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BETTER FRUIT 



Corrugated Joint Fasteners 



Make Strong 2-Piece End Boxes. 



ACME STEEL 



Acme Patented Divergent Saw Edge Fasteners will not qaw CTDADDIIIP 



pull out and holds better than cleats or glue. DuA O I KHr rlnU 



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Write near- 

 est office 

 for samples 

 and prices. 



ACME 



Strapping 



protects 



goods 



from 



damage 



and 



pilferage. 



Specify ACME CORRUGATED JOINT FASTENERS. 



ACME STEEL GOODS CO., Mfrs. 



Works: 2840 Archer Avenue, CHICAGO 



Branch and Warehouse: 209 California Street, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Branch and Warehouse: Foot of Main Street, Seattle, Wash. 

 Warehouse Only: Holman Transfer Co., Portland, Ore. 



PRINTING 



FOR FRUIT GROWERS, CANNERS, MANUFACTURERS 

 AND MERCHANTS 



CATALOGS STATIONERY 



BOOKLETS BLANK BOOKS 



POSTERS LABELS 



ADVERTISING MATTER 



WRITE FOR PRICES AND SPECIFICATIONS ' OUT OF TOWN ORDERS EXECUTED 

 PROMPTLY, ACCURATELY AND ECONOMICALLY 



WE PRINT Better Fruit 



F. W. BALTES fe? COMPANY 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



The Master 



Apple Picker 



SOMETHING NEW 



A Mechanical Apple Picker 



Old People, Stout People and Children can 



Pick Fruit Without Danger — No Ladders Needed 



TV, IT f tv, 1 ( Broken Limbs on Man and Trees 



Matter Picker [ Avoids j Bruise^d Fruit^from Shaking Trees 



Price $2.50, Parcel Post Paid. Pole Not Furnished 



The Master Company 



Box 63 Des Plaines, Illinois 



Agents and 



Distributors 



Wanted 



August, ipip 



Ihc pound nuikcs whnt is coinmer- 

 cially known as 2()s to 30s. Kach sepa- 

 ralf size of fruit, as above ilescribed, 

 llun finds its way to its resijcctivu bin, 

 and later it is taken to the sterilizing 

 machine for cleaning, and is made 

 ready to fill orders, each particular 

 size of fruit being handled separately. 

 The modern method of preparing and 

 liacking of Oregon prunes has entirely 

 dispensed with the use of preparations 

 or dips; absolutely nothing is now 

 used by the best packers of Oregon 

 prunes except the process of cleaning 

 and sterilizing. Kach packer, of course, 

 has his own methods and peculiar 

 ideas as to how the best results are 

 obtained, and he operates his packing 

 plants accordingly, but it is now a 

 well-known fact that Oregon prunes, 

 properly cured and packed, will keep 

 with ordinary care for an indefinite 

 period. 



The package most popular with the 

 trade just now is the twenty-five 

 pound box, although some markets 

 still take large quantities of the fifty- 

 pound size. There is also some de- 

 mand for the ten-pound size, which is 

 sold direct to the consumer without 

 being broken up, and this is the sensi- 

 ble and sanitary way to buy the fruit. 

 Many times more prunes would be 

 sold to the best class of trade if their 

 attention was drawn to the real merit 

 of Oregon prunes as a food and to the 

 perfectly clean character of the fruit 

 as it reaches them in the ten-pound 

 package, coming directly from the 

 sterilizing plant to the consumer, as 

 it should. When the dust and dirt of 

 the retail grocery store and the open 

 box, bin or bag of prunes can be re- 

 placed by packages or by a container 

 of some sort which will reach the con- 

 sumer as originally packed — similar to 

 seeded raisins — then there will come 

 the day of the prune, for no cured 

 fruit possesses greater merit. 



The annual production of this fruit 

 during the past few years has in- 

 creased rapidly, but no more rapidly 

 than the power to consume them, for 

 there has been no over-production 

 save in the year of 1902. The annual 

 production from the present acreage 

 mav be said to run in round numbers 

 about 40,000,000 pounds. While the 

 crop of 1908 was only about half th: 

 quantity, the present year's crop may 

 be expected to reach the full average. 

 If a publicity campaign could be equit- 

 ably applied to this product, the writer 

 believes that the production might be 

 several times doubled and the product 

 would be all taken up at remunera- 

 tive prices to the producer. It only 

 remains for the consuming public in 

 this and foreign countries to know the 

 quality and merit contained in Ore- 

 gon prunes in order to make them one 

 of the most popular, every-day dishes 

 in millions of homes where they are 

 today unknown. 



Hood River Lambert cherries sold 

 in New York recently for 40 cents a 

 pound by the carload. Is it possible 

 that the king of spenders. Death Val- 

 ley Scotty, has cut loose again. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



