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BETTER FRUIT 



July 



Spend a Nickle and Save a Dime 



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Use Peerless 

 DuplexStrapping 



ON YOUR 



Shipping Boxes 



and 



( 1 ) You will prevent pilfering. 



(2) You will prevent damage in 

 handling. 



No. ."5 Duplex Strapping is made of Mgh grade Cold Rolled 

 Steel of considerable tensile strength and pliability. The turned 

 edge protects the packer's hands; the knurled center prevents 

 the nail from slipping while being driven. 



Discounts and Information from 

 Pacific Coast Representatives 



A. C. RULOFSON CO. 



No. 359 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California 



No. 3 Peerless Duplex Strapping in 

 coils of 6,500 feet each— $14.63 per 

 coil witli liberal discount. 



TWISTED WIRE AND STEEL CO. 

 515-521 Greenwich Street, New York, N. Y. 



LADD & TILTON BANK 



Eslablished 1S59 Oldest Bank on the Pacific Coast 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



Capital $1,000,000.00 



Surplus 1,000,000.00 



Officers: 



W. M. Ladd, President 



Edward Cookingham, Vice President 



W. H. Dunckley, Cashier 



R. S. Howard, Jr., Assistant Cashier 

 J. W. Ladd, Assistant Cashier 

 Walter M. Cook, Assistant Cashier 



INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 



Accounts of banks, firms, corporations and individuals solicited. Travelers' checks for 

 sale, and drafts issued available in all countries of Europe. 



LESLIE BUTLER, President 

 TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President 

 C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier 



Established 1900 



Butler Banking Company 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 

 Capital $100,000.00 



4% Interest Paid in our Savings Department 

 WE GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO GOOD FARM LOANS 



If you have money to loan we will find you good real estate security, or if 



you want to borrow we can place your application in good hands, and we 



make no charge for this service. 



THE OLDEST BANK IN HOOD RIVER VALLEY 



Further, it tends to produce fruit spurs 

 by checking the flow of the sap. 



Summer pruning may also be prac- 

 ticed on older or bearing trees in con- 

 nection with the thinning of the fruit. 

 In this case, there is very little occa- 

 sion for cutting and pinching otf the 

 terminal .shoots, as older trees make 

 little or no wood growth, and cutting 

 out a number of fruit spurs will give 

 a larger amount of food supply for the 

 remaining ones and the size of the fruit 

 borne is greatly increased. 



In Colorado, especially, we are 

 troubled with over-bearing, that is, 

 most of our trees have too many fruit 

 spurs and set too many fruits, making 

 it difTicult to obtain the proper size. 

 While thinning the apples by removing 

 them after the fruit is set is a remedy 

 against over-bearing, yet this is less 

 efhcient than the actual removal of a 

 certain number of fruit spurs. In cut- 

 ting out the fruit spurs they should be 

 cut off close to the branches and in 

 such manner as to leave the remaining 

 spurs well distributed on the branches. 



The time for this kind of thinning, or 

 summer pruning, is after the apples are 

 well formed and the .Tune drop is past. 

 The operator can then gauge the num- 

 ber to be removed or left without any 

 difficulty. 



A pair of light pruning shears is the 

 best tool for this purpose. — E. P. Sand- 

 sten, Colorado Agricultural College, 

 Fort Collins, Colorado. 



"Lushus Brand" 



The North Pacific Fruit Distributors 

 offered a number of prizes for the 

 best name for a brand, the principal 

 requirement being that the name 

 should appeal to the taste or appetite, 

 this being important for the reason 

 that this was the primary function 

 in the name of any food product. 

 Two thousand five hundred names 

 for brands were submitted. Carl 

 W. Art of Spokane won the first 

 prize, the name "Lushus" being chosen 

 which has been adopted. Mrs. C. A. 

 Sanborn won the second prize with 

 the suggestion "Mello-west." Carl G. 

 Allenbach of Spokane won the third 

 prize with the suggestion "Dependa- 

 pack." The committee who awarded 

 the prize was composed of Dr. H. S. 

 Clemmer, President of the Spokane 

 Ad Club; G. C. Corbalay, Manager of 

 the Chamber of Commerce, and J. H. 

 Robbins, General Manager of the 

 North Pacific Fruit Distributors. 



It was stated early in April that a 

 new warehouse would be erected in 

 Wenatchee this season by G. M. H. 

 Wagner & Sons of Chicago, Fruit & 

 Produce Dealers of that city and large 

 operators in Western box apples. The 

 plans for the warehouse call for hol- 

 low-tile construction, fire proof, 

 which will be 50x90 feet, one story 

 with basement. The site selected is 

 at the foot of Orondo Street on a lot 

 owned by Mr. J. Lewis. This ware- 

 house will approximately hold about 

 50 cars. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



