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BETTER FRUIT 



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The Light Draft 



Orchardists everywhere are telling us that the 

 Light Draft is the most effective of all orchard 

 harrows. The Light Draft is an application of 

 the springtooth in a new way. 



WEIGHT CARRIED ON WHEELS. 



Two hroad-tired wheels are used on the Light 

 Draft Harrow and the weight is so distributed 

 as to be i-arried almost entirely on these wheels. 

 This enaljle.i us to give you a harrow of good 

 width without requiring greater horsepower. 



STEEL FRAME. 



The Light Draft comes very nearly beilng all 

 steel construction throughout. The frame is 

 steel and very liberally braced. The gangs are 

 operated independent^- and easily. 



FINE FOR ORCHARD WORK. 



On account of its extension featiu'e, which 

 enables the ground to be worked right up to the 

 trunk while the driver and team are in the 

 clear, the Light Draft will do better work in the 

 orchard. 



HIGH GRADE SPRING TEETH. 



Made of best grade spring steel and extra 

 long. Note the manner in which they are 

 arranged to iiermit working in trash. 



YOU NEED THE LIGHT DRAFT. 



It will cut your cultivation by enabling you to 

 get over more ground in less time and with 

 fewer horses. Ask for our free booklet. "Modern 

 Orchard Tillage." 



MYERS POWER SPRAYERS, 

 MYERS SPRAY PUMPS, 

 STOVER'S GOOD ENGINES, 

 VINEYARD & ORCHARD PLOWS, 

 J. I. CASE DISC HARROWS, 

 SPRAY FITTINGS AND HOSE. 

 In fact, everything for the cultiva- 

 tion and spraying of fruit trees. 

 Let us have your inquiries. 



Portland, Oregon 

 Spokane, Wash. 



satisfactorily, which means excessive 

 wear. On account of tliis difficulty 

 Eastern refiners and motor-car manu- 

 facturers recommend a light oil for 

 winter and a medium oil for summer 

 because light Eastern oils have a better 

 cold test than the heavy-bodied Eastern 

 oils. Motor oils properly manufactured 

 from California asphalt base crude 

 have a natural zero cold test, making 

 them much more satisfactory for use 

 during the season when low temper- 

 atures prevail. 



the soil which sold at a lower price 

 than last year with the exception of 

 box apples. 



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The Apple Crop Compared With 

 Other Products of the Soil. — There are 

 only seven crops, apples being the 

 eighth, which exceed in valuation the 

 apple crop. We give them in their 

 order, as follows: Corn, wheat, oats, 

 barley, potatoes, hay and cotton. The 

 strange fact in connection with the 

 valuation and jjrices of all other pro- 

 ducts of the soil in 1916, compared with 

 1915, is that rice is the only product of 



Buying Early. — Prices on nearly all 



articles have been constantly advancing 

 ever since the war began, and very 

 rapidly during the last few months. 

 There is no immediate prospect of the 

 war stopping suddenly, and even if it 

 does there seems to be a good reason 

 to assume that it would be some time 

 before the existing shortage could be 

 made up, which must take place before 

 prices will be very much lower. The 

 car shortage is another serious problem 

 at the present time, and in view of the 

 probability that prices will not be less 

 and the possibility it may be difiicult 

 to get supplies, it seems w'ise to suggest 

 to the fruitgrower that they purchase 

 pronii)tIy this season's requirements in 

 the way of orchard tools, sprayers and 

 other materials which they must neces- 

 sarily- use throughout the season. 



Increasing the Market by Wider Distribution 



ADVANCED thinkers and jirogressive 

 marketing people for some time 

 have realized the folly of the old 

 method of selling the bulk of the apple 

 crop of the Northwest in a few large 

 cities, and have been favoring more 

 extensive marketing, believing that if 

 a sufficiently large number of small 

 cities, towns and villages were sold 

 that the consumption of Northwestern 



apples could be increased, — with pres- 

 sure relieved in the big centers much 

 better i^rices could be obtained. A 

 pioneer in this line of work has been 

 the Northwestern Fruit Exchange. 

 Some shippers have hesilaled about 

 giving a list of the towns which they 

 sold, fearing it would invite competi- 

 tion. The progressive marketers have 

 felt that by so doing it would stimulate 



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The Cutaway 



In the line of disc harrows there 

 is nothing equal to the slotted disc 

 Cutaway. 



ACTS LIKE A SPADE. 



The Cutaway slotted disc gives 

 you the effect of a spade. It does 

 not run through the soil as does the 

 smooth disc, but digs it up and 

 moves it in such a manner that 

 none is left unpulverizcd. 



FORGED DISC. 



The discs on the Cutaway are 

 forged and they stay sharp a longer 

 time than the ordinary disc. The 

 Cutaway has real dustproof bear- 

 ings. The Cutaway bearings are 

 exceptionally ^yide and there are 

 plenty of them. 



GENERAL CONSTRUCTION 

 GOOD. 



The Cuta%vay is strongly built 

 throughout and designed to give 

 years of hard service. We carry the 

 Cutaway in many styles, including 

 the Double Action Cutaway Har- 

 rows, the original and best of all 

 double gang harrows. Send for our 

 book, "Intensive Cultivation." 



Other marketing concerns to reach out 

 for the small cities, towns and villages, 

 and if successful in so doing the extra 

 volume of business obtained from these 

 small cities would be so much with- 

 drawn from the big cities, relieving the 

 pressure and enabling the Northwest- 

 marketing concerns to secure better 

 prices. It is a universally recognized 

 fact when markets are glutted prices 

 are low. The editor of "Better Fruit" 

 has favored this plan for many years, 

 advocating it universally. A list of 

 towns was published by the Fruit 

 Growers' Agency, giving the towns to 

 which members had shipped during the 

 season of 1916, showing 460 towns on 

 the list for the month of November, an 

 increase of about sixty towns over the 

 month of October. The large number 

 of towns reached by the Northwestern 

 Fruit Exchange indicates that the crop 

 has been spread out more extensively 

 than ever before. For the first time 

 in several years the big cities have not 

 been congested or glutted with apples. 

 Much better prices have prevailed in 

 1916. although the crop is the largest 

 in the history of the business, than 

 were obtained in 1912 and 1914, the 

 previous big-crop years. Through Mr. 

 W. F. Gwin, vice-president and man- 

 ager, the Northwestern Fruit Exchange 

 has given some publications a list of 

 towns shipped to, which "Better Fruit" 

 is pleased to publish in this edition. 

 This list gives the number of cities and 

 towns sold in the United States and 

 foreign, by the Northwestern Fruit 

 Exchange during the years 1910 to 1916, 



