BETTER FRUIT 



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For Orchard 

 Cultivation 



This Harrow Hets 

 Made Good 



The "ACME" is the only implement you need to follow the 

 plow in any kind of ground. It works either irrigrated or dry 

 farms. The sharp, sloping coulters on the "ACME" cut 

 through the sod or stubble turned under by the plow, and do not 

 drag it to the surface. The "ACME" is a perfect weed ex- 

 terminator and mulcher, and will keep down weed growths in 



all orchards. 



ACME 



Pulverizing Harrow, Clod 

 Crusher and Leveler — — 



is also the best Harrow for general farming, and for fitting 

 soil for grains, alfalfa, etc., because the coulters work every 

 inch of the soil, cutting through to the under soil, which other 

 harrows leave lumpy and full of air spaces, pulverizes and then 

 compacts this under soil and leaves the top soil loose. Soil 

 harrowed with an "ACME" wiU attract and conserve all the 

 moisture for the benefit of the growing crops. Made entirely 

 of steel and iron. In sizes to suit every one— 3 to 175^ feet wide. 

 Each and every part guaranteed. 



Keeps Down Weed Growths — Produces Ideal Surface 



Mulch — No Tree Roots Injured by The Coulters — 



Branches Not Disturbed by Horses. 



Send for our combined catalog and booklet 

 —■•Preparation of The Soil," which will mean 

 big[;er and better growth for you and more 

 profit, when you have read it. 



DUANE H. NASH, Incorporated 

 144 Division Ave., Millington, N. J. 



GENERAL AGENTS: 

 JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. 

 ortland. Ore., Spokane, Wash. 



(COPY) 



A.""C. Rulofson, Pacific Cpaet Agent, 

 J. C. Pearson Company, 



San FraniiBco, California. 



Dear Slr:- 



Eeplylng to yours asking why I prefer "Poaroon 

 nails'* to the other brands, I have to say in reply that I have 

 been raaking boxes, orates and other packages In the apple packing 

 houses sLt Watsonville, in the oranges and lemon business in 

 southern and central California, and In the deciduous fruit 

 business of central and northern California, and in Oregon for 

 eight years. 



I very nuch prefer the Pearson Cement Coated nails 

 to any other in raaking fruit packages for ♦he reason that the 

 nails are more uniform than any other brand I have ever used. The 

 Pearson nails are well pointed, and have a good head, and the 

 kegs contain very few nails that have to be thrown out on account 

 of imperfection. I find the wire stiff or consequently the 

 nails drive better than any other make. This is particularly 

 true in raaohing nailing. When nailing by hand I use a stripper 

 in both box making and lidding and find that the Pearson nail norka 

 more freely and easily in a stripper than any other make of nails 

 th-).t I have ever used, and I have used all kinds. 



Hoping you will find this a complete answer to your 



inquiry, I ajn. 



Yours very truly. 



NOTEt Mr. H. C. Poor won the Box Making contest for the world's 

 championship at V7atsonville , Cal . , on October 17, 1910, makin" 93 

 perfect standard apple boxes in one hour, thereby establishing the 

 world's record and winning the channlonship. The above tostlr^nny 

 should be convincing coming from an export box maker. 



J. C. PEARSON CO. 



LIVING ON THE LAND, SUCCESSFUL FARMER'S WIFE 



From the Des 



SO far as success goes the wife of a 

 farmer in the western part of the 

 State of Iowa tells a very good story. It 

 is a story of success at farming. With 

 her husband, she paid for some of the 

 land as high at $45 per acre. It is another 

 case where constant work and the proper 

 kind of economy won out. In a letter 

 from Ogden, Iowa, to the Capital, "A 

 Farmer's Wife" says: 



"In September, 1S92, sixteen years 

 ago, my husband, then a young Illinois 

 man 26 years of age, started northwest 

 to seek a home. Going first to Minne- 

 sota, from which state he turned with 

 apparent disgust, returning to Central 

 Iowa, where he secured an eighty-acre 

 farm with a three-room cottage and 

 small stable for $2,800, paying down 

 $1,000, money he had saved from his 

 wages as farm hand, and giving a mort- 

 gage on the land for $1,800 for five years 

 at eight per cent. 



"In the spring of 1893 we were mar- 

 ried and came to Iowa to live on this 

 farm. Starting in with two good horses, 

 a plough and harrow, wagon and corn 

 planter, two cows, one dozen chickens, 

 we went to work with a determination 

 to win. The first year we did some till- 

 ing, built a cellar, plastered and painted 

 our cottage, bought some machinery, 

 paid our interest and had $100 to pay 

 on principal. In the fall of 1895 we pur- 

 chased another forty acres adjoining the 

 original eighty, paying $42.50 an acre, or 

 $1,700. 



Moines Capital 



"At the close of the year we always 

 pay all of our debts, our taxes and inter- 

 est, and always have a snug sum to pay 

 oil principal, making it a point to pay 

 the cash for everything we buy, so far 

 as possible. We are firm believers in 

 the motto, 'Pay as you go and then you 

 won't owe.' Have nev-er run a store bill 

 to exceed $10. It is so much easier to 

 pay for an article when you get it than 

 after it is gone. 



"The spring of 1898 found us free from 

 debt, with some money on hand, so we 

 bought another 120-acre farm, paying 

 $45 an acre, which we have paid for by 

 working hard and keeping everlastinglj^ 

 at it. This farm we have always rented 

 out at $3 and $3.25 an acre. 



"In 1901 we purchased another forty, 

 paying $70 an acre, which we have paid 

 for by close farming, raising horses, 

 cattle and hogs to sell, milking from five 

 to eight cows, raising about 200 chickens 

 a year. We have never kept a hired man, 

 preferring to do the work alone. In 

 busy seasons I often help do light work 

 in the field, such as raking hay, plowing 

 with riding plow, and picking corn; work 

 that I find healthful as well as profitable, 

 having never been sick a day, I think it 

 is a wife's duty to help meet as well as 

 help eat, and in return the 'better half" 

 helps me wash and churn. 



"In 1905 we purchased another eigthy- 

 acre tract, adjoining the first two named 

 purchases, making us a lovely 200-acre 

 home farm, paying $70 an acre, with no 



ORCHARDIST 

 SUPPLY HOUSE 



FRANZ 

 HARDWARE CO. 



Hood River, Oregon 



D. McDonald 



Hood River, Oregon 



Headquarters for 



FARMING AND ORCHARD 



TOOLS 



Disc Harrow Extension for 

 Orchard Cultivation a Specialty 



When you want any kind of Orchard 

 Tools come to me and get the Best 



improvements. This farm we have 

 improved by building an addition to 

 our house, a $1,000 barn, three wells and 

 windmills and other buildings, besides 

 laying 10,000 tile on the dififerent farms. 



"We have been very busy, but still 

 have found time to make seven trips to 



