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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



DOW 



Powdered Magnesium Arsenate 



(HIGHLY FLUFFY) 



The Modern Agricultural Poison 



TV/flXES easier, is applied in the same 

 way, for the same purposes, in the 

 same proportions — pound for pound — 

 and with the same degree of safety from 

 injury to foHage, as is good Arsenate of 

 Lead. It spreads better, adheres longer, 

 and COSTS LESS. 



The above results were obtained in 

 most exhaustive spraying tests extending 

 over a period of several years in the Dow 

 Experimental Orchards, Fields and 

 Laboratory. We make these statements 

 despite the fact that we are probably the 

 largest producers of Arsenate of Lead in 

 the world. The wonderful possibilities 

 and the very low price of DOW MAG- 

 NESIUM ARSENATE we believe war- 

 rants your early request for delivered 

 prices and full information. 



The Dow Chemical Company 



Midland, Michigan 



Markets and Market Expansion 



By A. H. Harris, Publisher of "Better Cooking, Portland, Oregon" 

 Continued from last issue 



China is little understood by English 

 speaking races, at best. China is a 

 nation of fixed customs, of little change, 

 of a peculiar cunning in commerce and 

 trade. Failure of other nations to com- 

 prehend these facts has prevented the 

 development of business in a number 

 of lines, including the marketing of 

 fruit. Americans will be a long time 

 changing customs in China, but it should 

 be a simple thing to adapt American 

 trade practices to the will of a people 

 as well fixed in every detail of buying 

 and selling as are the Chinese. The 

 only foreigners who have developed 



great trade in the Orient have been 

 those men who at once adapted their 

 business methods to the centuries-old 

 practices of the Oriental counting 

 liouse. 



Perhaps I may be able to clear up a 

 few of the popular misconceptions of 

 China and the Chinese. 



In the first place, China has an area 

 a little more tlian half the land area of 

 the United States, with four times its 

 population. This fact has brought the 

 people very close to the soil, and in 

 China we find the best farmers in all 

 the world. For four thousand years 



the soil of China has been tilled, and 

 methods have been improved until it is 

 thought maximum production has been 

 reached. It is not lack of production 

 that has stalled China on the road of 

 ]5rogress, but the lack of transportation. 

 China can produce among her own peo- 

 ple, but she cannot distribute, except by 

 the most crude methods of transporta- 

 tion. Her ports accommodate the great 

 ships of the world, and she can land 

 commodities in London — under normal 

 conditions — quicker and cheaper than 

 she can serve her own people living 

 inland a few miles. 



China is not a country of coolie labor 

 exclusively, as many seem to think. 

 China has millionaires, thousands of 

 them. China's isolation among the na- 

 tions of the world has made it possible 

 for cunning men to grab and to hold, 

 just as prodigal nature has made it pos- 

 sible for greedy Americans to gather the 

 natural resources and make themselves 

 millionaires. It is among this wealthy 

 class of Chinese that market will be 

 found for Northwestern apples. The 

 poorer classes use native fruit — if they 

 use any at all — and native fruit is both 

 cheap and of extremely poor quality. 

 This fact is of first importance in con- 

 sidering our subject. 



The Siberian crabapple tree grows 

 wild and has for centuries grown com- 

 monly all over Northwestern Asia. This 

 tree has become the foundation for all 

 the apple trees in China, and the quality 

 of the fruit is fixed by the parent stock. 

 All sorts of varieties of apple scions are 

 grafted on Siberian crab stock, and all 

 sorts of small and hard and poorly 

 flavored apples result. With this poor 

 quality of fruit the poor classes of 

 natives must be content, but the better 

 classes, the wealthy classes, demand 



"LIMO" 



HIGHEST GRADE GROUND LIMESTONE 

 /Ground to 20 mesh screen for soil use\ 

 VGround to extra fine dust for spraying/ 



Insures Better Fruit 



We guarantee that the average of 

 assays made from our natural rock or 

 its product will show not less than 95% 



Calcium Carbonate 



(will probably show higher percentage) 

 and that is what every fertile soil re- 

 quires in its makeup of plant food. 

 Ground limestone cannot hurt your land. 

 It will surely warm and sweeten it; 

 will drive out the harmful acids and 

 unlock other plant foods; WILL ADD 

 STRENGTH AND VIGOR TO TOUR 

 FRUIT TREES AND ENHANCE THE 

 QUALITY OF THE FRUIT; WILL 

 STOP SCALE, SCAB AND RUST ON 

 YOUR VEGETABLES. In fact, it's good 

 for everything that grows, and remember 

 this: human, animal or vegetable life will 

 not thrive or live on poison. The soil will 

 not, while filled with poisonous acids, 

 absorb or digest plant foods. 



Therefore, before you try feeding your 

 soil high priced fertilizers, is it not 

 cheaper and better to spend a little 

 money putting it In condition to be bene- 

 fited by them? 



"LI MO" 



MANUFACTURED BY 



Tacoma Lime Products and Fertilizer Co. 

 Tacoma, Washineton 



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