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BETTER FRUIT 



Ridley,Houlding & Co. 



COVENT GARDEN, LONDON 



Points to remember when consigning 

 apples to the London Market 



Specialists in 

 Apples 



CABLE ADDRESS: BOTANIZING, LONDON 



LESLIE BUTLER. President 

 TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President 

 C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier 



Member Federal Reserve System 



Butler Banking Company 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Capital . 



. $100,000.00 



4% Interest Paid in our 

 Savings Department 



THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY 



EWBALTESAND 

 COMPANY 



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Unexcelled facilities for the production of Catalogues, Book- 

 lets, Stationery, Posters and Advertising Matter. Write us 

 for prices and specifications. Out-of-town orders executed 

 promptly and accurately. We print BETTER FRUIT. 



CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



January 



are guarded by a traffic department, a 

 legal department and other staffs of 

 experts. 



The crops of oranges and lemons last 

 year were the largest ever shipped, and 

 California provided 71 per cent of the 

 lemons consumed in America. The bal- 

 ance were imported. 



In order to provide an efficient mar- 

 keting medium for California farmers, 

 who have planted vegetables exten- 

 sively in response to the requests of the 

 government, the Exchange is tempo- 

 rarily opening its marketing facilities 

 to vegetable shippers. 



One Hundred Cars of Apples for Our 

 Soldier Boys at the Front. 

 The International Apple Shippers' As- 

 sociation deserves the sincerest thanks 

 of the public and every fruit grower for 

 their wonderful appreciation of the 

 service being rendered by our boys at 

 the front by raising a fund with which 

 to purchase one hundred cars of apples, 

 which will cost approximately $100,000. 

 Every member of the International Ap- 

 ple Shippers' Association is being called 

 on for a donation to this fund. Nothing 

 is too good for our boys at the front. 

 Everyone should contribute freely and 

 generously for their comfort and wel- 

 fare in every way possible. The cam- 

 paign has just commenced, it already 

 being reported that before the cam- 

 paign even started Mr. Wayne M. 

 French, as treasurer, commenced the 

 list with $500. Immediately subscrip- 

 tions from members of the Association 

 began to pour in at the rate of $100 

 apiece. 



The car shortage, which of course is 

 more or less general, has delayed the 

 movement of the Northwestern apple 

 crop, the delay being more in the early 

 part of the season than recently. On 

 account of the shortage of refrigerator 

 cars fruit shippers have been compelled 

 to use box cars very extensively. We- 

 natchee has been shipping out train- 

 loads of box cars and refrigerator cars 

 combined, regularly using about 56 cars 

 to the train, with a number of specials 

 being sent in addition to the regular 

 fruit trains. The Apple Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of Hood River has also shipped 

 in trains, usually sending 25 cars at a 

 time, using box cars quite extensively. 

 Mr. Sam Campbell, who went East in 

 charge of the first train from Hood 

 River, reported the fruit arrived in ex- 

 cellent condition. The fruit was care- 

 fully watched all the way through and 

 sufficient heat maintained by the use of 

 Perfection oil heaters, so no damage 

 from the cold weather. Unless a num- 

 ber of refrigerator cars are built during 

 the coming year, with next year being 

 a heavy crop, growers will have to use 

 more box cars in the future than they 

 have in the past. 



Nice Bright Western Pine 



FRUIT BOXES 



AND CRATES 



Good standard grades. Well made. Quick shipments. 

 Carloads or less. Get our prices. 



Western Pine Box Sales Co. 



SPOKANE, WASH 



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