Pape 26 



BETTER FRUIT 



September 



GUT THE COST OF PACKING 



PRICE 



PREPAID 



WITH THE 



PRACTICAL BOX MARKER 



Puts on the five stamps at one operation. 

 Write for information. 



PRACTICAL BOX MARKER CO.,Otis Orchar(ls,Wii. 



HOOD RIVER APPLE VINEGAR CO. 



HOOD RIVER 



YELLOW NEWTON VINEGAR 



AND SWEET CIDER 



EVAPORATED APPLES 



Made from Choice Hood River Apples 



If your jobber cannot supply you 

 send your order to 



Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Every Farmer 



is interested in the manifold uses of 

 cement-concrete on the farm. 



Practical Cemenf'.Work 



By W. B. HENRY 



is a cloth bound book of 113 pages, giving 

 valuable information on the mixing and 

 placing concrete in the various forms of 

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Post paid, 50 cents. 



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ATLANTA. GEORGIA 



Oregon Nursery Company 



ORENCO, OREGON 



Extensive growers of all lines of Fruit, Nut and Shade Trees, Evergreens, 

 Flowering- Shrubs, Vines, Roses, etc. Introducers of the VROOMAN 

 FRANQUETTE walnut, recognized as the best walnut. Our large 

 complete stock consists of varieties suitable for every kind of climate. 

 Write us about your wants before buying. 



Pears = Cherries— Prunes 



in leading varieties. Thisstockisespecially fine thisyear; can't be beat; is free from dis- 

 ease and in fact, you can't wish for anything better. Also berries, roses, ornamentals, etc. 

 Catalog on request. 



CHRISTOPHER NURSERIES, Th^rift^Xerrwas^^ 



HOOD RIVER VALLEY NURSERY COMPANY 



Phone 5634 Route No. 3, Box 227 HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Plantation four miles southwest of station. Belmont Road 

 We will be pleased to show you trees, apple trees that have a heritage, a quality that should be considered by everyone 

 who plants a tree. Our trees are grown in clean hillside virgin red shot soil with clay subsoil, producing the most vigorous 

 root system. Our buds are selected from llie best bearin;^' healthy Hood River trees that make the Hood River apple 

 famous throughout the world. Our trees will give you satisfactory results in vigor, fruit and quality. Ask for catalog. 

 We guarantee our products. Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, almonds and walnuts. A complete line of the best varieties 

 of all kinds of fruits. 



H. S. BUTTERFIELD, President W. J. ENSCHEDE, Manager 



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 



Apple as a Farm Product, Etc. 



Continued from page 10 



tion. The banana trade is even more 

 recent and the grapefruit most recent 

 of all. Florida grapefruit alone in- 

 creased from 117,336 boxes in 1900 to 

 1,611,537 boxes in 1910, about 900 per 

 cent. (See Table VI.) Our population 

 is increasing rapidly, and more and 

 more fruit per capita seems to be eaten. 

 This gives room for increase in all agri- 

 cultural production, but the fruit pro- 

 duction has been generally over-em- 

 phasized, and a man will either eat an 

 orange, a grapefruit or an apple for 

 breakfast; he won't cat them all, or if 

 he were able to perform this feat the 

 growers of each respective fruit would 

 all clamor to have him eat three of 

 their particular kind. 



The apple has certain advantages; 

 some of these have already been men- 

 tioned. The apple has always been and 

 is the leading fruit of this country, and 

 this is worth something; but the rapid 

 public appreciation of the citrus fruits 

 in the past generation has shown this 

 advantage is not necessarily perma- 

 nent. The apple can be consumed in 

 more conditions than can any other 

 fruit. The apple has more to fall back 

 on in the way of by-products than any 

 other of our orchard fruits, in spite of 

 the "essential oils" of the citrus in- 

 dustry. Probably more than any other 

 advantage found in the apple will be 

 the possibility of lower cost of pro- 

 duction of this fruit, compared to 

 others, and its greater ability, com- 

 pared to some, to find outlet in the 

 lower levels of ultimate consumers. 



Under chapter three we have dis- 

 cussed the markets of this country, 

 applying the ciuestion to farm ])roducts 

 generally, and as regards the domestic 

 markets, apples fit in with this dis- 

 cussion with only slight qualifications. 

 Apples are so universally produced for 

 home use by farmers that the farms 

 and small villages, and even many out- 

 lying towns are practically marked off 

 the map of demand for the fruit that 

 is not produced in that immediate lo- 

 cality. This differs apple from orange 

 distribution, for instance. Further, 

 Eastern apple states can hardly expect 

 to market apples in other Eastern apple 

 states, except in the larger cities, and 

 even there they are at a strong disad- 

 vantage. The whole market question is 

 thus to some degree localized on a 

 large scale. Western apples are an ex- 

 ception to this, and have proven their 

 ability to sell on their appearance 

 beside less expensive and often quite 

 as good quality locally-produced fruit. 

 The writer has observed Pacific Coast 

 apples attracting attention on fruit 

 stands in Rochester, New York, the 

 center of perhaps the greatest apple 

 region in the world. 



(To be continued) 



The percentage of apples exported 

 from the United States is variously esti- 

 mated at from 3 to .") per cent, while 

 the percentage of Northwestern apples 

 exported is estimated at approximately 

 around 10 per cent, varying in differ- 

 ent vears, — usually less. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



