1915 



BETTER FRUIT 



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markets. When this is done the in- 

 dustry will be stabilized and the com- 

 mittee can work with tlie fruit-product 

 plants toward helping take care of the 

 surplus of fresh fruit in districts where 

 it would otherwise go to waste. Many 

 districts are probably not ready for 

 plants for the reason that the volume 

 is not sufficient. Through organization 

 this industry can work with the rail- 

 roads to secure jjroper rates, both by 

 express and freight, for fruit that will 

 permit assendjling of the output from 

 communities where the tonnage is not 

 sufficient to load out in car lots. It is 

 the intention of the committee to help 

 any districts where there is not a vol- 

 ume sufficient for a plant; for the pur- 

 pose of helping to promote the organ- 

 izing necessary for the buying and 

 financing of such plants. The commit- 

 tee believes that, with the organization 

 of all existing plants, it can do a great 

 deal toward controlling the situation. 

 The subject of by-products has been 

 discussed with the growers by the by- 

 products committee in several sections 

 and several conferences have been held. 

 It is expected that others will follow in 

 the near future. The committee wishes 

 those who are interested give the mat- 

 ter consideration and express their 

 views fully and frankly, either person- 

 ally to the members of the by-product 

 committee or by correspondence to the 

 manager, Mr. W. H. Paulhamus, whose 

 address is Puyallup, Washington. 



The proceedings of the fourth annual 

 meeting of the California Association 

 of Nurserymen, which was held in San 

 Diego, October loth, edited and com- 

 piled by Henry W. Kruckcberger, is 

 being mailed out to nurserymen. 



A. R. Weston & Co., Bridgman, Michi- 

 gan, kindly sent this ofTice their annual 

 catalog. This catalog is devoted to 

 strawberries, blackberries, dewberries 

 and grapes. The color work on the 

 cover page is very attractive. 



Fruitgrowers and alfalfa farmers at 

 this season driven with spring work, 

 hardly finding any day long enough to 

 accomplish even a measure of their 

 pressing tasks connected with orchard 

 and field work, are apt to forget the 

 existence of an active, perisistent 

 enemy, sleepless and industrious. The 

 squirrel or gopher, native to the North- 

 west, is one of the most destructive 

 agents the agriculturist has to contend 

 with. Valuable trees arc destroyed, 

 alfalfa fields arc often ruined, mounds 

 of earth are raised, which interfere 

 with the cutting, irrigation ditches arc 

 undermined ancl damage amounting to 

 millions of dollais in the aggregate en- 

 sues. Every effort should be put forth 

 at this season to destroy them. Guns 

 and traps are effective but exijcnsive, 

 in the lime they re(iuire. Vaccines or 

 virus are nf doubtful effect; an efTicient 

 poison, jircfcrably a strychnine-coated 

 grain of reliable make, if placed in the 

 burrows of the ijests, will accomplish 

 quicker, better and more effective re- 

 sults than anything else, with the ad- 

 vantage that it can be distributed and 

 safely apiilied at any hour and in a few 

 moments' time. — [Adv.] 



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