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Our New Year's Announcement ^fiT'l 



A Mogul Orchard Tractor for ^" I O 



We announce for 1915 an all-purpose orchard tractor, with 8-H. P. at the drawbar and 16 on the belt 



An Easily Handled, Short Turning, All-Purpose Tractor 



This new Mogul 8-16 tractor will do the work of 

 eiglit horses in the orchard. 



Reing a four-wheeled, all-purpose tractor, you can 

 use it everv day. 



It will do plowing and seeding as well as orchard 

 cultivating. 



It will draw manure spreaders, mowers or binders. 



You can take it into a liay Held to draw a wagon 

 and hay-loader. 



Any farmer can buy this new Mogul 8-16 tractor 



for $675.00, cash, f. o. b. Chicago. 



The man who can use one of these Mogul tractors 

 pa vs. at this price, the least for which a good, reli- 

 able, all-purpose 8-10 tractor can be sold. 



If you want to use a Mogul 8-lti tractor for spring 

 work, vour order should be placed now with the 

 I HC dealer. 



Write us for full information. 



International Harvester Company of America 



San Francisco, Cal. (Incorporated) Spokane, Wash. 



Denver. Colo. Chicago USA Salt Lake City, Utah 



Portland, Ore. Helena, Mont. 



ten delegates to meet with the By- 

 I'roducts Committee for consultation. 



It has occurred to the By-Products 

 Oonnnittce that it would be advisable 

 to call an apple growers' convention in 

 Seattle at 9 a. ni. .lanuary 22, 191.5, place 

 of meeting to be designated later, so 

 Ihat the representatives of the growers 

 themselves c<iuld have a conference 

 with the By-Pr(uku'ts Connuittee the 

 (lay preceding the By-Products Connuit- 

 tee meeting with the selling agencies. 

 Therefore the By-Products Connuittee, 

 by its president and its secretary, re- 

 quests that each and every apple grow- 

 ing district hold a similar convention, 

 selecting ten delegates from each dis- 

 trict to meet witii the By-Products 

 Hoard in Seattle .lanuary 22, 191.'). 



The districts that the Board has par- 

 ticularly in mind in issuing this call 

 are: Wenatchee, Yakinui, Hood Hiver, 

 Southern Idaho, WaUa Walla, Bogue 

 River, Spokane, Montana, Lewiston, and 

 the Garfleld-Moscow territory. Tliese 

 are the districts that are particularly 

 represented in the present organization. 

 We feel certain, however, that a similar 

 representation from any well estab- 

 lished district will be welcomed at this 

 I'onfereiicc. 



The By-Products Board suggests that 

 these delegates from the apple growing 

 districts be selected regardless of the 

 manner in which their fruit is now 

 being marketed, and with a view of 

 getting delegates who are now market- 

 ing their fruit through all diflerent 

 agencies, but that they should not be 

 oflicers or salaried representatives of 

 any organization. In other words, the 

 By-Products Connuittee desires to get 

 the best sentiment from all the different 

 sections and from all different classes 

 of growers, with a view of trying to 

 better the marketing conditions as they 

 now exist. Where there is a growers' 

 organization of any kind, it is re- 

 (piested that Ibis organization take the 

 initiative in calling such a convention. 

 Where there is not an organization, it 

 is urged that any ten growers sign a 

 call for a convention, and that the con- 

 ventions be held not later than the 20th 

 of .lanuary. 



In issuing this call, the By-Products 

 Board wishes to ask the earnest co- 

 oi)eration of every individual vitally 

 interested in llie fruit business of the 

 Xorthwestern stales. We ask this co- 

 operation in order that the gathering 

 at Seattle shall he a practical, earnest 



meeting, gotten together for the pur- 

 pose of developing some common-sense 

 solution of the present marketing 

 situation. 



The apple business is a business in 

 which millions of dollars are invested. 

 The pressing need of that business is 

 better organization and more efficient 

 marketing. This is not a time when we 

 need visionary plans or that we want 

 to try to do the impractical thing. It is 

 a time for the exercising of hard-headed 

 sense, and we wish to ask the diflferent 

 districts to send the best and the ablest 

 of their men to this Seattle meeting, in 

 order that they may unite in forming a 

 judgment that will really get results. 

 Address counnunications to and ask 

 information of Gordon C. Corbaley, 

 secretary of the Chaud)er of Commerce, 

 Sjjokaiu', Washington. 



We have just received a very hand- 

 some and instinctive catalog from J. A. 

 Bauer,.Iuds()nia,.\rkansas, a strawberry 

 specialist. The catalog contains consid- 

 erable infornudion of value to straw- 

 berry and small fruit growers on the 

 production of small fruits, showing how 

 Id plant, cnre for and pick. 



