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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



"PERFECT" Cement Coated Nails 



ODE PRODUCTS ARE OF SUPERIOR QUALITY 



AND GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. 



PRICE and QUALITY alwaysright. 



PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 A. C. RULOFSON CO. 



"The Cement Coated Nail People" 



Monadnock Building, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 

 PACIFIC COAST SALES MANAGERS 



No Matter What Crop You Grow, Your Soil Must be Right Always 



The universal soil need is Phosphorous. 



The most economical and logical source of Phosphorous is 



Finely Ground 



SHIELD BRAND 



High Grade 



Phosphate Rock 



The Phosphate of Lime 



EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY ARE INSEPARABLE EVERYWHERE 



UNITED STATES PHOSPHATE CO. 



405 Marsh-Strong Building, Los Angeles, California 



HOOD RIVER VALLEY NURSERY COMPANY 



Phone 5634 Route No. 3, Box 227 HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Plantation four miles southwest of station, Belmont Road 

 We will be pleased to show you trees, apple trees that have a heritage, a quality that should be considered by everyone 

 who plants a tree. Our trees are grown in clean hillside virgin red shot soil vilth clay subsoil, producing the most vigorous 

 root system. Our buds are selected from the best bearing healthy Hood River trees that make the Hood River apple 

 famous throughout the world. Our trees will give you satisfactory results in vigor, fruit and quality. Ask for catalog. 

 We guarantee our products. Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, almonds and walnuts. A complete line of the best varieties 

 of all kinds of fruits. 



H. S. BUTTERFIELD. President W. J. ENSCHEDE, Manager 



LADD & TILTON BANK 



Established 1S59 Oldest Bank on the Pacific Coast 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



Capital $1,000,000.00 



Surplus 1,000,000.00 



Officers: 

 W. M. Ladd, President 

 Edward Cookingham, Vice President 

 W. H. Dunckley, Cashier 



R. S. Howard, Jr., Assistant Cashier 

 J. W. Ladd, Assistant Cashier 

 Walter M. Cook, Assistant Cashier 



I\TEREST PAW ON TIME DEPOSITS AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 



Accounts of banks, firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Travelers' checks for 

 sale, and drafts issued available in all countries of Europe. 



Established 1900 



LESLIE BUTLER, President 

 TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President 

 C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier 



Butler Banking Company 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 

 Capital $100,000.00 



4% Interest Paid in our Savings Department 

 WE GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO GOOD FARM LOANS 



If you have money to loan we will find you good real estate security, or if 



you want to borrow we can place your application in good hands, and we 



make no charge for this service. 



THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY 



profitable returns; some men have 

 found profit in doing one thing while 

 others have found it in doing another. 

 Yet as a whole, in the long run, the 

 most profitable returns have come from 

 a combination of practices, utilizing to 

 the best advantage the unused space 

 among the trees and the leisure mo- 

 ments of the orchardist. This has kept 

 him busy, which is a good thing to 

 prevent discouragement, and at the 

 same time protected the orchard from 

 neglect. 



The best combination has not so 

 much depended upon soil, climate or 

 water, but rather upon the man, and 

 particularly upon brain activity. The 

 marketing of inter-crops in crude form 

 has in most cases proven unsatisfac- 

 tory. This is typically illustrated in 

 the case of the man who could grow 

 one hundred and fifty tons of carrots 

 in a five-acre orchard but was able to 

 market only one ton at eight dollars 

 per ton in his locality, and later found 

 a splendid market for nice, fat hogs he 

 produced by feeding carrots with an 

 additional small amount of shorts. 

 Combinations of live stock with alfalfa, 

 clover, vetch, wheat hay, root crops 

 and corn have generally given very 

 good results. In most cases the results 

 have come in a twofold nature; first, by 

 improving the soil by the addition of 

 manure and, second, through financial 

 returns. It is unfortunate, however, 

 that many growers have lost sight of 

 the fact that the soil must be constantly 

 improved before they can measure the 

 value of their success. 



The practice of inter-cropping, like 

 all good things, borders on the danger 

 line of injury to the permanent orchard 

 unless definite precautions are intelli- 

 gently and honestly observed. The 

 greatest injury in most cases comes al- 

 most exclusively from lack of sufTicient 

 moisture for the trees. This is em- 

 phatically true with certain forage and 

 grain crops, but rarely true with culti- 

 vated crops. Ordinarily the soil mois- 

 ture and cultivation that will produce 

 a good crop of medium-heiglit field 

 corn will produce good apple trees. In 

 some sections it is necessary to increase 

 the moisture factor late in the summer 

 when the trees become old enough to 

 bear, as the corn tends to leave the soil 

 i-ather dry for the best development of 

 fruit buds. Another factor in inter- 

 cropping orchards is the certainty of 

 market for the products. Unless an 

 orchardist is favorably located, he 

 should not attempt perishable berries 

 and soft vegetables. In fact no crop 

 should be attempted without first con- 

 sidering the possibilities of the markets 

 for the same. It is generally a very 

 poor policy for an orchardist to attempt 

 to dispose of his product by peddling 

 from door to door, as his time is usually 

 more valuable to him at home in the 

 orchard than on the street. 



For convenience of study I desire to 

 classify crops suitable for inter-crop- 

 ping work into several groups: Crops 

 that may be grown with profit in the 

 young orchard. A. Perennial crops: 

 1, alfalfa in strijis for seed or forage. 



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