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BETTER FRUIT 



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Fruit and Ornamental 



r\F course you expect to plant something this 

 ^^ season in the way of trees — either fruit or 

 ornamental. Why not make your selection in a 

 scientific way? 



Roeding's Advice Costs You Nothing 



—and will undoubtedly save as well as make you 

 money. Tell us the nature of your land and what 

 you think of setting out and we will gladly advise 

 with you free of any oblibation on your part. 



We have a wonderful stock of trees— peaches, 

 pears, prunes, olives, oranges, walnuts, pecans, 

 almonds, etc.. for this season's planting. Our stock 

 is TRUE-TO-NAME, strong and healthy. It is the 

 kind that produces fancy fruit. 



We also have a complete assortment of roses, 

 palms and ornamental stock of almost every sort. 

 Write for quotations. 



Fancher Creek Nurseries, inc. 



GEO.C.ROEDING.Pres.and Mgr. 

 601 Holland Building Fresno, California 



land which is very sandy, almost en- 

 tirely deficient in humus, has been 

 planted in orchards. The water supply 

 is limited to about two acre feet, whicli 

 is barely enough for the growing tree. 

 SufTicient manure is not available to 

 supply the necessary plant food, and 

 unless this is supplied the physical con- 

 dition of the soil will become very 

 weakened. It will become leached or 

 burned out and the growth will cease. 

 The application of commercial ferti- 

 lizers in concentrated form may tem- 

 porarily partially relieve this condition, 

 but they never remedy it, and are too 

 expensive for any orchard to afford 

 where returns on investment are de- 

 sired. The available amount of irriga- 

 tion water is not sufficient to maintain 

 a cover crop during the summer. This 

 problem has been successfully solved 

 by many orchardists who use the fol- 

 lowing system : 



Rye is sown in the fall and plowed 

 under in the spring while yet in the 

 boot, the orchard is clean cultivated 

 until the middle of August, when it is 

 again sown to rye. This is repeated 

 each year until the fifth year, when 

 alfalfa is seeded in rows two and a half 

 to three feet apart. The alfalfa is kept 

 cultivated between the rows for the first 

 year, thus conserving a large amount of 

 moisture. By the end of the second 

 year a solid sod has formed. The rye 

 builds up the soil sufiiciently to hold 

 the scanty amount of irrif<ation water 

 until the alfalfa obtains a foothold. 

 Where this system has been practiced 

 the orchards appear as oases in a des- 

 ert, among the other orchards which 

 are clean cultivated. Last summer two 

 orchards where the soil was very sandy 

 yielded four tons of alfalfa per orchard 

 acre and the trees are in splendid con- 

 dition, comparing very favorably with 



those in loamy soil; and in that section 

 alfalfa hay sells for eight and ten dol- 

 lars per ton. The texture of the soil is 

 so improved that it retains moisture far 

 better than the original and sandy soil. 

 The two acre feet of water seem to go 

 just as far in those orchards as in others 

 where only the sheer sand is found, and 

 the trees are more than twice as large. 



Continued in next issue 



Railway Wants All Space in Cars 

 Utilized. 



The Great Northern Railway is ap- 

 pealing to the apple shippers that they 

 load cars with more than the minimum 

 630 boxes, to mitigate the car shortage. 

 Nearly every car now rolling is loaded 

 five tiers. The railway feels that by extra 

 effort the cars can be loaded either six 

 or seven tiers high. A tier consists of 

 126 boxes. The railway feels that if the 

 shippers load heavy, whenever the buy- 

 ers will permit, it will help the situation 

 considerably. — Wenatchee Advance, 

 October 19, 1916. 



Apples Go Abroad. 



Washington apples comprise one of 

 the large items of the cargo of the 0. S. 

 K. steamer Tacoma Maru, which sails 

 from Tacoma to Manila this week. The 

 consignment amounts to 1,500 boxes, 

 most of which are from the Yakima 

 district. The fruit is consigned to 

 American firms in Manila who have a 

 large number of former Pacific Coast 

 people as their customers. They arc 

 anxiously awaiting the arrival of the 

 Washington product. The apples will 

 reach the consumers in time for their 

 Thanksgiving dinner. 



The Okanogan Valley of British 

 Columbia is shipping fifty carloads of 

 apples to Australia and New Zealand 

 this fall. It is also sending its product 

 to Europe, Asia and Africa. — Wenatchee 

 World, October 19, 1916. 



Northwest States to Co-operate With 

 Federal Government. 



A committee of nine, three each from 

 Washington, Idaho and Oregon, will be 

 immediately appointed by Governors 

 Lister, Alexander and Withycombe to 

 draft a plan by which the executives of 

 the three Northwestern slates may co- 

 operate wilh the Federal Government, 

 acting through its Office of Markets, to 

 promote a wider demand for North- 

 western apples. This was the result of 

 the conference called by T. O. Morrison, 

 head of the horticultural work in the 

 State of Washington, and attended to- 

 day by the three governors, fifty grow- 

 ers and shi])pers of the Northwest. 

 Paul Weyrauch, president of the Fruit 

 Growers' Agency, Incori)orated, which 

 was formed to further the Government 

 plan, opened the conference and then 

 retired in favor of Governor Lister, 

 who presided. George T. Reid, assistant 

 to the president of the Northern Pacific 

 Railway Company, urged united action 

 by growers and shippers of the three 



We're 

 Shipping 

 Trees Now 



Standard pears, apples, cher- 

 ries, prunes and apricots are 

 moving out in commercial quan- 

 tities. Never grew better trees 

 than this season; clean, well 

 matured, splendid roots, stout 

 bodies, grown on the far famed 

 Yakima Reservation on clean, 

 new volcanic ash soil. 



Vrooman Franquette English 

 Walnuts grown and sold under 

 license from Oregon Nursery 

 Company, owners of exclusive 

 propagating right. 



Shrubs, vines, shade trees, 

 roses, perennials and other orna- 

 mentals. 



Drop us a line telling us your needs. 

 We ship everywhery, freight prepaid. 



Washington Nursery Company 



Toppenish, Washington 



FOURTEEN YEARS IN BUSINESS 

 15.000 ORDERS LAST YEAR 



Salesmen Everywhere— More Wanted 



Superintendent or Foreman 



Soon open for engagement. Can handle 

 any orchard or farm proposition, the 

 larger the better, successfully, that has 

 the rudiments of success in it. Address 

 K. L., care "Better Fruit." 



U/'|||tA|1 Experienced man 

 IiaillCU charge of fruit fan 



to take 

 charge of fruit farm of 80 

 acres, near Wenatchee; all in bearing 

 trees, mostly apples. Must be married 

 man and must thoroughly understand 

 pruning, irrigation, etc. 

 Apply Box 2202, Spokane, Wash. 



states to secure a standardization pack 

 and idedgcd flic support of the company 

 to carry out the plan of co-operation 

 along lines the connnittee may suggest, 

 ."^ll agreed thai judicious advertising 

 was the key to the problem. Governor 

 ,\lexandcr suggested that the situation 

 might warrant the executives asking 

 their Lei-'islalures to make appropria- 

 tions for advertising purposes. Alexan- 

 der proposed the slogan, "As yellow as 

 an orange, as pretty as a peach and as 

 healthful as an apple." — Wenatchee 

 World, September 22, 1916. 



