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BETTER FRUIT 



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ORCHARD YARN 



Listen, Orchardists: Now is the time 

 to tie your fruit trees. All limbs can be 

 readily seen; the spurs are less easily 

 broken off than later; the saving of time 

 is considerable and yam is probably as 

 cheap as it will be this season. Orchard 

 Yarn is the correct method of supporting 

 trees and the saving of a few trees is 

 worth the cost of the yam for an entire 

 orchard. 



Sold by all dealers. If they cannot supply 

 you, please order direct from 



The Portland Cordage Company 



Portland, Oregon Seattle, Washington 



Attention, Fruit and 

 Vegetable Growers 



CAN your Fruits, Vegetables, Meats and 

 Fish in Sanitary Cans, with the H. & A. 

 Steam Pressure Canning Outfits, built in 

 Family, Orchard and Commercial size; 

 seal the cans with the H. & A. Hand or 

 Belt Power Double Seamer; they will 

 save your perishable fruits and vegeta- 

 bles at ripening time when nothing else 

 will. Write for descriptive matter. 



Henninger & Ayes Mfg/Co. 



47 S. First St., Portland, Ore. 



WANTED 



to hear from owner of good Ranch for 

 sale. State cash price and description. 



D. F. BUSH 



Minneapolis, Minnesota 



which is undoubtedly responsible for 

 the e.xtermination of the apple from 

 Cordoba. The variety most seen in the 

 markets is a medium sized somewhat 

 flattened green apple with brown 

 blotches bearing the descriptive name 

 of "rara sucia" or "dirty face." It 

 seems to be also the variety imported 

 so largely from Uruguay and is evi- 

 dently a good keeper, as it is found on 

 sale as late as November, equivalent to 

 May in this country. 



Argentine fruitgrowers and nursery- 

 men have not been oblivious to what is 

 going on in their line in other parts of 

 the world. A hasty look into any 

 Argentine nursery catalog or a look 

 into any private collection may easily 

 prove this. There are several large 

 and many small nurseries owned and 

 worked principally by Italians or their 

 descedants, using generally the same 



There is a regular agency for New 

 Zealand trees in Buenos Aires, where 

 the stock is gaining in favor over that 

 imported from Europe or North Amer- 

 ica, as the identity of seasons does 

 away with so many difficulties in 

 transplanting. Chilean nurseries are 

 often patronized for the same reason, 

 and on account of their proximity. 

 New Zealand trees sell at one dollar 

 apiece in large or small quantities. The 

 government is doing something to help 

 promote the wider planting of fruit 

 trees. Aside from a big school, with 

 station in viticulture in Mendoza, other 

 agricultural schools, such as those of 

 San Juan and Cordoba, have a horticul- 

 tural department giving special atten- 

 tion to instruction in fruit growing. 

 Unfortunately the tendency in some of 

 these places with European instruct- 

 ors is to give undue attention to the 

 espalier type of training and pruning, 

 so much in vogue in the thickly-settled 

 parts of Western Europe, and which 

 has no practical application in a new 

 and sparsely-settled country. The sec- 

 tion of markets of co-operative action 

 has been established among fruit- 

 growers, with the object of elimi- 

 nating the middleman. A few years 

 ago the Argentine Department of Agri- 

 culture imported a large consignment 

 of nursery stock, containing nearly 

 a hundred varieties, from a firm in 

 the United .States. In this shipment 

 there were thirty kinds of apples alone, 

 which were all saved in spite of having 

 arrived in midsummer under very try- 

 ing conditions for the plants. And in 

 connection with this it may be well to 

 advise those wishing to export nursery 

 stock to the extreme south to dig only 

 well matured in the fall or early 

 spring; keep in cold storage, according 

 to whether the plants are destined for 

 the warmer or colder latitudes, allow- 

 ing thus about a month for the voyage 

 and the arrival of the shipment in the 

 fall of the southern hemisphere. 



A word in regard to the growing 

 of the apple, now the most neglected 

 and soon perhaps to be the most pop- 

 ular fruit among consumers of the. 

 apple in the Argentine Republic. A 

 table giving the essential climatic con- 

 ditions of the centrally located point 

 of the Valley of Rio Negro in compar- 

 ison with a few of the successfully irri- 

 gated regions of the west might have 

 great influence upon those who might 

 think of growing apples in a country 

 where no home-grown product exists 

 to supply the demand of the season: 



Altitude 



Rainfall 



Lowest temperature observed.. 

 HiKhest temperature observed. 



Mean temperature 



First frost observed 



Last frost observed 



Average date of first frost 



Average date of last frost 



Wenatchee, 

 Washington 



1.164 feet 

 14.33 inches 

 —16 Jan. 



101 July 

 48 deg. 



Oct. 1 



May 21 



Oct. 21 



Apr. 30 



North Yakima. 

 Washington 



1.000 feet 



8.67 inches 



—20 Jan. 



108 July 



50 deg. 



Sept. 6 



June 14 



Sept. 21 



May 23 



Rogue River 

 Valley, Oregon 



Cipolletti. 



Rio Negro 



Valley 



9.56 feet 



32.20 inches 



Jan. 



110 Julv 



53 deg. 



Sept. 11 



June 13 



Oct. 12 



May 6 



871 feet 



5.30 inches 



10 Julv 



106 Jan. 

 58 deg. 

 Mar. 15 

 Nov. 5 

 A pi*. 7 

 Oct. 4 



stock as do well there. Many Ameri- 

 can varieties are already listed, but 

 they are obtained for the most part 

 indireclly via Italy and France, coun- 

 tries which already supply the ma- 

 jority of the varieties handled by them. 



There is undoubtedly a future for the 

 produclion of apples in all that ])art of 

 .Argentina south of the Rio Colorado, or 

 which used (o be known as P.itagonia, 

 wherever water is available tor irriga- 

 tion and wherever communicalion with 



BUY AND TRY 



White 

 River 

 Flour 



MAKES 



Whiter, Lighter 

 Bread 



Nice Bright Western Pine 



FRUIT BOXES 



AND CRATES 



Good standard grades. Well made. Quick shipments. 

 Carloads or less. Get our prices. 



Western Pine Box Sales Co. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



Cherry Trees 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 etc. Free Catalog. Agents Wanted. Special 

 Terms. 



MILTON NURSERY COMPANY 



MILTON, OREGON 



Richey& Gilbert Co. 



H.M.GILBERT, President and Manager 

 Grower! and Shippers of 



Yakima Valley Fruits 

 and Produce 



SPECIALTIES: 

 Apples, Peaches, Pears and Cantaloupes 



TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON 



CHUBBUCK'S IDEAL 



GOPHER TRAP 



Larger than runway; 



I jaws pull rodent in: 



catches large or small gopher and holds it. 

 I-armcrssa_y it's worth dozen other makes. 

 Hie sales. Price 50c. If not .it vourdcalcr's willscnd 

 11 to you pustp.ii(l: 2 (or 9.SC : 6 tor Ji.70: 12 for l^.in. I 

 Money Iv^ck if you .ire iu>t s;itisfietl. Free circ.il,,,^ j] 

 _EJ[.CIinbbockCo.. Dtp! C S.nFraiiciico.Cal. | 



PORTLAND WHOLESALE NURSERY COMPANY 



Rooms 6 & 7. 122 » Grand Ave , PoHland, Oreffon 



Wlioleaalera of Nursery Stock c^txA Xursery Buppllas 



A very complete line of 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Shrubs, Vlnea, Bto. 



SPECIALTIES 



Olean Coaet Qrow^n Seedllnira 



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