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i .; :.!.. :;:. ; ..lii.-.v ..y..;;i;;;;. jus;.: . Ki: i lii a! ill OIVEIIS - CROPS" IEEESSARY FOR BEST RESULTS Oregon Farmers Should Pro duce More of Their Own Needs, Asserts Prqf. C. I. Lewis of the 0. A. C. Corvallls, Or., June "The general tendency of most fruit raisers on thV raclflo coast," says rrofessor C. I. Lewis of the Oregon Agricultural col lege, In an address here, "has been to specialize, and by specializing they hav undoubtedly been able to grow a higher grado of produce than thoy could other ' wlae. But specialising In one fruit alone . 1 more or. less dangerous. It. works well a long aa the prlcea are good and ' the margin of profit la wide, but when ever the margin of profit becomes nar row and the prices are low the system Is not as satisfactory, and often work hardships on the men who are hof backed overly well financially, "The most prosperous fruit districts on the Paclflo coast are really those which are producing a great diversity of crops. This may not mean that each Individual orchardist la growing a very wldo range of fruits, but It means that the community as a Whole is producing! . a diversity of production. A community . tnat Is producing prunes,, peaches, clier rles,- walnuts, apples, pears and berries , generally tias something to sell every year, and la established on a firmer financial basis than the region which la dependent on one of these fruits Aione. "We hear a great deal about dlversl , fled agriculture end diversified farming at present, and, for a certain class of people, under proper conditions? diverts! fled farming would be a most profitable life to take up. How far a fruitgrower can diversify would depend largely on the aoil, climate and the Individual. I want to call your attention, however, to th fact that diversity In agriculture doe not mean specializing In three or four Uric of agriculture. That is. It la better for a man to choose some spe cialty and make his other lines largely subordinate, to this specialty. If he at tempts to make a specialty of three or - four lines, as applegrowlng, poultry rais ing and dairying, he Is very apt. to make a fizzle and not be very success ful In anything. On the other hand, he can choose a line which he naturally likes the best to specialize in, and grow . fruits or farm crops that do not Inter fere vitally with his specialty. ' Good Garden a necessity. "One mistake that the fruitgrowers ' have made as a class is that they do not grow enough of what they eat. Every fruitgrower should have a good garden; should raise his own vegetables and potatoes; he should keep a flock, of chickens to supply, the family table, and also to have a surplus to sell; he should keep .at least a family row for milk, cream and butter; and he can very nice ly produce his-own pork. How much he can diversify more than this Is a ques tion that each man must work out large ly for himself. "With livestock, the two lines which will probably work better with fruit than anything ' else are chickens and hogs. Whatever livestock the fruit grower chooses should bo first claws. If he breeds his horses, breed them to a ' good stall6n, and raise first class cqHs. Hif -chickens arid pigs and -cows should be' .of the best, and he should Join in the Idea of community breeding and work' hand In' hand with the dairyman and animal husbandman, who is striv ing to build up the livestock Industry In Oregon, Then from whatever sur plus the fruitgrower has to sell he will realise the highest revenue. Some Grow Too Many Things. "The disadvantages of diversifying are that people are apt to overreach them selves. They try to grow too great a variety ni. erupts, mere uio ivy many details -to attend to, and as a result the quality of the fruit they produce becomes low. Eastern experiments have shown us that where one-tries to di versify too much the quality invariably - falls down, and probably the standing the west , has et the present time over the east " is due to the fact that we attend to the details better and produce a higher grade of fruit. "There are many orchardlsts, however, who could grow quite a diversity of fruits, sand the work can be so arranged that one does not Interfere very much with the other. Italian prunes axe gen-rally..dOUt-of the way by the time the apples, require much attention; sweet cherries and pie cherries do not inter fere with prunes or apples, and berries fit in with nearly all lines of horticul ture. They conflict probably more with cherries than with any other tree fruits. "The Willamette valley Is a natural j diversified region. Here we find apples, berries, prunes, ' cherries, grapes, wal nuts," small fruits and garden truck, all growing to a high degree of perfection. We have here splendid opportunities for building up a horticulture which will be very sound and which will mean a high annual Income. There is prac tically not a center in the Willamette valley but what can produce more or less of all of the produce I have enum erated. Salem, Or., Is a good example of what diversified horticulture Is do ing, and it Is very seldom that there Is a complete crop failure In that region. There i generally something to sell - every - year, .... cherries , prunes, .. apples, pears, peaches aiyd small fruits all be ing grown. . "' " ' ' ."' "Practically every other center in the Willamette valley has an equal oppor tunlty. The springing up of canneries is going to help us out in our problem, because the canneries and diversified horticulture go hand In hand. The can neries to be successful must run over a lang season and must have a range . IK HI Nineteen-Year-Old Boy Res cued After 30 Mile Trip ofi Raft Down River. (Special to Tbe Journal.) CJoldendalo, Waali., June d-Carrled down the swiftly flowing waters of the Columbia river at flood stage for 30 miles on a small crudely constructed raft, trusting to providence to get him out of his perilous position, was the experience of a l-year-old youth who was picked up by the ferry crew at Grant Ferry, near Maryhill, Wednesday, The lad was on a scow that broke loose from Its moorings at MeCredle station on . the North Bank road an 3 drifted out Into the current so quickly that he was unable to get ashoro; After drifting down the stream for several miles the scow struck a rock and hung up, starting to go to pieces, when the youth liantlly Improvised a small raft and cut loose from the scow. He was unable to attract any aid along the shore that rendered him any assistance till he passed Squally Hook, where a county road crew responded to his calls and made frantic signals for hlp by telephoning down the river. -Tim youth passed through some bad. places on the river during his trip and was on the brink of the dangerous rapids near liiggs when rescued. LAST PiiOTCGHA, il C? SCOTT AND HIS GRAVE At Wfm. mm 71 PAIR HASTILY REMARRY UPON DISCOVERY THAT - THEY WERE DIVORCED t (Spt'-lil to Tb Journal. I . . . Centralis, Wash.,' June . ' After living for two years with- out knowing they were divorced, 4 4 John and Eva Kertti, foreigners, 4 4 were remarried In Chehails yes- 4 . terday. The couple, wishing property transferred, consulted an attorney, wlio secured a dl- vorce for them without their 4 knowing what they were doing. 4 The Kerths were grief stricken when they found that they were not married. Two children have been born to them since they 4 4 were divorced. you can properly clothe yourself for less than you can anywhere else. During the period of this sale every suit is offered at a price far less than the ordinary Buy Tomorrow for Festival Weels Store Open Until 10:30 P. M. Only $6.50 for Men's $10.00 Suits Only $10.50 for Men's $15.00 Suits Only $14.50 for Men's $20.00 Suits Only $16.50 for Men's $25.00 Suits ? Boys $2.50 Kriicker Suits Only $1.50 Boys' $2.95 K'nicker Suits Only $1.90 Boys' $3.95 Knicker Suits Only $250 " Boys' $5.00 Knicker Suits Only $3.50 Shoes, Hats, Furnishings and Underwear All Reduced When You See It in Our M It's So Sale at 87-89 Third St. Only Sale at 87-89. Third St ' Only ii li if Tti'i "nrVr-1- - - "- jv&ros pQjpyjejGrr j&3 sir This photograph of CaptWn Robert F. Scott was taken upon his arrival at the South .Pole, January 18, 1912, with his four companions, all of whom died on the return journey. Below is shown grave of Captain Scott, marled by a cairn and cross by the rescuing party that found the 'bodies. of produce at the same' .time If It Is to be a financial success;- Organisations Are Heeded. "If we are to diversify to any extent, however, there Is one factor that we must emphasize very strongly, and that isjthe need of organisation. Diversifica tion without organliation will never amount to very much. The man who Is selling lltle dabs of a wide variety of produce Is at the mercy of the touyer and lias practically to take what he can get. but it hundreds of these men Join together they can ship out car loads and tralnloads and thus overcome the handicap that they otherwise work under, . ....... "Corvallls and Eugene are very fortu nate In that they are organizing strong fruit growers' associations, and Hre-es- tablishing canneries to handle the pro duce that Is being grown. These' can neries will mean much to the Willamette valley. ' From time to time we hear Deople say that we 'need more manufac turing plants in tnis country; tnai it will never come Into Its own until we can build up factories.' It seems to me that in the canneries, the creameries. and the lumber by-products are con talned our real strength, And. if we are wise we will build up such Industries rather thai) sit down and wait for the manufacturers of textiles, leather goods, pianos and Iron goods to settle in our midst. v "Our - co-operative canneries will bring thousands of dollars Into our communities and will employ a large corps of people. "In order to Increase the consump tion and production of fruits In this valley there are several factors that we must keep In mind. First, we need to study's little better our local markets. We are loading down our local market with too much inferior produce. Apples, pears and vegetables that are only fit for hogs are too often offered for sale. We should strive to encourage our local growers and fruit dealers In this valley to. handle a higher grade of produce. "T1 The Picnic Basftet is not complete without a cool, refreshing bot tle of beer. The one best ' beer for all oc casions is the pure sparkling lip. hit Portland Brewing Co. ' PHONE"YOUITORDER v ..... ', 1 ... It's brewed, for tne family., a . . 02 Not that the price need to be raised ma terially, for much of the produce that we are selling, but that we should elim inate this undesirable produce, since It works against consumption rather than Increases the consumption of fruit. Poor Prunes Hart Trade, "We need to improve very much the conditions of prune growing in this valley. There Is a great work of organ ization among the people who are en gaged In prune growing, and we need to try and unify our methods of pro ducing, evaporating, and processing. We must establish standards for the prune and we must take steps to keep people from shipping out of this state large quantities of ptunes that will injurel the state. There is no question but wnat large quantities of prunes have gdtie out of the state which were prac ticallyuneatable, and which are now coming back to plague us. In the Ital ian prune the state of Oregon has one of its finest assets. 'The loganberry is coming to the front very rapidly. We have a tr-at work tOsdo with this berry. .If handled properly I have no doubt that '.he field la almost unlimited for this fruit. It can be canned, evaporated, made into juices, and' makes splendid Jells. 'It is a new fruit, so to speak, of great merit. But unless we are careful there is bound to be an over-supply of loganberries. At the present. time most of the fruit lit being sold In Chicago and, Minneapolis. We should reach out for new markets; we should see that all the cities west of the Mississippi river are first sup plied with this berry, and., then begin to extend our markets to the - Atlantio seaboard and to Europe. "I am fearful that many of the ber rles that are being evaporated lti this state are. going to hurt the loganberry market Many of the berries are not graded properly, they scorch and burn during drying, some of them are too green, and thev product is often very unpalatable. If we supply the market with such a product for a few years we will he sure to have, a condition which will be very similar to the early prune situation. However, by organis ing and. working, together we should build up an Industrywith the,'loirani berry that will mean ten mlllian dollars yearly to the state of Oregon. . -' Best Berry Section. "In the production of berries there are very few regions In the world that can equal the paclflo coast. On our warm sandy and. silt loams raspberries yield very heavily. The loganberry is at Its best on this soli, but all our well' drained clay loams will produce black berries, " loganberries, gooseberries and currants very satisfactorily. "The lltle region of Puyallup, Wash., Is reported to be shipping 'about G60 carloads of producexannually, ,mostly berries. A recent newspaper clipping reads that that region Is to ship out this year 600 bsrrels of red raspberries, packed. In sugar. There is seemingly a great future for western berries.. "Apples in the Willamette Valley have ten Isrgel.r grown an s sWe1 llneanij choice of the wrong varieties. The whole valley needs to get together and consider the question of the right varie ties and of Improved methods of han dling the soil. Prices of apples this present year were far from satisfactory, but it does jiot follow that such condi tions will continue Indefinitely. '.'The Willamette valley can produce certain varieties of apples to the finest degree of perfection. There are other varieties that the growers should leave absolutely alone." 1 as a diversified crop, and In many years they have not proved very satisfactory. This la due In many rases to a lack of proper methods of culture and to the (Special to Th Journal.) Olympia, Wash., June . 8. Responsi bility for the fatal wreck of an O.-W. R. & N. train on the Northern Pacific tracks near Lakevlew, May 12, has been placed upon the Northern Pacific by findings made today by the state public service commission. r Section Foreman C. M. Autrln Is charged with not maintaining safe track conditions in removing too many spikes from ties and the commission says had a slow flag been given, as It should have been, the wreck probably would not have happened. Four were killed In this wreck. -. , New Creamery for Polk. 7.7:, iRum'IiiI to Tli J'lO.'iM-l.i " Rickreall, Or., June 6. The business men of this city and the farmers of the Kurrounding-country mer fn the. city hall of this place Ta short tune ago and formed "a commercial club tol serve as a protection to this city tn a business way. A full set of officers was elected to serve ' for the coming year,! and- pfans were made to cooperate with the farm ers In the proper marketing of the products and to see that this section of folk county gets us snare of the new settlers from the east, j . The Commercial club has proved to be ab!ff f actor In the raising of money to bull a new creamery here and over half of the required I40Q0 has been se cured. New concerns are promised since tne boosting of the newly organ ized club. ' m .v ' V - ' '4 POOF X BX1TD THE PESTX7AI, WXBK A JOUBWAI. TO TOUB A O ' ' : : rXIXHDS. 4 : Each issue or Tne journal, from wonuay. June 9, to Sun- day, -June is, inclusive,, will contain, splendid Illustrations and news In detail of Portland's Rose Festival. 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