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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



resented 25.7% of the total. Again, on 

 July 1, on unsprayed Black Ben out of 

 122 wormy apples, all from the first 

 brood, 86% were wormy at the calyx, 

 while 90% of these apples were also 

 wormy from the side or stem. The total 

 number of worm holes in these 122 

 apples was 379, so the percentage of 

 calyx injuries was but 27.7% of the total. 



These instances are cited not to show 

 that a very high percentage of the 

 unsprayed fruit do not become wormy 

 at the calyx and that the filling of the 

 calyces is not imperative, but it is my 

 purpose to show that entirely too high a 

 percentage of worms, even of the first 

 brood, enter at the sides of the fruit to 

 hope to control codling moth with a 

 calyx spray only in a year of abundant 

 worms. It is also important to keep the 

 sides of the forming apples coated with 

 poison for the destruction of those first 

 brood worms which do not enter at the 



Cupid Flour 



Has same standing in the Flour 

 trade that Hood River Apples 

 have in the Fruit trade. 



MADE BY 



HOOD RIVER 

 MILLING CO. 



calyx. The calyx spray is applied before 

 the apple is formed, and can surely serve 

 little purpose in coating over the sides 

 of the apple, then only the size of a pea. 

 Some may urge that it is possible to 

 destroy worms which hatch and first 

 feed upon the leaves, since the leaves are 

 usually fairly well unfolded, though not 

 completely so, at the time of the calyx 

 spray and are, therefore, partially coated 

 with poison. Although the higher per 

 cent of the earliest eggs are laid upon 

 the upper sides of leaves while the apples 

 are still fuzzy, during the last half of 

 the egg-laying period of first brood 

 moths, which comes after the fruit has 

 become smooth upon the sides, a high 

 per cent of the eggs are laid upon the 

 fruit. Does it not seem entirely improb- 

 able that very many worms hatching 

 from eggs on the fruit would leave the 

 fruit and go to the leaves to take their 

 first meal? 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



Yesterday I wrote you in regard to my subscrip- 

 tion, fearing you did not receive my remittance. 

 I am pleased to say in today's mail I got the finest 

 fruit paper I have ever seen. It is a container of 

 inspiration of the great Northwest, surely, and I 

 hope to have the pleasure of meeting you person- 

 ally in the near future. Yours truly, Victor 

 Dewein, Warrensburg, Illinois. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I beg herewith to enclose a check from my 

 friend, Mr. H. E. Houston, for which please send 

 him a year's subscription to "Better Fruit." Know- 

 ing when I have a good thing, I push it along. 

 Yours truly, Guy Seaton, Spokane Bridge, Wash- 

 ington. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



Your December number of "Better Fruit" was 

 worth a year's subscription. Yours respectfully, 

 Philip Gibbons, Freewater, Oregon. 



YAKIMA COUNTY 

 HORTICULTURAL 

 UNION 



North Yakima, Washington 



C. R. Paddock, Manager 



Apples, Pears, Peaches, Cherries, 

 Plums, Prunes, Apricots, Grapes 

 and Cantaloupes 



Mixed carloads start about 

 July 20. Straight carloads in 

 season. Our fruit is the very 

 best grade; pack guaranteed 



We use Revised Economy Code 



Rogue River Fruit and 

 Produce Association 



C. W. WILMEROTH, Manager 



Main Office, Medford, Oregon 



We will distribute the entire output of the 

 Rogue River Valley — The world's most fam- 

 ous pears — Our Spitzenbergs won first prize 

 in 1909 — We use the Revised Economy Code 



Loading Stations: 



Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, Eagle Point, 

 Gold Hill, Central Point, Talent, Woodville, 

 Phoenix, Voorhies, Merlin and Jacksonville. 



SCOTT-MUNSELL IMPLEMENT CO. 



321-329 East Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon 1018-1020 Sprague Avenue, Spokane, Washington 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 



Vehicles and Implements 



Carry large assortment of best styles of earth-working tools; also haying and harvesting machinery; also 

 wagons for fruit delivery and for teaming; also driving vehicles for business and for pleasure uses. 



WE RECOMMEND TO FRUIT GROWERS THIS WAGON NO. 120 

 MADE BY FREMONT CARRIAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 



Bodies 

 42 inches 



wide. 

 Have drop 



end gate 

 with chains. 

 Hang low 

 on duplex 

 springs. 



Uses the 

 celebrated 

 'Fitch Gear" 

 'Short Turn" 

 with ' 

 ligh wheels, 

 wide body 

 hung low. 



Sizes: i>^-inch, i>4-inch, i^-inch and i>4-inch axles. Bodies : 7-foot, 8-foot, 9-foot, lo-foot ; 42 inches wide. 

 THE NAME OF MAKERS IS GUARANTEE OF HIGHEST OUALITY 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



