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July 



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cleaner sparkplugs 



Your spark plugs will keep cleaner if you use 



a straight-distilled, refinery gasoline. 



A mixed or imperfectly refined gasoline breaks 



up and deposits carbon instead of exploding com- i v^ 



pletely. N Un^A 



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ihe Gasoline of Qualify ^a^^lzl 



is the all-refinery gasoline — not a mixture. 



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SERVICE STATIONS 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



(Califoroia) 



Go East 



This Summer 



via The 



Scenic 



Highway 



Two 

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 Trains 



Each Day 



To Chicago 



via Minneapolis 

 and St. Paul 



One to St. Louis 



Low 

 Round Trip 

 Fares 



To Middle 



West and 



the Eastern 



States and 



Canada 



Daily 



Low 



Parit 



Fares 



To and thru 

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June 15 to Sept. 15 



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Nitrate for the Orchardist 



A few years ago some experiments 

 were conducted by Professors Ballard 

 and Volck at Watsonville, California, 

 using nitrate on an orchard which had 

 bloomed pretty regularly but failed to 

 set fruit. The results were very grati- 

 fying. Since tlicn nitrate has been tried 

 by orchardists in various other dis- 

 tricts by both applying the crystals to 

 the ground and cultivating them in. 

 Splendid yields have been obtained 

 where checked trees set very little 

 fruit, and also in addition to this the 

 foliage has become healthy, vigorous 

 and green. According to all experi- 

 ments where nitrate has been used 

 early in the spring, about Marsh 1st in 

 the Northwest, a much improved set of 

 fruit has occurred. It is believed by a 

 great many that nitrate applied in July, 

 late summer and early fall, during the 

 time the fruit buds are forming, will be 

 very helpful in making vigorous fruit 

 buds for the following year. The idea 

 is new but the suggestion is worthy of 

 a good, fair trial by orchardists who 

 are not getting satisfactory yields. 



The Fruit Industry Paragraphed 



The Dri-Fresh Evaporator Company 

 of The Dalles, Oregon, turned out a 

 fine product last year and expect to do 

 a largely increased business during the 

 year 1916. 



The apricot crop of California will 

 probably amount to 2,50 cars. 



The shipment of Sacramento cherries 

 began by express the third week in 

 April. 



Colorado estimates the Western Slope 

 fruit crop at 370,") cars. In 1914 the 

 crop was 4107 cars. 



The peach crop in Georgia is esti- 

 mated at about ,3500 cars. Maryland 

 and Connecticut report about half a 

 crop. 



The first car of California cherries 

 arrived on the New York market May 

 ,5th, being sold by Connolly Auction 

 Company, 



One fruit dealer says the .\merican 

 growers arc optimistic, almost fatalists. 

 Anything like preparedness they think 

 unnecessarv. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway for 

 dining cars, hotels and steamship serv- 

 ice purchased over $10,000,000 worth 

 of fruit from the Western Provinces, 



The first straight car by express of 

 California cherries, containing 2285 

 packages, was sold at Greenes Fruit 

 and .Auction Company, Chicago, by Mr. 

 Charles Irregang for •f5400. 



JfSOO.OOO worth of apples were de- 

 stroyed in the Stale of Washington in 

 1915 by the codling moth, according to 

 a report by Mr. T. O. .Morrison, in 

 charge of tiie Department of Horticul- 

 ture, Olynipia, 



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