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will be attached to the force of Field Ento- 

 mologist D. B. Mackie. Mr. Wice is a grad- 

 uate of the Iowa State College, and prior to 

 this was with the Agricultural Extension 

 Service of the C, B. & Q. Railway. He was 

 also engaged in agricultural reclamation work 

 in Maryland in the United States Civil Service. 

 At present his duties will be confined to 

 work on the walnut codling moth in Southern 

 counties. 



Prune and apricot growers, nun-members 

 of the California Prune and Apricot Growers, 

 Inc., the growers' state-wide co-operative mar- 

 keting association, who stood to lose hun- 

 dreds of thousands of dollars on their 1920 

 crops through their inability to find imme- 

 diate buyers for their fruit, will be permitted 

 to sell their 1920 crops through the associa- 

 tion under terms of an arrangement that has 

 recently been made. The association will take 

 care of the prunes and apricots these growers 

 deliver by forming a second pool and making 

 a first payment to them equal to the collateral 

 value of their fruits in the warehouses of the 

 association. Growers taking advantage of the 

 association's offer will sign the regular crop 

 contract and become members of the asso- 

 ciation. H. G. Coykendall, general manager 

 of the association, said that the association 

 would fully protect its present members by 

 not selling a pound of the prunes or apricots 

 received under the new arrangement until it 

 had made complete settlement with its old 

 members for all the fruit they delivered this 

 fall. Hundreds of outside growers were left 

 stranded last August when the association re- 

 fused to handle crops for non-members after 

 it had named the price it would pay its mem- 

 bers for their fruit. The independent packers, 

 it is said, finding these outside growers at 

 their mercy, have been declining to buy their 

 fruit except at prices several cents under the 

 existing market quotations. 



California As A Boxed 

 Apple State 



Few people, says the Monthly Bulletin of the 

 California State Department ' of Agriculture, 

 realize the importance of California as a boxed 

 apple state. Of the total number of cars of 

 boxed apples shipped in 1919, California 

 ranked second, the State of Washington being 

 the only one to exceed it. According to figures 

 recently given by the United States Bureau of 

 Markets, California was followed by the num- 

 ber of cars shipped in 1919 by Oregon, Idaho 

 and Colorado in the order named. These fig- 

 ures show that California in 1919 shipped 4147 

 cars, and of that number 539 cars were un- 

 loaded in New York City, and that 76 per cent 

 of California apples were unloaded at the ten 

 principal market centers of the United States. 

 It would seem, therefore, that New York is 

 by far the most important outlet for Western 

 apples. 



That California will continue to be a very 

 important factor in the shipment of boxed 

 apples is indicated by the statistics covering 

 the non-bearing acreage of the state. Figures 

 compiled by the California Development Board 

 show that there were 690,835 non-bearing trees 

 in San Bernardino County alone in 1919, which 

 is more than the total number of bearing and 

 non-bearing trees in Santa Cruz County for 

 the same year. These figures, it is stated, 

 may be taken as indicative of the non-bearing 

 acreage in other Southern California districts. 



Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen 

 and Fruit Growers 



According to a cablegram of recent date 

 from the American Agricultural Trade Com- 

 missioner in London, cheap varieties of apples 

 from European countries are now glutting the 

 English market, and the supply will last until 

 early November. The supply of American 

 apples was also reported as plentiful. The 

 total quantity reported landed and afloat for 

 the English market on October 11 was re- 

 ported at 125,000 barrels. 



A statement recently issued by C. B. Stewart, 

 Jr., business manager of the Florida Citrus 

 Exchange, is to the effect that the coming sea- 

 son's crop of citrus fruits in Florida will 

 be somewhat less than last year's vield. Mr. 

 Stewart says reports reaching the Tampa of- 

 fices of the Exchange from the various citrus 

 sections of the state indicate the orange crop 

 now showing on the trees to be somewhat in 

 excess of that of last year, but the apparent 

 shortage of grapefruit will more than offset 

 this, if reports are accurate. He says it is 

 extremely difficult to make a close estimate 

 while fruit still is green on the trees; and 

 that even the closest of present estimates must 

 be subject to revision later. 



A report furnished to the Bureau of Mar- 

 kets in regard to the wiring of fruit packages 

 for export is of particular interest to the 

 Northwest shippers. The report is as fol- 

 lows: "That effective for all shipments leav- 



ing point of origin on and after July 15, 1920, 

 apples and other green or citrus fruits in 

 boxes must be strapped or wired; also, that 

 all dried fruits, canned goods, including can- 

 ned meats and goods packed in jars or bottles, 

 shall be charged 10 cents per 100 pounds in 

 addition to the individual rates of the line 

 over which the commodity is shipped, unless 

 containers are strapped or wired." 



The American Fruit Growers, Inc., has re- 

 cently made public the figures for its first 

 thirteen months of operation, ending June 30, 

 1920. Its gross sales were $34,487,000, and 

 surplus earnings, after payment of all in- 

 terest charges, Federal taxes for 1919, and 

 preferred stock dividends, were §694,227, equal 

 to approximately S13 per share on the out- 

 standing common stock. 



During that period the company handled 

 31,280 cars of fruits and vegetables', made up 

 as follows: Polatoes, 6,120 cars; citrus fruits, 



5,262 cars; cantaloupes, 4,748 cars; apples, 

 2,863 cars; other, 12,187 cars. 



The company maintains extensive jobbing 

 offices in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago and 

 St. Louis, and car-lot sales offices in the other 

 principal markets of the country. In addition 

 to its marketing operations, the company owns 

 and operates more than 8,000 acres of apple 

 and peach orchards, citrus groves and vege- 

 table farms located in the best commercial 

 districts and representing an investment of 

 s5. 600,000. The company has outstanding 

 .?.">, 202, 800, 7 per cent, cumulative convertible 

 preferred stock) 53,581 shares of common 

 stock of no par value, and $1,000,000, 7 per 

 cent, convertible notes due 1922-26. 



The company's fifth regular quarterly divi- 

 di'iid on its preferred stock was payable Oc- 

 tober 20. The American Fruit Growers oper- 

 ates in every section of the United States and 

 is concerned with all branches of the fruit 

 and vegetable industry from growing the crops 



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The tree at the left was planted in 

 dynamited hole. Cultivation methods 

 did not differ from those given to 

 trees planted without using dynamite. 



Plant with Dynamite — 



Trees bear a year sooner 



EXPLODING a very small charge of dynamite in the 

 ground when a tree is to be planted not only makes 

 the planting easier but the sub-soil is so shattered that 

 roots grow faster and greater stores of plant-food are 

 made available. 



America's leading orchardists and nurserymen who have 

 planted millions of trees with 



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say that their trees bear fruit a year (frequently two years') 

 earlier than those planted in spade-dug holes; first year 

 losses are practically stopped ; fungus and nematode are 

 completely destroyed; fruit is finer in quality and size. 

 Plant all your trees with dynamite and be sure to tell 

 your dealer "Du Pont Dynamite." 



Write for details on tree planting described in our book 

 "Developing Logged-off Lands." It is yours for the asking. 



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Hoge Building 



Seattle, Washington 



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