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returns on any varieties of apples, 

 figure out what tlie variety brings you 

 net from tlie sliipping concern for tfie 

 three grades on the percentages grown. 

 If they are low, or below 50, 30 and 20, 

 just take the figures you have received 

 and figure out how much your crop 

 would have brought you if your crop 

 had been 50 per cent Extra Fancy, 30 

 per cent Fancy and 20 per cent C grade, 

 and see what the difference would be. 

 The difference will be surprising com- 

 pared with a crop running 40, 30 and 

 30, which is grown by many growers, 

 with no small number having poorer 

 percentages than this. 



Tying Trees. — Every fruit grower has 

 had experience in propping trees, espe- 

 cially when the crop is very heavy. 

 Propping is usually done late in the 

 summer or early in the fall, which can 

 be supplemented very successfully by 

 tying up, or looping up, with twine, 

 many limbs not large enough to prop, 

 with considerable saving in expense. 

 But growers have found out that at 

 that time of the year, while the work 

 can be done on the exterior of the tree, 

 tying cannot be done in the interior 

 of the tree very conveniently, for in so 

 doing the workman is apt to knock off 

 many apples, consequently quite a few 

 have adopted the method of tying up 

 many of the limbs before they become 

 drooped with the weight of fruit and 

 before the foliage thickens up, for the 

 reason the workman can get into the 

 interior of the tree more comfortably 

 at this time of year, doing the work 

 successfully, and by being careful not 

 to knock off any fruit spurs. Many of 

 the lower limbs, particularly of trees 

 not very old, which are so low they 

 interfere with cultivation, can be tied 

 up at this time of year very success- 

 fully, and a crop grown on them, 

 otherwise they would have to be cut 

 off in order to give room for the neces- 

 sary cultivation in the orchard. An 

 ordinary amount of intelligence and a 

 little practice will teach a man how 

 to do this work very successfully at 

 this season of the year. A visit to some 

 of the neighbor's orchards who have 

 done this work will be found very help- 

 ful to the growers. 



Mr. Wm. McMurray, General Passen- 

 ger Agent, Portland, Oregon, for the 

 Union Pacific System, is to be com- 

 mended for the excellent work he is 

 doing in issuing from the passenger 

 department a very attractive bulletin or 

 folder, descriptive and beautifully illus- 

 trative of the scenery of the Northwest, 

 the illustrations featuring some of the 

 finest scenery in. Oregon, Washington 

 and Idaho. The bulletin bears the title, 

 "The National lulucational Associa- 

 tion," being issued for the purpose of 

 interesting everybody in attending the 

 National Educational Association to be 

 held in Portland, Oregon, July 7-14. 

 The opiiortunities in the Northwest are 

 splendiil — the scenery unsurpassed, the 

 climate almost perfect the year round. 

 The Northwest needs people. No meth- 

 od can be more effective in bringing 

 people to the Northwest so they can 

 understand the vahie of the Northwest 



Can you think of any greater punish- 

 ment for a criminal than being 



Condemned fo 

 fofe Wafer for Li 



Mr. Farmer, change that ever empty water bucket which greets you 

 when ever you near the house into a pleasant smile. Do/away with the 



useless back breaking water bucket. Stop that never ending lifting, pouring and carrying, 

 away of used water. Add years to the life of your wife and daughters'/and put happiness 

 and cheer into every member of the family by installing a modem farm water system'. There i$ no invest- 

 ment you can make that wiil pay you so well as wil! a ^ ! L'-j 



Pneumatic 

 ^Vate^/^SysteIn 



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This system is in use in hundreds of rural homes in the Northwest 

 where it is furnishing an abundant supply of cold^ pure water under a pres- 

 sure which makes every member of the family/happy in the enjoyment 



of those conveniences that are as much a necessity on the //A 



farm as in town, the bath, the kitchen sinl^, hot and cold'/// 



water, the patent toilet, the washroom, water for the 



farm garden and fire protection. Any user of /a 



Mitchell System will tell you there is no otheiy 



so economical or satisfactory. 



Let us 

 mail you 

 Book 

 No. W II 



"Through the 



Eye of 

 the Camera" 



than good conventions, which of course 

 must be given wide publicity and adver- 

 tised to create an interest in attendance. 



Get Ready. — The spraying season is 

 near at hand. Every fruit grower 

 should be equipped with a flrst-class 

 spray rig. If he does not already own 

 one he should buy one. It is mighty 

 good judgment to take time by the fore- 

 lock and in advance of the rush of the 

 spraying season go over your spray rig 

 carefully, clean it thoroughly, for the 

 purpose of seeing that it is in perfect 

 working condition. Such work done in 

 advance frequently means a saving of 

 much valuable time at the period when 

 a delay in spraying is costly. 



hose, being sure to get some brand that 

 is absolutely reliable, some hose that 

 is known to have suflicient strength 

 and durability to stand the high pres- 

 sure that is necessary to spray suc- 

 cessfully. 



Spray Hose. — In 1916, probably on 



account of the shipments of rubber to 

 the countries at war, many of the re- 

 liable companies ran short of material, 

 consequently the fruit grower was 

 compelled to take whatever he coukl 

 get in the way of hose for spraying. 

 The editor speaks with feeling on this 

 subject, having had to buy several leads 

 of hose of unknown make, the quality 

 being so i)Oor that frequently some of 

 them would last but for a sliort time. 

 It seems wise to advise the fruit grower 

 to be particular in the selection of his 



The Pacific Coast Association of Nur- 

 serymen will hold its annual conven- 

 tion at Tacoma, Washington, July 11-13. 

 The editor has attended a number of 

 these conventions in past years and 

 feels justified in saying they are of vital 

 interest and value, especially to the 

 nurserymen of the Pacific Coast, and 

 also feels justified in saying that it is 

 the duty of every nurseryman on the 

 Pacific Coast to attend the convention 

 at Tacoma. Full iiarticulars can be 

 obtained by addressing Mr. C. A. 

 Tonneson, secretary of the Pacific 

 Coast Nurserymen's Association, Taco- 

 ma, Washington. 



"Strawberry Growing," by S. W. 



Fletcher, Professor of Horticulture at 

 tlie Pennsylvania Slate College, pub- 

 lished by McMillan & Company, is the 

 title of a recent publication, containing 

 much valuable and instructive informa- 

 tion about every feature of growing, 

 tillage, planting and harvesting the 

 strawberry. 



