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BETTER FRUIT 



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ti'ees to grow. Live-stock iiKuuirac- 

 tuies the coarser and cruder farm 

 products into higlily valuable and 

 readily salable conunodities, and in 

 doing this it utilizes nuich that woukl 

 otherwise be waste. 



There is a vast deal of waste on the 

 American faim — so much that we are 

 astonished when we really find it out. 

 It is said that the average foreigner 

 who is familiar with farming condi- 

 tions in Europe is amazed at the vast 

 waste of really valuable material 

 which he finds on the American farm. 

 This waste of the farm is a very real 

 one and may prove to be the one factor 

 which decides between profit and loss. 

 If the farmer, by his present methods, 

 is losing money or is barely holding 

 his own, as too many of them are, then 

 a change of method is necessary and 

 this change does not need to be in the 

 I)roduction of larger yields, but in the 

 saving of waste and the stopping of 

 leaks, in order to make money. If this 

 waste can be saved and the leaks 

 stopped in addition to the production 

 of larger yields, then the problem is 

 more nearl>' solved and the future has 

 fewer apprehensions. Saving is just 

 as important as earning. 



The culled fruits fi-om the orchard 

 when su])i)lemented with alfalfa, clover 

 or peas, some of which may be grown 

 in the orchard itself, makes a very 

 pal.Ttable anti satisfactory maintenance 

 ration. I know of one man who was 

 a consistent prize winner at the big 

 live-stock shows this fall who raises 

 and feeds his hogs on cull apples and 

 alfalfa, supplemented with a small 

 grain ration while fitting. This man 

 only owns ten acres, and that is all 

 in orchard. I know another man who 

 accomplishes a like result with another 

 breed of hogs on a three-acre orchard. 

 These men are successful. They have 

 good fruit and they win prizes with 

 their hogs. They succeed with their 

 fruit because they have the hogs, and 

 they succeed with their hogs, in part 

 at least, because they have a waste 

 material on their farms which is 

 utilized by their hogs. But it is in the 

 keei)ing uj} of the fertility of the soil 

 that live stock has its greatest value 

 to either orchardist or farmer. There 

 never can be any permanent system of 

 agriculture without live stock. The 

 depletion of our soils through constant 

 cultivation without feeding them is the 

 gravest danger to American agriculture, 

 and when our agriculture fails our 

 nation fails. 



The cash value of barnyard manure 

 is $27.74 |)er year for each 1000 pounds 

 weight of horse. That from cows is 

 .$29.27 for each 1000 pounds of live ani- 

 mal. That from hogs is %'MMy, from 

 calves .*24.-l.") and from sheep «2().00 for 

 each IflOO jjounds of live weight. These 

 figures represent the actual fertilizing 

 value, but give no credit for the bene- 

 fits in the mechanical condition of the 

 soil whirli are derived from the use of 

 barnyard manure. These figures also 

 represent profits which the orchardist 

 who does not keep live stock miglit 

 have but does not get. 



EJJlJy^MMMMiUUilMMMl^M iSOSlESM lBiliCTISiMiMM^ ' 



Oldest Bank in the 

 Northwest 



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Capital and Surplus 



Two Million 

 Dollars 



Financially Speaking 



the welfare of individual or business is sel- 

 dom endangered where industry and sound 

 financial guidance are in co-operation. This 

 long-established, strong state bank desires 

 to indicate its willingness to place its busi- 

 ness friendship at the disposal of those who 

 require, and can estimate, the service it is 

 so well prepared to render. 



Portland, Oregon 



Ladd & Tilton Bank, 



Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. 



Required liy the Act of Cons"i'ess of August 24. 191::. 



of "Better Fruit," PubUshed Monthly at Hood River, Oregon, 



for April, 1916. 



.state o;' Oregon, I 



County of Hood River, j ^" 



Before me, a notar>' puljlic in and for the .state and county aforesaid, personally 

 appeared E. H. Sliepard, who having been duly sworn according to law. deposes and 

 says that he is the editor and business manager of "Better Fruit," and that tlie follow- 

 ing is to the best of his knowledge and belief a true statement of the ownership, 

 management (and if a daily paper the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication 

 for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, 

 embortitd in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this 

 form, to wit; 



1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor and busi- 

 Tie.ss manager are; 



Publisher, Better Fruit Publishing Company, Postoftice address-. Hood River, Oregon. 

 Editor, E. H. Shepard. Postofflce address. Hood River. Oregon. 

 Managing Editor. E. H. Shepard. Postofflce address. Hood River. Oregon. 

 Business Manager. E. H. Shepard. Postofflce address. Hood River, Oregon. 



2, That the owners are; (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or if a 

 corporation, give its name and the names and addresses' of stockholders owning or 

 holding one per cent or more of the total amount of stock,) 



Better Fruit Publishing Company. E. H, Shepard, Hood River. Oregon. 



?,. That the known bondholders mortgagees and other security holders owning or 

 holding one per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities 

 ai-e: (If there are none, so state,) None. 



4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of the owners, stockholders 

 and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security 

 holders as they appear upon the books of the com,pany, but also in cases where the 

 stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in 

 any other fiduciary relation the name of the person or con^oration for whom such 

 trustee is acting is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements em- 

 bracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under 

 which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the com- 

 Iiany as trustees hold stock and secuiities in a capacity other than that of .a bona fide 

 owner; and this affiant has no leason to believe that any other i>erson, association or 

 eori)Oration has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securi- 

 ties than as so stated by him. 



5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or dis- 

 tributed, through the mails or otherwise, to p.aid subscribers during the six months 

 preceding the date shown above is; (This information is required from daily publica- 

 ;ionsonly.) (Signed) E, H. SHEPARD, 



Editor and Business Manager. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29lh day of March, 1916. 



(Seal) ALTON W. ONTHANK. 



Notary Public for the State of Oregon. 

 (My Commission expires May 29, 1919.) 



These figures represent profit over 

 and above that which may be made on 

 the live stock itself, so that if the 

 orchardist only "breaks even" on the 

 live stock he is still ahead of the game. 



The farm is a factory which, in 

 order to be i)rofitable, must be worked 

 to ils highest cfruieucy. This can never 

 be attained through an>' single-crop 

 s\ stem like fruit or grain growing. Nor 

 through any system which is wtisleful 

 of maleiials or which allows the phuit 

 to lie idle for long ijcriods. Nor yet 

 through any syslem which re(|uires a 

 large amount of hired labor to meet 

 emei'gencies like the harvest and then 

 ceases its activities. Live stock cor- 

 rects all these evils and is the only 

 Ihing lliat will. Live slock keeps the 

 farm working every month in llie year; 



it utilizes waste materials and manu- 

 factures them into tlie highest-i)riced 

 farm products, for which there is 

 always a demand. It restores and 

 maintains the fertility of the soil with- 

 out which other crops cannot be pro- 

 duced. It brings a steady income 

 which is less subject to fluctuations in 

 a i)eriod of x ears througli weather and 

 market conditions. It adds lo the joy 

 of life by affording animate things to 

 work with and bring a profit while the 

 other crops are growing, and it affords 

 the only insurance of continuous suc- 

 cess (in tile farm. 



The snowfall in Hood River Valley during 

 Ihe winter of 191.">-iri was 119^1 inches. Thai 

 means ])lenty of nioislure in the ground, 

 which means a pood crop this year. 



