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Extra dollars 

 in dairying 



The fruit-grower 

 who has other 

 sources 01 income 

 besides his orch- 

 ard can rest easi- 

 er! Nothing is so 

 profitable and 

 sure as dairying. 

 Always a market 

 for your product. 

 Does not require 



a large investment of money 



or time. 



Silage is the money-making feed for dairy 

 cows. It supplies a green, succulent feed 

 in Winter-time when hay is high. Takes 

 the drudgery out of feeding. 



Over 60.000 American dairymen and farm- 

 ers have made Indiana the' UniversalSilo." 

 We would like to tell fruit-growers about 

 our easy payment plan on the "Indiana." 

 You can pay for it while it is earning its 

 cost. 



The Chas. K. Spaulding Logging Co. 



SALEM. OREGON, U. S. A. 





To SAVE LITTLE CHICKS 



ana help them to grow into big, 

 strong, healthy birds, FEED 



Diamond Chick rood 



\ Our name and trade mark on every 

 I original package. 



I Beware of Imitations 



POULTRY SUPPLIES 



Our 1916 Catalog of "Diamond 

 Quality" POULTRY SUPPLIES. 

 Hating everything necessary for the 

 profitable production of poultry 



Mailed Free 



Portland 

 Seed Co. 



Portland, Ore. 



Ask for Catalog No. 202 



Fruit Pickers 

 Ladders 



Just what fruit growers have been 

 looking for. Combines lightness and 

 strength. Any length. Wide spread at 

 bottom which prevents tipping. Cheap- 

 er than home-made ladders. 



Send for circulars and prices. 



Pacific Ladder Works 



85-87 E.8th St. 



Portland, Oregon 



truck a.s an as.senibler of fruit. We 

 tried tliis out in a .small way during 

 that .sea.son, liauling some pears and a 

 considerable quantity of Newtown 

 apples, loose in packing boxes, to our 

 colil-storage plant in Medford. The 

 experiment was so successful that we 

 laid our plans in the winter of 1014-15 

 for complete centralization of packing 

 at our cold-storage plant. We trans- 

 formed our second story, by inserting 

 plenty of windows, into an ideal pack- 

 ing room where w'e could, if need be, 

 operate a crew of 100 packers. We 

 built a conveyor at one end of our 

 building, by the use of which one man 

 could unload the fruit from the truck, 

 and it would be carried to the second 

 story, there to be received by roust- 

 abouts and distributed for packing. 



Xot being linancially aljle to pur- 

 chase our own trucks, we made early 

 negotiations with all of the available 

 trucks in our district, and arranged 

 with them to haul the growers' fruit 

 upon a regular tariff, based on the 

 length of the haul and condition of 

 roads. We concentrated at our cold- 

 storage plant all packing supplies, 

 gathering them in from our outlying 

 houses. We offered to pack for the 

 grower, furnishing all labor and mate- 

 rials, for the sum of twenty-five cents 

 per box for pears and twenty-eight and 

 one-half cents per box for apples, plus 

 whatever the auto haul might be. We 

 have permitted some growers with 

 short hauls over exceptionally good 

 loads to haul their own fruit, but 

 wherever the haul was long or the road 

 rough, we have insisted upon the use 

 of the auto truck. Our largest truck 

 has a capacity of two hundred and fifty 

 Iiacking boxes of loose fruit. We have 

 hauled crops of both apples and jiears 

 a distance in some instances of four- 

 teen miles. The bruising to the fruit 

 has been negligible. In fact it is our 

 experience that a good auto truck 

 loaded to capacity rides as easily as a 

 five-thousand-dollar touring car. Our 

 operations began the first week in 

 .\ugust with Bartlett pears and have 

 been kept up continuously unlit the 

 13th of November, when our packing 

 was completed. The hauling of the 

 Bartlett and Howell pears, which are 

 picked in extremely hot weather, was 

 all done at night. The grower would 

 advise us at the end of his picking day 

 what he had to be called for. This be 

 piled at some convenient place in his 

 orchai'd where the auto truck was able 

 to go. .\t any time between 10 o'clock 

 in the evening and 3 o'clock in the 

 morning the truck called for this fruit, 

 and it was delivered at our central 

 house during the cool hours of the 

 night, received there by a night crew 

 whose duty it was to segregate it 

 according to growers' names, check up 

 carefully the number of boxes received, 

 place in each box a card bearing the 

 name of the grower and stack it in 

 front of the packing tables for the next 

 day's operations. The packing crew 

 came on at 8 o'clock, and in every 

 instance cleaned up all of Ihe fruit set 

 before them for that da\. .Vs soon as 



Packard and 



other promi- 

 nent automobile 

 engineers favor 

 motor oils from 

 Western crude. 



Exposition juries at San 

 Francisco and San Diego 

 gave highest competitive 

 awards to Zerolene — an 

 oil from Western crude. 

 Zerolene is the best oil for 

 your motor because scien- 

 tifically refined from se- 

 lected California crude — 

 asphalt -base. Government 

 experts tell us that oils cor- 

 rectly refined from asphalt- 

 base crude "distill without 

 decomposition" [do not break 

 up and lose their lubricating 

 value under cylinder heat] 



and are "much better adapted to 

 motorcylinders.asfarastheircarbon- 

 forming proclivities are concerned, 

 than are paraff ine-base Pennsylvania 

 oils." When you empty the crank- 

 case refill 'with Zerolene. Dealers 

 everywhere and at service stations 

 and agencies of the Standard Oil 

 Company. 



ZEROLENE 



ifc Shndard Oil £r /Mar Can 



ANKER 

 HOLTH 



The highest 



award of merit is 



the endorsement 



of a satisfied 



user. 



Read what the 



users say 



about it: 



Alva A. Stewart, Vancouver. Washington— 

 '"The Self-Balancing Bowl, with no chance of 

 wobbling, puts the Anker-Holth in a class by 

 itself." 



O. C. Scofield. Banks, Oregon-"! have had 

 our local creamery (at Forest Grove) test our 

 skim milk and he said it was the best he ever 

 tested." 



H. H. Eastman, Albany. Oregon— "I have used 

 several makes, but I consider the Anker-Holth 

 the most simple and well constructed separator 

 I ever saw." 



Geo. W. Johnson. Clackamas. Oregon —"It 

 beats them all. I have had five different makes 

 of separators." 



THE J.C.ROBINSON CO. 



48 First Street PORTLAND. OREGON 



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