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BETTER FRUIT 



School for Tractor Dealers is Inaugurated 



IN these modern days of efficiency 

 methods of manufacturing and sell- 

 ing, particularly machinery, automo- 

 biles, farm tractors, etc., the successful 

 manufacturer has realized that his obli- 

 gation to a customer does not end with 

 the sale of his merchandise. A man 

 buying a farm tractor, for instance, 

 must be taught how to keep it in good 



owner realizes that the best sort of 

 service is the preventitive sort. In 

 other words, to understand his machine 

 thoroughly and thus be enabled to avoid 

 breakdowns in the busiest seasons, is 

 far better than to be left in ignorance, 

 with the resulting unnecessary wear 

 and breakage. 

 This sort of instruction, of course, 



Dealers' Tractor School at San Francisco. 



condition. Otherwise, accidents and 

 breakdowns will work a hardship not 

 only on the man who has already pur- 

 chased but upon the manufacturer, in- 

 asmuch as the purchaser will become 

 a knocker instead of a booster for the 

 particular merchandise. 



It is generally admitted by those who 

 own tractors or who are connected in 

 any way with the tractor industry, that 

 the proper service organization is of 

 the utmost importance. The experienced 



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should start at the factory and reach 

 the ultimate consumer through each 

 dealer's selling and service organiza- 

 tion. The Cleveland Tractor Company, 

 makers of the detract tractor, in reali- 

 zation of this fact, are conducting an 

 extensive campaign of this sort. The 

 San Francisco district office of this 

 company has just finished holding a one 

 week's course of instruction, free of 

 charge, for Cletrac dealers and their 

 service organizations. The instruction 

 school was a great success and brought 

 together service men from all parts of 

 California, Nevada and Oregon, who 

 were given the benefit of lectures and 

 instruction by factory-trained men. The 

 course covered in detail all parts of the 

 tractor, and great emphasis was laid on 

 the importance of delivering a tractor 

 right — that is, seeing that the new 

 owner is made thoroughly familiar with 

 the proper care of his machine. 



Shall We Bury Wormy Apples 



Editor Better Fruit: — During the thin- 

 ning season of 1919, there was a great 

 deal printed in the Yakima papers 

 against the practice of burying wormy 

 apples. In order to gain first hand in- 

 formation on the subject I tried the fol- 

 lowing experiment: 



I set a joint of four-inch clay tile in 

 the ground so that the bell was flush 

 with the surface. I then tamped earth 

 in the tile to within thirteen inches of 

 the top. I took forty-three wormy 

 apples, though it is not likely that each 

 apple contained a live worm, and on the 

 twenty-ninth day of June, I put them 

 into the tile filling it to within six in- 



May, IQ20 



ches of the top. I tamped moist earth 

 on the apples with my fist, filling the 

 remaining six inches of the tile. I put 

 a piece of burlap over the end of the 

 tile and a screen wire over that. 



I examined it about once a week dur- 

 ing the summer, but never a worm or 

 moth appeared. 



On October 12, 1919, I dug the apples 

 out and examined them carefully. I 

 found four larvae in cocoons on the 

 sides of the apples. These would no 

 doubt either have perished in the 

 cocoons, or have hatched into moth, 

 which would have been much less able 

 to dig out than when in the larval stage. 

 L. M. COX. 



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