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Eastern Growers 



MID-WKST and eastern orchardists are 

 planning to follow the Pacific Coast 

 practices in growing and marketing their 

 fruits in an attempt to recapture their own 

 home markets now largely hold by the far- 

 west trade. They are telling themselves 

 that if they prune to get better size and 

 color in their fruit, spray to keep down in- 

 sects and diseases, pick the fruit tenderly 

 to keep it free of bruises, and then put it 

 up in attractive box packs which are held in 

 cold storage "with enough moisture to 

 prevent shriveling," they can oust the wes- 

 tern product because of the advantage they 

 have in transportation charges. 



This does not mean that the coast 

 growers are bound to lose the markets, com- 

 ments W. S. Brown, chief of horticulture 

 at Oregon Agricultural College Experiment 

 station. Superior climatic conditions m.ike 

 for a certaintv of crop much above that of 

 the eastern conditions, and also lend a high 

 color and fine quality that are truly dis- 

 tinctive. The industry is a business in it- 

 self here, while in the more eastern districts 

 it is only a side-line that will not get the 

 studv and attention it receives here. 



Western men have a big advantage in the 

 cost of containers. Professor Brown points 

 out. Nearness to box lumber mills enables 

 the western grower to buy good boxes at 

 1 2 ■ and 1 6 cents, whereas, the eastern 

 growers paid as high as $1.50 per barrel of 

 three bushels capacity last year. 



With a further reduction in freight rates 

 bv rail to eastern points, and increasing 

 shipments through the canal to European 

 markets the Pacific Coast growers may 

 expect to find outlets for their surplus 

 high grade fruits. 



BETTER FRUIT 



on the unthinned tree. The cost of thin- 

 ning was estimated at 50c per tree. The 

 two trees were the same size, in the same 

 condition and as near alike in set of fruit 

 and general thriftlness as it was possible to 

 select. The unthinned tree had slightly 

 more apples on it than the thinned tree, 

 but both trees packed out about the same 

 number of boxes. The thinned tree, how- 

 ever, had the advantage in size of fruit and 

 in color, making the crop on it worth $3.20 

 more than that of the unthinned tree. 



Codling IMoth Bulletin 



BASED upon spraying experiments con- 

 ducted In several orchards during the 

 seasons of 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918, on 

 representative apple varieties, the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has issued Department 

 Bulletin 959, a professional paper entitled, 

 "Experiments and Suggestions for the Con- 

 trol of the Codling Moth in the Grand 

 V'alley of Colorado." by E. H. Siegler and 

 H. k. Plank. 



Spraying schedules for three applications 

 are also given. Best results, it was found, 

 were obtained from arsenate of lead at the 

 rate of 1 pound of the powder or 2 pounds 

 of the paste to 50 gallons of water. The 

 matter of spraying equipment, together 

 with supplemental control measures, is also 

 discussed In the bulletin. 



Profits of Thinning 



APPLE thinning tests conducted In the 

 orchard of O. W. Melton in the Fruit- 

 vale district, Yakima valley, this season by 

 E. G. Wood, extension horticulturist of the 

 Washington State College, in co-operation 

 with the farm bureau, indicated that the 

 thinning increased the value of the fruit 

 $3.20 per tree. Increase in the value of 

 the crop at that rate in this particular or- 

 chard, where the trees are 100 to the acre, 

 would be $320 per acre. 



In view of the fact that the thinning 

 was said to have been done later than it 

 might have been and in view of compara- 

 tively small size of the fruit, the benefit 

 from the thinning is not as pronounced as 

 might be expected and the estimate of its 

 value In the crop, $320 per acre. Is quite 

 conservative, it is stated. Mr. Wood put on 

 12 thinning demonstrations in Yakima 

 county this year and it is the general belief 

 that the instruction given will bear fruit in 

 more care In thinning and larger size of 

 fruit. 



In this particular test the value of the 

 fruit on the thinned trees amounted to $24- 

 as against a value of $20.5 for the fruit 



December, 1921 

 Enemies of Grapes 



PERHAPS no horticultural crop so well 

 illustrates the serious loss which may 

 result from native species of insects and I 

 fungi attacking cultivated varieties of their 

 natural wild food plants as does the grape. 

 In a new Farmers' Bulletin of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, No. 

 1220, Insect and Fungous Enemies of the 

 Grape, 64 out of 75 pages are devoted to 

 description, history, and control measures 

 for those of principal importance. 



Several of these species in certain sections 

 rank as first-class pests, such as the grape 

 rootworm, grape-berry moth, grape cur- 

 culio, grape leaf-hopper, grape leaf-folder, 

 grapevine flea-beetle, rose-chafer, grape 

 phv'loxera, and the like. The bulletin, 

 which may be had upon application, also 

 deals with species which ordinarily are not 

 important except during occasional seasons, 

 or more or less locally, but are neverthe- 

 less the subject of many inquiries to the 

 department every year. 



Insect and fungous enemies of grapes are 

 not less amenable to treatment than pests of 

 other fruit crops, and the bulletin outlines 

 methods of prevention and control which 

 have been demonstrated by the investiga- 

 tors of the department to be successful. 



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