Handling Fruit by Machinery 



The fame of Hood River Fruit is 

 backed up first i)y tlie wonderful fin- 

 ish of nature's delicate touch and the 

 extreme richness of flavor imparted 

 by the perfect soil and climatic con- 

 ditions of the Hood River Valley, but 

 advanced methods in grading and 

 packing the product have attracted 

 the attention of both the trade and 

 the general public, who appreciate 

 supeiior food articles. 



Now comes Walter G. Palmer, a 

 noted Hood River inventoi- with a 

 real practical and efficient machine 

 for grading fruit. F^or .several years 

 Mr. Palmer has been improving his 

 machine until now lie has brought 

 out a "simply wonderful and a won- 

 derfully simple machine," with almost 

 unlimited capacity, which will handle 

 any kind of fruit ranging from one 

 and one-half to four inches in diame- 

 ter, or special machines can be made 

 to handle fruit or any irregular round- 

 ish articles accurately up to six inches 

 or larger in diameter. 



This machine has three channels 

 with traveling conveyors. Each chan- 

 nel has a capacity of about 150 apples 

 per minute, or 275,000 apples in ten 

 hours, which is equal to handling 

 more than 2000 boxes or 700 barrels 

 of apples in ten hours and lunning at 

 half its cai^acity would handle nearly 

 two car loads a day. 



When three grades are wanted, 

 each channel will handle one grade 

 separating the principal grade into 

 nine sizes, the second grade into six 

 sizes, and the third grade into three 

 sizes, or when only two grades are re- 

 quired, two channels can be used for 

 the principal grade and one channel 

 for the second grade, separating both 

 grades into nine sizes. 



The strong feature of this machine 

 is that the fruit i)asses through siiuare 

 holes which expand both longitudin- 

 ally and laterally at the same time, be- 

 ginning at the feed end at IV2 inches 

 s(|uare and expanding to 4 inches 

 square at the opposite end, the fruit 

 being discharged at a point where the 

 expansion is sufficient to allow it to 

 pass through into the bins. 



The second important feature is 

 Mr. Palmer's device for laying the 

 fruit from the bins into the bottom of 

 the boxes or barrels a half bushel or 

 more at a time, more gentl>' than the 

 ordinary person would lay them in 

 two or three apples at a time by hand. 

 In order to comply with the state 

 law and also the demands of the trade, 

 handling large crops of aijples by 

 hand is a thing of the past, as hand 

 labor is too expensive and not suffi- 

 cienlly accurate, hence the iiroduc- 

 tion of this wonderful machine is very 

 timely. 



A cut of this machine appears on 

 page 21 of this issue of "Belter F'ruit." 

 — fAdv. 



BETTER FRUIT 



with olTu^ty. — *t — S'KfUieapfiHs, has ac- 

 cepted a position with the Spokane 

 Fruit Growei's' Company. According 

 to their letterhead, this company is 

 alliliated with the North Pacific Fruit 

 Distributors. It is capitalized for 

 .•<1 2,5,0(10, with ollices in the Hyde Block, 

 Sjjokane. Mr. Blcjt's record with the 

 Distributors is good evidence of his 

 (lualilication as a salesman. Therefore, 

 il is exiJecled he will render ellicieni 

 service in this important position. The 

 Spokane I'ruit tirowers' (Company ex- 

 pects to do special work for the Spo- 

 kane district, which is a comparatively 

 new district and not so well known as 

 some of the older-established districts. 

 The Spokane fruitgrowers feel that 

 through an organization of this kind, 

 with concentrated effort, they can put 

 the Spokane country on the map with 

 Ihe fruit dealers and the fruit-consum- 

 ing public in a very rapid way. 



Mr. Sam (i. Campbell of Hood River, 

 for the last two years insjjector for 

 Ihe North Pacific Fruit Distributors, 

 will have full charge of the inspection 

 service for the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Association during the year 

 1915. There is no man in the North- 

 west that understands this business 

 belter than Mr. Campbell. The editor 

 knows this, having selected Mr. Camp- 

 bell as his inspector when he was 

 manager of the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Union during its early years 

 of organization. Mr. Cami)bell is an 

 expert packer and knows the grading 

 rules like the niulticii)ation tables, 

 and knows how to apply them with 

 good judgment and intelligence. In 

 addition to this, Mr. Cam])bell is a 

 man of decision and firmness, at the 

 same time tactful, diplomatic and re- 

 spectful. The growei' who thinks he 

 can "get by" Mr. Campbell, will find 

 if he tries, he has run up against a 

 stone wall. In addition to this, Mr. 

 (',ami)bell is a si)lendid fellow, a cour- 

 teous gentleman and a true friend. 



A letter from the Spokane F'ruit 

 Growers' Company announces that Mr. 

 L. J. Blot, formerly district manager 

 for the North Pacific F""ruit Distributors, 



The Bean Sjjray Pump Conqjany of 

 San .lose, (California, has a very nice 

 display of sprayers on exhibition at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition, and through 

 "Better I'ruit" extends an invitation to 

 all fruitgrowers to make Ihe "Bean 

 Booth" headtiuarters when visiting Ihe 

 l-Cxposition. One feature of the exhibi- 

 tion which draws nnich attention is the 

 "lO-horsepower Bean engine," mounted 

 on a circular table and revolving 

 slowly by its own power. The Bean 

 Spray Punqj Conqjany has a conqilcte 

 line of spray outfits ranging from a 

 small rig for one man, known as Ihe 

 "Bean Eureka." to the "Bean Giant," 

 which has a capacity of eight to ten 

 gallons per nunute. Tlu' small fruit- 

 grower will appieciate and be inter- 

 ested in the "Bean lun-eka," as Ibis ma- 

 chine is calculateil to do away wit!) Ihe 

 use of a hand punq) which Ihe small 

 fruitgrower has been conqxdlcd to use. 

 The sprayer is light, so that one horse 

 can pull it, and especialh adapled to 

 Ihe small orchard, and being very light 

 can be used on hilly ground. The "Bean 



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FIRST AID TO FRUIT TREES 



Winans' Net Tree Support 



rreveiits fniit-laden trees from breaking, heldliig 

 the limLis up more efflcientlj' and at much less ex- 

 pense than propping. Holds limbs in place, pre- 

 venting damage and dropping when the mnd blows. 



Meslie« are large enough so fruit can be picked 

 through them — open at bottom so picker can get 

 inside the net. or net can be removed at picking 

 time. 



This net of finer mesh \\'ill keep the birds from 

 eating llie blossoms or fruit In districts which are 

 thus troubled. 



For further particulars, descriptive circulars and 

 price lists, write 



W. ROSS WINANS, Hood River, Ore. 



Mount Tamalpais 

 Military Academy 



SAN RAFAEL. CAUFORNIA 



The most thoroughly organized and com- 

 pletely equipped Military School west of 

 the Rocky Alountains: Cavalry, Infantry, 

 Mounted Artillery. Sixteen miles North 

 of San Francisco: U. S. army otHeer de- 

 tailed by War Department: accredited by 

 the University of California, Stanford and 

 other Colleges. Twenty-sixtli year bejifin.s 

 August 'i-lth, 1015. 

 Address Rev. Arthur Crosby, A. M..D.D. 



(iiant," of course, connnands more at- 

 tention, for Ihe reason that a large out- 

 fit is more extensively used by the com- 

 mercial orchardist. In connection with 

 the exhibit of spray outfits Ihe Bean 

 Spray Pump Com|)any also h;is a splen- 

 did exhibit of centrifugal i)umps, in 

 which this conipimy does a large busi- 

 ness. The fruitgrowers will not only 

 find this exhibit cxcccthngl.N' interesting 

 but a very prolitablc place to make 

 headiiuarlcrs, as Ihe C;difoinia peojjlc 

 are celebrated for their liosi)itality. 



Client: "I want to sue for a divorce 

 ;uid :m ;dlowance of •*1,.')00 a year." 

 Lawyer: "\Vh:d is your husband's in- 

 come?" Client: "It's about that. I 

 wouldn't ask for more than the man 

 makes. I'm not that kind." — Boston 

 Transcript. 



