August, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 17 



Shortage of Apple Boxes 

 Probable 



THE habit of pre-financing fruit box 

 deals by box manufacturers of the Pa- 

 cific Northwest to growers and dealers will, 

 it feems, this season mean a shortage of 

 apple boxes. 



For months past manufacturers have 

 urged the advance buying of apple boxes in 

 order to more evenly distribute the manu- 

 facturing and delivery of the heavy de- 

 mand that is made on manufacturers dur- 

 ing the closing months of the season when 

 picking and harvesting of apples in the 

 Northwest is at the peak. 



To encourage early buying, make for a 

 more even distribution of delivery of apple 

 boxes and eliminate the extreme market 

 conditions as was experienced in 1919 with 

 an uncertainty on a rising market, the same 

 uncertainty prevailing in 1920 on a de- 

 clining market, it should be understood the 

 earlv spring market should prevail during 

 the life of each season's crop. 



Owing to the unusual financial situation 

 this year most manufacturers were unable 

 to extend credit as has been the rule in 

 former years. Growers and dealers were to 

 a great extent in the same depressed condi- 

 tion, which resulted in increased efforts to 

 hold manufacturers to their former practice 

 of extending credit. Most manufacturers 

 being utterly unable to meet this situation 

 has resulted in less apple boxes having been 

 furnished this season than any year in the 

 history of the industry. 



With less than a 25 per cent normal de- 

 mand in the salmon box business for West 

 Coast manufacturers this season, they were 

 forced to increase efforts in a further de- 

 velopment of other markets. The result of 

 this has developed considerable business 

 from eastern territory as well as from for- 

 eign fields. This came from concerns who 

 placed large contracts and take the cash 

 discount on delivery. These early efforts 

 in that direction it seems are now bringing 

 results, enhanced by the apparent break of 

 the "buyers' boycott" of all merchandise 

 and food products. 



With this increased business from mis- 

 cellaneous commodity shippers and with 

 about 70 per cent of the apple box require- 

 ments together with pear and peach boxes 

 and the usual demand for dried fruit, 

 ct cetera, a great many manufacturers find 

 themselves unable to take additional busi- 

 ness for immediate delivery. 



Growers and dealers anticipating a bump- 

 er crop now sense the situation and are 

 endeavoring to have apple boxes delivered 

 promptly. 



West Coast plants are trying to meet the 

 situation through the increased length of 

 the working day, while others are operating 

 night shifts. One plant is operating a ten- 

 hour day shift with an eleven-hour night 

 shift. Another is operating three eight- 

 hour shifts. 



Stump Land 75%?? 





Cleai^ed 

 Land 25% 



Take an Inventory 



of Your Land ! 



ARE you making as much money as you can 

 L out of your farm.? Just stop and do a little 

 figuring for a moment. This table will make 

 figuring easier. Fill in the proper figures: 



Acres Profit Loss 



1. Under cultivation 



2. Stump and swamp land 



3. This same idle land (2) cleared pro- 

 ducing profit per acre equal to(l) 



4. Present total profit(l-2) 



5. Possible total profit (1+3) 



Is it not just plain ^ood business to make idle 

 stump and swamp land into producing land — to 

 shift it from the loss column to the profit column.' 



The dynamite method is the usual method 

 today for stump and boulder blasting, ditching 

 and tree-planting as well. 



But to make sure of the best results in land 

 clearing always use 



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 the use of dynamite on the farm, sent on request. 



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Portland Seattle Spokane 



Loganberry Borers 



T^HE loganberry crown borers, which oc- 

 ■'• cur as elongated white worms timnel- 

 ing within the crown and roots of the 

 loganberry and raspberry, are causing an 

 unusual amount of injury this season. 



Seriously injured plants should be dug 

 and burned. The borer tunnels up in the 

 new cane and girdles it from within, form- 

 ing a blush ring around its base and caus- 

 ing the cane to wilt. Because of this habit 

 the best method of control as yet developed 

 is as follows: 



Visit the fields in late June and again 

 in July looking for the wilted canes, typi- 

 cal evidence of borer work. Grasp the 

 wilted cane in the gloved hand and re- 

 move it by twisting and pulling at the 

 same time. The borer will generally be in 

 the severed cane, but in case that it is not, 

 a wire should be pushed down into the stub 

 left on the bush. The borer in the cane will 

 die a short time after the cane has been 

 broken off. Where rigorously followed up 

 this treatment will reduce the infestation to 

 a negligible degree. 



