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BETTER FRUIT 



September 



Player Music Rolls 



Send for Our Catalogs 



We carry the largest stocks of Player Music Rolls 

 on the Pacific Coast. We have in stock all the new music. 

 We get the hits as fast as the manufacturers make them 

 into player rolls. 



We issue a Monthly Bulletin listing only the real 

 hits and the prices- the Bulletin is sent free and without 

 obligation to purchase. We will gladly add the name of 

 any Player Piano owner, upon request. 



Write and ask us about our "On Approval" plan of 

 buying Player Music. 



When writing please state whether your Player Piano 

 is a 65 note or an 88 note instrument. 



! invite you to call at any of our stores — or write us 

 asking for illustrated catalogues and prices 



We are dealers in Steinway and other Pianos, Pianola Pianos, 

 Aeolian Player Pianos, Player Music, etc. 



Sherman Jpiay& Co. 



Kearny and Sutter Streets, San Francisco 



Sixth and Morrison Streets, Portland 



Third Avenue, at Pine Street, Seattle 



928-30 Broadway, Tacoma 



808-10 Sprague Avenue, Spokane 



Stores also at Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Vallejo 



Correct Lubrication 

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 The Ford automo- 

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 full lubricating 

 qualities at cylinder 

 heat, burns clean in 

 the combustion 

 chambers and goes 

 out with exhaust. 

 ZEROLEME LIGHT 

 fills these requirements 

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 selected California as- 

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"Zerolene is the Best" 



— Say leading motor car distributors, 

 because the records of their service 

 departments show that ZEROLENE, 

 correctly refined from selected Cali- 

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 carbon deposit. 



Most cars are now lubricated with 

 ZEROLENE because their owners 

 have learned through experience that 

 there is no better oil. 

 ZEROLENE is the correct oil for all 

 types of automobile engines. It is the 

 correct oil for your automobile. Get 

 our lubrication chart showing the cor- 

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A.t dealers ev^ry}wbere and Standard Oil 

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(California) 



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Central Packing Sheds, Etc. 



Continued from page 8 



Iiackcil l)()xes, from any given quantity 

 of loose fruit I'eceived. The weight of 

 a box of apples varies not only with 

 the variety of the apples but with the 

 size of the fruit, the style of pack, the 

 season of the year, the bulge on the 

 box and many other factors which 

 cause variations and therefore make 

 the adoption of a satisfactory arbitrary 

 weight almost impossible. 



Until the packing of a variety is com- 

 pleted all fruit accounts should be car- 

 ried in terms of pounds net weight 

 rather than in terms of boxes. When 

 all the fruit of any variety has been 

 received and packed out we then have 

 the fruit recorded as so many pounds 

 or apples against so many boxes of that 

 variety actually packed out. Then the 

 total number of pounds divided by the 

 total number of boxes packed gives the 

 exact average weight per box for the 

 variety. Each grower's account having 

 been carried in terms of pounds for 

 each grade and each break in a grade, 

 there remains only to divide his total 

 for each grade and break by the weight 

 per box so secured to secure the exact 

 number of boxes to which he is en- 

 titled, and the grade and size of all 

 fruit. If the weight is not determined 

 in this way, the grower will be charged 

 with more or with less boxes than 

 were actually packed. An arbitrary 

 lower than actual weight would give a 

 larger number of boxes than actually 

 packed out, it would be unfair to the 

 grower in every case where a flat rate 

 on any service prevailed. He would 

 pay for packing boxes never packed; 

 for paper, nails, boxes and labels never 

 used; for storage and handling on 

 boxes never stored or handled. Then 

 when the returns are in, it is necessary 

 to distribute the returns over a lot of 

 boxes which never existed and the re- 

 turns per box are very greatly reduced. 



With an arbitrary weight greater 

 than actually found the conditions re- 

 verse themselves in every case, and the 

 warehouse finds itself using boxes, 

 paper, nails and labels for which it 

 receives no payment and paying for 

 packing for which it is not paid. The 

 large arbitrary means loss to the ware- 

 house in every operation conducted on 

 a per-box basis. On the other hand, the 

 money from a pool is divided amongst 

 a small number of boxes, therefore the 

 price per box as reported would be 

 larger than the actual returns. These 

 discrepancies are all averted by the use 

 of the system recommended rather than 

 by use of the arbitrary weight. The 

 charges are just; the returns are cor- 

 rect, and the work of handling each 

 account is minimized. Your work 

 would then stand the scrutiny of a cer- 

 tified public accountant. 



The pooling of interests is almost 

 universally regarded as a stabilizer of 

 industries. It minimizes the element of 

 personal risk. It eliminates the gam- 

 bler's luck. The principle of the pool- 

 ing system is that which is at the bot- 

 tom of all insurance, and all mutual 

 insurance concerns are absolute dupli- 

 cates of our fruit pools. Each mem- 



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