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 AND SAFETY 



Are Insecticides and Fungicides of highest QUALITY. Made 

 in California for use by Western Fruit Growers. 



Our Entomologist, MR. S. W. FOSTER, understands the control 

 of Orchard Pests and will give you the best and most reliable DEFI- 

 NITE information possible to obtain. 



This help is free on application to 



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PORTLAND, OREGON 



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ESTABLISHED 1878 



Apples for New York and Export 



CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO AND 

 FLORIDA FRUITS 



Apples handled in all European markets at private sale. Cheeks 

 mailed from our New York office same day apples are sold on the 

 other side. We are not asients: WE ARE SELLERS. We make a 

 siieeialty of handling APPLES, PEARS AND PRUNES on the Xew 

 York and foreign markets. Correspondence solicited. 



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juice is thrown ofT and collected. The 

 water remaiii.s in the machine as ice. 



At ordinary household refrigerator 

 temreratures this syrup-like cider will 

 keep perfectly for a month or six 

 weeks, and if kept at low temjeratures 

 in cold storage will keep for prolonged 

 periods. At ordinary house tempera- 

 tures it will, of course, keep a shorter 

 time. To make the concentrated syrup 

 the cider mill must add to its equipment 

 an ice-making machine and centrifugal 

 machinery, so that the process is not 

 practicable on a small scale. The spe- 

 cialists are hopeful, however, that the 

 conmiercial test soon to be inaugurated 

 in Oregon will show that it will be 

 possible for apple growers to concen- 

 trate their excess cider and ship it 

 profitably to the far South or to other 

 nonproducing regions. The specialists 

 also believe that it will enable apple 

 producers to prolong the market for 

 cider. 



Remedies for Potash Shortage 



Various suggestions have been made 

 in regard to the steps to be taken by 

 farmers in reference to the .shortage of 

 potash in their fertilizers, caused by 

 the greatly reduced shipments of pot- 

 ash from Germany since the first of 

 August. Most of the fertilizer com- 

 l)anies have endeavored to make the 

 potash on hand go as far as possible 

 by selling for the present brands of 

 complete fertilizers containing only 

 two or three per cent potash and with- 

 holding fiom sale brands containing 

 larger amounts. The suggestion that 

 some or all of the potash be replaced 

 by phosphoric acid is absurd, for every 

 schoolboy knows that one plant food 

 cannot take the place of another. There 

 are some indii-ect fertilizers, such as 

 lime, gypsum and salt, that can release 

 a limifcfl amount of potash from some 

 soils that contain hydiafcd silicates of 

 alumina and potash. But if these soils 

 have already been treated with lime or 

 have received repeated dressings of the 

 usual forms of fertilizer containing 

 soluble phosjjhate with its accompany- 

 ing gypsum, then the potash in the 

 hydrated silicates has to a large extent 

 already been replaced, and the use of 

 more lime or gypsum or salt could not 

 be expected to release much additional 

 potash. Ground limestone or oyster 

 shells act too slowly to be used as pot- 

 ash releasers. 



The residue of soda left in the soil 

 by nitrate of soda is more effective in 

 releasing potash than is gypsum, and 

 hence goods in which the nitrogen is 

 largely in the form of nitrate of soda 

 may have a special value in the present 

 emergency. It is often stated that de- 

 caying organic matter releases potash 

 from the soil, but there seems to be no 

 direct evidence of this. On the con- 

 trary. Dr. S. Peacock states in the 

 .American fertilizer of September 5, 

 Iflll: "Scveial thoroughly competent 

 researches have shown that decaying 

 orgaiHc matter has little effect on con- 

 verting inert mineral plant food in the 

 soil into available form." 



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