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GILBERT & DEWITT, MORGON, McCAIG & CO... 



Hood River, Oregon. North Yakima, Washington. 



BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO.. WELLS & WADE. 



Portland. Oregon. Wenatche, Washington. 



C J SINSEL, SAMUEL LONEY & CO.. 



Boise. Idaho. Walla Walla, Washington 

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Medford, Oregon. Spokane, Washington. 



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December 



other name more frequently. It is gen- 

 erally true, with very few exceptions, 

 that the price realized for such stuff 

 does not pay the grower any profit, not 

 even what he could gel if he sold them 

 to the vinegar factory or evaporator. 

 Worse than this, however, are the wind- 

 fall apples, which growers continue to 

 perists in packing up and disposing of 

 at very low figures, which is poor stuff, 

 rotting very rapidly, which has a very 

 unfavorable influence on the marketing 

 conditions, and at best growers very 

 seldom realize anything more out of 

 such apples than the cost of preparing 

 them for market — in fact, seldom more 

 than he could get if he sold to the 

 vinegar factory. These two practices 

 must be discontinued if the growers 

 want to realize satisfactory prices on 

 good grades. 



1916 Apple Season.— The 1916 apple 



season was certainly a very peculiar 

 year causing severe loss to many grow- 

 ers who were not properly equipped 

 for housing safely their crops under 

 the weather conditions that prevailed. 

 The loss from the dropping was ex- 

 tremely heavy. The loss from apples 

 unpicked during the cold spell in the 

 latter part of November, when the tem- 

 perature was very low in many cases, 

 was severe to many individual growers. 

 It is difTicult to estimate what the loss 

 may be from these causes at the present 

 lime, but in all probability the loss 

 would vary anywhere from 15 to 25 

 per cent in the various districts. 



Barren Trees Made to Produce 



By Thos. J. Talbert, Specialist in Entomology, 

 Kansas State Agricultural College. 



ONE of the most successful fruit- 

 growers of Kansas, Mr. John Alter 

 of Belle Plaine, has, by a girdling 

 process, caused barren Mammoth Black 

 Twig apple trees to bear from eighteen 

 to twenty-five bushels per tree. These 

 apple trees were eighteen years old and 

 they had never borne a crop of apples. 

 Mr. Alter had called them fine shade 

 trees, but worthless as fruit trees. The 

 trees are growing on Arkansas River 

 Vallev land which is well adapted to 

 the growth of apple trees. The or- 

 chard had received good care from the 

 beginning, and other varieties such as 

 winesap, Jonathan, Ben Davis and 

 (■rimes Golden had been fruiting well 

 and heavily in the same orchard for 

 several years. Finally Mr. Alter con- 

 cluded that something must be done 

 because he was cultivating, spraying 

 and pruning a large area that had never 

 given him any returns. He had heard 

 and read of girdling trees to make them 

 more fruitful. He was also familiar 

 witli the barbaric practices of driving 

 rusty nails and railroad spikes into fruit 

 trees to induce them to fruit. After 

 studving the different methods of 

 girdiing carefully and getting advice 

 from a niember of the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, he decided to girdle 

 the trees, although most of the advice 

 was against the ))rocess. 



The work was done in the spring 

 of 1914, just as the buds began to open 

 out into clusters and when the pink in 



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