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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



■yOP DRESS all your 



Crops with Nitrate 

 of Soda alone, no matter 

 what other fertilizers you 

 may have used. 100 

 pounds to the acre for 

 seeded, and 200 pounds 

 to the acre for cultivated 

 crops will do the work. 

 The increase will yield 

 large profits over the cost. 



Write on post card for our 

 money making book* 



WILLIAM S. MYERS, Director 



25 Madison Avenue. New York 



"Fine Work!" 



— that's what you'll say when you see 

 the soil, manure and stubble mixed over 

 and over with the 



"Acme" Pulverizing Harrow 



*'The coulters do the work." They cut 

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siiKilIest possible unit and even twenty 

 and forty acres been planted, lialf to 

 Iruil and tbe balance to alfalfa or other 

 crops, the conditions of the fruitgrow- 

 ers of the West today would be far 

 dilVerent to what tlie>' are now. This 

 would hayc given theui an op|)ortunity 

 to diversify and at least make a com- 

 fortable, indeijendent livins from their 

 tracts. Closely associated with this 

 factor has been the lack of knowledge 

 that would have given the grower an 

 advantage in doing something ijractical, 

 sonielhing that would have brought in 

 a money return rather than an expe- 

 rience without money value. 



We hear from many sources of the 

 losses of bard-working people who in- 

 vested their small savings in Western 

 orchards, and all true Westerners hon- 

 estly deplore this, but we rarely hear 

 of the losses of Eastern people who in- 

 vested their savings in mining proper- 

 ties, and yet from one of the largest 

 financial centers of the Middle West 

 ten dollars went out for poor mining 

 stock for every dollar that went out for 

 Western orchards. We hear no com- 

 Ijlaint from these losers because no- 

 body sympathizes with a person who 

 loses in mining stock. Just why there 

 should be a diflerence I do not know, 

 unless one is looked upon as a form of 

 gandjling and the other is not. And, 

 of course, a gambler naturally expects 

 to lose a part of the lime at any rate. 



Fruit Growing Compared With Other 

 Agricultural Industries. — Ever since 

 man became engaged in agricultural 

 pursuits there have been fluctuations 

 from year to year in the prices of the 

 various commodities, and so long as 

 natural conditions make it impossible 

 for the farmer folk to produce uni- 

 formly the same quantity each year 

 these fluctuations will continue to 

 occur. Anyone familiar at all with the 

 prices of farm connnodities cannot help 

 but see this same condition in hogs, 

 cattle, horses, corn, wheat and barley 

 this year, and the producers of these 

 crops have lost as much this year as 

 the apple producers lost last year; and 

 \et we hear very little complaint from 

 them. They take their losses philo- 

 soijhically and know that they cannot 

 win every year, but that their day is 

 surely coming again. Just recently I 

 saw a combination fruitgrower and hog 

 Ijroducei- sell his extra fancy Mcintosh 

 Reds at f'2.(IU per box net to him at his 

 orchard gale, and his extra fancy 

 Dui-oc Reds at $4.25 per hundred, de- 

 livered at the stock yards eight nnles 

 from his orchard. Now, if you growers 

 know an>thing about hogs at all you 

 know that he did not make an\thinu on 

 his Duroc Reds if he had to feed them 

 any grain at all, and I can assure you 

 he did. My purpose in making these 

 few comparisons is a concrete one. I 

 simi)ly desire to show you that all lines 

 of MmicuUure have advantages as well 

 as disadvantages, and the men who are 

 sure to lose the most are the ones who 

 are so burdened with debt or are 

 linancially unable to take the strain of 

 small profits or even losses for aiix 

 period of time. 



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