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TELEPHONE 



THE telephone is primarily for busi- 

 ness. All fruit growers have more or 

 less business to transact by telephone, 

 and we should be considerate of other 

 people's rights. Complaints are many 

 on the part of fruit growers, particularly 

 those on party lines, with reference to 

 the indiscriminate use of the telephone 

 for lengthy conversations on subjects of 

 no importance whatever. A person is 

 certainly justified in making a complaint 

 when they have important business trans- 

 actions to make over the telephone to be 

 compelled to wait ten or fifteen minutes, 

 as is often the case, to listen to a lot of 

 idle chatter. We do not feel that social 

 matters should be eliminated, but it seems 

 proper courtesy to other people on party 

 lines to at least confine these conversa- 

 tions to a limited length of time. The 

 use of the telephone has been abused in 

 a great many ways. In large cities the 

 abuse has become so great that in many 

 offices it became absolutely necessary to 

 forbid the use of the telephone for any 

 other purpose than business. We hope 

 that we will not be misunderstood and 

 we believe this suggestion, if adhered o 

 by everyone, will result in more satisfac- 

 tory telephone service for everybody on 

 all lines. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



Your December number reached me today, and 

 allow me to say that (possibly with the exception 

 of the fruit packing number) you never put out 

 a better number. Your articles on tree planting 

 and pruning are worth their weight in gold. — 

 Respectfully, C. B. Davis, Minneapolis. 



BETTER FRUIT 



THE Thirty-second biennial session of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society will be held in Tampa, 

 Florida, on February 10 and 11, 1911, not on 

 January 31, February 1 and 2, as announced. The 

 society is accepting the invitation of the Florida 

 Horticultural Society and the Tampa Board of 

 Trade, who are to be hosts on this occasion. The 

 date has been changed to take advantage of very 

 much reduced rates from all points north and 

 west of Ohio and Mississippi River gateways. 

 These reduced rates are on sale on Tuesday, Feb- 

 ruary 7, and through tickets may be purchased to 

 the South based on rates from these river gate- 

 ways, covering a twelve-day period. In New Eng- 

 land and the Northeast the winter tourist rates 

 are the only rates available. 



This has been practically arranged. Full details 

 will be issued a little later. Prominent among 

 the subjects to be discussed are fruit storage and 

 transportation problems by experts of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, apple growing 

 on hill land in the South, co-operation in the mar- 

 keting of fruits, the latest" on fungicides and insec- 

 ticides, nut culture. Of the sub-tropical fruits, the 

 orange, pomelo, fig and pineapple will receive 

 special attention. These subjects will be treated 

 by recognized authorities. The fruit interests of 

 the South and Southwest will have full consid- 

 eration. 



The Tampa Board of Trade is making elaborate 

 preparations for the entertainment of the visiting 

 pomologists. Excursions by automobile, by boat, 

 train and trolley, designed to show Northerners 

 interesting features of Florida and her products, 

 are being scheduled. An exhibition of Florida 

 fruit and vegetables will be held in Tampa at the 

 sam.e time. 



This notice is now presented for the purpose 

 of urging each member to make plans for a brief 

 vacation in the South. He should also interest his 

 neighbor fruit grower in the same project, for the 

 meeting will be one of profit as well as pleasure. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I want to thank you for the work you did when 

 you issued, in September, 1906, the special pack- 

 ing number of "Better Fruit." Little I thought 

 when I had the pleasure of first studying the 

 styles and ways of apple packing that at this date 

 I should be the proud winner of the silver medal 

 awarded by the management of the First Canadian 

 National Apple Show for the best packed box of 

 apples in competition against twenty-three com- 

 petitors, some of whom came from the largest 

 apple growing section of the West. — Yours very 

 truly, J. Wm. Cockle, Kaslo, B. C. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I am writing you at this time relative to your 

 publication. Last year I had some correspondence 

 with you relative to placing our Horticultural 

 Reading Room on your complimentary mailing list. 

 We have received two or three copies during the 

 last year; the others have not come. We should 

 be glad to have you continue to send us your 

 magazine regularly, as we consider it one of the 

 very best publications in America on the subject 

 of fruit growing. I trust that we may be favored 

 by you in this respect. — Very truly yours, James 

 G. Moore, Madison, Wisconsin. 



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 trimming young apple trees planted one year, we 

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 tion. We can also furnish you one of the Brother 

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 things of the kind we know of, and timely, is the 

 "Better Fruit" Magazine. Hood River, Oregon, 

 which shows apple from the time of planting to 

 full orchard development, each stage, season by 

 season. Editor Shepard is a practical orchardist, 

 who made Hood River what it is, and any number 

 of "Better Fruit" is worth more than the subscrip- 

 tion price. You will make no mistake in subscrib- 

 ing for such publication because it tells you all 

 about spraying, grading and marketing, and every- 

 thing of interest — valuable, invaluable." 



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