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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



297 Peoria Drills to go - 

 then prices advance !! 



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Plant Right for Big Crops! 



You should buy a Peoria 

 Drill because it will make 



you more money through big- 

 ger crops — because it plants the 

 seed deep and in the right spot. 

 It isn't wjisted when planted by 

 a Peoria, nor does it feed the 

 birds. It grows and produces. 



Now is the time to buy— 



the season is right and we are 

 still selling at the old BEFORE 

 THE WAR PRICES. In a month 

 or so our present stock will be 

 gone and our price must go up 

 because we will have to pay 

 more surselves. Buy now. 



This Man Had A LUCKY ACCIDENT 





Read Mr. Rummens' Letter About It — 



R. M. WADE & CO. Portl.nd. Ore. Pomeroy Wash.. Oct. 16. 1914 



Gentlemen — Last year I was using ■ {name furntshed on request) grain drill to seed 

 ground and white working along the right-of-way theteam becime frightened andran across 

 the tracks breaking up the drill badly. I set the broken drill aside and purchased a New Pe- 

 oria Disc Shoe Drill from your Pomeroy, Wash agent, Mr J. R. Stevenson, taking it out 

 and starting to work again where I left off with the other drill. I wish to sny that 1 was per- 

 fectly astonished at the results. When the grain was grown, the point where 1 had begun 

 with the Peoria could be easily marked with the eye. The grain sowed by the Peoria was 

 about four inches higher and at least fifteen to twenty percent thicker. To say that I was 

 highly pleased with the results is stating it mildly. 



Very truly yours, W. J. RUMMENS 



For SI years we 

 have sold farm im- 

 plements in the 

 Northwest and our 

 line suits local con- 

 ditions best. 



'POKTIiArlV. 



329 HAWTHORNE AVE. 



or 



THE COFFMAN CO.* 



910-928 Howard Street 



Spokane, Wash.. 



We occu py an 

 entire block in Port- 

 land on Hawthorne 

 Avenue where we 

 carry an enormous 

 stock. 



The Keeping Quality of Apples 



By Charles L. Hamilton, North Yakima, Washington 



THE apple growers of the Northwest 

 have been gradually improving 

 their methods of orchard opera- 

 tion; that is, they have in a large 

 measure come to the point where a 

 considerable majority appreciate the 

 necessity for thorough and scientific 

 work in the production of their crops. 

 They have come to realize that fine 

 apples, like any other superior product, 

 require for their production the appli- 

 cation of certain now more or less well 

 defined rules and systems for irrigation, 

 cultivation, pruning, spraying and thin- 

 ning, these regulations only varying 

 slightly to meet the peculiar neetls of 

 various local conditions, until at the 

 present time they are able to produce 

 from their orchards good yields of ex- 



ceptionally fine appearing apples. Tliey 

 have also spent a great deal of time, 

 money and effort on the improvement 

 of the pack and grade of this fruit, and 

 it is now a recognized fact that the pack 

 and grade, especially of those organiza- 

 tions or dealers who have established 

 brands, is much better than that of the 

 Eastern and Middle Western sections. 

 But even with the improved method of 

 growing, and with the high standard of 

 pack and grade, the growers of the 

 Northwest must realize that the Eastern 

 and Middle Western sections are rapidly 

 adopting the Western methods and that 

 it will be but a short time until their 

 apples will be selling alon.gside of ours 

 at about the same prices. This condi- 

 tion is further characterized by the fact 



that the consumer has little or no pref- 

 erence, so long as he gets a good apple 

 at a fair price. The situation is also 

 made even more serious for the North- 

 west apple grower by reason of the 

 large freight differential working in 

 favor of those sections nearest the large 

 Eastern markets. To meet this threat- 

 ened danger to the apple industry of the 

 Northwest, and overcome it, something 

 must be done to keep our apples in the 

 lead; we must continue to produce a 

 superior product. If we fail in this we 

 will find our fruit competing on a par 

 with Middle Western and Eastern barrel 

 stock, which of course would mean 

 practically an end to growing apples on 

 a large commercial scale here in the 

 Northwest. This is a thing which is 

 not only possible, but is practicable, 

 and can be secured by the proper 

 handling of the apples. 



If we are to continue to produce 

 "something better" we must devise 

 ways and means for keeping in the lead 

 of our aggressive neighbors east of the 

 Rockies. We do not mean to place too 

 much emphasis on this phase of the 

 matter or appear in the light of a 

 "calamity howler," but that there is an 

 Eastern peril and one which we must 

 some day meet we believe no one will 

 dispute. That it has already become 

 ([uile markedly apparent may be veri- 

 fied by any of our Western sales 

 agencies. 



We do not propose to offer an entire 

 solution of this new problem which 

 confronts the fruit growers of the 

 Northwest, as there must be systematic 

 co-operation between the several de- 

 partments of our industry to secure this 

 result; that is, our traffic departments 



Turn Apple Waste to 

 PROFIT 



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Cider Making 



Will Pay 

 Someone in 

 Your Section 

 Handsomely 



Will ItBeYou? 



Start a pajing bus- 

 iness that yrows al- 

 \ \ most without effort. 



Thousands are making 

 Bis Money turning ap- 

 ple waste into profit for 

 their neighbors by making 

 Good Marketable Cider 

 from windfalls, culls, un- 

 dergrades. etc., on 



Mount Gilead 

 Hydraulic Cider Presses 



Sizes 10 to 400 bbls. daily. 

 We also make cider evapo- 

 rators, apple butter cookers, vjn 

 egar generators, filters, etc. 



All machinery is fully guaran- 

 teed. All power presses 

 steel beams and sills. 

 Write today for catalog. 



HYDRAULIC PRESS 

 MFG. CO. 

 60 Lincoln Ave. Mt. Gilead, Ohio | 



Pacific Coast Representatives 



THE BERGER & CARTER CO. 



17th & Mississippi Sts., San Francisco, Cai. 



TABLETS 



ONLY RATS WILL EAT 

 TRY BEFORE YOU PAY 

 KILLS 4 RAT."; FOR 1 CENT 



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