. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS OREGON—C. I. Lewis. Hortitniltunst. Corvallls. WASHINGTON — Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomologist: O. M. Morris, Horticulturist; W. S. Thomber. Horticul- turist. I*ullmaD. COLORADO—C. P. Gillette. Director and Entomologist: E. B. House. Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering, State Agricultural College, Fort Collins. ARIZONA—E, P. Taylor. Horticulturist, Tucson. WISCONSIN—Dr. E. D. BaU. Director and Entomologist, Madison. MONTANA—O. B. IrMiIpple. Horticulturist. Bozeman, CALIFORNIA—C. W. Woodworth. Entomologist. Be


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS OREGON—C. I. Lewis. Hortitniltunst. Corvallls. WASHINGTON — Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomologist: O. M. Morris, Horticulturist; W. S. Thomber. Horticul- turist. I*ullmaD. COLORADO—C. P. Gillette. Director and Entomologist: E. B. House. Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering, State Agricultural College, Fort Collins. ARIZONA—E, P. Taylor. Horticulturist, Tucson. WISCONSIN—Dr. E. D. BaU. Director and Entomologist, Madison. MONTANA—O. B. IrMiIpple. Horticulturist. Bozeman, CALIFORNIA—C. W. Woodworth. Entomologist. Berke- ley: W. H. Volcli. Entomolofrist. Watsonville; Leon D. Batchelor. Horticulturist. RlTcrside. INDIANA—H. S. Jaclison. Pathologist. Lafayette. An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Modern, Progressive Fruit Growing and Marketing. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY Better Fruit Publishing Company 703 Oregonian Building PORTLAND, OREGON All Communications should be addressed and Remittances made payable to BETTER FRUIT PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Price: In the United States, $ per year in advance. Canada $; Foreign, including postage, $ Advertising Rates on Application Entered as second-class matter April 22, 1918, at the Postofllce at Portland, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. "N^OLUME XIV Portland, Oregon, August 1, 1919 Number 2 Harvesting and Preparing Prunes for Evaporation By C. I. Lewis, F. R. Brown and A. F. Barss, of the Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Horticulture. DLRLNG the summer of 1911 the Division of Horticulture con- ducted a prune survey of the state. Tliis survey covered nine coun- ties and involved a study of seven hundred prune orcliards. It revealed the fact that there was a great varia- tion in the methods and types of build- ings used in the evaporation of prunes. Since 1911 very little progress has been made in standardizing prunes. The only standard used in the state


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