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Profits Without Worry 



Are you one of the many people who know the Hood 

 River apples, their quality, and the profits to be derived 

 from producing them? 



Are you unable to share in the profits of this wonder- 

 ful business because you have not enough capital to own 

 an orchard or cannot leave your present pursuits to 

 engage actively in apple culture? If you are, write at 

 once for the prospectas of the Oregon Apple Company 

 of Hood River. 



This company has been organized for the purpose of 

 producing a profit from the growing of apples. To this 

 end 300 acres of the best apple land in Hood River 

 Valley has been purchased, and the services of the well- 

 known horticulturist, George I. Sargent, as manager, 

 have been secured. Mr. Sargent will have charge of the 

 planting and care of the tract, which insures from the 

 outset a high-class orchard. 



The capital stock of the Oregon Apple Company of 

 Hood River is $300,000, of which $60,000 is preferred. 

 The common stock has been subscribed, with which 300 

 acres of the best land in the upper Hood River Valley 

 has been secured, together with the larger part of the 

 necessary additional operating capital to be supplied by 

 profits derived from the use of the land between the 

 trees. In order to further assist in the development of 

 the tract, this issue of preferred stock is being made. 

 This stock is preferred in dividends to the extent of the 

 first 10 per cent earned, and shares with the common 

 stock on profits from the sale of apples greater than 

 the first 10 per cent. 



This stock is issued in $10.00 shares and is sold at 

 par. Should the investor wish to pay for it in monthly 

 installments through a period of five years, he may do 

 so by paying 20 cents per share per month for fifty 

 months. 



A discount of 8 per cent, simple interest, will be 

 allowed for cash. 



This stock is non-cumulative and non-assessable. 



This proposition lets you have orchard profits with- 

 out the care, worry and work of operating. 



It lets you have orchard profits without the usual 

 large cash purchase price of a high grade orchard. 



It gives you a high rate of interest on your savings. 



The operating expenses of this large tract will be 

 much less per acre than the operating expense on a 

 small tract of ten or twenty acres. 



The equipment needed will be much less than that 

 needed on 300 acres subdivided in the usual ten-acre 

 tracts. 



Consequently the profits will be greater. 



The assurance to the preferred stockholder rests in 

 the fact that the common stockholders are so confident 

 of the profits to be accumulated from these orchards 

 that they are delivering the land, part of the running 

 capital and services for five years, having no share in 

 the profits from the sale of these apples until the pre- 

 ferred stockholders have been paid their 10 per cent 

 dividend, and are then willing to share equally with the 

 preferred stock in all amounts greater than this 10 per 

 cent. This acts as an insurance to the preferred stock 

 that high class care will be given in order to accumulate 

 profits sufficient to pay dividends on the common stock. 



Write for further information today. 



THE OREGON APPLE COMPANY 



21 Heilbronner Building 



OF HOOD RIVER 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



THE UNKNOWN SNOUT BEETLE OR BUD WEEVEL 



BY GEORGE CHASE, MANAGER MODEL ORCHARD, PROSSER, WASH. 



THIS pest seems to be practically 

 unknown to "bug men" of the North- 

 west. It was first brought to my notice 

 in the spring of 1909, and was found on 

 some peach trees in the Grandview, 

 Washington, Orchard Tracts. Some of 

 the beetles were sent to Pullman, and 

 Professor Melander called them "bud 

 weevil," and recommended using an 

 inverted umbrella in shaking the tree 

 over, the old method of catching the 

 plum curculio; but as these come when 

 there is no foliage on the trees they see 

 you before you get close enough for this, 

 and, generally speaking, I don't think 



they have been very bad so far, but in 

 the spring of 1910, in early March, they 

 attacked every tree (over sixteen thou- 

 sand) in the Model Orchard. This 

 orchard is set to apples and pears alter- 

 nately, and we were about through prun- 

 ing the apples when they begun working 

 on them, so we did not prune the pears, 

 and they were not damaged much. We 

 first painted all the trees (all one year 

 old) with very strong arsenate of lead, 

 but found it did no good; then we tried 

 rex, and that did no good, because they 

 eat very little of the surface, but eat 

 a hole into the bud and then gouge out 



the heart of the bud, completely destroy- 

 ing it. In the meantime it seemed as if 

 every apple tree was doomed; we were 

 not able to get any advise that helped, 

 and it was from reading an article in 



FOR SALE 



A 14-acre apple orchard in the famous 

 White Salmon Valley, all set to Spitzen- 

 berg and Yellow Newtown apples, with 

 a few Ortleys and Winter Bananas; seven 

 acres six years old and seven acres four 

 years old, and fifty peach trees. A com- 

 fortable four-room bungalow with a large 

 fireplace. A beautiful view of Mount 

 Hood. The price is $700 per acre, with 

 terms. For particulars, photos, etc., 

 apply to M. R., care "Better Fruit." 



Within the Shadow of Glorious Mount Hood 



^re Grown the IV orld' s Most Famous Apples 



Last year the apple crop of Hood River was valued at $1,000,000. 



About 1,000 acres in actual bearing produced this entire crop. 

 $500 per acre is an average yield. 



$2,000 per acre is an average price for full bearing orchards. 



FIVE YEAR 



Orchards on 

 easy payments 

 for 



$500 per acre 



Clip out and mail now 



Hood River District Land Co., Hood River, Oregon. 



Sirs: Please send me information regarding your easy 

 payment plan of purchasing orchards. 



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