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BETTER FRUIT 



August, ipso 



Don't Let Your Apples Freeze! 



QUILTED INSULATION. 



LINE YOUR PACKING HOUSES 



— WITH — 



Roberts Quilted 

 Insulating Material 



It is made of two layers of extra heavy building 

 paper with a thick filling of flax tow, stitched like 

 a quilt, and comes in rolls 36 inches wide. Easy 

 to apply, just nail it on with furring strips, and 

 it will form a thorough protection from freezing. 



It Keeps Out the Cold and Frost 



Shipped in rolls containing 250 square feet. 

 Weight 45 pounds. 



Special Price per roll <£>! /*P* 

 Freight prepaid ^.OO 



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271 Hawthorne Avenue, Portland, Oregon 



r ke utmost power value 



Pure throughout, dependable always, Red Crown 

 gasoline gives the utmost power-value. It is made 

 to meet the requirements of your engine. Look for 

 the "Red Crown" sign before you fill. 



STANDARD OIL COMPANY 



(California) 



jhe Gasoline of Quality 



How to Save Your Fruits at Ripening Time 



There is no process known equal to canning and no better 

 sellers than canned fruits and vegetables. We build canning 

 outfits and plants to meet the requirements of the small and 

 large growers— Hand and Belt Power Double Seamers for 

 sealing sanitary cans. Write for Catalog C, Dept. T. 



Henninger & Ayes Manufacturing Co. 



If it's used in canning, we set! it. 



Portland, Oregon, U. S. A. 



I'HEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



and to the contents, 850,000, fully covered by 

 insurance. 



The Yakima Valley Fruit Grower's Associ- 

 ation has announced the closing of its 1919 

 Winesap pool. According to the records, 

 200,223 boxes were shipped bringing a net 

 return of S2.06 per box to members. 



Frost proof apple warehouses at Grant Or- 

 chards, the Soap Lake station of the Great 

 Northern Railway, 120 miles west of Spokane, 

 and at Dalton, 40 miles east of this city, are 

 announced by Charles J. Webb of the Spokane 

 Fruit Growers' Company. Each will be 100x50 

 feet, with the second story for packing pur- 

 poses and a receiving shed, fifty by fifty feet 

 at one end. The storage capacity will be 

 35,000 boxes of apples, or forty carloads. 



At Meyers Falls, residents have decided to 

 erect a frost-proof warehouse fifty by one 

 hundred feet. 



Yakima cherry growers are now beginning 

 to check upon the the season's profits and find 

 that, though the crop was light, higher prices 

 more than made up for lack of quantity. Many 

 growers made over $1,000 an acre. 



W. \V. Scott, of Lower Naches, got $3,000 

 gross for cherries from about 200 trees, which 

 were planted on less than two acres; John 

 Hamberg got $1365 an acre from two acres of 

 Bings. He reports the record of 17 cents a 

 pound for his fruit. Lee Booth, Nob Hill, from 

 four acres of comparatively young trees $1,385. 



The first apple shipment from the lower 

 Yakima Valley was made by the Grandview 

 Fruit & Storage Company. The apples were 

 grown by S. C Loop. 



The Spokane Valley Growers' union will 

 begin work at once on a $50,000 addition which 

 will double the capacity of the plant at Op- 

 portunity and make it possible to handle 

 300,000 boxes of apples in 60 days this fall, 

 according to Edward Pierce, manager. 



Spokane business men and others connected 

 with the cider making industry there are being 

 interested in the establishment of a plant near 

 the city for manufacturing apple cider by a 

 new vacuum process of condensing recently 

 patented and put in operation. The process 

 is said to be a big advance over the methods 

 heretofore used in this industry. O. H. Feil- 

 berg of the Spokane Cider Company, is chiefly 

 interested in the new project and states that 

 the company, when formed, will build a plant 

 to cost $25,000 for the building and machinery. 

 A dryer for the pomace will be installed in 

 the plant and the by-product sold for cattle 

 feed and the peels and cores for jelly-making. 



A fruit warehouse, costing $50,000, will be 

 erected at Fairfield, Wash., by the Palouse 

 Fruit Growers' corporation, according to J. R. 

 Wilson, treasurer and manager. 



From reports of individual growers it is 

 thought that unless something unforeseen hap- 

 pens at least 300,000 boxes will be harvested in 

 the Deer Park orchard section northwest of 

 Spokane. Evidence is clear, it is stated, that 

 smudging saved the crop. While there are a 

 few isolated instances of a fair crop in the 

 unsmudged areas, there will be nothing like 

 a full yield. In the sections where the smoke 

 screen was resorted to the trees are loaded 

 with fruit. 



IDAHO. 

 Ninety per cent of the cherry crop in the 

 Emmett section is signed up in the Emmett 

 Cherry Growers' association, which was or- 

 ganized this season under the auspices of the 

 Gem county farm bureau. 



Y'ields from two Ada County fields treated 

 with sulphur and land plaster have been 

 measured and a substantial increase in crops 

 was reported. A field treated with land plaster 

 showed a yield of 10.69 tons of green hay, 

 while a similar field, untreated, yielded only 

 6.76 tons. Treatment with sulphur resulted in 

 a yield of 10.37 tons, as compared with 8.3C 

 on untreated land. 



Cement Coated Wire Nails 



If your dealer cannot or will not 

 supply you with Nails, we probably 

 can do so. 



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