. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 3 (5 BETTER FRUIT August The Hood River Standard Nursery Co. HOOD RIVER, OREGON OiFer for delivery for the fall of 1911 and spring of 191 2 an exceptionally fine line of Gravenstein Ortley Delicious Spitzenberg Yellow Newtown Baldwin Rome Beauty Jonathan Winesap AND MANY OTHER VARIETIES Our trees are tall, straight one-year-old top on three-year-old root, propagated from selected trees in the most celebrated orchards of this famous valley Write for Catalog and Price List at a dollar seventy-five; the Spys. so a man who was present told me, were really ripe,
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 3 (5 BETTER FRUIT August The Hood River Standard Nursery Co. HOOD RIVER, OREGON OiFer for delivery for the fall of 1911 and spring of 191 2 an exceptionally fine line of Gravenstein Ortley Delicious Spitzenberg Yellow Newtown Baldwin Rome Beauty Jonathan Winesap AND MANY OTHER VARIETIES Our trees are tall, straight one-year-old top on three-year-old root, propagated from selected trees in the most celebrated orchards of this famous valley Write for Catalog and Price List at a dollar seventy-five; the Spys. so a man who was present told me, were really ripe, almost off condition, while on the other hand the Spitzenbergs were in number one condition. Njow, it wasn't quality with that man—he had to get something that he could sell at a low price; at the two dollar purchase price he couldn't sell his trade even if it had the quality. The Eastern situation, I think, has had something to do with things. We are having opposition from the East through- out the great Northwest that exists not only in the apple business, in the fruit business, but in financial circles; the drain from the West on Eastern capital has been steady and continued, and some bankers in the East are advising their clients to loan their money in the Eas! at four and fi^'e per cent instead of put ting it out on Western loans, where the}' can get seven or eight per cent. I an? told by financial men that the reason i.'- that Eastern bankers are endeavoring to keep the money at home for the develop ment of their own surrounding territory which pays tribute to their own ;- Now, I don't mean to say that this i^ general, but there are a number ol instances where it is true without a doubt. Our fruits are growing in favor. Dur- ing the trip I made through the East the past 3'ear I found that dealers who never had handled box apples were now pre- pared to handle them, and consequently the distribution of our crop has been wider than ever before; I know that Wen
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