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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



THESE THREE BULLETINS 

 Give you the latest scientific informatian regarding 



ORCHARD PESTS AND DISEASES 



and their proper control with 



and the right time to use 



Orchard Brand Arsenate of Lead 

 Orchard Brand Atomic Sulphur 



ALSO 



Universal Brand Dormant Soluble Oil 

 Universal Brand Distillate Oil Emulsion 



Our Bureau of Research is ready to help you at any time. 



If you have any orchard diseases or pests w^rite to Mr. Foster, 

 giving him a full description of the conditions and he will tell you 

 what to use and how to use it. 



Orchard Brand products can be obtained from the following: 



GILBERT & DEWITT. 



Hood River. Oregon. 

 BALFOUR. GUTHRIE & CO.. 



Portland. Oregon. 

 C. J. SINSEL. 



Boise, Idaho. 

 ROGUE RIVER COOPERATIVE 

 FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOC. 



Medford. Oregon. 



MORGON. McKAIG & CO.. 



North Yakima. Washington. 



WELLS & WADE. 



Wenatchee. Washington. 



SAMUEL LONEY & CO., 



Walla Walla. Washington 

 McGOWAN BROTHERS HARD- 

 WARE CO., 



Spokane, Washington. 



Mail the Coupon to Dept. F-3 



General Chemical Company, San Francisco, California 



Insecticide Department, General Chemical Company, 



Dept. F-3, San Francisco, California. 



Please send me free bulletins regarding the control of orchard pests and diseases. I have 



acres apples acres pears acres apricots acres almonds 



acres peaches acres prunes acres cherries acres grapes 



Name 

 Address . 



nil hardy vegetables and mature at a 

 tiiiK' when other goods are gone. Too 

 many gardens are over by the time the 

 lirst cold snap appears. 



1 recommend also a careful and dis- 

 crete choice of varieties of each vege- 

 table. Our seed catalogs are loaded 

 with the same, but the wise gardener 

 picks the best stutf from experience or 

 suggestion, the choice being made on 

 the basis of (piality, adai)tability to 

 season, and maturity. To illustrate, for 

 a hardy fall and winter head lettuce, 

 New York is the best. It is not so 

 adaptable in the sunnner time. There 

 should be at least two or three varie- 

 ties of sweet corn planted, some for 

 early, some for mid-season, and some 

 for late. For instance, Portland Mar- 

 ket for early, Golden Bantam for sec- 

 ond early, and Howling Mob to be 

 planted for the later season. Succes- 

 sional plantings of these various varie- 

 ties would no doubt suflice. My best 

 corn this year was iilanted July Gth to 

 the 12th. and was in fine condition 

 toward the middle of September. The 

 proper choice of varieties of every 

 vegetable makes a big difference in the 

 success or failure of the home vege- 

 table garden. 



Satisfactor.\ vegetable gardens are 

 never grown from indiscriminately 

 bought seed. On the contrary, it pays 

 to get the best, of the highest (luality. 

 This should be ordered early in ,lanu- 

 ary, before stocks begin to get low, and 

 possible substitutions are made. Ordi- 

 narily, I do not think it is necessary 

 for any gardener to get "stung," so to 

 speak, on his seed purchasing, unless 

 he buys with his eyes shut, and with 

 but little care. Acclimated Oregon 

 vegetable seed is a big factor in our 

 gardening, and will be more so in suc- 

 cessive years. Keei) your money in the 

 state and patronize home industry. 

 Don't send it to the Middle West or 

 East unless you have to. There is a 

 lot of good vegetable seed grown here 

 in the state, and offered for sale by our 

 seedsmen. I think that the fruitgrow- 

 ers should be encouraged to practice 

 more than they do the purchasing of 

 Oregon-grown seed. 



One of the essential features of a 

 satisfactory garden is the equipment, 

 which is efficient, but not expensive, of 

 some glass sashes, a wooden frame, 

 some horse manure, providing a tem- 

 perature of 120 to 140 degrees Fahren- 

 heit, and some dry straw or burlap, in 

 which to produce in the spring the 

 young vegetables for later setting in 

 the garden: also in which to have head 

 lettuce and radishes growing out of 

 season months of the year; also in 

 which to force a little early rhubarb, 

 possibly; in which also to grow melons, 

 eggi)lants, and peppers in districts 

 where these otherwise might fail to 

 mature. .\11 this could be purchased 

 for the sum of .$7.50 or ifS.OO, and it 

 would last ten years or more. The 

 average farmer makes little use of the 

 hotbed or the cold frame, and this is 

 the essential feature of our home gar- 

 dens, at least in the Willamette Valley, 

 that is lacking for want of the knowl- 

 edge of the value and use of the same 



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