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BETTER FRUIT 



Fchruar\ 



All 



Refinery 

 Gas— not 

 a mixture 



Dealers every- 

 where and at 



ServiceStations 

 of 



Standard Oil 

 Company 



(Calif •»]«) 



Red 

 Cfowtt 



ihe Gasoline 

 \dfQualiiy 



Xand 



Leari 



Send 

 for this 

 free book on 

 land clear'nifr. 

 It tells how to get 

 ynur stumps out cheap- 

 ly and (|uickly — without 

 teams, digging, or blasting 

 — witli the 



HAND POWER. 



Stump 

 Puller 



With its 264 to I leverage one 

 man can pull any stump that can 

 be pulled by any horse power 

 macliine. Owners report pulling 

 from 50 to 100 stumps per day. 

 Made of Krupp steel — weighs 

 only 171 lbs. 

 eod for Book and Special Offer. 



WAITER J. FITZPATFICK 



Box S 182 Fifth Street 



SANFRANCIJCO.CAIIF. 



guards ai'oiiixl llic hoiu'sl comiuission 

 man and .shippur, l)iit alti'mi)liiig to say 

 what ttu' foniniission man shoultl 

 cliargo lor his services. 



Tliis is radicalism run matl. The 

 secrehiry of this honorable body is a 

 Consulting Horticulturist, probably the 

 (irst man in the I'nited .States to take 

 up that line of work as a profession. 

 He is an expert in his line and is en- 

 tilled to such fees as people will pay 

 lor his services. Yet that is .just what 

 the legislature of 1!)11 attempted to do 

 wilh the commission men. After pre- 

 scribing that Ihey should lile bonds — 

 something that everyone favored, as it 

 woulil lielp to keep out the irres- 

 pcnsibles — the law prescribed in so 

 many wonts Ihat the commission man 

 iloing business in the State of Wash- 

 ington could only charge ten per cent 

 foi' his services. 



Ten years ago, and even up to two 

 yetirs ago, commission men were trying 

 to do business in this state on the basis 

 of ten i)cr cent. Ten years ago they 

 were making a reasonable profit at that 

 ligure, but tibout that time a period of 

 freak legislation began when loud- 

 mouthed agitators were going to rem- 

 edy all the ills of mankind by law. The 

 enactment of these laws have been a 

 most potent ftictor in increasing the 

 cost of doing business in this state. 

 Taxes, for instance, have been more 

 than doubled. Wages have increased 

 with the increasing cost of living, rents 

 have been on the upward trend and the 

 general overhead expense of doing 

 business has increased not fifty per 

 cent but from seventy-five to one hun- 

 dred per cent in the last ten yetu's, until 

 the commission men found they were 

 not making expenses on ;i ten-per-cent 

 btisis and raised the fee to fifteen jier 

 cent. 



There is nol ;is much profit in fifteen 

 I)er cent commission in this state today 

 as there was in ten per cent ten years 

 ago, and I want to say to you now, that 

 unless the horticulturists join with 

 othei- lines of business to put a stop to 

 the freak legishition of recent years, 

 the commission in this stale will go up 

 to twenty i)er cent, the present basis 

 in our neighboring country of Canada. 

 ■]'o decry all jobbers and commission 

 men as robbers and thieves is as unjust 

 and unthiPiking ;is to denounce all fruit- 

 growers as tricksters and robbers, be- 

 cause forsooth some few try to work 

 oir a large percentage of their fancy 

 anil V. grade fruit into the extra fancies. 

 Taken as ;i whole the fruit jobbers, or 

 commission men, if you please, are ;is 

 honorable a set of men as you can find 

 in any other line of business. Firms 

 like some of the older ones in Seattle, 

 that have been in business for 2,") to ,30 

 years, could not have gone on all these 

 years if the>- had been owned and 

 controlled by dishonest men. Old firms 

 like some of those in New York, (^hi- 

 ciigo, Pittsburg and other cities, that 

 have been in business from 311 to T)!) 

 ,\ears could not have continuetl all these 

 years if they had not dealt honesth 

 with their patrons. 



FORKN£R 



Cultivator 



Does more work with less tJraft 

 and leaves a better dirt mulch 

 than any other cultivator. It 



WORKS RIGHT UP 

 TO YOUR TREES 



Stirs the entire surface beneath 

 low branches without disturbing 

 boughs or fruit. Write for cat- 

 alogue and free book "Modern 

 Soil Tillage." a 



LIGHT DRAFT HARROW CO. 



Dept. 601 MARSHALLTOWN. IOWA I, 



True -to -Name Nursery 



GALUGAN BROS. 

 Proprietors 



HOOD RIVER, OREOON DrFUB. OREGON 



Growers of high grade nursery stock, gaar- 

 anteed true-to-name. Breeders and importers 

 of purebred Big Type Poland China Hogs. Ser- 

 vice boars, bred gilta and weaning pigs for sale. 

 For catalog of nursery stock and prices 

 on Bwine, write 



True-to-Name Nursery 



HOOD BIVEK, OREeON 



Successful 's the result 



-^ _ _, of successful 



Orcnarumg tiiiage. cui- 



tivate your 

 trees as you would your corn— use an 



"Acme" Orchard Harrow- 

 It gets in close under the branches. Cuts, 

 slices, turns the soil twice. levels and 

 compacts— all at one operation. Many 

 sizes-e.xtension and regular. Kills small 

 weeds, cultivates deep, mulches thor- 

 oughly. Send for new free booklet —now. 



Duane H. Nash Inc. 



345 East 

 Morri&on St 



No. 23 



Portland 

 Oregon 



131-2 ft. Wide 





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