IQI7 



Manufacture of Fruit Products 



Continued from page 7. 



the fruit business done there is carried 

 on by Oregon paclcers. During the past 

 year the loganberry-juice industry has 

 made big strides and there are now 

 thirteen loganberry - juice factories, 

 which manufactured about 500,000 gal- 

 lons of juice and paid the growers 

 about $200,000. Total capital invested 

 in plants, machinery and equipment 

 approximately $250,000. The total crop 

 of loganberries in the state this year 

 was approximately 5000 tons fresh ber- 

 ries, about seventy per cent of which 

 was made into juice. There is at least 

 one unfermented apple-juice factory in 

 the state which put up quite a large 

 quantity of unfermented apple juice. I 

 understand their Olympia, Washington, 

 plant used five or six thousand tons of 

 cull apples this season. There are at 

 least ten vinegar plants in the slate, 

 although there may be a few more with 

 which I am not acquainted. I am not 

 familiar with the details of this busi- 

 ness, so cannot give any information as 

 to output, money distributed or capital 

 invested. 



BETTER FRUIT 



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"Use Your Tractor" 



"Help your neighbors" is the keynote 

 of a special appeal to tractor owners 

 issued today by Assistant Secretary of 

 Agriculture Carl Vrooman. "Every 

 farmer who owns a tractor," he says, 

 "owes it to his country this spring to 

 do all the custom or exchange work 

 he can do without neglecting his own 

 work. Every hour that his tractor 

 would otherwise be idle it ought to be 

 at work helping a neighbor who is be- 

 hindhand with his plowing or harrow- 

 ing. Make your outfit work from dawn 

 to dark; make it work all night if vou 

 have enough operators to fill the shifts. 

 The acreage to be harvested this fall 

 hangs on the plow. Don't let an acre 

 that might otherwise be planted go un- 

 titled because your tractor is in the 

 shed. Help your neighbors and thus 

 do your part in strengthening the allied 

 lines on the battle fronts of Europe." 



Cutting Out Borers Frees Peach Trees 

 Peach tree borers, the most destruc- 

 tive insects in peach orchards of East- 

 ern United States, are best controlled 

 by worming, or cutting the grubs out 

 of their burrows with a sharp knife in 

 late fall and early spring. Entomolo- 

 gists at the Ohio Experiment Station 

 say that nearly all sprays and washes, 

 as well as all mechanical protectors 

 and barriers, are of doubtful value, 

 some not paying for the cost of their 

 application and others being positively 

 injurious. During the winter the in- 

 sect lives as a larva in a deep burrow 

 under the bark of the peach tree a few 

 inches below the soil level. With the 

 warm days of early spring it feeds upon 

 Ihf tender growing tissues benealli the 

 bark, causing the tree to become sickly 

 and unpro<luctive and often to die if "a 

 sufficient number of borers infest it. 

 By early summer they construct co- 

 coons, and in about nineteen days 

 emerge as adult moths. These parents 

 are clear winged and resenibel certain 



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blue wasps. Although the female lives 

 only four or five days, she lays about 

 400 fertile eggs in this time, and from 

 these the larvae hatch in eight to ten 

 da.NS, or about July 1 to August 30. To 

 kill the borers, remove the soil, when 

 not frozen, from about the base of the 

 trees. Exuding gum and "sawdust" 

 will show the location of the larvae 

 and thus they can be cut out with a 

 sharp knife or i)rol)ed with a wire. 

 The earth should then be replaced 

 around the tree and left until the 

 middle of September, so that eggs will 



not be laid again in the formerly in- 

 fested portion. .\ spray of one gallon 

 of commercial lime-sulphur to eight 

 gallons of water, with a pound of arse- 

 nate of lead paste and a little lime 

 added, has reduced the number of 

 borers when caiefully applied in early 

 .lune to the tree ti-iinks and large 

 branches, again in mid-.luly and later 

 in early August. However, like other 

 sprays, it has not been a conii)lete 

 remedy in experimental spraying tests 

 against this peach enemy. — Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station Bulletin. 



