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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



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LATIMER'S DRY 



POWDERED ARSENATE OF LEAD 



For eight years we have been specialists in the 

 manufacture of Arsenate of Lead, but we were sur- 

 prised when during 1916 over 80 7o of the orders we 

 received were for Latimer's Dry and less than 20% 

 called for Latimer's Paste. 



Powdered arsenate of lead marks the greatest ad- 

 vance that has been made in spraying materials in the 

 last ten years, and this has been quickly recognized by 

 the growers. 



If you use LATIMER'S DRY once you become an 

 enthusiastic advocate. 



Last season LATIMER'S DRY made its introduc- 

 tory bow to the apple growers of the Northwest and 

 met with instanct success in every district where it 

 was used. 



One large orchardist writes from Washington : "I 

 am more than well pleased with my results after using 

 Latimer's Dry. I have had less wormy fruit this year 

 than I have ever had in all my experience and I am 

 willing to give the credit to your lead." 



We want to convince you this year that in a season's 

 use LATIMER'S DRY is 



MORE CONVENIENT 

 MORE EFFECTIVE 

 MORE ECONOMICAL 



than any paste lead you have ever bought. 



Ask your dealer for LATIMER'S DRY arsenate of 

 lead or write to 



The Latimer Chemical Company 



Grand Junction, Colorado 



we couldn't irrigate. Two years ago 

 I made the statement that we had dur- 

 ing the course of our experiments mate- 

 rially increased by the practice of sum- 

 mer pruning the yield and also secured 

 higher color to our fruit. The experi- 

 ments as originally planned were to 

 take a block of trees planted in 1905 

 and give them nothing but winter prun- 

 ing and to set aside another block to 

 which only summer pruning was given. 

 Following are the figures showing 

 the average yield in pounds per tree for 

 1916: 



Winter Summer 



Variety Pruned, lbs. Pruned, lbs. 



Jonathan 239.4 272.1 



Grimes Golden 197.0 108.3 



Home Beauty 105.7 160.6 



Wagener 177.4 215.5 



Extra Fancy 35% 65% 



With the Grimes Golden we were 

 able to get a decided increase in the 

 summer-pruned plot in 1914. The crop 

 was especially large all over the trees 

 and we made the mistake of not thin- 

 ning enough. That threw us off on the 

 sunmier-pruned lot again this year. 



Our system of summer pruning was 

 this: The trees were shaped after the 

 tree growth had stopped, which is usu- 

 ally after the terminal buds set, but this 

 varies from year to year. This year 

 we didn't get at our pruning until the 

 first of September on account of the 

 season. I believe the results from 

 summer pruning will depend almost 

 entirely upon the time at which the 

 pruning is done. If you prune too 

 early you will get a secondary growth 

 of wood, which shouldn't happen in a 

 bearing orchard. Our winter-pruned 

 trees w-e prune in the same way and 

 shape up the tree from the time it is 

 planted. Up to the time the trees come 

 into bearing we prune, thin out and 

 shorten back; after the trees come into 

 bearing we eliminate to a certain ex- 

 tent the cutting back of the terminals 

 because as trees begin to bear the ter- 

 minals make a shorter growth. This 

 past year we cut very little terminal 

 growth. 



Question: What is the average cir- 

 cumference of your trees? 



Professor Vincent: I haven't any 

 data on the limb growth and the cir- 

 cumference. However, about a foot 

 from the ground I find that the winter- 

 pruned trees are a trifle larger than the 

 summer-pruned trees. Winter-pruned 

 Jonathans averaged something like 22.2 

 inches and summer-pruned 22 inches. 



Mr. Magness: What brought the fruit 

 from the winter-pruned trees into the 

 F'ancy and C grades? 



Professor Vincent: It was a matter 

 of color entirely. 



The First National Bank, Portland, 

 Oregon, has just completed and is now- 

 occupying its new building, which is 

 considered one of the handsomest bank 

 buildings in the United States. The 

 First National Bank of Portland is the 

 only bank in the Northwest occupying 

 the entire building. The bank reminds 

 one in many ways of the Bank of Eng- 

 land. A year ago the First National 

 Bank of Portland took out an insurance 

 policy covering the life of every em- 

 ploye. 



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