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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



Spraying 

 Suggestions 



In the control of orchard pests dur- 

 ing the growing season it is import- 

 ant that all spray materials used be 

 properly balanced chemically, manu- 

 factured for a definite purpose, and 

 of the best quality obtainable, in 

 order to give effective control of in- 

 sects and diseases without injury to 

 the trees, foliage or fruit. 



ORCHARD BRAND ARSENATE OF 

 LEAD PASTE, the best known and 

 most extensively used arsenate of 

 lead on the Pacific Coast, is now easy 

 to handle and mix with water, be- 

 cause it is so manufactured as to 

 prevent settling in a hard mass to 

 the bottom of containers, and is a 

 soft, fluffy paste which, after diluting 

 in water, maintains the best possible 

 suspension, which insures an even 

 coating of poison, closely adhering to 

 the surface of fruit and foliage, giv- 

 ing lasting and effective results. 

 Chemical ingredients guaranteed. 

 Those growers desiring the dry form 

 of lead will find the new Orchard 

 Brand lead powder convenient to use 

 and effective. 



ATOMIC SULPHUR PASTE, a non- 

 caustic fungicide, is safe to use and 

 gives effective and lasting results. 

 It can be safely combined with 

 Orchard Brand Arsenate of Lead 

 when spraying for codling moth con- 

 trol and it is important that it be 

 first added at the time of the calyx 

 spray, in order to start the stimula- 

 tion which results in increased vigor 

 to the tree, the setting of more uni- 

 form crop of fruit and a proper con- 

 trol of inildew, which disease is be- 

 coming more general throughout the 

 Northwest each year. When thor- 

 oughly applied after blooming time 

 at proper intervals it is also effective 

 in preventing further growth of scab 

 fungus and will control red spiders 

 and mites on fruit trees. 



Complete stoclcs of both Atomic Sulphur 

 and Arsenate of Lead, together with 

 other necessary Orchard Brand Spray 

 materials, carried in the Northwest 

 with the following distributors and 

 many local agents in each fruit district: 



GILBERT & DeWITT. 



Hood River, Oregon. 



BALFOUR. GUTHRIE & CO.. 

 Portland. Oregon. 



ROGUE RIVER CO-OPERATIVE 

 FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, 

 iVIedford. Oregon. 



MORGAN, McKAIG COMPANY. 



North Yakima, Washington. 



"R'ELLS & WADE. 



Wenatchee, Washington. 



McGOWAN BROTHERS HARDWARE 

 COMPANY. 



Spokane, Washington. 



SAMUEiTlONEY & COMPANY. 



Walla Walla. Washington. 

 C. J. SINSEL. 



Boise, Idaho. 



Fruit growers will do well to write us 

 giving full description of pests and 

 troubles on their orchards, and we will 

 reply by personal letter as fully as 

 possible. 



General Chemical Company 



Dcpt. F-7 



San Francisco, California 



Manufacturers of 



"Orchard Brand" 

 Spray Materials 



tlie United States, for instance. In 

 Argentina tliis may be ascribed in part 

 to the fact that the older and more 

 settled parts of the country are not 

 very well suited for fruit growing. The 

 prairies of the eastern and best-known 

 parts of the Republic are exposed alter- 

 nately to extremes of drought and flood. 

 The drainage, on account of the flatness 

 of the country, is poor, and the region 

 is also subject to late frosts. To Chile, 

 which is a second California in climate 

 and other factors conducive to the 

 growing of good fruit, and where fruit 

 which has mostly been in a haphazard 

 sort of way i.s both abundant and cheap, 

 such an argument would not apply. 

 The lack of development in commercial 

 fruit growing can be, in part, ascribed 

 to the same conditions for which the 

 general lagging of industrial develop- 

 ment in South America is responsible 

 in part to the general belief, in the 

 tropical countries especially, that the 

 eating of large quantities of raw fruits 

 is injurious and might bring on malaria 

 or dysentery, and in part perhaps to 

 the Latin America preference and habit 

 of taking fruit juices in the form of 

 wine particularly, to which are to be 

 ascribed the enormous wine industry 

 of both Argentina and Chile. The enor- 

 mous and well-organized industry of 

 banana growing of Colombia and 

 Central America, constitutes an excep- 

 tion to what has just been said, but 

 it is really conducted by and for the 

 benefit of Northern people. There are 

 more, better and usually cheaper 

 bananas to be had in any American 

 city than in the average South Ameri- 

 can place. Often one never sees either 

 the quality, quantity or wealth of vari- 

 eties encountered in any of the large 

 American cities. One of the first things 

 noticed by the passenger from a South 

 American port is the wealth, frequency 

 and attractiveness of fruits displayed in 

 the American cities.- In Buenos Aires, 

 except for its excellent public markets, 

 numerously and conveniently located, 

 but still quite far apart on account of 

 the great size of the city, and except 

 for an occasional street vendor with 

 wagon, cart or basket, it is difflcult to 

 find fruit for sale; on Sundays it is 

 impossible, except with meals at hotels 

 or restaurants, to obtain it at all. Re- 

 viewing the fruits seen in the city mar- 

 kets it might be said that the orange 

 from September to December, the peach 

 from New Year to April, and the grape 

 from January to May, easily take first 

 rank in the Argentine capital among 

 the fruits, but their position is now 

 threatened by the apple and, above all, 

 by the American apple. 



During the summer of the southern 

 hemisphere the American apple season 

 is at its height in Buenos Aires. The 

 first apples of the season encountered 

 were some Gravensteins, encountered 

 (luring the month of September, in a 

 small town in llie interior of one of the 

 southernmost territories of the Repub- 

 lic. They sold for the reasonable price 

 of one peso (forty-two cents) per 

 dozen, and had come some 11,000 miles 

 all the way from Sonoma County, Cali- 

 foinia. During the season of 1914 and 

 1!)1,"), the apiiles most i)romincnt in the 



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Choice of 

 Famous 

 Scenic Routes 



By using the North Bank 

 Road as the initial part of 

 your trip. Among many 

 points of interest: 



Columbia River Highway 



Water Grade Thru Cascades 



The Inland Empire 



Trail of Lewis and Clark 



Glacier Park 



Yellowstone Park 



Buffalo Bill's Country 



Mississippi River 



Summer tourist rates and litera- 

 ture on request. 



R. H. CR02IER, A. G. P. A. 

 Portland, Oregon. 



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capital were Rome. King, Spilzenberg, 

 Stayman,.lonathan and Delicious, There 

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