The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-12-23
QUALITY FRUIT
Is INDICATED
GROWERS INTERESTED IN SPRAYING
Nonresident Orchard Owners Plan the
Purchase of Machines s-Renewed
Faith in Industry Prevails

Never during any former winter sea-
son have local apple growers been dis
playing such an interest in gathering
information on proper methods Of
spraying their orchards. Spray manu.
factory concerns and makers of power
spraying machines declare that the use
of both will be unprecedented. In in
stances, where growers are not able to
purchase machines individually. three,
four and half dozen of them are
banding together to purchase power
sprayer.
The past years apple deal has point
ed out conelusively that only the orch
ardist who grows large percentage of
the two higher grades of product. extra
fancy and fancy. will reap any very
large return from his orchard.
''Unless growers in the future elm.
mate the Gull product" says Wilmer
Sieg, ''they had best 60 out of bust.
ness."
The past years success of E. H.
Shepard, editor of Better Fruit, anC
others, who have harvested more thar
75 per cent of extra fancy and fancy
fruit, demonstrates that thorough
spraying is worth the outlay of money
necessary to the purchase of materials
and machines. Heretofore non-residen,
owners of orchards have been content
to hire their spraying done. They have
learned that oftentimes it is impossible
to secure an outfit at the time most
necessary to prevent bad infection, anC
next year, judging from. present indi
cations, many of these non residents
will buy power sprayers of their own
This attitude on the part of non resi-
dent owners is taken to indicate re-
newed faith in the apple industry.
Henry Wees, of Spokane, a repre-
sentative of the Bean Spray Pump Co.
who was here last week comforting
with the local representative, d. Nc
Donald. says that in all the northwest
ern districts he has visited, he finds
the growers awakening to the necessity
for better spraying.
81 look for my sales to be bigger thar
ever BEFORE" says Mr.. Wees, "but
have SO far not found any great de.
mand in Hood River.
MIR. Mcdonald says that the inquiries
that are coming in from outside people
who own local orchards are very graft
flying.
Gilbert & Dewitt, local representa-
tives of the Hardie Manufacturing Co.
have a large lot of new model sprayerl
on hand. The word "model' is uset
because of the many different types O.
machines. One may find at their Cas-
cade avenue store large power machines
with three and a half power engines
| duplex pumps and latest equipment
/ mounted on an ordinary farm truck tha
may be used for any farm purpose; tn
same machinery mounted on higl
wheels, drop axles, comprising thei
hillside special; and all the way dow
to the little one horse sprayer, mounte.
on steel truck and called the Junior.
Gilbert & Dewitt take a delight i
showing their machines, and it is vel
worth the time of an apple grower t
see their machines.
The buying of power sprayer alon
will not insure perfect crop of apples
any more than purchasing medicine &C
cording to the Doctors prescription Wi
cure your ills. One must use them
according to directions. G. F. Gilber
says: 1--WE have talked with orchard
lists who wondered why they did not &c
good results from their spraying. afte
admitting that they used only 80 to 10
pounds pressure. We have seen other
who stated they had used all the pres
sure they could get-sometimes as hig
as $50 pounds. There is happy med
um in spraying, the same as in doin
other kinds of work. Either extrem
is bad.
"The man who used the low pressur
didn't have enough force behind tn
LIQUID to drive it into every crevict
The man who used too much pressur
!. didn't notice that the extreme pressur
; turned the blossom away from tn
liquid, and that instead of getting th
spray material into the calyx, where
was needed, the back of the bIossol
. getting the entire benefit. And tn
. worm he was after didn't live on tt
back of the blossom.
"An even pressure is one OF the moi
! important essentials OF good thoroug
spraying. Realizing this important e
. sential, the manufacturers of the Ha
! die sprayer, make use of a pressul
regulator, which automatically TAKE
care of the overflow, when nozzles al
! shut off. and holds the pressure abs
i lutely even.at all times. A great man
!. machines on the market are still usil
! the old style relief valve, which r.
/ lieves the pressure at a certain poin
. but does not hold it even.
can engine with surplus of powe
/ ease of accessibility, an efficient pun
l a mechanically perfect agitator, vii
entire construction making for lor
/ life, are all elements to be considered
the purchase of a power outfit. Pri
+ should be a last consideration in Il
i purchase. Too often it is the first co
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