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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



Prize orchard in Piedmont, Virginia — 

 prize-winning fruit farm, 140 acres. Twelve 

 Imndred feet elevation, running streams, 

 truck land, woodland pasture; well equipped 

 with buildings; 16 acres SO-year prize-win- 

 ning Winesap, 30 acres four-year York 

 Imperial, 3,000 four-year-old Elberta; cheap 

 freight, one day's shipment to twenty mil- 

 million consumers; near station and city; 

 good neighbors and beautiful scenery, pure 

 air; a dividend producer and healthful home. 

 For sale in whole or in part by owner 



G.W. MURRELL 



Hotel Carroll Lynchburg, Virginia 



A CHANCE OF 



A LIFETIME 



For sale, splendid 95-acre 6-year-old apple orchard, 

 Grande Ronde Valley, one-half mile from town on 

 railroad. No better soil or fruit district in Oregon. 

 Orchard of Rome Beauty, Yellow Newtown, York 

 Imperial and Gano trees, which are in fine condi- 

 tion ; no insect pests. Price $50,000, and can be 

 practically paid for from the crops grown on 

 orchard. There is a fortune here for the right 

 man. This is no wildcat fruit venture, but a solid 

 business proposition that on a very conservative 

 estimate will double in value inside of five years. 

 Future absence from state makes sale necessary. 



W. A. LAIDLAW 



607 Commercial Block, Portland, Oregon 



FOR SALE 



Choice ten-acre tracts Okanogan 

 fruit land. First-class upper bench, 

 near government canal; 1,280 feet 

 altitude. Well water in gravel, thirty 

 feet, pure. Planted to yearling apple 

 trees; best red v^^inter commercial 

 varieties; also tracts not planted. 

 Ready to irrigate. Great Northern 

 Railroad now building in Okanogan 

 Valley. Prices and terms right. 



W. E. KIRKPATRICK 



Epiey, Wash. Okanogan County 



MANAGER WANTED 



For Fruit Growers' Union. Address, 

 giving experience, age and references, 



LEWISTON-CLARKSTON 

 IMPROVEMENT CO. 



CLARKSTON, WASHINGTON 



We Raise the Big 



Red Apples 



I have land for sale in the beautiful 

 Hosier Hills, just six miles east of the town 

 of Hood River, Oregon. 



I have the exclusive sale of the East Hood 

 River Land Company's lands. 



Some clioice tracts in one to three-year-old 

 orchard. 



I have had fifteen years' experience in the 

 Hosier district and I have on my list the best 

 buys in this district. 



GEO. CHAMBERLAIN 



Mosier, Oregon 



culls, and are largely controlled with 

 arsenate of lead. 



It would cost more to spray an 

 orchard in such a manner as to insure 

 complete control of the worms, but the 

 proportionate increase in cost would cer- 

 tainly be less than the value of the 

 advantage gained. 



It is unfortunate that our fruit growers 

 are not all practical entomologists, and 

 capable of doing this kind of work. 

 Even if the fruit growers were willing to 

 follow closely and conscientiously the 

 advice of standard authorities the situa- 

 tion would be much improved. 



The codling moth problem has been 

 before the apple and pear growers so 

 long that practically every man has his 

 own ideas on the subject of the best 

 methods for control. This makes it diffi- 

 cult to cause the great majority of the 

 growers to follow instructions closely. 



The problem of codling moth control 

 cannot, then, be considered solved until 

 a means is found whereby the growers 

 can be induced to accept a uniform and 

 effective method of spraying. 



Entomologists are spending consider- 

 able time on the codling moth problem, 

 largely with this end in view. The 

 progress in recent years has been great, 

 and the results have been correspond- 

 ingly improved. These studies of the 

 codling moth problem have embraced 

 a very wide range of subjects. 



The practical entomological side of 

 the question consisted in working out 

 the life history of the insect. This has 

 now been done in many localities, and 

 when the average results are compared 

 it should give a very accurate knowledge 

 of this feature of the problem. 



The codling moth is largely influ- 

 enced by climatic conditions, and pre- 

 fers warm weather; that is, the greatest 

 developments take place in the warmer 

 sections of the country. As the tem- 

 perature increases the rate of growth 

 of the insect also becomes more rapid. 



The most important facts in the his- 

 tory are that the winter season is passed 

 by the adult larvae in their cocoon. 

 With the approach of spring the larvae 

 transforms into pupae. The pupae stage 

 is rather short, being from ten to fifteen 

 days, when the adult moths emerge. 



This part of the life history was com- 

 paratively easy to work out, and has 

 long been well understood. What the 

 moth did after emerging was not so 

 easy to determine, and many erroneous 

 ideas have prevailed with regard to the 

 adult stage of the insect. 



It was long supposed that the moths 

 proceeded at once to lay eggs in the 

 calyx cup of the apple. This was the 



Virginia Fruit Property 



8000 TREES 303 ACRES OF LAND 



Located 354 miles from railroad station, in Albe- 

 marle County; telephone, mail delivered daily; 

 5,000 peach trees (mostly Elbertas) and 3,000 apple 

 trees; age of trees, from 2 to 4 years. The owner 

 received $2,500 from the fruit crop last year, and 

 there are only 500 trees in full bearing; additional 

 cleared land enough to plant out 10,000 more trees; 

 fair 7-room house. This is one of the best fruit 

 sections of the state, and the peaches from this 

 orchard brought 25c more per crate on the North- 

 ern markets than any other orchard in the entire 

 community. On terms given below, the fruit crop 

 will in four years more than pay for the property. 

 Price $11,000; terms $2,500 cash, balance on five 

 years' time. Write us at once. 



VENABLE & FORD 



LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 



$15 to $50 per acre 



Will buy land in the Beautiful Shenandoah Valley 

 that will grow better fruit than can be grown on 

 $100 to $200 land elsewhere. 



Close Markets and Low Freight Rates 



Give us a great advantage. Fast freight shipments reach New 

 York in 24 hours. Rate 10 cents per box on apples. 



^ The Virginia Apple Orchard is a Money Maker 



You can grow apples here at lower cost because nature pro- 

 vides abundant rainfall, and our mild climate, ricli soil, cold 

 mormtain water, good schools, good roads and best social environment 

 make life very attractive to the newcomer. 



Virginia harvested a $3,000,000 apple crop in 1910. We have high grade 

 apple lands in the Shenandoah Valley, near railroad and good towns, at 

 $15 per acre and up in small tracts. Large boundaries as low as $10 

 per acre. 



Write for attractive booklet, complete list of properties and copy of our 

 Homeseekers' Guide. 



F. H. LA BAUME, AGRICULTURAL AGENT NORFOLK & WESTERN 

 RAILWAY, ROANOKE, VIRGINIA 



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