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COLLEGE TO FIGHT ORCHARD PESTS. 

 A big campaign against the pests which destroy 

 orchards in Oregon is to be started shortly by six 

 experts from the State Agricultural College, in 

 accordance with the legislative bill providing funds 

 for such work. Under the direction of Dean A. B. 

 Cordley, of the college of agriculture; Professor 

 C. I. Lewis, of .the horticultural department, and 

 Professor H. S. Jackson, of the entomology depart- 

 ment, the college will establish division headquar- 

 ters in the principal fruit centers of the state — 

 Portland, Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, and perhaps 

 Milton — and from there the investigations will 

 extend over the entire state. This is not the first 

 work of the sort done by the college, though it 

 is the first state-wide campaign against all kinds 

 of pests. Many thousands of dollars have been 

 saved the orchard men of Oregon by the timely 

 advice of the professors. The thirty-five-acre apple 

 orchard of Eisman Brothers, near Grants Pass, was 

 so badly diseased with anthracnose in 1901 that 

 they were about to dig it up. Every tree was 

 diseased with the fungus, and nearly half of the 

 tops were dead or dying. The vitality of the 

 orchard was so low that it did not produce enough 

 apples to pay expenses. Though the owners worked 

 hard cutting dead wood and dead spots the fungus 

 continued to gain on them. They tried a bordeaux 

 mixture spray, suggested by Dean Cordley, in the 

 fall before the leaves were off, with immediate 

 and pronounced benefit. Continued fall sprayings 

 resulted in a production of 10,000 boxes of as fine, 

 clean, healthy four-tier apples four years after as 

 could be produced anywhere in the United States. 

 They sold 7,000 boxes of four-tier Yellow New- 

 towns and Spitzenbergs at $1.50 a box and 3,000 

 boxes of Ben Davis and W'inesaps, giving a gross 

 receipt of $1.5,2.50 from the orchard they had been 

 ready to dig out. William Hellwell, of Yoncalla, 

 Douglas County, had a similar experience with 

 fall spraying for anthracnose, commonly known as 

 "canker," "dead spot" or "black spot." The pro- 

 tection of the rapidly increasing fruit districts of 

 the state from such pests as are already attacking 

 trees here, and from the introduction of new ones 

 throvigh imported stock, is the problem with which 

 the college experts will wrestle. The details of the 

 campaign have not all been completed, but will be 

 ready for announcement shortly. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I herewith enclose check for one dollar for the 

 lenewal of my subscription to "Better Fruit," and 

 trust that you will continue with even better suc- 

 cess in the future than you have been accorded in 

 the past. Yours very respectfully, Wm. Dayl- 

 dano, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



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