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BETTER FRUIT 



Published Monthly 

 by 



Better Fruit Publishing Company 



Twelfth and Jefferson Streets 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



lERROLD OWEN Managing Editor 



ERNEST C. POTTS : v • • • ■ • *^<^"°'' 



C. I. MOODY Advertising Manager 



BETTER FRUIT 



cused on the ambition to do all we 

 can toward making the year 1922 

 the best and most prosperous ever 

 enjoyed by the fruit industry of 



the Northwest. 



EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES 

 PAUL W. & GUY F. MINNICK............ 



303 Fifth Ave., New York 



JNO. D. ROSS 608 Otis Bldg., Chicago 



SAN FRANCISCO REPRESENTATIVE 



EDWIN C. WILLIAMS ........ . 



Hobart Bldg., San Francisco 



STATE ASSOCIATE EDITORS 

 OREGON— C. I. Lewis, Horticulturist. 

 WASHINGTON— Dr. A. L. Melander, Ento- 

 mologist; O. M. Morris, Horticulturist, Pull- 

 man. ^. , T- ^ 



COLORADO — C. P. Gillette, Director and Ento- 

 mologist; E. B. House, Irrigation Expert, State 

 Agricultural College, Fort Collins. 



ARIZONA — F. J. Crider, Horticulturist, Tuscon. 



MONTANA— H. Thornber, Victor. 



CALIFORNIA— C. W. Woodworth, Entomolo- 

 gist Berkeley; W. H. Volck, Entomologist, 

 Watsonville; Leon D. Batchelor, Horticulturist, 

 Riverside. „ . , . t r 



INDIANA — H. S. Jackso n, Pathologist, Lafayette. 



All Communications should be addressed and 



Remittances made payable to 



BETTER FRUIT PUBLISHING COMPANY 



Subscription Price: 



In the United States, $1.00 per year in advance. 



Canada and Foreign, including postage, $2.00, 



payable in American exchange. 



Advertising Rates on Application. 



For Prosperity 



This journal is not and never 

 will be made a land-boosting, pro- 

 ject-promoting organ. It has both 

 a definite field and a well-defined 

 policy. It will zealously stick to 

 both. 



In the face of the great need of 

 the Pacific Northwest for more 

 people on its lands, as amply set 

 forth in this issue, it appealed to 

 us as a real duty to do our bit to- 

 ward inviting the dissatisfied and 

 restless residents of eastern states 

 to give our fruit sections the con- 

 sideration they merit. With this 

 object in view, publication of this 

 Homeseekers' Number was con- 

 ceived. 



The number might be largerj it 

 might be better, but we would do 

 nothing to make it lurid or mislead- 

 ing. If you think the idea has been 

 a good one will you not tell us so? 

 If you think it might well have 

 place as an annual feature we 

 should like to know that. 



It is our hope that many extra 

 copies will be sent to the eastern 

 friends and old acquaintances, to 

 carry the message and the invitation 

 of the Northwest to them. 



Meanwhile, our energies are fo- 



Bringing in Settlers 



There is evidence that the auto- 

 mobile is to do more than any other 

 agency toward locating new settlers 

 in the Pacific Northwest. The way 

 this comes about is all very simple. 

 Touring by motor has become 

 a great national avocation. The 

 touring range has rapidly widened 

 until now it is no uncommon sight 

 for the northwestern rancher to 

 see a car bearing a New Jersey, or 

 Massachusetts, or Texas license 

 spin by his front door. In the sea- 

 son just closed this section has 

 seen a continuous procession of mo- 

 tor parties from the Middle West, 

 South and East. 



Random figures from the Port- 

 land municipal auto camp will 

 serve to illustrate. From Massa- 

 chusetts the camp registered 16 

 cars, from New York, 55; Maine, 

 2; Virginia, 6; Florida, 15; Texas, 

 62; Illinois, 102; Nebraska, 85. 

 The total of registrations to Octo- 

 ber 1 was 5,700 cars. 



The point of particular interest 

 is the fact that fully 15 per cent 

 of these tourists actually located 

 here in the Northwest, according 

 to estimate of the camp attaches, 

 who talked with them. For these 

 tourists this was the end of a quest 

 for a new home. They had sold 

 out in their old location and jaunt- 

 ed forth in the dear old family 

 car in search of a more pleasing 

 home. Here they found it, and 

 here they have settled down. 



Fifteen per cent of 5,700 is 855. 

 We have reason, then, to believe 

 that the automobile brought through 

 this one camp 855 families as new 

 settlers for the Northwest. It 

 brought, of course, other hundreds 

 of families through other points. 



There is ample justification for 

 applauding the good work of the 

 faithful flivver and trusty touring 

 car — and hoping that double the 

 number will head this way next 

 season. 



January, 1922 



Land Frauds 



Officials in Michigan have dis- 

 covered that much worthless land 

 in that state has been sold to pros- 

 pective farmers on representations 

 by real estate firms that the land 

 was ideal for fruit growing or po- 

 tato culture. So extensive have be- 

 come the activities of such land 

 sharks that state and federal rep- 

 resentatives held a meeting to con- 

 fraudulent work, it was arranged 

 sider the matter. 



States of the Pacific Northwest 

 are plainly much ahead of Michi- 

 gan in the matter of protection for 

 settlers purchasing lands. There 

 are several factors here that assure 

 the buyer of land, raw or devel- 

 oped, against fraud. 



To pass over the fact that there 

 are mighty few areas where may be 

 found worthless land that would 

 deceive any but the simple minded, 

 there are other safeguards. It is 

 a fact, for instance, that crooks have 

 been weeded out of the ranks of 

 real estate dealers here. This is no 

 mere idle boast. 



Consider the laws of Oregon. 

 They require all real estate dealers 

 to operate under a license and under 

 bond. One mis-step for any dealer 

 in the state would not merely mean 

 that he would immediately be put 

 out of business by revocation of his 

 license, but there remains full op- 

 portunity for recovery by suit on 

 his bond. This is typical of the 

 way northwestern states have ban- 

 ished crooked land operators. 



Other protective factors include 

 the numerous soil surveys, already 

 completed and published, and thi 

 services of the agricultural colleges 

 in making free tests of soil samples 

 submitted to them. Again, pub 

 lie sentiment out here some yeari 

 ago became a barrier against mi . ■ 

 representation. The prospective 

 purchaser may easily learn the 

 truth about lands under considera- 

 tion by merely asking the judg- 

 ment of nearby ranchers. 



There are few sections of the 

 United States where the buyer 

 with intelligence enough to observe 

 and ask questions, is more certain 

 of getting real value for the mone) 

 he invests than here. 



