The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-01-06
HORTICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION
Will Meet at Prosser this Month
with Program Full of Fine
Features

Association will be held at Prosse)
January 18th, 18th and 10Th an
the features of the program so ia
announced by President E. F. Ben
son indicate that the meeting wi
be full of interest and profit for tn
fruit growers of the state, more SO
of course, for those who attend an
hear at first hand the learned an,
practical addresses and discussions
but for every fruit grower who be
comes a member of the Association
by paying his dollar for the annua
membership certificates which viii
entitle him to one free copy Of tbs
Associations Annual Report, a well
printed book of from 200 to 800
pages, giving addresses, papers, dr.
cussions and proceedings in full.
Some Leading Features
One of the leading numbers 30
far announced is an address on
Irrigation: Quantity OF Water re-
quired for Orchards and other crops"
by S. O. Jayne, irrigation manager
of experiment stations for the Ma
tional Department of Agriculture,
with headquarters at Spokane.
Prof. J. A. Balmer, of Gle Hum
formerly horticulturist at the Wash
ington State College, whose address
at Wenatchee last year on Main
tanning the Fertility of Orchard
Soils" was one of the most notable
addresses heretofore delivered al any
meeting of the Association, win be
present and address the meeting on
a subject yet to be selected by him
self.
P. G. O'Cara, one of the most
scientific and learned men on the
fruit subjects in the United States
now located at Medford, Oregon,
will be present and address the AS
ISOLATION.
Robert Schleisher, of Lewiston,
Idaho,. probably the most extensive
and successful grape grower in the
Northwest, will address the meet
ing on Grapes.
R. w. R. Peaslee, of Lewiston,
Idaho and Charleston and Pasco,
Washington, one of the Northwest's
prominent nurserymen and cherry
growers will talk about Cherries. /"
E. H. Shepard of Hood River,
Oregon editor of Better Fruit"
will give an address on Marketing
Fruits This subject will probab-
ly provoke interesting discussion as
to the relative benefits to the fruit
grower of cooperation, as compared
with other business organizations for
the marketing of fruits. Mr.. Shep-
ards will be an interesting address.
Prof. A. L. Melander, entomol-
ogist, of the Washington State
College, without whom no fruit con-
vention would be complete, will be
present and has been invited to Sc
lect his subjects.
F. E. Thompson, Of the Thomp'
son Fruit Co. OF North Yakima, is
down on the program for an address
on Picking, Packing and Packages
Under this number the question Of
Boxes or Barrels" for apples
question soon to be pressing for solu
tion-is sure to have much space il
the discussions. This is question
with two sides to it and one that il
beginning to receive much though
on the part of the Northwest frui
growers.
Pears will be the subject of al
address by W.'B. Sawyer Of Zillah
Wash.
Prof. Trumtle of Wenatchee viii
address the Association, subject We
to be selected.
J. NJ. JENNIE, of the Euclid Dis
trict near Prosser, will talk Of
Pruning" with special reference
to cherries, peaches and walnuts
''Snout Beetle or Bud Weevil" j
the subject of a paper that will b
presented by Mr.. George H. Chase
Supt. of the Model Ochard'' Q
the Northern Pacific officials nea