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BETTER FRUIT 



Norcmber 



Ridley,Houlding&Ca 



COVENT GARDEN, LONDON 



Points to remember when consigning 

 apples to the London Market 



1.— We Specialize in Apples 



2— All Consignments Receive our 

 Personal Attention 



3.-The Fruit is Sold by 

 Private Treaty 



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Unexcelled facilities for the production of Catalogues, Book- 

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CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



dynamite is both expensive and ineffi- 

 cient for farm work, compared to the 

 right kind of farm jiowder. The farm 

 powder is somewhat safer than the 

 dynamite, too, because it requires more 

 of a shock to explode it. 



Apple picking is made easier if the 

 weeds are mowed in the orchard and 

 the place kept clean. Pickers are dis- 

 gruntled and do poor work where they 

 have to wade through weeds and briars 

 wet wuth dew or autumn rains. 



Office of 



THE FRUIT GROWERS AGENCY, INC. 



WoUa Walla, Wasliington. 



September 12, 1916. 



For the purpose of giving the growers and 

 selling agents of the Northwest better news 

 service on fruit movements, branch olTlces 

 have been opened by The Fruit Growers 

 Agency in the Federal Ruilding in Spokane. 

 The Agency thus has the advantage of a cen- 

 tral location, witli the licst telegraphic and 

 mail service. The news service as given on 

 summer fruits will be continued on apple 

 shipments, and additional services will be 

 added. 



Several representatives of the Office of Mar- 

 kets from Washington are now working in the 

 Northwest for the efliciency of this department. 

 W. A. Sherman, specialist in market service 

 survey, together with his assistant, O. W. 

 Schleussner, are collecting data and making 

 arrangements for a more extensive news ser- 

 vice. C. E. Rassett. well known as chairman 

 of the committee w hich helped to organize 

 The I'^ruit Growers Agency, is also working in 

 the Northwest. 



Due largely to the activity of the Agency, the 

 railroads have granted diversion ]>rivileges for 

 fruit shipments from the Northwest to Cana- 

 dian points. The Agency is also making par- 

 ticular efforts with the object of securing stor- 

 age in transit privileges for apples and pre- 

 cooling and initial icing privileges. 



The Agency is giving special service to Us 

 members by way of weekly bulletins contain- 

 ing telegraphic reports on Canadian markets. 

 These reports are received directly from the 

 Department of Agriculture at Ottawa and aie 

 compiled l)y them. They show the market 

 prices on different fruits in the principal Can- 

 adian markets and are of great value to grow- 

 ers and shippers sending fruit to Canadian 

 points. 



Corvallis, Oregon, Sept. 20. 191G. 

 Editor heller Fruit: 



Yours of the 2.'ird received. I was exceed- 

 ingly glad to Icnrn that the crop in Hood River 

 is going to he so large. With you, I realize 

 that the growers are becoming encr)uraged and 

 Iheir confidence is being restored. The fruit 

 growers of the State of Oregon and of the en- 

 tire Northwest have an opportunity this year to 

 feel mighty good. Crops have been large and 

 of splendid quality, and prices are fine. Tlie 

 pear men have never received better prices 

 than they have this year. Many prunes are 

 contracted at seven cents. Loganberries are 

 now being contracted for three to five years on 

 a three-cent base. There are more orders for 

 raspberries, blackberries, etc., than the growers 

 can fill. Buyers are here trying to contract for 

 the crop of nuts, such as walnuts, filberts, and 

 apple prices are going good. Surely it looks as 

 though the depression which came upon West- 

 ern Iiorticulture is being released and we are 

 cntei'ing a new era of pi'osperjty. 



We simuld. however, he on our guard. When- 

 fvei- we are exceedingly prosperous it is very 

 dillicult to organize and to come dow n to a 

 realization of what the real problems are. The 

 next year <tr two this prosperity nutans greater 

 and hai-der work for the leaders of horticulture 

 to try to put on the finishing touches of organi- 

 zation anti co-operation, which ai'c so essential 

 lo a permanent success in our Pacific North- 

 west. There always have been periods of de- 

 piession; that is true of all phases of agricul- 

 ture, and it can I)e expected to be true in the 

 future. I low ever, nuu Ii could be done to re- 

 lieve the pressure in future years, and t<i lake 

 steps Id picvcnt the rc-occnriance 4if some of 

 the things we have experienced in the past ten 

 jears. Iinni present indications there is going 

 to be quite a large development in Oregon dur- 

 ing (he coming year, especially along such lines 

 as walnuts and filberts, prunes and berries. 



With kind regards, I remain, sincerelv vours, 

 C. I. Lr.wis. 

 Chief. Division of Horticulture, 

 Oiegon Agricultural College. 



WHEN WltlTlNT. ADNERT ISKRS MENTION BETTER FUUIT 



