. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 30 BETTER FRUIT February ,^^.',r<. LATIMER'S DRY POWDERED ARSENATE OF LEAD For eight years we have been specialists in the manufacture of Arsenate of Lead, but we were sur- prised when during 1916 over 80 7o of the orders we received were for Latimer's Dry and less than 20% called for Latimer's Paste. Powdered arsenate of lead marks the greatest ad- vance that has been made in spraying materials in the last ten years, and this has been quickly recognized by the growers. If you use LATIMER'S DRY once you become an enthusiastic advocate. Last season LATIMER
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 30 BETTER FRUIT February ,^^.',r<. LATIMER'S DRY POWDERED ARSENATE OF LEAD For eight years we have been specialists in the manufacture of Arsenate of Lead, but we were sur- prised when during 1916 over 80 7o of the orders we received were for Latimer's Dry and less than 20% called for Latimer's Paste. Powdered arsenate of lead marks the greatest ad- vance that has been made in spraying materials in the last ten years, and this has been quickly recognized by the growers. If you use LATIMER'S DRY once you become an enthusiastic advocate. Last season LATIMER'S DRY made its introduc- tory bow to the apple growers of the Northwest and met with instanct success in every district where it was used. One large orchardist writes from Washington: "I am more than well pleased with my results after using Latimer's Dry. I have had less wormy fruit this year than I have ever had in all my experience and I am willing to give the credit to your ; We want to convince you this year that in a season's use LATIMER'S DRY is MORE CONVENIENT MORE EFFECTIVE MORE ECONOMICAL than any paste lead you have ever bought. Ask your dealer for LATIMER'S DRY arsenate of lead or write to The Latimer Chemical Company Grand Junction, Colorado we couldn't irrigate. Two years ago I made the statement that we had dur- ing the course of our experiments mate- rially increased by the practice of sum- mer pruning the yield and also secured higher color to our fruit. The experi- ments as originally planned were to take a block of trees planted in 1905 and give them nothing but winter prun- ing and to set aside another block to which only summer pruning was given. Following are the figures showing the average yield in pounds per tree for 1916: Winter Summer Variety Pruned, lbs. Pruned, lbs. Jonathan Grimes Golden Home Beauty Wagener Extra Fancy 35% 65% With the Grimes Golden we were able to get a decided increase
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