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BETTER FRUIT 



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How to Use the Kimball Cultivator 



to Keep Your Orchard in Perfect Condition 



THE first thing in the spring, as soon as the 

 ground Is dry enough, it should be well 

 plowed or disced both ways, or diagonally 

 if the trees are planted in that manner. 



The rest of the season nothing is needed 

 l)ut the KIMBALL, which should be run over 

 the ground at least twice each month during 



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the summer, or as soon as the ground is dry 

 enough after a hard rain, or after irrigation. 



This will break up the crust and stop evap- 

 oration, for when the soil bakes and opens in 

 cracks is the time of the greatest evapoi-ation. 



More cultivation and less irrigation will 

 produce better fruit, and it will keep longer 

 than where too much water is used. 



It is now for fruit growers to be thinking of how they can keep their orchards in good shape at the least posi?ible 

 expense. 



For this work there is nothing that will equal the Kimball Cultivator. 



While we knovi' the fruit market is bad. we also know it will not always be in this condition, and the grower who neglects 

 to cultivate his orchard at this time will lose the years of labor he has already put in on it, for an orchard that is not culti- 

 vated is soon a total loss. 



Therefore get a Kimball and continue the good work. 



MANUFACTURED BY 



W. A. JOHNSTON, The Dalles, Oregon 



Fruit Exchange, by Reginald H. Par- 

 sons, president, W. F. Gwin, general 

 manager; Wright Fruit Company, by 

 J. Howard Wright; Pomona Ranch, by 

 J. L. Dmnas; Arcadia Valley Fruit 

 Growers' Association, by A. R. Craig, 

 manager." 



The conference decided to perpetuate 

 the present connnittee under the name 

 of the N(n-thwcst Horticultural Com- 

 mittee, until such time as the governing 

 board .shall have been organized, and 

 levied an assessment of 10 cents per 

 carload on each of the districts to de- 

 fiay the expenses of the committee. 

 The delegates turned down a resolution 

 asking that they endorse the present 

 horticultural bill now before the State 

 Legislature, holding that inasmuch as 

 they were a boily made up of men from 

 several states their endorsement would 

 be injudicious. 



Orchard Yarn 



Progressive orchardists, those right do\ra to the minute 

 In methods of protecting heavy laden fniit trees, are agreed 

 that tying branches \\ith Orchard Yarn is the modern way 

 of supporting orchard trees. It is not expensive, is easily 

 don?, and the time to tie is when trimming. The spurs 

 are Ihen loiigher, less easily broken olT than later, leaves 

 are not in the nay and all parts of the tree ciin he seen. 

 Saving but a small percentage of trees from being broken 

 down will pay for tlie expense of tying an entire orchard. 

 One-ply Tarred Manila Yam nill run aboiit 200 feet per 

 potind. Two-ply «-ill nin from 9n to inii fei-t per pound. 

 Put up in 5-pound balls or on lO-pound spools. In .i-pound 

 balls the yam pulls from the inside and is more easily 

 liaiidled 



Sold liy all merchants handling orchard supplies. 



Mntiulncturpd by 



The Portland Cordage Company 



PORTLAND. OREGON 



A resolution presented by T. H. Atkin- 

 son, of Entiat, saying that "it is the 

 sense of this gathering to request the 

 selling agencies to get together and 

 work out a solution of their problems 

 until such time as the growers' organi- 

 zations have been formed," was passed 

 unanimously. This was for the purpose 

 of j)ermitting the selling agencies to so 

 arrange their affairs that they could 

 give full reports and data to the central 

 board when it is organized. 



As a result of the two-day conference 

 held in the assembly hall of the ("ham- 

 her of Commerce, and which adjourned 

 with a banquet in the Hotel Rutler, the 

 apple industry of the Northwest seems 

 in a fair way to become etliciently 

 organized. A decided sentiment has 

 been created by prevailing trade con- 

 ditions in favor of a imitcd action on 

 the i)art of the fruit growers, and none 

 of the apple districts of any of the four 

 states has ventured to stay without the 

 pale of the new idea. One of the speak- 

 ers expressed the feeling of the growers 

 when he said: "Unanimity between 

 growers, which seemed impossible, has 

 been made possible because we realize 

 how foolish we have been in trying to 

 compete with one another." Facli 

 grower present at the conference 

 pledged himself to go home and call a 

 meeling of all of the growers of his 

 district for the purjxise of perfecting an 

 organization, 'three delegates at large 

 and one delegate for each 2.")0 cars 

 shipped annually will be permllled 

 cacli district. These delegates will 



make up the general council of the 

 growers, which will, in turn, choose 

 three men to act as the governing board. 



The districts entitled to three dele- 

 gates each and others in proportion to 

 their output are as follows: Hood River, 

 Walla Walla, Milton, Dayton and adja- 

 cent points; Southern Idaho; Spokane, 

 Moscow, Garfield and adjacent points; 

 Wenatchee, Cashmere and up-river 

 points; entire Yakima Valley from Ken- 

 newick up; Western Oregon, and the 

 Stale of Montana. 



Chairman Paulhannis exidained that 

 the session was exclusively for bona fide 

 growers ami that no marketing heads 

 would be admitted. Howard Wright, of 

 North Yakima, outlined a plan for the 

 formation of a growers' organization 

 independent of the selling agencies. He 

 proposed that a council or advisory 

 board shall receive daily reports from 



Position as Superintendent 



<1f Iarg"o orch.Trd. V^y thornvisjhh- com- 

 petent nurst'ry :uid orchard man: or 

 would consider well equipped orchard 

 on part share basis; 25 years' experi- 

 ence and best references. Address "R," 

 care "Better Fruit." 



WANTED 



Kxperienced orchard man with exec- 

 utive .ability, for Virginia. State terms, 

 references. Turkey Knob Orchard, 753 

 Broadway. New York rity. 



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