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BETTER FRUIT 



July, 1920 



Classified Advertisements 1 



RATE, 4 CENTS PER WORD 



NURSERY STOCK. 



ITALIAN PRUNE TREES. 

 Cleaning up at wholesale price. State 

 quantity and grades wanted. Don't delay. 

 Only few more thousand to offer. Grafted 

 walnuts, Alberts, fruit trees, loganberries, 

 raspberries, rhubarb, etc. 



LAFAYETTE NURSERY CO., 

 Lafayette, Oregon. 



ORIENTAL FLOWERING PLANT — Japanese 

 Fire flowering plant, beautiful ornamental 

 foliage, bright red flowers, imported by 

 grower, 10c package postpaid. J. A. Rean, 

 East Seattle, Washington. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



CONSULTING HORTICULTURIST 

 Professor W. S. Thornber, formerly head 

 of the Department of Horticulture and Land- 

 scape Gardening and later director of Ex- 

 tension Service of the State College of Wash- 

 ington, will advise with fruit growers upon 

 all horticultural problems. If your orchard 

 has not been a financial success and you 

 wish to determine its possibilities or you 

 wish to improve your orchard, reduce your 

 losses and increase your returns, I will assist 

 you in working out your problem. Write 

 for terms. W. S. Thornber, Lewiston, Idaho. 



THE VIRGINIA FRUIT S1ZER— Make it your- 

 self for twenty dollars. Now used by col- 

 leges and railroads for educational work. 

 Simple, durable, accurate. Blueprints, pack- 

 ing pamphlet and construction booklet for 

 five dollars. Growers say best yet invented. 

 Money back if dissatisfied. Sizes apples, 

 pears, peaches, oranges. G. C. Starcher, 

 Auburn, Alabama. 



TRESPASS SIGNS. 

 Don't allow trespassers to destroy your 

 property. Our big waterproof and sunproof 

 No Trespassing" signs will keep out tres- 

 passers. Send $1 for six signs, size 11x14 

 inches. Twelve for $1.75. Sent postpaid. 

 Out West Supply Company, Portland, 

 Oregon. 



PRACTICAL UP-TO-DATE ORCHARDIST, 

 twenty years' extensive experience in irri- 

 gated Northwest, most efficient workman, 

 wants position with some large orchard com- 

 pany, season 1921, must be convenient to 

 good school. Address B, care Better Fruit. 



FARMS FOR SALE. 



$10,000. 

 AN IDEAL STOCK AND DAIRY RANCH.— 120 

 acres, all level; Stevens County, 20 miles to 

 Spokane. All heavy sub-irrigated land; 80 

 acres in cultivation; fenced and cross-fenced. 

 Excellent buildings, including stone milk 

 house. Running spring water piped to house 

 and barn. Bearing family orchard and 1% 

 acres young orchard, choice varieties; 20 

 acres timothy meadow; 5 acres alfalfa; suffi- 

 cient cord wood and saw timber to pay for 

 place. Easy haul. Excellent location near 

 Wild Rose Prairie. Here is your chance, 

 Mr. Farmer. $4,000 cash, balance to suit. 

 $15,500. 

 AN IDEAL DAIRY FARM. 

 123 acres in Colville Valley, near Grays, 

 railroad station on new state highway. Fair 

 six-room house; excellent new barn and hay 

 sheds, chicken-house and hog pens, etc.; 100 

 acres in hay, mostly alfalfa; about 20 acres 

 in small timber, easily cleared. Running 

 spring by house and in barnyard. Colville 

 river runs through place, good trout fishing. 

 No better dairy farm of same size anywhere. 

 $5000 cash, balance to suit. 



THE BIG BEND LAND COMPANY, 

 Spokane, Washington. 



HOOD RIVER HOMES 

 Orchard properties at reasonable prices. 

 Strawberry and farm land. Choice small 

 homesite tracts. Excellent city residences. 

 Famous Hood River Valley — the home of at- 

 tractive homes. Hood River Abstract & In- 

 vestment Co., Hood River, Oregon. 



A GREAT BARGAIN 

 Mira-Monte Orchords; 80 acres; 10 acres 

 in 11-year-old Delicious and King David 

 apples. 4-room bungalow, barn, fine well, 

 tank tower and pumping plant; 6 miles 

 north Lyle, Washington; good road; magni- 

 ficent view. Estimated crop, 2500 boxes. 

 Price $10,000. Address owner, P. S. Malcolm 

 214 Failing Bldg., Portland, Oregon. 



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CONSULTING 

 HORTICULTURIST 



PROFESSOR W. S.THORNBER 



Formerly 



HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE 



AND LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Later 



DIRECTOR OF THE EXTENSION SERVICE 



OF THE 



STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON 



WILL ADVISE with fruit-growers upon all horticultural 

 problems, including selection and preparation of orchard 

 lands; propagation and care of nursery stock; planting and care 

 of young orchards and small fruit plantations; the control of 

 codling moth, San Jose scale, blight and other orchard pests; the 

 preparation of lime-sulphur at home and the mixing of other 

 sprays; economical orchard management; the irrigation and 

 fertilization of orchard lands; the use of cover-crops and grass 

 mulches; the pruning of fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, bushes 

 and vines; the renovation of old or neglected orchards, top- 

 working or replacing of poor or unprofitable trees, and the 

 examining and the working out of practical management plans 

 for large orchards and orchard companies. 



If your orchard has not been a financial success, and you 

 wish to determine its possibilities or you wish to improve your 

 orchard, reduce your losses and increase your returns I will 

 assist you in working out your problem. 



WRITE FOR TERMS 



W. S.THORNBER 



LEWISTON, IDAHO 



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400-ACRE STOCK FARM within 40 miles of 

 Portland; vegetable loam, well watered; roll- 

 ing, nearly all tillable; 50 acres under plow, 

 50 acres pasture; houses, barns, outbuildings 

 and other improvements. Abundance and 

 variety choicest fruit; 37 years continuous 

 crops by owner, whose infirmity forces sale. 

 $20,000. Terms. 



Clackamas County, 160 acres 35 miles from 

 Portland; 36 acres cultivation; fenced, cross- 

 fenced, orchard, house, barn, spring water 

 supply, good road, adjoining school; best 

 soil. $8,000. Terms at 6 per cent. 



Douglas County 160-acre mountain ranch 

 near Ashland; good house, barn, outbuild- 

 ings; partly fenced and cross-fenced; 12 

 acres cultivated; 2,000,000 feet saw timber; 

 $3000, terms. 



E. PIERSON, 

 415 Chamber of Commerce Building, 



Portland, Oregon. 



FOR SALE — $2250 buys 50 acres of fine level 

 land in Shasta County, California, under 

 irrigation system, ditch on property; grows 

 anything. Especially adapted to fruit and 

 berries, olives, alfalfa. Latest enterprise 

 proving great success is rice culture. About 

 30 acres ready for cultivation; balance 

 slightly wooded. Address H. H. Shuflleton, 

 Jr., Redding, California. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



FOR SALE — Ten and one-half acres of com- 

 mercial orchard, lots 9 and 10, block 57, 

 Lewiston Orchards. Seven acres in seven- 

 year old apple trees, selected commercial 

 varieties; three and one-half acres in cher- 

 ries. In good condition; ideally situated 

 near paved road; centralized school, church, 

 and six miles from Lewiston, Idaho. Pipe 

 line irrigation, fully equipped. $8500. Dis- 

 count for ca sh. David JJlson, Kent, Ohio. 

 CUT~OVER — LANDS! 

 23 miles north of Spokane, rich bottom 

 lands, good for dairying and general farm- 

 ing, no irrigation, plenty of running water, 

 free lumber, 10 years' time, 6 per cent. Call 

 or write Deer Park Lumber Company, Deer 

 Park, Washington, or 109 Stevens Streets, 

 S pokane, Washing ton. 



CUT-OVER AND DEVELOPED LANDS, 15 to 

 25 miles N. E. Spokane; extra good soil; 

 spring brooks; grows grain, vegetables, hay, 

 fruits; several developed ranches; few stock 

 ranches; $10 to $20 acre. Ten years time, 

 6 per cent Interest. Free lumber. Write 

 owners for free book. Edwards & Bradford 

 Lumber Company ,Jslk, Washin gton. 



FOR SALE — 27-acre Idaho apple orchard, 7 

 years old; alfalfa between rows; water right. 

 $500 per acre. Write Box 694, Weiser, Idaho. 



