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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



Made {rom iKe ri^M crude 



The Jury of Awards at both San Francisco 

 and San Diego Expositions found an oil 

 made from California asphalt-base crude, 



highest in lubricating efficiency. That oil was 

 Zerolene.Thefact, too, thatsnch unbiased author- 

 ities as a U. S. Naval Engineer, engineers of the 

 Packard and Ford Motor Companies, and others, 

 have also gone on record in favor of oiU made 

 from a«(>halt-base crude — in accord vrith the de- 

 ci-iion of the Exposition juries — proves that Zero- 

 lene is made of the ri;'ht crudf, and made ri'jhi. 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



(California) 



ZEROLENE 



ihe Standard Oil for Motor Cars 



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So en if 

 you do not 'Play Golf 



the round of pleasure in 



CALIFORNIA 



holds every known sport 

 and amusement. 



For real rest and recreation go via the 

 Oregon - Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. 



UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM 



bine with his fruit work as a sifie line 

 will rlepcnd upon certain factors: 

 fl) The orchiirdist himself, his likes 

 and dislikes. (2) The local conditions, 

 soil, climate, market, etc. (.3) The labor 

 problem, home help, city help. (4) The 

 size of his orchard and age of the trees. 



Some people can do more on two 

 acres than others can do on ten; for 

 example, the man who Krows fancy 

 heafi lettuce may succeed better with 

 half an acre than he could with ten 

 acres, while the man who ^rows corn 

 needs more land, but even he had 

 better grow one hundred bushels per 

 acre on five acres than sixty bushels 

 per acre on ten acres; and thus we 

 could continue the possibilities, but 

 the keynote must be intensification 

 even to the extreme, because our land 

 is so valuable and so full of possi- 

 bilities that it does not pay to half 

 farm any of it. In the selection of 

 inter-crops it is well to produce only 

 such crops as have two or more possi- 

 bilities. A concrete example may here 

 be shown in the production of seed 

 corn. The best select ears of the field 

 may be saved for seed, the poorer ears 

 used for hoK feed and the stalks fed to 

 the cows or horses; and instead of pro- 

 ducing just hoKs it usually pays to pro- 

 duce hoRs suitable for breeding pur- 

 poses, which usually costs no more to 

 produce than common or grade stock. 

 A few well-chosen lines, closely united, 

 are better than a lot of poorly-selected, 

 ill-fitling combinations. 



The following combinations have 

 been found to work out very well : 

 (1) 1-Yuit, alfalfa and dairy cows. (2) 

 Fruit, alfalfa and hogs. (.3) Fruit, car- 

 rots and dairy cows or hogs. (-1) Fruit, 

 corn, dairy cows or hogs. (.5) Fruit, 

 poultry and alfalfa. (6) Fruit, and 

 sunflowers, or head lettuce, or potatoes, 

 or tomatoes. The livestock combina- 

 tions with the orchard have a fertilizer 

 value rarely taken into consideration 

 by the laymen, nevertheless it is a real 

 value that should always be taken into 

 account in permanent agriculture. 



What, then, is the future of the fruit 

 industry? .Nothing for the man who 

 quits. There is only one thing for us 

 to tlo and that is to stay with the game. 

 Ff our factors arc not right, either make 

 them right or change the policy. Some 

 of the eliminating factors of the aver- 

 age fruitgrowers are: (a) Unsuitable- 

 ncss of the owner anjl operator, (b) 

 Undesirable varieties. (c) Orchards 

 on unsuitable lands, fd) Orcharding in 

 unsuitable climates. fe) In isolated 

 districts, (f) Poor planting plan, mak- 

 ing economic management impossible, 

 fg) Orchard area loo much limited for 

 diversification. 



In conclusion will say that just as 

 soon as every orchard farm is com- 

 pelled to support its hogs, dairy cows, 

 horses and finally its owner, the fruit 

 problem will be solved. I am more 

 optimistic today over the fruit industry 

 than I have been for years, because I 

 know that there arc thousands of acres 

 of land planted to trees now in the 

 Pacific Northwest whose fruit will 

 never compete with the orchards thai 

 are now receiving good care. 



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