December, ipso 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page 21 



Cooking and Canning 



IS A REAL PLEASURE 



Note the picture. You cook everything 

 at once, over one fire. Everything 

 cooked perfectly under steam pressure- 

 no burning, no mixing of flavors, no 

 shrinkage of the food. With it you can 

 everything by the cold pack method — 

 fruit, vegetables, meats, etc. Thousands 

 are using Conservo and say it's worth 

 its weight in gold. 



Conservo Cooker 



No. 20 — Conservo, 21% inches high, 

 11% inches square; 4 removable shelves; 

 2 pans; cooks for 3 to 15 persons; holds 

 14 one-quart jars for canning:. No. 9 — 

 Conservo is 13% inches high; 2 shelves; 1 

 pan; cooks for 2 or 3 persons; holds 6 

 one-quart jars for canning. 

 Works on any stove — wood, coal or gas 



blessing to the housekeeper. Every home should have 

 one. It will pay for Itself In a few months' time by 

 the saving in food and fuel. Foods cooked in it are 

 delicious— they retain all their flavor and natural 

 juices. Canning is done perfectly and with least 



OUTWEST SUPPLY CO. 



Portland, Oregon 



Winter Nelis Pears 



Sweet Cherries 



Apricots and 



Grapes 



A SPECIALTY 



Home Nursery Co. 



RICHLAND, WASH. 



The Old Reliable 



BELL & CO. 



Incorporated 



WHOLESALE 



Fruit and Produce 



112-114 Front Street 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



the state and Hood River is third with 385 

 acres. In apple acreage Hood River county 

 leads the state with 8,827 acres of bearing 

 apples and 1,619 acres in non-bearing trees. 



The commercial club at Oregon City is being 

 urged to take up a campaign there to stimulate 

 the planting of loganberries. The acreage 

 there is now 100 and the suggestion- is to bring 

 it up to 500 during the coming year. 



The Department of Entomology of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College Experiment Station has 

 recently issued a fruit growers handbook of 

 apple and pear insects compiled by A. L. Lov- 

 ett and H. B. Fulton. The little volume is full 

 of valuable information for the grower and 

 can be had by application to the college. 



Final installation of new machinery in all 

 its packing plants is announced by the Oregon 

 Growers Cooperative Association, with the ex- 

 ception of Scotts Mills where there has been 

 some delay. The new processing machines are 

 of the very latest type, R. C. Paulus, sales 

 manager, announces. They are capable of giv- 

 ing prunes a more thorough washing and they 

 also carry Ihe prunes longer in the steam per- 

 mitting a higher temperature. During the past 

 season the heaviest packing was done at the 

 Sutherlin and Salem plants on account of de- 

 lay in shipment of machinery which inter- 

 fered with operations. The plants already in 

 operation with the new machinery are lo- 

 cated at Salem, Dallas and Yamhill. Installa- 

 tion of new machinery is under way in the 

 packing plants at Forest Grove, Myrtle Creek, 

 Dallas, Riddle, and Scotts Mills. 



J. O. Holt, packing manager of the Oregon 

 Growers Cooperative Association with head- 

 quarters at Eugene, announces that the chemist 

 at the Eugene plant is putting out an apple 

 syrup that is likely to be the real thing. Here- 

 tofore, in the apple syrups produced, there 

 was an acid that rather spoiled the effect. By 

 a chemical process, this acid has been removed 

 and syrup made from apples is very likely, 

 within another season, to become popular. 



Pear growers who are members of the Ore- 

 gon Growers Association received the highest 

 prices this season ever known west of the 

 Cascade mountains. On November 1 a car lot 

 of Bosc, grown at Medford, Oregon, topped 

 the New York City market at $7.38 a box. On 

 November 2, part of another shipment of Bosc 

 pears was sold for $7.09 a box. 



WASHINGTON. 

 The annual meeting of the Washington 

 State Horticultural Association and Northwest 

 Fruitgrowers Conference will be held in Spo- 

 kane, December 13 to 17. Other meetings that 

 will be held at the same time will be those of 

 the Washington State Grade and Pack Con- 

 ference, the Northwest Potato Growers' Confer- 

 ence, the Washington State Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation and the Inland Empire Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation. An interesting program has been 

 prepared for all these events and a general 

 invitation is extended to fruit and potato grow- 

 ers and beekeepers throughout the Northwest 

 to attend. 



The Grays Harbor County Berry Growers' 

 Association was recently organized at Satsop, 

 Wash. A constitution and by-laws were adopt- 

 ed for the new organization and the following 

 ofllcers elected: J. W. Strubel, Elma, Wash., 

 president; A. H. Fleming, also of Elma, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. The plan is to hold 

 meetings in the various towns in the county 

 to secure additional members and to acquaint 

 growers in all sections with the objects and 

 activities of the association. 



An apple crop of 13,420,000 bushels is es- 

 timated for Washington this year by the VJ. 

 S. bureau of crop estimates. The 1919 crop 

 aggregated 23,190,000 bushels. Cash buyers 

 are few in number and growers are prejudiced 

 against consigning. Large quantities of ap- 

 ples therefore are going into storage, and 

 there is a general expectation that market con- 

 ditions will improve when the heavy volume 

 of early fall shipments has been absorbed. 

 Fortunately the country is better equipped 

 for storage than ever before. The Washing- 

 ton pear crop is placed at 532,000 bushels, 71 

 per cent of normal. 



Five hundred seventy-nine cars of Yakima 

 apples rolled to market during the week end- 

 ing November 13. These shipments bring the 

 record for the season to 6,309 cars, as com- 

 pared with the 1919 mark of 10,916 cars dur- 

 ing the corresponding period. The value of 



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MAKE 



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LINE 



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WITH 



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 481 Glisan Street 



CENTRAL 

 DOOR and 

 LUMBER CO 

 Portland, Ore. 



NOW is the time to send to 



Milton Nursery Company 



MILTON, OREGON 



FOR THEIR 1921 CATALOG 



FULL LINE OF NURSERY STOCK 



"Genuineness and Quality" 



Bastian ft /? 

 Pruning >*< 

 Implements ] 



Catalogue 

 mailed on 

 request. 



North-west Fence & 

 Wire Works 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



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