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Title: Better fruit
Identifier: betterfruit00unse (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
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Subjects: Fruit-culture
Publisher: Hood River, Or. , Better fruit publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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IQII BETTER FRUIT Page 55
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Statement of Fact HOOD RIVER for ten years has claimed to grow the highest quaUty of Newtowns and Spitz- enbergs, to pack them better and to guarantee the pack. As proof of this statement we submit the following evi- dence: For ten consecutive years Hood River has sold Spitzenbergs and New- towns at higher prices than have been obtained by any other district for these or any other varieties in commercial quantities. Hood River has never com- peted in carload contests in National Apple Shows, although we have won thousands of cups, trophies, medals and cash prizes at various exhibitions throughout the United States. Hood River won the only Grand Prize at the St. Louis Exposition given any single county in the United States on green fruit. Hood River was compelled to enter the National Apple Show at Spo- kane this year because other districts were saying we were afraid to enter, and we dare not. We entered a car of Spitzenbergs which won the sweepstakes prize of $1,000 in cash for the best car exhibited. We won $250 cash prize for the best car of Newtowns exhibited. We won $250 cash prize for the best car- load of Spitzenbergs exhibited—this in competition with twenty-two cars from the Northwest. The Spitzenberg car scored 997 out of a possible thou- sand. The Nev^town car scored 988 in a possible 990. The winning car last year scored 928 in a possible 1,000. In addition, Hood River won the $500 solid silver trophy cup given by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, composed of sixty-two affiliated bodies, for the best packed car of apples exhibited at the Third National Apple Show at Spokane, which was also exhibited at Chicago. Hood River's claims for ten years have been proven in a substantially con- vincing way. There is a booklet (a quality booklet) telling the why and how of Hood River that is yours for a 4-cent stamp, by addressing the secretary HOOD RIVER COMMERCIAL CLUB, HOOD RIVER, OREGON

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