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BETTER FRUIT 



September 



WESTROBAC 



(Soil Bacteria) 



Will maintain your soil fer- 

 tility, help produce larger 

 crops, larger fruit and 

 through a cover crop will 

 produce more humus than 

 you can get otherwise, at 

 the smallest expense. 



Let us tell you — write for 

 literature (without cost) 



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MAIN OFFICE 



442 Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal. 



Branch Office for Northwest 



74 Front St., Portland, Ore. 



Branch Office Southern California 



244 So. Central Ave. , Los Angeles, Cal. 



The Law of 

 Gravity 



is no more final in its results 

 than is the spirit of economy 

 in making for wealth. Just as 

 sure as the apple falls down- 

 ward when shaken from the 

 tree, do your savings climb 

 upward when drawing inter- 

 est in this strong state bank. 

 If it is not your good fortune 

 to get money today, remem- 

 ber, when you do have it, the 

 experience acquired at the 

 time you were without it. A 

 little reflection at such a time 

 should bring you here with 

 with your savings. 



Aftr^cfi've Interest Paid on Sa'vings 

 Accounts and Time Deposits 



Ladd&TUtonBank 



Oldest in the Northwest 

 PORTLAND, ORE. 



or obstructed in some way, so that the 

 wire cannot be inserted, cotton batting 

 dipped in carbon bisulphid should be 

 inserted, and the hole then plugged 

 with moist earth. The gas from the 

 carbon bisulphid will penetrate all 

 parts of the burrow and kill the borer. 

 In addition to worming, as this pro- 

 cess is called, paint is often used to 

 prevent the beetles laying their eggs. 

 Pure white lead and raw linseed oil, 

 mixed rather thick, will not injure the 

 trees, and when applied to young, 

 smooth bark, will form a protective 

 coat during the egg-laying season. It 

 is probable that this is a more effective 

 method than wrapping the trees with 

 building paper, cotton batting, cloth or 

 other materials simetimes used for this 

 purpose. Before painting, however, the 

 earth should be removed from the base 

 of the tree for a depth of from three 

 to four inches. The surface of the 

 trunk thus exposed should be first 

 scraped and painted and the earth then 

 replaced. This is necessary, for the 

 beetle occasionally lays her eggs under 

 instead of above the ground. 



i 



The Auction Market 



By Arthur M. Geary, Portland, Oregon. 



"If apples of the Pacific Northwest 

 were stored carefully until each variety 

 reached its prime, and then were sold 

 through the auctions of the large East- 

 ern cities, would there not be much 

 wider and quicker distribution at less 

 expense, with greater returns to the 

 growers than under the present method 

 of dealing entirely through the large 

 receiving apple jobbers?" This was the 

 question that I asked a well-known 

 apple jobber of Chicago a month ago. 

 His answer was: "Yes, but we apple 

 jobbers are not going to promote the 

 system that puts the small jobber and 

 broker on the same level with us who 

 have outlets through our stores. We 

 are not afraid of the shippers handling 

 the apples in this way themselves, be- 

 cause the growers are in such a sad 

 financial condition that they could not 

 wait for the returns." 



The fact that the growers cannot af- 

 ford to hold their apples from October 

 to February, March, or whenever they 

 should properly be eaten, is the great 

 obstacle in the way of the Northwest- 

 ern apple growers deriving the same 

 benefit that the Florida Citrus Ex- 

 change and the California Fruit Distrib- 

 utors and California Fruit Growers 

 Exchange obtain from selling their 

 products exclusively at public sale in 

 the large auction centers of the United 

 States and Canada. The big receiving 

 jobber must compete with the little job- 

 ber at the auctions, under the auction 

 system. But under the private sales 

 method the little jobber purchases from 

 the big jobber. The consumer buys less 

 at a greater price. 



As a prominent niarketman in Cincin- 

 nati told me: "A buyer abhors to pay 

 profit to another." That is the reason 

 that hundreds of jobbing firms in the 

 United States do not deal in box apples. 

 That is the reason that the consumption 





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Winans* Net Tree Support 



ProTflnts fruit-laden trees from breaMng. h*ldln( 

 tha limba up more efficiently and at mucb leas «x- 

 penae than propping. Holds Limbs in pla^je. pn- 

 Tontlng damaee and droppinn when the wind blam. 



Meahes are large enough so fruit can be pl<±«d 

 through them — open at bottom so picker can gat 

 Inalde the net. or net can be remored at picking 

 time. 



This net of finer mesh will keep the bird* froa 

 eating the blossomB or fruit in distrlcta which an 

 thua troubled. 



For further particulars, descriptiTe drculart and 

 price lists, write 



W. ROSS WINANS,Hood River, Ore. 



The 



First 



National 



Bank 



Hood River, Oregon 



Capital and Surplus 

 $135,000 



4% Interest Paid on Savings 

 and Term Deposits 



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 E. 0. BLANCHAR, Cashier 



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