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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



Moneymaking in 

 Fruitgrowing 



The fundamental requirement for making it is a Thorough Knowledge of the Job. 



Nineteen men, each an expert on his subject have each written a booklet, 

 and the nineteen bound together in one volume form THE MOST THOR- 

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Published in the interest of BETTER TREES, BETTER MARKETS, 

 BETTER RETURNS FOR THE FRUITGROWER -not for profit. 



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Address: Department B 



ALBANY NURSERIES, Albany, Oregon 



BOA VISTA RANCH 



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BIG VICTORY FOR OREGON 

 "Piide of MultiioiiKih" pokito won first prize 

 at the .San Kraiicisco Fair for the best aere of 

 potatoes grown in California. Anotlier evi- 

 denee of Oregon's agrienlluial supremaiv is a 

 lettei- and a photogiaph .just received bv the 

 Portland Seed Company of Portland froiii the 

 owners of the Boa Visia Ranch at Plaeerville, 

 California. The photograph shows a coiner 

 of the acre of potatoes which won first prize in 

 the slate conipelition for llie best acre of pota- 

 toes grown in California. 



Mr. E. H. Phreaner, one of the owners of the 

 Boa VisIa Ranch, w rites : "We are very pleased 

 with the i-esults obtained from the seed l"Pride 

 of Multnomah" and ".Snow") and will be in 

 the market for several cars of seed potatoes. 

 Hav just received word that our exhibil of 



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polatoes at the Panama-Paeifle International 

 Exposition won the grand prize." 



Boa Vista Ranch also won the competition 

 for the best acre of potatoes — 7!)0 bushels of 

 clean, healthy stock: "Pride of Multnomah." 

 The "Pride of Mullnomali" is one of the stan- 

 tiard varieties of potatoes grown in Oregon. It 

 has been grown in Oiegon for seven years, and 

 many experts regard il as in every way the 

 best potato for Western Oregon. It has been 

 shipped to all parts of the United States for 

 seed purposes, and only excellent reports have 

 been received. Its signal honors von in Cali- 

 fornia now give it olheial recognition as the 

 very head of the list. This potato is well 

 known among most Oregon glowers, and is 

 popuhn- because of its heavy yielding qualitiis. 



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 Selling Apples 



Tliu epidemic of co-operaUve marketing 

 and annual sales agencies and distribu- 

 tor.', .leenis to be dying out because of 

 the "Inherent defects" of their systems. 



If you are considering independent 

 marketing or want to know any more 

 about bow you can do your own business 

 liirect with Eastern commission mer- 

 ihants and brokeis — provided you have 

 .■^ufflcienl l;uslness education and intelli- 

 .^'ence to use correctly the same facilities 

 that have been successfully used by 

 other shippers in your section — if you 

 are possessed of these ciualifications and 

 of an ambition to. get the best results 

 from j-our own and your neighbor's crop. 

 write us for full particulars and we will 

 srive you a long list of associations and 

 independent operators who will tell you 

 that the big Blue Book and the plans of 

 the service, of wliicli it is only a part, is 

 the most effective, up-to-date assistant 

 that you can get. 



Our organization lias expended sixteen 

 long years of strenuous labor and a.i"ound 

 one million dollars in building up an 

 efiuipment. the benefits of which you can 

 s;et for a very trifling fee. whicli will 

 permit you to do your business your own 

 way — consisn. sell on track, f.o.b. or cus- 

 tomary terms of draft on B/L — do it any 

 way you want to. yet do it safely by 

 avoiding undesirable traders of all classes 

 who are to'ing to secure contracts for 

 your tonnage. Let them wait until fall. 

 They will be glad to contract with you 

 then. On the other hand, you may be able, 

 b\' that time, to do your own business. 



Send for our handsome 14-page Photo- 

 Calendar, which contains extracts from 

 Trading rules, grades and law of com- 

 merce that appear in the big Blue Book. 

 It is valuable from an educational and 

 reference view-point and will cost you 

 nothing. Wh-en you send for it, please 

 tell us how you are situated, that we 

 may be able to tell you exactly what 

 special features of our different forms of 

 service will particularly apply to your 

 leiiuirements. 



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Chicago, Illinois 



its uniformity and its fine grain. It is an ideal 

 baking anil boiling potato. It is also famous 

 lor its keei)ing tpialilies. 



Ihe Porllanil Sied Company, who are the 

 producers of Ibis sphudid variety, are cer- 

 tainly to be cougiatulated. The Slate of Ore- 

 gon won inaelically all Ihe agricullural honors 

 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. This is 

 just another demonstration of Northwestern 

 superiority, which we at home are Ihi' last to 

 ] calize. 



Gri 

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he Board of Directors of the Millon Fruit 

 w ers' Co-Opel alive I'uion executed a con- 

 ■I for haiKlling their lillC crop Ihrough Ihe 

 lliwestcrn I'ruil lixchange. This is one of 

 old associations of the NorlhwesI that has 

 keled in vai'ious ways before, selling 

 cl, selling to indixidual buyers and als<i 

 High the Distriliulors. The association puts 

 I pack of prunes which have won a splen- 

 reputalioii for their quality. 



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