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of apples that would ordinarily be bar- 

 reled are evaporated and the grade of 

 stock produced is correspondingly im- 

 proved. On the other hand, in years of 

 scanty crops, when all apples that can 

 possibly be shipped are in demand at 

 high prices, only the very poorest fruit 

 is evaporated, as a rule, thus lowering 

 the grade of the output. 



The commercial grading of evapor- 

 ated apples is based primarily on ap- 

 pearance rather than on dessert qual- 

 ity, and the fact that one variety may 

 make a better flavored product than an- 

 other is not considered. As a rule, a 

 product of high commercial grade can 

 be made from any sort which has a 

 firm texture and bleaches to a satisfac- 

 tory degree of whiteness. A variety of 

 high dessert quality, such as the North- 

 ern Spy, may be expected to make an 

 evaporated product of correspondingly 

 high flavor. 



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In sections where the Baldwin apple 

 is grown extensively, it is in demand at 

 the commercial evaporators, as jt meets 

 the requirements in a fair degree and it 

 is also available in relatively large 

 quantities. In the Ben Davis sections 

 that variety supplies a similar demand. 



Most early varieties lack sufficient 

 firmness of texture for the best results 

 and are undesirable on this account. On 

 the other hand, some comparatively 

 early sorts, such as Gravenstein and 

 Yellow Summer Pearmain, are consid- 

 erably prized in some sections. The 

 dessert quality of the latter is especially 

 high. 



Similarly the product made from 

 other sorts possesses qualities that are 

 due more or less to varietal character- 

 istics. For instance, that from Esopus 

 is said to be unusually white; Hubbard- 

 ston and varieties of the Russet group 

 also make very white stock. The lat- 

 ter make relatively a large amount of 

 stock, by weight, to a given quantity of 

 fresh fruit. Limbertwig is said to pro- 

 duce from one and one-half to two 

 pounds a bushel more of dried stock 

 than most sort do, but it is not as white 

 as that from some other varieties. — The 

 Evaporator. 



Leaf Roller Serious Pest 



The seriousness of the leaf roller as 

 a pest was recently shown to a large 

 number of growers in the Spokane 

 valley when an orchard demonstration 

 was held by the district horticultural 

 inspector in that district to show the 

 results of its work. It was found that 

 in many instances the work of this in- 

 sect had been so destructive that there 

 will be but little fruit and in some 

 cases none at all. In telling of the diffi- 

 cutly in getting the growers interested 

 in combatting this pest the horticultural 

 inspector writes Better Fruit as 

 follows: 



"During last season the writer en- 

 countered in the Spokane Valley the 

 larva of the fruit tree leaf roller work- 

 ing in some of the orchards and tried 



to impress upon our growers the serious 

 nature of this pest — it is quite apparent 

 that we did not get very far in this 

 matter for most of them felt that it 

 was a "joke" — but I can assure you that 

 they have now decided after seeing the 

 ravages of this little "chap" thus far 

 this season, that they really have some- 

 thing that is going to put them out of 

 business if they do not concentrate 

 every effort to exterminate it. We have 

 only recently been able to hold an or- 

 chard demontration at which were 

 present 175 fruit growers, and we final- 

 ly took steps to secure something defi- 

 nite in the nature of a supply of mis- 

 cible oils for another season's spraying 

 campaign, which by the way so far has 



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