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Tp!!.-; bnst varieties, season of ripening, Rowing 

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 which are be?t m .ney-makers— choicest apple, p^ar, 

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$1,420 From 1 Acre 

 , of J. H.Hale Peaches 



K'ail all about this wonderful 

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 ptr bushel this year when 

 ElbcrLas brought 90c to 

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 1 1 1 111 Color. quality. flavor; 

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 rpens ahead of El- 

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Delicious — The National Desert Apple 



A flavor unsurpnssed — succ'^s every- 

 where— Nlw Y.jik, Ohio. Ma?:r;ichu- 

 Eeiu.to Pacific Coast. Brinpri k rowers 

 on the average $1.00 more t er box 

 th in other applet", i^'l-mt at leust half 

 your orchard to Delicious— eet genu- 

 ine Wm- P, Stark trees. Other good 

 apples in catalog. 



Hardy, Big Rooted Trees 



Our Ozark Mountain, ?larlc City Foil produces un- 

 usually heavy, stiong, wnli'-spteading mots. These 

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 times two years sooner than orJinary-rooted trees. 



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I Box 74P STARK CITY, MO. | 



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Over 700 illustrations of vegra- 

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 R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford. III. 



The real rea.son for lack of proper re- 

 sults can usually be found in the failure 

 to properly nieel Ihe local conditions. 

 The increasing amount of fruit grown 

 in any section; the older, the taller, the 

 larger and thicker the trees become 

 the more worms and other pests will 

 appear, unless extra efforts and pre- 

 cautions are intelligently applied to 

 olTset this natural increase. It is by 

 no means as easy to fill every calyx 

 cup or cover every apple with spray 

 on a large, thick tree as it is to 

 effectively do so on a small, easily 

 accessible tree. Furthermore, the 

 worms find more and better hiding 

 Ijlaces on the larger old trees, and a 

 greater percentage of worms find pro- 

 tection during the pupation or trans- 

 formation peri(jd. Too many growers 

 were inclined to consider the codling- 

 moth problem solved and did not give 

 it sullicient attention. 



My purpose in calling attention to 

 these possible omissions is to point out 

 the necessity of more and better care 

 and more thorough work to meet any 

 changed condition that may arise. 

 Make more applications if necessary, 

 but in any case protect your investment 

 to give the greatest possible return. If 

 an unexpected rain destroys the value 

 of an application of spray reijcat the 

 spraying at once, and if long-continued 

 rain or other conditions arise to favor 

 the pests and to work against the crop, 

 do an extra amount of work along the 

 proper line to overcome this. Some are 

 inclined to balk at the expense of the 

 operation, but when we know that an 

 orchard can be sprayed six times a 

 year, once in the dormant state and 

 five times during the growing season, 

 allowing a combination of fungicide 

 and insecticide for at least three spray- 

 ings at a total cost for the entire opera- 

 tion of five cents per box when you 

 have 400 boxes i)er acre, of ten cents 

 per box when you have only 200 boxes 

 per acre, we cannot give nearly the 

 sympathy to the man who yells ex- 

 pense as we do give admiration and 

 encouragement to the man who says he 

 has invested five cents per box or ten 

 cents per box, as the case may be, to 

 insure all of his fruit to be clean, mar- 

 ketable and is a credit to himself and 

 to his community. 



There is no economic reason why 

 (he Northwest, if properly handled, 

 should not get an average of .^l.OO jier 

 box for most varieties of apples f.o.b. 

 shipping station. By omitting one 

 spray during the season, with a crop 

 of -100 boxes per acre you may save 

 one and one-half cents per box, or 

 ■ffi.OO per acre, and lose 10 per cent of 

 your crop, or .$10.00 per acre on your 

 investment. Add to this your extra 

 grading and packing expenses and you 

 will have even a greater dillerence, 

 which shows all the more proof that 

 the greatest of care should be inlclli- 

 genlly exercised to i^rotect yoiu' invesl- 

 ment against such loss and not con- 

 sider money so i)ai(l as a tax, but as 

 premium paid to protect the capital in- 

 vested. In the last analysis that is the 

 only way to consider any money put 



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Growers of a general line of nursery 

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Walnuts— Grafted Walnuts 



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