Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-29
Advanced Courses
Orchard Practice

Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
wallis, Ore.-Fruit growers will be
given an opportunity to take ad-
vanced work in the three chief fac
tors of orchard practice at the inter
short course of the Oregon Agricul-
tural College, January $50. Only
those who have taken previous cours-
es are eligible to this, as it is de-
signed wholly to meet the needs of
the orchardist who has mastered the
elementary principles of horticulture.
The three courses open to the second
year students are advanced pruning,
orchard economics and management,
and fruit variety and adaptation.
The course in advanced pruning
will be In the nature of research
work from the point of view of bud
study. The effects on the fruit crop
of removing certain buds and retain
ing others and on the shape of the
tree will be demonstrated in the COL
lege orchard. Members of the course
will do work in pruning under the
direction of instructors who will keep
them in touch with the newest phases
of pruning practice, and the effect of
certain pruning operations on indi-
vidual varieties of trees will be made
so plain in this research work that
the growers who take the course will
be able to make applications of them
10 secure the type of tree desired in
each of the most important varieties.
The advanced course in fruit varie-
ties will be offered for the first time.
It will consist Of laboratory study OF
all the leading fall and winter varie,
ties of apples and pears, including q
study of fruits themselves and Of
their geographical range OF adapta
tion. The material for this course
has been gathered at considerable
cost and labor from all the leading
fruit districts of the United States
The installation of cold storage
plant by the horticultural department
has made possible this large and
varied collection OF fruit, and other:
OF the course will have the benefit
of investigating both the plant anC
it's store of fruits. The real objec
of the course is to get at the facts
and fundamental principles Of frui
variety adaptation. 1t will furnish
its students with much information
about the kinds OF fruit that will pro
duce we'll in their sections of tn,
state, have good storage qualities
and command good prices on th'
market.
The advanced course in orchart
economies and management has beel
constructed on a series OF expert
ments in actual practice runninI
through the last six years. Profes
sor c. /. Lewis, head OF the horticul
tural department, has kept an exac
record OF the cost of producing, hand
ling and marketing fruit The rec
ord likewise includes reports on tn
most economical methods Of placin
fruit on the market, systems of hand
ling orchard helpers, and methods c
keeping tree records.
The initial cost of clearing variou
types Of land for orchards, and tn
process OF blasting, charpitting, grul
bing, and use Of donkey engines en-
ployed in the operations, will be e
planned. The laboratory exercis
will be devoted to the plotting al
laying out of orchards and to a
rangement and types of spray house
packing houses and other fruit bull
ings.
It should be noted very careful
that these three courses cover a
vanced work, and no one is eligible
register in them who has not TAX
preceding work.