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 You Gain a Whole Year by 



FALL PLANTING 



Fruit 

 ''""Shade 

 Trees 



BERRIES and 

 BUSH FRUITS 



ROSES 



BULBS 

 a"«" PLANTS 



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= BUSH FRUITS = 

 = STRAWBERRIES | 



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STANDARD VARIETIES and ^onhy 



Novelties jor Home and Commercia Plantings 

 ASK FOR CATALOG NO. 201 



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FOR RENT 



Ninety Acre Orchard 



Apples and Bartlett Pears. 

 Thirty acres Bean land. One 

 mile from Paradise, on S.P.R.R. 

 In the Paradise Irrigation Dist- 

 rict. References and experience 

 required. Address 



DR. C. A. OLIVER, Chico, California 



NOW is the time to send to 



Milton Nursery Company 



MILTON, OREGON 



FOR THEIR 1918 CATALOG. 



FULL LINE OF NURSERY STOCK. 



"Genuineness and Quality" 



This, however, applies to the stand- 

 ard cord, in which the sticks are cut 

 to four-foot length and piled four feet 

 high and eight feet long. Instead of 

 buying the four-foot lengths, liowever, 

 most people nowadays have the sticks 

 cut into two-foot lengths by a gasoline 

 saw. This results in a saving of both 

 time and labor. The purchaser should, 

 however, take care to see that he gets 

 full measurement when wood is bought 

 in this way. In some parts a stack of 

 16-inch wood four feet high and eight 

 feet long is commonly sold as a "run" 

 or a "rick," but contains only one-third 

 of a cord. 



Where wood is to be burned in a 

 stove or furnace intended for coal it 

 will be found desirable, the foresters 

 say, to cover the grate partly with sheet 

 iron or fire brick, in order to reduce the 

 draught. If this is not done the wood 

 is wasted by being consumed too fast 

 and makes a very hot fire, which in a 

 furnace may damage the firebox. 



It is pointed out, however, that heat 

 value is not the only test of usefulness 

 in fuel wood, and since 95 per cent of 

 all wood used for fuel is consumed for 

 domestic purposes, largely in farm 

 houses, such factors as rapidity of 

 burning and ease of lighting are im- 

 portant. Each section of the country 

 has its favored woods, and these are 

 said to be, in general, the right ones to 

 use. Hickory, of the non-resinous 

 woods, has the highest fuel value per 

 unit volume of wood and has other 

 advantages. It burns evenly and, as 

 housewives say, holds the heat. The 

 oaks come next, followed by beech, 

 birch and maple. The white pines have 

 a relatively low heat value per unit 

 volume, but have other advantages. 

 They ignite readily and give out a 

 quick, hot flame, but one that soon dies 

 down. This makes them favorites with 

 rural housekeepers as a summer wood, 

 because they are particularly adapted 

 for hot days in the kitchen. The same 

 is true of gray birch, or "white birch," 

 as it is often called in the regions in 

 which it abounds. With the resinous 

 pines a drawback is their oily black 

 smoke. — Western Farmer. 



pound than non-resinous woods, and 

 this increased value varies, of course, 

 with the resin content. 



The available heat value of a cord of 

 wood depends also on the amount of 

 moisture present. Wlien the wood is 

 green a part of the heat which it is 

 capable of yielding is taken up in 

 evaporating the water. The greater 

 amount of water in the wood the more 

 heat is lost. 



Furthermore, cords vary as to the 

 amount of solid wood they contain, 

 even when they are of the standard 

 dimension and occupy 128 cubic feet of 

 space. A certain proportion of this 

 space is made up of air spaces between 

 the sticks and this air space may be 

 considerable in a cord of twisted, 

 crooked and knotty sticks. Out of the 

 128 cubic feet of a fair average of solid 

 wood is about 80 cubic feet. 



Harvesting and Packing, Etc. 



Continued from page 13 

 through the li%2-inch hole is known as 

 the Jumbo grade. The budded nuts 

 (chiefly the Placentia variety) are 

 divided into two grades, firsts and 

 seconds. 



From the grader the nuts pass on a 

 belt to the bleacher. There are several 

 types of bleachers in use and two dis- 

 tinct materials used for bleaching pur- 

 poses. The end sought in any case is to 

 thoroughly wet the entire surface of the 

 nut with the bleaching liquid, thus giv- 

 ing the shells a uniform light tan shade, 

 free from discolorations. 



The bleaching material which has 

 been the longest in use is a mixture of 

 chloride of lime, sal soda and sulphuric 

 acid. The liberation of chlorin gas in 

 this mixtures brings about the bleach- 

 ing action. The nuts are brought in 

 contact with this bleach by passing 

 them slowly along a spiral groove 



GROWERS! 



"Use Your Brains to 

 Wrap Your Fruit" 



STOP! THINK! 



"CARO FIBRE" 



Fruit Wrappers 



LOOKS BEST 

 PACKS BEST 



PICKS UP BEST 



"CARO" DON'T TEAR 

 STRONG DRY STRONG WET 



THE BUYER 



llliniA/C "Caro" Prolongs 

 IVIIUVlO the Life of Fruit 



Don't Be Fooled by PRICE. Don't Be Penny Wise 



Give Your Fruit a Chance 

 INSIST on Getting "Caro Fibre" 



Your Shipper Can Supply You, 

 or Write to 



Union Waxed & Parchment Paper Co. 



F. B. DALLAM, Axent 



Santa Maria Building, 112 Market Street 



San Francltco, Cal. 



Nice Bright Western Pine 



FRUIT BOXES 



AND CRATES 



Good standard grades. Well made. Quick shipments 

 Carloads or less. Get our prices. 



Western Pine Box Sales Co. 



SPOKANE, WASH 



For Sale 



acres prune orcliard 

 witii dairy farm. Good 

 buildings, electric power, 

 water pressure, 6-year-old trees, clover and 

 alfalfa intercrop. Vi miles to Meridian, Idaho. 

 Two large evaporators there. Make good prop- 

 osition for quick sale. Write 



Horn Orchard Company, Boise, Idaho 



through a rotating wooden cylinder. 

 A small stream of the bleaching mate- 

 rial is constantly passing through the 

 cylinder and by the rotating action the 

 nuts become thoroughly wet with the 

 liquid. 



The other bleach commonly used is 

 electrized salt water. Here also the 

 free chlorin is the bleaching agent. An 

 electric current of one hundred amperes 

 and about a four per cent salt solution 

 usually give good results. The appar- 

 atus consists of a comparatively small 

 porcelain jar or cell containing the 

 electrodes, through which passes a con- 

 tinuous stream of salt water mixed in a 

 preliminary tank. After passing through 

 the cell for treatment, it goes to a stor- 

 age tank, thence it is applied to the nuts 

 by means of a mist spray. Tlie spray- 

 ing takes place as the nuts pass slowly 

 through a wooden tunnel arrangement 

 twenty-five to thirty feet long. The 



