. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I5 BETTER FRUIT Page Pear Blight Mr. Waite, a graduate chemist and druggist, with many years' practical experience in compounding chemicals, states that he helieves he has found the cure for hlight, which is a chemical preparation which, when applied, kills the germs hy dissolving the exudation. While it is hoped that his remedy will prove successful, fruitgrowers in gen- eral are not inclineil to helieve in any remedy for the cure of blight. In fact they will not believe that there is any method of controlling blight cxceiJt the cutting-out process until such
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I5 BETTER FRUIT Page Pear Blight Mr. Waite, a graduate chemist and druggist, with many years' practical experience in compounding chemicals, states that he helieves he has found the cure for hlight, which is a chemical preparation which, when applied, kills the germs hy dissolving the exudation. While it is hoped that his remedy will prove successful, fruitgrowers in gen- eral are not inclineil to helieve in any remedy for the cure of blight. In fact they will not believe that there is any method of controlling blight cxceiJt the cutting-out process until such a remedy has been proven positively efTective. Mr. Anthonie van Diem, of the firm of W. van Diem Company of Rotter- dam, Holland, called at "Better Fruit" ofTice in July, this being his first trip to the United States. The firm of W. and W. U. van Diem was started in 1800, and imported Northwestern fruits as far back as 1895. Mr. van Diem left Holland on this trip on the steam- ship Rotterdam June 12, 1015, the voy- age taking twenty-one days. His ex- perience was quite interesting. The steamship was held up several times by British and German boats, but after leaving the Irish coast he had a very pleasant trip. Mr. van Diem was very much impressed with the City of New York, which he saw for the first time. He arrived in Portland July 18th, being entertained in that city by Vice-Consul of the Netherlands, Mr. Berghuis-Krak and his friends. On July 22nd he came to Hood River, calling on the editor of "Better Fruit," in which paper the firm has advertised for a number of years. He was also entertained by Mr. Wilmer Sieg, sales manager of the Hood River What are your dairy problems? To get started profitably in dairy- ing as a side-line, tlie fruit grower needs helpful advice and sugges- tions. Our service department will de- light in doing this very thing,with- out any charge or obligation. We are sole Oregon distributors for "Simplex" Separators, B-
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