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Arsenate of Lead 



The widely increasing demand 

 for our unsurpassed product shows 

 that quality is now properly appre- 

 ciated by the expert grower. The 

 high standard of 16% Arsenic 

 Oxide, together with great body or 

 covering power, will be rigidly 

 maintained in all of our shipments. 



ARSENATE OF LEAD 



Paste and Powdered. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE 



Paste and Powdered. 



CAL-ARSENATE 



(Pure Calcium Arsenate) 



Paste and Powdered. 



Riches, Piver & Co. 



NEW YORK 



Apple Growers' Association 

 Hood River, Oregon 



Pfafif, Francies & Page 

 Wenatchee, Washington 



FRUIT GROWERS 



Dehydrate Your By Products 



It gives you a hieli grade quick Belling product at a 

 minimum cost. It makes a clean and natural tasting 

 product. Dehydrated fruits and vegetables have been 

 approved by the U. S. Government, while desiccated, 

 dried and evaporated products have been rejected. 

 There is but one Dehydrator manufactured in the 

 West and it is the be^tt Bv-Producl machine ever de- 

 vised. II is adapted t(i the individual grower, as it can 

 be constructed to meet any and all requirements. It is 

 fully covered by H. S. patents. Therefore, you are 

 protected in its use. 



The manufacturers of this Dehydrator have recently 

 patented new and improved automatic labor-saving 

 preparatory machinery which will further reduce the 

 present lew cost for the jiroduction of this pruduct. 



Fur new descriptive hodklet address 



LUTHER MANUFACTURING CO. 



San Francisco, California 



Orenco Prune Trees 



Cheap 



Myrtle Creek, Oregon, November 26. 1914. 

 I feel like saying a few words to you on payer lu 

 regard to my Italian Prune trees. I am more than 

 pleased with them. Really they are better than I 

 expected, I cannot apeak too much In praJse of 

 your company for Buch good treea. They are of good 

 size, good height and good roots. Everyone that I 

 talked with that ordered from you Is well pleased. 



(Signed) J. A. Copeland. 



"ORENCO TREES" are universally 

 known for their hlsh standard of quality, 

 and particular planters prefer to buy 

 where they can depend upon quality, 

 reliability and satisfaction. When you 

 want really good trees at right prices, 

 you can't do better than with us. Try It. 



Oregon Nursery Company 



ORENCO, OREGON 

 SUCCESSFUL salesmen wanted 



BETTER FRUIT 



that will give good returns if properly 

 handled. In addition to being a nice 

 crop to grow, corn is one of the safest 

 crops grown among trees, and while it 

 does take out some plant food it makes 

 its heaviest demand upon plant food at 

 a season of the year when the tree 

 growth is or should be slow, and re- 

 tarding at this time is more apt to be 

 beneficial than harmful. It also has the 

 advantage of shading the ground during 

 the hottest part of the season and thus 

 to a marked degree prevent the destruc- 

 tion of the humus. 



Pea and Oat Hay. — Peas and oats or 

 barley or wheat are favorite orchard 

 inter-crops when carefully handled. 

 The peas are especially valuable to the 

 soil, as they improve it faster than any 

 other crop the orchardist can grow an- 

 nually and are good among young trees 

 because they grow during the early 

 spring months and can be harvested in 

 time to permit the growing of a cover 

 crop during the latter part of the sea- 

 son. No orchardist should attempt to 

 grow hay, no matter what kind, among 

 young trees without being sure of 

 plenty of water to replace what the 

 crop consumes, nor should this crop be 

 grown closer than four feet from the 

 trees. 



In order to balance the effects of the 

 grain crop, the seed for the hay crop of 

 an orchard should contain at least 50 

 per cent of one of the nitrogen-gather- 

 ing plants. Peas and vetch have been 

 found very profitable in this respect for 

 this purpose. 



Inter-Cropping the Bearing Orchard 



The inter-cropping of bearing or- 

 chards represent another very impor- 

 tant phase of fruit-growing work, and 

 while the number of profitable crops 

 are limited to a few, yet these may be 

 made so profitable and important that 

 the inter-crop and its by-products will 

 carry all operating expenses in the 

 management of an orchard. This can- 

 not be done, however, unless the inter- 

 crop is converted, with the waste fruit, 

 into a substantial by-product. The 

 more common way to do this is by 

 means of hogs. Hogs as a side line in 

 orchard work should never be over- 

 looked by either the small or large 

 grower. One has no fruit he can afford 

 to lose, the other has so much fruit he 

 cannot afford to market it all. 



Alfalfa and clover are easiest the best 

 crops to grow among bearing trees 

 where water is abundant and cultiva- 

 tion can be more or less abandoned, 

 while rape and vetch represent the 

 most profitable crops to grow where 

 cultivation is not to be entirely given 

 over to (he mulch system of orchard 

 work. 



Just how these feeds can best be con- 

 verted into pork depends very largeh- 

 upon circumstances. The most eco- 

 nomical plan is to pasture them out 

 with small-sized hogs, but where this 

 is not feasible then it becomes neces- 

 sary to practice the soiling system of 

 feeding and feed from racks. The pas- 

 turing plan gives the hogs a chance to 

 consume all wormy and cull fruit in 

 the orchard, the only place it can be 



May 



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"WE STARTED RIGHT 

 AND WyRE RIGHF 



6458 Acres 



IN OUR ENTERPRISE 



4178 Acres 



ALL IN APPLES 



Nine miles continuous rows of trees, 

 the largest apple orchard ever planted. 



All are one, two and three years 

 old; the two and three year old all 

 sold, amounting to over 3,000 acres. 



We are now offering our one year 

 at terms to suit you. 



We give five years', from date of 

 planting, free care. Our company is 

 unlike others in the feature of stay- 

 ing with our purchasers after the free 

 care period. Our plans make our in- 

 terests mutual; we all work together 

 for the interest of all. 



Our Booklet will give you a simple 

 statement of our dealings and meth- 

 ods. Write us for information. 



DUrUR ORCHARD COMPANY 



Northwestern Bank Building 

 Portland, Oregon 



The 



First 



National 



Bank 



Hood River, Oregon 



Capital and Surplus 

 $135,000 



4':{ Interest Paid on Savings 

 and Term Deposits 



F. S. STANLEY, President 

 E. 0. BLANCHAR, Cashier 



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