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Annual Conference 

 of Horticulturists 



HORTICULTURISTS, entomologists 

 and plant pathologifts of the North- 

 west and British Columbia held an im- 

 portant series of meetings at Hood River, 

 Oregon, July 26 to 29, when they gathered 

 for their fourth annua! conference. 



The conference was held under the 

 direction of W. S. Brown, chief of the 

 Division of Horticulture of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College and was attended by 

 30 to 40 experts. Containing a list of im- 

 portant problems that are confronting the 

 fruitgrowers and farmers of the Northwest 

 the program brought out information and 

 discussions that proved highly valuable to 

 all present. The various colleges and 

 experiment stations in Oregon, Washington, 

 Idaho, Utah and British Columbia were 

 represented and the comparative data se- 

 cured on some of the foremost questions 

 considered will lead, it is expected, to an 

 improvement in a number of the methods 

 employed in fruit culture. 



An interesting phase of the conference 

 were a number of demonstrations conducted 

 in Hood River orchards by Gordon G. 

 Brown and Leroy Childs of the Hood 

 River Experiment Station. Social features 

 were a dinner at the Columbia Gorge Hotel 

 an automobile tour of the valley and a vis't 

 to Cloud Cap Inn, where 20 of the 

 party remained over night and made the 

 ascent of Mt. Hood in the morning. 



At the close of the meeting it was de- 

 cided to formally organize a body to be 

 known as the Northwestern Association of 

 Horticulturists, Plant Pathologists and En- 

 tomologists. Professor O. M. Morris of 

 the Washington State College was elected 

 president, and a vice-president and jpcrc- 

 tary-treasurer will be elected later. It is 

 the plan to have each of the three sciences 

 represented by an officer. 



An AppleBook of Notable 

 Interest 



"T^HE Commercial Apple Industry of 

 -'- North America," is the title of a new 

 book by J. C. Folger, assistant secretary In- 

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 S. M. Thompson, formerly fruit crop spe- 

 cialist, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Professor Brown of O. A. C, has reviewed 

 the book and considers it very good — "one 

 of the most up-to-date books on the sub- 

 ject," is his comment. 



In collecting material for this work, the 

 authors have visited practically every im- 

 portant apple-growing country in the 

 United States; first in connection with a 

 special investigation of the cost of pro- 

 ducing apples in important regions, con- 

 ducted by the office of farm management, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture; and later 

 as fruit crop specialists engaged in organiz- 

 ing a system for estimating the commercial 

 apple crop of the United States. 



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