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fiORTHWESTERN BANK BLDC. 



PORTIAND. OREGON. 



E.SHILLEY MORGAN 



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APPLES 



PEARS 



ORANGES 



For European Distribution 



Boxed Apples and Pears a Specialty 



GERALD DA COSTA 



100 & 101, Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, W. C. 2, England 



Cables: "Geracost, London." Codes: A. B. C. Sth Edition and Private 



Shipping Agents: Lunham & Moore, Produce Exchange, New York 



THE GOLDEN GATE WEED CUTTER 



Greatest Weed Cutter on the Market Today 



Cuts seven feet or leas, weighs 230 pounds and la all made of 

 steel. The Gtolden Gate Weed Clutter Is the greatest of Us kind 

 on the niark#t. For workmanship, Blmpllclty and durability It 

 cannot be excelled, as It does Ite work to perfection. Those 

 who are uslfig it Bay that no money could buy It If they could 

 not get another. It not only cuts all kinds of weeds, but culti- 

 vates the ground as well. One user said that it has saved him 

 $200. no. as he did not have to plow after using. 



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CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



receiving. If the fruit is taken in by 

 weight two wagon scales should be in- 

 stalled for weighing. If the individual 

 system is used there is no need of this 

 eiiiiipment. In any case a 20-foot con- 

 veyor may be used to good advantage 

 at the doors for facilitating the unload- 

 ing. In our own plant we consider 

 these conveyors the best paying invest- 

 ment we have in equipment. If the 

 fruit is being packed on the second or 

 third floor an outside escalator or two 

 are used for the purpose of getting the 

 fruit into the house. 



The next equipment in general use 

 is the sizing machines. Around the 

 sizing machines are placed conveyors 

 for carrying packed fruit to the nailers. 

 From the nailers another short con- 

 veyor is used from which the fruit is 

 segregated into varieties, grades and 

 sizes. From this point trucks are used 

 in carrying the fruit to different parts 

 of the storeroom when the storeroom 

 is on the same floor. If the packing is 

 done above the storage rooms the con- 

 veyor can be used to carry the fruit to 

 a shoot which leads to the basement, 

 where the fruit can be segregated and 

 stacked in the proper place. 



One important part of the equipment 

 we have failed to mention is motor 

 trucks for delivering fruit from the 

 orchard to the shed. These trucks 

 should be owned and operated by the 

 organization. By having large trucks 

 much time can be saved at the receiv- 

 ing door and the fruit can be brought 

 to the shed in an orderly manner. 

 Where trucks are used in hauling and 

 they are operated night and day, one- 

 third of the waiting at the door can be 

 eliminated. 



The central packing shed holds an 

 economic position in each fruit com- 

 munity which cannot be equaled by 

 any other similar institution. Through 

 its operation greater economies may be 

 effected for the general welfare of the 

 community, and the fruit output may 

 be placed upon a more uniform and 

 stable basis than by any other means. 

 Central packing sheds may reach the 

 highest point of efficiency, economy 

 and accuracy under the weighing-in 

 system of receiving loose fruit and 

 distributing the returns therefrom 

 under the doubly insured system of 

 economic valuations for all grades and 

 breaks in grades. Under such a system 

 the product becomes uniform in all de- 

 tails, and the returns to each grower 

 and to each grade are uniform and just. 



Because of so many hundreds of 

 acres of timber being cut for war pur- 

 poses, it means there will be a big de- 

 mand for stump pullers and blasting 

 powder to get rid of the stumps, so as 

 to get the land under cultivation as 

 rapidly as possible. Every fruit grower 

 who has any stump land should begin 

 as early as possible to clear, because of 

 the very high prices that are being paid 

 for all foodstuffs no one can afford to 

 have any idle land. 



Remember, the men in our Army and 

 Navy do not expect luxuries. Should 

 we at home expect them? Buy neces- 

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