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The ToeHold tractor is built on the coast to meet the require- 

 ments of coast farmers. It is especially designed for orchard 

 and vineyard work, but will give a good account of itself at 

 practically any power job. 



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It is low, narrow and light. It will plow close to trees and 

 pass under limbs. All parts are protected from dirt and dust. 

 An air clarifier keeps dirt out of carbureter. 



The ToeHold drive-wheels are exclusive features. They do 

 not pack the soil, but give flat backward pressure, enabling the 

 ToeHold to deliver maximum power at the draw-bar. 



Ask for ToeHold catalogF32, Itgivescomplete information. 



The ToeHold is what you want for your larger power jobs, and the 

 Rumely-Falk and the Rumely-Olds are good stationary engines for your 

 smaller ones. The Rumely-Olds burns gasoline, and the Rumely-Falk stove- 

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of apples was within the reach of all 

 classes there would be no cause for 

 anxiety, as they would all be eaten and 

 more called for. But, says the grower, 

 we cannot produce them cheaper. 

 There are so many culls that the first- 

 class apples cost us too much to pro- 

 duce. True, but if you could sell your 

 culls and waste apples for seven or 

 eight dollars per ton in bulk, the first- 

 class apples would not cost so much. 



This could be done if everyone could 

 or thought they could afford to eat 

 api)les. 



The evaporator could afford to pay 

 you eight dollars per ton for your culls 

 and sell the evaporated apples at a price 

 which would admit of them being sold 

 at retail in any city in the United 

 .States at a price that would be equal to 

 not exceed seventy-five cents a box for 

 fresh apples. Even the poorest could 



have all the apple sauce they could eat 

 if they only knew it, and would if 

 tliey knew. 



If every inhabitant of the United 

 .States would eat one pound of evapo- 

 rated apples each year it would be 

 equivalent to 18,(1(10,0(10 boxes of fresh 

 api)les. Would not the best solution of 

 the problem be: Pack only the best 

 apples for the fresh-api)le market and 

 evaporate and can all of the off grades. 

 In this way pests would not be spread, 

 the grower could sell all of his apples 

 and the poor could have apples to eat. 



The East Has Faith in Apple Growing 

 in the Northwest 



From the Wenatchee Daily World we 

 quote an interview with W. N. Mears, 

 who in connection with other Boston 

 associates is spending a million and a 

 quarter dollars in producing apple 

 orchards. The World quotes Mr. Mears 

 briefly as follows: 



"What do the Eastern people think 

 of the apple industry at the i)resent 

 stage of the game? Well, I'll tell you 

 what Boston people are doing in this 

 part of Washington and you can draw 

 your own conclusions, k million and 

 a quarter of dollars is being spent on 

 three apple projects by Boston capital- 

 ists in North Central Washington, and 

 this, mind you, without any hopes of 

 financial returns on their money for 

 years to come, or until the trees begin 

 bearing. There is a project at Chelan 

 backed by Boston capital, and one at 

 Tonasket, besides ours here at Okan- 

 ogan — and not an acre of land nor a 

 share of stock is for sale. Personally 

 I have greater faith in the future of the 

 apple business now than at any other 

 time since I entered the game, and I am 

 more firmly convinced than ever that 

 right here in the Okanogan Valley we 

 can raise the best apple in the world." 



New Plant Pathologist for Medford 

 District 



.\ specialist in plant pathology. Dr. 

 M. P. Henderson, University of Wiscon- 

 sin, has been appointed by the Oregon 

 .Agricultural College as pathologist and 

 assistant county adviser of .lackson 

 County, with headquarters at ]\Iedford. 

 Under the provisions of the county 

 farm adviser law .lackson County main- 

 tains a county adviser co-operatively 

 with the extension division of the col- 

 lege. This office is filled by Professor 

 F. C. Reimer, superintendent of the 

 Southern Oregon Exijeriment Station 

 at Talent. 



The new arrangement was secured 

 through co-oi)eration between the Ex- 

 periment Station, the branch station 

 and the extension division on the one 

 hand and the (bounty Court of Jackson 

 County on the other. It goes far to 

 assure close co-operation in carrying 

 on the work. 



The newly-appointed pathologist is 

 a graduate of the Utah University and 

 took his doctor's degree in jilant path- 

 ology at the University of Wisconsin 

 last .June. He is a native of Idaho and 

 lias had extended exi)erience in orchard 

 work under Western conditions. 



