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BETTER FRUIT 



December, 1920 



"Wood-Lark" 



They like it in the summer, but they LOVE it in 

 the winter, and it KILLS them! 



Be sure to sprinkle in each run-way some 

 "Wood-Lark" Rodent Poison; for the gopher, 

 remember, does not "hole-up" for the winter, but 

 works havoc in your orchard under cover of 

 the snow. 



If your dealer hasn't any, write us. 



CLARKE -WOODWARD DRUG CO. 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



American Grown Apple Seedlings 



STRAIGHT AND BRANCHED 

 ALL GRADES 



Frequently Sprayed. Absolutely Free from Insects or'Diseases 



CAR LOTS TO CENTRAL POINTS 

 Will Exchange for Such Stock as We Need 



Now is the Time to Grow High Priced Apple Trees 



ALSO A 



General Assortment of Foreign Fruit Tree Stocks 



( Apple, Pear, Mahaleb, Mazzard, Plum, Quince, Etc. ) All Grades 



We will have a Complete Line of General Nursery 

 Stock in Storage for Spring Trade 



Shenandoah Nurseries 



D. S. LAKE, President 



November 1, 1920 SHENANDOAH, IOWA 



this season's output is $9,000,000. One year 

 ago by this time the growers had received 

 over $16,000,000. The total Yakima apple crop 

 this season is estimated at 8,000 cars. 



When orchardists meet in Spokane this 

 month for the annual grade and pack confer- 

 ence it is stated that Yakima growers will 

 light to take Jonathans out of the "solid 

 color" class and place them back into the 

 "striped" class. Selah growers voted for a 

 change and elected E. D. Collins, A. F. Guinan 

 and P. W. Connie as delegates. Selah grow- 

 ers declare that to leave Jonathans in the 

 "solid color" class cuts down profits from 

 thai variety as only a few of the apples can 

 be placed in the extra fancy grade. 



Two new cold storage warehouses, with a 

 capacity of 2,000 cars of apples, are assured 

 for the Wenatchee Valley as a result of ar- 

 rangements made by H. G. Bohlke in New 

 York. One warehouse and cold storage plant 

 will be located in Wenatchee and another in 

 Cashmere. 



Apple shipments up to November 13 out of 

 the Wenatchee district were 5,400 cars besides 

 1,017 cars of summer fruit. There is ample 

 storage in the district for all the remaining 

 apples, estimated at about 2,500 cars. 



O. D. Webb, a Selah, Wash., fruit grower, 

 writes Better Fruit as follows: "In the No- 

 vember issue of your paper I read a little 

 piece about everbearing strawberries grown in 

 Spokane county so I think it will be of inter- 

 est to your readers to tell what I have done 

 this year with 4,500 Americus strawberry 

 plants that I set out on the 20th of last 

 March. These plants only cover 100 square 

 rods of ground. From this patch I sold 161 

 crates and 6 boxes which brought me $677.55, 

 and average of $4.20 per crate. The first 

 picking was on July 15 and the last on Oc- 

 tober 30." 



IDAHO. 

 Over 50,000 boxes of apples are reported to 

 have been harvested in the Stephens orchards 

 near Nampa this year. Some of the leading 

 varieties grown in this big orchard are the 

 Delicious, Jonathan, Stayman, Grimes Golden 

 and Rome Beauty. A study of the production 

 of these varieties over a period of four years 

 by Mr. Stephens shows that the Rome Beauty 

 is the most productive. Mr. Stephens attri- 

 butes this to the natural vigor of the Rome 

 Beauty tree, its excellent root system and its 

 habit of lengthened late bloom and also to 

 his practice of feeding the land by cutting 

 successive crops of grass and allowing it to 

 lie on the ground. He states that his Rome 

 Beauties have yielded for several years as 

 high as 800 orchard run boxes per acre. In 

 marketing his crop he finds that the Delicious 

 leads in demand and value while the Stayman 

 has proved the best variety for use in Febru- 

 ary and March. 



Prof. E. R. Longley, of the University of 

 Idaho, County Agricultural Agent P. T. Fortner 

 of Payette county, and County Agricultural 

 Agent Guy D. Noel and John Moulton, county 

 farm bureau committeeman of Washington 

 county are cooperating in the study of the 

 life history of the codlin moth in that sec- 

 tion in order to compile data on the number 

 of sprayings most desirable. The work will 

 be carried on for at least another year before 

 the conclusion of the investigators will be 

 ready for publication. 



With the object of carrying on a general 

 fruit handling business the Valley Warehouse 

 Association has been incorporated at Lewis- 

 ton, Idaho. The incorporators are F. W. 

 Baker, J. W. Wilkes, J. Florence and H. G. 

 Darwin. 



Plans are being completed by the Lewiston 

 district to equip an exhibit train with a com- 

 plete display of the fruit and other products 

 of that section to be operated through the 

 Middle West. 



What They Are Doing in 

 California 



This year's raisin crop in California is es- 

 timated to be about 175,000 tons of which the 

 California Associated Raisin Co. will handle 

 about 150,000 tons. 



A remarkable incident is related in regard to 

 a Los Angeles county apple orchard by H. J. 

 Ryan, county horticultural commissioner, who 

 says that there is in that county a 35-year-old 

 apple orchard sixty acres in extent that has 

 never been sprayed and that has no codling 



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