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BETTER FRUIT 



June 



Body Built 

 for Country Loads 



Truck Built 

 for Country Roads 



PATRIOTfarmTRUCK 



Built for Country Roads — Built for Country Loads 



There is real need for motor trucks on 

 the farm— to speed up transportation— 



To bring better mar- 

 kets nearer — 

 To master bad roads— 

 To save high-priced 

 horses — 



But — the farmers 

 have not bought them 

 to any great extent. Why? The rea- 

 son is, there has never before been a 

 real Farm Motor Truck on the market. 



Those that have been sold were built 

 for the paved streets of the cities— not 

 the soft roads and fields of the country. 



The Patriot Is 

 the First Motor Truck 

 Built for Farm Work 



Or— they have been mere cheap units 

 to combine with worn-out, low-priced, 

 low-powered cars — 

 forming makeshift 

 trucks that never 

 were expected to de- 

 li verreal farm service. 



But now— the farmer 

 has a real truck— 

 built in the center of 

 Agricultural America — by experi- 

 enced truck and body makers, in a 

 new, complete and modern factory — 

 and built for farm service. 

 Every farmer with 160 acres or more should 

 find out what a Patriot Farm Truck will 

 save. Write for information. 



HEBB MOTORS COMPANY 



Manufacturers of Patriot Farm Trucks 

 1337 P Street Lincoln, Nebraska 



Lincoln Model 1 ' > Ton 

 Washington Model 

 21 , Ton __ 



The Powerful Patriot 

 Hand Hoist 



by which the body, 



when loaded, may 



easily and quickly be 



elevatedto 



dump its 



load. 



RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 , PRUNING SHE, 



_ 'RHODES MFG. 



520 s. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



HTHE only 

 pruner 

 made that cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all styles and .sizes. All 

 shears delivered free 

 to your door. 



Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



THE GOLDEN GATE WEED CUTTER 



Greatest Weed Cuttor on the Market Today 



Cuts Mreo feet or less, weiehs 210 pounds and li ail made of 

 stsel. The Golden Gate Weed Cutter Is the aTMUest of lt» kind 

 on the market. For workmanship. eianpUclty and durability it 

 cannot be excelled, as It does Us wort to perfecUon. Those 

 who are mine It say that no money could buy It If they could 

 not cet another. It not only cuts all kinds of wooda. but culU- 

 rates the ground as well. One user said that It has saved hint 

 $100.00. as he did not have to plow after usine. 



Write for free descriptive circular and list of testimonials 

 from those who have purchased machlnea and praise It in every 

 way. 



Manufactured by C. C. SIGURD 

 Capital Ave. and McKee Road San Jose, Cal. 



horticulturisi is interested in, for the 

 most si riking examples are found 

 among our fruit trees. In fact self- 

 sterility is so common among fruit trees 

 that it is generally considered unsafe, 

 or at least unwise, to plant single vari- 

 eties in large blocks. Much experi- 

 mental evidence has been accumulated 

 upon this subject. The first work in 

 this country was upon pears. Waite 

 reported experiments with something 

 like twenty-three varieties of pears and 

 classed fourteen of them as practically 

 self-sterile — unable to set fruit with 

 their'own pollen. Among the common 

 pears classed as self-sterile were Anjou, 

 Bartlctt, Clapp Favorite, Lawrence, 

 Howell and Winter Nelis. Some of 

 those found self-fertile were Angou- 

 leme (Duchess), Flemish Beauty, Seckel, 

 KielTer and LeConte. Other workers 

 with pears have reported Kieffer as 

 self-sterile and there is little doubt but 

 that Bartlctt and some others classed as 

 self-sterile in the east are self-fertile 

 under other conditions. Much work 

 has been done upon apples. The Ore- 

 gon Station, reporting upon eighty- 

 seven varieties of apples, states that 

 iifty-nine were found self-sterile, fif- 

 teen self-fertile and thirteen partially 

 self-fertile. Some of those reported 

 self-sterile were Gravenstein, Gano, 

 Jonathan, King, Borne Beauty, Tran- 

 sendant Crab, Wealthy, Winesap and 

 York Imperial. Of those reported as 

 self-sterile Grimes Golden, Duchess, 

 Shiawansee (Missoula) and Newtown 

 Pippin are the common ones. Ben 

 Davis, Spitzenberg, Wagener, Whitney 

 and Yellow Transparent are reported 

 as partially self-fertile (capable of set- 

 ting fruit with their own pollen, but 

 only sparingly). 



Early work with plums showed that 

 many, if not quite all, the American 

 plums required cross-pollination. The 

 Japanese are also self-sterile in the 

 majority of cases and many of the do- 

 mestic varieties are apparently bene- 

 fited by the transfer of pollen from one 

 variety to another — some are self- 

 sterile, but just how many we don't 

 know. Peaches have seldom been re- 

 ported as failing to set fruit without 

 cross-pollination. From what we now 

 know most peaches are self-fertile. 



The Oregon Experiment Station re- 

 ports experiments with the sweet 

 cherry where the entire list of sixteen 

 varieties worked with were self-sterile. 

 Not only this, but it was found that 

 some varieties were inter-sterile. Bing, 

 Lambert and Napoleon, the varieties 

 most commonly planted in this state, 

 were found to be inter-sterile. In other 

 words, these three varieties inter- 

 planted by themselves under Oregon 

 conditions would not be expected to 

 produce fruit. We do not know so 

 much about the sour cherries. They are 

 more or less satisfactory as pollinizers 

 for sweet cherries and are in turn prob- 

 ably easily fertilized with pollen from 

 the sweet varieties, but we do not know 

 just how important or necessary cross- 

 pollination is. 



It is not so easy to explain just why 

 self-sterility so commonly exists among 

 frail trees. Just why normal pollen 



