. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page BETTER FRUIT July THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY'S APPLE PRIZE PRESIDENT HOWARD ELLIOTT of the Northern Pacific Railway has offered twenty-five twenty-dollar gold pieces to the apple grower who will exhibit the best twenty-five boxes of apples of any variety or varieties at the American Land and Irrigation Exposi-- tion, to be held in Square Gar- den, New York, November 3 to 12. 1911. The contest is limited to bona fide grow- ers or proprietors of orchards, anywhere in the world. In addition to this President Elliott has also allotted 160 acres of la
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page BETTER FRUIT July THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY'S APPLE PRIZE PRESIDENT HOWARD ELLIOTT of the Northern Pacific Railway has offered twenty-five twenty-dollar gold pieces to the apple grower who will exhibit the best twenty-five boxes of apples of any variety or varieties at the American Land and Irrigation Exposi-- tion, to be held in Square Gar- den, New York, November 3 to 12. 1911. The contest is limited to bona fide grow- ers or proprietors of orchards, anywhere in the world. In addition to this President Elliott has also allotted 160 acres of land in Montana, near the station of Terry on the Northern Pacific, as a gift to be awarded to some one of the visitors at the exposition on a day to be designated hy the management of the show. The visitors on that day will each be given a numbered coupon, and at the close of the day's events a drawing will be made, the one holding the luckj' number to get the land. Other land will also be donated b}' several large land companies. Besides the Northern Pacific prize for apples there are a number of other prizes offered for the best exhibits of grain and other products. The Northern Pacific has issued a circular describing fully all of the prizes and the necessary procedure for contestants to follow. A copy of this curcular will be sent to any one interested upon application to the general passenger office of the road in St. Paul. Editor Better Fruit: You are certainly to be congratulated on the fine showing that you are making with "Better Fruit" and we wish you all the success a man can have. In holding up your paper to ninety-six pages you are doing a piece of work tliat is hard to equal, and there is now no doubt but that you have the lead- ing fruit paper in the world. Sincerely, Clinton L. Oliver, Denver, Colorado. CHAS. W. WILMEROTH DEALER IX AXD DISTRIBUTOR OF APPLES AND PEARS 102 THIRD STREET PORTLAND, OREGON If you have fruit to sell correspond with me PACIFIC
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