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BETTER FRUIT 



September 



PORTLAND. OREGON 



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The hotel which made Portland, Oregon, famous. 



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Covers a City Block. 



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European Plan— $1.00 per day and upward 

 Write for Portland Hotel Booklet. GEO. C. OBER, Manager 



NEW CROP- 



FOR FALL SOWING 



Vetches, Alfalfa, Clovers, Grains, Grasses 



SELECTED RECLEANED FARM and FIELD SEED 

 AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES. 

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money sent and will give your inquiries our prompt and careful attention 



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Tlie.se siigge.stions are given wilh the 

 idea of giving the dairyiiian or stock- 

 man a little general inronnation about 

 beet pulp as a feed for the rea.son that 

 a great many fruitgrowers are going 

 into the dairy busines.s, and it has been 

 found that those who have used beet 

 pulp have found it a very desirable 

 feed. 



Bartlett Pears 



The Bartlett pear is the greatest pear, 

 in a commercial sense, of any pear 

 grown. It is one of the best eating 

 pears, commanding a good average 

 price, always being in demand at the 

 canneries at remunerative figures. The 

 Bartlett pear has been grown exten- 

 sively in California for many years, 

 especially in the Sacramento Valley. 

 Originally nearly all of the pear or- 

 chards in X(n-thern California were set 

 in the tlat land. Now a great many 

 orchards are being set out in the moun- 

 tainous districts, like around Red BlufT, 

 Redding and Grass Valley. Grass Val- 

 ley has gone extensively into Bartlett 

 pears, where it is stated they reach a 

 very fine <iuality, the growers meeting 

 witii splendid success. The Bartlett 

 pear is one of the best all-around pears, 

 year after year, that a grower can plant. 



Don't Forget! 



The established fruit auctions of 

 .\ew York. PJiiladelphia, Boston, Pitts- 

 burg. Kansas City and a few of the 

 other large cities have set the price 

 upon the cherries and pears of the 

 Pacific Northwest. 



Every box bought f.o.b. shipping 

 point and every box sold upon de- 

 livery at any of the small markets 

 where there are not these standard 

 "clearing-house" auctions have had a 

 price based directly upon those of the 

 fruit auctions. 



To those who fear that selling apples 

 at auction will prevent f.o.b. buying, 

 this season's experience in itself is an 

 answer. Compare the number of f.o.b. 

 buyers of these auction-sold commodi- 

 ties with the lessening number of those 

 who buy apples f.o.b. shipping point. 



Everybody has a chance to speculate 

 in auction-sold commodities. Dozens 

 of lirms have placed funds in Western 

 banks and, as each quota of cars ar- 

 rived, have wired back more funds to 

 buy more cars. Prompt returns from 

 the auction companies have enabled 

 this. 



The box apples that are not sold at 

 auction will not have the same enthu- 

 siastic support of the whole trade of 

 the largest cities. Except for the few 

 large jobbing and commission houses, 

 through whom the associations and 

 other shii)pers deal, the trade will be 

 composed of "Bears," who will not 

 speculate or boost the sales of box 

 :ipples. Nine out of ten of the firms 

 will buy from the apple operators as 

 they receive orders for them and no 

 faster. They will not boost "another 

 man's game." [.\dv.] 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRVIT 



