May, 1922 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page Twenty-one 



Wasco County's Plan 



IN ORDER that greater development of 

 agricultural and horticultural resources 

 of Wasco County may be obtained, The 

 Dalles-Wasco County Chamber of Com- 

 merce recently formed a bureau which has 

 been designated the Agriculture and Hor- 

 ticulture Bureau. W. S. Nelson, connected 

 for the past four years with Libby, McNeil 

 & Libby, is in charge of the bureau. 



Mr. Nelson's thorough knowledge of 

 the cannery business well fits him for the 

 position of adviser to those planting new 

 acreages, in seeing to it that an adequate 

 tonnage of each variety is planted to assure 

 a real commercial output. This, in turn, 

 will assure an outlet. For instance: If 

 one man plants an acre or two of red rasp- 

 berries, another strawberries, another logan- 

 berries, another peaches, another pears and 

 still another something else, there will not 

 be tonnage enough of any one kind of 

 fruit to make advantageous sales possible, 

 either to a cannery or in packed form. 



Another function of the bureau will be 

 the scientific analyzing of soils to deter- 

 mine for what crop they are best fitted. 

 Through co-operative methods of city and 

 country and the application of practical 

 plans, greater development of areas now 

 farmed and those undeveloped will be ob- 

 tained. The ranchers are enthusiastic over 

 the new plan and are approving it by set- 

 ting out orchards on lands not now planted. 



or clearing and preparing undeveloped 

 areas within their holdings for early 

 orchard planting. 



Various tree fruits have been successfully 

 produced in quantity and quality during 

 past years so the land owners are well in- 

 formed as to the adaptability of certain 

 fruits to the various valleys and uplands. 

 The gardening experience of these farmers 

 furnishes the guide post as to the crops that 

 can best be grown and marketed and it is 

 upon this experience that future develop- 

 ment will go forward without useless waste 

 of effort, time, material or money. 



There will be no printing of pamphlets, 

 say the bureau heads, telling of glowing 

 possibilities in order to secure immigration. 

 While more people are wanted and needed, 

 those that come will have the use of the 

 bureau at their disposal and will receive 

 thorough and reliable information and be 

 guided by all protective means possible in 

 securing their location and being advised 

 as to what crops may be successfully grown 

 and marketed. After all is said and done, 

 the human factor is all important in de- 

 velopment and the success of the individual 

 is the success of all. 



Better Fruit // a mighty fine maga- 

 zine and I sure like to read it. I am in- 

 terested in filberts at fresent and zvant to 

 set out a grove of them. — Cicero Grimm, 

 Aurora, Orego)i. 



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