. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 61 PRINTING FOR FRUIT GROWERS Our facilities for the prompt handling of out-of- town orders, together with the high-class service we render, makes this a good place to buy Printing. Better Fruit is designed and printed in our estab- lishment. Long Distance Telephone Main 165. F. W. BALTES & CO. First and Oak PORTLAND, OREGON Apple Land at Mosier, Ore. In the Hood River district, may be had for from $75 to $125 an acre for raw land, and is absolutely the best land for the money to be had in the Pacific Northwest. Improved land here may b
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page 61 PRINTING FOR FRUIT GROWERS Our facilities for the prompt handling of out-of- town orders, together with the high-class service we render, makes this a good place to buy Printing. Better Fruit is designed and printed in our estab- lishment. Long Distance Telephone Main 165. F. W. BALTES & CO. First and Oak PORTLAND, OREGON Apple Land at Mosier, Ore. In the Hood River district, may be had for from $75 to $125 an acre for raw land, and is absolutely the best land for the money to be had in the Pacific Northwest. Improved land here may be had at equally low prices. Mosier apples bring the very highest prices paid for apples in the United States, and this is a PROVEN district in every respect. For further information address or see D. D. HAIL, MOSIER, OREGON No trouble to answer questions. It is conceded that within a few years the states of the Northwest will have to market 100,000 cars of apples annually, as against the 15,000 cars at the present time. This is a tremendous increase and presents a problem difficult to solve. Some of the reasons why this storage in transit privilege should obtain are given in the words of Mr. Loomis as follows: 'The great trouble with the movement of the crop of box apples in a satisfactory way has been the lack of facilities for distribution. The crop is moved in a month and a half; it requires nine months of the year to consume it; storage facili- ties must be provided at the most favor- able points to hold this crop during that period of time and to allow it to go to any market that most needs the supply. At the present time the box apple crop is congested at Chicago and New York and no efforts are being made to increase the consumption of box apples at other cities. According to the proportion of wealth, half tlie box apple crop should be con- sumed in the East between Chicago and New York. At the present time only one-quarter of the crop is being there consumed. The granti
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