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BETTER FRUIT 



September, iqpo 



Classified Advertisements 



RATE, 4 CENTS PER WORD 



FARMS FOR SALE. 



ORCHARD FOR SALE 



A BIG INCOME PRODUCER 



43 acres located one and one-half miles 

 southwest of Forest Grove, Oregon. 39 acres 

 are in bearing Rome Beauty, Gano and Spitz- 

 enberg apples, and 4 acres in prunes. 



Orchard in most perfect condition. 



This exceptional orchard has had the best 

 of care, being fully tilled every year, and is 

 in the very best of condition. 



Located on the Southern Pacific and Ore- 

 gon Electric Railways, .lust 27 miles from 

 Portland. This place is situated right in the 

 midst of large shipping terminals. Fourteen 

 electric trains, and a passenger auto every 

 hour during the day, to Portland comprises 

 the passenger service. Fast freight service 

 is maintained all during the night. A paved 

 highway between Forest Grove and Portland 

 also goes toward perfect, efficient transpor- 

 tation. 



There are no buildings on this place. The 

 Pacific University, schools, churches, stores 

 and amusements are at Forest Grove. 



Owner to Retire. 

 The owner is a civil war veteran and is 

 about to retire. This is the reason for offer- 

 ing this place for sale. 



Price $700 per acre. 



one year at 



For further information address 



W. J. R. BEACH 



Owner's Representative, 



Forest Grove, Oregon. 



ON LAKE FRONT AT OLYMPIA 

 Lake front farm close to Olympia, 122 

 acres, 80 acres of plow land; choice family 

 orchard; new, modern, 7-room bungalow; 

 substantial barns and outbuildings; five 

 cows, pigs, chickens, team, farm machinery; 

 a going, profitable place where one has the 

 best of bass and trout fishing at the door — 

 combining pleasure and profit. 

 PRICE .$13,500. 

 We have many fine propositions in this 

 ideal locality on Puget Sound, where roads 

 are good, climate the best, and prices very 

 reasonable. Address 



SAMS & PETERS 

 428 Washington Street, Olympia, Wash. 



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, 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, 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. 



A Small Avery Tractor, Specially 

 Adapted to Orchard Work 



Here is exactly the type of power outfit that 

 practically every orchard owner needs. It will 

 take the hard work out of turning under your 

 cover crops and enable you to plow and culti- 

 vate the soil between t he trees without injury 

 to the branches. It also will supply you the 

 needed power for pulling your spraying outfit, 

 and, in addition, can take care of all your 

 light bplt work as well as other power jobs 

 about your farm. 



This is the Avery Six-Cylinder Model "C" 

 Tractor — the small tractor that has made a 

 big success everywhere. It is especially 

 adapted to orchard work — is extremely low in 

 height — is easily handled — can turn around 

 in a small space — has a powerful six-cylinder 



Write fo 



Avery Lit 



motor — is magneto equipped and the wheels 

 are also covered with long sloping guards 

 which gently raise the low hanging branches 

 and pass them up over the tractor without 

 injury to the trees or fruit. 

 We also have a special orchard plow to be used 

 with this tractor. This plow can be furnished 

 with a guard so that it too will not injure the 

 branches if desired. 



This small Avery Tractor like the larger sizes 

 of Avery tractors is a Quality machine built 

 complete in the Avery factories. It is regularly 

 furnished with such equipment as platform, 

 seat, tool box, drawbar, air cleaner, etc. — 

 equipment that makers of other small trac- 

 tors charge extra for. 



-If interested in other machines in the complete 

 actor Operated Tools, ask for the Avery Catalog. 



VERY 



Motor Farming, Threshing 

 cind Rocid Building Machinery 



Avery-ize Your Farm — "A Good 

 Machine and a Square Deal." 



AVERY COMPANY 



10709 Iowa St., Peoria, 111. 



Feenaughty Machinery Co. 

 Distributors, 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. 



256-ACRE equipped fruit and dairy farm; 

 large house and barns; 2,000 apples trees; 

 near Pike; 3 miles to station and 50 to 

 Washington ; large springs for gravity power 

 system for spraying, grinding, milking, 

 lights, etc.; excellent neighborhood. Address 

 Orchard Owner, City Hotel, Winchester, Va. 



WANTED TO LEASE, outright or on shares, 

 40 to 80-acre orchard, by two men who have 

 had 15 years' experience. Will consider 

 proposition in anv apple section of the 

 United Stales. Address H. W. H., care Bet- 

 ter Fruit. 



FOR SALE — 10-acre Eastern Washington apple 



orchard 11 years old. This tract is in the 



best of condition and has a good crop this 



vein. Situated near paved road, 22 miles 



from Spokane. I will sell this tract for 



$7,000. Crop goes with the trail. Pipeline 



irrigation. O. E. Christenson, Pilchuck, 

 Washington. 



WANT TO HEAR from party having farm for 

 sale. Give particulars and lowest price. 

 John .1. P.lack, 197th St., Chippewa palls. 

 Wisconsin. 



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. 



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 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



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. 



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