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BETTER FRUIT 



August, ipso 



Classified Advertisements I" 



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, filberts, 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. Bean, 

 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 SIZER— 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. 



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. 



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. 



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 cash. David Olson, 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, 

 Spokane, Washington. 



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, Elk, Washington. 



FOR SALE: — 27-acre Idaho apple orchard, 7 

 years old; alfalfa between rows; water right. 

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



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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SALESMEN WANTED. 



MEN with proven ability capable of selling a 

 line of high grade nursery stock on a com- 

 mission contract. Weekly cash advance. 

 Splendid territory may be had by answering 

 immediately. 



SALEM NURSERIES 

 427 Oregon Building Salem, Oregon 



Cement Coated Wire Nails 



If your dealer cannot or will not 

 supply you with Nails, we probably 

 can do so. 



A. C. RULOFSON CO. 

 Monadnock Building, San Francisco 



ORCHARD. 



COMPLETELY equipped superior orchard prop- 

 erty for sale in Southeastern Pennsylvania. 

 Sixty-three acres in bearing peach and apple. 

 Address Owners, care Better Fruit Publish- 

 ing Company, Portland, Oregon. 



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Saves alfalfa. Exper 



al stations approve, louo tablets 

 P. P. $1.50. Warranted. Ask 

 your druggi; 



Fruit trees budded from bearing orrh 

 ards Apple. Pear. Cherry, Pei 

 Prune. Aprimt. Quince. Grape Vines, 

 i Shrubbery. Plants. Raspberries. Black 

 berries, Logans. Dewberries , Asparagus, 

 Rhubarb. Flowering Shrubs. R 

 Vines. Hedge. Nut and Shade Trees, 

 Carriage paid. Satisfaction guaranteed, 



WASHINGTON NURSERY CO 



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