The Oregon statesman., April 01, 1920, Page 2, Image 2

THE OREOOJf STATESMAN i THCRSDA V; APRIL 1.1
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high grade flax fiber, exported r,0O0JKK) worth of flax fiber to
Great Britain last year and thcCanadians are now. getting as high
as $3,500 a ton fur dew retted .fiber in- Belgium, the premier flax pro
ducing country of the world. ' t . i
N. Hi The British government has appropriated 50,OOO,OOO
iiii i r i i ' " . ...
since i:i-t lor pruuiuiuig nax culture, in us various colontes. -The-Canadian
government has a standing offer of a bonus of
$5,(J0 to any company starting a flax spinning mill anywhere -lit
Canada.'. Two mills'have alreadv started ; one a Belgium firm
MKS WILLIAM l LORD.
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BROCCOLI GROWING; A GREAT OREGON INDUSTRY
The Salem Slogan pages of The Statesman today contain a sym
posium on the broccoli '.industry in Oregon, that is comprehensive
The most comprehensive ever published. ,
It shows the possibility of the. development of a great compara
tively new industry for this state ; and Salem ought to be its market
Mecca. :..'.' - -
C. W. Kruse of Oswego, a pioneer and experienced, grower, sum
UD the situation bv pointing to the ever increasing demand, which
can be supplied ONLY FROM OUR SFXTION; and he says there is
sufficient reward io induce much trial and experimenting on loca
tions suitable for broccoli culture;
GiKrge Baertleins of Lebanon, a successful grower, says he pre
fers a light colored clay soil too poor to grow -wheat. He says that
this soil, treated to a coat of stable manure, will grow good broccoli
He say the. black toil on the creek bottom is not good for broccoli
nor the rich sandy soil of the Santiam.
R. A. Busenbark of he Roseburg district finds broccoli a profit
able erop to grow while developing a young orchard.
Foster Butner of "Roseburg Kays the big thing in broccoli growing
is GOOD SEED. Ho mentions $400 an acre as the net profit of broc
coli grdwing; this being, however, extreme, unusual and from a small
acreage, with home Ji el p.
'- ft. 'j. Kelly. of Woodburn is, experimenting with. broccoli growing.
So is J, E. Compton of Broadmead. The Statesman hopes to
print Reports from these experiments later, also others in this vicinity
In a private letter to the editor, Dr. C. II. Bailey, the pioneer
Roseburg bi occoh grower, says :
''I am positive that the Willamette valley can grow this
erop (which; is the greatest money maker in Oregon, bar
none), provided the grower has the right seed. Before the
war we obtained good seed from European countries, es-
. pecially Belgium, but for the past five years we have had to
t depehd upon ofher sources for our seed and have had some
tragedies trying to grow this crop with inferior seed. . . ...
Broccoli belongs to the cabbage family and unless the seed
grower is exact and painstaking instead of having a head of
broccoli one will have a button about the size of a dollar with
pretty little sprouts growing up through it. Last winter tne
mercury at our place went down to 8. degrees above, which
. Ls as cold as it generally gets in the' Willamette valley, but
only aboUt 20 per cent, of our broccoli was injured. ....
A. mm afratn rt f moaA io aliasilntolir a fiinflamotlful rpnilipo.
. ment. . . S. This year we are packing our broccoli crop of
about.40 cars in the California crate averaging 12 to 14 heads
' to the crate and Steinhart & Kelly, New York 'are paying
us $1.75 per crate f. d. b. Roseburg." i
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Dr. Bailey says in the same letter that, from seed which he him
self developed, the crop of C.H., Bailey & Son packed but during
the last shipping season 9a per cent. No. 1, t;he highest score of any
one shipping through the local Union; and that the crop netted them
$350 per acre. V r
In his lettef for publication, printed on the Salem Slogan pages
of this issue, Dr. Bailey says that ; two years ago the Roseburg dis
trict marketed 90 cars; and that the men who bought it said they
could easily have disposed of 1000 cars. With the canneries, Dr.
Baueyrsays there is no reason to expect an over production-and
that Oregon should be growing at least 5000 CARS; shipping the
best and canning the smaller and imperfect heads.
"Broccoli should be in the home gardens of Salem," writes
ProC Bouquet in a private letter to the editor.
In his recent contribution to the Pacific Homestead, reprinted
on the Salem Slogan pages of The Statesman this morning, Prof.
Bouquet makes one of the strongest points of all in favor of broccoli
growing on the farms, it is the point that the leaves, after the head
is taken out, make as good feed for cows as kale, and almost as much
to the acre and that it comes in after the kale is gone.
Another point in favor of broccoli? growing is the one -brought
out by Dr. Bailey, in which he shows that the fruit growers and
farmers miist provide more seasonable work for-laborers, in order
to keep them on the farms. S -
. There is anarea or twenty acres or so or broccoli in ine vicin
ity of Independence, only a few miles from Salem, the traet being in,
the hands of Sloper Bros. The editor did not know of this till too
late to get an interview from these people. This will be attempted,
however,, soon; and it will be well for those interested to watch for
this.-- :; ' ' ;
All in' all, an .extremely strong case is made for the, rapid devel
opment of the broccoli industry in this district a district that has
virtually a franchise on the industry for the whole of the United
States. - "" ,
It is high time the industry were pushetl and put to the front as
rapidly' as careful methods will justify.
OREGON SHOULD LEAD, NOT LAG
Editor of Statesman : v
Professor Thomas of Reed College, Portland, pajd a visit to the
state peuitentiary and in 'his. criticism' of the institution, especially in
regard to the labor of the convicts, stated that the flax industry
offered no future to the convicts as the work of preparing flax straw,
i. e., making it into fiber, according to the Professor, is only common
labor. -
If Professor. Thomas will put himself in communication with
the Baltic Iloujse, London v England, he will learn to his surprise
that it requires skill of no mean order to acquire the trade of "scuteh
er," and, agaii to be an expert in "retting" requires greater skill
and knowledge A '.
It men employed in the penitentiary at scutching become pro
ficient, they can on leaving the institution, get from $5 to $10 per
day, according jto their ability:
Twety-fivl years ago, when a small company of women, of
whom the writer was one, started the flax industry, some intelli-
fx?1.' ? :ompletihip their terms, called on me, and urged
that the work of handling flax should be pushed at "the pen," as
1I5?Z5 l- means of Wvrllhoo.1, in a new to Oregon not over
exploited business.
adv J?f mJ Tt,tesi. rgrt is to 8CC -egtn, with its stupendous
aantages, Jag, while Canada, inferior in every requisite for making
Jl'nder the head of Horticulture,
the Cyclopedia Hrittanira. beginning
on pape 20 of volume 12. contains
a calendar of gardening operations
for Orel Urftain. As the conditions
there are very similar to those found
in the Willamette valley. The States
man will, on the first Thursday of
each month, copy the gist of the
matter given by that great authority
for the special benefit of the people
of this section who should commit
themselves to the slogan "More acres
ing of the main crops of potatoes;
divide and replant artichokes. Prop
agate all' sorts jof pot-herbs, and at
tend to the hoeing and thinning of
spinach, onions, turnips, ete. Earth
up cabbages, cauliflower, peas, beans
and early, potatoes. Stake up peas;
blanch sea-kale and rhtfbarb in the
open air by covering with straw or
leaves.
Kruit Garden. If vines have been
neglected to be pruned, rub off the
buds that are not wanted: this is
and more to the acre;" and this J safer than prunlng now. ' protect
should apply to city people who can
get the use of small plots of lan,1 as
well as to those who live In subur
ban and farming districts. Follow
ing is the calendar for the current
month: ,- :
APRIIv: ;
Kitchen Garden. Sow asparagus,
sea kale, turnip-rooted .beet, salsify,
scorzonera, sklrret. carrots and
onions 'on heavy soils; also marrow
peas. Longpod and Windsor beans,
turnips, spinach, celery,. Enfield
Market cabbage, savoys. ' Brussels
sprouts and German greens, for suc
cession. Sow broccoli and kidney
beans both in the second and in the
last week, and lettuce and small
salads twice or thrice during the
month; sow angelica,-caraway, also
aU sweet herbs, if not done last
month. Sow vegetable marrow.
Plant cauliflower, cabbages, sea
kale, lettuce; and finish the plant-
the finer sorts of fruit trees on the
walls. The hardier orchard house
fruits should now be moved out
doors under temporary awnings, to
give the choicer fruits more space,
the roots being protected by plung
ing the pots. ' Mulch all newly-planted
Truit trees, watering abundantly
in dry weather.
Forcing. Continue the prepara
tion of succession beds and pits for
cucumbers and melons. Sow basil
In slight heat; pot and push on to
matoes and. capsicums. Attend to
the r&utine culture of the pinery.
giving waier ana air when neces
sary. In the 4 forcing-houses, from
the variable state of the weather,
considerable vigilance is required in
giving air. Keep down red spider
acarus) in the more advanced.
nouses by irequent sy ringings and
a. well moistened atmosphere.- Con
tinue the usual operation ' of dis
budding and thinning of fruit and
take care to keep up the proper tem-
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST (
Big thing, broccoli.
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Good for men, good for cows. '
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Good for the canneries, too.
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It will prolong the working season.
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It will make two profits for dairy
men; from the heads for market and
the -leaves for cows.
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And it will help make possible the
running of the canneries for longer
seasons.
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The pioneer grower at Roseburg
says it is more profitable out there
even than prunes, at the present high
prices.' 1 "
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The beauty of it is that our section
has a franchise on the broccoli in
dustry. . The markets of the . east
want it. and, more of it, and there
is no other place to grow it to per
fection.
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Prof. Bouquet of the O. A. C. says
every one of our farmers should
grow some broccoli.
Dr. Bailey says its leaves are bet
ter for cows than kale. And there
is a lot of "kale" In the development
of the industry. J'
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Next week, the' Salem slogan edi
tor will try to prove that every farm
j should have a silo; and that Salem is
naturally the silo center of this sec
tion; ,
CONFUCIOUS
AND THE COBBLER
Ctnfucious left a pair of
shoes with a cobbler to be
mended. i i 5
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When he went for them
the shoes had not been!
touched. The cobbler's wife
had thrown red pepper, in
his eyes, for reasons of her
own, and the man could not
sec to work.
So Confusions gave him a
pair of glasses, his,eyes were
healed, and he iixecf the
shoes.
Not only that, hut a squint,
Which he had in the begin
ning was also corrected by
the glasses.
It is further related that
his wife made a great dis
turbance over it. She had
married a man with a squint
and now he had none!
The Chinese sage; recount
ing the story quaintly ob
serves, in conclusion, that the
cobbler continued to wear
spectacles.
The office of Dr. Morris's
at the junction of all down
town car lines and less than,
five minutes from any part
of the business district.
Henry E. Morris & Co.
Eyesight Specialists
305 State, Street .;
CUT THIS OIT IT IS WORTH :
MOXKY.
Cut out this slip, enclose' with 5c
to Foley & Co.. 2835 Sheffield ave
nue, Chicago. 111., writing- your name
and address clearly. You will receive
in return a trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound,
for coughs, colds and croup. Foley
Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic
Tablets. J. C. Perry.
ELLA M'MUNN WRITES
(Continued front page 1)
about something - nice and -pleasant
like cucumbers. ;,
A. G. Peterson of Monitor raised
seven acres of them five years ago.
With this patch and some others
near by there were .sufficient ,to
make a shipment of a car nearly ev
ery day. and always a half car for
a xix weeks period. ' He planted ill
May with weekly cultivation until
the cucumbers set on. Picking last
ed until October 4. A pkfklinr con
cern In Portland took all that were
raised. . An inch and a half was the
limit for smallness and as much,
larger as he wished to let them grow
The large ones were cut up with
cauliflower, onions and spices into
chow-chow and I think the baby
ones were put up in mustard for the
fancy trade. - Mr. Peterson cleared
1300. This was a fair return for
seven acres, five years ago, when yon
could get quite a basket of things for
that, and have 35 or 40 cents left.
Another man, William Wiedner.
had seven acres near Vh5aU4nd
about that time, and that fall I saw
him with an all wool, up-to-date
perfectly swell suit of clothes. If it
were-- this year, I should naturally
presume that he had made a million
dollars, thus to throw away money
on fine raiment. Hut I think that
Mr. Wiedner did Very well, anyway.
The only way I can think of, to find
out about the acreage, etc:, would
b to get in touch with the pickle
i.annu 1,. p.irtia nl and ei?t; the ad
dresses of grower? to whom they
give contracts.
' Another thing is garlic.
Hut "i hesitate to introduce the
subject. '
Oregohians are not garlic eaters,
but there is no reason why they,
should not be growers. It does well
here, and if sufficient- were raised
to make shipment of carlots. ft
would be taken by the wholesale
dealers, who must eend it out of the
Jtate to find people who will eat It.
I saw quite a bit of it in the ware
houses in Portland in 1917 when
shipping was interrupted on account
of the war. Maybe We . could send
some overseas, as' apparently they
don't get filled up very fast over
there, and 'a little garlic ought to
go a long way. F ranee and Italy are
large consumers. And my mother
even: likes it. and has a few spears
of it in her garden which, she looks
at very longingly, sometimes, ai
though she has been given to under
stand that if she eats any of it we
will have a divorce right away.
It look's like grass as it grows in
the garden, the tops being finer than
onions, and I think when dried it. !s
like erass for when the curing is
going' on it is braided like a rope
The bulbs are not as large as onions,
hut resemble them. J
The only growers I have heard of
are Franklin & Dibble, just over in
Polk county, and I have foTgotten
whether it was a million dollars or
a hundred dollars they made. It was
a lot of money, to get from one acre
of ground, anyway. It requires more
skill, and painstaking toil, to raise
it than other crops, although the re
cent introduction of new weeders
and cultivators has lightened the
back-breaking features of.it to some
extent. .
We have one cherry blossom out.
but I think it will need a warm iron
to its feet if this day is a sample of
the weather necessary to make March
"Go out like a Hon:" But it came in
like a lion, and has snorted around
like a buffalo more or less ever since,
Just turning nice and warm enough
to lure you out wlth yoffr garden
seeds, and then coming , down cats
and dogs and blue blazes, just as
you were; getting ready to . brag
aoout your vegetables.
I suppose, when you have the pa
per, mill issue, that will include all
about Marion county's timber resources-
refo testation, etc., and the
fact that Oregon has one-fifth the
standing timber In tit United States,
and that the wrecked cities of the
war zone ARE TO , Bfc REBUILT
WITH OREGON LUMBER, tra la la!
Grand, Isn't it?
Wetl. the calf calls.
ELLA McMUNN.
TODAY TOMORROW
and SATURDAY
FUTURE DATES.
Marion County
association meets at W.ood-
April 1, Thursday
Veterans' associatloi
burn. '
April 2. FridayNorth Salem Im
provement association resrular meeting
at S p. m.. Highland school.
April 3. Saturday Triangular debate.
Willamette university. iicMinnville col
lege and Pacific university.
April 4. Sunday Raster.
April 7, Wednesday Library lecture
recital. "American Music," by Willam
ette university school of music. Public
library.
April IS, Sunday (Tentative) Blos
som day in Salem.
April 11, Sunday Baseball. Salem Sen
ators vs. Xloosejaw.
April 17. Saturday Debate between
Willamette university and College of
fuget sound.
April' 20. Tuesday registration for
oters closes
Wednesday Willamette
concert at Grand Opera
April 31
Olee club
house.
April 23. Friday-. Debate between
Willamette university "and Pacific uni
versity. April . SO, Friday--Debate between
Willamette university and McMinnville
college.
May 14. Friday Debate between
Willamette university and Oregon Ag
ricultural college. '
-April 30 and May 1 "Awakening of
Spring" pageant Opera House, hospital
benefit.
May 11. Tuesday Intercollegiate- de
bate. Willamette vs. O. A. C.
. May 14 and 15 Nineteenth annual
convention of Oregon State Association
of Master Plumbers, in Salem.
May. 28. Wednesday Willlkm How
ard Taft speaks at armory.
June 14 to 17 Officers' schools for
Oregon National Guard at Vancouver
and Fort Stevens. 1
June 19 and 20 National gypsy,
tour motorcycle events, in Salem.
July S to 20 Annual encampment of
Oregon national Guard, infantry and
engineera at. Camp Lewis, artillery at
Fort Steven. .
June 22. 23 and 24 Imperial conclave
of Mystic Shrine in Portland.'
June 23. Wednesday Imperial con
clave of Mystic Shrine to visit Salem.
June 24. 23 and 2 Portland Rose
festival.
July 22. 23 and 24 State Elka con
vention . in Salem.
September 27 t October 1 -Oregon
PROPAGANDA IS
SUSPECTED HERE
Letter to City Recorder From
Germany Fails to Arouse
Sympathy
-
The war has not put a stop to the
German way of doing 1 things, and
they are at the old style of spreading
propaganda. -This fact became quite
evident in Salem yesterday morning
when' City Recorder Race received a
letter from Hamburg pitifully beg
ging ' for relief from American
sources. Mr. Race strongly discour
ages anyone from paying any atten
tion to appeals of this kind, and in
the belief of many it is simply an
other ruse to take American money
out of America to aid what may be
come a dangerous enemy.
Following is the text of the letter
received by Mr: Race:
"Hamburg, 3rd March, 1920
Dear Sir: I come as a beggar to you.
And deeply I feel ashamed about this:
But the whole Germany is a beggar
now and only America can help us. I
am sure, in your city there will be
a good hearted family that likes to
help a poor honorable German family
in her misery, but has no address.
I myself do not know anybody In the
U. S. A. and so I take the liberty in
troubling you.
"Only the dreadful condition of my
small children lets take me heart to
appeal to your big-heartness in help
ing us. You believe me, dear sir. if J
declare, its too hard for parents
heart to see how their children are
weeping with hunger and coldth and
you, can't give them a bit of bread or
anything. And please, look for this,
how It is to make four persons of. my
family to live by four pounds' of po
tatoes and eight pounds (German
weight) of bread the whole week.
This is, you can get on your cards.
Milk and eggs and other necessary
things my children haven't got in
years. There is no grease, no butter
to be paid.
"And now about clothings!
"I am not able to buy anything, be
cause prices rush from day to day
and the price of a complete suit of
clothes is about marks 2500-3000. a
pair of boots costs marks 300 now
and so on.
"During the whole war time I
Couldn't buy. any a piece ,and so we
are ragged now! The prices for
every matter have reached a fantas
tical height and are still rising.
' tor the whole winter I have got
on my cards only 10 hundred-weights
(German) of. bad brickets (not
coals) and I paid an exorbitant price?
isui we nave no warmth.
"A good wordf says: 'He wh6 rives
sir. I heartily , bee you and vour
friends send some paracels with ali
ments quick, will give double.' And
so, dear (food) or send some few dol
lars in bank-bills, because I was told
one dollar is worth about marks 90
here and so you can bring great help
with small money.
;I know the American people Is
big hearted And lends its ear and its
hand to the appeal of suffering peo
ple and so I hope, your help come not
too late and thankfulness will fill our
hearts, that there are still good peo
ple in the world.
"Hoping 1 didn't do a Tain request
I LIBERTY
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MR. AND MRS. CARTER DEHAVEN
IN "WHY DIVORCE" 1 vi
I have the honour to be very respect
fully, .sir, your truly,; '
H. KUSTEU,
'Hasselbrookstr 2 W., Hamburg, Get-many."
SHK FEEIS UKK A-XKW PERSON.
So many women suffer from kid
ney trouble without realizing - the
cause of their sickness that this from
Mrs. S. E. Mills, R. R. 5, Xenla, O.,
will be read with( interest: "After
taking Foley - Kidney Pills I surely
feel like a new person. ' Aching back,
rheumatic pains or other symptoms
should be given prompt attention.
J. C. Perry. -
DELAWARE TO
STAND HRM
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Wire Sent to Mississippi That
Amendment Will Not be
Ratified at Dover 4
in the situation and that they would
"stand pat.'.
Later Senator Gormeley and Rep
resentative McNabb, Democrats, and
Representatives Loyd and Lord, Re
publicans .sent a jtelegram. to the '
speaker of the Mississippi house- of
representatives urging a firm stand
against ratification by that body.
"Stand firm against ratification ot
the Anthony amendment." the tele
gram said.. "Deleware will not ratify.
We refuse to be stampeded and whip-,
ped in line by any party" lash.
Rea'd .the Classified Ads.
DOVER, DEL;, MarcH 30. News
of the ratification of the proposed
constitutional suffrage amendment
by the upper branch of the Missis
sippi legislature' aroused intense inj
terest nere today, ana spurred the
suffrage workers to greater efforts to
obtain ratification by the Delaware
aasseembly. The' legislators . were
urged not to let the southern state
beat them out in. the race that sud
denly developed between the two
states.
The opponents of ratification were
no less active and when the legisla
ture adjourned for the day the situ
ation was described by leaders of
both sides as virtually unchanged.
The revised ' statutes committee,
under which the Joint resolution had
been referred, voted today, four to
three to report the measure' out "on
its merits." The negative- votes, were
cast by democrats. It is generally ex
pected that a vote will be taken in
the house tomorrow.
Coleman DuPont, Republican
national committeeman, and UniioH
States Senator Ball were in, confer
ence jtoday with the Republican mem
bers of the senate and'.house, Botth
urged the. legislature tor vote for rat
ification but at the close of the con
ference Representatives Lloyd and
Lord said there had been no change
TODA'S"
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Phillips
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YOUR PRODUCTION PROBLEMS
good place to take those for solution is the
United States National Bank
You will find us always interested in the up
building of agricultural interests in this Vicinity
And this is a splendid time to enlist co-operation
in your plans for this season
UnltedStamipafi
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