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BETTER FRUIT 



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Cut Your Apple Storage Cost 



We have a modem up-to-the-minute cold storage plant with 

 tracks running right into the building cutting cost of hand- 

 ling to the minimum. 



Most Accessible Point for Supplying 

 South Dakota, Iowa and Minnessota Trade Territory 



UNIFORM TEMPERTURE MAINTAINED 



Won't cost you anything to get our figures and we may save 

 you money. Ask us about it. 



HALEY-NEBIvEY CO.,SiotixFalls,S.D. 



The SHOTWELL 



This machine patented May 11, 1915. 



Patent No. 113S985. 

 Any infringement will be prosecuted. 



Is desitnied to print all the stamps required on a box of apples or 

 other fruit at one stroke, in perfect alignment, saving time and 

 labor. The niarliiiie jiriuls the box to hmk a.s follnws: 



125 EXTRA FANCY WINESAP 40LBS.NET JOHN DOE 



W[NATCHEE. WASH. 



It eliniinalts untidiness and unevenness in marking. 



Saves limo in picking up five different stamps separately, as all 

 these stamps are placed on a wheel and the entire marking of the 

 bos. as shown above, is done in one movement and as quickly as 

 one stamp is put on W the old method. The machine works auto- 

 matically and is self-inking. 



The Shotwell Box Marlnng Machine is a device that saves labor, 

 does it neatb' with dispatch. Made to be attached to any open end 

 press and can be adjusted to mark any standard fruit box of any 

 variety, apples, pears, peaches, oranges and lemons, etc. 



It is made of malleable iron, assembled ready for use. 



With eacli machine is included, without extra charge, eighteen 

 number stamps, three grade stamps, one net weight stamp, one 

 two-Une grower's address stamp, ten variety stamps and an ink 

 pad. Price, neatly packed ready for shipment, $15.00, f.o.b. 

 Wenatchee, Washington. 



For full descriptive illustrated catalog and further particular' 

 write 



Shotwell & Wilmeroth 



WENATCHEE, WASH. 



The Opportunity of the Fruit Grower 



The Fruit Growlers' Agency, Incorporated 



By Paul H. Weyrauch, President, Walla Walla, Washington 



TO fili ;i need which no other organ- 

 ization in the Northwest has been 

 able to till, The Fruit drowers Agency, 

 Incorporated, was organizetl. The grow- 

 ers and business men of the Northwest 

 have long realized that the lack of co- 

 operation and organization between the 

 districts has resulted in cutting down 

 the protits of the grower. 



Last year the growers and business 

 men of the Northwest petitioned the 

 Federal Government to lend ex])crt ad- 

 vice and aid in the establishment of 

 some form of organization to reniedx' 

 this condition. Three experts were 

 sent to the Northwest by the Oflice of 

 Markets and Hural Organization to in- 

 vestigate conditions. They conferred 

 with men active in every branch of tlie 

 fruit game and suggested a plan which 

 resulted in the organization of The 



Fruit Growers Agency, Incorporated, 

 at Si)okane, Washington, on March 24, 

 1910. 



The F'ruit Growers Agency, Incorpor- 

 ated, was organized to aid and protect 

 the grower. It controls over 75 per cent 

 of the Northwestern apple crop and 

 has among its members nineteen of the 

 largest selling agencies of the North- 

 west. Thus the grower, by working 

 through this organization, is able to 

 handle problems too large for any one 

 district. 



This new organization projjoses to 

 su])ervise a uniform contract between 

 grower and selling agent. It endeavors 

 to bring about a standardization of 

 packing methods throughout the North- 

 west. It collects infoinialion as to crop 

 conditions, shipments and markets, and 

 distiibutes such to its nuMubers. 



The Agency is dealing wiifli problems 

 of transportation. In this, as in other 

 matters, co-operation makes it easy to 

 handle problems which would other- 

 wise go unsolved. 



One of the important activities of the 

 Agency is the development of foreign 

 markets. One district or one company 

 cannot do this. It requires the North- 

 west working as a unit to get results. 



Another activity of this organization 

 which is of particular importance to 

 the grower is the standardization of the 

 form of account sales to be used by 

 shipping organizations in making re- 

 ports to the grower. Through the use 

 of such a form the grower can make a 

 true comparison of the net returns and 

 the services rendered by the different 

 organizations. 



The fruit growers of the Northwest 

 should realize that The F'ruit Growers 

 Agency, Incorporated, presents the 

 opportunity of a lifetime. It enables 

 growers, selling agencies and districts 

 to co-operate as never before, and it 

 enables the fruit industry of the North- 

 west to receive the assistance of the 

 I'ederal Ollice of Markets and Rural 

 Organization. Since the funds of this 

 government department are limited and 

 aid is extended only to the sections 

 showing the most interest, it is now up 

 to the fruit growers to avail themselves 

 of this opportunity to co-operate and 

 show the government that this section 

 profits by its aid. 



The ollicers and trustees of The Fruit 

 Growers Agency are as follows: Paul 

 H. Weyrauch, president; J. B. Adams, 

 vice president ; P. R. Parks, temporary 

 secretary. 



Trustees: .1. B. Adams, Wenatchee, 

 Washington; E. W. Ross, North Yak- 

 ima, Washington; C. H. Swigart, North 

 Yakima, Washington; P. R. Parks, Spo- 

 kane, Washington; Wihner Sieg. Hood 

 River, Oregon; W. F. Gwin, Seattle, 

 Washington; Paul H. Weyrauch, \YalIa 

 Walla, ^Vashington; D. L. Ingard, Pay- 

 ette, Idaho; W. M. Sackett, Hamilton, 

 Montana; B. W. Johnson, Corvallis, 

 Oregon. 



The executive officers of the Agency 

 are located at Blalock Station, near 

 \Valla Walla, Washington, where Presi- 

 dent Paul H. Weyrauch is working with 

 the aid of the Giovernment Oflice of 

 Markets. 



Oregon State Fair 



The 1910 Oregon State Fair will be 

 "educational" in the strictest and broad- 

 est sense of the term, and no pains, 

 labor or reasonable expense is being 

 spared by the board of directors and 

 Secretary-Manager A. II. I.ea to make of 

 it the biggest, cleanest and best State 

 F'air in every respect in the fifty-five 

 years' history of the instlution. 



One of the first innovations which 

 the board put into effect, in organizing 

 for this year's exhibition, was to abol- 

 ish the old system of departmental 

 superintendents and lo place every de- 

 partment under the direct charge and 

 supervision of a member of the board. 

 This change was inaugurated for the 

 dual i)uri)osc of arousing greater per- 



