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Your Tractor Question 



—"Will It Do 

 MY KIND OF WORK?" 



Answered in Tractor Book 



TrackPULL book tells all about 

 special abilities of Bean Track- 

 PULL Tractor in orchards. 



This great little 6-H.P. machine, 

 designed by builders of special orch- 

 ard machinery for 34 years, com- 

 bines a wealth of experience in one 

 most efficient design to meet definite 

 orchard needs. 



Don't buy tractor built for gen- 

 eral use which may prove merely 

 an expense, no matter what the 

 purchase price. 



Tractor designed to do your kind 

 of work is the cheapest by far in 

 service-costs per year. 



TrackPULL turns about-face in 

 10-foot circle with full power — tools 

 deep in soil. You turn right back 

 in same row. 



Built low to go under lowest 

 bi-anches. Great traction permits 

 light weight, low fuel expense, and 

 best work in soft soil. 



Bean TrackPULL Tractor will be 

 as famous as noted Bean Power 

 Sprayer when as many are in use. 



BEAN TrackPULL Tractor 



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-Kind of Crops Gmwn.. 



BETTER FRUIT 



A notion that bees spread fire-blight 

 is mostly error, for the damage done by 

 bees is small as compared with flies, 

 mites, aphids and plant bugs. If bees 

 carried this disease blossom blight 

 would be much more prevalent than it 

 is, since normally every fruit blossom is 

 visited many times by honey bees. 



While some states by law have for- 

 bidden the spraying of fruit trees in 

 blossom it should be unnecessary to 

 compel fruit growers to abandon a 

 practice that is detrimental to their in- 

 terests. When fruit trees first blossom 

 forth the opening of the petals is ac- 

 companied by a development of nectar 

 and the flowers are visited by myriads 

 of honey bees. The combination of 

 color, perfume and honey is Nature's 

 elaboration to induce bees to visit and 

 to cross-pollinate the blossoms. If 

 cross-pollination were inconsequential 

 and unnecessary fruit trees would not 

 expend their energy in developing 

 flowers and honey. Investigations at 

 the Oregon Experiment Station have 

 demonstrated this point, showing that 

 most varieties of apples are self-sterile, 

 and that cross-pollination is the rule 

 and self-pollination is the exception. 



Many beekeepers report poisoning of 

 bees and brood following the summer 

 cover applications. In such cases it 

 appears that the main harm occurs in 

 orchards having an alfalfa or vetch 

 cover crop, which for this reason are 

 frequented by bees. During the dry 

 summer weather bees become thirsty 

 and will drink arsenical spray, but it 

 is the drip on the alfalfa from over- 

 spraying that is taken rather than the 

 spray on the foliage. To be properly 

 sprayed a tree will require a certain 

 definite amount of liquid which is de- 

 pendent not on the pressure or the 

 nozzle used, but on the shape of the 

 tree, the amount of foliage, the number 

 of blossoms or fruit and the kind of 

 spray used. Applying more spray 

 liquid beyond the necessary amount 

 does not accomplish better spraying, 

 but is a waste of time and material. 

 For several other reasons it is inad- 

 visable to over-spray: the particles of 

 spray-liquid gather together and leave 

 an imperfect coating and the drip on 

 the cover crop is a danger to stock 

 later eating the alfalfa hay. 



The suggestion has been made that 

 orchardists add a repellent to their 

 arsenical to deter the bees from drink- 

 ing it. However, this is not altogether 

 practical, since an efficient repellent has 

 not been discovered that would dis- 

 criminate between the bees and the 

 codling worms, and the value of an 

 arsenical spray is dependent on the 

 worms partaking of it. 



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|»| ^i_ J to hear from owner of 

 WalllCQ good farm for sale. 

 State cash price, full particulars. 



D. F. BUSH, 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota 



NO RISK 



Your orchard is your business. Its 

 care is important. The more you 

 know about it the more certain the 

 success. Knowledge is power in the 

 orchard business as in everything 

 else. You cannot afford to take 

 chances with tree sprays. 



MATEIQAL^ 



"ORCHARD" Brand 



Arsenate of Lead Paste 



AND 



"ORCHARD" Brand 



Dry Powdered Arsenate of Lead 



are the only tree sprays you would 

 buy if you chemically analyzed all 

 brands and knew all the facts. 



They are the only sprays you would 

 buy if you were not influenced by 

 the self-interest of others. 



They are the only sprays to buy to 

 insure a crop — can you afford to 

 to take chances? 



"ORCHARD" brand Dry Powdered 

 Arsenate of Lead is recommended 

 because it is double the strength of 

 the paste. 



We are not alone manufacturers of 

 Arsenate of Lead; we are partners 

 in your business to the extent that 

 we must deliver you the tree spray 

 materials that will get results. 



Dry Powdered Arsenate of Lead is 

 a finely divided powder that mixes 

 readily with water and remains in 

 good suspension when diluted in 

 the spray tank. 



We know of no spray equal to Dry 

 Powdered Arsenate of Lead to con- 

 trol Codling Moth and similar in- 

 sects. Use two pounds to a 100 

 gallons of water. 



"ORCHARD" brand Standard Ar- 

 senate of Lead (paste) is manufac- 

 tured on the Pacific Coast, under 

 Western conditions, for Western 

 fruit trees. It does not contain less 

 than 15% Arsenic Oxide, not to ex- 

 ceed 50% water, and not to exceed 

 0.5% soluble arsenic. 



Long experience in manufacturing 

 Arsenate of Lead for tree spraying 

 on this Coast, and a constant obser- 

 vation of the results obtained by its 

 use, enables us to produce a soft, 

 creamy paste, by chemical and me- 

 chanical processes, that does the 

 work as you want it done.! 



General Chemical Company 



Dept. G 

 Royal Insurance Building 



SAN FRANCISCO 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



