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BETTER FRUIT 



August 



Telephone 

 Economy 



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rHE Kellogg farm 

 telephone will save 

 you money because: It 

 is carefully made of the 

 best material. It is easy 

 to install and simple in con- 

 struction. It does not get 

 out of order easily, and is con- 

 structed for the heaviest farm 

 line service. It is long lived. 

 iTliousands and thousands of 

 I Kellogg telephones are now in 

 service over ten years. It is not 

 affected by climatic conditions; 

 has proper insulation of all parts, 

 heavy nickeling of outside metal; 

 iron and steel parts are copper plated 

 and oxidized — they cannot rust, scale 

 off and cause short circuits. 



Kellogg 



Telephones 



' \\f/'"7^'A I'-^^n' Kellogg telephone is equipped with 

 Mi^^/J0 our standard transmitter, over a million of 

 one type in service today. Every transmitter 

 is guaranteed against inherent defects for live years. This phone 

 will ring over the longest, heaviest loaded farm lines. It can be 

 equipped with a cundenser. vastly improving the service of your lines. 

 It can be equipped with a push button, enabling you to call central se- 

 cretly and call other parties without disturbing your neighbors. 

 "Use is the test," judging solely by the service this telephone is giving to- 

 day in all parts of the world. It will give you telephone transmission 

 superior to anytiiing on the market. It is the master telephone. 

 Write today for our bulletins describing in plain language just how theKellogsr 

 telephone will do these things for you. Write for Bulletin 21 . 



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Mission and Third Sis. San Francisco. Calif. 



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Pacific Coast Agents 



United States Steel 

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San Francisco 

 Los Angeles 

 Portland 

 Seattle 



J. C.Pearson Co., Inc 



Sole Manufacturers 



Old South Bldg. 



Boston, 



Mass. 



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/^/^'M'i^lW'V in jjuying ia getting the best 

 v^v/l^V/iTJ. X value for the money, not 



always in getting the lowest prices. PEARSON 



prices are right. 



DHESIVENESS rhr?lTs'o7To'? 



PEARSON nails. For twenty years tliey have 

 been making boxes strong. Now, more than ever . 



rpT T A t>TT TTV behind the goods is 

 rjlj-1-c^-D-I-L'lA 1 added value. You can 

 rely on our record of fiiltillment of every con- 

 tract and fair adjustment of every claim. 



AT'T^F' Ar^T'TOlV i^assuredbyourlong 

 -^ -Hi^A^ -^^ -*- -^^-^^ experience in mak- 

 ing nails to suit our customers' needs. We know 

 what you want; we guarantee satisfaction. 



■pji^TVr AT JTV P^"^ experience always 

 XVl.Vllll.rt.lJl.± X excels imitation. Imi- 

 tation's highest hope ia, to sometime (not now) 

 equal Pearson— meantime , vow play safe. 



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NAILS 



decline .since ha.s been given; the higlier 

 number of trees in 1910 over 1900 .sim- 

 ply shows the existence of a larger pro- 

 portion of non-bearing trees (about 45 

 per cent). The 1910 crop was but about 

 half of the 1900 crop. The number of 

 farms, the bearing and the non-bearing 

 trees in the United States and in several 

 of the larger producing and more indic- 

 ative (recent heavy planting) states, are 

 as follows: 



TABLE IX. — BEARING AND NON-BEARING 



APPLE TREES, AND FARMS, 



1910 CENSUS 



States Farms Trees 



United States .. .2,980,398 151,322,840 bearing 



United States. . .1,198,746 05,798,848 non " 



New York 168,677 11,248,203 bearing 



New York 48,007 2,828,515 non " 



Missouri 183,396 14,359,673 bearing 



Missouri 75,0.35 3.624,833 non " 



WashinRton 21,156 3,009,337 bearing 



Washington 21,401 4,862,702 non " 



Oregon 23,850 2,029,913 bearing 



Oregon 1 4.327 2,240.636 non " 



California 19,071 2,482,762 bearing 



California 12,716 1,054,107 non " 



Colorado 7,968 1,688,425 bearing 



Colorado 0,496 1,972,914 non " 



Before commenting on these figures, 

 it will be well to submit figures from 

 the same source for 1909 production 

 and value of crops in several crops. 

 Interesting coniiiarisons can be made 

 here. The yield figures are the "agri- 

 cultural" and not the commercial yield; 

 the latter is usually 40 to 50 per cent 

 of the former. 



TABLE X. — BUSHELS AND TOTAL VALUE 



OF APPLES IN VARIOUS STATES, 1909 



States Bushels Value 



New York fist) 25,409,000 .?13.343,000 



Michigan (2nd) 12,332,000 5,909,000 



Pennsylvania (3rd).. 11,618.000 5,557,000 



Missouri (4th) 9.968,000 4,885,000 



Washington 2,672,000 2,926,000 



Oregon 1 ,931 ,000 1,657.000 



California 1,935,000 2,902,000 



Colorado 3,559,000 3,405,000 



United States 146,122.000 83.231,0(M) 



Missouri, in 1910, had more bearing 

 trees than any other state, but Missouri 

 apples were worth but about 50 cents, 

 while Washington apples are worth 

 better than a dollar a bushel. In the 

 West, where high value per bushel is 

 shown, there have been the heaviest 

 plantings of late, and there are the 

 largest proportion of non-bearing trees; 

 Wa.shington has half again as many 

 non-bearin,g trees as bearing trees. In 

 New York there are about 127 trees 

 to the farm, while in Washington there 

 are over 200 trees to the farm. This 

 last is important, for the question of 

 small versus commercial producers will 

 be a vital one in the future competi- 

 tion. Nearly half the farms of the 

 United States (40.9 per cent) reported 

 bearin.g apjile trees in 1910, but a very 

 large inoporlion of these are only 

 kitchen orchards or are used as such 

 except in years of specially good apple 

 prices. Thou.ch there was a decline in 

 total production of 10.7 per cent from 

 1899 to 1909 ("agricultural") crop, cen- 

 sus figures, production increased in 30 

 states and decreased in but 18. The 

 largest increases in jiroduction were in 

 Missouri, Michigan. Colorado and Cali- 

 fornia, and the largest decreases were 

 in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 



Definite apple statistics on Northwest 

 plantings are conspicuously lacking, but 

 in this conection tlie following ojjinion 

 of Mr. Sheperd. the editor of "Better 



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