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BETTER FRUIT 



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BETTER FRUIT was original in 

 conception and has been original in 

 execution, and is like no other fruit 

 growers' paper in any respect. We have 

 published a great many special editions 

 during the past five years on important 

 features connected with the orchard 

 industry. "Better Fruit" will add new 

 features from now on. 



The July edition will be a surprise 

 number, and one which will undoubtedly 

 be of great benefit to all fruit growers, 

 fruit growers' associations and private 

 shipping firms of the Northwest. Our 

 assistant editor, Mr. C. R. Greisen, will 

 make a special trip to some forty large 

 cities, collecting data and various infor- 

 mation regarding marketing problems, 

 which will be of great value. Mr. Greisen 

 made three trips East for "Better Fruit'' 

 during the year 1910, but this trip will be 

 the most thorough and complete of any. 

 Not a single horticultural paper, so far 

 as known, has sent a special representa- 

 tive East. 



The July edition will contain much 

 information about marketing in different 

 cities, which will be gathered by our 

 assistant editor, and in addition will con- 

 tain a number of interesting views of the 

 principal markets of the larger cities, 

 and also photographs of many of the 

 principal fruit dealers, all of which will 

 undoubtedly prove very interesting and 

 very valuable to fruit growers. 



THE Puyallup Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation's genial manager. Senator 

 W. H. Paulhamus, is in favor of reci- 

 procity. In the interests of fruit grow- 

 ing, he states that eleven cents per box 

 on peaches, thirty cents on apples, fifty 

 cents on berries is more or less pro- 

 hibitory. Canada's season is later than 

 ours, and on account of the tarifif we are 

 unable to ship for the early Canadian 

 market. 



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VARIETIES OF FRUIT. — On 

 account of the popularity of the 

 apple and the splendid profits that are 

 being made by apple growers in the 

 Northwest, and, for that matter, in other 

 sections of the United States, the apple 

 is very much in the limelight. From 

 prices realized on other varieties of fruit 

 it would seem that a great many sections 

 and growers are overlooking many good 

 bets. The prices for prunes have been 

 such as to indicate that this will be 

 exceedingly profitable business. Rasp- 

 berries made better money for the grow- 

 ers last year than they have in the past. 

 Prices for strawberries have been unusu- 

 ally good in all producing sections these 

 last five years. 



From the prices obtained for many 

 other varieties of fruit it would seem that 

 the growers would be justified in giving 

 the matter of planting other fruit than 

 apples serious consideration. There are 

 many districts where pears, cherries, 

 prunes, peaches, grapes and apricots can 

 be grown very successfully, of unequaled 

 quality, with large yields. While it must 

 be admitted that this is an age of special- 

 ties, and that specialists are generally 

 successful in making extra money, still it 



must be conceded that if everyone plants 

 apples necessarily a shortage must exist 

 in the near future on other varieties of 

 fruit, and consequently it will not be sur- 

 prising, in due course of time, to see 

 high prices prevailing for peaches, pears, 

 berries, grapes, prunes and cherries. 

 There is an old saying, "Don't put all 

 your eggs in one basket," and if a fruit 

 grower has land where different varieties 

 of fruit can be grown he should go in for 

 various kinds of fruit, then should one of 

 them prove a failure, or prices of some 

 one kind be low, he will still come out 

 with a good average net profit. 



The opinions of prominent railroad 

 officials are certainly entitled to consid- 

 eration, because such men are big, broad- 

 minded men who have opportunities for 

 taking a general view of things, which an 

 ordinary individual does not always pos- 

 sess. Therefore, if it seem wise, in their 

 opinion, to encourage a general variety 

 of farm products the matter is worthy of 

 consideration. 



In many sections of the Northwest 

 immense crops of alfalfa can be grown, 

 and it is also well known that the stock 

 business of the Northwest has been very 



profitable. Where alfalfa can be grown 

 successfully and the climate is well 

 adapted to stock raising, as it is in the 

 Northwest, it would seem that an oppor- 

 tunity for this line of farming has been 

 largely overlooked. 



Some districts, for certain reasons, are 

 especially adapted for producing some 

 one thing as a specialty, but it does not 

 seem wise for all districts to grow the 

 same specialty. On the other hand, 

 where a district is adapted to several 

 specialties the matter is undoubtedly 

 worth considering. 



Cupid Flour 



Has same standing in the Flour 

 trade that Hood River Apples 

 have in the Fruit trade. 



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Sherman^^ay & Co.- 



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