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BETTER FRUIT 



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Quality Brands of Yakima Fruits 



We specialize in mixed cars of 



BERRIES AND CHERRIES 



and will also have straight and mixed cars of the earliest Apricots, 



Prunes, Pears and Peaches grown in the Yakima \'alley. 



Write or wire for information. 



Yakima County Horticultural Union 



FRED EBERLE, Manager 



NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 



^WANTED 



MAN 



To r«tall Rswt«Iffh Prodncta, town and coun- 

 trj. Seme ff*od old vacant territories. L&rffest 

 and best Uns. One of the oldest aad largest 

 companies In the worid. Six Factories and 

 Branchas. AJl Products supplied from new 

 Pacific Coast Branch. Quick Serrice. Low 

 Frelffht. We want only industrious men cap- 

 able of earning $100 and up per month and ex- 

 pensea. Must have means for startinc expen- 

 }es and furnish Con- 

 tract ilffned by 2 re- 

 Bponslble men. Addresi ' 

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 OakUaJ. C«L. siring 

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 references. 



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A REAL 



POWER WASHER 



Itnund rubber rubs the clothes, turns them over 

 and over and forces the hot, soapy water throuj^h 

 tliem. Washes tub full perfectly clean In 5 minutes. 

 No urlDK'TS to shift. Nothing' to get out of order. 

 Special kiw [irlcc to Introduce. Catalogue Free. 



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CALIFORNIA EXPOSITIONS 



On your way to or from the East. 



Summer Excursion Tickets 



On sale daily to September 80 permitting stop- 

 overs en route. Ten days' stop allowed on one way 

 tickets at San Francisco and Los Angeles. 



SPECIAL CONVENTION FARES 



To San Francisco — July and Jtugust 

 Los Jtngeles — July and Jtugust 

 San Diego — July 



Low Round Trip Fares to San Francisco and San Diego 

 during the Kxposition period. 



visit the Southern Pacific building at the Panama-Pacific 



Exposition. Rest Room, Moving Piftures, Travel Lectures, 



Ticket and Validating Offlce and Information Bureau. 



Full information from nearest Affent of 



SOUTHERN PACIFIC 



.lohn M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore. 



usually represented by the various 

 county and township boundaries, so 

 that practically every township in the 

 United States has its crop reporter. 

 These men make reports each month 

 of the year, with the exception of Feb- 

 ruary. The individual estimates are 

 tabulated and an average struck for 

 each state. Great care is taken by the 

 government that no information about 

 its crop estimates be given out in ad- 

 vance and a heavy penalty is pre- 

 scribed for anyone guilty of doing so. 

 Clerks and computers who tabulate the 

 returns on speculative crops do not 

 know the state to which the totals 

 pertain. 



The term "normal" is used by the 

 government instead of "average" as 

 better illustrating the meaning in- 

 tended, as the "normal" corresponds 

 with what is commonly called a "full 

 crop," which may be understood as 

 meaning the average good crop which 

 the farmer expects his particular field 

 to grow, with average or normal grow- 

 ing conditions. However, for a single 

 year the condition of a crop expressed 

 as "normal" would not mean anything, 

 but when compared for a long series 

 of years it enables the government to 

 estimate very closely what the pro- 

 spective yield will be. Mr. Estabrook 

 does not claim that these crop esti- 

 mates are infallible, and admitted 

 their accuracy cannot be demonstrated. 

 However, he pointed out that growers 

 as a rule contend that the estimates are 

 too high, while dealers on the other 

 hand complain that they often are too 

 low. The work is done without bias 

 and is checked up in every way pos- 

 sible to prove its accuracy. In show- 

 ing the accuracy of the government's 

 crop estimates, Mr. Estabrook cited the 

 case of Colton. In fourteen years the 

 government has overestimated the crop 

 six times and underestimated it eight 

 times. In the years of overestimates 

 the average error was 1.8 per cent and 

 in the years of underestimates the aver- 

 age was 3.5 per cent. For the fourteen 

 years the net average underestimates 

 was 1.4 per cent. Mr. Estabrook said: 



"It may be of interest to know how 

 the apple crop is estimated where, to 

 start with, we do not have a census 

 acreage as a basis. In the first place, 

 the census gives us what purports to be 

 an actual enumeration of trees of bear- 

 ing and trees of non-bearing ages. Also 

 the number of bushels of apples pro- 

 duced in the census year. These fig- 

 ures are given as totals for each county 

 and state. 



"Once a year, usually in the autumn, 

 our crop reporters submit an estimate 

 of the number of trees of bearing age 

 and the number of trees of non-bearing 

 age, as compared with the preceding 

 year and as compared with the usual 

 number. This enables the bureau to 

 estimate the rale at which the number 

 of bearing trees is increasing or de- 

 creasing in each state. From the best 

 information available it is estimated 

 that trees of bearing age are increasing 

 at the rate of one per cent annually in 

 the whole United States. 



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