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Page Section F, Central Building-, Seattle, Washington, V. S. A. Xgaued by The Ranch Publishing 1 Company each Month, First and Fifteenth. Entered at the Beattle Postoffice at Second-Clasa rate* of portage. B. E. Benedict Managing Editor I Miss A. Q. Handley The Home F. Walden Horticulture/ Fred W. Lewis The Grange New York Representative: f . Chicago Representative: S. E. Leith. 150 Nassau Street. I Allen & Ward, Boyoe Building-. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In advance, one year, 50 cents; six months, 30 cents. Foreign and Seattle subscriptions, 75 cents per year; 40 cents, six months. Date of expiration is shown on the paper by address label. Failing to re ceive your paper regularly, you should notify the Seattle office at once, when mistakes, if any, will be corrected. Agents wanted in every town to solicit subscriptions. Good commissions paid In preparation for the coming win ter the following quotations from Prof. Harry Snyder, B. S., professor of agri cultural chemistry and soils, Univer sity of Minnesota, are significant: "No other element takes such an im portant part in agriculture or in life processes as does nitrogen." "Nitrate of soda is the most active of all the nitrogenous manures. It is soluble and does not have to undergo the nitrifi cation process before being utilized by crops." "Its use for fertilizing horticultural crops has become equally as extensive as for general farm crops." "When plants have reached a certain period in their development and have been starved for want of nitrogen, the later application of this element does not produce normal growth." "In the case of wheat, ni trogen is assimilated more rapidly than are any of the mineral elements. For the Best Report of the Irrigation Congress at Spokane, Wash. Get "The American Weekly" of the San Francisco Examiner "The American Weekly" will have special men on the ground. With its unrivaled facilities it will provide for its readers the most complete and authentic account of this, the greatesst Irrigation Congress ever held. George Eamei Barstow of Texas, James J. Hill, president of the Oreat Northern Railway P. 11. Newell, director U. S. Reclamation Service, and the most noted men in the irrigation world, representing every State in the West, will be present. All the great irrigation projects as well as the subjects of reforestation, water How, water power, waterways, reclamation of the desert lands, water rights and good roads, will be ably represented and considered ;it this great congress, August 9 to 12 and fully reported in "The American Weekly," constituting the issue of' August 18, a most valuable contribution to the most engrossing subject before the people of the Western States to-day. Send 10 Cents for the Irrigation Number of August 18 and ill roe succeeding issues. Every person inter ested iii farming, irrigation, jt<>od roads, water power and governmenl hinds should secure this great paper. "Till': AMERICAN WEEKLY," 74 Cjt-ary St., San Francisco, Cal, I inclose 10 cents, for which please send me the Irrigation num ber and three succeeding issues of "The American Weekly." Name Address vTiie R>anchh Before the plant heads out over 85 per cent of the total nitrogen re quired has been taken from the soil." "During winter and spring tempera ture and other conditions prevent or retard the processes of soil nitrifica tion, and this, too, at a time when the plants, being young, are least able to withstand the rigorous and often kill ing effects of the frosts, especially where these are prolonged by a back ward spring. It is just here that ni trate of soda comes to the rescue, as nothing else can, by supplying food in just the form to be at once appro priated by the young plant, and give it the strength needed to win out in its battle for life, enlarging its . root system, ensuring earlier maturity and a fuller crop. The farmer or horticul turist who fails to profit in the way indicated is not progressive and can not expect a full measure of success. 10 Post Cards FREE The illustration gives you but a mere idea of the beauty of these cards. You must see them. They are FREE. In many beautiful col ors, and full gold background. These (Jold Cards are the newest, rich est, most expensive and exquisite post cards you have ever seen. Ask now if you want them. Fill out and mail the coupon today, and we will give you our easy plan of getting 50 or 100 more of the most beautiful post cards you ever saw. Get our new plan at once and act quickly before some one else gets ahead of you. THE RANCH, Seattle Wash., 14th and Main St. THE RANCH: Enclosed please find three 2-cent stamps 6c. Send me the 10 beautiful GOLD Post Cards. I promise to show them to five of my friends. Tell me how to get fifty more Free, for just a little work. NAME R- F. D ADDRESS ST. NO We are receiving a great many renewals of subscriptions, and among them are many orders for premiums. All orders for premiums are sent to New York weekly. Owing to the cost of transporting the premiums from New York to Seattle, we have them mailed from New York. Otherwise, we could not possibly give them with The Ranch on such liberal terms, if at all. Owing to the low price we make on The Ranch, including the pre mium, we can not afford to go to the expense of answering every letter, so we request you not to write us if your paper and premium do not come as soon as you expect them. At the A.-V.-P. Exposition The Ranch has a handsome booth, upstairs in the King County Building, where we invite our friends to call. Mr. W. W. Salisbury, a farm journal man recently from Minnesota, will be glad to welcome you and give you any information you may need. Mr F Walden, Editor of the Horticultural Department of The Ranch, can generally be found upstairs in the Agriculture Building, in the section for the religious publications of the Christian Church. Mr. Walden is at the Fair almost every day and will be glad to greet his many friends. WE WILL GIVE YOU FREE one of our new Interest Books if you write for it at once The book tells of a very simple method of figuring interest from 5 per cent to 10 per cent — per aunum Dexter Norton & Co., BANKERS The Oldest Bank in Washington Seattle 2