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BETTER FRUIT 



January, 1^20 



fT'uit is a new vai-iety produced by \V. \V. 

 Scott at his I-'ruitvale ranch. Some persons 

 profess to belie\'e the itainier is a sport from 

 the Delicious and llie Hiibbertson Nonsuch. 

 It has tlie spiciness and juice of the former 

 and resembles it in shape ^^hile in appear- 

 ance it favors the latter. .\s a keeper, how- 

 ever, the Rainier is claimed to far excel either 

 variety. The Yakima Coimty Horticultural 

 Union says the Itainier has been sold for con- 

 sumption in July and August and that it is 

 an e.xtraordinarily long keeper. 



Canada is buying virtually no American 

 apples this year, according to P. R. Parks, 

 general manager of the Spokane Kruit Grow- 

 ers Company. In the past the northwestern 

 provinces have been large consumers of Wash- 

 ington boxed apples, particularly the "C" 

 grade. The Okanogan districts of British Co- 



luinliia hnve big orchards in bearing this 

 year for the llrst time and are supplying the 

 northwestern Canadian trade. The policy of 

 "Buy-in-C:mada" is being vigorously pressed 

 since the war. American ai>iiles pay a duty 

 of about M cents a box when they cross the 

 line. "Prices are not quite as high as tliev 

 were earlier in the season because of indis- 

 criminate shipijing, but they arc higher than 

 they were a year ago, barring the fancy figures 

 received for a little stulV at the cnii oi the 

 season. The growers will realize handsome 

 returns this year again, although the crop is 

 slightly under that of a year ago," according to 

 Mr. Parks. 



A pile of ."iS.OOO boxes of apples was one of 

 the sights of the warehouse district at Grand- 

 view, Wash., the pile being owned by the 

 Washington Dehydrated Kood Company, "to be 



Last Big Block of the Canadian Pacific 



Reserved Farm Lands 



THIS announces the offering of the last big 

 block of the Canadian Pacific Reserved Farm 

 Lands. Until this block is disposed of you can secure at low 

 cost a farm home in Western Canada that will make you rich and 

 independent. The country is ideal for mixed farming as well as grain 

 growing. Later, the same lands can be bought only from private 

 owners — and naturally, prices will be higher. Never again on the 

 North American Continent will farm lands be ofiered at prices so low. 



Your Last Big ^ 

 Opportunity fej ' 



This block contains both 

 fertile open prairie and 

 rich park lands in the 

 Lloydminsterand Battle- 

 ford Districts of Central Alberta 

 and Saskatchewan. You can buy 

 farm lands on the rich prairies 

 of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta for $11 to $30 an acre. 

 Or land in Southern Alberta un- 

 der an irrigation system of un- 

 failing water from $50 an acre 

 and up. 



Twenty Years to Earn 

 and to Pay 



The Canadian Pacific offers you this 

 land under a plan of long term, easy 



Kayments that is remarkable in the 

 istory of farm investments. You pay 

 down 10%. Then you have no pay- 

 ment on the principal until the end of 

 the fourth vear, then fifteen annual 

 payments. Interest is 6%. In central 

 Saskatchewan, Seagar Wheeler grew 

 the world's prize wheat. World's prize 

 oats were grown at Lloydminster. 



Lands Under Irrigation 



In Southern Alberta, the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway has developed the largest 

 individual irrigation undertaking on 

 the American Continent. This district 

 contains some of the best lands in 

 Canada. An unfailing supply of water 

 is administered under tne Canadian 

 Government. Prices range from $50 

 an acre up on the same easy payment 

 terms. $2000 loan in improvements; 

 twentv vears to pay back. 



M. E. THORNTON 



Supt. of Colonization 



Canadian Pacific Railway 



960 Firvt Street. C. Calffarr, AlberU 



No Taxes on 

 Improvements 



There is a small tax on 



the land— seldom more than 

 20c an acre for all purpose* 

 butthereare no taxes on your 

 live stock, buildings, improve- 

 ments, implements or personal effects. 

 Good markets, modern schools, roads, 

 churches, amusements, make farm life 

 desirable and attractive. Here you can 

 achieve independence. 



No Sale Without Inves- 



tigation 



The Canadian Pacific will not sell you 

 a farm until you have inspected it. You 

 must be satisfied — and every question 

 answered before taking up your home. 

 Investigation is invited and made easy. 

 Don't delay your investigation. This 

 announcement calls attention to the 

 last great block of Canadian Pacific 

 Reserved Farm Lands. 



Special Rates forHome- 

 seekeri and Full Information 



Special railway rates for hom^seekers 

 make inspection easy. Send now for 

 free illustrated pamphlets answering 

 all questions and setting forth figures 

 about land values, acreage yields, cli- 

 mate, opportunities, etc. Do not delay. 

 Send coupon below for information. 



I M. E.THORNTON. (u»l.«rCilMiiitiin I 



I f'VNADlAN PA( IFIC RY., I 



■ 960 First St.. E.Caleary, Alberta I 



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D Irrigation fftrminii: in Sunny Alberta. ■ 



ID Farm opportuoities in Alberta, Saa- I 



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used in ils lotal plant. The company's big 

 warehouse was also full of apples and the 

 plant was operating; nijiht and day. 



AH previous estimates, as late as November 

 1, upon the apple yield of the state oj Wash- 

 ington are exceeded by a more authentic ap- 

 proximation issued by (he liureau n|" Crop Es- 

 timates on December l(i. The Spokane district 

 yield is estimated at 1500 cars, of which 190 

 cars are yet to move. Kstimales are placed 

 on other districts as follows: Wenatchee dis- 

 trict, ll.noo cars; Yakima Valley, 10.700 cars; 

 Walla Walla district, 1100 cars; While Salmon 

 district, 100 cars; and scattered points in 

 western Washington, .')O0 cars. The Wenat- 

 cliee and Yakima districts are estimated to 

 have 2500 and 2GU0 cars, respectively, yet to 

 move. 



With orchard holdings of 1760 acres the 

 Palonse corporation, apple growers with head- 

 quarters at Spokane, has reaped a harvest of 

 more ihan KM), 000 boxes of apples this season. 

 The maiket has returned from .'i;1.7o to §2.50 

 a box for fancy apples, according to J. R. 

 Wilson, manager and treasurer. The com- 

 pany has packing plants at Medical Lake, 

 Fairfield and Waverly. All products are 

 grown on non-irrigated land. The Palouse 

 corporation markets its fruit through the 

 Northwestern Fruit Exchange at Seattle. Dur- 

 ing the picking and packing season an aver- 

 age of 32.' men were employed by the com- 

 pany, with a daily payroll running from 

 $1200 to §1500. Enlargement of the packing 

 plant and housing facilities at Fairfield is 

 being considered. 



IDAHO. 

 Many Washington county, Idaho, fruitgrow- 

 ers are reported by the Farm liureau to be 

 preparing to build "semi-underground" stor- 

 age cellars for the 1920 crop. The success of 

 these storage cellars in the Payette Valley 

 this year where a number of them were con- 

 structed was so noticeable and productive of 

 such good results in preventing shipments of 

 overripe fruit; it is expected that many others 

 will be built next year throughout the state. 



The total apple crop in Idaho is now placed 

 at 4762 cars, an increase of 1293 cars over the 

 state's largest crop in 1917. 



According to the Payette Independent Boise 

 and Payette Valley apple orchards show no 

 further signs of infection, and conditions in- 

 dicate that the rotting and dying of trees, 

 which were noticed in 1917, resulted from an 

 epidemic of blight that prevailed in the season 

 of 1915 or of 1910, says a leport by E. R. Ben- 

 nett, field horticulturist, of the University of 

 Idaho extension division. Mr. Bennett based 

 this report on investigations made in company 

 V ith Lee M. Hutchins of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. The orchards in- 

 spected in the recent investigation were on 

 the Boise bench and in the Emmett, Payette, 

 New Plymouth, Fruitland, Parma districts. 

 This work was a continuation of the investi- 

 gations of the orchard woi'k that was made in 

 1917. 



A survey of the Lewiston. Idaho, apple sea- 

 son, which has just closed, by H. H. S, Rowell, 

 pnmiinent giower of the district, estimates the 

 apple pack to be in excess of 250 carloads. A 

 conservative estimate of the receipts for this 

 year's apple crop in the Lew iston-Clarkston 

 Valley is $600,000. This is far in excess of 

 previous records. This year seven packing 

 houses were kept busy. The chief varieties 

 raised are Jonathans and Rome Beauties, al- 

 though many carloads of Delicious. Y'ellow 

 Newtowns, Spitzenburgs and Winter Bananas 

 w ere shipped. 



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