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BETTER FRUIT 



Pacific Coast Agents 



United States Steel 

 Products Co. 



San Francisco 

 Los Angeles 

 Portland 

 Seattle 



J.C.PearsonCo.jnc. 



Sole Manufacturers 



Old South Bldg. 

 Boston, Mass. 



PEARSON 



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rrnVrnVTV 'n buying is getting the 

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not always In getting the lowest prices. 



PEARSON prices are right. 



or holding pow- 

 er is the reason 

 for PEARSON nails. For twenty years 

 they have been making boxes strong. 

 Now, more than ever. 

 X?l T A Till ITV behind the goods la 

 CjljLlXDLLill. X added value. You can 

 rely on our record of fulfillment of every 

 contract and fair adjustment of every 

 claim. 



A TTCP A r'T'TnNT 19 assured by our 



AllOrAUllvll long experience in 



making nails to suit our customers' 



needs. We know what you want; we 



guarantee satisfaction. 



1? IT 1 1"W A T TTV Plus experience al- 

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 tion. Imitation's highest hope is, to 

 sometime (not now) equal Pearson — 

 meantime you play safe. 



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December 



fruits ;m<I I read many familiar names 

 of Northwestern growers on the la- 

 beled boxes. From my inquiries I 

 learned that the above mentioned 

 Brazilian merchant, last fall, paid the 

 New York fruit exporter $2.65 per box 

 for first-grade (Blue Diamond) apples 

 and it cost him $1.05 per box trans- 

 portation, and after he paid import 

 duty, etc., he had to sell at $7 to $7.50 

 per' box. Thus it is plain to see that 

 the apple, and to a similar extent the 

 pear, is a decided luxury in Brazil 

 as vet. 



I left Rio de Janeiro May 15, 1917, for 

 the United Slates, representing the 

 Minister of Agriculture, and at that late 

 date hundreds of fruit stands and fancy 

 grocers were daily displaying dozens of 

 boxes of Northwestern fruit which had 

 been taken out of storage in New York, 

 placed in the common hold of an unre- 

 frigerated ship, spent 28 days through 

 the tropics and again placed in cold 

 storage and still being sold on the mar- 

 ket in sound condition, and from the 

 appearance of said fruit I feel sure.it 

 was still being displayed as late as 

 Julv, 1917. 



Some of the Pacific Coast growers 

 whose fruit I saw in South America 

 were: Newtowns from George Gallo- 

 way, Hood River, and V. A. Crow, 

 Davidson Fruit Company; Newtowns, 

 extra fancy, from the Del Rio Orchard, 

 Devel Welks, and orchards of Gold Hill, 

 Oregon; K. P. Keeble (half box pears), 

 San Jose, California, and G. H. Ander- 

 son, half box E. Buerre pears, San 

 Jose, California. 



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The Heads don't come off. Given Preference by Largest Pacific Coast Packers 



MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY 

 PITTSBURGH STEEL COMPANY, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



A. C. RULOFSON COMPANY, Pacific Coast Agents 

 359 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California 



Homemade Fruit Butters 



As a final drive on fruit preserv- 

 ing the United States Department of 

 Agriculture urges the making of home- 

 made fruit butters. This is recom- 

 mended not only to those who grow 

 the fruit, but to those in the city who 

 may take advantage of large supplies 

 and cheap prices. In a great many 

 cases it will be possible for city peo- 

 ple to get from outlying farms fruit 

 which might otherwise be wasted. 



Various fruit butters recommended 

 are apple butter with cider, apple but- 

 ter without cider, apple butter with 

 grape juice, apple butter with lemons, 

 pear butter, peach butter, plum but- 

 ter, and Garfield butter made with 

 plums and peaches. With the excep- 

 tion of a good preserving kettle very 

 little equipment is needed for the prep- 

 aration of such butters. 



Apple Butter. 

 There is no better way to use good 

 apples, says the department, than to 

 make them into butter. The sound 

 portions of windfalls, wormy, and 

 bruised apples may also be used. The 

 better the apple the better the butter 

 will be. In apple butter with cider 

 either fresh sweet cider, or commer- 

 cial sterilized cider should be used, 

 after being boiled down to about half 

 its original quantity. The peeled and 

 sliced apples may be cooked in the 

 boiled cider or they may be first made 

 into apple sauce which is then cooked 



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