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BETTER FRUIT 



June, 1920 



Classified Advertisements 



RATE, 4 CENTS PER WORD 

 NURSERY STOCK. 



ITALIAN PRUNE TREES. 

 Cleaning up at wholesale price. State 



guantity and grades wanted. Don't delay, 

 nly few more thousand to offer. Grafted 

 walnuts, Alberts, fruit trees, loganberries, 

 raspberries, rhubarb, etc. 



LAFAYETTE NURSERY CO., 

 Lafayette, Oregon. 



ORIENTAL FLOWERING PLANT — Japanese 

 Fire flowering plant, beautiful ornamental 

 foliage, bright red flowers, imported by 

 grower, 10c package postpaid. J. A. Bean, 

 East Seattle, Washington. 



ETTERRERG 121 strawberry plants. Best can- 

 ner and shipper. Heavy producer. Low 

 quantity prices. Quality plants. Ward K. 

 Richardson, Salem, Oregon . 



EVERBEARING STRAWBERRY PLANTS — 

 Fine healthy ones. Write for catalogue. 

 Canyon Home Nursery, Ellensburg, Washing- 

 ton^ 



CHOICE Progressive Everbearing strawberry 

 plants, $2 per 100; $12 per 1,000, postpaid. 

 Duroc Ranch , Boise, Idaho. 



FOR SALE — Wilson strawberry plants, $6 per 

 thousand, postpaid. Wm. A. Bond, R. F. D. 

 6, Box 9 8, Salem, Oregon . 



FOR SALE — Loganberry tips, 10c each, post- 

 paid. Wm. A. Bond, R. 6, Box 98, Salem, 

 Oregon. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CONSULTING HORTICULTURIST 

 Professor W. S. Thornber, formerly head 

 of the Department of Horticulture and Land- 

 scape Gardening and later director of Ex- 

 tension Service of the State College of Wash- 

 ington, will advise witli fruit growers upon 

 all horticultural problems. If your orchard 

 has not been a financial success and you 

 ■wish to determine its possibilities or you 

 wish to improve your orchard, reduce your 

 losses and increase your returns, I will assist 

 you in working out your problem. Write 

 for terms. W. S. Thornber, Lewiston, Idaho. 



TRESPASS SIGNS. 

 Don't allow trespassers to destroy your 

 property. Our big waterproof and sunproof 

 "No Trespassing" signs will keep out tres- 

 passers. Send $1 for six signs, size 11x14 

 inches. Twelve for $1.75. Sent postpaid. 

 Out West Supply Company, Portland, 

 Orego n. 



COLORED PHOTOS— 300 pictures, useful in- 

 formation in our 1920 Seed Catalogue. 'Tis 

 different and free. Address Department 37, 

 Lilly's, Seattle. 



SITUATION WANTED as orchard foreman. 

 Lifetime experience in horticulture; familiar 

 with gas tractors, engines and pumps; able 

 to handle help and produce results. Mar- 

 ried. F. S., care Bett er Fruit. 



WE WANT DISTRIBUtORS~for our Miller 

 Killer Traps throughout the Northwest. They 

 catch the moths and save the fruit. The 

 C. C. Fonts Company, Middletown, Ohio. 



FARMS FOR SALE. 



$10,000. 



AN IDEAL STOCK AND DAIRY RANCH.— 120 

 acres, all level; Stevens County, 20 miles to 

 Spokane. All heavy sub-irrigated land; 80 

 acres in cultivation; fenced and cross-fenced. 

 Excellent buildings, including stone milk 

 house. Running spring water piped to house 

 and barn. Bearing family orchard and 1^ 

 acres young orchard, choice varieties; 20 

 acres timothy meadow; 5 acres alfalfa; sufli- 

 cient cord wood and saw timber to pay for 

 place. Easy haul. Excellent location near 

 Wild Rose Prairie. Here is your chance, 

 Mr. Farmer. $4,000 cash, balance to suit. 

 .$15,500. 

 AN IDEAL DAIRY FARM. 

 123 acres in Colville Valley, near Grays, 

 railroad station on new state highway. Fair 

 six-room house; excellent new barn and hay 

 sheds, chicken-house and hog pens, etc.; 100 

 acres in hay, mostly alfalfa; about 20 acres 

 in small timber, easily cleared. Running 

 spring by house and in barnyard. Colville 

 river runs through place, good trout fishing. 

 No better dairy farm of same size anywhere. 

 $5000 cash, balance to suit. 



THE BIG BEND LAND COMPANY, 



Spokane, Washington. 



FOR SALE— Splendid Upper Valley Hood 

 River Orchard Tract. Eighty acres, fifteen 

 in best commercial varieties. Prospects 3000 

 to 4000 boxes this year. Balance brush land 

 easily cleared; wonderful soil, cheap and 

 plentiful irrigation water; good house, sur- 

 passing view. $10,000. Hood River Abstract 

 & Investment Company, Hood River, Oregon. 



HE refreshment tray can always 

 thank Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate 

 for its magic aid. Creamy hot choco- 

 late to drink; cakes with possibly a 

 chocolate filling and frosting; waxy 

 squares of chocolate fudge— not to men- 

 tion countless other "goodies" — appear 

 in a twinkling when the hostess sum- 

 mons theever-readycan of Ghirardelli's. 



Never sold in bulk — but in cans only. 

 In ^ lb. , 1 lb. and 3 lb. sealed cans — 

 at the store where you do your trading. 



Say '' Gear-ar-delly^' 



D. GHIRARDELLI CO. 



Since 1852 



San Francisco 



(F2) 



GHIRARDELUS 



Ground Qiocolate 



400-ACRE STOCK FARM within 40 miles of 

 Portland; vegetable loam, well watered; roll- 

 ing, nearly all tillable; 50 acres under plow, 

 50 acres pasture; houses, barns, outbuildings 

 and other improvements. Abundance and 

 variety choicest fruit; 37 years continuous 

 crops by owner, whose infirmity forces sale. 

 $20,000. Terms. 



Clackamas County, 160 acres 35 miles from 

 Portland; 36 acres cultivation; fenced, cross- 

 fenced, orchard, house, barn, spring water 

 supply, good road, adjoining school; best 

 soil. $8,000. Terms at 6 per cent. 



Douglas County 160-acre mountain ranch 

 near Ashland; good house, barn, outbuild- 

 ings; partly fenced and cross-fenced; 12 

 acres cultivated; 2,000,000 feet saw timber; 

 $3000, terms. 



E. PIERSON, 



415 Chamber of Commerce Building, 

 Portland, Oregon. 



FOR SALE — $2250 buys 50 acres of fine level 

 land in Shasta County, California, under 

 irrigation system, ditch on property; grows 

 anything. Especially adapted to fruit and 

 berries, olives, alfalfa. Latest enterprise 

 proving great success is rice culture. About 

 30 acres ready for cultivation; balance 

 slightly wooded. Address H. H. Shullleton, 

 Jr., Redding, California. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



FOR SALE — Ten and one-half acres of com- 

 mercial orchard, lots 9 and 10, block 57, 

 Lewiston Orchards. Seven acres in seven- 

 year old apple trees, selected commercial 

 varieties; three and one-half acres in cher- 

 ries. In good condition; ideally situated 

 near paved road; centralized school, church, 

 and six miles from Lewiston, Idaho. Pipe 

 line irrigation, fully equipped. $8500. Dis- 

 count for cash. David Olson, Kent, Ohio. 



CUT-OVER LANDS. 

 23 miles north of Spokane, rich bottom 

 lands, good for dairying and general farm- 

 ing, no irrigation, plenty of running water, 

 free lumber, 10 years' time, 6 per cent. Call 

 or write Deer Park Lumber Company, Deer 

 Park, Washington, or 109 Stevens Streets, 

 Spokane, Washington. 



CUT-OVER AND DEVELOPED LANDS, 15 to 

 25 miles N. E. Spokane; extra good soil; 

 spring brooks; grows grain, vegetables, hay, 

 fruits ; several developed ranches ; few stock 

 ranches; $10 to $20 acre. Ten years time, 

 6 per cent interest. Free lumber. Write 

 owners for free book. Edwards & Bradford 

 Lumber Company, Elk, Washington. 



FOR SALE — 27-acre Idaho apple orchard, 7 

 years old ; alfalfa between rows ; water right. 

 $500 per acre. Write Box 694, Weiser, Idaho. 



