July, 1919 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 2g 



TRESPASS 



NOT[CE 



Anyone (ound trespassing on 

 this property vvllJ be prosecuted 

 to the fuU extent of the law 

 ___ Owner 



Just Like Having a 

 Big Policeman to 



Guard Your Property! 



Trespassers cost you many dollars each year. They break down fences, steal your 

 fruit, kill your poultry and livestock. Our TRESPASS signs will keep them out. 

 They are printed on oil-treated tough cardboard — absolutely rain and sun-proof. 

 Will last for many years. Each sign is 14x11 inches, and they will keep the tres- 

 passers out just as effectively as if you had a big policeman on each side of your 

 farm to guard your property. 



Six Big Trespass Signs for $ 1 



Postpaid— 12 for $1.75 



Send today for a supply of these signs and tack them up in conspicuous places along 

 the line fence. Six guaranteed sunproof and water-proof signs (as illustrated above) , 

 size 14x11 inches, mailed, postpaid, for $1.00, twelve signs, postpaid, for $1.75. 



ADDRESS 



Outwest Supply Co. 



PORTLAND, OREOON 



berries. The Chaniber of Commerce at Marsh- 

 fleld has agreed to erect a cannery there if the 

 farmers of that district will plant 250 acres to 

 berries. 



\o "holes" in it 







Red Crown's uniform 

 chain of boiling points 

 gives easy starting, 

 quick and smooth ac- 

 celeration, high power, 

 long mileage. Mix- 

 tures have "holes" in 

 the power chain. Look 

 for the Red Crown 

 sign before you fill. 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



(California) 



While unfavorable weather conditions cut 

 down the estimated tonnage of 115 cars from 

 the Hood River district, over 60 cars of berries 

 had been shipped by the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Association up to June 20th. Al- 

 though the yield was cut down considerably 

 by extra cold nights and rain, the fruit pro- 

 duced was of a very large size. The outlook 

 for canning strawberries from the Hood River 

 district, it is stated, is not favorable. This, 

 it is said, is due to the high price at which 

 fresh fruit was selling, the majority of the 

 shipments bringing $4 per crate. 



A dividend of over $100,000 which was re- 

 cently made available to members of the Hood 

 River Apple Growers' Association, more than 

 convinces them that co-operative methods of 

 selling apples is successful. The amount which 

 will be paid Hood River growers in dividends 

 is money that has been saved on the estimates 

 made for covering the handling and marketing 

 of their fruit. An interesting statement in con- 

 nection w ith the payment of this dividend, con- 

 tained in Manager Stone's report, is that, not- 

 withstanding the heavy increase in the cost of 

 labor and materials used by orchardists, and 

 all other requirements, the charge to the grower 

 has remained the same during the six years 

 that the association has been organized. 



Although Yakima fruit workers lost in the 

 strike which they organized last fall for recog- 

 nition of their union and a higher wage scale, 

 they have adopted a new schedule for 1919. 

 They are now endeavoring to obtain agree- 

 ments with fruit growers and warehouse men 

 before the season opens. The 1919 scale, as 

 proposed by the union, is as follows: 



Common labor — 55c per hour. 



Packers — 6c where sizers are used and 7c 

 with tables, on apples and pears; 3Vic per box 

 for peaches; 7c per box for prunes. 



Box making — $1.25 per 100 boxes for two- 

 piece work and $1.35 per 100 for three-piece 

 work on apple and pear boxes; 80c per 100 for 

 peach boxes; $1.25 per 100 for "suit cases." 



Lidding — $1 per 100 for three-strap lids; 5c 

 added for each additional strap — these prices 

 for apple and pear boxes; 70c per 100 for peach 

 boxes. 



Transportation to be furnished, or paid for, 

 where the work is out of the city. 



The fruit-thinning situation, which promised 

 to be serious in the Medford district, was 

 Anally adjusted and orchardists very mate- 

 rially assisted by women and girl workers 

 who volunteered for the work. Orchard and 

 ranch hands, however, are said to be still 

 needed very badly in the Medford district. 



Reports from Hood River are to the effect 

 that more pears than apples are being set in 

 the new acreage that is being planted to fruit 

 in that district. The varieties that are being 

 planted are d'Anjous, Bartletts, Bosc and 

 Comlce. Gordon G. Brown, horticulturist at 

 Hood River Experiment Station, recommends 

 the planting of Winter Nells for poUenizers. 

 The high price received for pears in the Hood 

 River district is said to be influencing orchard- 

 ists to plant pears instead of apples. 



Grays Harbor County will have a bumper 

 yield of apples this year, according to Mr. O. T. 

 McWhortcr, County Agent. The trees are said 

 to have budded well and to have received no 

 injury from the frost. 



The Sunnyside Cannery, which has not been 

 operated for a year or two, it is now reported, 

 will be opened for business this year. The 

 man.ngcment of the cannery will be under the 

 direction of Edward Hewes, manager of the 

 Sunnyside branch of the Yakima Horticultural 

 Union. The new canning venture is being 

 backed by the Younglove Company, who have 

 become owners of the plant and will have new 

 machinery installed in time to handle the 

 peach crop this season. 



On account of lack of pollenation, the cherry 

 crop in The Dalles and Mosier districts of 

 Oregon will be short this year, according to 

 reports from that section. Apples in the 

 Mosier district, however, are said to be in fine 

 condition anil are expected to surpass anything 

 in former years in the way of quality and 

 tonnage. 



Quick action by a determined group of Hood 

 River strawberry growers stopped a recent 

 strike among berry pickers. Organizing them- 

 selves into what they called a body of 

 "vigilantes," the growers went to the camps of 



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