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BETTER FRUIT 



November 



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Full Count 



have made them 



the 

 world's standard. 



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TheHoodRiverAppleSizer 



Apple buyers and consumers are demanding standardization and uniformity in the 

 grading and sizing of apples. This work is usually done by hand, costing from live to 

 fifteen cents per box. The apple industry demands economy in every phase of the 

 business. Consequently an apple grower in Hood River has invented 



The Hood River Apple Sizer 



It will reduce the labor of grading and sizing from 30 to 30 per 

 cent after crop is in the apple house, making the little machine 



save $2.50 to $5.00 per day. 



The Hood River Apple Sizer 

 is simple in construction and 

 operation — with no complicated 

 machinery to get out of 

 order. It is small and 

 compact, occupying a 

 space of 4i._,xfi feet so it 

 can be used in any pack- 

 ing house, no 



matter how 



small. With 



extra help it 



has a capaci- 



t y of 500 



boxes perday 



and the cost 



of g r a d ing 



(and sizing 



I can be done 



for 3c per 



box. The 



priceissolow 



that every 



grower, no 



matter how small, cannot afford to be without it. ANY GROWKR WITH A 1,000 



BOX CROP CAN SAVE THE COST OP THE MACHINE IN ONE YEAR. 



FOR PARTICULARS AND PRICES 'WRITE TO 



J. F. VOLSTORFF, Hood River, Oregon 



low Aberdeen and cowhorn turnips do 

 equally well as to growth. 



The number of hogs per acre that 

 you could run depends upon how your 

 crop is handled, whether you irrigate 

 or not and numerous other conditions. 

 We have sown our cover crops from 

 July 1 to September 1, putting them in 

 with a grain drill so they will then get 

 moisture enough to come up at once. 

 Tills gives us plenty of fall pasture for 

 the spring pigs. We have the sows 

 farrow in the spring and carry them 

 and the young pigs on summer pasture. 

 We find it essential to have a quick 

 maturing type of pure bred stock. Pure 

 bred because you get the proper type of 

 a market hog, which brings you more 

 money per pound and also because they 

 put on more fat with more ease, giving 

 you more per bushel for your grain 

 when finishing. We feed no grain ex- 

 cept for finishing off. For feeding 

 grain, your hogs must have the proper 

 age. You cannot lay too much stress 

 on type and age. Whenever we have 

 fini.shed plowing under the cover crop 

 in the spring, we then put the hogs in 

 to fatten. They always come off in 

 fine shape to fatten and sometimes hogs 

 of sufficient size are ready to sell with- 

 out any grain feed; but it is no trouble 

 at all to put on an average of over two 

 pounds per day per hog by feeding 

 ground wheat. We have had hogs, of 

 selecled type and age, actually put on 

 four pounds a day. Our buyers like the 

 fat hog to weigh from 17,5 to 225 pounds 

 and will cut the price on you if they 

 weigh over 250 ijounds. Also, in order 

 to get the best prices, you must have 

 the hogs fat before the early summer 

 slump comes in the market price, which 

 is usually about the time clover hogs 

 come off in June. 



After having conducted several feed- 

 ing experiments as to the value of 

 feeding wheat, we have found that the 

 wheat will bring from as low as 85 

 cents per bushel to •$1.47 per bushel. 

 This will vary a great deal, according 

 to your type and age of hog. On the 

 average, though, your wheat will bring 

 you better than a dollar per bushel, 

 other grain feeds, though, might be 

 cheaper in some localities, but we use 

 wheat because we raise our own. Of 

 course, the amount you can pay for 

 your grain depends also on how much 

 you get per pound for your fat hogs. 

 On a bunch of mixed hogs, recently 

 fattened, many of which were of in- 

 ferior type and too young, we obtained 

 80 cents per bushel for our wheat, the 

 hogs selling at 7'i cents. This was just 

 about the price the buyers would pay 

 for wheat at this point. Selected types 

 of hogs, though, did much better, in 

 that they put on more fat for the 

 amount of grain they ate and brought a 

 hi.uher market price, due to their type. 



This is just one of the many ways to 

 make the orchard help pay for itself. 

 .Mtliough we have run hogs in our 

 orchard for several years, we have 

 never yet had Iheni seriously injure a 

 tree. The\' will rub against the trees a 

 good deal, somelimes breaking a small 

 limb, but they have never rooted them 



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