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Friend Sprayers 



you knock off the crate, put 



Friend King 



Friend Queen 



For extensive work where it is necessary to carry a 

 Urge amount of spray material into the orchard. I>arge 

 wheels. Hide tires, two-horse draught, cypress tank of 

 200-250 gallons capacity, propeller agitator which will 

 keep arsenate of lead in suspension, directly connected 

 with pump shaft. Motor pump unit saves space. Keeps 

 bearinps and gears in alignment over rough ground. Is 

 ri§1d and secure, as it sets on common base bolted to 

 wagon bed with four bolts. Everj' part accessible. 

 Pressure held and relievetl by remarkable regulator. 

 Step platform: steel trucli; narrow bed for sliort turning. 

 Westeni tre:id. enabling use in potato fields. Motor 

 pump supplied with suction hose, so hose can be removed 

 and pump cleaned. Recommended for use in orchards of 

 ten acres or more. Delivered complete with whiEQetrees, 

 neckjoke. tower and two hose lines. 



■'I have been busy spraying with two 'triend Kings 

 for over a week in our orchards — and the more they run 



the better they work. Our neighbor's old sprayer 



gave out on him and I am sending him over a 'Friend 

 to finish the job. The calyx nozzle is a wonder, and I 

 am usins onlv two to an outfit where I have been using 

 four angle nozzles before. They put it through a tree 

 ' "■' 'to 300 pounds pressure." 



The most remarkable line ever offered by a company whose out- 

 fits have always deserved the highest respect of the fruit 

 growers. Every machine is both tested in the testing room and 



given a working tryout before shipping. So when it is received 



on the wheels and drive into the orchard. Complete directions accompany each outfit. 



Friend Lightest King 



LIGHTEST KING is the SAL\LLEST. L.\RGE capa- 

 city. LIGHT weight. HIGH pressure power sprayer ever 

 produced. Very popular for combination field and 

 orchard work. Tlie tank holds lOti or \T}i\ gallons: the 

 motor pump has two hose line capacity at high pressure. 

 The truck is LIGHT, all steel. DURABLE, flexible fifth 

 wheel. The machine is equipped for one or two horses, 

 equipped with one or two hose lines. A tower is also 

 furnished where desiied: also field attachment for spray- 

 ing potatoes and all field crops. The agitator is pro- 

 peller type, direct connected, no gears or chains. Every- 

 thing is the verv latest and BEST, even the pressure 

 regulator. The tank is CYPRESS. LIGHTEST KING 

 has a verj- low center of gravity and cannot overturn. 

 The equipment is complete — everj-thing ready for service. 

 "The Lightest King works fine and does the work well: 

 we have enough power to use four lines of liose if neces- 

 sary." So write Fay Brothers, of Cooperstown. N. Y.. 

 on JuLv 14, 1915. and again on August IS say; "I 

 could not convince any more of the hop growers that 

 they ought to spray their hops for lice and so many of 

 them will have poor hops and some not any. Our yard 

 that you saw is looking fine, and we give all the credit 

 to our "Friend" and Black Leaf 4o."' 



Queen is th? low-dovra. cut-under model — underslung. 

 so called. It has all the capacity that KING has in 

 every way. Owing to its UNIQUE construction, its close 

 coupling, the large wheels and wide tires, it is very easy 

 drawing. The fifth wheel is flexible, permitting the 

 machine to go over uneven ground without any probable 

 misalignment of tlie bed or working parts. The machine 

 was designed many years ago. Ever>thing abovil il is 

 thoroughb' tried— nothing experimental whatever. Tlie 

 tank is CYPRESS. The propeller agitator direct con- 

 nected. The latest WESTERN, our LARGEST capacity. 

 HIGH PRESSURE unit motor pump is used on both 

 King and Queen. With the Queen outfit it is possible to 

 turn square around, there being no under brace to con- 

 flict. The center of gravity of this machine is so low 

 that it is impossible to overturn it on the steepest hill- 

 side. Both King and Queen are furnished when specified 

 with towers for tall trees, although in most orchards a 

 man standing on the top of the tank c-an reach vrith the 

 spray all right. The motor pump on QUEEN is verj- 

 accessible— the horses can be turned to one side, giving 

 the operator perfect freedom. QUEEN is very easy to 

 work aroutid: it is so low for filling. 



""I know my Queen has pumped more 'stuff' than any 

 other sprayer on earth and it still runs fine." 



F. E. Tourtillotte. Haverhill. Mass. 



with from 200 pounds ._ . ^- .^ , . 



H. C. GcMxiwin. Avon, \ a. 



Send for the Friend Catalog. Tell us what work you want a sprayer to do and let our expert help you by the most economical 



model for you to use. There's a Friend for every man who sprays at a price he can afford to pay. Get m touch with us today. 



Get the catalog. Give us enough information so we can advise you how to buy economically. 



Friend Mfg. Co., 31 East Ave.,Gasport,N.Y. 



Getting Together in Marketing or Reciprocal Marketing 



Mr. H. M. Gilbert, before Horticultural Association Meeting, Spokane, 



HOW can \vi" get the marketing 

 men of the Northwest to forget 

 their {lilVeiences and join hands 

 to win success for our Northwest fruit 

 industry- ^h-. Shepard, in this montli's 

 issue of "Better Fruit," in an editorial 

 entitled ■'Harmony Among Shipping 

 Concerns," suggests what has been a 

 big trouble, and noted the apparent 

 change from bitterness to harmony in 

 the following words: "During a few 

 years previous to 1915 a great deal of 

 bitterness existed between the diirer- 

 ent shipping organizations, resulling in 

 a great deal of criticism, one associa- 

 tion or shipping concern blaming the 

 other for demoralizing coinijelition. In 

 their endeavor for tonnage, unneces- 

 sary campaign methods were used, 

 which reflected, more or less, in many 

 instances unnecessarily on other shij)- 

 ping concerns. It is with some satis- 

 faction, therefore, that it is to be noted 

 so far this year there is far greater 

 harmony prevailing among shii)ping 

 concerns than has existed for several 

 years in tlie past. In fact, if there is 

 any severe criticism on the part of one 

 concern in reference to another so far 

 it has not been made public." 



I wish this apparent harmony and 

 confidence among shippers were real 

 and general, for we cannot solve the 

 fruit-marketing problem of the North- 

 west until the marketing men have 



more conlidence in each other and are 

 willing to play the game on the stpiare. 

 There is no hope until we forget our 

 selfishness and recognize that the other 

 fellow has the same rights we have. 

 There is no hope until we are willing 

 to join hands and pull together. It is 

 expecting too much that under the lead 

 of Mr. Paulhamus and the Growers' 

 and Shippers' Councils we should, in 

 one season, forget the bitterness and 

 hatred that have been systematically 

 preached for five years. All will admit 

 with Mr. Shepard that if the bitter feel- 

 ing has not been banished, it has at 

 least been kept under restraint, and 

 today we are at least able to meet and 

 reason together. Some say the grow- 

 ers are to blame, that they are the ones 

 who must solve the marketing prob- 

 lem. 1 admit the growers have a neces- 

 sary part, but I believe it is up to the 

 experienced marketing men to work 

 out a feasible marketing plan and cpiit 

 their lighting, get together and work 

 together. I believe the growers will 

 fail in line and help work out any com- 

 prehensive, practical working plan. 



I note at a recent meeting in Seattle 

 the plan was suggested by the Shippers' 

 Council and approved by the Executive 

 Commillee of the Growers' Council, to 

 tax the growers one cent per box for 

 an advertising fund for market exten- 

 sion. I don't believe the .shipping or- 



Washington, November 17, 1915. 



ganizations and shippers have any right 

 to ask the growers to tax themselves 

 one cent per box until the shippers 

 themselves quit their fighting, price 

 cutting and underhanded methods. 

 Many times more damage is done by 

 our present unfair competition than 

 could be oflset by the hundred thou- 

 sand dollars advertising fund as pro- 

 posed. The shippers themselves must 



is put up 



in a smaU 



package (lib.) 



because it 



loesn't take 



luch to do the 



work well. 



Try it— most dealers 



^WHrrriER-COBURN COMP.VNY 

 San FranciACO 



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