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BETTER FRUIT 



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Orchard Brand products 

 are manufactured with a 

 thorough knowledge of the dis- 

 eases and of the chemical and 

 physical properties of the ma- 

 terials necessary to produce 

 the required effects. This is 

 the result of scientific study, 

 laboratory and field investiga- 

 tions covering many years. 

 They are the most efficient and 

 consequently the most eco- 



nomical products it is possible 

 to obtain. 

 The use of Orchard Brand 



products gives the fruit grower 

 the advantage of quick deliver- 

 ies, fresh materials, minimum 

 freight rates, prompt service, 

 uniform prices, and definite 

 and correct directions for their 

 application. 



Write for full information 

 and directions. 



General Chemical Company 



Dept. F-5 



San Francisco, California 



ORCHARD BRAND PRODUCTS CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE FOLLOWING: 

 Gilbert & Dewitt, Hood River, Ore. C. J. Sinsel, Boise, Idaho Wells & Wade, Wenatchee, Wash. 



Balfour, Guthrie & Co., Portland, Ore. Morgan, McKaig & Co., North Yakima, Wash. Samuel Loney & Co., Walla Walla, Wash. 



Rogue River Co-Operative Fruit Growers' Association, Medford, Ore. McGowan Brothers Hardware Co., Spokane, Wash. 



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fruitgrowers and farmers are other 

 factors. It is prophesied by many that 

 in the near future practically every 

 fruitgrower and farmer will own an 

 automobile, as a combined business and 

 pleasure proposition. Telephones add 

 nuich to country life, doing away with 

 much lonesomeness. Drudgery is re- 

 moved by electricity — electricity doing 

 away with the old-style lamps and the 

 work of cleaning them. In addition to 

 this there are individual plants which 

 farmers can buy at a very reasonable 

 figure, for lighting the house, where the 

 district is not supplied with electricity. 

 Of these an immense number are sold. 



In addition to this electricity on the 

 farm is a factor of great importance in 

 the way of power. Many farmers and 

 fruitgrowers nowadays have washing 

 machines, sewing machines, feed cut- 

 ters, wood-saw outfits and fruit-grading 

 machines, all of which are run by elec- 

 tric power. 



Good estimates can only be made 

 through careful work. Every fruit- 

 grower should endeavor to train him- 

 self along this line. 



The apple crop of the Northwest for 

 1916 was about double any previous 

 year in the history of the business. 

 Crops overran estimates of even the 

 most conservative estimators. Some 

 growers had double their estimates. An 

 apple crop is a hard crop to guess. 



The Northwest apple crop is a 

 bumper crop this year. In fact grow- 

 ers never had such crop before. They 

 had all kinds of ditnculties — shortage 

 of paper, boxes; shortage of help and 

 various other troubles. As Mr. J. R. 

 Nunamacher expressed it, "The fruit- 

 growers of the Northwest never had a 

 large crop before, and therefore did 

 not know how to handle the 1916 crop." 

 In future years they will know better. 



