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BETTER FRUTT 



January 



TO DESTROY APHIS, THRIPS, ETC. 



Without Injury to Foliage 

 SPRAY WITH 



"Black Leaf 40" 



SULPHATE OF NICOTINE 



"Black Leaf 40" is highly recommended by Experiment Stations and spray- 

 ing experts throug-hout the entire United States. 



Owing to the large dilution, neither foliage nor fruit is stained. 



Also, "Black Leaf 40" is perfectly soluble in water; no clogging of nozzles. 



PRICES 

 lO-pound Can $10.75 



Makes 1,500 to 2,000 gallons tor Pear Thrips, with addition of 

 3% distillate oil emulsion; or about 1.000 gallons for Green Aphis. 

 Pear Psylla. Hop Louse, etc.; or about 800 gallons for Black 

 Aphis and Woolly Aphis, with addition of three or four pounds of 

 any good laundry soap to each 100 gallons of water. 



2-pound Can $2.50 



^-pound Can .75 



If you cannot obtain "Black Leaf 40" from a local dealer, send us P.O. Money 

 Order and we will ship you by express at the above prices, prepaying the 

 expressage to your nearest railroad town in the United States. 



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Portland, Oregon 





tbc condition of the man on the farm, 

 but added tliat no bu.sines.s was worth 

 while that did not show profits. The 

 great trouble is the lack of money to 

 do anything," he said, "and the finan- 

 cing of the by-ijroducts industry will 

 take hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

 Where are you going to get it? There 

 isn't a banker in the country who will 

 finance a plant that merely depends on 

 the bad fruit somebody can't sell. Let 

 the people who handle the good fruit 

 handle the bad fruit as well. Make the 

 good apples take care of the poor ones. 

 In our organization the by-products 

 business is heavier than the fresh fruit, 

 but we make the fresh-fruit money 

 finance the by-products. Is this thing 

 for the individual or for the people? 

 If the growers haven't enough energy 

 to take care of themselves an individual 

 is better than nothing. There are six 

 men in the Northwest that ought to be 

 shut in a room inside a high iron fence 

 and made to get together before being 

 let out. I mean H. M. Gilbert of Top- 

 penish, E. E. Sampson of North Yaki- 

 ma, Conrad Rose and W. T. Clark of 

 Wenatchee, J. H. Robbins of Spokane 

 and T. F. Gwinn of Portland. These 

 men, through the organization they rej)- 

 resent, handle approximately 90 per 

 cent of the Northwest fruit production. 

 Don't let them quarrel about who is 

 going to be president," continued Mr. 

 Paulhamus. "They can get together 

 and form the best by-products organi- 

 zation on earth. Form these selling 

 agencies in one or two organizations — 

 two are much better than 100 — and stop 

 this loss to growers by cutting prices. 

 There are too many sellers and the sys- 

 tem is absolutely wrong. There is a 

 market for all our stuff if we go at it in 

 a reasonable way. Conditions are 

 growing worse every year and the cut- 

 throat policy must stop." 



F. E. Sickels of North Yakima de- 

 clared there was no room for argu- 

 ment concerning the need of a central 

 by-products organization. He favored 

 a co-operative organization and stated 

 that the by-products organization and 

 the fresh-fruit organization should 

 work harmoniously and be practi- 

 cally one. 



Orris Dorman of Spokane moved the 

 adoption of the committee's report, 

 with the recommendation of Mr. Paul- 

 hanms added. Mr. Sickels seconded the 

 motion and the report was adopted. 



The conference resolved itself into a 

 convention at this juncture and H. C. 

 Sampson, chairman, and J. F. Bafhel- 

 der of Portland, secretary, were made 

 permanent officers. 



A warm discussion followed the mo- 

 tion of Mr. Dorman that the present 

 conimiltce be augmented by the men 

 named by Mr. Paulhamus, to prepare 

 some plan of action. This motion was 

 finally carried in amended form, the 

 name of H. F. Davidson, president of 

 the distributors, being added as a per- 

 manent member, and R. H. Parsons of 

 the Northwest Fruit Exchange was 

 named to act for Mr. Gwinn, who was 

 not in attendance. For the same rea- 

 son Mr. Sickels was named to act tem- 

 porarily for Air. Davidson. 



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