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BETTER FRUIT 



October, ipip 



"Ever Occur to You?'^ 



says the Good Judge 



That it's foolish to put up 



with an ordinary chew, 



when it doesn't cost any 



more to get real tobacor* 



satisfaction. 



Every day more men di-s- 



cDver that a little chew of 



real good tobacco lasts 



longer and gives them real 



contentment. 



There's nothing like it. 



THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW 



put up in two styles 



KIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco 



W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco 



Comfortable 

 warmth 



Filled with Pearl Oil, a good oil 

 heater gives comfort without dust 

 or dirt. Oil consumed only when 

 needed; portable, economical. 



Pearl Oil is the ever obtainable 

 fuel, refined and re-refined to be 

 pure and clean burning. Order 

 by name — Pearl Oil. 



We recommend Perfection Oil 

 Heaters. 



known as Pyrus usuricnsis which is ab- 

 solutely blight resistant. Should it 

 prove adapted in other ways to our con- 

 ditions here it will prove a very val- 

 uable addition to the list of blight re- 

 sistant varieties. Growers will do well 

 to watch these varieties and note the 

 outcome of these investigations. 



In closing, the writer would urge the 

 need of a thorough preparation of the 

 soil preparatory to iilanling. A field 

 which has been in alfalfa for a number 

 of years if properly worked up pro- 

 vides an excellent place in which to 

 plant trees. Lastly, he would empha- 

 size the need of interplanting varieties 

 for pollination purposes and to equalize 

 the labor at harvest time. Plant the 

 trees far enough apart to insure full de- 

 velopment. See that soil and air drain- 

 age is ample, and where rainfall is in- 

 suflicient that irrigation can be had. If 

 the experience of successful growers is 

 taken advantage of and a few simple 

 rules followed success should follow. 



Orchardists Buy Many 

 Warehouse Sites 



Orchardisis in tlie Omak section, 

 upper Wenatchee Valley, are solving 

 loading problems along modern lines. 

 At a recent government lot sale the 

 bulk of the 200 lots offered adjacent 

 to the right of way and industrial 

 sites of tiie Omak Railway Company 

 were purchased by orcliardists for 

 warehouse sites. The main line of the 

 railway is less than a mile long but 

 the sidings to take care of the fruit 

 warehouses will be considerably 

 greater in length. 



An estimate of the outlay for stor- 

 age facilities in the Wenatchee district 

 is half a million dollars. At Monitor, 

 for instance, the warehouses extend 

 for 1000 feet along the track. The ef- 

 fect is odd in view of the fact that 

 Monitor itself is a tiny hamlet. On the 

 fruit farms a large number of sorting 

 and packing houses are being installed 

 to handle this year's output. 



An interesting sidelight on the apple 

 industry is the statement that in an 

 effort to procure legislation whereby 

 the standard box for apples as adopted 

 by the state legislatures of Washing- 

 ton, Oregon and Idaho, will be 

 adopted for the box apple zone of the 

 West. Congressman J. Stanley Web- 

 ster, of Washington, recently secured 

 an appointment to appear before the 

 committee on coinage and weights to 

 discuss this subject. 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



Washington Strawberries Pay Well. 



W. Munson and E. Mattin this year 

 planted an acre and a quarter to 

 strawberries near Wapato, Wash. The 

 berries made an excellent yield. The 

 first crop has been marketed and the 

 gentlemen report a total of $910.66 

 from the berries sold. Pickers were 

 permitted to have several crates and 

 a certain amount was kept for use of 

 Messrs. Munson and Mattin. The vines 

 will bear another crop this fall, which 

 is expected to be larger than the one 

 just marketed. 



