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BEFORE using Cement Coated Nails 



Western Cement Coated Nails 

 for Western Growers 



Our Cement Coated Nails are always of 

 uniform length, gauge, head and count. 

 Especially adapted to the manufacture of 

 fruit boxes and crates. In brief, they are 

 the Best on the Market. 



Write for Growers' testimonials. 



Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. 



DENVER, COLORADO 



Pacific Coast Sales Offices 



Portland, Spokane, San Francisco 



Los Angeles 



AFTER use of C. F. & I. Co.' 

 Cement Coated Nails 



are accepted today as the standard for 

 all purposes. 



The possibilities for creating demands 

 for dried fruits in overseas markets 

 never were better, and excess crops 

 could be conserved for future use, for 

 the entire world is fruit hungry. 



The great apple-producing states of 

 the Pacific Coast and the Atlantic and 

 middle sections of the country prior to 

 the war developed a remarkable export 

 trade for their choice fruit with the 

 nations of Europe now engaged in the 

 terrific conflict for supremacy. This 

 trade has fallen off very materially be- 

 cause of the high freight rates, which 

 have been almost prohibitory. But our 

 apple growers, by turning their atten- 

 tion to the nearer markets on our own 



• ■I X _ J Thoroughly competent 



VVSllTctJ working foreman, single 

 ""*•""*** man preferred, for large 

 orchard and vineyard property. Must be able to 

 run all branches of business with economy and 

 snap. Address with full particulars as to age, 

 training, experience, personal data and salary 

 expected, 



GROWER, care Better Fruit. 



FURS IN STRONG DEMAND 



Coyotes, Moles, Lynx, Cats, Muskrats and 



Martins bringing record prices. 



Send for Price List and Tags. 



OSCAR GARD 



75 Marion Street Seattle, Washington 



FABMIMG is PLEASANT 



in the "Sunny Sooth for Natnre has bleaaed thla favored 



section with mild, healthful climate, productive soil and all 



that makes li/e worth living. You can buy good farm land 



la Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina at §16 per 



ncre and up. Fruit, truck, poultry and general farming 



will prove successful bore. Writs for information. 



Illustrated literature, etc., today. 



F. H. LaBAUME. Agr. ft 1ND. Act. 

 N. & W. Ry., 228 Ry. Bldg., Roanoke, Virginia 



Richey& Gilbert Co. 



H.M.GILBERT, President and Manager 

 Growers and Shippers of 



Yakima Valley Fruits 

 and Produce 



SPECIALTIES: 

 Apples, Peaches, Pears and Cantaloupes 



TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON 



continent, while the opportunity pre- 

 sents itself, can open a wider and per- 

 haps a richer field for the enlargement 

 of their trade. The one thing lacking, 

 of course, is a mercantile marine, and 

 most unfortunately this is lacking be- 

 cause of the anti-subsidy feeling on the 

 part of some representatives in Con- 

 gress from the Pacific Coast and the 

 farming regions of the interior. 



Ways to Reduce Car Shortage 



Office of Information, U. S. Dept. Agriculture 



While much has been done to relieve 

 car shortage, the fall movement of 

 crops puts a heavy strain upon trans- 

 portation facilities. Each autumn wit- 

 nesses a sharp increase in rail tonnage, 

 and the conservation of the country's 

 transpprtation facilities and the most 

 ellicient use of cars by shippers of 

 perishable farm products is just as im- 

 portant at this time as during the spring 

 and summer, according to the Bureau 

 of Markets of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Between May 1 

 and September 1 of the present year 

 the Special Committee of the National 

 Defense of the American Bailway Asso- 

 ciation succeeded in reducing the num- 

 ber of unfilled-car requistions by more 

 than 78 per cent, but there is still no 

 surplus of cars. 



Cars, packages, commodities, time in 

 transit, and seasons are variable, and 

 the department has no accurate data 

 from which rules can be laid down as 

 to the exact quantity of a given com- 

 modity of a certain degree of maturity 

 which can be loaded into a car for a 

 definite haul to a particular market; 

 but cooler weather makes refrigeration 

 less necessary and makes it possible to 

 run more commodities under ventila- 

 tion and to load cars more heavily than 

 during the summer. 



The following thirteen commodities 

 are now moving to market in carload 

 lots: Apples, cabbage, cantaloupes, 

 celery, grapes, lettuce, onions, peaches, 

 pears, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, water- 

 melons and white potatoes. The move- 

 ment covers thirty-two states, with an 

 average of more than three of the com- 

 modities from each of the thirty-two 

 states. 



The transportation situation is still 

 serious, and shippers of these com- 

 modities are reminded that patriotism 



demands of them the heaviest loading 

 possible consistent with the safe car- 

 riage of the goods. The failure of one 

 shipper to load cars to the maximum 

 may prevent other shippers from get- 

 ting any cars at all, with a consequent 

 loss of those foodstuffs on which the 

 winning of the war depends. 



The present is a time for the closest 

 co-operation of all interests for the 

 most efficient utilization of cars. Ship- 

 pers also should load and unload cars 

 promptly and should place diversion 

 orders at diversion points before the 

 arrival of cars to be diverted. 



WREN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BKTTER FRUIT 



LAND CLEARING 



In an article on "Land Clearing," by 

 Thos. Cunningham, farm manager for 

 the Western Fuel Co., he says: "Tak- 

 ing up the question of stump-pullers. 

 These are divided into several classes, 

 gasoline, stumping outfits, steam donkey 

 logging engines, horse-power stumping 

 machines and hand-power stumping 

 machines. Gasoline and steam donkey 

 outfits have their use in sections where 

 labor is not easily procurable, but I 

 consider them to be costly. The cost of 

 the outfit is heavy. Their bulk and 

 weight makes their transportation from 

 one point to another extremely costly. 

 There are several hand-power stump 

 pullers on the market that seem to 

 answer every requirement and operate 

 economically. I recently saw a demon- 

 stration of the "K" HAND-Power Stump 

 Puller that was most interesting. It is 

 manufactured by W. J. Fitzpatrick, of 

 San Francisco, California, weighs 171 

 pounds and can be wheeled around like 

 a barn truck. The agent attached it to 

 a standing tree (fir) about 36 inches in 

 diameter, placing the cable about 12 

 feet up the tree. I took hold of the 

 lever and pulled the tree down myself 

 in eight minutes. I bought the machine 

 on the spot and have pulled the stumps 

 from 30 acres of land with it since, the 

 machine costing not one cent for re- 

 pairs. — Adv. 



Portland Wholesale Nursery Company 



Konnisii.V 7, 122'; Grand Ave., Portland. Oregon 



Wholesalers of Nursery Stock and Nursery Supplies 



A very complete line of 



Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 



SPECIALTIES 



Clean Coast Grown Seedlings 



Oregon Champion Gooseberries and Perfection Currants 



Write Now — Write Now 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



