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BETTER FRUIT 



31(11/, 1922 



Orchard Cultivation and 

 Improvement 



{Continued from page 6) 



a single element is wanting or whether two, 

 three or none should be given to the soil. 



The value of the fertilizers can ordin- 

 arily be found indicated in the growth of 

 the cover crops or of the weeds and grasses 

 in the orchard. Ordinarily the cover crops 

 will respond to the needed fertilizer more 

 quici;ly than will the trees, but if the cover 

 crop shows mariicd difference in the way 

 it responds to the fertilizers, it is fair in- 

 dication that in time the trees will show 

 very much the same development. 



In adding fertilizer to the soil for these 

 tests it is suggested that a good plan is to 

 apply them very early in the spring in 

 heavy rainfall districts, or later in the fall 

 in the lesser rainfall districts. These ma- 

 terials should be cultivated into the soil 

 soon after being broadcast on the land. 

 All material should be carefully pulverized 

 and scattered over the entire surface of the 

 soil. A few tests in ar;y section will 

 ordinarily be a good indication of what the 

 district may find in soil needs. 



For example, so far as I have been able 

 to learn, in the entire section of western 

 Washington, south of Chehalis, the sandy, 

 gravelly and light soils that have been cul- 

 tivated for 20 years are most generally 

 found to respond to the application of 

 nitrogen fertilizer. In the northern part 

 of Washington, I am led to believe that 

 both nitrogen and potash fertilizer are bene- 

 ficial to most of the lighter soils. Phos- 

 phorus has given encouraging results in a 

 good many districts. 



/^AUTION On Combinations — -I want 

 ^-^ to caution against the combination of 

 fertilizers such as the use of phosphorus 

 and barnyard manure or the application of 

 potash with the green cover crop and then 

 drawing the conclusion that this cover crop 

 was of .little or much value to the soil or 

 that the use of the special fertilizers was 

 the thing that gave all of the valuable 

 results. The use of barnyard manure, well 

 handled, improves practically every type of 

 e.xhausted or worn out agricultural land and 

 the mere fact that phosphorus or potash, 

 or nitrogen was used with this material and 

 that good or better crops were received does 

 not prove that the benefits would not have 

 been derived by the use of the decaying 

 vegetation alone. 



I am always in favor of advocating the 

 use of commercial fertilizers where they 

 prove profitable, or where every other pro- 

 cess possible to be applied has been used 

 without securing all of the crop improve- 

 ment desired. Our orchard soils are capable 

 of so great improvement through use of 

 cover crops and the application of the farm 

 produced fertilizers that I hesit.ite always 

 to recommend without caution the use of 

 the commercial materials. 



It is especially important that the 

 farmers and fruit growers so organize and 



Ready for use — Simply sift into the spray tank 



Oregon Growers Co-operative Association 



AtEUjled Wich OrrB^n Gtowcct Packinjt Corponiuo 



ROGUE RIVER DISTRICT 



I want to express to you my entire eatlafaotion 

 with yo-jj oaselne spreadsr sold under the trade name 

 " ■^reado'' ■ I uaed this produot on two hundred aorea 

 of my orohard in 19:^1' and found that It did every- 

 thing claimed for Bto**by your oompany. The use of 

 " Spread cT gave ua an eapeolally uniform oolorlng on 

 our red varletlaa and I oonsidar it eapeolally val- 

 uable for apraylng red frulta. 



It la reported to ma that taats oondnoted by the 

 Bureau of ChemlatTy in Washington on samplea taken from 

 my orohard showed that all of the fruit oarrled a greater 

 amount of Araenato than did a almllar camber of samplea 

 of the moat heavily blotohed fruit where no Spreado had 

 been used* 



Ve eiperlenoed no trouble nhatavar In getting 

 your produot to go into solution and aotual testa oon- 

 duoted by me showed that In spraying both applee and 

 peara a oonalderable saving la effeoted In the amount 

 of material required to oover a tree by ualng " Spreadrf' , 



I shall use It in every Arsenate spray In 1922, 



Tours very truly, 



ORBGOH GHOWEIi? COOlgRlAlf^ A33OCIATI0H 



Use "Spreado' ' in 

 your calyx spray 



Spreado 



the original and first com- 

 mercial spreader, has been 

 tried and proven, and is 

 handled by the largest Asso- 

 ciations of the northwest. IN- 

 SIST on -SPREADO." 



WHY? 



Because "SPREADO" always 

 gives excellent results. 

 Apple Grow^ers* Ass'n, Hood 

 River; Oregon Growers' Co- 

 op. Ass'n., Salem, Oregon, 

 Producers Service Company, 

 Distributors, Yakima Valley. 

 Yakima Fruit Growers* Ass'n, 

 Yakima; Yakima County Hor- 

 ticultural Union, Yakima. 

 Apple Growers' Ass'n., Hood 

 We also sell ultra-fine casein. 



Miller Products 

 Company 



Portland, Oregon 



Manufacturers 



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 of Lead month. 

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 now. (The supply 

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develop their farms that the purchase of 

 material necessitating cash outlays will be 

 kept to a minimum, so the cash returns 

 derived from the sale of products can, to 

 the largest extent possible, be considered 

 as labor income. There is no more perfect 

 manufacturing plant than our orchards and 

 farms and if we fail to use them to their 



fullest capacity we suffer a waste and this 

 waste is directly charged against the profits 

 possible to be derived from them. 



COVER CROPS are used to a large extent 

 in the eastern orchard districts and I 

 think the use of orchard cover crops west 

 of the Cascades has not been developed to 



