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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



Denney & Co. 



CHICAGO 

 Specialize in Box Apples 



and Other Western Fruits 



WE'RE READY TO TALK BUSINESS WITH THOSE 

 HAVING GOOD FRUIT 



Write or wire us what you have to offer 



Steel Box Strapping 



Used in connection with 

 metal seals consists of 

 encircling a package 

 with a metal strap, draw- 

 ing the strap very tight 

 and interlocking the 

 overlapping strap - ends 

 within a metal sleeve 

 (SIGNODE) in such a 

 manner that the joint has 

 a greater tensilestrength 

 than the strap itself. 

 Nails, rivets and buck- 

 les, with their attendant 

 objections, are entirely 

 eliminated. 



Write for 

 Catalog 



Acme Strapping packed in bbls. of about 500 lbs. or larger pkgs. 

 Metal Seals packed in cartons containing 2,000-2,500 seals. 



ACME STEEL GOODS CO. MFRS. 



Factory: 2840 Archer Ave., Chicago 



311 California St., San Francisco 



due to cold storage making a greater 

 supply available for these months or 

 il may be due lo increased competition 

 with other fruits. 



In Table II. all varieties are aver- 

 aged together. This is hardly an ap- 

 proved statistical method, since Bald- 

 win should be weighted more heavily 

 in such a table than a less common 

 variety, like Spitzenburg, but since no 

 figures as to amounts of sales were 

 available, all were averaged in alike. 



TABLE II.— ALL VARIETIES, BY MONTHS. 



1834-46 1893-1913 



August J2.11 $2.27 



September 1.86 2.32 



October 2.08 2.11 



November 2.2:: 2.6fi 



December 2.31 2.81 



January 2.39 2.91 



February 2.49 3.26 



March 2.:>8 3.35 



April 2.77 3.56 



May 3.31 :;.7l 



June 3.67 3.70 



Both tables indicate a slight increase 

 in the price of apples. Measured in 

 terms of other commodities, however, 

 the rise is slight indeed. On the other 

 hand, considering the vastly increased 

 production and use of other fruits, the 

 apple shows a surprising ability to 

 hold its own. Apples and lemons 

 seem to be the only fruits to show any 

 well-marked advance in price in sev- 

 enty or eighty years; the lemon alone 

 shows a sharp advance. 



The conclusion seems inevitable 

 then, that fruits are cheaper, relatively 

 and actually, than when our great- 

 grandparents went shopping. To that 

 extent the consumer is better off now 

 than he was in the "good old days." 



Tenth National Apple Show 



By Ren H. Rice, Spokane, Washington. 



SPOKANE is preparing to stage the 

 Tenth National Apple Show in that 

 city November 19 to 24 inclusive. Pre- 

 liminary plans and purposes have 

 been announced, indicating that the 

 exposition, while steadfastly carrying 

 forward its original purposes of fos- 

 tering and emphasizing the import- 

 ance of the apple as a food product, 

 will take on new lines of endeavor 

 which are peculiarly appropriate to 

 the spirit of the times. With the 

 nation engaged in a long struggle re- 

 quiring the utmost in food saving, the 

 Apple Show trustees have quite prop- 

 erly announced that the dominant fea- 

 ture of the show this year will be con- 

 servation of the apple, augmented by 

 patriotic features calculated to inspire 

 recruiting and aid the government in 

 its various phases of war preparation. 

 The show will be held on the 

 grounds adjoining the Union Pacific- 

 Milwaukee depot, which location has 

 been found so admirably suitable 

 c In ring the past three shows. The af- 

 fair is being directed by thirty-five 

 business and professional men, aided 

 and advised by fifty practical grow- 

 ers and shippers from Washington, 

 Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Jake Hill, 

 proprietor of the Hill Shoe Company, 

 is president of the National Apple 

 Show. He has been a resident of the 

 Northwest nearly all his life, and has 

 been identified with many movements 



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