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Mr. W. A. Johnston of The Dalles shipped a car containing 200 Kimball Culti- 

 vators to Michigan, which is the first carload of implements ever manufactured in 

 Oregon and shipped East. The Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company 

 officials had the car spotted and Mr. Johnston had a photograph taken. On the side 

 of the car was tacked a banner which read, "The First Car of Agricultural Imple- 

 ments Made In the West and Shipped Kast. Kimball Cultivators. Manufactured by 

 W. A. Johnston, The Dalles, Oregon." 



The Best Implement for Successful 

 Orcharding is the 



KIMBALL CULTIVATOR 



The Great Weed Exterminator 



It not only preserves the moisture, but destroys the hiding places of insects, such 

 as curculio, which are often serious orchard pests. Apples grown in cultivated 

 orchards ripen later, and consequently keep longer. They are of larger size and are 

 usually smoother. 



The cost of cultivation is not excessive if Kimball Cultivators are used. 



The Kimball Cultivator is made in all sizes, which enables us to give anyone the 

 size necessary to do his work, whether he needs the 4% -foot size for the small farm 

 or the 17-foot size for the large summer fallow fields. We recommend the SVs-foot 

 size in most cases, as it is the best size for two horses, and better work can be done 

 with it than can be done with other sizes. 



Note prices on various sizes quoted below. Send in your order at once, or write 

 by rettirn mall asking for booklets and particulars. All quotations are f.o.b. The 

 Dalles, Oregon, but we will arrange to have a carload in some Eastern city for the 

 spring of 1914, so that shipments may be made direct from that point. 



Retail Price Schedule of Kimball Cultivators 



Price 



No. 4. 4% feet, 6 blades, weight complete 70 lbs $13.50 



No. 5. 5^4 feet, 7 blades, weight complete 85 lbs 15.0O 



No, 6. 6 feet, 8 blades, weight complete 100 lbs 17.50 



No. 7. 7 feet, 9 blades, weight complete 115 lbs 18. 60 



No. 8. 8>4 feet, 11 blades, weight complete 125 lbs 80.00 



No. 9. 10 feet, 13 blades, weight complete 140 lbs 85.00 



No. 10. 12 feet, 10 blades, open center, weight com- 

 plete 160 lbs 22.60 



No. 11. 12 feet, 15 blades, weight complete 185 lbs 30. OO 



No, 13, 18^4 and 19 feet. 23 blades, gangs fully rigged, 



weight complete 300 lbs 47.50 



Extra Frames $1.00 per foot; weight 10 lbs. per foot. 

 Extra Blades $1.50 each; weight 5 lbs. each. 



Tou need the Kimball Cultivator in your business. Write at once and arrange 

 to have one of these implements ready for your spring work. Mention "Better 

 Fruit" when you write. 



W. A. JOHNSTON, The Dalles, Oregon 



planted at five years old seven years 

 ago, bore eighty pounds of true type 

 nuts of fine quality and fair size this 

 season. Quite a number of the larger 

 Franquette trees topworked from four 

 to six years have produced crops of 

 from 50 to 125 pounds. The following 

 returns are gathered from three of 

 about the oldest orchards in the North- 

 west : Mr. Turpening of Eugene has 

 five acres of seedlings of different vari- 

 eties sixteen or seventeen years old; 

 there are many blanks in the orchard 

 where trees had been taken out or died 

 and several that were not bearing, but 

 there were many good trees, some pro- 

 ducing close to 200 pounds. I visited 

 this orchard last fall and the owner 

 said it had averaged over $100 net per 

 acre for the last three years and that 

 it would do as well or better this year. 



Mr. Thomas Prince of Dundee owns 

 the largest bearing orchard in the 

 Northwest — about 100 acres, I think. 

 I have visited it many times during the 

 last eight years, and have watched its 

 growth and increase in bearing. Some 

 of the trees are forty feet apart, but 

 most of them are thirty-six feet, 

 planted in a prune orchard in the place 

 of every fourth tree. This being a seed- 

 ling orchard, there is a wide variation 

 in the production of different trees, 

 some not bearing at all, and others only 

 a few nuts, and still others small or 

 poor nuts; yet there are a great many 

 fine trees bearing heavy crops; quite a 

 number this year bearing more than 

 100 pounds. A few of these trees, I 

 think, are seventeen years old, while 

 some are planted only a few years. 

 Mr. Prince stated to me that as near as 

 he could estimate they would average 

 about thirteen years old. The crop this 

 year, as near as he could estimate, was 

 about thirty pounds per tree, and sold 

 at an average price of I7V2 cents. The 

 prune trees are yet growing in a large 

 part of this orchard. The walnut trees 

 are not doing nearly as well in this 

 part, as they are badly crowded, but 

 Mr. Prince says it takes a good deal of 

 nerve to grub out a prune tree with 

 prunes at present prices. Even with 

 all these drawbacks, the gross income 

 from walnuts is not less than SlTo per 

 acre. The total cost of cultivation, har- 

 vesting and drying should not be over 

 .$50 per acre, leaving a net income of 

 $125. If the income from the prunes 

 was added to this it would make an 

 eight per cent dividend on a consider- 

 ably higher valuation than any of us 

 have estimated at that age. 



Mr. B. Norman Sturgis of Vancouver, 

 Washington, has a seedling orchard of 

 fifty-five trees of an average age of sev- 

 enteen years, the oldest being nineteen 

 years, planted thirty feet apart, making 

 one and one-half acres. The croji last 

 year was gathered and weighed both 

 green and dry. The best tree produced 

 227 pounds of dry nuts, and they aver- 

 aged 08^5 pounds, making a total of 

 .3,700 pounds. These returns are far 

 better than I ever estimated. This 

 orchard was brought up to this produc- 



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