December^ 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 17 



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Send in a Letter 



S A REMINDER and incentive to 

 influence many readers to send in 

 "experience letters" to be run in the 

 Homeseekers' number, coming out January 

 1, the prize awards offered are here listed 

 again: 



Ten dollars cash, first prize, for best 

 and most informative letter. 



Five dollars cash, second prize, for next 

 best letter. 



Two-year subscriptions and extra copies 

 of the issue to all others writing acceptable 

 letters. 



The letters should deal with personal 

 experiences in growing fruits, berries or 

 nuts, or any combination of these. Loca- 

 tion, dates, size of tracts, yields and 

 figures on returns are needed to make the 

 letttcrs convincing. Read the article on 

 filbert growing by Nat M. Norelius in 

 the October number and you have an ex- 

 cellent illustration of how to detail your 

 experiences. 



Letters should not be over 800 to 1000 

 words long and should reach the editor 

 not later than December 22. Have the 

 wife or daughter pen the letter if you 

 happen to be pretty busy. It will be a 

 favor if you write on but one side of vour 

 paper. 



Delay will make you too late, so sit 

 right down and pen a letter that will give 

 the eastern homeseeker first-hand infor- 

 mation about what you have accomplished. 



Any who do not send us an experience 

 message, but who want extra copies of the 

 number, can make sure of getting them 

 only by ordering them in advance — right 

 now. 



College Holds Show 



A ROUND a mammoth pyramid built 

 -^^ from 6000 rosy-cheeked apples, dis- 

 plays of fruits, flowers and vegetables trans- 

 formed the men's gymnasium into an 

 Egyptian garden at the sixth annual Oregon 

 Agricultural College horticultural show, 

 November 4 and 5. 



The sides of the "gym" were allotted 

 to the four main divisions of horticulture: 

 pomology, vegetable gardening, floriculture 

 and horticultural by-products. 



Sixty kinds of apples, produced chiefly 

 at the college experiment station, 20 

 varieties of grapes, district displays of 

 apples, a large exhibit of pears from the 

 southern Oregon experiment station, 20 

 entries of walnuts, an odd lot of such nuts 

 as the Kola, the Pili, and Paradise, and sub- 

 tropical fruit comprised the exhibits pre- 

 pared by the department of pomology. 



An exhibit from British Columbia, sent 

 in by William de Macedo, a student, won 

 first blue ribbon in the district displays. 

 A collection of Medford fruits, sent by 

 Willette B. Murray, won second place. 

 Professor W. S. Brown, head of the depart- 

 ment of horticulture, judged the exhibit. 



1 922 Will Be the Northwest's Greatest 

 Land Clearing Year 



Hundreds of thousands of acres of waste stump land were cleared and 

 farmed in the Northwest during 1921. But the stump enemy must be 

 beaten still further. Most farmers are planning to increase their in- 

 comes in 1922 by clearing even more land than last year. 



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STUMPING POWDERS 

 (Du Pont and Repauno Brands) 



Make your plans now. Take an inventory of your land. Resolve to 

 put just as many idle, waste acres to work for you in 1922 as you can 

 clear. 



More land has been cleared in the Northwest with Du Pont Stumping 

 Powders than by any other explosive merely because their uniformity 

 makes them the most reliable and their strength makes them the cheapest. 



You can buy Du Pont Stumping Powders from your hardware dealer 

 or general store. For complete instructions for using explosives for land- 

 clearing, drain.age and tree-planting, write for free copy of Development 

 of Logged-ofF Lands. 



E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. 



SPOK.\NE— SEATTLE— PORTLAND 



Nursery Stock Quarantine 



A QUARANTINE has been established 

 against the importation into Washing- 

 ton of nursery stock from the counties of 

 San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Ala- 

 meda, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, 

 Solano, Contra Costa, Napa, San Francisco, 

 Marin and Sonoma in California and Linn, 

 Marion and Polk counties in Oregon. The 

 quarantine was issued because of prevalence 

 of pear thrips which is not prevalent in the 

 state of Washington. 



Every shipment of nursery stock or any 

 other host of pear thrips from the counties 



and territories mentioned must have all 

 foreign particles thoroughly removed from 

 the roots, and during the period of activity 

 of the pear thrips, namely March, April 

 and May, all parts of nursery stock except 

 roots must be dipped in a solution of mis- 

 cible oil No. 2 (five gallons), and black 

 leaf 40, (one pint to 200 gallons of water). 

 All shipments of nursery stock from these 

 sections into Washington must be accom- 

 panied by an official certificate from a local 

 horticultural inspector or quarantine officer 

 showing that these regulations have been 

 complied with. 



