. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. January, 1921 BETTER FRUIT Page 31 which was established by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The S. S. "Creole State" sailed for San Francisco from Baltimore on December 27th. Arriving at San Francisco on January 15th, she will load cargo, and on .January 26th will be dispatched on the Pacific Mail's direct ex- press communication with the Philippines and India. The S. S. "Wolverine State" will sail from San Francisco on February 25th. Direct express communication to Manila will be made by the new liners in 22 davs. The time from Calcutta w


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. January, 1921 BETTER FRUIT Page 31 which was established by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The S. S. "Creole State" sailed for San Francisco from Baltimore on December 27th. Arriving at San Francisco on January 15th, she will load cargo, and on .January 26th will be dispatched on the Pacific Mail's direct ex- press communication with the Philippines and India. The S. S. "Wolverine State" will sail from San Francisco on February 25th. Direct express communication to Manila will be made by the new liners in 22 davs. The time from Calcutta will be 34 days, "the "Creole State" and "Wolverine State" making the fastest time in history of Pacific trade with the Far East. Leaving San Francisco the ships will reach Honolulu on the afternoon of the sixth day; the Philippines in 22 calendar days, and arrive at San Francisco from Manila in 20 calendar days; Singapore will be reached in 28 calendar days from California; Colombo in 34 days; Calcutta in 39 days; and will make San Fran- cisco, homebound, in 34 days, from India. Sailings will be maintained every 30 days from San Francisco, excepting when Sunday interferes when sailings will be on the Satur- day preceding. Bits About Fruit, Fruitmen and Fruit Growing Cheering words were recently brought to Northwestern apple growers by A. B. Hull of Gasport, N. Y., production manager of the Friend Sprayer Company, who visited F. A. Olmstead and A. B. Bennett who are the Ore- gon and Southern Washington distributors for this company. According to the Hood River Glacier, orchardists of the Northwest, he says, should not be depressed over the situation that now applies in the apple market. "It must be remembered," says Mr. Hull, "that the big eastern commercial orcharding districts this year produced a record breaking apple crop. As a result all eastern points of distribution have been glutted as never before in history. Naturally, the apple


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