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BETTER FRUIT 



July, 1920 



of simple subtraction to determine the 

 whole number of boxes harvested for 

 the season. In fact a season's report 

 can be made out and has been made 

 out in fifteen minutes. 



The report is really in two parts, one 

 part on which the statistical records 

 are kept, as has just been described 

 above, while the other part of the re- 

 port sheet is a diagramatic representa- 

 tion of the bog itself, on which the 

 particular section being picked that day 

 is shaded, and such other remarks made 

 which will be of interest to the grower 

 in the years to come. The purpose 

 being to give the proper production 

 credit to those particular sections of 

 the marsh which so deserve the credit. 

 This being very much in the same man- 

 ner as the dairyman tries to give every 

 cow her proper credit. 



The advantage of this can be readily 

 seen. To illustrate, during the past 

 season one Clatsop cranberry grower, 

 who had kept accurate production rec- 

 ords of his marsh for the preceding 

 year, was able to estimate his entire 

 crop to a surprising degree of accuracy 

 after picking a single acre. The varia- 

 tion between his estimate and the crop 

 actually picked being about one per 

 cent. 



The use of this system is strongly 

 recommended to every grower of small 

 fruit, where the picker is paid by the 

 piece. The system is not theoretical, 

 but is intensely practical. Its results 

 are final and absolute. The numbering 

 on the tickets is as accurate as an add- 

 ing machine's computations. It is sim- 

 plicity itself and will be found not only 

 interesting but fascinating as well. 



Below is a daily report as taken from 

 one of the picking days during the 

 cranberry harvesting season: 



The use of the numbered tickets will 

 well repay the grower as against the 

 old method of using the same tickets 

 over and over again. The tickets should 

 be used but once and destroyed. Their 

 cost is but slight, and their use so very 

 satisfactory, that once the grower uses 

 them, he will never go back to any 

 other system. Should the grower use 

 only the tickets and not the daily re- 

 port sheets, he will have at least ac- 

 curately kept the number of units of 

 his fruit, whether boxes, measures or 

 carriers, for the entire season, and this 

 information is worth the price of the 

 tickets many times over. 



Specially printed tickets can be had 

 in rolls of 2000 tickets each. The larger 

 the lot ordered the better the price. A 

 grower should estimate his needs for 

 some years to come and order enough 

 to cover his needs for several years. In 

 this way his ticket cost will be but little 

 each year. Five dollars would supply 

 tickets enough for a very large crop. 

 Five dollars would not be too much to 

 pay for a bookkeeper that would keep 

 exact count of the total number of tick- 

 ets given out throughout the entire sea- 

 son. The movie people have been 

 awake to the value of this ticket and 

 have used it for several years, and the 

 mere fact that these successful busi- 

 ness men use them universally, should 

 be sufficient recommendation as to 

 their value. We have no doubt but that 

 the fruit grower will be using them 

 just as universally within a short time. 



Controlling the Cherry Fruit Fly 



Cherry growers who have been the 

 victims of the destructive work of the 

 cherry fruit fly, an insect that hereto- 



fore has baffled the efforts of experts 

 to combat it will be interested in know- 

 ing that A. B. Black, assistant entomol- 

 ogist at the Oregon Agricultural College 

 Experiment Station after a study of this 

 pest extending over a considerable pe- 

 riod is able to give methods for its 

 control. 



The remedy announced by Mr. Black 

 to check the cherry fruit fly is to spray 

 with a solution of one pound of basic 

 arsenate of lead to 16 gallons of water, 

 to which should be added four pounds 

 of brown sugar or one gallon of some 

 sweet syrup. This solution should be 

 applied to the trees from a nozzle giv- 

 ing a coarse mist, each tree receiving 

 a quantity of spray equivalent to about 

 a pint. The first application should be 

 made about June 10 and two following 

 applications put on at an interval of 

 five to seven days. If rains occur a new 

 application should be made as soon as 

 the trees dry off. 



The cherry fruit fly lays its eggs on 

 the fruit, injecting them just under the 

 skin. These eggs hatch into small mag- 

 gots which burrow into the fruit where 

 they feed for a period of 15 to 20 days 

 rendering it unfit for use. On leaving 

 the fruits the maggots drop to the 

 ground where they burrow in and re- 

 main until the following spring, emerg- 

 ing usually about the latter part of May 

 as adult flies. Fond of moisture, the 

 fly is said by Mr. Black to appear on 

 the fruit early in the morning, where 

 it may be seen drinking dew from the 

 leaves. After the dew has dried off is 

 the time recommended to apply the 

 spraying solution alluded to above. 



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MARSH OF 



CLATSOP CRANBERRY 



COMPANY 



Allendale, Oregon 



Wednesday, October 8, 1919. 

 Weather: A.M. Fair. 

 P.M. Fair. 

 Begin 8:30. 

 Ended 5 :45. 



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DAILY REPORT No. 15. 



Previous day's final ticket number 20810 



Today's final ticket number 21114 



Difference 301 



Number measures picked 304 



Equivalent in crates 



Number of crates raked 



Total for day 



Previous day's season's total 



Today's season's total 



Number pickers 



304 Measures at 25c $76.00 



Total picking cost $ 



Picking cost per measure 25 



Picking cost per crate 1.00 



2 Rakers at $5.00 per day 10.00 



Total raking cost 



Raking cost per crate H2 ' - 



1 Truckman at ?5.00 per day 5.00 



1 Checker at $2.50 per day 2.50 



Total trucking and checking cost 



Trucking and checking cost per crate. .08 



Total harvesting cost 



Harvesting cost per crate 1.02 



Remarks: Anderson sisters made $9.75 today, one ; 

 ing 19, other 20 measures. 



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