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^ Paint Is Cheaper 

 Than New 



Buildings 



You know how 

 quickly a building- 

 that never saw paint 

 goes to rack and ruin . 



The boards rot 

 around the nails, they 

 crack and warp. 



Only constant re- 

 pair keeps the build- 

 ing- standing. 

 An occasional coat of good paint made with 



''Dutch Boy Painter" 



White Lead 



and real linseed oil will save your buildings 

 and reduce repair, to say nothing of im- 

 proving the looks of the place. 



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The Hamlin School 



A Boarding and Day School for Girls 



Comprising a French School for Little 

 Children. Primary, Intermediate, High School 

 and Post Graduate Departments, Household 

 Economics, Drawing, Painting and Elocution. 



Accredited by the University of California, 

 by Leland Stanford Junior University and by 

 Eastern Colleges. 



Courses in Singing, Instrumental Music 

 (piano, violin, organ, harp, flute, cello, etc.). 

 Theory and Composition, Harmony, Sight 

 Reading, iVIusical Dictation, Choral and 

 Orchestral Practice, etc., are oiTered by the 

 newly formed Music Department. 



For particulars in regard to the School, 

 please send for prospectus, and address 



MISS SARAH D. HAMLIN, A. M. 

 22.30 Pacific Avenue San Francisco 



pays to sub-soil land in the spring, and it 

 I:, never advisable to use the sub-soil 

 plow when the sub-soil is fully saturated 

 with water, even though the surface be 

 fairly dry. Under such conditions of 

 plowing the clay sub-soil is pressed and 

 packed, when the object is to pulverize 

 it and allow the air to act upon it. 



No principle in agriculture has been 

 more thoroughly demonstrated than the 

 \alue of a deep, thoroughly pulverized 

 seed bed. The Romans plowed on an 

 average nine inches deep — always three 

 times for a crop, and in stiff lands nine 

 times. They did not call three inches 

 ■■plowing;" is was only ■'scarifying."' 

 The Flemish farmers were the first to 

 follow the better lines of agriculture 

 after the dark ages. They devoted their 

 efforts to three main points: (1) The 

 frequent and deep pulverization of the 

 soil; (2) the accumulation of manure, 

 and (3) the destruction of weeds. A 

 deeper and more thoroughly pulverized 

 seed bed was the foundation upon which 

 England built an improved agriculture, 

 and this principle has been generally 

 accepted there for more than one hun- 

 dred and sixty years, until the average 

 production has increased nearly five fold. 



-A late letter from Hon. William Saun- 

 ders, director of the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, Ottawa, Canada, states 

 that farmers usually plow shallow 

 immediately after harvest (August) ■'to 

 preserve moisture and destroy weeds. 

 * * * * In October they commonly plow 

 eight inches deep. Any plowing done in 

 the spring months is usually shallow, not 

 more than six inches deep." Eight 

 inches of breaking in October in Canada, 

 where frosts penetrate three or four feet 

 deep, is better for moisture storage than 

 plowing to a depth of fifteen inches in 

 the Southern States. The writer has 

 visited a number of Southern agricultural 

 colleges this year. In every case the 

 directors of their experiment stations 



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lavored a deep and thoroughly prepared 

 seed bed. 



The Georgia Experiment Station bulle- 

 tins repeatedly urge a deep, mellow and 

 rich seed bed for corn; and they insist 

 that if the soil is not naturally such, it 

 should be made so by tillage and the 

 addition of humus. A bulletin of the 

 Georgia Experiment Station on "Cot- 

 ton" states that "fourteen years of exper- 

 imentation have justified certain conclu- 

 sions that may be accepted as practically 

 final." The following is one of thein: 

 "Thorough breaking and commingling of 

 the upper soil, gradually increasing the 

 depth to eight or ten inches, using plow 

 and harrow, is more effective than deeper 

 but less thorough pulverizing." 



A North Carolina bulletin states: "It 

 unquestionably pays well to thoroughly 

 break and broadcast-harrow land for 

 corn. Using a two-horse plow and run- 

 ning it eight to ten inches deep, and 

 afterwards harrowing with large smooth- 

 ing harrow, puts the land in very nice 

 condition." 



On the sugar plantations of Louisiana 

 the tillage for cane averages twelve to 

 fifteen inches in depth. On the Ewa 

 plantation, in the Hawaiian Islands, the 

 average depth of plowing is thirty inches. 

 This plantation produces the largest 

 crops of sugar cane to the acre in the 

 world. 



Nature's plan of improving soils is to 

 use a cover crop of weeds, grass, shrubs 

 or trees, and to sub-soil by sending the 

 roots down one, two, three or four feet, 

 as the case may be, thus airing and 

 enriching the sub-soil without bringing 

 it to the surface. In the farmers' 

 co-operative demonstration work the 

 importance of a deep and thoroughly 

 prepared seed bed, like a garden, has 

 been most widely demonstrated. Thou- 

 sands of tests have been made each year 

 by exact and painstaking farmers to an 

 extent that leaves no possible room for 

 doubt as to the great value of a deep and 

 thoroughly prepared seed bed. 



Concretely stated, a deep, thoroughly 

 pulverized seed bed filled with humus 

 has the following advantages: It pro- 

 vides more food, because it increases 

 chemical action and multiplies bacterial 

 life in a larger body of soil. It stores 

 more moisture, and it loses its moisture 

 less rapidly on account of its cooler 



RAW HOOD RIVER LAND 



IN TRACTS OF ANY SIZE 

 AT WHOLESALE PRICES 



The Boneboro Orchard Company is developing about i,ooo acres of the finest orchard land in Hood 

 River Valley. Already I20 acres has been cleared and planted and that mtich more is being cleared and 

 planted this year. However, so far the developers have been unable to set the orchard rapidly enough 

 to meet the demands of their customers. Therefore, the unimproved land has been placed on the market 

 at low prices and on easy terms for the advantage of investors and orchard men who wish to develop 

 their own property. This land is deep, well drained volcanic soil with a gentle north slope. Railroad 

 station on the land. 



Several small tracts to be planted this fall under Boneboro development are still available to persons 

 wishing to secure the best orchard land in Hood River started right. 

 For full particulars, descriptions and maps address 



BONEBORO ORCHARD CONPANY, Hood River, Oregron 



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