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BETTER FRUIT 



The Hilly Places 



Cultivate more of your land— do it all 

 quicker and cheaper with a Cleveland. 

 This wonderful little tractor plows 8 to 10 

 acres a day — the work of two to three 

 3-horse teams and three men. 



SERVICE— We maintain a service department that starts you right 

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McNeil Tractor Company 



226 Pitlock Block, Portland. Oregon 



Unloading one of the four carloads of CLEVELAND TRACTORS at Portland/Oregon (They -are .all 

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$1285 f.o.b. Portland, Oregon 



Here is a tractor that is small enough to 

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 12-20. It goes anywhere in all soils, be- 

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December 



not been taken to remove this or im- 

 prove this condition, there would have 

 been congestion. Advertising tied to 

 necessary proper selling and trans- 

 portation effort has made innumerable 

 rivers of apples flowing from this great 

 Northwest to innumerable markets, 

 when before we had a few large rivers 

 flowing only to a few large centers and 

 threatening to flood them." 



Markets Opened by Advertising 



In a circular sent out last year the 

 Northwestern Fruit Exchange called 

 attention to the fact that new apple 

 markets were being opened in the 

 United States and Canada, Northwest 

 apples being taken hold of by jobbers 

 and retailers in communities which had 

 in a sense never before heard of the 

 wonderful fruit of this section. It ap- 

 pears that this season this process has 

 further developed in a remarkable 

 degree. In a word, scores of new mar- 

 kets, many of course of limited capac- 

 ity, have this season placed their orders 

 for Northwest apples for the first time. 

 In examining this situation the North- 

 western Fruit Exchange calls attention 

 to an effect of it that might ordinarily 

 be overlooked, namely, that the wider 

 distribution of Northwest apples in 

 smaller markets takes off the pressure 

 of oversupply from the larger markets. 



Use the soft-shelled eggs at home. 

 They ship poorly and may lower the 

 grade of the others. 



Tractors are the busy Berthas of 

 agriculture. 



Thus not only is there a larger demand, 

 an outlet for a larger output, but the 

 result is also steadying as to prices, 

 and withal an important factor in ob- 

 taining full or higher prices. 



"This is undoubtedly a very salient 

 feature of the Northwest apple deal this 

 season, and it is a very important one," 

 states W. F. Gwin, manager of the Ex- 

 change. "It is primarily due to adver- 

 tising. The "Skookum" national cam- 

 paign last year is having further effect 

 this year; our this year's campaign, just 

 now getting under way, will be heard 

 of as much next year as this, and in 

 coming years. We anticipate that when 

 other Northwest apple growing and 

 shipping interests get together and ad- 

 vertise, as undoubtedly they will, the 

 effect will be of almost incalculable 

 economic benefit. Northwest apples 

 were at one time known only in the 

 big markets. New York, Chicago, Bos- 

 ton, and so forth. If some means had 



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Clear your stump land 

 cheaply — no digging, no 

 expense for teams and 

 powder. One man with a 

 ft can rip out any stump 

 that can be pulled with the 

 best inch steel cable. 



Worts by leverage — same 

 principle as a jack. 100 pound 

 pull on the lever gives a 49-ton 

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Walter J. Fitzpatrick 

 Box 190 



182 Fifth Street 

 San Francisco 

 California 



130-Acre Orchard 



Practically immune from frost, 

 principally 



Winesaps, Jonathans, Y. N. Pippins 

 and Rome Beauties, with Elberta 

 and Salway Peach fillers. 



One and a half miles average distance 

 from depot, packing house, school, church 

 and stores. The land is platted park style 

 and can be sold in tracts of one acre and 

 upward. 



S.J.HARRISON 

 Benton City, Washington 



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AND CRATES 



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