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BETTER FRUIT 



August 



MYERS LOW DOWN TANK PUMPS 



For Operation by Hand or Gasoline 



There is nothing quite as handy about 

 the farm for general pumping service as 

 a MYERS TANK PUMP. Easy to move 

 from place to place, a tank pump is not only 

 practicable for filling thresher tanks but 

 adaptable to many pumping jobs — drain- 

 ing cellars and barnyards, watering stock, 

 irrigating, washing vehicles, 

 FIGHTING FIRES, etc. 



Your gasoline engine 

 will operate a MYERS. 

 Write us for circular 

 showing different 

 styles and name of 

 nearest dealer. 



ngrine. 



F. E. MYERS & BRO. 



120 Orange Street, 

 ASHLAND. OHIO 



Fruit Graders 



Our sizing machines at $50.00 and $75.00 

 are accurate, have large capacity and will 

 not bruise your fruit. No better graders 

 built. 



Send for our catalogue. 



Western Fruit Grader and Mfg. Co. 



GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO 



every car, enablinM us to iii;ike imme- 

 diate diversions. Diversion rules are 

 broader. Refrigeration charges have 

 been materially reduced. Where we 

 formerly paid as high as -^OO per car, 

 today we have a flat rate, for example, 

 to Chicago of -^75 for pre-iced cars 

 from most all points. We were for- 

 merly penalized for the melting of ice 

 during time of loading. This we suc- 

 ceeded in having eliminated. The 

 freight rate to New York a few years 

 ago was .$1.50 per hundred pounds and 

 to Chicago .$1.25. Through our efforts 

 we obtained a reduction to $1.1.5 to 

 practically all Eastern points. We ob- 

 tained a consolidation rate which has 

 proved of great benefit to the industry 

 in the assembling of cars. We have 

 obtained from the express companies a 

 one-stop-in-transit privilege for the 

 purpose of loading and a one-stop-in- 

 transit privilege for the purpose of sell- 

 ing. We have been and are now en- 

 gaged in urging upon the railroad com- 

 panies the adoption of a one-stop-in- 

 transit privilege for partial unloading. 

 This, if granted, will enable us to de- 

 velop a lot of smaller markets. We are 

 continuously seeking the co-operation 

 of the railroads of the country for the 

 general betterment in the handling of 

 the fruit tonnage. 



Since the formation of the organiza- 

 tion in 1902 the California Fruit Dis- 

 tributors have handled 79,320 cars of 

 fruit, which is a little in excess of 60 

 per cent of the total tonnage moved 

 during that period, and through the 

 efforts of the organization the decidu- 

 ous fruit business of California has 

 been placed on a far more safe and 

 stable basis than it occupied prior to 

 1902. Our members are at all times 

 performing the most efficient service 

 possible for the growers by working 



for standardization, improving the 

 pack, quality and loading facilities, etc. 

 As soon as the cars are loaded the fruit 

 passes under the control of the Califor- 

 nia Fruit Distributors, which acts as a 

 neutral central selling agency, treating 

 the fruit of all growers alike, whether 

 they are large or small; performing the 

 same functions for each and every one 

 and having in mind but one thought 

 and effort, and that to obtain the very 

 widest distribution on a safe and sane 

 basis, keeping every conceivable mar- 

 ket fully supplied — not oversupplied, 

 not undersuppiied. 



Potato Convention 



The potato emergency convention 

 will convene at .Stockton, California, on 

 the 8th and 9lh of September. This 

 change is made at the suggestion of the 

 United Slates Department of Agricul- 

 ture and will bring to us Dr. Appel, a 

 very noted potato pathologist from 

 Europe, and Dr. Orton and Professor 

 Stuart, experts from the United States 

 Dei)artment of Agriculture, none of 

 whom could be present at the earlier 

 dates. 



The tuber moth is a damaging pest of 

 the potato. The calerpillar not only 

 ruins the infested tuber but may be 

 carried in it wherever the tuber may 

 go, and so is a menace ever and always. 

 It is clear then that a state or region 

 free of tlie pest is warranted in taking 

 stringent measures to remain free. 

 This necessitates action to restrain all 

 importation of atfecled tubers. There 

 are only two ways to insure this im- 

 perative necessity: Either the shipper 

 must inspect so carefully and weed out 

 so rigorously lliat no infected potatoes 

 are .shii)ed or else all growers in 

 moth-free sections must declare and 



enforce a strict quarantine. As we 

 have not exercised the needed caution 

 in making shipments, British Columbia, 

 Idaho and Colorado, actually, and Ore- 

 gon and Wa.shinglon, practically, have 

 resorted to the quarantine. Other 

 states are likely to follow if we are not 

 aroused to inunediate and effective 

 action. The magnitude of our potato 

 interest is large, and the injury to our 

 growers and shippers from this em- 

 bargo is great. 



Unfortunately this moth is very 

 widely distributed throughout (Califor- 

 nia, though many sections, jjossibly 

 whole counties, are free of attack. 

 This fact gains wide publicity through 

 "Farmers' Bulletin 557" of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. We 

 (luote: "For many years the potato 

 tuber moth has been the worst potato 

 pest in California. It has now reached 

 the State of Washington and Southern 

 Texas and menaces adjacent states." 

 It is also reported from Colorado and 

 <loubtfully from North Dakota. In all 

 but (California its distribution is quite 

 limited. This, of course, works doubly 

 to make our danger the more imminent. 

 What adds to the gravity of the situa- 

 tion is the fact that the moth has been 

 in California for years and in the other 

 localities but a brief period, and all the 

 other localities are large consumers of 

 (California -grown potatoes. 



We see then that oin- only escape 

 must come through wide and quick 

 education of all potato growers that 

 the moth may be held in check by all 

 growers. Orientals as well as Ameri- 

 cans, and that inspection be so rigid 

 that no infested potatoes are shipped 

 from our state. This convention is 

 called to take steps to secure this edu- 

 cation of all growers that they may 

 eradicate the moth, and to arouse all 

 to the absolute necessity of the most 

 rigorous inspection that not a single 

 infested tuber shall be shipped to any 

 other state or any tuber moth-free sec- 

 tion. There should be a large delega- 

 tion present at Stockton from British 

 Columbia and all the states contiguous 

 to California, also from any moth-in- 

 fested region of our own state. — A. J. 

 Cook, State Connnissioner of Horti- 

 culture, Sacramento, California. 



The Panama Canal is going to be an 

 important factor in the movement of 

 the apple crop of the Northwest. With- 

 out (|uestion, when proper traflic ar- 

 rangements are made, fruit can be 

 shipped direct through the canal with- 

 out transfer to many export cities at 

 nnich less expense than in the past by 

 rail to New York City and there held 

 in cold storage, with extra charges for 

 transferring. The Panama (Canal should 

 certainly reduce the price to European 

 consumers and result in a large increase 

 in u <> consumplion of fruit in those 

 . i.utries. 



Mr. C. M. Furry, who for many years 

 was assistant manager of the Wenatchee 

 Fruit (irowers' .\ssociati()n, has ac- 

 cepted a position with the Northwest 

 Fruit Excliange in the Yakima district. 



