Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Purdue Experiment Station To Aid Fruit Growers. [ARTICLE]

Purdue Experiment Station To Aid Fruit Growers.

A campaign is under way to hold demonstration meetings in every locality in the state.

Indiana fruit growers are to have the benefit of another and new line of work from the Department of Horticulture, of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station. Plans have just been announced by the Experiment Station providing for a series of neighborhood demonstration meetings to illustrate the up-to-date process in caring for orchards. Some men are making money from their fruit trees and many are not. The difference is in the care the trees receive. Here is a chance for every one who wants to know, to learn from observation instead of reading. This work should be of the greatest value to the fruit growers of Indiana, especially to the larger class oi tree owners who now possess small orchards and wish to get something out of them in the way of plentiful crops of sound fruit. These meetings will furnish just the information that such men need. This information will be presented in a practical way, and the processes discussed will be actually carried on in the orchards in which the meetings are held, so that every step may be thoroughly understood. The Horticulturists of the Experiment Station will arange to hold a meeting wherever an orchard will be provided and ten men will pledge their interest. Here is an opportunity to find out what to do for your trees; how to spray, how to prune, how and when to apply the remedies for the San Jose scale, and to see and study a practical spray outfit in operation. The Department of Horticulture wishes to begin the meetings at as early a date as possible. Any one interested in bringing the demonstration to his own neighborhood should write at once for further particulars to C. G. Woodbury, Associate Horticulturist, Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind.