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PROFIT 



Labor 



The Packer who 

 uses the Bushel 

 Shipping Basket 



Shipping Peaches in Bushel Baskets at Koshkonong, Missouri 



XThe Universal Package 



MAKES LARGER NET PROFITS 



It is much better to get a good price for fruit packed with a 

 small expense than to get the highest price and then spend all 



your profit in packing. 

 Send for Prices that will save you money. 



Package Sales Corporation 



106 East Jefferson St., South Bend, Indiana 



A big cannery and evaporating plant 

 is to be erected at Wenatchee, to be run 

 under the very able management of 

 Mr. W. H. Paulhamus, manager for the 

 Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' 

 Canning Company, Sumner. School 

 children are being urged to put in gar- 

 dens as a means of assisting to get the 

 cannery started, and which will mean 

 a good many extra pennies for the chil- 

 dren to invest in War Savings Stamps. 

 Splendid prices are offered for all vari- 

 eties of small fruits, beans and vegeta- 

 bles, but the main product to be turned 

 out will be apples, such as evaporated 

 apples, canned apples, jelly, and apple 

 butter, for which there is a big demand. 



Wilmer Sieg, formerly salesmanager 

 for the Apple Growers' Association of 

 Hood River, and for the past year 

 salesmanager for the Karl Fruit Com- 

 pany in Spokane, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of salesmanager for the California 

 Fruit Distributors. C. E. Virden, gen- 

 eral manager of the California Fruit 

 Distributors, has gone to Washington 

 in an effort to improve traffic facilities, 

 so that the coining crop, which prom- 

 ises to be very large, may be handled 

 successfully. Mr. Sieg will take Mr. 

 Virden's place during his absence. 



We have just received from the Ken- 

 tucky Tobacco Company an "Illustrated 

 Spray Chart for Sucking Insects," which 

 is not only very handsome, but very 

 valuable for every fruit grower. The 

 drawings and the colors were done by 

 Mr. B. B. Fulton of the New York Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, who is 

 not only a very able entomologist, but 

 an artist of high ability. The spraying 

 directions were prepared by the Ken- 

 lucky Tobacco Company and submitted 

 to Professor H. E. Hodgkiss of the New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station 

 for his approval. 



The illustration showing the box of 

 Hood River apples is evidence that 

 Northwestern apples are enjoyed in re- 

 mote parts of the world. 



May Restrict Importation of Nursery 

 Stock. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture has 

 called a public hearing, to be held in 

 Washington May li.S, at which will be 

 considered the advisability of restrict- 

 ing the importation of nursery stock 

 and other plants and seeds from all 

 foreign countries. The meeting will be 

 held at HI a.m. May 28, in room 11, Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Hoard, Department of 



Agriculture. Any person interested in 

 the proposed restrictions may be heard 

 either in person or by attorney. The 

 restrictions are contemplated in order 

 to prevent the introduction into the 

 United States of any tree, plant or fruit 

 diseases or of any injurious insects new 

 to or not heretofore prevalent in this 

 country. It is feared that certain injur- 

 ious plant diseases and insect pests may 

 gain entrance through the agency of 

 ornamental and other plants imported 

 with earth about their roots. There is 

 also said to be special danger from 

 plants imported from little-known coun- 

 tries, because lack of information as to 

 the insect pests or plant diseases of such 

 countries makes it impossible safely to 

 pass such plants by inspection or to 

 safeguard them by disinfection. Many 

 of the most important injurious insects 

 and plant diseases have been introduced 

 in this country through such importa- 

 tions. On the other hand, there is a 

 long list of similarly destructive insects 

 and diseases which have not yet gained 

 entrance. 



Food control in North America today 

 means chieflj gelling the food across 

 the Atlantic at all costs. 



