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A continuous, uni- 

 form chain of boil- 

 ing points makes 

 "Red Crown" de- 

 pendable. No "mix- 

 ture" can give the 

 same satisfactory 

 results. Look for the 

 Red Crown sign be- 

 fore you fill. 



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BETTER FRUIT 



level Willamette Valley land where 

 most of these orchards were located, 

 so that the 1917 crop was light; but this 

 season finds them with a good crop 

 again. 



Some were discouraged on account of 

 the damage done by the frost of 1916. 

 We must expect some discouragements. 

 Our spring grain crop is almost a 

 failure in the Willamette Valley this 

 season, but should we be discouraged 

 and not plant again next season? We 

 have had our fall wheat frozen out 

 several times. I well remember when 

 one of my neighbors had his fall wheat 

 frozen out twice in succession. He 

 became discouraged and did not plant 

 any for seven years, during which time 

 the winter wheat was not damaged, so 

 he thought he would take a chance 

 again. And it froze out again. So he 

 has been planting ever since and took 

 the chance. At this writing, after fif- 

 teen years of experimenting and study, 

 I am more thoroughly convinced than 

 ever before that walnut growing is now 

 and will be an unqualified success here 

 in the Northwest. 



September 



leading variety here in the Northwest. 

 There have been hundreds of thousands 

 of crosses since and none have proved 

 better, so our chances for betterment 

 are comparatively slim. Crossing for a 

 purpose and not by chance is more 

 likely to bring improvement. 



The question that confronts most of 

 the would-be planters is: Will the wal- 

 nut bear in paying quantities here in 

 the Northwest? To this I would say 

 much depends on location, variety, 

 care and a number of other things that 

 might make success or failure. There 

 are a large number of trees growing 

 along roadsides and in farm yards that 

 have been topgrafted and are producing 

 heavy and regular crops, several aver- 

 aging from 50 to 250 pounds per tree, 

 and have not missed a crop since they 

 began to bear from seven to nine years 

 ago. The highest production per acre 

 that we have any record of is right 

 here in the Northwest. 



There are no grafted orchards in the 

 Northwest old enough as yet to prove 

 just what they will bear. Practically 

 all the grafted Franquettes that were 

 eight and nine years old in 191(3 bore 

 heavy crops, but the early October frost 

 that year damaged the trees on all the 



Some of the Bits Your Liberty Bond 

 Will Do 



Washington, D. C— If you buy a $100 

 bond of the Fourth Liberty Loan you 

 are lending the United States Govern- 

 ment enough money to feed a soldier in 

 France a little more than seven months, 

 says the Treasury Department. Or you 

 have furnished enough money to give 

 him a complete outfit of winter and 

 summer clothing, including shoes and 

 stockings, and slicker and overcoat and 

 blankets, with enough left over to arm 

 him with a good revolver. You have 

 done that much to beat back the Hun. 

 It takes $.S5 more to arm him with a rifle 

 with a bayonet on it, and if you buy a 

 second $100 bond you furnish him this 

 rifle and one thousand cartridges for it; 

 and there will still be enough of your 

 mone\' left to purchase a good-sized 

 bomb to throw in a dugout, or demolish 

 a machine gun, together with the Huns 

 operating it. — Packer. 



Better Fruit: I am enclosing my 

 checjue in payment of Better Fruit. I 

 cannot get along without Better Fruit. 

 — .John F. Herman, Boone, Iowa. 



Make every day a thrift day and help 

 your Government end the war days. 



Dates of 1918 Fairs 



Yakima, Washington — September 16-21. 



Salem, Oregon — September 23-28. 



Boise, Idaho — September 23-28. 



Walla Walla, Washington — September 9-14. 



Goldendale, Washington — October 2-5. 



Helena, Montana — September 9-14. 



'Washington : 

 Ritzville— September 26, 27, 28. 

 Lvndcn — October 4-5. 

 Colville— September 12, 13, 14. 



Oregon : 

 Dallas — September 17-19. 

 Fossil— September 19-20. 

 Gresham — September 17-21. 

 Moro— October 9-12. 

 Scio — September 17-18. 

 Portland — November 18-23. 

 Pendleton — September 19-21. 

 St. Helens. 



Idaho: 

 Lcwiston — November 7-13. 

 Filer — October 1-5. 



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