The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-07-21
PLANT SPECIAL
lists ARE COMING
HORTICULTURAL MEET NEXT WEEK
Prominent Men From Many Sections to
Attend and Participate in
Discussions

The full program for the first annual
conference of plant specialists, includ-
ing entoniologists, pathologists and
hoTticuIturists from Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho, Utah and British Columbia
has been announced by Leroy Childs
and Gordon Brown, who will be hosts
at the gathering. The sessions, which
will begin next Tuesday. closing the
following Thursday, will be held at the
| Commercial Club rooms. The visitors
will be escorted Thursday afternoon by
automobile through the Upper Valley
orchards.
The strenuously inclined members of
| the party will remain Thursday night
at Cloud Cap Inn, and Friday Will
make an ascent of Mount Hood.
! Others will return to Hood River and
will spend Friday touring the orchard
districts of the Mosier and Dufur dis
tricts, in Wasco county. K. r. Jack
man, Wasco county agent, will have
charge of the tour through the neigh
boring county.
The full program will be as follows
Tuesday afternoon - Opening Re
|
| Brown, chief of horticulture at the Or
egon Agricultural College; effects of
Miscibe Oil Sprays on Fruit Trees, -
C. Vincent, horticuIturlst, Uniyers-
| ity of Idaho; apple Tree Anthrac-
nose or Black Spot Canker Control, -
! E. w. White, assistant horticulturist,
Victoria, b. c.; Experimental Spray,
ing Results In Hood River Valley, "
| I l. af
Station; "Oiled Fruit Wraps and APP
pie Scald Control, with demonstra-
ton, d. f. Fisher. U. S. Department
of Agriculture Plant Pathologist at
! Wenatchee.
Tuesday evening - Open meeting.
''The Fruit Marketing Outloop. {. l..
Lewis, assistant manager of the Ore
gon Growers Cooperative Association,
and eliminate and Interesting Expert
ences of a Meandering Horticulturlst
in the Land of the Rising Sun, f. g..
Reimer, director of the Southern Ore
gon Experiment Station
Wednesday morning the specialists
will make a tour through the orchards
Orchard fertilizers 'and fruit produc-
tion will be discussed by Clayton L..
Long, an extension specialist of Cor
Wallis, and demonstrations will be CIV
en- by Gordon G. Brown, h0rticulurlst
of the local station. A mushroom rot
experiment demonstration Will be given
by Leroy Childs and DIR. 5. M. Zeller,
plant pathoIogiat of the Oregon AgTi-
culturist. Mr.. Childs will also give
an orchard disease and pest control
demonstration.
Wednesday afternoon special pro-
grams of hortIculurists and entomolo'
gists will be given. The features OF
the former will be-: DUTY of Water
in Fruit Production" DR.. M. c. Mer-
ril, horticulturist of the Utah Expert
ment Station at Logan; Orchard
Management. Yields and Related Fac
tors, Gordon G. Brown; Oriental
Pears and Their Value to American
Horticulture, Mr.. Reimer, and
"Changes in the Internal Morphology
of the Pear During the Ripening Peri
3D." A. Il. Murneek, assistant horti-
culturist at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege.
The entomologigsts portion of the
Wednesday afternoon program will be
"New or Unusual Insect Outbreaks,
r. II. Smith, Idaho Experiment Sta
tion entomologist, Twin Falls discus
sion by p. l.. Rockwood, of the federal
chronological station, Forest Grove
"Small Fruit Insects" VIM. Downes,
Jr., entomologist of Washington Agri'
cultural College, Pullman; Advances
in Grasshopper Control, "sH. w. Hen
derson, president of Utah University,
Logan: discussion, B. b. Fulton, as
sistant chronological the Oregon Ag
ricultural College; alfalfa Weevil II
Idaho" Claude Wakeland. extension
eutomologist, Boise, Ida. "Oregon''
Earwig Problem" B. B. Fulton; "Fil
bert Bud Mite" A. l.. Lovett. entom
ologist at Oregon Agricultural College
Plant patholoigsts will discuss the
following topics at the Wednesday
afternoon session:
"Powdery Mildew of Pears, ID. F
Fisher, federal plant pathologist ol
Wenatchee; "Plant Disease Problem:
of Idaho" c. w. Hungerford. plan
pathologist, Idaho Experiment Station
Moscow; eastern Filbert Blight Dan
ger, F." II. p. Barss, plant pathologist
Oregon Agricultural College. A rount
table discussion on new or unusua
plant disease outbreaks of the curren
year will be held.
Wednesday evening a banquet anC
smoker for all visitors will be held al
the Columbia Gorge Hotel.
The program for Thursday morning
will be:
European Canker of Pear and Ap
ple," DIR. S. M. Zeller "Spray Poison
ing of Bees" A. l.. Melander. ento
mologist of Washington State College
| Pullman; "Thrips Injury to Apples
Calyx Penetration by Lead Arsenal,
Sprays" f. J. Newcomer, federal en-
! tomologist at Yakima, Wash. "Prun,
Root Borer Control" f. II. Lathrop
assistant entomologist. Oregon Agri
cultural College; "Plant Quarantine
| on the Pacific Coast and Its Importance
to Horticulture, Chas. A. Park, chair
man Of Western Plant Quarantine
Board, Of Salem; Freeze Injury,
svmposium led by w. S. Brown, chic
Of horticulture Of Oregon Agricultural
| College.
The Tuesday evening meeting, 1t j
expected, will be attended by orchard
lists from all parts Of the Hood Rive
valley and neighboring mid. Columbi'
fruit districts.