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Water Shipment of Fruit 



ON June 1 delegates from the fruit dis- 

 tricts of California, Oregon and Wash- 

 ington held a convention in Seattle and or- 

 ganized the Pacific Coast Producers' and 

 Shippers' Association. C. S. Whitco;nb, 

 vice-president of the California Fruit 

 Growers' Exchange, was elected president 

 of the association. The object of the new 

 association is to encourage the shipping of 

 fruit bv water to Gulf and Atlantic Coast 

 ports, as well .is to Europe and the Orient, 

 and to endeavor to secure better general 

 service in delivering Pacific Co.ist fruit to 

 Eastern maricets through water transporta- 

 tion. At the meeting steamship companies 

 w^ere assured that for this season the asso- 

 ciation would guarantee 6,000 cars from 

 California and 4,000 to 5,000 from the P.a- 

 cific Northwest. 



The new .association has two branches, the 

 citrus for California interests .and deciduous 

 for shippers and growers of fruit in the Pa- 

 cific Northwest. J. H. Wade of Wenatchee 

 W.IS elected president of the deciduous fruit 

 branch; C. DeVere Fairchild of Yakima, 

 secretary and treasurer. Directors at large, 

 C. L. Lewis of Salem and H. F. Davidson 

 of Hood River. The shipments of fruit 

 will be largely from the ports of Seattle, 

 Tacoma, Portland and San Francisco. Steam- 

 ship companies have indicated their willing- 

 ness to equip vessels with cold storage facili- 

 ties for handling shipments of fruit. 



Unequal Readjustment 



IN a recent tabulation by Herbert Hoover, 

 secretary of commerce, a graphic illus- 

 tration was given of the unequal progress 

 in the various steps in economic readjust- 

 ment. It showed the danger of the agri- 

 cultural industry and its standards of living 

 being undermined. The following index 

 numbers show present heights — 100 being 

 1913: 



Farm crop prices, 115; farm meat ani- 

 mals, 123; wholesale index, all commodi- 

 ties, 162; building materials, 212; house 

 furnishings, 275; clothing, 192; fuel and 

 light, 207; railway rates, 166; building- 

 trade wages (skilled), 177. 



Put YOUR Waste Acres on 



the Right Side of the Ledger 



TAKE an "account of stock" of your land. See 

 how much of it is in debt to you — idle, cropless 

 acres cutting down your income and reducing the 

 profits of your labor. Clear this land of stumps. 

 Turn your idle acreage into product-bearing fields 

 adding dollars to your yearly income. 

 Clear land by the modern means — use 



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 Du Pont and Repauno Brands 



Experiments and actual operations in this section 

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 Du Pont Stumping Powders. In some cases a 

 saving of 50^ in time and labor has resulted by 

 using the easier and quicker dynamite method. 



The constant supervision under which Du Pont 

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 make them the most efficient and most uniform 

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Send for "Development of Logged-off Lands", 

 telling how to use dynamite for land-clearing, ditch- 

 ing and tree-planting. 



E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., Inc. 



Pond Products 



(Nation-Wide Distribution) 

 With the exception of the sizing machine, 

 no horticultural invention of modern times 

 has SO reduced the cost and improved the 

 qua! it V of output of our orchards as the 

 POND PROP-HOOKS. POND SCREW- 

 EYE and POND "CENTIPEDE" LAD- 

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 without these devices. Descriptive cir- 

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Russell G. Pond 



' Forest Enciiicer) 

 INVENTOR AND SHIPPER 



Parkdalc. 1 lood River Valley, Oregon 



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Requires no piping — Eliminates fire dangers — Uses little wood- 

 Increases the capacity of your dryer. 



THREE YEARS IN PUBLIC OPERATION 

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