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RED CROSS 



FARM 

 POWDER 



The Original and Largest Selling 

 Farm Explosive 



Why use expensive high speed dynamites 

 when this slower, safer farm powder will 

 save you from $3 to $5 per hundred pounds 

 and for most farm uses do better work? 



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As pioneers and leaders in developing 

 farming with explosives our booklet gives 

 the latest, most reliable and best illus- 

 trated instructions. Write for HAND 

 BOOK OF EXPLOSIVES No. 338. 



DEALERS WANTED 



We want live dealers in towns still open. 

 Get the orders resulting from our con- 

 tinuous heavy adi'erlising. You need not 

 carry nor handle stock. State jobber's 

 name or bank reference when writing. 



E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY 



Established 18(12 



World's largest makers of farm explosives. 



Wilmington, Delaware 



TRAPPERS 



WE BUY 

 FOR CASH 



And pay hlfhee^ pricea for Fine 

 Fox, Mink, Martens, Rat, Lynx, 

 Wolves and all othar Furs, Hides 

 and Glnseas. Best facilities in 

 America. Send far Free Price List 

 and Shippins Taca^ Mo commission' 

 charged. 



ROGERS FUR COMPANY, 

 Sept. 290 St. LouiB. Ua 



First National 

 Bank 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



A. D. MCE - - President 

 E.O. BLANCHAR - Cashier 



Capital and Surplus $125,000 

 Assets Over $500,000 



Member Federal Reserve System 



BETTER FRUIT 



Activities of the Fruit Growers' 

 Agency, Ir\corporated 



The Fruit Growers' Agency, Incor- 

 porated, is already proving itself of 

 great value to the grower through its 

 activities along many lines, although it 

 has only been organized since last 

 March. The principal activities of this 

 office at the present time may be sum- 

 marized as follows: Daily "Market 

 News Service" based on telegraphic 

 reports over a direct wire from Wash- 

 ington, D. C. This service is conducted 

 by Mr. C. W. Kitchen, Market Station 

 Assistant, assisted by Mr. H. A. Harris, 

 also of the Office of Markets. Special 

 service pertaining to "Uniform Account 

 Sales" and "Accounting Methods," con- 

 ducted by Mr. G. A. Nahstoll, assistant 

 in Market Business Practice, of the 

 OfTice of Markets. An assistant will be 

 assigned to Mr. Nahstoll in the near 

 future to enable him to make more 

 frequent visits to the various districts. 

 Special investigation of packing houses 

 and storage facilities, conducted by Mr. 

 C. T. More. Mr. More is now in Wash- 

 ington to consult with his chief regard- 

 ing this work, after having made a pre- 

 liminary survey of the situation in the 

 Northwest. "Rendering of Crop Esti- 

 mates Secured in Conjunction with 

 State Authorities." It has been unable 

 to secure any definite crop reports from 

 either Oregon, Idaho or Montana, but a 

 complete estimate of the tonnage for 

 the State of Washington was furnished 

 us .luly 9, and a revised estimate is now 

 being prepared. The Office keeps in 

 close touch with the above named offi- 

 cials of the Office or Markets and state 

 officials, and renders such assistance as 

 may be needed. Freciuent conferences 

 are held between these officials and the 

 officials of the Agency to secure the best 

 possible results. 



The Agency has also taken up a num- 

 ber of matters relating to transportation 

 cpiestions. If is evident that more can 

 be accomplished along these lines by a 

 body composed of a number of organi- 

 zations representing 80 per cent of the 

 entire tonnage of the Northwest than 

 by any one organization. The follow- 

 ing are some of the subjects referred to: 

 (1) Diversion privileges to Canadian 

 points; (2) Adjustment of diversion 

 charges; (3) Storage in transit privi- 

 leges into certain Eastern points; (4) 

 Precooling and original icing by ship- 

 pers; (5) Transportation rates on ocean 

 freight; (6) Report of railroad at des- 

 tination; (7) Adjustment of rates into 

 territory east of the Mississippi and 

 south of the Ohio River; (8) Adjustment 

 of rates on Oroville branch. In addi- 

 tion there are numerous other matters 

 that are looked after by the Agency, 

 which will be reported from time to 

 time. 



November 



A Cross-Continent Record. 



In the first round-trip ocean-to-ocean 

 run to be made by any automobile 

 against time, the Hudson Super-Six 

 wliich reached San Francisco Sunday 

 morning, September 24, 1916, in both 

 file going and return trips broke the 

 best previous one-way records. The 



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fyf Itand 



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ITl Stump 



Puller 



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Walter J.Fitzpatrick 



Box s 



\ 182 Fifth Street 



San Francisco 

 California 



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Western Farqutiar Machinery Co. 



30 8 £. Salmon St., Portia^, Ore. 

 We also jnanitfacture En^iinea, Saw Sli'Ufi. TTiresh- 

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PREPAREDNESS 



FOR YOUR HOME 



is important too. A good Airedale means pre- 

 paredness against two and four legged animals— 

 and the best pal ever. Get that child a LADDIX 

 BRED Airedale and feel SAFE. 



LADDIX KENNELS 



ESTACADA, OREGON 



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