- 

 ness men very generally. The cost will 

 not exceed one dollar per car, which 

 will be about one-sixth of a cent per 

 box. It does not seem that something 

 that is so well recommended should be 

 passed up when the cost is so small an 

 item. The fruit industry needs the good 

 will of everybody. It needs the good 

 will of those who have endorsed the 

 Fruit Growers' Agency. To refuse to 

 join would incur the displeasure of 

 those who have recommended the 

 Agency. It docs not seem that any 

 grower can afford to do this when the 

 cost will be so small. It is the gen- 

 eral, almost the universal opinion, that 

 the Fruit Growers' Agency will be a 

 success. A year's time will show its 

 value. The cost is small. It is the 

 opinion of the oflicials, and those who 

 have worked most in behalf of the 

 Agency, that after a year's time no- 

 body will want to get out, but that 

 everybody will want to get in. With 

 the endorsements given the Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Agency it seems that the fruitgrow- 

 ers would act wisely in giving it the 

 fullest support possible in order that 



the Agency may have the fullest op- 

 portunity to accomplish the greatest 

 amount of good. If this is done, those 

 who have given the matter the most 

 attention believe it will prove a suc- 

 cess, and that the fruitgrowers will be 

 helped and enabled to obtain better 

 prices. That is what they all want. 



Apple Estimates for the Northwest. — 



Early this spring fruitgrowers through- 

 out the Northwest were all comment- 

 ing upon the wonderful amount of 

 spurs and fruit buds and prophesying a 

 bumper crop. There was no question 

 about it. The trees were full of spurs — 

 the spurs were full of buds, great big 

 ones, bigger than ever before. Then 

 came blooming time. The orchards 

 looked like snow banks. Every fruit- 

 grower figured, if apples brought good 

 prices, he would be a millionaire. This 

 wonderful crop that was prophesied in 

 the bloom has been greatly diminished. 

 Several fruit sections in the Northwest 

 suffered from frost damage all the way 

 from 20 per cent, some estimating the 

 loss as high as 100 per cent. In addi- 

 tion to the frost damage there was a 

 shedding after blooming that was fierce. 

 Nearly all trees shed not only many 

 clusters, but the balance of clusters to 

 one in a cluster. This was followed by 

 a continuous dropping during the 

 month of June. At the present time 

 the apples are still small, about the 

 size of marbles, and green, like the 

 color of the leaves, scattering over the 

 trees in varying quantities, with very 

 few orchards heavy. So it is almost an 

 impossible proposition for a grower to 

 even estimate his own individual crop. 

 The above condition is illustrated by 

 the way one grower expressed himself. 

 During the blooming time he estimated 

 his croi) at 15,000 boxes; after shedding 

 he estimated his crop between 10,000 

 and 12,000 boxes; after the June drop 

 between 8,000 and 9,000 boxes, ^^^lile 

 it is too early to make any definite 



statement, there are many who do not 

 figure the 1916 crop of Oregon, Wash- 

 ington, Idaho and Montana will exceed 

 very much, if any, the crop of 1915. In 

 all probability there will be more 

 apples in 1910 than in 1915, but the 

 bumper crop that we were going to 

 have when the estimates were given 

 out in blooming time has faded away. 

 About August first pretty reliable infor- 

 mation can be furnished as to the size 

 of the crop, but not very much sooner. 



Spraying for Fungus. — Never before 



in the past in the Northwest have the 

 fruitgrowers sprayed more thoroughly 

 for codling moth and fungus than they 

 have this year. It is too earl> to tell 

 anything about the damage from cod- 

 ling moth, but the results obtained in 

 preventing scab was something phe- 

 nomenal. The crop will be clean. The 

 general plan of spraying for the pre- 

 vention of scab was pretty well estab- 

 lished by previous years' experience, 

 consequently nearly all growers in dis- 

 tricts troubled with scab used the 

 proper fungicides at the right time, get- 

 ting splendid results. However, there 

 was much doubt about the advisability 

 of using a fungicide with arsenate of 

 lead in the second codling-moth spray, 

 which is usually put on in June, for the 

 reason at this time the weather is very 

 warm and fungicides, particularly those 

 containing sulphur, are apt to burn. 

 Bordeaux is also apt to burn at this 

 time of the year when the fuzz is still 

 on the apple, especially if followed by 

 rain. It remains to be determined 

 whether it is advisable to apply a fungi- 

 cide in this spray or omit it. This 

 year when the weather turned warm a 

 burning occurred from the sulphur 

 fungicide. A great many orchardists 

 who had kept their orchards free from 

 scab by previous sprays omitted the 

 fungicide. These had no burning. It 

 remains to be seen whether scab will 

 develop in these orchards later in the 



Tillamook County Beaches 

 Are Calling 



Are You Going Down This Summer? 



Neah-Kah-Nie 

 Classic Ridge 

 Manhattan 

 Rockaway 



MANY BEACH RESORTS 



Oceanlake 

 Tillamook Bay 

 Manzanita 

 Garibaldi 



MANY ATTRACTIONS 



Bathing in the Surf Boating 



Fishing Golf and Tennis 



Lake Lytle 

 Elmore Park 

 Barview 

 Bayocean 



Clam Digging 

 Dancing 



I niAl DOIIKin TDID FADCC Are on sale daily from Southern Pacific 



LUW nUUnU I mr rnnCO stations to XiUamook Beach Resorts. 



Return limit September 30th. 



Ask local agents for further information or write for booklet "Tillamook Beaches." 



John M, Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon 



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