. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS OREGON—C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist, Corvallls. WASHINGTON — Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomologist: O. M. Morris, Horticulturist; W. S. Thomber, Horticul- turist, Pullman. COLORADO—C. P. Gillette. Director and Entomologist: E. B. House, Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering. St-ate Agricultural College, Fort Collins. ARIZONA—E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist. Tucson. WISCONSIN—Dr. E. D. Ball. Director and Entomologist, Madison. MONTANA—O. B. Whipple. Horticulturist. Bozeman. CALIFORNIA—C. W. Woodworth. Entomologist, Ber
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. BETTER FRUIT STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS OREGON—C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist, Corvallls. WASHINGTON — Dr. A. L. Melander. Entomologist: O. M. Morris, Horticulturist; W. S. Thomber, Horticul- turist, Pullman. COLORADO—C. P. Gillette. Director and Entomologist: E. B. House, Chief of Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering. St-ate Agricultural College, Fort Collins. ARIZONA—E. P. Taylor, Horticulturist. Tucson. WISCONSIN—Dr. E. D. Ball. Director and Entomologist, Madison. MONTANA—O. B. Whipple. Horticulturist. Bozeman. CALIFORNIA—C. W. Woodworth. Entomologist, Berke- ley; W. H. Volck. Entomologist. Watsonville; Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist, Riverside. INDIANA—H. S. Jackson, 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 AH 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. Volume XIV Portland, Oregon, .July 1, 1919 Number 1 California Leads the World in the Apricot Industry By George P. Weldon, Chief Deputy, State Commission of Horticulture, California APRICOTS are grown In a number of difTerent states of the Union, but the commercial industry is practically confined to the State of California, where there are at the pres- ent time 40,886 acres in bearing and 19,444 acres that have not yet reached the bearing age. The production in 1918 was 135,787 tons, and the valuation of the fruit during the same year was $8,800,000. Not only is this fruit little grown outside of California in America, but also in other countries of the w
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