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ATTENTION! 



Boys 



and 



Girls 



I want to hear from every boy and 

 girl who would be willing to devote 

 just about one hour's spare time. I 

 will reward them for their services 

 with choice of the following articles: 

 Premo Cameras 

 Raincapes 

 Rain Hats 

 Flashlights 



Beautiful pencil boxes with as- 

 sortment of pencils and pens 

 Fancy stationery, and many 

 other beautiful articles. 

 And for those who would like to 

 start in the Poultry business, I will 

 start them by supplying pure-bred 

 Chickens Free. 



For full particulars enter your 

 name and address on the coupon be- 

 low and tell me what you would like 

 to have. I will tell you how easy it 

 is to get it. 



B. MARCUM, 



Director of Circulation, 



800 Oregonian Bldg., Portland, Oregon. 



Please tell me how I can secure 



(name article 



desired.) 



My name is 



Address 



Post Office 



Winter Nelis Pears 



Sweet Cherries 



Apricots and 



Grapes 



A SPECIALTY 



Home Nursery Co. 



RICHLAND, WASH. 



The Old Reliable 



BELL & CO. 



Incorporated 



WHOLESALE 



Fruit and Produce 



112-114 Front Street 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



BETTER FRUIT 



equivalent of .7 per cent of copper 

 sulphate, proved very successful 

 against the late blight of potatoes in 

 Maine. Such a spray containing the 

 equivalent of .6 per cent of copper sul- 

 phate was tested one season in Vir- 

 ginia and did not injure the foliage 

 or fruit of the apple trees. 



Remedies for Pear Slug. 



To destroy the pear and cherry slug, 

 which is said by Prof. A. L. Lovett, en- 

 tomologist at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College, to be unusually active re- 

 cently, spray with one pound of ar- 

 senate of lead powder to 50 gallons of 

 water. Sulphur, air-slacked lime or 

 wood ashes sifted over the foliage are 

 also said by Mr. Lovett to be good rem- 

 edies to apply for this pest, which de- 

 stroys the foliage and is especially de- 

 structive to young trees. 



October, IQ20 



shaped cane. These canes are trained 

 to a wire or permitted to lay over a 

 hop pole. This plan gives a much 

 longer harvesting season since the 

 earliest and consequently the highest- 

 priced berries are borne on the ends 

 of these long canes. It has been esti- 

 mated that where the grower removes 

 the top of his bush berries he is cut- 

 ting off at least 25 per cent of the 

 crop and by so doing causes his har- 

 vest to ripen at nearly one time in- 

 stead of over a much longer period. 



Pruning Cane Fruits 



By Gordon G. Brown, of the Hood River 

 Experiment Station. 



Considerable difference in the man- 

 agement of can fruits has taken place 

 during the past few years. Probably 

 no district has done more to demon- 

 strafe different systems than the Pyal- 

 lup Valley growers. Formerly the 

 policy was to grow raspberries in 

 hills, four to five feet apart. When 

 the new canes were four feet high 

 they were headed so as to throw out 

 latterals. Now, however, they have 

 found it more practical not to prune 

 at all during the growing season but 

 to permit the canes to grow as tall as 

 possible. Where this was done, plant- 

 ing was about three feet apart in the 

 row. 



During winter the side shoots are 

 trimmed off, leaving a long whip- 



Care of Nursery Stock 

 Have someone receive the stock 

 upon its arrival at the postoflice or ex- 

 press office at the other end of the 

 route. Have them heel the trees in a 

 moist, shallow, trench, covering the 

 roots with moist earth and leaving the 

 tops out but shaded from sun or pro- 

 tected from drying winds, and so hold 

 until someone is coming to your place 

 or until you can go in to get them. The 

 trees will thus be protected from drying 

 out and will be in good condition, with 

 such treatment, for a week or so. In 

 carrying them home, keep the roots 

 moist and covered, away from the sun 

 and dry air. 



Miscible Oil Demand Increases. 

 The larger demand for miscible oil 

 as a spray for certain varieties of or- 

 chard pests has resulted in the loca- 

 tion of the headquarters of distribut- 

 ing agents at available points in the 

 Northwest One of the latest to estab- 

 lish an agency in this section is the 

 East Bay Chemical Company of Cali- 

 fornia, which has made Spohn & 

 Wing Northwest distributors for their 

 miscible oil spray Zeno. Spohn & 

 Wing have established their head- 

 quarters in Portland. 



All Fruits and Vegetables Can Be Shipped In 



Universal 



Package 



The most delicate fruits or vegetables can be 

 shipped in these packages without danger of crush- 

 ing. Though light in weight they are extremely 

 strong. Use them for peaches, potatoes, apples, 

 grapes, sweet potatoes, plums, etc. Hold standard 

 bushel. Pack right in held. Ship direct to market 

 without repacking. Covers fastened without nails. 



Write for prices TO DA Y 



PACKAGE SALES CORPORATION 



106 East Jefferson Street, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



Write for FREE monthly 

 bulletin. Tells how to 

 spray, pack, ship, how to 

 avoid shipping losses, how 

 to get top market prices. 

 Illustrated. 



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