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PALMER 



FRUIT 

 GRADER 



Grades three grades at a time: 



First Grade 9 sizes 



Second Grade 6 sizes 



Third Grade 3 sizes for 

 boxes and any less number of 

 sizes desired for barrels. 



Complete witli sorting table occupies a 

 floor space of 6xlK feet. Grades over square 

 holes wliich expands from IVs to 4 Inches 

 square In traveling li feet. 



Discharges the fruit into bo.\es or Ijarrels 

 without liruising. 



Capacity 27.^,00O apples In ten hours. Work- 

 ing at half capacity will handle about a car 

 and a half dally. 



Box packing can be done direct from the 

 machine or preferably on separate tables, 

 giving the grower a chance to work his 

 packers on the particular sizes and grades 

 he wishes packed first. 



Write or wire for catalogue and prices. 



Palmer Bucket Co. 



HOOD RIVER. OREGON 



posted on (lie mai-hiiU' ami caijabk' of 

 handlins it if neii's.sary. On an aver- 

 age we use about 28 gallon.s of distil- 

 late pel' day, and about 2 gallons of lu- 

 bricating oil, wortb 53 cents per gallon. 

 Of course there is some wear and tear 

 on the machine, much depending on 

 the operator, but properly tieated, I 

 believe we reduce our cost of cultiva- 

 tion about .>() per cent, to say nothing 

 of the satisfaction in doing the work 

 well. We operate about three to four 

 months in a season, all cultivating ceas- 

 ing in Sejitember lo enable the trees to 

 become dormant when the proper sea- 

 son arrives for them to do so. There 

 are probably no larger or more thrifty 

 apple trees in the world, for their age, 

 than our five-year-old trees. — Yours 

 very sincerely, Baker-Langdon Or- 

 chard, by J. W. Langdon, Manager." 



The Peach-Twig Borer 



The peach-twig borer has become 

 one of our most destructive pests to 

 the peach trees in (Colorado. It is also 

 one of the insects that is controlled 

 with comparative ease if the proper 

 remedies are applied at the correct 

 time. We have been most successful in 

 our experiments for the control of this 

 pest when we have used either the or- 

 dinary home-made lime-sulphur sprax 

 or any reliable commercial lime-sul- 

 phur spray in the piopfirtion of one 

 gallon of the commercial article to 

 each nine gallons of water. We have 

 also had ver>- good success in the con- 

 trol of this insect l)y spraying with 



arsenate of lead in the proportion of 

 six i)ounds of the paste to each one 

 hundred gallons of water. Whichever 

 of these insecticides is used, the appli- 

 cation should be made a few days be- 

 fore the blossom buds begin to open 

 enough to show the pink color. 



The second brood of worms of this 

 insect cause what is conmionlx called 

 gummy peaches, although gummx- 

 peaches are very often due to other 

 causes, so that the peach borer should 

 not be blamed with the exudation of 

 gum upon the fruit unless the burrow 

 of the little worm can be found ojien- 

 ing at the point where the gum exudes. 

 .\fter the peach borers have hatched 

 and begun their work of killing the 

 new growth, if the attack is at all 

 serious, considerable benelit can be 

 derived by promi)tl\' cutting off all in- 

 fected new growths and buining them, 

 or otherwise destroying the borers. — 

 C I', (iillette, Colorado Agricultuial 

 College, Ft. Collin.s. 



Fighting Leaf Curl in New York State 

 The New York State College of .\gri- 

 ciillure has issued the following cir- 

 cular regarding the dangers from 

 peach leaf curl: "The thi'ee iiuporl- 

 ant factors to considei' in the control 

 of the disease, are time of application, 

 thoroughness of api)lication, and ma- 

 terial applied. The api)lication should 

 be made before the buds begin lo 

 open, because at this time, under 

 favorable weather conditions, the in- 

 fection lakes place. .Vflcr this has 



occurred subseiiueiil applications to 

 prevent the disease this year are use- 

 less. Select the first bright warm day 

 for the application. Many persons 

 sprayed too late last year. 



"The sprax material used should 

 come in contact with every bud, for 

 the fungus sjjores are sticking to the 

 buds and these must be hit by the 

 spray mixture in order to have per- 

 fect control. .V fine sjjray under high 

 pressure is most satisfactory. Some 

 failures of last year were due to too 

 much hurry in the application. 



"The disease is readily controlled 

 by each of several fungecides. Lime- 

 sulphur solution (testing \V1 degrees 

 Haumc) diluted xvith water in the 

 proportion of one part solution to 

 eight |)arts of water, should be used 

 xvlien both San .lose scale and leaf curl 

 are to be controlled. When scale is 

 not present, the lime-sulphur solution 

 at a dilution of one pait lime sull)luir 

 lo 1,') parts of xvater, or Bordeaux inix- 

 tui'e in the indportion of five pounds 

 copi)er sulphate, five pounds of lime, 

 and .")() gallons of xvater. .Since thor- 

 ough sjjraying xvill absolutely control 

 leaf curl, every ])each grower should 

 take steps to prevent its desti'uctive- 

 ness this year." 



The Washington State Horticultural 

 .\ssociation has just issued the jiro- 

 ceedings of the I'.leveiith .Vnnual Meet- 

 ing of the Washington State Horticul- 

 tural Association held at Wenatchee 

 December 1I-1I1-II, IIH I. 



