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THE OREGOtf DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919.
EFFICIENT MARKETING
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FRUIT PRODUCERS II ; - grafting is necessary now, a. days to get good fruit i pss SO S ANALYZED
ORGANIZATION IS
FREEDOM EFFORT
Oregon Growers Get Together to
, Free State's -Products - From
Domination by Califorrrfans,
OREGON BRANDS - WANTED
At Present Great Quantities of
This State's Fruit and Vege
tables Sold as California's.
By J. F. Xiaagner
Filing of the article of incorporation
of the new Oregon Growers' Cooperative
'association ana - the Oregon Grower
'Packing corporation baa created a pro
found sensation In financial, distributing
and realty circles In the state and
strenuous opposition is expected from
those Interests which do not want to
see the organization get into full swing,
t Those opposing apparently see in the
organization an attempt on the part
of. California Interests to control the
Oregon fruit crop. An examination into
the present condition of the Oregon
fruit crop will completely ' refute any
such idea. It is a reflection upon .the
Integrity of some of the best known,
fruit growers In the state.
CALIFOBH1A CONTKOL9 SOW
In the first place. It is a lamentable
fact that our crop is already almost
entirely controlled by California,' and it
would not be necessary for an organi
zation to be formed to subvert our fruit
to the California market. Nearly all the
big packing . houses and canneries in
Oregon " today are controlled by Cali
fornia interests. One California com
pany alone controls at least one-third
of the prune crop, and only a few days
ago the Portland Chamber of Commerce
was' asked to secure 50 carloads of
prunes for another California concern.
Seventy-five per cent of our-canned fruit
is put up by California concerns, "which
are making enormous profits. One'can-
1 Tier boasted a few days ago that he
made a quarter of a million dollars net
profit last year out of Oregon fruits.
fREEOOH IS OBJECT
The new association has been organ
ized for the express purpose of freeing
the Oregon fruit grower from the
stranglehold of the California packing
companies. : Instead of nearly all our
' fruit being sold as California products,
the new association is going to sell it
' as an Oregon product under an Oregon
label and Oregon brand, and .it is going
to extensively advertise Oregon products
Just as California people have adver
tised their products, so that the whole
world may know that Oregon also is a
remarkable fruit producing country, and
that It produces better fruit than Cali-
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SOLD AS CALHTOBNIA F&TJIT
Millions of pounds of Oregon fruits
. and vegetables are sold as California
products, and we have very foolishly
permitted California to build up a very
wonderful 1 reputation for pears and
cherries upon products which are grown
and packed in Salem and that vicinity.
The truth of the matter Is that Cali
fornia fruits are not as good as Oregon
fruits, and the California people know it.
- One of the principal advantages in
scientific marketing is that the fruit
-grower puts his business on a sound
; economic basis. There is no "reason why
"fruit should sell one year, for a very
.high price and the next for a very low
price, because Mf the price is stabilized
so that the retailer can sell the fruit at
, a price at which consumers can be ex
pected to purchase the entire crop in a
season, there will be no holdover into
- ; the next year, which is the principal
reason why there are such wild fluctua
. Hons In the fruit market.
INSTANCE IS CITED "
For Instance, with prunes selling
around 20 to 25 cents a pound in bulk.
. the retail price is going to be somewhere'
- in the neighborhood of 40 cents, which
means that only the very rich will be
- able to buy them. And this time next
year, when the new prune crop is being
purchased, we shall find that the re
tailers have a tremendous quantity of
prunes of this year's crop unsold because
people cannot afford to buy them at the
1 high price, and the farmer will be
politely told by the dealer that he is
i - very sorry, but the market is over
loaded with prunes and, the price will
drop accordingly. The same is true of
all fruits.
- How much better' off would the farmer
be If he got say 14 cents a pound every
s year for his prunes? One is not in the
business of farming for a day ; it is a
lifetime business, and should be ban.
died as one, and the most long-headed
- policy must be observed because of the
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Here Are Some of Our Products:
; WiUon's "Old Fashion Breakfast Rye. '
Wilson's "Scottish Oat Meal," fin. or coarse.
Wilson's breakfast Wheat" or Whole Wheat Grannies.
. WW. "Old Fashion Corn Meal" (ground fronMthe whole
WUson's "OM Fashion Whole Wheat Flour.-
We ntilise the whole kernel of the grain, extracting ao
If yon five in Portland, pnone and we will deliver any si,
package from 9 to 50 ponnd. of the above cereal, o, send 1
mad, postage paid, in first and second sones.
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tremendous increase in production
which is constantly taking- place.
I5CORPOBATOSS OF ASSOCIATION
The incorporators of the new associ
ation are : Isaac O. Hunt, vice-president
of the Ladd & Tilton bank; J. O. Holt,
manager of the Eugene .Fruit Growers'
association ; Professor C. I. Lewis, chief
of the ' division of ; horticulture of the
O. A. C. ; feeymour Jones, speaker of the
legislative assembly ; B. "W. Johnson,
president of the "Willamette Valley Fruit
Growers' association ; B. I Klemmer,
who controls nearly . one-tenth of the
Oregon fruit crop at present tn bearing ;
G. , LZtmmerman, E. W. Mathews and
W. E. St. John. R. C. Paulus, general
manager of the Salem Fruit union. Is
the active organizer,' and Earl Pearcy,
county horticulturist and fruit inspector
of Douglas county, is secretary pro tem.
The association is being financed by
Oregon capital and directed by Oregon
growers, the- membership being limited
to bona fide residents of the state of
Oregon, who muat also be bona fide
farmers in this state with their prime
source of income from farm lands owned
by them. . :
Poultry Association
Will Be! Organized
At Gresham Monday
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The poultrymen of Multnomah county
and eastern Clackamas county are to
meet at the Gresham library Monday
night, June 23, at 8 o'clock, to organise
a poultry association. They have had a
committee at work for some time per
fecting an organisation plan and. ar
ranging for marketing. It is hoped to
start cooperative marketing by July 1.
County Agent S. B. Hall has been act
ive In the work of the organisation and
is enthusiastic over its prospects and
the rapid development of the poultry in
dustry In that section. He estimates
that poultry products for 1920 will be
from 60 to i 100 per cent greater than
for the past year. Every poultryman Is
invited to attend this meeting. '
Here is a suggestion for a good dry
mash: 3 parts by Weight of corn meal
and 1 part beef scrap. Still another ra
tion may be made 1 up of 1 pound of
wheat bran, 1 pound of wheat middlings.
6 pounds of beef scraps and 16
pounds of corn meal. The dry mash pro
vides a suitable medium, for feeding beef
scraps, a certain amount of which may
or may not be necessary, depending
upon the amount of meat scraps avail
able in table waste feed. .
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Yo can get any of the Wilson products
delivered direct from the mill by phoning or
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TEST ONLY WAY
TO LEARN VALUE
Cow's Worth ' Cannot Be Deter
mined by Casual Observation
of Her Milk,
By H. li. Iechner
CluUop Conaty Agent, Astoria, Or.
That appearances deceive when it
comes to telling richness, of milk is not a
generally accepted fact The milk that
is yellow and shows a large amount of
cream on the bottle does not always con
tain the most butterf at. William C-.
fieith, who is the only dairyman in Clat
sop county with cows on official test,
has ail the proof that looks do not al
ways count when it comes to telling
richness in milk.
Mr. Relth has Guernseys' giving rich,
yellow milk and some that give far rich
er milk that Is not so yellow. He has
also found that the milk with little
cream after 12 hours' standing contained
more butterf at than one showing consid
erably more cream. The official tester
from the Oregon Agricultural college
will verify these statements.
BEASOKS ABC GITE3T ' '
What is the reason for this apparent
inconsistency? To begin with, all the
richness. ' ef color in milk is not cream
or butterf at. Particularly the Guernsey
and Jersey cows' milk and butterf at usu
ally contain an abundance of yellow pig
ments which cause yellow milk and but
ter. In Holsteins there is an absence of
much pigment, hence even the . richer
Holstein milk does not look yellow.'
Most of the cream not all- will rise
if milk is left undisturbed. Borne cows'
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WHEAT PRICES LOWER
. - Undoubtedly there will : be a
marked drop in the price of wheat
in the course of the next year or
two. One should prepare to meet
the reduction in selling by cutting
down the cost of harvesting and
threshing. - The "One Man Har
vester with one man and six
horses will take off from 250 to
350 acres within the time that
conditions are right for saving the
crop. ; ' h - .7 ' ' --1 ;
The "One Man Harvester" cut
ting an eight foot swath produces
the maximum results proportion-;
ate to man and horse power expended.-
Larger rarfches; can use i
additional ; machines, as ! for in
stance, four "One Man Harvester"
with four men.- and twenty-four
horses would cover ; 3 2-foot
swath, double the average of larger
combines, using as many men and
horses.
Other machines of similar char
acter r require ? more ; man and
horsepower per foot cut. The
heading, and threshing method is
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milk rises quickly, that of others very
slowly. Where the rich milk shows a
small amount of cream after 12 hours'
standing, the fat globules are more nu
merous but much smaller than where
the amount of cream was greater after
standing the same time.
0LT KJfOW BT TEST.
Here should be a point for the dairy
man who thinks he can tell by looksH
and by the cream line whether or not his
cow is giving good milk. It is only an
other evidence that we can know only
by test and record. Clatsop County's
cow tester has been on the job now less
than two months and has already found
abundance of evidence that one's "opin-
Lion" or "idea" . of -a cow s value very
often does not chec jr . with records of
weight and test. . . "
Deschutes Crops Are
, Two Weeks Behind
Bend, June 21. Farm crops in Des
chutes county are fully two weeks be
hind this year. Unusually cold spring
and unfavorable growing weather are
responsible. A few days of warm
weather In Central Oregon will greatly
help the alfalfa crop which promises
to be the heaviest ever grown In this
part of the state. Wonderful results
are being obtained throughout the coun
ty in the growing of sunflowers, to be
used as a silage crop. Labor is scarce
throughout entire Central Oregon this
year and farmers may have difficulty in
cutting their crops.
Bank Issues Magazine - . '
The First National bank of Bend,
noted for its activities in agricultural
development in Central Oregon, is now
issuing a monthly publication entitled
"First National Bank News." The pub
lication contains information of value to
Central Oregon farmers and copies can
be obtained free upon application to the
First National-bank. .
Harvesting
'S"-
Man Harvester
even more wasteful of man - and
horse power with relatton to re
sults obtained.
While heading can be done aj
about, double the rate of-cutting
i with -"One Man Harvester," the
chances of grain being damaged in
stack before threshing crew ar
rives, is a condition to be taken
into account, besides there is a
certain percentige of waste every
time headings are handled. " With
"One Man Harvester" straw can
be saved by use of Straw -Dump
attachment, straw and wheat can
be gathered eaeh day 'by second
man. with,t wagons '.;u
Total cost of operation of "One
Man Harvester," figuring wages
for operator and horses, interest
and depreciation is less than cost
of operating a header, thus the
ihreshing expense is : saved and
turned to a profit. Be Independ
ent of the help situation. When
six. horses ,witn one man : can cut
and thresh" your crop at the rate
of 12 to 15 acres per day, why
use more?
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Large Sums Spent
For Orchards" in
Yakima District
Yakima, June 21. The American
Fruit Growers. Inc., the big $100,000,000
fruit corporation that has been nego
tiating for acreage in the Yakima valley
for the past six weeks, closed its first
deals here yesterday, taking over 25
acres of the Dr. P. W. Cornue orchard
in the Selab. district,, and 80 acres rep
resenting the T. A. McNamara orchard
in the Ahtanum near Wiley City.
The purchase price, not stated in the
transfers, is about $66,000,
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about 400 acres in the lower valley, said
to be held by the representatives of the
corporation, will be closed at once. On
one of these $1000 has been paid on
$160,000 contract. The prune crop on the
place is taken over at an additional
$60,000.
The purchases are made in the name
of W. B. Clore of Crutchfleld, Wolfolk
& Clore of Chicago. The local ' repre
sentative is Ira il Cleveland of the
Growers. Service company, this city.
College Honors War Victims
Qold Star memorial services for the
60 O. A. C. faculty and student sol
diers who lost their lives in the great
war were held at CorvaJlls "Monday.
June 10. All parts of the state were
represented in . the honor list of ; those
making 'the supreme sacrifice.
alem Frait Union
THE SALEM FRUIT UNION IS THE LARGEST DRIED
FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION IN THE NORTHWEST.
THE MEMBERSHIP CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY)
600 PROGRESSIVE WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMERS. !
THE TOTAL VOLUME OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED
BY THE MEMBERS THROUGH THE ASSOCIATION IN
1918 EXCEEDED $1,000,000.
AMALGAMATING ALL OVERHEAD EXPENSES IN
A CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, THE MEMBERS OF
THE SALEM FRUIT UNION ARE ENABLED TO SELL!
THEIR PRODUCT AT MINIMUM EXPENSE.THUS ELIM
INATING WASTE IN DISTRIBUTION: r
THE MEMBERS OF THE SALEM FRUIT UNION, PRO
DUCERS OF MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF OREGON
PRUNES, BERRIES AND EVERY DESCRIPTION OF.
FRESH AND DRIED FRUITS ARE PLEDGED TO CO-OPERATE
IN THE INTEREST OF PRODUCER AND CON
SUMER. ; -
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Robert C. PauluSf General Manager
SALEM. ORE. ...
EDITED BY
J. F. LANCNER
ORGANIZING THE PRODUCER
; By E. E. Favllle
In Wetter Parmer, 4 una 1g. .
The yrepoted statewide coer
atlve ergaalxatloa ef Ore go a trait
grewers Is aloag tae right Use.
With the fralt-growlar l(try ef
tkts tate giviag afeaataat prealf
ef seoa beeemlag tke aiest ImsorU
aat faeter la the eeaimerclal wealth
ef the sute tke tlae has arrived for
baadlag together the lateretts sad
resoarees ef the varloai fralt rait
lag districts la a master that will
lasare the greatest develepmeat ef
this ladattry as well as seeare te
the grewtr the best retara for hie
predaets. Aloag with these reaseae
for ereatlsg this orgaalaatioa It a
etker eae ef eeaal Jaiportaaee, aad
that it the maraetla et all the fralt
protests of the stau as Orcgoa
grewa aad packed.. At the prcirat
time miillosi ef poiada ef Oregoa
grewa prases as theasaads ef toas
of Orcgoa-grewa pears are beiag
placed ea tke big markets ef the
world at the prodaets ef California,
tke fralt beiag boaght by tke big
frait haadllng eoaeeras la the latter
state aa packed eat aader a Call,
forala braad. The same thlag ap
piles te tome exteat to tome ef the
frslte grewa la tke sutet ef IVath
lagtea aad Idaho. The fraltaiea ef
Oregon feel that they waa tkelr
tau te receive proper credit fer Us
commercial researees,' and Jastly so.
The plaa of ergaaliatloa adopted
byrtbe Oregea fralt grewers U along
progressive llaeii Coeperatlea ef
all the fralt growing districts er the
late " with a eeatraltsed body aad
with centrol directly ia tke hands ef
the grower, whe will owe, finance
aad operate It.. All phases ef fralt
Marketing, Incladlsg fresh, dried
and caaaed prod acts, will be has
died, leaving the grower aetklag te
be desired la selling his eatpaU
Ths greatest benefit te be eerlved
front the fermatiea ef this ergaalsa
tie, however, sheald be the stablllt
lag ef the ttate'i fralt ladiitrr,
which has ef aeeeselty long been
contacted oa haphasard aietheds.
Complete eeeperatlve erganlsatloa
aheald place It ea a first basis.
- The awakening ef Oregea fralt
mea te the beaeflts aad necessity ef
real aad intelligent coeperatlea la a
basinets way Is la keeping with the
progressive bsslaett development ef
the present age aad nay well serve
as the harbinger te farm prod seers
aleag ether uses to organise their
forces. With basinets aad tntastry
la other walks ef life preseatlag aa
almoit'tolid wall ef salted effort It
Is ap te the farmer to keep la step
with ecoaomle progress.. '
Walnut Growers
Asked to Unite
Knight Pearcy of Salem, secretary of
the Western Walnut association, has
just issued the first annual report of
the proceedings of the Western Walnut
association. The walnut Industry of
Oregon will be one of the state's most
Important assets within a very few
years, says Mr. Pearcy. and he recom
mends that everyone who owns a com
mercial walnut grove become a member
of the Western Walnut . association.
BETTER FARMING
FOR CROP VALUE
State College and Federal Spe
cialists Making Surveys in
Agricultural -Counties, f
Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallls, fi
June 20. Soil surveys to determine the
crop- relations and tillage qualities of
Oregon farm lands will be conducted In '
two additional counties this summer
Multnomah and Josephine. The surveys -will
be made by the agricultural college
and the Untied States bureau of soils,
under direction of W. I Powers, head of
the soils department at ths college.
The eurveys give a complete scientific
record of all leading soil typee present in
the counties. Two counties have already
been surveyed, and it is the intention of
the government and the college to con-W
tlnue the work of soil surveys until all
agricultural counties of the state have
been examined, their soils classified and
their qualities recorded.
Field experimental plots are main
tained to determine the most profitable
crops for the different soil types, and the
best cultural and fertiliser systems - for
each type. If
Soil water Investigations are conduct
ed In Josephine, Klamath, Deschutes and
Harney counties by field agents.
Demand for men trained in soils and
irrigation work Is much greater than
ever before, aaya Professor Powers. "
Fruit Growers of?
Takima Decide to
Advertise in East
Yakima, June 21. The Taklma Fruit
growers' association announces It will
spend $25,000 in a campaign this sum
mer advertising Yakima boxed kpples.
The Saturday Evening Post and other
eastern publications and trade Journal
will be used and wholesale and retail -dealers
will be furnished with folders
to hand out to the trade.
Ths campaign wilt begin about the
time the Jonathan apples are ready for
consumption. . Other varieties will , be
advertised as they ere ready for con
sumption. A booklet for the housewife giving
reel pes and color plates of Northwest'
apples telling their best cooking qual
ities will be part of the general plan.
Head lice on chicks Is one of the
drawbacks from now on. No let-up in
fighting these pests should be allowed.
There are many remedies on the market,
but a little lard about the else of a
pea rubbed thoroughly on the back
of the head and neck Is sufficient to rid
the chick of these pests. This should
be done after dark on a dry, warm
night. Previous to this the coop, hen
or brooder should be thoroughly at
tended to.
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