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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



PASTE 



PICK UP GUM, for use on Knapp labeling machines (very adhesive) 

 CEMENT, for use on Burt labeling machines. LABELING GUM, for use on all bottle labeling machines. 



CELLULOID TIN LABELING PASTE, a RUST proof tin labeling paste. 



TRANSPARENT PASTE, for bottle or jar labeling. 



PALO ALTO PASTE POWDER— three pounds added to cold water makes two gallons fine white paste for all 



labeling work, or a RIBBON paste for labeling machines. Extensively used by canners and fruit packers. 



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KODinSOn l/nemiCal WOrKS office: 351 Eighth street, San Francisco 



Centralization of Packing 



By S. V. Beckwith, General Manager Rogue River Fruit and Produce Association, Medford, Oregon 



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"Y subject covers two features 

 that are vital to the success of 

 deciduous fruit growing in the 

 Pacific Northwest. First, the physical 

 liandling of the fi'uit; second, stand- 

 ardization of pack. To successfully 

 grow good fruit, to cultivate, to prune, 

 to combat scale, codling moth, blight, 

 scab, Baldwin spot, water-core, and the 

 other diseases that deciduous fruit is 

 heir to; to produce good crops of good 

 fruit every year- — these are problems 

 which call, in my opinion, for a high 

 degree of intelligence and eternal vigi- 

 lance. On the otlier hand, to success- 

 fully distribute and market the fruit 

 when grown and produce good prices 

 year after year, is another equally im- 



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The Salof Self-Setting 



Gopher Trap S^ff-I^p'tl: 



age. Will rid your place of gophers 

 in one season. Will catch all sizes. If you want a trap 

 that will give results, try this one. If your dealer can't 

 supply you, one will be sent postpaid for 35c; 4 for $1. 

 This price SPECIAL for the month of May only. 



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portant and equally difficult problem 

 demanding the best energies of the 

 highest trained men in that specialty. 

 But the production of good fruit and 

 the intelligent marketing of it will not 

 avail if the assembling and packing of 

 the fruit is poorly done, resulting in an 

 unattractive package and physical dam- 

 age to the fruit itself. 



The Rogue River Fruit and Produce 

 Association has just completed its sixth 

 consecutive season as a co-operative 

 deciduous fruitgrowers' association. In 

 that period it has acquired not less than 

 five diflerent packing and warehouses 

 as five widely-separated points in the 

 Rogue River district, each packing 

 house being located upon the railroad 

 and having its own sidetrack. The 

 most recent of these houses was 

 acquired no less than three years ago. 

 In the early history of our organiza- 

 tion we packed the growers' fruit at 

 each one of these five warehouses, 

 having crews working in all of them at 

 the same time, and in addition to this 

 perhaps fifteen or twenty of the larger 

 growers ran their own packing houses, 

 at which their own fruit was packed 

 under our supervision. This imposed 

 iqjon the management a nearly impos- 

 sible task — that of supervising and in- 

 specting all of these packs so thor- 

 oughly and so successfully as to insure 

 standardization and careful handling at 

 all times. We did our best, but were 

 distinctly not satisfied with the results. 

 Another bad feature of this method was 

 apparent in the hantlling of the early 

 pears such as Bartletts and Howells. 

 SVe found it physically impossible to 

 clean up each one of the packing 

 houses every night, and to pack out 

 during the day every pear, whether 

 first, second or third grade, that had 

 been brou,ght in the day before. Then 

 again, even the packed Bartletts would 

 of necessity lie aroinid occasionally for 

 twenty-four hours or longer before 

 being loaded into an iced car. There 



might be, for instance, only a half car 

 packed anil ready to roll, which would 

 have to wait until the next day without 

 refrigeration, for enough fruit to com- 

 plete the car. I do not mean to say that 

 this was a frequent occurrence, but in 

 spite of our best efforts it would hap- 

 pen once or twice during a season. 



In the spring of 1913 we built in 

 l\lcdford a cold-storage warehouse with 

 a capacity of approximately forty cars 

 of real refrigeration and sixty cars of 

 dry storage. In 1914 we began to 

 realize the possibilities of the auto 



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Treesavin protects 

 your trees against 

 all crawling insects, 

 worms and ants, but 

 does not hinder respira- 

 ion of the tree "skin" as 

 do sticky resinous mixtures 

 when painted on. 

 Treesavin lasts a whole season. 

 Indispensible for preventing ' 'bleed- 

 ing" from cuts and wounds. Easily re- 

 moved and replaced. 

 While it does better work than any other sticky 

 tree protector. Treesavin is cheaper to use and takes 

 one-tenth the time to apply. Made in rolls -1 in. wide, 

 10 yds-long, sufficient to cover 9 trees 12 in. diameter. 

 If your dealer can't supply you, order direct. 

 Write for catalog and descriptive matter. 

 PfT hox^JO cents; three haxts^Sl.jO; 

 SIX hoxfiy S-^-00: twelve boxes, SS-'-'*0. 



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Marketing Your Crop! 



The great problem facing the grower is the 

 marketing of his crop. Be Up-To-Date and 

 CAN it. This insures you against loss from 

 glutted markets and makes your fruits im- 

 perishable. You can do this at home with 

 your own help with an H. & A. Steam Pres- 

 sure Canning Outfit. Family, Orchard or 

 Commercial size. Our recipe book tells you 

 how to can everything eatable that goes into 

 cans with the outfit. Write for descriptive 

 matter to the manufacturers. 



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