The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-07-28
HORTICULTURISTS
CONVENE HERE
VALLEY DEMONSTRATIONSAR AREHELD
-Four Box Apple States and British Co.
lumbia Represented at Plant
Specialists Sessions

With over 50 plant specialists from
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British
Columbia and Utah, the annual con-
Vention OF Northwestern entomologists,
pathologists and horticultursts, whic
began it's sessions here Tuesday. bid
fair to to draw record large attend
ance.
While the years meeting. it is said
Will result in no startling discoveriei
IN behalf of fruitgrowers, the clearint
house of experimental results and con
clusions from observations IN the prov
ince and four states will present Il
growers of the box apple sections vari.
Gus evidences of a steady progress in
methods of culture and for combating
diseases and pests.
Tuesdays program was thrown open
to the general public, and the high
school auditorium was crowded with
! growers of the valley and adjacent
mid-C0lumbia Oregon and Washington
sections c. |. Lewis, formerly horti-
culturalist of the Oregon Agricultural
College, who is now assistant manager
OF the Oregon Growers Cooperative
| Association. in an address on phases of
marketing, declared that the agricul-
tural interests are paying an unjust
share of the nations burden. Mr..
Lewis, however, asserted that the
farmer himself is to blame for his con-
dition. He declared the only remedy
for the condition would be found in
advertising. Announcing that an en-
deayor will be made to conduct a CO.
operative campaign with five big coop
erative fruit concerns subscribing, Mr.
Lewis said
Never have the apple growers of
the Northwest had such an opportun-
ity. The apple crops of the states
east Of the Rockies will produce the
smallest crops in our generation. In
qulrles are reaching us daily for our
product. BY the use of advertising we
have an opportunity of gaining friends
who will stand US in good stead, per-
haps, in future years when Virginia,
Missouri, New York and Canada pro-
duce a huge apple tonnage"
Mr.. Lewis stated that the five big
concerns tentatively engaged to form
an advertising pool are: The Skookum
Packers Association, The Wenatchee
truitgrOwers' Association, The Yaki-
ma Fruitgrowers Association, the Hood
River Apple Growers Association and
the Oregon Growers Cooperative Asso-
citation.
The session was opened Tuesday af-
ternoon bv w. $. Brown, chief of hor-
tieulture at the Oregon Agricultural
College. Addresses were delivered by
the following: G. G. Vincent. horti-
culturist of the University of Idaho,
Effects of Miscible Oil Sprays on
Fruit Trees" f. w. White, assistant
provincial horticulturist Of Victoria,
B. G., Apple Tree Anthraenose or
Black Spot Canker Control;" expert
mental Spraying Results in the Hood
River Valley" Leroy Childs, director
of the Hood River Experiment Sta
ton. and ID. +. Fisher, plant pathol-
ogist Of the United States Department
of Agriculture, stationed at Wenat-
chee, "Oiled Fruit Wraps and Apple
Scald Control.
Registrations of visiting specialists
and out of town orchardists include:
Clayton /. Long extension horticul-
turist, G. E. Schuster, assistant pro-
fessor pomology, l.. p. Wilcox, horti-
cultural instructor, H. Hartman, as
5stant professor of pomOlogy, w. S.
Brown, chief of horticulture, +. M.
Harvey, professor of horticultural re-
search, b. h, Fulton, assistant ento-
mologist, A. f. Murneck, assistant
professor of horticultural research,
5. M. Zeller. associate plant patholo-
gist, f. J.. Rinolde, assistant pomolo-
gist, r. H. Robinson. chemist, all of
Oregon Agricultural College; f. G.
Reimer, superintendent of Southern
Oregon Experiment Station, Talent;
Leroy Childs and Gordon G. Brown,
and horticuturist of
he Hood River Station; Ralph II.
smith, entomologist of the Twin Falls,
da., experiment station; w. Downes,
entomologist, Victoria, b.
). A. II. Steinmetz and Il. j. Cum
nins, growers of Underwood Earl II.
,eller, IF White Salmon w. Z. Hunt
r., assistant horticulturist, of Vernon,
3. c.; j. E. Slade, Husum; K. X.
ackman. county agent of Wasco coun-
y; +. +. Buck, assistant horticulture
ST, University of British Columbia;
Il. ID. Armstrong, Hood River County
ruit inspector and Chas. A. Park, of
he Oregon Horticultural Commission,
ialem.
The only other address Tuesday night
vas delivered by Mr.. Reimer, an inter
atiOnally recognized authority on the
ropagation Of blight-proof pears. who
old of his travels in remote sections
{ China in search of blight resisting
took. The specialists spent yesterday
artly in demonstrations in Hood River
richards.
The programs yesterday afternoon
0vered all phases of cultivation and
ests and insects attack. A banquet
las staged last night at the Columbia
orge Hotel Following a program
AIS morning the visitors will be taken
n tour Of Upper Valley orchards
lis afternoon. A part of them will
smain over at Cloud Cap Inn for an
scent of Mount Hood, while others
IN return here to leave tomorrow for
tour of Wasco county orchards.