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BETTER FRUIT 



December 



MYERS SPRAY PUMPS 



When you go to your grocer, your huckster or your fruit buyer, to sell the crops of 

 your orchards - which kind of fruit do they demand, the sprayed or unsprayed? When they 

 buy now they want the fully matured, perfect fruit — no other will do, and the man who has this 

 kind for sale has no trouble in disposing of it at top prices that make fruit growing profitable. 



H«re is the point. We want you to see its importance. Windfalls, wormeaten and scabby 

 fruit is no longer marketable at any price. It cannot compete with the sprayed article. Then why 

 not take advantage of this condition, and Spray the MYERS WAV with a Myers Spray Pump? 



The MYERS LINE is complete and apace with the requirements of today — Bucket, Barrel 

 and power outfits, Nozzles and Accessories for Spraying, Painting or Disinfecting — Used wherever 

 fruit of any kind is a crop and recognized as standard equipment because of practical features and 

 better construction — Write today for large catalog showing all styles. 



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Quality Brands of Yakima Apples 



When ordering- apples specify Blue Ribbon Brand and 

 be assured of the best the market alTords. All apples 

 packed under our personal supervision and inspection. 



WRITE FOR INFORMATION 

 AND PRICES 



Yakima County Horticultural Union 



FRED EBERLE, Manager 



NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 



of water. For 20 and 25 per cent 

 emulsions (for use on dormant trees 

 and plants) use, respectively, about I'^k 

 and 1% gallons of water for each 1 

 gallon of stock emulsion. Agitate the 

 mixture in all cases, after adding the 

 water. The preparation of the emul- 

 sion will be simplified by the use of 

 a naphtha soap. No heat will be re- 

 quired, as the kerosene will combine 

 readily with the naphtha soap, in 

 water, when thoroughly agitated. 

 Double the quantity of naphtha soap 

 given in the above formula, however, 



will be retiuired, and soft or rain water 

 should be used in making the emulsion. 

 In regions where the water is "hard" 

 this should first be broken with a little 

 caustic potash or soda, as common lye, 

 before use for dilution, to prevent the 

 soap from combining with the lime or 

 magnesia present, thus liberating some 

 of the kerosene, or rain water may be 

 employed. 



A good lime-sulphur wash may be 

 made for immediate use by the follow- 

 ing formula: Stone lime, 20 pounds; 

 sulphur (flour or flowers), 15 pounds; 



water to make 50 gallons. Heat in a 

 cooking barrel or vessel about one- 

 third of the total quantity of water 

 required. When the water is hot add 

 all the lime and at once add all the 

 sulphur, which perviously should have 

 ben made into a thick paste with water. 

 After the lime has slaked, about another 

 third of the water should be added, 

 preferably hot, and the cooking should 

 be continued for one hour, when the 

 final dilution may be made, using either 

 hot or cold water, as is most conven- 

 ient. The boiling due to the slaking of 

 the lime thoroughly mixes the ingre- 

 dients at the start, l)ut subsequent stir- 

 ring is necessary if the wash is cooked 

 by direct heat in kettles. If cooked 

 by steam, no stirring will be neces- 

 sary. After the wash has been pre- 

 pared it must be well strained as it is 

 being run into the spray tank. It may 

 be cooked in large kettles, or prefer- 

 ably by steam in barrels or tanks. This 

 wash should be applied promptly after 

 preparation, since, as made by this for- 

 mula, there is crystallization of the 

 sulphur and hardening of the sediment 

 upon cooling. 



Cover Crops in Young Orchards 



Continued from last issue 



Throughout the entire Okanogan coun- 

 try orchards which arc clean cultivated 

 and are on light virgin soil are very 

 susceptible to rosette; yet wherever the 

 soil has been improved with leguminous 

 cover crops this trouble is not found. 

 Often times in answer to my inquiry 

 the farmer will say, "Oh, yes, I used to 

 be bothered with it, but since I put 

 clover or alfalfa in my trees I have 

 never been bothered with it any more." 



During the interval between planting 

 and jiroducing, the expense of maintain- 

 ing the orchard is very great, generally 

 working hardships on the owners, who 

 have paid high prices for the land. 

 Many orchardists are growing nothing 

 between their trees, buying all their 

 produce and going into debt more and 

 more each year, anxiously awaiting the 

 first crop of fruit. The following stat- 

 istics have been carefully obtained and 

 apply to Okanogan County, where $.350 

 per acre is paid for a one-year-old 

 orchard, and no returns are obtained 

 from cover crops in the six-year interim 

 until bearing, the orchard will have to 

 produce 1,000 boxes of apples per acre 

 per year, which must sell for one dollar 

 a box in order for the owner to realize 

 an eight per cent interest on his invest- 

 ment. Some men have made money 

 from the cover crops and catch crops 

 while waiting for their trees to bear. 

 One who had thirty acres all in alfalfa 

 this year harvested seventy tons of 

 alfalfa from the first three cuttings. 

 He has been offered $7.50 per ton for 

 the entire crop, but refuses to sell it. 

 In caring for his alfalfa he has cared 

 for his trees. He has been growing 

 alfalfa among his trees for seven years 

 and sa\s he has never had any trouble 

 selling his hay. 



The (picstion of stomach sprays in- 

 juring the value of the hay has been 

 brought up. I have never found a 

 farmer yet who complained about this. 



