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BETTER FRUIT 



June 



**H*p! Hep!" Ten mites 

 more to hike— then camp 

 and the comforts of a tittle 

 chew of Reui Gravely. 



See That He Never Lacks 



a pouch 02 



Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug 



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 has paid $5 for less good tobacco than you 

 will send him in a pouch of Real Gravely 

 Chewing Plug. Only costs you 1 cents. 



Give any man a chew of Real Gravely Plug, and he will 

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Ordinary plug is false economy. It cost less per 

 week to chew Real Gravely, because a small chew of it 

 lasts a long while. 



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 A POUCH OF GRAVELY 



Dealers all around here carry it in _10c. pouches. A 3c. stamp 

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 U. S. A. Even "over there" a 3c stamp will take it to him. Your 

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Established 1831 



Live Stock and the Orchard 



By Prof. L .J. Iddings, U 



THERE has been in Western agricul- 

 tural practice a strong tendency for 

 several years toward specialization. In 

 so far as this has meant for more in- 

 tensive methods and for greater intelli- 

 gence and skill devoted to the produc- 

 tion of special crops or special farm 

 products, the movement has been 

 worthy of high commendation. Weak- 

 nesses have been found in the system, 

 however, and the trend of today is 

 away from extreme specialization and 

 toward diversification in the handling 

 of the Western agricultural farm hold- 

 ings. 



A fundamental difficulty for the man 

 of limited means in any plan of high 

 specialization is that he does not, and 

 probably cannot afford to prepare him- 

 himself for a season of loss. It is not 

 always entirely well with a specialty. 

 Whether it is with the cereals or the 

 forage crops of the field or the crops of 

 the orchard, there comes a season when 

 conditions are unfavorable and the in- 

 come is small. With the fruit grower, 

 furthermore, there may be the problem 

 of the orchard not yet in bearing and 

 diversification offers at least part solu- 

 tion for the problem of maintaining 

 the family until the orchard is of bear- 

 ing age. Diversification, therefore, does 

 not run counter to the best interests of 

 the fruit grower, but on the other hand, 

 assists in increasing his income and in 

 staving over certain periods when the 

 orchard is young or when, for some 

 reason, it does not yield in abundance. 

 A modern slogan that is now quite pop- 

 ular in the agricultural field is the 

 warning not to put all the eggs in one 

 basket. 



niversity of Idaho, Moscow 



There are four direct reasons why 



the orchardist should be able to find a 

 use for live stock in connection with 

 his main business, which is that of fruit 

 production. In the first place the live 

 stock furnishes an additional source of 

 income and often contributes directly to 

 the support of the family by furnishing 

 animal products for home consumption. 

 Second, live stock may be made to fur- 

 nish a market for many of the crops 

 grown by the orchardist between the 

 rows of trees. Some of the crops, such 

 as legumes, corn, grains of various 

 kinds, can, as a rule, be most profit- 

 ably marketed through live stock. 

 Third, the orchardist needs live stock 

 for the purpose of maintaining soil fer- 

 tility. We find that more and more 

 fruit men are giving consideration to 

 the question of fertilization and we all 

 recognize that one of the cheapest and 

 most efficient means of maintaining the 

 soil in the best possible physical con- 

 dition for maximum production is 

 through the use of farm manures se- 

 cured through live-stock keeping. 

 There is a fourth reason why the or- 

 chardist should at this particular time 

 think seriously of live-stock production. 

 This is because the leaders of the Amer- 

 ican government today are calling for 

 more animals and more animal prod- 

 ucts. The larger share by far of the 

 needs of the nation in this direction 

 will, of course, be taken care of on the 

 ranges and on the farms. The fruit 

 grower, however, can aid materially in 

 this direction, and if a few head of live 

 slock were kept on the average fruit 

 farm of the West the sum total would 

 be of real assistance in meeting the 

 present-day needs of America. 



Granted that live-stock keeping is 

 feasible, we may immediately consider 

 the kinds of live stock that are best 

 adapted to the fruit farm. A few horses 

 will always be kept, but many orchard- 

 ists question the advisability of trying 

 to breed horses in connection with an 

 orchard plant. Beef cattle are produced 

 most successfully and profitably where 

 there is ample room and cheap grass. 

 In a similar way sheep have, in past 

 years, been regarded as better adapted 

 to cheaper lands that are devoted 

 largely to grazing purposes. In the past 

 two or three years, however, hundreds 

 of small flocks of sheep have been 

 bought by the farmer and it will only 

 be a short time, if the present tendency 

 prevails, when sheep on the Western 

 farms will be as common as they have 

 for years been on the farms of Ohio 

 and Indiana. There is a possibility of 

 using a small band of sheep in connec- 

 tion with the orchard. For the average 

 man engaged in fruit growing, however, 

 the dairy cow and the brood sow lend 

 themselves better to his needs. These 

 two classes of animals fit well together 

 on the farm and make a splendid com- 

 bination for use in connection with the 

 orchard. 



Those who are keeping in touch with 

 dairy conditions of today feel that the 

 time is not far distant when dairymen 

 are to be paid well for their work in 

 producing milk and butter fat. Prices 

 have not been adeqaute and the dairy- 

 man has been losing money for many 

 months. The result has been the selling 

 of a large number of dairy cattle and 

 we will unquestionably soon be face to 

 face with a condition in regard to milk 

 and butter-fat production that will 

 mean one of two things — the dairyman 

 will be well paid or the consumer will 

 do without dairy products. I am 



