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BETTER FRUIT 



March 



The Cleanest Apple Crop 



AND ONE OF THE LARGEST EVER 



GROWN IN 



HOOD 

 RIVER 



Was sprayed with the 



Sulphur and 

 the Miscible Oil 

 Sprays 



Lime-Sulphur 

 Spra-Sulphur 

 Spra-Oil 

 Arsenate of Lead 



Our Sprays are used and en- 

 dorsed by the Hood River Ap- 

 ple Growers' Association and 

 the Hood River Experiment 

 Station. 



MANUFACTURED BY THE 



J. C. BUTCHER CO 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Af^/te/^f Cata/oa an^/^/i^an/i>rmd^ion 



ORCHARD YARN 



Listen, Orchardists: Now is the time 

 to tie your fruit trees. All limbs can be 

 readily seen; the spurs are less easily 

 broken off than later; the saving of time 

 is considerable and yam is probably as 

 cheap as it will be this season. Orchard 

 Yarn is the correct method of supporting 

 trees and the saving of a few trees is 

 worth the cost of the yam for an entire 

 orchard. 



Sold by all dealers. If they cannot supply 

 you, please order direct from 



The Portland Cordage Company 



Portland, Oregon Seattle, Washington 



Attention, Fruit and 

 Vegetable Growers 



CAN your Fruits, Vegetables, Meats and 

 Fish in Sanitary Cans, with the H. & A. 

 Steam Pressure Canning Outfits, built in 

 Family, Orchard and Commercial size; 

 seal the cans with the H. & A. Hand or 

 Belt Power Double Seamer; they will 

 save your perishable fruits and vegeta- 

 bles at ripening time when nothing else 

 will. Write for descriptive matter. 



Henninger & Ayes Mfg. Co. 



47 S. First St., Portland, Ore. 



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 BANK ■ 



The Purpose 



of this bank is to provide a progressive, helpful 



banking service to its depositors, regardless of 



the size of their accounts. We hope you wrill use 



that service. Put it to the test. 



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Oldest In the Northwest 



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ter and BufTalo, New York, and Chi- 

 cago, Illinois. In these cities I found 

 genuine Washington or Oregon apples 

 in plenty upon the retail dealers' 

 stands, but I also found Ben Davis, 

 Gano, King David, Aiken Red, and two 

 or three more low-priced red varieties 

 masquerading as Esopus Spitzenberg, 

 Rome Beauty, or Winesap, while North- 

 ern Spy, York Imperial, and some 

 others which I was not sufficiently ex- 

 pert to identify with certainty were 

 placarded as Delicious. This I saw not 

 once or twice, but over and over again, 

 so often that I am convinced that grow- 

 ers have no conception of the extent of 

 such substitutions. And the result is 

 everywhere the same; the consumer 

 who has paid five cents each for North- 

 ern Spys or Ben Davis of mediocre 

 quality in the belief that he was se- 

 curing Delicious or Spitzenberg decides 

 that if these are the choicest apples the 

 Northwest can produce, he wants no 

 more of them. As an actual or potential 

 consumer of our fruit he ceases to 

 exist, but he joins his voice with an 

 already large chorus, the burden of 

 whose song is that the Northwestern 

 apple is a mediocre product, devoid of 

 flavor, sugar and everything else but 

 color, and that its producers are little 

 better than holdup men. 



This is not a trivial matter, since a 

 large proportion of our better grades 

 are delivered to the consumer under 

 conditions which give opportunity for 

 such substitutions. Nor is it a matter 

 which can be controlled by pure food 

 laws, since the most efficient enforce- 

 ment of such laws cannot reach more 

 than a small percentage of cases. It 

 can be ended once for all by the re- 

 moval of these varieties of fruit from 

 a market in which they yield little or 

 no profit directly to the grower while 

 indirectly decreasing his profit on 

 every acre of his better varieties. This 

 can be done in some cases by top- 

 working the trees to better varieties, 

 although the expediency of top-work- 

 ing must be determined in every case 

 only after thorough consideration of 

 all the conditions. Where it is neither 

 safe nor profitable to attempt it and the 

 owner wishes to realize something 

 from the trees while others are coming 

 into bearing, there is another possi- 

 bility which if has been the whole pur- 

 pose of this departure from the main 

 theme to suggest, namely: Many of 



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 Boa 1056 Walorloo, Iowa 



requires no bookkeep- 

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 ■^C J Bive. Endorsed by 

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 romplete set loose- 

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 of farm or orchard. Ask for particulars. 

 TWEEDS SYSTEM CO.. Pacific Block. Seattle, Wash. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



