. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page jo BETTER FRUIT May The Bushel Shipping Basket- The Universal Package From factory to orchard, ready to use for Fruits and Vegetables Write for price now Bushel Shipping Baskets at Koshkonong, Mo. PACKAGE SALES CORPORATION 106 E. Jefferson Street, SOUTH BEND, Some Phases of Alfalfa as a Crop in the Orchard By P. S. Darlington, Horticultural Inspector at Large, Wanatchee, Washington UP until recent years the fruit busi- ness in this state has been on a very unstable basis. We clean cultivated our orchards, kept little or no live stock, and perhaps not e
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page jo BETTER FRUIT May The Bushel Shipping Basket- The Universal Package From factory to orchard, ready to use for Fruits and Vegetables Write for price now Bushel Shipping Baskets at Koshkonong, Mo. PACKAGE SALES CORPORATION 106 E. Jefferson Street, SOUTH BEND, Some Phases of Alfalfa as a Crop in the Orchard By P. S. Darlington, Horticultural Inspector at Large, Wanatchee, Washington UP until recent years the fruit busi- ness in this state has been on a very unstable basis. We clean cultivated our orchards, kept little or no live stock, and perhaps not even a garden. We were so enthusiastic over the fruit business that we forgot that there might come a year when there would not be a profit in the fruit busi- ness with which we could buy our pro- visions at the store. We have since seen some such years. We have seen years when the credit of a good many of our fruit growers at the grocery store was not gilt edge, and in fact some of them got hungry and walked out. In 1911 we shipped into Wenat- chee 150,000 pounds of butter, 20 car- loads of canned milk, 200 gallons of fresh milk a day, 42,000 dozen eggs, 20 carloads of packing house products and about 1800 tons of hay. Our farmers, if they could be called that, were going to town and buying their milk, butter, eggs, meat, etc. Wenatchee probably carried this condition to greater ex- treme than most other sections in the state, but perhaps necessity has caused the orchardists of Wenatchee to ad- vance farther toward correcting this condition than has been the case with the orchardists of most other districts. Clean cultivation was not only starv- ing our orchardists but was also starv- ing our orchards. If there is anyone here that does not know what a starv- ing orchard looks like, just take a drive out through any of the older orchard sections next summer and you will see here and there an orchard with small, sparse and yellowish looking foliage, red or yellowish bark and prob
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