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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



^£S' Here is a ladder that gets all the fruit 

 on all the branches. Never injures 

 twigs or next year's fruit buds, because it 

 never rests against them. Mounted on a 

 hght, strong, easily portable steel truck. 

 One man moves it easily. Holds a weight 

 of 600 lbs. Can"t tilt or tip. Makes fruit 

 picking absolutely safe. 



The 



Safety Ladder 



pays for itself by saving fruit that would 

 otherwise be lost, by making picking easier 

 and faster and by obviating all personal 

 danger or liability therefor. Just as con- 

 venient for pruning and spraying as for 

 picking. Ideal for Orchards, City Parks 

 and large Country Estates. Can be con- 

 verted into a 20 foot scaffold. Sent on 10 

 days' approval, and guaranteed. If not all 

 we represent, return it to us at our expense. 



Send for Circular and Save Your Crop 



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PORTLAND, OREGON. 



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Fancy Fruit 



grows only in well-h!l«l orchards. Intensive 

 orcSatd tillage pays. Work in close to tlie trees 

 wi^h an 



"Acme" Orchard Harrow 



Cuts, cnishei, mulches, levels, and* compacts the 

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plants or those under inefficient man- 

 agement it rises above the figure given, 

 but $50.00 per ton is probably a fair 

 general approximation for the plants 

 now doing business. 



If we assume that evaporated logan- 

 berries have an average price on board 

 cars at the plant of 20 cents per pound, 

 which is as high a figure as one can 

 take in view of the market conditions 

 of the past three or four years, the 

 maker realizes $400 per ton. Deduct- 

 ing a manufacturing cost of $50.00 per 

 ton, there remains $350 from which to 

 take profits, provide for storage of 

 stock over a period of depression in the 

 market, should such a period of de- 

 pression occur, and pay the grower for 

 11,000 pounds of fresh fruit. If we 

 allow 10 per cent of the selling price 

 as profits and storage costs, which 

 would be entirely too small were it not 

 that we have allowed the operator a 

 salary as superintendent of the plant, 

 we have left $310 as the price of 11,000 

 pounds of fresh berries, or 2?io cents 

 per pound. We may therefore consider 

 3 cents per pound as an extreme upper 

 limit above which the price to the 

 grower cannot go without wiping out 

 profits so long as the price of the dry 

 stock remains at 20 cents. If the evap- 

 orator be a progressive and wide- 

 awake business man, he will pack a 

 cinsiderable portion or all of his pro- 

 duct in the smaller package, the sealed 

 paper carton, and will consequently 

 obtain a larger portion of the 35 cents 

 per pound for which such packages are 

 usually sold to the consumer. In such 

 a case, he can pay 3 cents per pound 

 for fresh stock, and can therefore offer 

 the grower as much as is generally 

 realized' from berries sold to the can- 

 neries. 



BLACKBERRIES 



The yield of dry fruit in the case 

 of blackberries is approximately 400 

 pounds per ton. The expense of dry- 

 ing is slightly less than for loganber- 

 ries, since the fuel used is about 10 per 

 cent less and the time required to com- 

 plete the drying is correspondingly 

 shorter, but the total cost will range 

 very close to 2% cents per dry pound. 

 It is very doubtful if the evaporator can 

 offer more than 2 cents per pound, 

 which would bring the cost of the dry 

 product, ready for shipment, to 12% 

 cents per pound. Such fruit would 

 come into competition with the sun- 

 dried California product and also to 

 some extent with a varying volume of 

 .sundried wild berries produced in the 

 interior states, and particularly in the 

 Middle South. While the material last 

 mentioned is of extremely inferior 

 quality, it finds a place in the market 

 at prices from eight cents per pound up. 

 For these reasons, practically no evap- 

 oration of blackberries has been done 

 thus far in the Northwest, and there 

 seems to be little prospect of such an 

 expansion of the market as will permit 

 the dryers to compete with the can- 

 neries for the fresh fruit, 



RASPBERRIES 



Of the red varieties, the Ciilhbert is 

 the only one which is at all in demand 

 for drying purposes, as the market for 



Pull Bl ^ Slumps 



^ Itand 



Clear your stump land 

 cheaply —no d igging, no 

 expense forteams and powder. 

 One man with a K can rip out 

 any stump that can be pulled 

 with the best inch steel cable. 

 Works by leverage — same prin- 

 ciple as a jack. 100 pounds pull 

 on the lever gives a 48-ton pull 

 on the stump. Made of Krupp 

 Btccl — guaranteed against 

 breakage. Endorsed by U. S. 

 Government experts. 



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Puller 



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 Land Clearing. 



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 Box S 

 182 Fifth Street 



San Francisco 

 California 



Old Style 

 Grafting 



Ruins Trees. 

 Destroys Crops. 

 Grafts often broken 



by wind. 

 Limbs split and decay. 



Our Method of 

 Side Grafting 



Remedies all this. 



Saves wax. 



Saves labor. 



Grafts grow bet- 

 ter and muture 

 sooner than by any 

 other method. 



It will work over your Grapes. Citrus Fruit and 

 Walnuts with practically perfect results. 



Full information sent free. 



W. S. TUTTLE & CO. 



208 Cap. Nat'l Bank BIdg., Sacramento, Cal. 

 SOLE AGENTS 



Richey& Gilbert Co. 



H.M.GILBERT, President and Manager 

 Grower! and Shippers of 



Yakima Valley Fruits 

 and Produce 



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Apples, Peaches, Pears and Cantaloupes 



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