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BETTER FRUIT 



August 



Palmer Fruit Sizer 



Standard Machine, $200, Floor space 6x24 feet. 



( First grade into nine sizes. 

 Sizes tliree grades at a time. Capacity two carloads daily. < Second grade into four to six sizes. 



Third grade into three to tive sizes. 



Machine 



Pony Machine, $150 



Floor spacel6xl2 feet. 



Sizes two grades at a time into four or six sizes as desired. 

 Capacity one carload per day. ,^ .2^ :M(^ 



^ Either machine eaii be used for boxes or barrels. Openings on both 

 machines expand uniformly from I'A inches to 4 inches square. ; ,^ 



Illustration shows sorting table attachment: also travelling belts 

 for sorting table. 



Machine discharges the fruit into boxes or barrels without bruising. 



Box packing can be done direct from the machine or, if preferred, 

 on separate tables, giving the grower a chance to work his packers on 

 the particular sizes and grades he wishes packed first. 



Write or wire for catalogue and prices. 



PALMER BUCKET COMPANY, Hood River, Ore. 



soil is decomposed rock it carries min- 

 eral fertility. The additional material 

 being organic matter, composed of de- 

 cayed animal and vegetable matter. 

 This organic matter, called hmnus, car- 

 ries the nitrogenous plant food, and is 

 one of the most important factors to be 



considered in the study of the soils of 

 this country. 



The soils of Southern hlaho are rich 

 in all of the most important mineral 

 elements of plant food (which as a rule 

 are well equalized) but are deficient in 

 organic matter and nitrogen so essential 



Canning! Canning! 



This Steam Pressure Canning Plant will save 

 your perishable Fruit Crop when nothing else 

 will. Ten different size outfits to select from. 



Write for Catalog B-2 



HENNINGER & AYES MFG. CO. 



47 First Street PORTLAND, OREGON 



to plant life. Our soil is well supplied, 

 as a rule, with all the various mineral 

 elements of soil fertility except, nitro- 

 gen, which we must supply. The ques- 

 tion then, is how to supply this nitrogen 

 in available form. Plants cannot use 

 this nitrogen in its free form. But cer- 

 tain microscopical forms of hfe that 

 grow upon the roots of leguminous 

 plants, forming nodules thereon, have 

 the power, through the aid of the oxy- 

 gen of the air, to take this free nitrogen 

 from the air and convert it into organic 

 nitrogen, available for plant food. 



The most important of the legumes is 

 alfalfa. Alfalfa being a very deep- 

 rooted legume is able, through its nod- 

 ule-forming bacteria within its roots, to 

 place nitrates deep in the soil, and 

 greatly increase the fertility of the soil 

 to that extent. Though it may draw 

 heavily on the other elements of the 

 soil they are generally so abundant in 

 the soils of the Nortwest it only tends 

 to equalize the amount of the avail- 

 able supply of the different plant foods 

 within the soil. Ami for this reason all 

 crojjs do so well following alfalfa. Or- 

 ganic matter may also be supplied to 

 the soil by plowing under any vegeta- 

 tion, green cover crop, or by the appli- 

 cation of barnyard manure. As a great 

 many of the fruit growers and farmers 

 of this country do not handle much live 

 slock, a liberal supply of barnyard 

 maiuire is not availal)le. Therefore the 

 organic nuitler nnist be supplied to the 

 soil by a systematic rotation of crops, 

 cultivation and irrigation. 



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