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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



Northwest Standard 



Northwest Fence &. Supply Co. 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



means of carrying the nuts through this 

 tunnel vary: small rollers may be used, 

 or an inclined wire cloth tray which is 

 continually shaken laterally, thus caus- 

 ing the nuts to roll along gradually in a 

 single layer. 



From the bleacher the nuts are ele- 

 vated to the drying bins. Some packing 

 houses carry them through wooden tun- 

 nels, through which a current of warm 

 air is passing, on their way from the 

 bleacher to the drying bins. This par- 

 tially drys the nuts, so they are ready 

 to bag in a few hours. If the nuts are 

 not passed through warm air the dry- 

 ing process in the bins will require 

 from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, 

 depending upon the weather. 



■VSTiile the nuts are passing along the 

 belt from the bleacher to the drying 

 bins they are continually watched by 

 several persons, who pick out the 

 poorly bleached and otherwise inferior 

 nuts. Such culls are sent to the cracker, 

 where they are cracked and their meats 

 sold, after being graded according to 

 color and general condition. 



As the nuts are emptied into the dry- 

 ing bins they are usually distributed 

 among several bins at the same time. 

 Again when they are drawn out and 

 sacked several bins are emptied at once. 

 This thorough mixing assists in putting 

 out a uniform product as a whole, con- 

 sidering the variability of seedling wal- 

 nuts. One hundred pounds of nuts is 

 put in each sack. 



Nuts put up as thus described, after 

 being thoroughly graded and culled, can 

 be sold and guaranteed to contain a 



certain percentage of good nuts. The 

 present year the association houses 

 guarantee a crack of 87% good sound 

 merchantable meats with their seedling 

 nuts and 90% with their budded nuts. 

 These grades may often actually crack 

 from 95% to 97% sound meats. 



Giving. 



Just money! That is all we're asked to give. 

 He gave his life, Jim. He'd have liked to live. 

 For Betty — bless her shy young heart — had only 



The week before he left put on his ring. 

 How long her life will be to her, how lonely. 



With nothing of him but remembering! 

 She never flinched, nor he, my son; they gave; 

 She working still, and Jinimie in his grave. 

 And now today we're asked again to save, 

 And give, give, give the country what we've 



sweat 

 And toiled to earn. It's hard for all — and yet, 

 We safe, we calm, we fortunate, we living, 

 1 wonder, dare we, dare we call this giving? 



Maby Cabolyn Davies. 



Associate, Co-operate. 



By "Pippin." 



Whether one reads New Zealand, Aus- 

 tralian, American, or other literature on 

 the fruit industry, one sees an insistence 

 on two needs — association, co-operation. 

 Hence these verses: 



If you would like a profit rate 



To keep your home in decent state. 



Associate. 

 If you would like to dodge the fate 

 Which smites the foolish, soon or late. 



Co-operate, 

 To scare the wolf from orchard gate. 

 And free yourself from care's black weight. 



Associate. 

 Don't dubitate, don't hesitate. 

 Don't stupidly proscrastinate; 



Co-operate. 

 Associate, co-operate. 

 And keep your system up-to-date. 

 Co-operate, associate. 

 The time has passed for dull debate: 

 Associate, co-operate. 



— Oiago Daily Times. 



lustration shows the new u , 

 Oregon, recently erect 



ireli lu,, ail ] cold storage plant of Bardwell Fruit Co., Medford, 

 ■d, in whicli Cabot's Insulating Quilt was used. 



