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BECAUSE Zerolene is 

 correctly refined from 

 asphalt-base crude, it main- 

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 and value at cylinder heat, 

 thus forming a perfect pis- 

 ton seal, reducing friction, 

 and enabling the motor 

 to develop its maximum 

 power. 



Zerolene is the oil for your 

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For sale by dealers everywhere 

 and at our Service Stations. 



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time and with other equally important 

 matters claiming our attention, we 

 could gel at very little of the meat of 

 the cost proposition. So I propose that, 

 instead, a numher of us who are really 

 interested in reducing costs shall keep 

 monthly records of the cost of each 

 orchard operation, with full explana- 

 tions of the methods used in reducing 

 costs, and that we turn these in, to our 

 district inspector or to some other 

 otiicial, who shall tabulate and sum- 

 marize our reports, and present his 

 summation for publication in our next 

 year's proceedings. 

 In Oregon Bulletin No. 132, "Econ- 



omics of Apple Orcharding," we have 

 the actual costs of different orchard 

 operations given by one thousand 

 Northwestern growers — big growers, 

 small growers, intelligent growers (and 

 growers with less intelligence), econ- 

 omical growers, wasteful growers, and 

 indilTerent growers of the "don't know 

 and don't give a d — " type. We also 

 have some well balanced recommenda- 

 tions as to how in a general way we 

 may reduce these costs. But in this 

 study which I propose, we will get the 

 costs and the methods used in reducing 

 costs of a small number of interested 

 men whose endeavor it will be to prac- 



tice the utmost economy all along the 

 line. We might make this into the 

 nature of a contest to ascertain who 

 could show the most cost improvement 

 in a year, or a competition to see who 

 could get the best results at the least 

 cost — some such plan as in the boys' 

 and girls' acre of corn or acre of spuds 

 contests. 



I believe that one of our inspectors, 

 or one of the State College men, or one 

 of the Federal experts will be willing 

 to undertake the working out of this 

 plan, with the tabulation of methods 

 and of costs. I am sure that I myself 

 am willing to send in monthly cost and 



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