. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 191S BETTER FRUIT Page 13 The Selah Evaporating Company, Selah, Washington, is consuming twenty tons of green cull apples a day, pro- ducing two and one-half tons of dried product. The Selah Evaporating Com- pany, which is owned and controlled by the growers of Selah, is in a most pros- perous condition and is being well patronized by the growers. Currant Maggot.—One of the best ways to control currant maggot is to stir the ground around the bushes in the autumn and in the early spring. The ]arv?e of this fly are in the ground and by stirring the soil around the
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. 191S BETTER FRUIT Page 13 The Selah Evaporating Company, Selah, Washington, is consuming twenty tons of green cull apples a day, pro- ducing two and one-half tons of dried product. The Selah Evaporating Com- pany, which is owned and controlled by the growers of Selah, is in a most pros- perous condition and is being well patronized by the growers. Currant Maggot.—One of the best ways to control currant maggot is to stir the ground around the bushes in the autumn and in the early spring. The ]arv?e of this fly are in the ground and by stirring the soil around the bushes seems to be the most effective way to deal with this pest. Yakima Valley has one of the finest crops of Winesaps ever produced. The fruit is not only larger but firmer in quality and more highly colored. Better Apples Bv F. D. Garrison, Georgia REALIZING the responsibility of growing a 60,000 apple tree orchard, I decided to visit some of the older orchards of the East in order that I might study their system of manage- ment as to the selection and preparation of soil, varieties used, methods of cul- tivation, marketing and the problems in general that confront the apple grower. On this tour a very interesting call was made near Timbcrville, Virginia, an attractive little town located on the Southern Railway. It has a large mutual cold storage plant, a mutual creamery and other commercial enter- prises. I soon learned that this was a promising fruit growing section and about three miles out I found an inter- esting orchard belonging to Dr. Kelley, who has had years of experience in the fruit growing world. The Mt. Clifton orchard, which has been paying large dividends for several years, was grown and developed by him before he began his present proposition. The orchard on which he now lives and to which he is giving his personal attention lies on parallel ridges having an elevation of 1,560 feet. The gravel loam soil has a clay subsoil, a great per cent of which is the
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