March, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 17 



Timely Tips 



on Stump and Boulder Blasting 



These tips will help you get better results whenever 

 you use dynamite for land-clearing, ditching, or tree- 

 planting. Cut them out and save them. 



Crimping the Cap 



Cut a sufficient length of fuse 

 squarely off, and slip cap over the 

 end. Crimp cap to fuse, as shown, 

 with cap crimper, — it is absolutely 

 essential to USE A CAP CRIMPER, 

 — obtainable from your dealer or 

 direct from us. 



Priming the Cartridge 



Punch a hole with handle of cap 

 crimper in the side of cartridge deep 

 enough to contain all of the cap. See 

 illustration at left. 



Securing Fuse 



After inserting cap with fuse 

 attached, tie a cord around fuse and 

 then around cartridge, as shown. If 

 several cartridges are needed, this 

 "primer" cartridge is put in last. After 

 loading, tamp earth tightly in hole 

 using a WOODEN tamping stick. 

 The success of the shot depends largely 

 on the tightness of the tamping. 



For most satisfactory results,be sure that your dealer sells you 



Explosives and Blasting Accessories 



The Farmers' Handbook of Explosives tells how to use explosives 

 for land-clearing, ditching, tree-planting and other farm work. 

 Write for free copy today. 



E. I. du Pont de Nemours 8C Co., Inc. 



Seattle, Washington 



Portland, Oregon 



Spokane, Washington 



manager of the Hood River Fruit company. 

 Apple boxes were retailed to growers last year 

 at 27 to 28 cents each. A price of 17 and 18 

 cents, it is expected, will be established this 

 year. The cost of strawberry crates and pear 

 boxes show's a similar decline. 



The Wasco Farm Bureau News notes that 

 the cherry orchards in that vicinity injured 

 by the freeze a year ago will need unusually 

 good cultivation this year. Trees which had 

 a great deal of top killed will be in danger 

 of losing a large part of their root system also, 

 and this must be prevented if possible by good 

 care this year. When the top of a tree is sud- 

 denly kilted, there is often insufficient vegeta- 

 tion to support the roots and some of the 

 roots die. A root system partially dead lets 

 in rots, grubs, and disease. Give the trees as 

 good a chance as possible by keeping the 

 orchards free of weeds. 



A meeting of the North Marion County Berry 

 Glowers' Association held at Woodburn re- 

 cently was largely attended. Twenty-three 

 names were added to the membership roll 

 making a total membership in the association 

 of 50. E. J. Forsythe was re-elected president 

 of the association, F. P. Wolfe, vice-president; 

 Ray Glatt, secretary, and Theodore Nehl, treas- 

 urer. The executive committee consists of L. 

 Lawrence, W. L. Bentley and C. C. Guilliford. 

 A committee which reported to the meeting on 

 fruit prices for this year stated that the mini- 

 mum prices should be seven cents on logans, 

 12 cents on raspberries, nine cents on straw- 

 berries and seven cents on gooseberries. 



According to a report of the U. S. Census 

 Bureau recently issued Oregon in 1919 had 3,- 

 315,093 apple trees, 727,444 pear trees, 2,999,480 

 prune- ami plum trees and 395.073 cherry trees. 

 The production of small fruits in 1919 was 

 18,977,822 quarts, including 4,159,200 quarts of 

 strawberries, 1,824,901 quarts of raspberries, 

 10.198,011 quarts of loganberries, and 2,139,110 

 quarts of blackberries and dewberries. 



On February 19, C. W. McCullagh, sales man- 

 ager of the Hood River Apple Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, reported that only 40 cars of apples 

 belonging to the association remained unsold. 



A plan in which the Cherry Growers' Union 

 of The Dalles is taking the lead is the estab- 

 lishment of a cooperative fruit and vegetable 

 selling agency. The erection of a large con- 

 crete packing and storage house is being con- 

 sidered in connection with the establishment 

 of the agency. 



Oregon prune week, February 14 to 19, to 

 encourage a greater consumption of Oregon 

 prunes, resulted in a widespread campaign 

 throughout the state and the disposal of many 

 thousands of pounds of prunes. In addition to 

 this phase of the work was the valuable 

 amount of advertising which the Oregon prune 

 received in all parts of the country. At the be- 

 ginning of prune week it was stated that there 

 were 22,000,000 pounds of prunes in the state 

 still unsold. 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



orchard, surrounded by orchards, and I am 

 unable to believe that they were poisoned to 

 any extent. During that time, my colonies be- 

 came strong during this spraying season, and 

 I have never failed to get from 50 to 75 pounds 

 of honey on an average per colony, and fre- 

 quently individual colonies have produced as 

 much as 125 pounds. When the petals have 

 fallen the bees no longer work on the apple 

 trees. There is danger, however-, of poisoning 

 them in some of the later sprays if an ex- 

 cessive amount of arsenate of lead is allowed 

 to fall on alfalfa or clover in bloom." 



The cost of producing a box of apples in 

 1921 will be approximately 25 per cent under 

 1920 costs, according to Charles H. Castner, 



OREGON. 

 The fact that anthracnose has caused many 

 apple raisers in Oregon considerable losses 

 this year is being called attention to as the 

 necessity for greater effort in fighting this dis- 

 ease. Shipments of apples which have arrived 

 in eastern markets from this state are said to 

 have shown losses as high as $400 per car 

 from this disease. 



In discussing the poisoning of bees by the 

 calyx spray A. G. Wing, a Hood River apple 

 grower and also a beekeeper, makes the fol- 

 lowing interesting observation: 



"Is it necessary to leave this spray off to 

 protect the bees? Some think so. For eight 

 years I have kept from 1 to 15 colonies in an 



WASHINGTON. 



Unless unforeseen disaster happens to the 

 apple crop of Chelan, Douglas, Okanogan and 

 Grant counties, known as the Wenatchee dis- 

 trict, the vield this year will be 16,000 car- 

 loads, or '12,000,000 boxes, according to the 

 forecast of District Inspector P. S. Darlington. 



This is 4,000 cars, or 3,000,000 boxes, more 

 than the previous high record of the 1919 crop. 

 All indications point to a 100 per cent yield in 

 every orchard. The ground has been soaked 

 by fall rains and heavy snows which melted, 

 going into the soil. Fertilization and cultiva- 

 tion, together with pruning and thinning, have 

 been done under the direction of experts in 

 this district. 



To make the 12,000,000 boxes in which the 

 1921 apple crop of the district will be packed 

 over 00.1)00,000 feet of lumber will be required. 

 This number would fill 2,000 cars, figuring 

 30.000 feet to the car, or 40 solid trains of 50 

 cars each. 



More than hall the boxes used in packing 

 the Wenatchee district crop are made in that 

 part of the state, but many are shipped from 

 Spokane, Seattle and other Puget Sound points. 

 District mills are now preparing to begin op- 

 erations for the season in anticipation of the 

 heavy demand for boxes thai will develop if 

 the crop comes up to expectations. 



In addition to the apple crop the Wenatchee 

 district will probably produce 2,000,080 boxes 

 of summer fruit, which would use up more 

 than ."..000,000 additional feet of lumber. 



Paper for fruit wraps will be another item 

 of considerable importance. No less than 6,- 



