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BETTER FRUIT 



May, igzo 



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"It pays me to give my customers what they ask for," says 

 the retailer who "knows what's what. "When they ask for 

 'Giant Powders' I give them GIANT Powders — the real 

 Giant, made by The Giant Powder Co., Con. I don't tell 

 them that 'I have the same thing, only under another brand 

 name,' because it is not true. 



"The name 'Giant'on a case or a stick of powder is evidence 

 that the powder is made by the company that originated 

 Giant Powders. Remember this: You can't get Giant re- 

 sults when you use ordinary dynamites that look like Giant 

 but aren't marked Giant." 



Look into the new, money-saving methods of clearing land, blasting tree beds, 

 ditches, boulders, etc. They are all described in our up-to-the-minute book. 

 "Better Farming with Giant Farm Powders." A post card will bring it by the 

 first mail. 



THE GIANT POWDER CO., CON. 



"Everything for Blasting" 



202 First National Bank Bldg., San Francisco 

 Branch Offices: Butte, Denver, I.os .\ngelcs. Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Spokane 



EUREKA 



How to Save Your Fruits at Ripening Time 



There is no process known equal to canning and no better 

 sellers than canned fruits and vegetables. We build canning 

 outfits and plants to meet the requirements of the small and 

 large growers— Hand and Belt Power Double Seamers for 

 sealing sanitary cans. Write for Catalog C, Dept. T. 



Henninger & Ayers Manufacturing Co. 



Ififs used in canning, we sell it. Portland, Oregon, U. S. A. 



Earl Company will sell the Palouse organiza- 

 tion's tonnage this season for tiie first time. 

 The problem of disposing of culls is becom- 

 ing serious and last year local cider plants 

 could not handle them and tons were shipped 

 out of the district to be worked up in distant 

 by-product plants. Mr. Di Giorgio has had 

 considerable experience with dehydrators, op- 

 erating one of the largest in the Northwest in 

 Southern Idaho, for the treatment of prunes. 



The second largest orchard sale in the his- 

 tory of North Central Washington was com- 

 pleted at Wenatchee, when the American Fruit 

 Growers, Incorporated, took over the 160 acres 

 owned by the Wells & Wade Orchard Com- 

 pany at iMalott, paying ,$156,000, There is about 

 110 acres of orchard just coming into bearing 

 and 20 acres in alfalfa included in the tract 

 purchased. The orchard was set out to winter 

 apples in 1912 and produced 24,000 boxes last 

 year. It was improved with a modern pack- 

 ing house and also with a concrete warehouse, 

 located on the railroad at Malott. 



Anticipating higher box prices this season, 

 the Spokane Fruit Growers' Company has 

 200,000 boxes in its warehouse for the 1920 

 apple crop and has closed contracts for the 

 delivery before October 1 next of 750,000 boxes. 

 Box manufacturers are asking double the 

 opening prices at this time a year ago. At that 

 time some makers contracted to supply boxes 

 at about 12 cents. Present prices run from 

 25 to 27 cents. The highest figure last season 

 was 18 to 20 cents. The company this year will 

 need approximately 375,000 pounds of paper 

 for wraps in addition to labels for each box. 

 This material is already ordered by the 

 Skookum Packers' Association for all its 

 members. The company buys spraying mate- 

 rials and nails and is placing orders and in 

 some instances accepting delivery. Nails are 

 scarce and higher than last year. Arsenate of 

 lead, the biggest item in spraying costs is a 

 little cheaper than it was last year. Most of 

 the lime sulphur used against scale and scab 

 is mixed by the company for the growers at 

 the branches. Sulphur is a little cheaper than 

 a year ago, but lime is slightly higher. Grow- 

 ers in the Spokane Valley have a new pest to 

 fight this year in the leaf roller, which ap- 

 peared throughout the valley for the first time 

 last year. It must be combatted with miscible 

 or soluble oil, which is sold to the growers at 

 ?22 per barrel of 50 gallons. 



The heaviest shipment of apples in one day 

 from the Wenatchee district since the first of 

 the year went forward recently when 119 cars 

 were dispatched to eastern points in two solid 

 trains. One was made up of 60 box cars, 

 practically all loaded in Omak, and the other 

 was composed of 38 refrigerators and 21 box 

 cars picked up all over the district. Wenatchee 

 has shipped over 11,400 cars of apples this 

 season. 



Homer J. Shinn of Spokane, has sold his 520- 

 acre Keystone Fruit Company ranch at Entiat 

 to J. Ellis Slater, a commission man and cap- 

 italist of Chicago and A. E. Brauns, a fruit 

 and lumber man of Iron Mountain, Michigan, 

 for a reported price of $250,000. The Key- 

 stone brand and ranch has been owned by 

 Mr. Shinn for 13 years and is one of the show 

 places of the Entiat district. The water rights 

 are perpetual and the ranch is irrigated by 

 trough flumes from the Entiat river. Three 

 hundred and ten acres are under cultivation, 

 chiefly in apples and pears. The trees, planted 

 by Mr. Shinn, are six or seven years old. The 

 apple yield last year was 45,000 boxes. 



W. A. Darling and J. S. Cardinal, with asso- 

 ciates, have incorporated as the Wenatchee 

 Fruit and Warehouse Company of Pehastin 

 and will begin the construction of a wareliouse 

 which is estimated to cost $45,000, 



Skagit County in Northwestern Washington, 

 is experiencing a big boom in the small fruit 

 industry. Between 1500 and 2000 acres have 

 been planted this spring and approximately an 

 equal number will be set out next fall and 

 spring. The plantings are about equally di- 

 vided between strawberries, raspberries and 

 loganberries and there has also been consid- 

 erable planting of blackberries. In the Skagit 



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