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POULTRY 

 TONIC 



MoFting 

 Ifens 



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fitCUiATOR 

 LAlflMfifbmC 



I 'ou't neglect your hens at molting-^ 

 time. Give thi.m Conkey's Poultry 

 Tonic now and build them up after 



the hea\'y strain of the laying and bmoding 

 stii&on. 'Ihtn wa[i:h them feather up 

 quickly and begin laying before cold weather. 

 Conkcy's CDntains no filler, no Cayenne 

 pepper — ^jubt gncid tonics. 



like Cookey's Head 

 Conkey's Lice 

 Powder and Con- 

 key's Lice Liquid 

 to rid yoar flock of 

 lice. Have tbem 

 handy all the time. 

 Send 4 cents in 

 stamps for "Con- 

 key's Poultry 

 Doctor." Worth 

 dollars to any 

 poultry owner. 



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 Cleveland, 0. 



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Fruit," in a letter to the writer, Decem- 

 ber 5, 1914, should be of much value: 



"The crop of 1912 was about 12,(100 

 cars; in 1913, 8,000 cars; and in 1914 

 will be about 12,000 cars. It is impos- 

 sible to get an average price for the 

 reason that no such figures have been 

 compiled. Different marketing concerns 

 in different places, different varieties 

 and different grades and sizes, present 

 sucli a variation that no one has ever 

 attempted to figure out an average 

 price, and without such a record being 

 kept, the average price could not be 

 compiled. In 1912 the average price 

 was somewhat under .fl.OO; in 1913 it 

 was considerably over -SI. 00 for all va- 

 rieties, grades and sizes. It is a little 

 early (December .5, 1914) to make a 

 guess on this jear's prices, but I assume 

 the grower of good varieties in good 

 districts will probably receive some- 

 where around if 1.00, although it may be 

 somewhat less. The acreage in the 

 Northwest has been estimated at about 

 500,000 acres in apples. About 20 per 

 cent of this is estimated to be in full 

 bearing last year. Probably 10 per cent 

 to 20 per cent of the balance would 

 come into bearing annually. A promi- 

 nent olTicial in the Department of Hor- 

 ticulture in Washington, D. C, in- 

 formed me when 1 was there in 1910, 

 that only between 10 and 20 per cent 

 of the fruit trees planted in the United 

 States ever made commercial orchards. 

 Old nurserymen tell me the same. 

 Therefore the average would be about 

 15 per cent. Assuming the Northwest 

 would do quite as well as the average, 

 that would be about 30 per cent, which 

 would mean that perhaps 150,000 acres 

 out of 500,000 acres in the Northwest 

 would make commercial orchards. If 

 20 per cent of the bearing acreage is in 

 bearing, that would be about 100,000 

 acres, which probably is an exaggera- 

 tion, and if 12,000 cars were shipped, 

 it would mean that if the whole acreage 

 came into bearing as it did in 1914. the 

 output of the Northwest would be about 

 50,000 cars. A few years ago various 

 newspaper men and railroad men began 

 to figure on the production of the 

 Northwest, taking the number of acres 

 at so many trees to the acre, producing 

 so much to the acre, and estimated. If 

 1 remember correctly, the crop in 1915 

 would be 50,000 cars and in 1920 150,000 

 cars. I honestly believe that it will be 

 a long time before the Northwest will 

 exceed 50,000 cars. If we are to have 

 50,000 cars in 1915, and only 12,000 cars 

 in 1914, we have to go a good deal 

 faster in increasing the production in 

 fhe future than we have in the ijast." 



Apples produced in other countries 

 affect only our foreign market, and im- 

 I)ortant as this is, especially to high 

 grade fruit, only 7 per cent to 10 per 

 cent of our commercial crop is ex- 

 ported. We will consider foreign pro- 

 duction later, under the head of foreign 

 markets. 



We have now gone over the plantings 

 of apple trees; they are very large and 

 liave been increasing, and further, to 

 again quote G. F. Warren, in "Farm 

 Management," "There is no shortage of 

 apple land, most of the tillable land in 



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It gives you a high grade quick selling product at a 

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 dried and evaporate<i products have been rejected. 

 There is but one Dehydrator manufactured in the 

 West and it is the best By-Product machine ever de- 

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The manufacturers of this Dehydrator have recently 

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 present low cost lor the production of this product. 



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San Francisco, California 



Store Your Apples 

 in Spokane 



The Natural Storage Center 



Take advantage of storage in 

 transit rate and the better mar- 

 ket later. Write us for our dry 

 and cold storage rate and infor- 

 mation. 



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 Company 



SPOKANE, WASHINGTON 



PORTLAND WH0LE8AL[ NURSERY COMPANY 



Rooms 6 & 7, 122 '3 Grand Ave., Portland. Oregon 



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