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BETTER FRUIT 



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The Measure of Results from 

 SPRAYING 



depends upon the material used. It must be harmless 

 to the trees and plants but deadly to the attacking 

 insects. There is a scientific certainty about 



ShERWIN -Williams Dry Powdered 



Arsenate of Lead —Tuber -Tonic — Fungi -Bordo 



In powdered form these insecticides and fungicides save weight and prevent 

 freezing. Simple to use— just add water and spray. They cling to the foHage, 

 kill insects, check fungus growths and insure big yields. Tiy them. 



"PERFECT" Cement Coated Nails 



ODE PEODUCTS AEE OF SUPEEIOR QUALITY 



AND GUAEANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. 



PRICE and QUALITY always right. 



PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 A. C. RULOFSON CO. 



"The Cement Coated Nail People" 



Monadnock Building, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 

 PACIFIC COAST SALES MANAGERS 



MILTON NURSERY CO. 



A. MILLER & SONS, Inc.— M ILTON, OREGON 



Pear, Cherry, Apple, Prune, Peach. Full line Shade & Ornamental Stock 



Quality in Nursery Stocli is a condition, not a tlieor\'; it is sometliine; we put into our trees. 



not say at^out tliem. Tliirty-five years' experience enables us to do this. 

 SALESMEN WANTED A Catalog and Special Prices on Request 



Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. 



Required by tlic Act of August 21, 1912. 



of "Better Fruit," Published Monthly at Hood River, Oregon 



for April, 1915 



Note: This statement is to be made in duplicate, both copies to be delivered by the 

 publisher to the postmaster, who will send one copy to the Third Assistant Postmaster 

 General (Division of Classification), Washington, D. C, and retain the other in the files 

 of the post ofiice. 



Name of Kditor, E. H. Shepard. Post oITice address, Hood River, Oregon. 



Name of Managing Editor, E. H. Shepard. Post office address. Hood River, Oregon. 



Name of Husiness Manager. E. H. Shepard. Post otnce address. Hood River, Oregon. 



Publisher, Better Fruit Publishing Company. E. H. Shepard, sole owner and pub- 

 lisher. Post ofllce address. Hood River. Oregon. 



Owners: (If a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders 

 holding 1 per cent of more of total amount of stock. If not a corporation, give names and 

 addresses of individual owners.) E. H. Shepard, sole owner. Address, Hood River, 

 Oregon. 



Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more 

 of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: (If there are none, so state.) 



Average number of copies of each issue of this publication soUl or distributed through 

 the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date 



shown above: (This information is reipiired from daily newspapers only.) 



E. H. SHi:PARn, Editor and Pubhslu i . 



S\\orn to and subscribed before 

 (Seal) 



My commission expires August 7 



this lUth day of March, l^lh 



lillfi. 



ERNEST C. SMITH. 

 Notary Public for Oregon. 



lieve ought to be done. The nearer we 

 can come to all agreeing on something, 

 the better off we will all be. — North- 

 west By-Products Board. 



Bees Are Not Poisoned by Sprays 



There has long been a belief that 

 spraying blossoms with arsenate of 

 lead or other poisons would kill the 

 bees that visited the blossoms after 

 spraying in their search for honey. 

 Professor C. W. Woodworth of the Uni- 

 veristy of California has conducted 

 some careful investigations in the 

 Pajaro Vtilley, which are related by 

 him in "(lleanings in Bee Culture," 

 showing Ihat this fear is groundless, 

 that the spraying can be done at the 

 time best for codling-moth control, and 

 that the bees can visit the blossoms 

 without injury. A colony of bees from 

 the university at Berkeley was shipped 

 to Watsonville and placed in the midst 

 of a forty-acre apple orchard at Wat- 

 sonville just before a heavy spraying 

 with arsenicals was given. After being 

 kept there for some time without ap- 

 parent injury to the bees, the hive was 

 shipped back to Berkeley and kept 

 closed until a number of the bees were 

 dead. These were taken out and a 

 considerable amount of arsenic was 

 found upon them, but it was all on the 

 outside, coming there by contact, as 

 would dust or powder of any kind. No 

 internal arsenic was found and the 

 arsenic apparently had nothing to do 

 with their deaths. There was likewise 

 no trace of arsenic in the honey gath- 

 ered by the bees from the blossoms 

 sprayed with arsenicals. The right 

 idea is to spray when the blossoms 

 need it. Keep bees if convenient to pol- 

 linize the blossoms, but do not worry 

 about the elTect of the spraying on 

 them. 



BUY AND TRY 



White 

 River 

 Flour 



MAKES 



Whiter, Lighter 

 Bread 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



