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BETTER FRUIT 



April 



C ONE FRIEND TELLS ANOTHER WHY W-B CUT TOBACCO IS BEST AMD CMEAPEsf) 



MY POUCH OF W-B CUT TOBACCO 

 PSH'T AS BI6 AS YOUR LOOSE 

 PAPER SACK, BUT ITS BETTER 

 AND CHEAPER, BECAUSE IT C 

 SATISFIES AND LASTS LONGER. 



HERE'S something curious about W-B CUT Chew- 

 ing — it takes less out of your pocket and puts a 

 better chew into your mouth. No big plug sagging your 

 pocket, no big wad sagging your cheek. Half as much 

 of this rich tobocco goes twice as far as ordinary plug. 

 W-B saves your silver and gives you a silver-lining feel- 

 ing of happiness all over. You can't help from telling 

 your friends about W-B. 



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Gravity Conveyor Systems 

 for boxes, packages, lum- 

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Gravity Box Conveyors 



Building Materials and Paints. Cabots Insulating Quilts, 



TIMMS, CRESS & CO., Inc., 184-6 Second St., Portland, Oregon 



RHODES DOUBLE CUT 

 , PRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES MFG. CO., 



520 s. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



YHE only 

 pruner 

 made that cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

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 shears delivered free 

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upward ijrogress and development of 

 Wa.shington and Oregon. 



"The rapidity with which these states 

 have adopted a system of diversified 

 farming and live-stock raising has been 

 wonderful," in Mr. Faville's opinion. 

 "Especially has there been a marked 

 increase in the growing of alfalfa and 

 other forage crop.s — an initial step 

 toward crop rotation and essential to 

 the maintenance of soil fertility. 



"The original impetus resulting in 

 this economic advancement was im- 

 parted in 1913, when Professor P. G. 

 Holden, prominent in agricultural ex- 

 tension work, conducted 960 meetings 

 in a territory embracing 225 square 

 miles. 



"At that time the Pacific Northwest 

 was a buying region. Now it has an 

 annual surplus of food and feeds to 

 sell, and the importation of butter and 

 dairy products has entirely ceased. In 

 the last five years Oregon has increased 

 the number of her dairy cattle 30 per 

 cent, with the Washington increase 

 showing 40 per cent. The increase in 

 other cattle has been much more 

 marked, 120 per cent in Oregon and 370 

 per cent in Washington. Among the 

 many other promising improvements 

 may be mentioned a system of great 

 terminal warehouses for the handling 

 of the largely increased grain harvests 

 and a better method of handling grain 

 on the farms. 



"Other fine movements have been set 

 going also, as, for example, that of bet- 

 ter roads and the rural credit system 

 just now receiving united attention 

 from farmers and business men alike. 

 As a result of all this intelligent effort, 

 the earning power per farm in the 

 Pacific Northwest has been increased 

 to $4,000— the highest in the country. 



"Since better farming always leads 

 to better homes and a better people, a 

 splendid school system, in which agri- 

 cultural education plays an important 

 part, has been built up. The percentage 

 of illiteracy in Oregon and Washington 

 is lower than in any other state." 



Mr. Faville knows whereof he speaks 

 when he commends the Chicago Herald 

 Land and Industrial Bureau and Ex- 

 hibition. And he knows whereof he 

 speaks, also, when he talks of the Pa- 

 cific Northwest's remarkable gains. 



The Tent Caterpillar 



With the first warm days of spring 

 the larvte of the tent caterpillar escape 

 from the eggshells in which they have 

 lain dormant during the winter. Trees 

 infested with larvse during the early 

 part of the year, or those in the imme- 

 diate vicinity, are perhaps more likely 

 to be chosen by the parent moth for 

 the deposition of her eggs, and such 

 trees at least should be searched. 



The recommendations of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture's en- 

 tomologists for the control of this pest 

 are, briefly, as follows: As soon as 

 small nests are detected, they should be 

 destroyed, as this prevents further de- 

 foliation of the tree. When within con- 

 venient reach the nests may be torn out 

 with a brush, with gloved hand or 

 otherwise, and the larvie crushed on the 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



