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BETTER FRUIT 



June 



ZEROLENE 



; iheSiandard Oil /or Motor Cars i 



Dealers everywhere, and at all our 

 agencies or Service Stations. Or ask 

 us about delivery in bulk. 



Standard Oil Co. 



(California) 



Portland 



The Hardie Mfg. Co. 



ANNOUNCES A NEW DEPARTMENT IN 

 ITS LINE OF 



Orchard Supplies 



If you are in need of a Lid Press, Nail Strippers, 

 Ladders, Picking Bag, Picking Pail, Pruners, or 

 any of the many devices used in picking and pack- 

 ing fruit, you will need our new catalog — which 

 will sent on request. 



The Hardie Mfg. Co. 



Portland, Oregon 



49 North Front Street 



MR. G. W. COBURN was born at 

 Senaca, Kansas, in 1879, and is 

 now 36 years of age. Six years later 

 he moved to ^^^^itewater, Wisconsin, 

 where he attended the public school, 

 graduating from high school in 1879, 

 afterwards attending the Whitewater 

 Normal School, earning his money 

 working alternately one year and 

 teaching school the next year. After 

 graduating from the Whitewater Nor- 

 mal School he attended the University 

 of Wisconsin, taking a special course 

 in the School of Commerce. Mr. Co- 

 burn spent two years in the United 

 States Census Office in the Department 

 of Agriculture, having charge as chief 

 of a section, which gave him a splen- 

 did opportunity to obtain a very thor- 

 ough knowledge of agricultural work 

 in different parts of the United States. 

 During this period of service he spent 

 much of his time becoming well 

 acquainted in fruit sections in the Vir- 



ginias and Tennessee. During the years 

 1903-4 he was connected with Long- 

 Critchfield Corporation of Chicago, 

 one of the largest agricultural adver- 

 tising agencies in the United States. 

 Ten years ago he moved to Spokane, 

 the next year going to Wenatchee, 

 where for one year he was connected 

 with the commercial department as 

 teacher in the high school; for two 

 years and a half he was in the employ 

 of the First National Bank of Wenat- 

 chee, then going to Klickitat County, 

 on the Columbia River. The next year 

 and a half he was employed in Klicki- 

 tat County, spending part of his time 

 in Hood River, Oregon, but instead of 

 locating permanently as he originally 

 intended, upon being offered the secre- 

 taryship of the Commercial Club of 

 Wenatchee he returned to that city and 

 for two years occupied the position of 

 secretary and general manager. During 

 the past two years Mr. ('oburn has 



been manager of the Wenatchee Val- 

 ley Fruit Growers' Association, the 

 oldest association in Wenatchee dis- 

 trict. For several years Mr. W. T. 

 Clark has been president of the Wenat- 

 chee Fruit Growers' Association. Mr. 

 Coburn, as manager of the Wenatchee 

 Valley Fruit Growers' Association, has 

 spent much of his time in the East, 

 where he had a splendid opportunity 

 to inspect fruit on arrival and to study 

 marketing conditions, having visited 

 each one of the large marketing cen- 

 ters in the Middle West and East dur- 

 ing the selling season. Mr. Coburn 

 believes in co-operation between the 



MR. G. W. COBURN 



Manager of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit 



Growers' Association 



grower and the selling concern, and he 

 advocated extending this co-operation 

 from the growers' selling organization 

 to the Eastern dealers. He believes the 

 Eastern dealer should receive as great 

 a per cent of profit on box apples as 

 he receives on barrel apples, and that 

 co-operation must extend along the line 

 from the grower clear up to the con- 

 sumer; and furthermore, he believes 

 that if we expect people to sell our 

 apples they must have an opportunity 

 to make a fair profit and an equal profit 

 with any other similar commodity. 



Spokane Banks Prepare to Make Loan 



Spokane, which is the big financial 

 centre of the Inland Empire, has taken 

 active steps through its banks and 

 clearing house to perfect a plan to 

 finance the fruit growers during the 

 coming season. Plans are well uniler 

 way which will probably culminate 

 in the banks of Spokane being in a 

 position to loan the fruit growers 

 .$500,000 for the coming season. 



YOU CAN EARN $50 00 PE" DAY 



'6«irl«t> linrrDvad Standard 

 Wall Drilllna Machine. 



DriOl through mmj foimatioB. 



Fire yeut ahead ot aay otii«r. 



Hu recoid oi diiihaa f30 fnl 



and ckiTiDg eaaaa ia 9 boun. 

 Aaolher record wtiera 70 (oe< wu drilled aa 2 H fl«l- disbllau 

 al9cp«rtaL One maacaa operate. EJcctricaflr eauippedfor 

 nBaina aicfali. Fiihi&iiofa. Enfine ivnitie.. CataioaacWfc. 

 REIERSON MACHINERY CO., Manfrt. Portland, Or* 



