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BETTER FRUIT 



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You should have 

 the ACME Cata- 

 log. There are 

 many other 

 sprayers, also 

 powder guns, 

 planters, fruit- 

 picking sack, etc.. 

 shown in our big 

 Free Catalog. 





Li.« :!>■ 



This light, haiuly Acme Compressed Air 

 Sprayer throws any spray material with all the 

 effectiveness of an engine-driven machine. 



The air pressure, which can be as higli as 60 povmds, drives the 

 liquid thruvigh our spiral noii-cloog;ing nozzle in a whirling, mist-fine 

 spray. This spiral feature is found only on ACME Sprayers. The nozzle 

 is of solid brass, does not corrode, cannot clog, because the spiral plunger 

 cleans the nozzle with every operation. The 



ACME c°"'p;rf««'' 



SPRAYER 



holds Z'A gallons and empties on or.e cliarge of air. The tank is heavily galvanized, 

 solidly riveted and well soldered. Air and water tight by actual test. 

 Seamless brass air pump can be furnished inside as well as out. On request we can 

 furnish brass extension rod for tree spraying and crooked nozzle for low-lying vines. 



This sprayer is almost indispensable to vineyard owners. We made 20,000 for 

 Roumanian vineyards this year. 



If you are not handy to a dealer we will supply you direct. If you are near a 

 dealer and he happens not to have the ACME Sprayer he will gladly order 

 for you from one of our Western distributors, listed below: 



WASHINGTON 



Marshall-Wells Hardware Co., Spokane Mitchell, Lewis &, Slaver Co., Snokane 



Holley & Mason Co . Sookane The Chas. H. lilly Co.. Seattle 



Jensen-Kind-Byrd Co., Sookane Poison Implement Co., Seattle 



OREGON 

 Poison Implement Co., Portland Marshall-Wells Hardware Co., Portland 

 Portland Seed Co., Portland Mitchell, Lewis &. Staver Co., Portland 



ACME Goods are in use on over 400,000 farms. 

 If you are not acquainted you should send 

 at once for the catalog. 



POTATO IMPLEMENT CO. 



327 Front Street, TRAVERSE CITY, MICH 



.00 East of 

 the Rockies 



other varieties near them if pollina- 

 tion is to be secured. Lambert, Royal 

 Ann and Bing cherries are all self- 

 sterile and powerless to pollinate each 

 other. Also Gravenstein and Spitzen- 

 berg apples and the Cornice and Anjou 

 pears are self-sterile. 



Professor Lewis believes that the 

 trouble with many of the isolated trees 

 of Portland would be greatly overcome 

 by having other varieties near them for 

 pollination. This condition could be 

 brought about in some instances by 

 grafting other varieties into some of 

 the trees or parts of trees. Those who 

 are interested further in this matter 

 may receive a copy of a letter on pol- 

 lination now being prepared by the 

 horticultural department of the college 

 by making application. Tliis letter will 

 be ready in the near future and will 

 give a list of sterile and fertile varie- 

 ties and very comprehensive informa- 

 tion on the subject of pollination. 



Trouble of Non-Blooming Trees 



It frequently happens that trees ap- 

 parently healthy and vigorous refuse to 

 blossom or bear fruit. This, according 

 to Professor Lewis, chief of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College Division of Horti- 



culture, is generally owing to the 

 vitality of the trees. "If your trees are 

 on rich soil," says Professor Lewis, "or 

 if there is too much manure or irriga- 

 tion water used you inay force them 

 entirely into wood. This condition 

 would be apt to be true with many of 

 our apples, in which case it may be 

 years before they will bear. Yellow 

 Newtown, Northern Spy, King of 

 Tompkins County, and in fact many of 

 the apple varieties grown in and near 

 Portland, if taken too good care of and 

 over-pruned, will not bear, at least not 

 until they are quite old. The remedy 

 is to let up on the pruning; to prune 

 twice a year, distributing the pruning 

 between the early spring and the 

 middle of June to the middle of July. 

 Do not water them too much and go 

 sparingly on manure. Sometimes these 

 trees are in chicken yards, where the 

 ground has been kept quite moist and 

 is pretty heavily fertilized. Trees un- 

 der those conditions often do not suc- 

 ceed. With the cherry trees that bloom 

 and fail to set, I am almost certain that 

 the trouble is pollination. The Black 

 Republican can be grafted into those 

 trees and will help them to set, or yoti 

 can use a special strain of Waterhouse, 

 which can be secured from Eugene, 



which will help these trees to set a 

 crop." 



David Knight of Sawyer, Michigan, 

 kindly sent this ofTice a very attractive 

 catalog on strawberries for the year 

 1915. 



The E. J. Chubbuck Co., of San Fran- 

 cisco, California, whose advertisement 

 appears in this issue, is offering some- 

 thing new in the way of a gopher trap. 

 The Ideal Gopher Trap is the result of 

 years of experimental work, covering 

 every known method of exterminating 

 the gopher pest. The essential features 

 that make the Ideal a perfect trap are 

 the enclosing doors or claws that grab 

 the rodent and pull it into the cage. If 

 if is a small goijhcr it will be found in- 

 side the cage; if a large one it is en- 

 gaged between the claws. Being round 

 with thin edges and a trifle larger than 

 the hole, the gopher walks into the trap 

 before detecting anything in his run- 

 way. — [Adv.] 



WANTED 



Nurseryman, single, wants super- 

 intcndency of deciduous fruit 

 orchard. Good references; mod- 

 erate salary; permanent. ,\ddress 

 A-Z, care "Better Fruit." 



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