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Januarx 



■^ ^ fur summer fallowing; keeps down weed growth and properly 

 mulches surface soil. Foot Lift Lever enables operator, ou seat, tocle 

 off weeds that may gather while working, 

 draf r>eD'h of cut adjustable. Price ri 



All steel construction. 



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Your John Deere Dealer Sells It! 



What a user says about it: 



No. Yakima. July 31, 1914 

 Dear Sirs: — I take pleasure in recommendingr the ACMK 

 Welder as the best implement I ever used for killinp weeds 

 and puiveiizinp the ground and I have used all of them. SlOO 

 would not buy mint if ! could not get another one. 



{Name oji request) 



Another User Writes: 



Mosier. Oregon, Aug. 22, 1914 

 Gentlemen:— I consider the Acme Foot Lift Weeder the 

 best tool for cultivating orchards that I ever used, and as a 

 weed killer it certainly is perfection. (Name on request) 



' DUANE H. NASH, Incorporated 



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is now open to the world, complete, unique and well worth the 

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VIA THE 



Shasta Route 



Three fully equipped modern trains from Portland daily with conveniences 



for the most fastidious, as well as the humblest traveler will bring you in 



safety to San Francisco where you can visit the 



Panama Pacific International Exposition 



with all its buildings complete and the exhibits 

 being rapidly installed. En Route to San Diego 

 you can vi.sit many of California's famous re- 

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Southern Pacific 



John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent 

 Portland, Oregon 



Tbe Exposition Line 1915 



HiviiiH the kind of int'oniiation thai 

 "lii'lter Fruit" lias given for almost 

 nine years. I am sure they need one 

 111 enable them to better conditions. At 

 nil time in the past has a good fruit- 

 growers' paper like "Better Fruit" been 

 so vital a need as it is at present and 

 for the future. 1 believe the fruitgrow- 

 ers want it. If "Better Fruit" meets 

 with your satisfaction and approval, 

 I again solicit your subscription and 

 earnestly request that you persuade 

 your neighbors to subscribe. 



In conclusion permit me to wish you 

 a Happy and Prosperous New Year, and 

 to say that I honestly believe that with 

 the right kind of etfort, directed in the 

 right way, that we can overcome the 

 problems that at present seem big 

 i)arriers. I believe that eventually, 

 through the right kind of educational 

 methods and a better knowledge of 

 marketing conditions, the fruitgrowers 

 of the Northwest will solve the market- 

 ing problem. 



your good will, your help. I want 

 every fruit grower in the Northwest to 

 be a subscriber. It costs but $1.00 per 

 year. I want every fruit grower who 

 is a subscriber to persuade every neigh- 

 bor who is a fruit grower to become 

 a subscriber to "Better Fruit." The 

 greater our subscription list the better 

 publication I can issue, because adver- 

 tising can only be obtained on circula- 

 tion in sufficient (piantity. 



"Better Fruit" will continue in the 

 future, as in the past, to give the best 

 methods, the best ideas about cultiva- 

 tion, irrigation, pruning, spraying, 

 treating all the different diseases, cover 

 crops, by-products, economy in pro- 

 duction and harvesting, packing and 

 grading, and in fact everything of 

 value, — the best obtainable in refer- 

 ence to the production of belter fruit. 



"Better Fruit" will endeavor to fur- 

 nish you information about association 

 work and about marketing; it will con- 

 tinue in the future to give you esti- 

 mates of the crops and the actual 

 quantity shipped at the end of the sea- 

 son, so far as obtainable. From time 

 to time it will give you good, reliable 

 information about the general averages 

 of prices that have been obtained by 

 the different districts on different 

 grades of fruit. I believe the fruit- 

 growers in the Northwest want a good 

 publication that w-ill fill the recpiire- 

 ments along the lines indicated in this 

 editorial, and I hoi)e I have done my 

 work in "Better Fruit" sufficiently 

 well in the past to merit your support 

 in the future. I believe the fruitgrow- 

 ers want a good publication, carrying 

 out the |)iilicy of "Better Fruit" and 



.Marketing Apples. — The experience 



of 1912 and the prices obtained were 

 sufficient to indicate to the apple in- 

 dustry of the Northwest that steps 

 would have to be taken to provide bet- 

 ter and improved marketing facilities. 

 Consequently the matter was given 

 much attention and in 1913 an im- 

 proved condition generally prevailed, 

 which, owing to the fact that the crop 

 was a moderate one in that year, proved 

 fairly satisfactory. In 1914 a bumper 

 crop of apples all over the United 

 States was grown, which was prob- 

 ably the largest crop that had been 

 produced since 1896. ^^^lile no pools 

 have been closed up to date, it is evi- 

 dent by the prices at which apples are 

 selling that returns will be far from 

 satisfactory to the growers this year; 

 while it is possible that apple prices 

 may pay the cost of production, it is 

 quite evident that there will be little, 

 if any, profit for the grower. There- 

 fore the subject of marketing is com- 

 maniling the attention, the thought and 

 study of every apple grower as well as 



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