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BETTER FRUIT 



December 



Which is Yours? 



Two great tasks stand out today : The 

 FEEDING OF THE PEOPLE and the 

 FEEDING OF THE GUNS. 



Maximum food production is obtained 

 by the use of 



Nitrate of Soda 



which contains 15% of nitrogen immedi- 

 ately available. It is nature's indispens- 

 able plant food and energizer. 



Information gladly furnished on request. 



Nitrate Agencies Co. 



210 Leary Building, Seattle 



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Leather is honeycombed with pores, t 

 That's why sweat, moisture and dust • 

 so easily weaken your harness. 

 Eureka Harness Oil prevents this - I 

 protects the leather fibre - keeps | 

 straps and tugs soft, pliable and t 

 strong. Keeps harness jet black. | 



Eureka Harness Oil \ 



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Standard Oil Company 

 (California) 



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Making Old Trees Bear 



A tree is simply a big plant. It is fed 

 through its roots and leaves the same 

 as the tiniest clover plant. The fact 

 that it is large and sturdy looking leads 

 many to believe a tree can be neglected; 

 that it doesn't need the cultivation, fer- 

 tilization and general care that must be 

 bestowed on smaller species of plants 

 to make it thrive. 



However, this belief is fallacious. To 

 be sure, many trees will do fairly well 

 even if neglected. But the same is true 



of more fragile forms of vegetation. 

 Some will die, others will continue to 

 live, but will not show healthy growth; 

 nor will they bear well if they are fruit 

 trees, unless they happen to be favored 

 by especially favorable natural soil 

 conditions. 



Hard, impervious soil is the tree's 

 greatest obstacle to maximum thrifti- 

 ness. 



Plowing the surface, between and 

 around trees, helps some, but when a 

 tree is eight or ten years of age or 

 older its roots go down several feet. 



The plow cannol break up the hard 

 subsoil and thus little or no relief is 

 afforded the feeding roots by plowing. 

 In fact, surface plowing encourages 

 shallow rooting, which every horticul- 

 turist knows is bad for a tree. 



To date the only practical remedy 

 that has been found for hard soil is 

 blasting with dynamite. Its use enables 

 the orchardist to deeply stir and break 

 the subsoil. 



The blasting is quickly and easily 

 done. Usually an inch and a half soil 

 auger is employed to put down holes to 

 a depth of about three to four feet. 

 One-quarter pound charge of a slow 

 dynamite, five or six feet out from the 

 trunk, is generally sutlicient for a tree 

 under five years old. For larger trees, 

 from two to six charges, planted at 

 different points around the trunk, will 

 be required. The proper point to place 

 the holes for the older trees is out at 

 about the edge of the foliage line. 



The effect of the blasting is to break 

 up the hard soil, enabling the roots to 

 advance easily into new feeding beds; 

 also to increase the water-storage 

 capacity of the subsoil so that the tree 

 may not suffer from lack of moisture 

 during periods of drought. 



Apple Shipments. 

 Up to November 26, this year, 13,129 

 carloads of apples had been shipped 

 from the Northwest. Up to the same 

 date in 1916 11,552 cars had been 

 shipped. 



The licensing of fruit and produce 

 dealers will increase the confidence of 

 producers as well as consumers. It will 

 be an incentive toward greater produc- 

 tion. 



Fresh air and sunlight combat disease 

 in the stable. Dairy barns should be 

 airy barns. Ventilation is conservation. 



Fly a flag on the farm and teach the 

 children what it stands for. 



of Spray 



as 



The Hardie Orchard 



Gun saves your time and 

 muscle— no long, heavy 

 rods to hold. 



Turns a big job into a little 



one. One man with a Hardie 



Gun will do more work and 



do it better than two men 



with the old-fashioned rods. 



Hardie Orchard Gun $12 



Low price made possible by 

 big production — send for the 

 Hardie Catalog today. Hardie 

 Sprayers and spraying de- 

 vices standard for 18 years. 



THE HARDIE MFG. CO. 



Hudson, Mich. 

 Also Portland, Ore. 



