February, 1922 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page Twenty-nine 



At PARKER, W. F. Madaris found the winter 

 weather so mild that he planted some orchard 

 trees recently. He is planting 31 acres to soft 

 fruits. There will be 20 acres of peaches, six acres 

 of cherries and five acres of apricots. He plans 

 to grow potatoes and soy beans as fertilizing crops 

 and to pasture the latter with hogs. 



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"pIGURES Indicating the increased yields gained 

 from proper fertilization of orchards have been 

 given out by the American Fruit Growers, Inc., 

 for its Yakima Valley properties. The steadily 

 increasing yields, attributed almost entirely to use 

 of commercial fertilizers, are thus reported: From 

 365 acres of apples in 1919, 55,000 boxes; in 

 1920, 66,000 boxes, and last season 84,000 boxes. 



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T3RUNERS put on the winter pruning job re- 

 cently by the Thompson Fruit Company, at 

 Buena, were hired at the rate of 20 cents an hour, 

 it was reported. 



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John morris HOFF has successfully demon- 

 *' strated that English walnuts can be grown In 

 Clarke county. He has been growing them for 18 

 years on his farm near Sara. He now has a grove 

 of about 100 trees, most of them 18 years old, 

 from which he harvested over three tons last year. 



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t'iGURES compiled at Sumner are said to show 

 the following average crop productions per 

 acre in the Puyallup Valley last season: Black- 

 berries, six tonsj gooseberries, five tons; raspbcr- 



More Than 



TWENTY-FIVE 



THOUSAND 



Customers 



Bought trees, plants and shrubs of us 

 last season, and the proof of satisfaction 

 lies in the constant increase not only in 

 volunc of business, but in the increased 

 number of old and new customers who buy 

 of us. 



We want no one's money whom we can- 

 not satisfy. We value more than all else 

 in our business the hosts of satisfied cus- 

 tomers in whose orchards and home 

 grounds our stock is found. 



The sins of a dishonest or slipshod 

 nurseryman are soon revealed, and often 

 :ft a big loss to the customer. It would 

 be wicked of us to engage in this business 

 and solicit your patronage if we failed to 

 assume the responsiblilities which go with 

 the nursery business. 



-Since 1903 at Toppenish. through thick 

 and thin — sometimes awfully thin — when 

 nursery wrecks strewed the landscape — 

 we've stayed by our nursery business and 

 that exclusively — no side lines — and we're 

 here today bigger and better than ever. 



Splendid trees — well rooted — fully ma- 

 tured—carefully dug, packed and prepaid 

 to your nearest shipping point — our risk of 

 transportation— that's our only method of 

 'lomg business. 



And they're clean as a whistle, grown on 

 new ground containing no bugs or pests 



Every tree inspected by us and once by 

 the district horticultural deputy inspector. 

 PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW 



hTrustworthy J 

 \rreesi Plants/ 



WASHINGTON NURSERY 

 COMPANY 



TOPPEXISIi. WASH. 

 Salesmen Everywhere — More Wanted 



ries, currants and strawberries, three tons; rhubarb, 

 ten tons and asparagus, five tons. 



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At the annual meeting of the Washington State 

 Horticultural Association these officers were 

 elected: R. H. Kipp, president, Quincy; Dr. L. 

 Geary, first vice-president, Underwood; Paul Wey- 

 rauch, second vice-president, Walla Walla; H. L. 

 Douglas, Wenatchee, and C. M. Lockwood, Op- 

 portunity, directors. 



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T AST month the Washington Prune Growers' 

 Association sold 250,000 pounds of Clarke 

 county prunes to Holland interests. They were 

 consigned for that country on the steamer 

 Moerdykj which sailed from Portland about two 

 weeks ago. This was the first foreign shipment of 

 prunes made by the associdtlon since before the 

 world war. The price was 12^ cents, f. o. b. 

 Vancouver, for 30-40s. 



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/^RANDVIEW»S apple exhibit, which took first 

 prize at the Northwest Fruit Exposition in 

 Seattle, was sent to Chicago, where It was dis- 

 played in a big store window on Michigan avenue. 

 Thousands of Chlcagoans saw and admired the 

 exhibit. 



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T OMBARD & HORSLEY, of the Parker Heights 



district, at Buena, have announced that they 



will set out between 25 and 40 acres of peaches 



in the spring. They will plant Elbertas. These 



arc preferred to the J. H. Hale, say the orchardists, 



because they require no hand thinning. 

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' I ^HE Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers* Can- 

 ning Company sent forth approximately 200,- 

 000 jars of Paul's jams for the Christmas trade. 

 This was almost double the amount sent out in 

 1920, so ready has been the sale of this high-cLiss 

 product of the Northwest. 



HPHE plant of the Chelan Produce Company used 

 for evaporating apples, was recently de;lroyed 

 by fire, entailing a loss of $50,000. 

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Apples, Pears, Peaches 

 Potatoes, Onions 



and all kinds of Fruit and 

 Produce Bought for Cash.. 



Address us as to what you 

 have to offer. 



WILLEY FRUIT CO., Inc. 



215-217 Washington St. Portland, Ore. 



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