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Page horticulture such a thing is worse than an ordinary thief, for he may steal from the rich which will not suffer for the neces saries of life like widows and even in experienced men. The man who gjins possession of tbe funds in the hands of widows left them as an in heritance to keep them from the poor bonf+tn their declining years and does this in tho manner here describ ed is about as low down in the scale of meanness as it is possible for a human being to reach. If men will frame up such schemes to defraud widows in pretending to be engaged in developing banana farms in Nica ragua when nothing has been done and not likely to be done, it is plain to be seen that they have but one ob ject in view and that is to swindle their victims out of their money. Men who will do such a thing will not scruple to engage in such orchard schemes in the United States as those referred to in our last issue. If they do such things in Nicaragua and find their victims in the United States and Canada, they will do just as mean things here at home. They can not cover Hp what they are doiDg so readily here at home as they can in Central America, so they actually do set out orchards here, but they lie just as readily about what the people may expect in the way of enormous incomes. What ought to be done with such swindlers? They should be sent to the penitentiary. A man who was con victed of swindling schemes in and around Seattle by which he became a millionaire is now serving a term in Bean Power Sprayers DO THE WORK QUICKLY, THOROUGHLY AND PERFECTLY AT A MINIMUM OF COST Three outfits, differing chiefly in capac ity. All built for heavy pressure. The various parts are readily accessible, and when worn can be easily and cheaply replaced. The Bean Pressure Regulator does away with all relief valve troubles, saves from a fourth to a third the gasoline, an., wear and tear on engine and pump. All Bean Power Sprayers have porcelain lined cylinders; bell metal ball valves that cannot corrode, rust, or clog; direct ma chine-cut gear connection ; underneath suc tion ; iron well in tank, so that tank can be easily cleaned and drained; and steel frames, instead of wood. Power oufits from $137.50 up. SEND FOR OUR NKW CATALOG OF HAND AND POWKR SPRAYERS, AND PUMP ACCESSORIES BEAN SPRAY PUMP CO. 217 West Julian San Jose, California Eastern Factory, Borea, Ohio • Wn| 27 years under my personal man j&Bjtijm[ agement. Full assortment of trees, jb&TO&w plants and seeds. No traveling H&k^tfll agents. Low prices. Grafted SlklM Apple and Peach, 2-3 feet, 7c each. rafflfflpH Cherries, 15c each. ■ — Nebraska-Grown Fruit Trees I are much thriftier and hardier than trees I grown under irrigation. This is what my I old customers on the Pacific Coast tell me. I Freight paid on $10.00 tree orders. I Full assortment of Vegetable, Flower and I Farm Seeds. Save money: send for my I large illustrated Garden Book. Free. I German Nurseries and Seed House 3 (CARL BONDEREGOER) Box 7. Beatrice. Nebnwka /Hie R^anclv the United States penitentiary at Mc- Neil's Island. This man was not engaged in orchard schemes but in pretending to furnish the poor with homes. Is this Nicaragua scheme any better? Not a whit better. Are the orchard schemes that lead poor, hard working people, sometimes office girls, to put their savings into such schemes with the promise of a steady annual average income of $500 net per acre when the orchards have been planted four or five years, any better? They are not, and justice to the wronged will not be secured till some of these scamps are behind the bars. It is amazing to me how good men, or at least supposed to be good men, can engage in any kind of schemes when they know or ought to know, that the profits they seek must come in a large measure from their pur chasers paying more than the property is worth. I have been Horticultural editor of The Ranch for ten years. In all these years I have never seen but one letter blaming me for what I have done. About six years ago a land boomer wrote the owner and manager of the paper a scathing letter about what I had said about some of the schemers in land selling. He urged the manager to discharge me for I was ruining the country! The letter was handed to me with the re mark, "Scorch him, give him a roast in The Ranch." I did, for I took the letter home with me and stuck it in the stove and said not a word. I will not engage in personal controversy with meu who will filch the savings of widows and orphans. The abuse of some men is worth more to me than their praise. COLD STORAGE FOX APPLES. It is reported that all the cold stor age space in plants in the Northwest is engaged. Ido not know how true that may be. Sometimes merchants advertise that a certain article is go ing so fast that soon there will be none left. If the advertisement tells the truth and that particular article will soon be exhausted, then there is no need of such an advertisement to appear in the papers and the merchant is wasting his money. This kind of advertisement is only a tricb to hurry up the people. Most sensible people see through such a scheme. So it may be that those who own the cold storage plants are afraid that their space will not be all taken. One thing I do know that a good many are planning to put part of their apple crop into cold storage. I have some space engaged myself for a few thousand boxes of apples. My experience in cold storaging apples has not been uniform. One year we put 3000 boxes into storage and when we had sold out the next spring we found that the increased price we received for these apples paid all the expenses and left us about 50 cents per box as profit. Fifteen hundred dollars profit on 3000 boxes of apples was like finding that much money. Ido not wish to be understood as saying that 11500 was the sum of all our profit on those ap ples. I meau that we received that much in addition to what profit we would have received in the fall. Sometimes we have put apples into storage and did not make any ad ditional profit by so doing. Other times we had a profit of 25 cents per box. In no case are we aware that we have actually lost by cold storaging apples. Generally our apples in stor- The Christopher Nurseries We did 50% more business during the year ending July 1, 1!>12, than during any previous year. WHY? From every customer who has a single word to say we get only assur ances of satisfaction or appreciation. We send only good trees, berry bushes and plants. Our stodt of rose bushes is about as complete and thrifty as can be found. Let us send you our catalogue and price list, then we'll bank on your order if you want the best at a reasonable price. APPLE TREES—AII leading vari- SMALL FRUITS — Gooseberry, eties Currants, Blackberry, Raspberry, PEAR, CHERRY, PLUM AND ORNAMENTALS, ROSES—A fine PRUNE TREES —In all leading assortment of Roses, Azahas, Hol varieties. lies, Rhododendrons, etc. CHRISTOPHER NURSERIES CO. JOHN A. STEWART CSb SOU, Prop*. (Nurserymen of Four Generations. CHRISTOPHER.. KING COUNTY, "WASH. Mention "The Ranch" when you write. age have kept well. Once we had some Arkansas Black apples to scald —not all of them but only a few. One advantage in storaging apples in the fall is you are not forced to sell at picking time. If there were no apples put into storage we would be at th c mercy of the buyers if they have any. While speaking of cold storage, I wish to call attention to an incident in my own orchard last spring, in April. In company with J. K. Cox, who lives near my fruit ranch, I was walking in that part of my orchard devoted to the Rome Beauty. As we irrigate our orchards, and are very glad we can, we plow furrows along every row, generally two furrows and sometimes more in each middle. Tne leaves in dropping at the approach of winter till up these furrows. We rarely pick up • windfalls in our orchards for they generally are bruis ed or dirty. Now the leaves drop ping fill up these furrows and cover up these fallen apples there. By some chance we kicked out some of the ap ples covered by the leaves the previous fall. Were they spoiled? Not a bit. They were in perfect condition the first of April. Had they not frozen through the winter. Most certainly they had for there had been zero weather and no snow on the ground. We kept on hunting for these apples till we secured quite a few and might have gotten many more. Here came a suggestion to me. Why could we not enlarge on this accidental cover ing of these apples by devising some plan by which we could keep large quantities of apples in such a way they might freeze as those did and be kept till spring in prime condition? We must bear in mind the fact that freezing does not affect apples as it does potatoes and some other vege tables. A potato once frozen can never be restored to its original con dition. But any experienced orehard ist knows that apples can freeze, and if allowed to thaw out without handl ing and in the shade, they seem not to be hurt at all. Once we had a pile of cull apples in our orchard that were frozen quite bard. We covered them with some hay and just let them alone 1 till they thawed out and they seemed not to be hurt at all. Once in lowa we had picked several hundred bushels of our winter apples and had them piled in the orchard. They were YAKIMA VALLEY NURSERY CO. Complete line for Home, Orchard or Commercial Orchard planting. Prices reasonable. Everything guaranteed. Catalog free. Agents wanted. Yakima Valley Nursery Company, - - - - Toppenish, Wash. B covered with slough hay. It turned suddenly cold in October and many of the apples were frozen solid. I was alarmed for I thought the frozen ones would certainly spoil. Not knowing what was best to do under the circumstances, I did nothing but wait. Fine weather came on and those apples thawed out and so far as I could tell were not injured at all. I can remember very distinctly that in my boyhood days we ofteu buried a few bushels of Genitons by covering them with straw or hay and then with a few inches of dirt. They would freeze sjlid and remain so till spriDg. (Continued on page 16.) Tl HI/ BEST BY TEST —96 YEARS \|AKV Plant Your Acre 0) TKLLU Write for Our Free Book Full instructions for planting and carinar for trees and shrubs— the boiled-down experience of four generations of orchard and nursery men. To plant an orchard is the duty of every man. 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