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sold at a fixed price, and furnished in 

 constant supply, a splendid testimony 

 to good organization. 



It is becoming more and more difTicult 

 to speculate with California products, 

 such as oranges, raisins, walnuts, owing 

 to the fact that these industries are 

 organized along state-wide lines, are 

 properly financed, are well advertised, 

 and control more than 50 per cent of 

 the tonnage. 7"he pear price in the 

 past in the Pacific Northwest is a fine 

 testimony of the need of the growers to 



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comes to one with the pos- 

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 it brings also a sense of 

 protection against unex- 

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Your banking connec- 

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 Hke Ladd& Tilton that has 

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 matters. 



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BETTER FRUIT 



arouse themselves and become thor- 

 oughly organized. When purchased as 

 they were this year at prices ranging 

 from .^22 to .¥85 a ton, there is some- 

 thing wrong with our business methods, 

 especially when California firms re- 

 ceived from %lh to $85, and buyers 

 claim our pears are superior. 



When we first started this organiza- 

 tion there was some opposition from 

 cannerymen, or at least some concern 

 on their part. Now they are coming to 

 our office, are coming in personally, 

 and saying that this movement is the 

 best thing that has happened in the 

 state. There are forty-six canneries in 

 the state already. Some of these can- 

 neries will have a hard time when busi- 

 ness begins to readjust itself and prices 

 begin to come down. If, however, we 

 can establish a good, fair price, and 

 stabilize the price paid for products 

 which go to the canner, we will elimi- 

 nate throat-cutting in the cannery game 

 and keep this splendid industry perma- 

 nently in this state. 



^^^^en a fruit grower comes to town 

 and goes into a store he doesn't walk up 

 to the owner and say, "I'll give you so 

 much for that sewing machine, that 

 pair of shoes, that piano," or whatever 

 the commodity may be, but he asks the 

 owner what he will take for the com- 

 modity. On the other hand, when the 

 fruit grower or farmer comes to sell 

 anything, he always asks, "What will 

 you give me?" There certainly is some- 

 thing wrong in this combination. An 

 individual grower cannot fix a price. 

 He hasn't the money or time in which 

 to find what a good, fair price would be. 

 Large groups of growers can find what 

 a fair price is, can establish this price, 

 thus enabling the grower to name his 

 price for his commodity. A staple com- 

 modity like prunes, canned goods, and 

 even aijples, should have a true value. 

 And this value can be established if one 

 cares to take the means to get the 

 proper sources of information. 



-Some of our critics are taking us to 

 task because we are going to sell apples, 

 l)cars, prunes, canned goods, dried fruits 



November, 1919 



and berries all in one organization. 

 They say this cannot be done. Well, 

 the California stale-wide cooperative 

 organizations would give a great deal 

 if they could combine. It is too late 

 for them to do it, however. When a 

 man says he cannot combine these lines 

 call his attention to the fact that the 

 (lalifornia Packing Corporation handles 

 many varied goods. They control the 

 salmon packing of Alaska, do a huge 

 business in canned and bottled goods in 



Berry Plants Wanted 



Loganberry, Burbank Phenomenal, New 

 Oregon Strawberry and Cuthbert Rasp- 

 berry. Must be True-to-Name Plants. 

 Write "M.J. M."care Belter Fruit, Portland, Oregon 



"My, what a relief!*' 



THAT r/ieumatictivingedoesn'thother 

 you long after you've had the ach- 

 ing part batlied with the old stand- 

 by — Sloan's Liniment. You just put a 

 little on — it doesn't stain the skin — gently 

 pat it, and it penetrates, sending aiiarm, 

 soothing glo'w through the tortured part. 



It stands alone in promoting quick relief from afttr- 

 tffect I nf txpBiurr, lumba^a. tciatica. multie 2nd Joint strains, 

 fain strains and stiffness, neuraieia, bruises Tlicrc'a % 

 successful record of 38 years back of Sloan^s LinimeDt. 



Keep a big bottle ready for uce-*it maybe any 

 minute. The big bottle holds six times as much 

 as the small one. J 5c. 70c, 41.40. 



Sloan's 



Keep ii handy 



the Point 



Chemically Treated 

 '^Caro^' Protects 



"Caro" from DessiCARE (to dry up) 



"Caro" 



Prolongs the 



Life of Fruit 



Why? 



Fruit decomposition starts from a bruise which opens tiny holes and permits the juice to escape and BACTERIA to enter. 

 "Caro"' clings closely and dries up the escaping juice. "Caro" ingredients harden the spot, kill the BACTERIA, arrests the decom- 

 position— and thus PROLONGS THE LIFE OF FRUIT. If your fruit is worth shipping it is worth.keeping in best condition. 



Demand "CARO"— Wrap Your Fruit in "CARO"— The Fruit Buyer Knows "CARO" 



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