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BETTER FRUIT 



orchard management. The class made the tour 

 under the direction of II. Noel Bakke, member of 

 the teaching staff of the elementary science de- 

 partment. 



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IN the Zillah district, where there has been con- 

 siderable new orchard plantings the varieties 

 are chiefly confined to pears, peaches and prunes. 

 The pears planted are almost entirely Bartletts. 

 the peaches Elbertas and the prunes largely of 

 the Standard and Italian variety with a sprinking 

 of Tragedy. 



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AN experiment in the treatment of collar rot 

 which will be watched with interest was re- 

 cently conducted at Natches, Wash., by County 

 Horticulturist C. W. Hauck. It consisted in scrap- 

 ing the affected portions of the tree and applying 

 a coating of Bordeaux paste, bridge grafting the 

 roots still alive and the grafting of three young 

 trees to the old above the diseased section by the 

 inarching method. The experiment was made in 

 the presence of 25 orchardists, many of whom have 

 trees that are affected with this disease. 



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IDAHO 



ACCORDING to William Crapo, manager of 

 the largest canning and packing plant in 

 Northern Idaho, there will be a decrease in prices 

 paid to growers in that section for fruit and vege- 

 tables during the coming season. This is due, 

 Mr. Crapo says, to the fact that many canneries 

 were hard hit last year by the slump in foodstuffs 

 and large losses prevailed throughout the West. 



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UNDER the direction of C. G. Andrus, horticul- 

 tural inspector for Nez Perce county, a power 

 spray machine was recently put into service 

 by the authorities of the city of Lewiston, and an 

 intensive campaign against diseased trees con- 

 ducted. The step was taken to insure proper 

 treatment of all trees or shrubs affected with scale 

 as previous experience had demonstrated that hap- 

 hazard methods were permitting the disease to 

 spread. Spraying has been made compulsory, both 

 in Lewiston and Clarkston and the municipal au- 

 thorities have control of the operations. 



A Banking Service for 

 the Horticulturist 



A complete banking 

 service is offered you 

 through our various de- 

 partments. 



Our officers welcome 

 the opportunity of ad- 

 vising you how best to 

 use these departments. 

 Or a little booklet out- 

 lining the functions of 

 each department may 

 be had from the tellers 

 upon request. 



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 I foot Ladder weighs 3 1 lbs. 

 12 foot Ladder weighs 40 lbs. 

 14 foot Ladder weighs 44 lbs. 

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