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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



D. Crossley & Sons 



ESTABLISHED 1878 



Apples for New York and Export 



CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO AND 

 FLORIDA FRUITS 



Apples handled in all European markets at private sale. Checks 

 mailed from onr New York office same daj^ apples are sold on the 

 other side. We are not agents; WE ARE SELLERS. We make a 

 specialty of handling APPLES, PEARS AND PRUNES on the New 

 York and foreign markets. Correspondence solicited. 



200 to 204 Franklin Street, New York 



NEW YORK 



LIVERPOOL 



LONDON 



GLASGOW 



Paste for Labeling — "Palo Alto" Paste Powder 



added to cold water, instantly 

 makes a beautiful, smooth, 

 white paste. Ready for imme- 

 diate use at a cost of ten cents 

 a gallon. No labor. No muss. 

 No spoiled paste. 



Paste Specialists 



Robinson Chemical Works 



349-351 Eighth Street 



San Francisco, California 



to 



THE 



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LINE 



OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILROAO & NAVIGATION GO. 



PUGET SOUND 

 CENTRAL OREGON 

 SPOKANE and 

 EASTERN CITIES 



IS THE 



THE LINE OF STEEL COACHES AND AUTOMATIC BLOCK SIGNALS 



Superior Service 



Splendid Equipment ^ 



Convenient Schedules 



Oil-Burning Locomotives 



First-Class Dining and 



Sleeping-Car Appointments 



Courteous, Capable Employes 



lul'oruiation. Tickets, Reserviitions, etc., upon application 

 to any agent of the 0-W. R. & N. Company, or 



CITY TICKET OFFICE 



Third and Washington streets, Portland, Oregon 



UNION 

 PACIFIC 



SYSTEM 



ward to this event as one of the utmost 

 importance, and will spare no effort to 

 impress visitors and delegates with the 

 natural advantages of Western Canada, 

 'that .she will prove a most hospitable 

 host is evidenced by the early prepara- 

 tion being made to look after the irri- 

 gationists. 



Western Canada is very much inter- 

 ested in irrigation. She has through a 

 succession of enterprises proved the 

 methods of the science, and found that 

 the scientific application of water to the 

 land has much to do with the success of 

 the agriculturist of the future. She has 

 a Western Canada Irrigation Associa- 

 tion of her own, and this organization, 

 which meets in Penticton, B. C, August 

 17, 18 and 19, will see to it that British 

 Columbia is well represented at the 

 Calgary congress, both numerically and 

 otherwise. 



Pear Blight 



The State Experiment Station desires 

 to call the attention of horticulturists 

 of the Northwest to the grave danger 

 menacing the fruit industry in the shape 

 of numerous and sundry alleged cures 

 for blight (Pear Blight, "Fire Blight"). 

 These cures take the shape sometimes 

 of tree paints, sometimes of materials 

 for injecting into the tree and some- 

 times of materials to be placed in the 

 soil about the trees. It is the experi- 

 ence of scientific men, both in the 

 experiment stations and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, that 

 none of these so-called cures will do 

 the work claimed for them. In other 

 words, the are probably all pure fakes, 

 and their use can only result in loss to 

 the orchardist. The blight disease and 

 its characteristics are well known to 

 plant pathologists and horticulturists 

 the country over. Its cause is well 

 known and the methods of combatting 

 it are well known. There is, therefore, 

 little excuse for making mistakes in 

 regard to combatting this disease. The 

 only way to cure a tree of blight, once 

 it is atTected, is to cut out the infected 

 portions. There is no patent cure. 

 From the very nature of the disease it 

 is improbable that there will be, and 

 anyone who takes advantage of people 

 in a time of distress such as a blight 

 epidemic to work off patent cures or 

 panaceas for the blight is, to say the 

 least, a most undesirable citizen. It is 

 unfortunate that our laws are not dras- 

 tic enough to prevent the activities of 

 these blight nostrum fakirs. It seems 

 especially necessary at the present time 

 to call attention to this matter on ac- 

 count of the fact that there is being 

 exploited on the market certain "tree 

 paints" as blight cures. One thing 

 seems absolutely certain in regard to 

 these "tree paints," namely, that if they 

 will kill the blight bacteria in the tree 

 they will also kill the tree, or that 

 portion of it upon which the paint is 

 placed. In other words, surgery would 

 do the same work as such a paint, 

 minus the cost of the paint, and prob- 

 ably do it more effectively. — Ira D. Car- 

 dilf. Director, Washington Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



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