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eases to combat. The nut is not easily per- 

 ishable and bears at an early age, producing 

 large crops of high-priced products. Over- 

 production is improbable, the American 

 public consuming now 20,000,000 annually 

 of foreign grown nuts. In fact, this is an 

 ideal "lazy man's" crop, easily grown and 

 returning good dividends. 



The filbert will never be grown in any 

 other part of the United States because of 

 limitations of climate and of disease. The 

 one thing that prevents rapid increase in 

 planting in this section is the limited sup- 

 ply of nursery stock. The filbert cannot be 

 propagated rapidly like other trees and it 

 will be years to come before enough trees 

 will be available to fill the demands for 

 stock. 



Under ideal conditions the filbert will 

 begin to produce commercially the fifth 



Box Shocks 



East Side Box Co. 



Manufacturers 



SPRUCE AND 

 HEMLOCK 



Box Shooks 



Foot of Spokane Avenue 

 Portland, Oregon 



BETTER FRUIT 



year and will increase rapidly in yield there- 

 after. 



The Moission orchard near Salem pro- 

 duced a ton per acre the tenth year and it 

 was not in the best condition possible. The 

 Kruse orchard at Wilsonville, one of the 

 finest in the state, produced thirty pounds 

 per tree the tenth or eleventh year. This is 

 at the rate of 3000 pounds per acre. The 

 owner received thirty cents per pound that 

 year which netted him a very fine revenue. 

 However, we cannot expect that price now 

 that prices are returning to normal, although 

 we can expect eighteen to twenty-five cents 

 to the grower. 



There is a thirty-two-year-old tree in 

 East Portland which produced 150 pounds 

 one year. This is at the rate of over seven 

 tons per acre. George Dorris, the veteran 

 filbert grower of Springfield, states that an 

 acre of number one Barcelona trees, given 

 everything favorable, should produce 500 

 to 1000 pounds the fifth year; 2000 to 

 3000 pounds the eighth year; 3000 to 

 4000 the tenth year and 4000 to 5000 

 pounds the twelfth year. Dorris is per- 

 haps the best posted man on filbert yields 

 in America, but if we discount his esti- 

 mates by fifty per cent we still have a most 

 attractive commercial proposition. 



Nut growing is one of the most attrac- 

 tive fields open in this section of the coun- 

 try. It is especially attractive to the man 

 coming from other avenues of life than 

 that of farming. The man who leaves be- 

 hind him a well grown grove of walnuts 

 and filberts will leave his children a legacy 

 that will insure them a steady income. It 

 will be but a few years until the nut in- 

 dustry will rank in importance with the 

 berry, prune and apple industries of the 

 Northwest. 



^e Gasolive 

 of Qjiality 



"Red Crown" is the gasoline 

 of quality — the power-full motor 

 fuel. Its continuous chain cl boil- 

 ing points also insures ready ^' art- 

 ing and rapid acceleration. It is 

 the well-balanced motor fuel. 



Get it wherever you see the 

 Red Crown sign on service sta- 

 tions and garages. 



July, 1921 

 Transportation Problems 



{Continued from fagc 7) 

 cannot be overestimated, and it is our pur- 

 pose to develop it to the highest state of 

 efficiency, still our domestic trade is and 

 for many years to come will probably re- 

 main our main source of demand. 



Situated within 300 miles of the coast of 

 the Pacific Coast we have a population of 

 6,000,000; within 300 miles of the Gulf 

 of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean, includ- 

 ing the coastal zone of Eastern Canada, we 

 have a population of 58,000,000. As a fur- 

 ther illustration, within 25 miles of the 

 Statute of Liberty in New York harbor 

 there resides a population of 8,000,000, 

 which is greater than the combined popula- 

 tion of the seven states of California, Ore- 

 gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah 

 and Colorado. 



Tributary to the Port of New Orleans 

 they claim a total of 13,869 miles of nav- 

 igable rivers. This inland waterway, in 

 connection with the New York barge canal, 

 creates what we term the Inland Waterway 

 Zone, having a population of 25,000,000. 



IT HAS been said that the secret of suc- 

 cess is to grasp an opportunity when it 

 presents itself. This is our opportunity, to 

 distribute the deciduous fruits of the Pacific 

 Northwest and the citrus fruits of Cali- 

 fornia to the 5 8,000,000 people resident 

 within the Gulf and Atlantic coastal zones. 



These figures illustrate most forcibly 

 the concrete fact that the United States is 

 destined to become a maritime nation. The 

 demand for efficiency and elimination of 

 waste, the necessity of applying more close- 

 ly the fundamental principles of economics, 

 and the positive demand for lower rates of 

 transportation if our industries are to sur- 

 vive, constitute the primary causes of the 

 present national movement for water trans- 

 portation. 



An analysis of the consumption of west- 

 ern fruit in our domestic markets shows 

 that the large population of the southeast 

 section of the United States does not pur- 

 chase its portion. It is our firm belief that 

 water transportation will alter this condition 

 and result in a tremendous increase of con- 

 sumption in that territory. 



It is gratifying to note that the United 

 States Department of Agriculture is to 

 equip a vessel for the express purpose of 

 making a comprehensive study of the trans- 

 portation of western fruits via the Panama 

 Canal to the Gulf and Atlantic ports. It 

 shows that our government is awake to the 

 necessity of intelligent and constructive ef- 

 fort and the result of this study will mean 

 much distribution to the world's markets. 



YAKIMA County Beekeepers' Association, 

 numbering more than 400 apiarists, has elected 

 J. P. Espey of White Swan, president; R. C. Im- 

 mell of Toppenish, vice-president, and C. W. Hig- 

 gins of Wapato, secretary-treasurer. H. N. Paul 

 of Mabton will be purchasing agent. 



