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Editor Better Fruit: 



The January number has been received. It is a 

 beauty. Yours truly, C. W. Wilson, Canastota, 

 Xew York. 



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Editor Better Frjiit: 



I value your paper very highly and each issue is 

 carefully read. Wishing you continued success, I 

 am, sincerely, A. B. Ballantyne, St. George, Utah. 

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Editor Better Fruit: 



Your Apple Show number is one of the most 

 attractive specials I have seen and speaks well not 

 only for your enterprise and equipment, but for 

 the territory you serve so well. — J. W. McEachren, 

 Editor of the Northwestern, Chicago. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



Enclosed find one dollar for your magazine. It 

 is far too good to do without and is a great credit 

 to the fruit business of the continent. I should 

 like to feel that it was going into the hands of 

 every fruit grower in Canada and the United 

 States. Your last number was certainly a beautiful 

 production and you Oregon men deserve great 



credit for the degree of perfection you have 

 attained in growing fruit. Wishing you further 

 success for the future, faithfully, Ralph S. Eaton, 

 Kentville, Nova Scotia. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I have read today the January edition of "Better 

 Fruit." I have been reading your magazine for 

 over two years and it is one of the most attractive 

 and valuable journals that come to my desk, and 

 the January number is a little the best I have seen. 

 — Sincerely yours, H. iVI. Cottrell, Agricultural 

 Commissioner Rock Island Lines, Chicago. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



Enclosed find one dollar for yearly subscription 

 to your wonderful paper. Fruit grower or not, I 

 wbuldn't be without it for many times its price. 

 I have only been in the fruit business about a year 

 and a half. I take three other fruit papers, and I 

 must say that I have gotten more real information 

 out of "Better Fruit" on picking, packing and all 

 subjects relating to orchard management than from 

 all the others put together. Yours very truly, 

 Richard H. Clemmer, Middlebrook, \'irginia. 



Editor Better Fruit: 



I have taken "Better Fruit" for three years and 

 consider it the best to be had. Yours truly, R. J. 

 Arnold, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



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Editor Better Fruit: 



I think "Better Fruit" is an excellent paper, the 

 best of its kind that I have read. It is certainly 

 a great help to the fruit grower and every one 

 should include it in his list. Wishing you success, 

 I am, vours truly, Charles Bell, Delta, Colorado. 

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Editor Better Fruit: 



The Bureau of Manufactures of Washington, 

 D. C, informs you that the director of a govern- 

 ment experimental fruit station in a European 

 country has requested an American consular officer 

 to supply him with the names of manufacturers in 

 the United States of machinery used in preparing 

 fruit for conservation. Firms interested in this 

 line may secure the name and address of the per- 

 son to whom correspondence should be addressed 

 by writing to this office and referring to foreign 

 trade opportunity No. 5,798. — Respectfully, A. H. 

 Baldwin, Chief of Bureau. 



75 Years of Quality Production 



of 



Iron Age Farm and Garden Implements 



Stephen Bateman started the Iron Age business in 1836. He was a farmer himself and knew the farmer's needs. 

 He knew that the progressive farmer always wants the best. He also knew that highest quality in farm and garden 

 implements is always the cheapest in the long run. So he built up the Iron Age business along strictly quality lines. 

 The Iron Age line stands today at the head of the hst. This line has always served the farmer well and made a 

 friend of him. Four of the Iron Age line of implements are briefly described below. This Hne is sold by over 200 

 agents in the Northwest. The complete catalog, full of illustrations, will be sent postpaid, free of charge, upon 

 the receipt of your name and address. Ask for Catalog No T 



Ni. 82 Pivot Wheel Ridinq Cultivator 



Y»u must culdratc your soil frequently if you expect to 

 r*t the moil out of it. You must hare a strong machine and 

 •M that is easily operated. It must be convenient of adjust- 

 seat 10 as to insure perfectly level cultivation under all con- 

 tftloDi. It mu3t be lo adjustable so as to cultivate deep or 

 ikallow as needed. It must do a variety of vroric It must 

 i»lt the potato farmer, the general farmer and the truck tar- 

 4cmer. It musi be easily set for use In a wide variety of 

 «T»fi 80 must have a wide range of adjustments. It must be 

 •uitr ruided so that a man or boy can ma it cither on hills 

 M l«Tel ground. This Iron Age Front Wheel Riding Culti- 

 nior ii all of this and more too. The catalog will prove in- 

 femidng. It describes this cultivator in detaiL 



NO. 6 HORSE HOE AND CULTIVATOR 



Strong, light and compact. A high steel 

 frame that makes the tool run steady and clear of 

 trash. Several adjustments to side hoes, both sidewiie 

 and at different angles. Can be reversed for hoeing tnd 

 changed from side to side with points forward for cov- 

 ering. As a cultivator expands from 14 to 30 inches. 



Made for all lorts of boeine and all sons of cultivating — admits •! 

 7v ^^/W many adjustments to meet different conditions of different vicinities. 

 X^VStVv Hoe standards solid steel. This implement deserves the most careful 

 consideration of all farmers. Described in detail in catalog. 



9 TOOLS IN 1 — NO. 6 COMBINED DOUBLE AND 

 SINGLE WHEEL HOE, HILL AND DRILL SEEDER 



One of the most wonderful machines ever devised — saves time, 

 labor and money. Is simple, strong and convenient. Runs single 

 or double wheel for hoeing, raking, cultivating, plowing, hill 

 and drill seeding, etc. Sows the greatest 

 range of variety of seeds. Distributes small 

 packets with same uniformity as large quan- 

 tities. Seeds in sight as they pass into fur- 

 rows. Tool changes instantly from drill to 

 nill or reverse. Drops seeds 4 to 24 inches 

 apart. Adjustments simple and quickly made. 



POTATO PLANTER— The king of potato planters. 

 A 100% efficiency implement. No waste land, material 

 or labor. Feeds and drops seeds without injury and in the 

 proper p!acc — every time. Plants and fertilizes 



at the same time. Yet no fertilizer touches 



the seed. Iron Age Potato Planter takes many 

 attachments to meet extreme conditions and 

 do special work — such as corn, bean and pea 

 planting, side dressing and ridging. This ma- 

 chine is a money-saver. The catalog tells a lot 

 more than we have room for in this space. 



We can give names of some of the most successful farmers in the Northwest who use Iron Age tools 



R. M. WADE & CO. 



PORTLAND OREGON 



OLD ESTABLISHED 



(4o YEARS IN BUSINESS) 

 UP-TO-DATE 



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