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BETTER FRUIT 



Mdirh 



on Shade and Orchard Trees against Gypsy, 

 Brown-tail and Tussock Caterpillars. Canker 

 Worms, Climbing Cut Worms and Ants. 

 It is equally effective against any crawling 

 insects. 



Band Trees About Two Weeks Before 

 Insects Appear to Get Best Results 



Easily applied with wooden paddle. One pound 

 makes about 10 lineal feet of band. One applica- 

 tion stays sticky 3 months and longer ^ outlasting 

 10 to 20 times any other substance. Remains effec- 

 tive rain or shine. Won't soften — won't run or 

 melt, yet always elastic, expanding with growth of 

 tree. No mixing, simply open can and use. 'Will 

 not injure trees. 



For Tree Surgery 



Tree Tanglefoot is superior to anything on the 

 market— it is the best application after pruning or 

 trimming. It will water-proof the crotch of a tree, 

 or a cavity, or wound in a tree, when.nothingielse 

 will do it. 



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Mb. cans 35c; 3-lb. cans $1.00; 10-lb. cans $3.00; 

 20-lb. cans $5.50. and 25-lb. wooden pails $6.75. 



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Manufacturers of 



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Always Ready, Never Fails 



Destroys squirrels.gophers. prairie dogs,sage rats. 

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PORTLAND, OREGON 



I RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 FRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES MFQ. CO., 

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 pruner 

 made that cutf 

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One of the greiitcsl benelil.s to be 

 derived from the t^rowlh of leguminou.s 

 crop.s in orchards are tho.se resiilling 

 from the inlUicnce of the vegetable 

 matter upon the physical condition of 

 the soil and from the rcsidt of decay 

 of this material rendering its chemical 

 constiluenls availal)le as food mate- 

 rials for the trees whose welfare they 

 are designed to inlhience. The sooner 

 crops are plowed into the soil and 

 allowed to decay, the sooner will their 

 beneficial influence be felt. The re- 

 frigerant effect of the shade of such 

 crops and the application of irrigation 

 water appear to have a beneficial in- 

 fluence upon the trees. This and the 

 possible infiuence of legumes being 

 associated with non-legumes frequently 

 exerts a marked influence upon the 

 appearance and vigor of trees before 

 an appreciable amount of plant mate- 

 rial has decayed ui)on or within the 

 soil. 



A splendid example of what can be 

 accomplished by the proper use of 

 cover crops is the orchard owned by 

 F. R. Radford, which is upon a soil 

 very similar to the above experiment. 

 When his orchard began to show signs 

 of distress, some seven or eight years 

 ago, he began immediately to use win- 

 ter cover crops, and continued sys- 

 tematic clean culture during the sum- 

 mer season. During the past three 

 years he has applied irrigation and is 

 growing clover and alfalfa. He has 

 also gone over the entire tract with a 

 light application of stable manure. As 

 a residt of this careful treatment three 

 successive crops of fruit have been 

 leceived, and the trees are cpiite vig- 

 orous and thrifty in appearance. Indi- 

 cations are that in this orchard, while 

 bearing full crops of fruit, the trees 

 are being forced into too strong ^vood 

 growth. From this it ajjpears that too 

 great an amount of nitrogen is being 

 supplied to them. Thus it appears that 

 the use of leguminous cover crops can 

 be overdone as well as can the use of 

 commercial nitrogen. 



l'|)on the appearance of such a con- 

 dition the crops should be dispensed 

 with for a time and systematic clean 

 culture again brought into practice. 

 These results suggest the feasibility of 

 adopting, within the orchard, a sys- 

 tematic system of crop rotation planned 

 to maintain the fertility of the soil by 

 growing certain crops on different por- 

 tions of it in regular succession. Such 

 a practice would be a most valuable 

 method of operating an orchard, for 

 by its use sufiicient forage could be 

 grown for the stock necessary upon 

 the farm and the labor would be 

 eiiually distributed throughout the year, 

 and from year to year. It would also 

 I'osler economical and constant use of 

 irrigation water, and, in the end, would 

 bring about a most accurately-balanced 

 series of farm activities, \vhich condi- 

 tion is conducive to the greatest pos- 

 sible economy in operation, a factor 

 which I consider to be next in impor- 

 lance lo the maintenance of a desirable 

 stale of fertility williin the soil. 



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