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BETTER FRUIT 



December, 1020 



Northwest Fruit Notes From Here and There 



OREGON. 

 The total apple crop of Oregon for 1920 as 

 estimated by F. L. Kent, Field Agent for the 

 Bureau of Crop Estimates, is now placed at 

 3,471,000 boxes, so that earlier estimates of 

 60 per cent of last year's crop for this year 

 still hold good. The report states that owing 

 to the unfavorable weather conditions during 

 the earlier part of the picking season, picking 

 was more expensive than usual, growers pay- 

 ing from 7 to 8 cents a box as compared to 

 pre-war prices of 3 to 4 cents per box. 



Prunes packed in cartons with an attractive 

 Oregon label are being shipped to the big 

 Eastern markets by the Phez Company of 

 Salem. It is believed by the company that 

 this form of package will prove very attrac- 



and that they will And 



The Eugene Fruit Growers' Association this 

 year packed out 825,000 pounds of Bartlett 

 pears, more than doubling the pack of last 

 year according to figures recently made public. 

 It is believed that nearly 1,000,000 pounds of 

 pears were packed in the Eugene district this 

 year. 



Although handicapped by bad weather har- 

 vesting the apple crop of Hood River was com- 

 pleted successfully. Up to the middle of No- 

 vember the Apple Growers Association had re- 

 ceived approximately 500,000 boxes and over 

 2(1(1,000 boxes had been delivered to other apple 

 handling concerns. 



In The Dalles-Hood River district the Libby, 

 McNeil & Libby Company recently opened the 

 market for canning apples by offering growers 

 $12 per ton. The company requires that the 

 fruit shall be 2% inches in diameter or 

 larger. 



The Hood River Glacier notes that apples 

 are being shipped out of the Hood River dis- 

 trict by parcels post at the rate of a car and 

 a half a week. The bulk of the shipments it 

 is stated go to interior, central and eastern 

 Oregon points and reach their destination on 

 motor stages. 



Statistics recently prepared show that Jack- 

 son county leads Oregon in pear acreage and 

 stands second in apple acreage. According 

 to the figures given out this county has 5264 

 acres of bearing pear trees and 2767 acres of 

 non-bearing trees. Douglas county, with 785 

 acres, has the second largest pear acreage in 



Dormant V S 



— makes vigorous fruit trees 



THE FACT that many big commercial orchardists use 

 Scalecide year after year can mean only one thing — that 

 the use of Scalecide pays. These men must protect heavy 

 investments; they must get results. They know every kind of 

 spray material, yet they use Scalecide because it produces results 

 which no other dormant spray can produce. 



The invigorating effect of Scalecide is shown in the orchards of 

 Tyson Bros. , Flora Dale, Pa. , now a part of the American Fruit 

 Growers, Incorporated, where one York Imperial orchard has 

 been sprayed with Scalecide for fifteen years. This orchard, when 

 18 years old, bore a crop of 30 bushels per tree. This was the 

 tenth consecutive crop, each larger than the preceding. 



Scalecide Requires Less Labor 



One barrel of Scalecide, which makes 800 

 gallons of spray, will cover, until they drip, 

 as many trees as three and a half barrels of 

 lime-sulfur, which make 1600 gallons of 

 spray. And of course you can apply 800 

 gallons of Scalecide with much less labor 

 than 1600 gallons of lime-sulfur. 



Scalecide kills the hold-over cankers, which cause fire-blight and 

 allows new cambium to form. It kills insects, eggs and larvae 

 of insects, and diseases that winter on the trunk and branches of 

 the tree. It kills the adults and controls Pear Psylla when applied 

 in the Fall or on warm days in the Winter. It controls aphis, 

 too, when applied as a delayed dormant spray. 

 The invigorating effect of Scalecide is noted in increased 

 terminal growth; larger darker foliage on bearing trees, and the 

 holding of the foliage later in the Fall, thus accumulating starch 

 and sugar, which results in a plumper fruit spur and insures a 

 larger crop the following year. Scalecide makes vigorous, healthy 

 fruit trees. 



Every Claim Has Been Proved 



Every claim we make for Scalecide has 

 been proved in our own large orchards, 

 which now total 26,000 trees, and verified 

 by growers throughout the U. S. We speak 

 to you from 10 years' experience as fruit- 

 growers, and our recommendations are 

 based upon profitable orchard practice. 



Scalecide Is Pleasant To Use 



Scalecide is soothing, healing and antiseptic 



to the skin of man or beast, whereas lime-sul- 

 fur is caustic and disagreeable. Scalecide 



does not injure even the eyes. It does 



not corrode the spray pump nor clog the 



nozzles, and being an oil, it makes the pump 



run easiertand last longer. 



Avoid Disappointment Order Scalecide Now 



JJ there is a dealer in your section, ask him to reserve enough Scalecide for you. If there is no agent near you, ivrite 

 for our booklet, prices and guarantee, and give us the name of your dealer. Use the coupon betonv. Address Dept. 25. 



B. G. PRATT CO. 50 Church Street NEW YORK CITY 



Manufacturing Chemists 



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