. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. itali^ fifsi Zerolene was awarded highest competitive honors — gold medals — San Francisco and San Diego Expositions. Send for Lubrication Instruction Chart, specifying make and model of your car. Free. ZEROLENE {he Standard Oil£rNohr Cars STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) Portland YAKIMA FRUIT SELLERS North Yakima, Washington A Central Selling Agency for Yakima EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS FOR Yakima County Horticultural Union Yakima Fruit Growers' Exchange Richey & Gilbert Company Our organizations handled 2,500 carloads of Yakima Frultlast season. Hundreds oJ gr
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. itali^ fifsi Zerolene was awarded highest competitive honors — gold medals — San Francisco and San Diego Expositions. Send for Lubrication Instruction Chart, specifying make and model of your car. Free. ZEROLENE {he Standard Oil£rNohr Cars STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) Portland YAKIMA FRUIT SELLERS North Yakima, Washington A Central Selling Agency for Yakima EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS FOR Yakima County Horticultural Union Yakima Fruit Growers' Exchange Richey & Gilbert Company Our organizations handled 2,500 carloads of Yakima Frultlast season. Hundreds oJ growers have joined our movement and we already have under contract a much larger proportion of Yakima tonnage than ever before. Additional tonnage is coming to ua daily. We have a large proportion of the fruit In the early districts — therefore we can load the early assorted cars—money-makers for the trade and the growers. WRITE OR WIRE USIIN SEASON H. M. GILBERT, General Manager FRED EBERLE, Asst. Manager IJi'iuiiiii,'. Gent-rally .speaking, an aiiple tree may be pi'uned in any month dur- ing the winter without any serious in- jury, but experiments have proved that there is a detinite lime during the win- ter months when it may he done more advantageously—in late winter or early spring. At cither of these times the flow of sap is not far distant and the wood heals tpiicker, thus preventing excessive drying. It is not good policy to prune in midwinter, as the wounds remain too long exposed to the action of the rains, winds, etc., before healing takes place. Early winter pruning, or soon after the leaves fall is preferable to that of midwinter, since there is usually enough sa]) to start the callous- ing-over process before severe winter comes on. The efl'ect of annual winter ijruning of the tree is to produce wood rather than fruit. The reason for that can be exi)lained as follows: In a thrifty, healtliy, unpruned tree, there appears to a iialance between the roots an
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