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BETTER FRUIT 



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EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURAL MEN IN DEMAND 



THE great demand for trained men in 

 the horticultural world is well illus- 

 trated by th-e fact that the head of the 

 department of horticulture at the Ore- 

 gon Agricultural College, Professor C. I. 

 Lewis, has had thirteen calls for gradu- 

 ates to fill positions of importance on 

 large fruit ranches owned by wealthy 

 corporations and individuals within the 

 past month which he is unable to satisfy 

 because all of the graduates are either 

 conducting fruit ranches of their own or 

 have already obtained profitable situ- 

 ations. 



A large corporation in Maryland, con- 

 trolling several thousands of acres in 

 orchards, is contemplating putting in 

 some thousands of acres more in fruit 

 trees, and has applied to Professor Lewis 

 for a man of sufficient experience to 

 demand a salary of $2,500. 



An Eastern university wrote Professor 

 Lewis recently asking him to recom- 

 mend a man for the position of head of 

 the department of horticulture there. 



A foreman for the combined holdings 

 of two of Portland's leading business 

 men who have large fruit ranches in the 

 Willamette Valley has also been asked 

 for from among the college graduates. 



One of the largest development com- 

 panies on the Pacific Coast, having thou- 

 sands of acres in their holdings, and 

 making extensive developments involv- 

 ing the expenditure of enormous sums 

 of money, wants an O. A. C. graduate as 

 superintendent of their work, and will 

 give $2,000 to the right man. 



From Eastern Oregon there has come 

 a call for a foreman to take charge of 

 some 6,000 acres held by a syndicate of 

 thirty Dakotans, to see to the planting of 

 orchards, spraying, irrigation work and 

 to carry the entire responsibility for the 

 welfare of the enterprise. 



An immense Eastern concern, repre- 

 senting over a million dollars in capital, 

 is now making extensive developments 

 in various parts of Oregon, and is asking 

 the college department of horticulture 

 for a superintendent for 10,000 acres of 

 orchards that are among its holdings. 



In the Yakima Valley, and in other 

 parts of Washington, there are large 

 tracts of fruit lands held by a Seattle 

 firm which is writing Professor Lewis 

 for an orchard superintendent. 



A call has been received for a graduate 

 of the college who will go east to Ohio 

 and install Pacific Coast methods in 

 large orchards near Cleveland. 



Some 900 acres in Western Washing- 

 ton are owned by a Portland corpora- 

 tion which has asked for a college man 

 to become foreman. 



The Canadian Department of Agricul- 

 ture, which gave an appointment to an 

 Oregon Agricultural College graduate 

 last June, is now calling for another. 



A man who has been waiting for six 

 months for an O. A. C. graduate to take 

 charge of a hundred-acre walnut grove 

 he owns near Springfield, Oregon, has 

 announced that he is coming to the col- 

 lege soon to make a personal effort to 

 secure someone, and Professor Lewis has 

 said he must give him a man from this 

 year's short course, since there are no 

 others available. 



Other openings with florists, or as 

 head men in greenhouses, are also to be 

 filled, and if there were fifty or a hun- 

 dred graduates from the college every 

 year they could all be placed advan- 

 tageously, there is so great a demand 

 for men with Western training and 

 experience. Most of the men graduated 

 in the past are on orchards of their own 

 which are paying so well that they can- 

 not afford to leave them to accept a 

 salaried position. The rest are already 

 placed advantageously, and thus are not 

 available for appointment. 

 . At the first of July last year the col- 

 lege department of horticulture had 



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 ates to fill good positions, being unable 

 to supply the men. Sometimes requests 

 come from men in the East, asking that 

 positions be found for them, but the 

 demand is for men of Western experi- 

 ence, whom Professor Lewis can recom- 

 mend from personal knowledge. 



The college needs men for its own 

 experiment station work. If the legis- 

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 priations requested for the establishment 

 of new branch stations the college will 

 need nine more men for this one branch 

 of the work alone next June. 



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