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BETTER FRUIT 



November, 1920 



dusk. The moths are scarcely a half- 

 inch in length and vary in color from 

 almost a sulphur yellow to yellow with 

 brown mottlings. The moths do not 

 lay eggs at once but probably require 

 ten days before reaching maturity. Eggs 

 are deposited on any of the orchard 

 trees, on willows, cottonwoods, roses 

 and probably on any shrub near by. 



The leaf roller caterpillars have 

 proved to be remarkably resistant to 

 arsenical sprays. Ordinary arsenate of 

 lead, as applied against the codling 

 worm, has no appreciable effect on 

 them. Spokane Valley fruit growers 

 have been spraying Paris green at the 

 rate of six pounds to the hundred gal- 



lons, and have found it partially though 

 not completely effective. This strength 

 of Paris green is the equivalent of us- 

 ing eighteen pounds of arsenate of lead 

 powder to the 300-gallon tank, an 

 amount prohibitive in cost, and in the 

 case of the Paris green so caustic as to 

 irritate the men and horses, making it 

 impossible to retain men on the work. 

 Fumigation is likewise too costly and 

 its effects unknown. 



Experiments and orchard practice 

 have demonstrated that the use of a de- 

 pendable oil spray applied at the end 

 of the winter is the most satisfactory 

 method of controlling this pest. For 

 this purpose a good miscible oil spray 



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having a heavy body should be used at 

 about 7 or 8 per cent strength. The 

 trees should be completely wetted and 

 not merely sprayed, and the applica- 

 tion should be made in good spraying 

 weather. If the spray is too weak, if 

 the application is scant, if wet weather 

 immediately precedes or follows the 

 spraying, effective control cannot be 

 expected. It is not advisable to apply 

 oil sprays until all danger of excessive 

 cold weather is passed. The proper use 

 of oil sprays when the buds are swell- 

 ing has not been attended by harm to 

 the trees, but the misuse of too strong 

 sprays, or improperly emulsified oil 

 might occasion a set-back. Miscible 

 oil sprays have even been used after 

 trees are coming into leaf, causing a 

 little spray-burning of the foliage, but 

 this injury has been quickly outgrown. 

 The orchard leaf roller is not a new 

 pest. It has been long known over a 

 wide range, and in Washington I have 

 seen it over a dozen years ago from the 

 Spokane region. The past few years, 

 however, the pest has multiplied to an 

 alarming extent, until now it is decid- 

 edly the worst problem many fruit 

 growers are facing. The orchards from 

 Spokane east to the state line are ap- 

 parently the heaviest infested and 

 scarcely an orchard in the Opportunity- 

 Greenacres-Otis district is free from the 

 moth. Many have lost their crops and 

 even the foliage this year. This insect 

 occurs about Kettle Falls, through much 

 of Spokane County besides Spokane 

 Valley, and also has obtained an alarm- 

 ing foothold near Walla Walla. 



STATEMENT OF THE OWNEHSHTJP, MANAGEMENT. 



< :i:< I I.ATlnX. ETC . REQinBED BY THE ACT 

 OP CONGRESS OP AUGUST 24. 1912. 

 of the Belter Fruit, published monthly at Portland. 

 for October 1, 1920. 



State of Oregon. County of Multnomah — Before me, a 

 uiilary public in and for the state and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared D. L. Carpenter, who. having been 

 ■ inly sworn according to law. deposes and says that he is 

 the business manager of Better Fruit, and that the fol- 

 lowing is. to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true 

 statement of tin- ownership, management (and if a daily 

 paper, the circulation), etc.. of the aforesaid publication 

 for ti)' 1 date shown in Hie above caption, required by the 

 n 1 of August 24, 11*12. embodied in section 443. postal 

 utws_ and regulations, printed on the reverse of this form. 



1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, 

 editor, managing editor and business niiiim-ri. .in 



Publisher. Belter Fruit Publishing Co.. Inc.. .sum Orego- 

 ?.n Building. Portland, Oregon. 



Portland, "regon. 



E. E. FMville. xmi Oregonian Building. Portland. Oregon. 

 \ W Slypes. Slid tut -t.niaii Building. Portland, ' i 



?>. Thai the known bondholders, mortgagees and OtbeJ 

 treettrin i ■ i I elding l p<t cenl i i mon o4 



total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securitli 

 ill' there are none, so state, i Nona 



4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the 

 names of the owners, stockholders and security holders, If 

 any, contain not only the lisi of stockholders and 

 holders as they appear up" 

 also, in cases where he 

 appears upon the books i>t 

 r.tiiri' ritiiifi.iry relation, th 

 • whom such trust 

 two paragraph* 

 affiant's full know li d 

 ,tn. i conditions under which stockholders ami sec,:rit\ liuM 

 en who dn mil appear upon the Imoks of the compai 



trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than 

 thai "i .1 bona Bde owner, and this affiant has do 



to believe that any other person, association OT corporation 

 i ' interest, direct or indirect, in the 



or other securities than as so stated by him. 



That the average number <>f copies of each ifsue of 



this publication soM or .Ii.M rilmii-d, through th. 

 .therwise. to paid subscribers durinj the si 



security holder 

 irson or corpor- 



(This inl'unnaii. 

 QU | 



Is 



UDScribed before 



27th day of 

 II R SHAW, 



Notary I ■ I 



. I 1921, I 



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