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BETTER FRUIT 



ill Tread Tractor turning close to the tfces in Cutter Bros.' Orchard in Brighton, Sacramento County, California 



GETTING CLOSE 

 Cultivated orchards pay. The 

 closer you succeed in bringing 

 the cultivator to the trees, the 

 more successful is the result. 



The Yuba Ball Tread Tractors 

 bring the cultivator close to the 

 trees — are light enough not to 

 pack the ground, and are com- 

 pact enough not to injure the 

 fruit-burdened branches. 



THE ONE-MAN OUTFIT 

 If the cost of cultivating your 

 orchard was reduced 50 per cent, 

 your income would be increased 

 by whatever amount you saved. 

 Suppose your cultivating equip- 

 ment was a one-man outfit, in- 

 stead of two, would that help 

 you to decrease your monthly 

 expenditures? Yuba Ball Tread 

 Tractor owners are economizing 

 in this way. Are you? 



^CTORl 



B The Yuba Construction Company 



■ 433 CALIFORNIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 



BALL TREAD TRACTOR! m 



THE YUBA CONSTRUCTION CO., Dept C 



433 California St., San Francisco 



Gentlemen : 



Please send me a copy of your booklet, *'The 

 Ball Tread Tractor." 



Name P.O.Box 



Town State 



My orchard consists of acres. The 



principal product is 



known by those who have been in the 

 business extensively that only a small 

 <iuantity could be moved in this way. 

 Under favorable circumstances and 

 conditions, coupled with good ability 

 for handling fruit, undoubtedly some 

 fruitgrowers could market their fruit 

 to advantage direct to the consumer, 

 particularly where the quantity is 

 small, but such a process would never 

 take care of 20,000 cars in the North- 

 west in one season, or any great part 

 thereof. One fruitgrower suggested to 

 the editor that the Northwest could 

 market its fruit by parcel post or ex- 



press. To determine the value of such 

 a suggestion just imagine what would 

 have to be the size of the postolhce 

 and the number of employes required 

 at the shipping point like Wenatchee, 

 Yakima, Hood River or some of the 

 other big shipping stations, which in 

 the height of the season would ship 

 out all the way from ten to one hun- 

 dred cars a day, or from 6,000 to 60,000 

 packages, each one weighing ."lO pounds. 



The QuantilN' of Business Done by 

 the Different Kinds of Jobbers Through- 

 out the United States.— Mr. Parlin 



divided the jobber in four classifica- 

 tions, the national jobber, doing busi- 

 ness all over the United States; the 

 sectional jobber, doing business over 

 some one section of the United States, 

 like the South, West or East, for in- 

 stance; the semi-local jobber, doing 

 business not only in one stale but in 

 surrounding states, and the local job- 

 ber, doing business confined to his own 

 immediate locality, which includes the 

 city in which he is located and some 

 surrounding territory. The percentage 

 of business done by each class of job- 

 bers is as follows: The national, ."> per 



