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NORTHWESTERN BANK BL.DG. 



PORTLAND. OREGON. 



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NORTHWESTERN 

 MANAGER 



A Message 

 *or Fruit and 

 Vegetable 

 Growers 



We desire to get in touch with Fruit 

 and Vegetable Growers in all parts 



/of the country in order to establish 

 f\f prtUT finfl Fruit and Vegetable Drying Plants 

 Ul L I lA.ll Kills* for single firms that want tQ buiM 



new and up-to-date drying plants for 

 themselves and with two or more 

 Growers that would favor the con- 

 struction of a drying plant on a 

 co-operative basis. 



There are many millions of dollars worth of Fruit and Vegetables 

 left to rotten on the ground and many more millions of dollars are 

 paid in freight rates, tin cans and boxes that can and must be saved. 

 We will invest some of our own capital, if you wish, as we are sure 

 that it is to our mutual benefit, if you write us today for particulars. 

 All information on this subject will be given cheerfully and free of 

 charge. If ypu are in business for making the best profits write now. 



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CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



American Tractors Go to France 



To increase France's crops and to 

 lighten the burden of toil on her old 

 men, women and children, the United 

 Slates Food Administration will ship 

 1,500 farm tractors to that country. 

 The first hundred are already on the 

 way, and the whole number will be in 

 France by March, in time for the spring 

 plowing. They are expected not only 

 to be of immense service to France, but 

 to release added tonnage for the Allies 

 and American troops by increasing the 

 amount of food produced there, thus 

 decreasing the amount of food that 

 must be shipped from America. 



The idea originated with former 

 American Ambassador to Turkey Henry 

 Morgenthau and his son, Henry Morgen- 

 thau, Jr. The Food Administration ap- 

 proved the idea. Deck space was pro- 

 vided for the first shipment of tractors 

 aboard a naval transport through the 

 efforts of Assistant Secretary of the 

 Navy Franklin Roosevelt and Pay- 

 master-General McGowan. The Food 

 Administrator designated Henry Mor- 

 genthau, Jr., to follow the machines to 

 France and put them in operation. He 

 will organize schools of instruction for 

 French operators and will assist the 

 French Minister of Agriculture in dis- 

 tributing the tractors and operating 

 them economically. 



French High Commissioner M. Tar- 

 dieu approved the idea on behalf of the 

 French government and a committee of 

 the National Implement & Vehicle Asso- 

 ciation assured Mr. Morgenthau that 

 the tractors can be furnished, and that 

 with the shipments made now the man- 

 ufacturers will not be embarrassed in 

 taking care of the American farmer, 

 since they will have time to manufac- 

 ture an additional number to meet the 

 home demand when it comes. The 

 neeed for these tractors is shown by 

 this comparison of the present and pre- 

 war acreage of crops in France: 



The acreage sown to crops in the un- 

 invaded portion of France in 1917 was 

 30,742,157 acres, compared with 40,- 

 657,293 acres in 1913. This is a de- 

 crease of 9,915,136 acres, or 24.4 per 

 cent. 



The total crop production in France 

 this year is officially given as 22,200,000 

 metric tons (24,581,290 short tons), 

 compared with 35,800,000 metric tons 

 (39,462,340 short tons) in 1913, a de- 

 crease of 13,600,000 metric tons (14,- 

 881,050 short tons), or 61.3 per cent, or 

 a decrease of 38.7 per cent. 



The following figures give an idea of 

 why it is good tactics to send tractors 

 to France now, and tractors can plow 

 500,000 acres this spring and another 

 million acres for planting fall wheat. 

 Half a million acres in potatoes would 

 produce 1,500,000 tons of potatoes. One 

 million acres in fall wheat would pro- 

 duce 450,000 tons of wheat. This in- 

 creased production in France would 

 greatly relieve the food situation in 

 that country, leaving, moreover, 1,950,- 

 000 tons of shipping in 1918 available 

 for other purposes. — U. S. Food Admin- 

 istration. 



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