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THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 23r 1020 een Blackberries in Oregon Are Produced in Salem District, Nearly all and the by Leaps and Bounds and Will Continue to Grow THE OKEflON STATESMAN. SAT,T!Af OHEGON Evergr ndustry is Growing S tvERY AVAILABLE MN, WOMAN 1 MID GlflLD LIKELY TO BE NEEDED Tie Presc-t Indications Are That the Gathering of the fcr-cea Blackberry Crop in the Salem District the Ccz&S Season Will Take AH the Available Help cents per pound generally. 1 building, Salem, who buy and de-1 borne of the canners were offering 1 velop for residents of other states to contract at 5 cent per pound I and others, including themselves.1 ror iu years last spring. Pickers walnut and filbert and fruit orch- - -Br KnlsM Pearcy..' nnt mors or les different of blackberries grow in this ijje Is the wild blackberry. . we OresonUnt know it, a slen- Uns nd cm fence rows, perhaps the most aeuciwu inj irtva. U has m41 2eels and very r.e raor. but does not en dare cultivation or at least sel dom traits under euuanun. ims fruit H really dew berry in ttead of a blackberry- Taeo there Is the upright grow ing blackberry, such as is cul ti nted in tbe middle west and in fiiiroraia. Lawton. Klttatinny aid Aravara are variet'es of this typ. The Lawton is usually pre ferred by the canner. The plant ers of this type of blackberry ia wwtern Oregon are quite lim ited and 1 few of them reach the nnr. They do quite well here. (111 a!tj w ni in. uiau; years, however, a great demand has been worked up for it. Wheth er this demand will continue to grow after the canners catch up with demand for canned goods is a question with some. , The principal use to which the berry is put is that of a pie fruit. It is canned in water and sent east to the pie factories. It has taken the eye of the pie nianufac turer because it is one of the few berries that retains its full size after being canned. It does not mush up and makes a very at tractive product, and in addition requires but little sugar in bak ing the pie. M034 or the Evergreens are now harvested from bushes grow ing wild. However, there have been a number of patches, planted in cultivated form of late. There is one planting in the state of 30 acres. Methods of Planting. i ! Evergreens are usually planted ether sections, and there seems I about 10 by.1'6 feet apart in the can pick about loO pounds per day. The wild berry is more costly to pick and is" often more diffi cult to get to market. h la "berry is a. heavy feeder and excels In a rich, retentive soil and will endure mors moist ure about its roots than will many o her berries. The berries usually ripen about the middle of August and con tinue? to ripen until rain or frost spoils tbe fruit. The Himalaya is of a some what similar type to the Ever green, but is softer as a canned fruit. It was sold at the same prce as the latter in 1919 Blackberries will probably never be a leading crop in this section. but many loganberry growers would be better off if part of their acreage were in this crop, as thereby their harvest season would be lengthened and the la bor problem, the most serious problem facing the loganberry growers, would be less acute. After a Year. (Knight Pearcy, who wrote the above article., is a member of the firm of Pearcy Bros., Oregon ards. in the Salem district. The above article was written a year ago. It stands and is good auth ority for the present; excepting as to the year's developments. It will be noted that Mr. Pearcy mentioned some misgivings with some people as to whether the demand for Evergreen blackber ries would persist. It has per sisted. It is growing. The cold pack or barrel demand of the eastern market is great much greater than the supply, so far. And the reader will note also that the acreage in Evergreen blackberries in the Salem district has been growing by leaps and bounds. It is not so very far short of the great loganberry crop; and tbe Salem district has nearly all the Evergreen black berries in Oregon. The prices paid last season by the canners were generally 6 cents a pound for the wild berries and 7 cents for the cultivated. There is every indication that the coming crop of Evergreens will be a big one; the largest in the history of the industry; and that every available man. woman and child will be needed at pick ing time. Ed.) OVER HALF BLACKBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES IN OLD MARION And Polk County Js Second in Oregon, and Yamhill Third and Linn Fourth, Showing Nearly the Whole Oregon Production of These Berries is in the Salem District to be a tendency in this valley to ipecialize In the fruits and ber ries tbat cannot be grown com mercially over great areas rather ttiia to grow stuff thatlias to face competition ' all over the country.' . ; . Thos we grow, the Evergreen kUckberry. the , loganberry, the valnst and filbert and the Italian wane, products that are grown veil in OregrtLbnSt which do well in few other locati itions. The Evergreen blackberry Is the Oregon blackberry from a com mercial standpoint. A few years ago a .despised teed that was- grudged what room It occupied .- along, creek hanks' and in pastures, mis now yielding thousands of dollars to t&ose wh6 are lucky enotlgh to land on which it is growing The Oregon Evergreen is not a native plant, as many suppose, lot Js a European 'i berry, that is supposed to have been planted tear Astoria in the early days and vhich had escaped cultivation and kid been carried by. the birds to til parts of the Willamette valley io d to the coast counties. Not until war conditions had tuned a food shortage of all V.s4s was this ""berry ' canned to tuy txtent. During the last few tow and are grown on trellis. Tne trellis is a four-wire affair, there being two sets of wires fastened to cross arms of about 15 to IS inches in length. The first cross- arm is placed about a foot and a half or two feet from the ground and the other about three and a half to four feet from the ground. Hoards with notcnes are piacea on these wires in such a manner that the wires f; Into the notch es. Canes of one year s growth are trained along one set Of boards . and of the next yearfs growth along the other set 6f BLACKBERRY AND RASPBERRY ACREAGE BIG IN OLD MARION j uy u. t.. wiLy.N The lowly blackberry, which just'a few vears ago was regard ed as a nuisance, is now one of the most profitable crops In Mar ion county and the acreage or raspberries and blackberries com bined, shows a larger percentage of Increase since 1919 than any other berries. This increase in acreage of the two berries Is given in the agri cultural and horticultural report of the state tax commission for the years 1919 and 1920. As there has been no large In crease in acreage in raspberries, according to tbe best of reports. this acreage gain then is in black berries. In preparing a form tor tax assessors to secure farm sta tistics, blackberries and raspber ries are tiken as one. Hence there are no accurate statistics showing the ' exact acreage of blackberries in any county of the state. An increase. of 400 per cent in acreage- in one year for any one berry Js regarded by horticultur ists as an extremely radical gain. is the increase in the raspberry ' and blackberry 4.031 acres, an increase In one year of 3.274 acre. Strawber ries show an increase of l.95 acres in tbe one year and logan berries. 2.73S,acres. ! California Anxious to Receive Oregon Berries A public bearing on tbe ftraw- berry root weevil was held In tbe court house at Portland last Fri day., attended by about 50 men engaged In raising strawberry plants' representing Clackamas. Multnomah. Columbia. Clatsop. Tillamook and Washington coun ties. The attention of tbe growers was called to the strawberry, root weevil by reason of tbe quaran tine regulation placed by Califor nia on that part of Oregon which lies north of a line running east and west through McMinnville Lee A. Strong, deputy quarantine officer of California-j The acreage of loganberries In J was present at tbe hearing, ana the state, accohrdlng to the 1920 said, that the California aumori state tax commission's report, is ties are anxiously endeavoring to .3b. UI sirawoerries mere rr i proieci idii aiaic i iuui nic. - It Was Only 506 Acres Behind the Acreage of the Fa- Yet this mous Loganoerry in lnis county Last apring, ana ine acreage over i, according w I lUQ PlAir l A Jt Will lUlOOiwu, ilrnwfh Hac Kn HrAaf I The 1919 report gives a total and the 1920 report, a total of 3. 3.20S acres, while the combined acreage of blackberries and rasp berries is 4.301. All of which shows, that while the two berri-s have not been or dinarilr retarded as one of the I big crops, yet the official figures show their importance. Marion county, with a total ot 2.940 acres has more than, half the blackberry and raspberry ac reage in the state. Polk county ranks second with S3? acres and Yamhill county with "328 acres. Linn county ranks fourth with 121 acres, while the assessor round oniy one acre in ia&?r , county. The 1919 report or tne state tax commission shows 324 acres of blackberries and raspberries reported in Marion county. The 1920 report gives 2.940 acres. All pf which indicates that eith er a lot of people failed to turn In correctly their acreage In 1919. or that there has been a most wonderful increase in tbe acres ge of the two berries the paat year or so in Marion county. riant, but that they did not wish to work any hardship on the strawberry men of Oregon He said during tbe course of his re marks that he was satisfied much of the territory within this re stricted district Is free from the pest, and In his opinion it the Oregon officials could determine tj a certainty that the fields in which the plants are grown are free from pest. California would receive the plants when accom panied by a proper certificate set ting forth these facts In compll anre with his arrangements. The horticultural hoard of Ore gon has sent an etymologist Into the field to make a thorough In spection, to determine the d.strt bution f this pest In Oregon. This survey work will also be used as a basis for a quarantine regulation to prevent tbe Intro duction of strawberry plant be ing shipped from Infested " to non-infested areas within this state. Mr. Strong viited the area where strawberry plants were handled and expressed himself as being well pleased with the con ditions. The strawberry plant growers are gratified that their attention has been called to the strawberry root weevil pest- as there was not the heating rh.ief who had ver seen the peat- It is said there are three af ferent srecles of weevil resem bling each other, but differing lu rite. Professor A. U Lovelt f Oregon Agricultural college some rears ago made a survey or ine pests, a rport of which is set forth In tbe experiment stations crop pest report of 1911 and 1912. ItODY IS IDK.T1F1EI. VALE. Ore.. Dec. 21. Tfca la quest over the body unearthed Sunday at Watson, was positively identified as that of George It. Sweeney and the coroner's Jury placed the blame for bis death up on George Howard. The Inquest was held before Coroner K. O. Payne. Thus the new growth is kept Cinea raspoerry ana out of the way of the Irultin canes. i A good example of this type 4M acreage. Marion county goes in stronger for blackberries and raspberries than any county in the state. In fact, there are official figures to Ebow that in the county the com- blackberry acreage this spring was only SO4 acrt-3 less than the loganberry ereaf TnoetatlnnB. goes in strong for, berries, with nt Irinwn,1..4. int-n-cls 20 acres In loganberries. 17 esl , tne uI. in strawberries and eight acres Kim- e i,nmn life 1 it1 black "And raspberries com- haTe fond my rreatest hero In bined. . I li.rhort Kneneer. llertnnlnr with The Turner and Jefferson sec-1 his incomparable work on educa . I . A Vt.nlr ' tl V I- J 1. - 9 K hum rcuri3 practical! j uu umik training can be seen at the berry patch of the Oregon asylum, which patch is located betweejn the penitentiary and the asylum The berry yields very heavily. One patch that we have record of yielded as follows: (Planted 1912) 1914, two tons per acre. W?15, five ton3 per acre, 1916, eight tons per acre. r, jl Of course every oae knows tbat i thef Willamette valley is the lo ganberry center of the wotld. producing 95 per cent of the world's crop, but it has not been I generally known that blackberries and raspberries are a-so one of the wealth producing crops of i Marion county. . Statistics taken by county 83- fcessors and later filed with the 1917. five and one-third tons prj state tax commission place black acre. - : - 1918. five and one-third tons per acre." " " t"! The price received in 1919 wa "BILLY" EGAN SAYS GROW SOIJE EVERGREEN BLACKBERRIES He Says They Make a Good link in the Chain of Diver sifted Farming, and the Small Expense of Cultivation Is an Advantage in Their Favor Edtor Statesman: ! la response to your kind invi tation to Write a few words about the Evergreen blackberry, beg to submit the following brief thoughts:. it is a prevalent opinion that Ibis splendid, - luscious and pro lific berry is a native of Oregon. Tfcla has not been my experience, 1 paid 50 cents foe one plant 43 rears ago. Being. alone, it Vtw slowly In pollenlzation and tor a long time was not prolific. When once in full bearing the Urdt soon scattered the seeds wer the farm and the plants were rigorous, I found I had no profi table market for them and felt were a menace to the farm. They Jed up the long wooled top and were almost certain tata to the Angora goat when ki wool, was long. I auccetsfully controlled them ' thla manner: Cut off the vines. , ar the goats, turn them into me pasture you want cleared and tie work Is done. : mererore. there need be no far of taking them on your farm l-t they cannot be controlled. t present the berry seems to pollenizcd with our wild na liTt blackberry, which has no for flavor, and is now a profitable berry with a orid market. When allowed to grow in pas- lnr on ft vnni) lanrin ' it lit best to prune the vines to about four slJia11 tracts feet, just before picking time; this relieves the pickers from the very unpleasant tangling of the laterals In their clothes and ren ders the work - pleasant and speedy, besides the bush the fol lowing year sends out a cluster of short vines about tbe same length, larger berries and more prolific. - They make a very good link in the chain of diversified farming; following closely after the loganberry. ' I ? would not advise as exten sive, an area of them as of the logans, for this reason: The lo ganberry comes on in our valley just when the boys 'and girls are fresh' from school; the parents are ready to take their vacation: the business men and women want a short outing. It is just before the grain. Uartlett peare and? hops are on, or the children called back to school, therefore we can handle a larger area of legans, even if they were not in so much demand. A strong ar gument In favor of the black berry is the small expense of cul tivation compared with any other berry. jVm. H. Egan. Oervais, Or.. Dec. 20. 1920. berries and raspberries under one heading. Hence in givire the acreage "of individual 'growers there is no means of knowing the exact acreage of each terry. If the figures given by the tate tax commission are correct the Allen Fruit company, with 40 acres reported, has the larges blackberry and raspberry acreage in the county. The -tract is just a few miles north of Salem. W. H. Egan of Gervais is cred ited with 30 acres of the two berries, while Louis Aral, also of Gervais, is reported with 3 acres. Very few growers in the Sil veiton and Scotts Mills section of the county reported any acreage of rasp or blackberries. In the Hubbard country there are a few Just north of Sa lem, on rural route S. but little acreare was reported, although L. E. Weeks Is reported with nine acres of the two berries. Rural route 9, on the Pacific highway north of Salem, has but few tracts reported, nor has rur al route 7. out towards Silverton. enced mT youthful imagination to t fortified by the wisdom of thes Francis Robinson of Macleay .... tt A,naiitltnnfl I ChOSCn OUeS. At we grow uiuci c -tor preparation for the duties of life and more for relaxation and or raspberries, nor does the Mt. Angel, nor the country Immedi ately south of Salem. And the same may be said of tbe Shaw and Sublimity partjof the county, ac cording to the report ot the state tafx commission for 1920". Nor are there any blackberries or raspberries reported from the Stayton or Aumsville country. But the northern part ot the county around Woodburn shows a heavy acreage and a large nam ber of small tracts. John A. Scott of Woodburn Is credited with 23 acres and Rex R. Cooley of the same place with eight acres. J. B. Goldschmidt has five acres near Woodburn; A. E. Feller of Hubbard, route 1, has a 20-acre tract in the assess or's report under the heading ot blackberries and raspberries, but the record of course does not in dicate which berry. Just for a change of crops in the Jefferson district of Marion county. W. J. Turnidge is re ported with 16 acres ot the two berries. E. II. Nichols of Salem route 6. east of the city, has five acres. ' Tne 1919 legislature passed a law requiring all county assess ors each year to take a census of the acreage both horticultural and agricultural, and these ' figures are based on the 1920 report of the-srste tax commission, where the reports of all county assess ors are filed. . tion. I have read largely of his synthetic philosophy and have come to regard him as the great est intellect thaV ever looked - .. .... wonderingly out into tne steuar universe. pleasure. I am sorry mat i never got really acquainted with Mark Twain until I was. nearly 40 years old. It Is my theory that Mark Twain wrote not for the young but for the middle aged and old. Mr parwln used tn road ifrk Twain while lying In bed to Induce sleep after a cay oi bard scientific research. Msrk Of all modern writers who bsvei f of life 9 A. t t.t. iV. Athi. I - especially precious to tnose wno are growing oia sna urea ana mr coursged in the bailie oi in CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LOVER H. VAN TRUMP DATES OF SLOGANS IN DAILY STATESMAN (In Twice-a-Wcck Statesman roUowin cay) Drug garden. May 4. Sugar beets. May 11. f-ostnberrles, OcU 7. 'runes, Oct. 14. drying, Oct. 21. . ax, Oct. 28. Filberts. Nov. 4. Walnuts. Nov. 11. Strawberries, Nov. 18. Ples. Nov. 25. Raspberries. Dec. 2. itint. Dec. 9. . . Creat cows, Dec. 16. "'aekberrles. Dec. 23. Cherries, Dec. 20. ars. Jan. 6. 1921. , Gooseberries aud Currants, ,Ja. 15. rn. Jan, 20. 'ery. Jan. 27. fUnach. Feb. 2. "oions, Feb. 10. Potatoes. Feb. 17. . Feb. 24. -J'n'ng. March 2. GaU, March 9. Iun. March IS. rei highway, March 25. ""won, March 50. 'loa. April 6. "Tunics. April 13. vtrgi-, Aprii 2. ' :,P" April 37, - Sorcbum. May IS, . Cabbage. May 25. : . Poultry and Pet Stock. Juno 1. Land. June 8. -Dehydration, Jnnu 15. Hops. Juno 22. Wholesale and Jobbing, June 29. Cucumbers, July 6. Hogs, July 13. . . City beautiful, flowers and bulbs. July 20. - S:hoois. juiy Sheep, Aug. 3. National Advertising, Aug. 10. Seeds, Aug. 17. t i.ociiirk'. A nr. 24. Automotive Industry, Auff. 31. ni,i and Grain Troducta, Sept. 7. . , T-,nurriiir(ntr. Sept. 14 Woodworking and other things. Sept. 21. 1'nr.nr Mill. SfDt. 28. (Back copies of Salem Slogan Dillon, if The Daily Oregon o litem an ira OQ hand. They arc rr sale at 10c each, uiailcd to ay addfesa.) . ByS Books have been the m.ost effi cient and beneficent Impersonal Influence contributing to the suc cess of my life. I had almost said .that books have been the most enobling of all formative in fluences touching my life. I was born at the close of the Civil war on the north bank of the Missouri river, j 30 miles be low Kansas City, In the midst or auspicious environments. The James and the Younger boys had their homes and rendezvous only 16 miles away, and; most any day would enliven the community with a bank robbery or a particu larly thrilline massacre of the mossback citizens along the river. If I had been quick to catch on and cast my lot with the powers of nrosress I might! have written my name along with the Jameses nf Missouri and the James or iar vard on the pages of imperishable history. i a hors. we had our "gan and read the lives of Quantrell. Wild Bill. Billie the Kid. and otn er heroes of the border; but. we were too close to tbe gruesome reality to allow these books to cast any permanent glamor over the life cyt the outlaw ultv free and fully awake could never understandhow the past could have been more won derful than the present. In my 14th 3'ear 1 was Intro duced through the publishing house of John B. Alden to the bast of the world's elastics in science and literature. Here became acquainted with the works of Emerson.. Matthew Arn old. Carlylej Goethe, Tesnnyson Ruskln. Gladstone. George fciiot. Mrs. Ward. Herbert Sprticer Darwin. Tyndall. Pasteur. Huxley and. most significant of all others Professor Clifford. From among the multitude of modern writers four chosen ones have influenced mv life bevond all others. I may truly say that Emerson gave the essential spiritual impulse to mr eobdpI of liberty a chalnless minri th. birthright of every r"" his theory of nature as an inex hanstible and compensating "over cmiI" are eoncents tnai iniiu endeavored to stimulate tbe ethi cal sense through the aestbetical sense, and have sought to soften the hearts of the rich and power ful through the love or the beau tiful, no one has written with more sublime and subtle per suasiveness than John Ruskln. H studied and taken .to heart for tine brief season, there Is enough truth and religion in -Crown of Wild Olives" and "Ses'sm- and IJllles" to redeem this world from its cruel commercialism and make it an earthly paradise. Prof. W. K. Clifford, one ot the most eminent! mathematicians of the 19th century, died at the age of 33. but not before he had pro duced some of the most Import ant aelentlfir and Phliosopnic work- of all time. The work or Prnfounr Clifford is tO D Pnzea especially because of Its- ethical value. Four lectures aeiiTrrru Itttore the Royal society: "ine nasi of Morals" "The ElUics oi Belief." "Right and Wrong." the F!tM- nr Rel Klon" consilium the greatest modern contribution to the science of right conduct, and furnish the only possible bas is for the success of selt-govern-ing socleti-s. . In forming the be liefs which regulate my conduct . lTn nnrt a SO!al being I have consistently gone to iroies- sor Clifford's works for guiaance. These four authors have con tributed more to my preparation tor the whole duty of life than all coHege and university training i have enjoyed. And i say wnu due deliberation and in all ser iousness, that if I had a young son now preparing for the strug gle of life in "this Wilderness of a World" I should rather see nim master the works of these four authors, than see him start out with a university degree, but un- II arid CVUh People whose blood is pure are not nearly so likely to take hard coias as are nther. Hoods sarsapanii makes the blood pure; and this great medicine recovers the sys tem after a com as no omer w iHne does. Take Hooa s COMBINED, CO-OPERATIVE SAYINGS CAMPAIGNS MANY a Salem household U soinz to open Christmas Savings Ac counts at the United States Na tional for those of the family who arc not already so equipped. . v i They draw Interest and arouse interest j - ' - r 1 m TWO DAYS MORE. and Christmas Is Here We have certainly done an exceptional business and we intend to make the last three days even busier. We intend to clean up thoroughly. , , . JExtra Specials on Broken Lines . We herejnention a few extra specials j? French Ivory Sweetgrass Baskets Laugh & Grow Fat Leather Purses Hand Carved Bags Velvet Bags Bead Bags Ladies' Dresses Auto Robes r e Japanese Baskets Boys9 Suits , y Blankets 5 Jersey. Silk Underwear WITH Fatty Arbuckle And there were other social and intellectual diversions and activities m mai narrow seek of the woods wnere . . . . ... a i. n rlint. In a log' school house on the hill bard by. James Lane Allen, the future author of the "Reign of Law." was wielding the hickory and teaching the baekwoods Mis souri youths to shoot for higher things. And so it came about that in mv 13th year. I read the "Origin of Species" and began to open my eyes to tbe great and marvelous worm in wmcn i so humble a citizen. From my earliest youth I had read the Bible.. Josepfius, Dante Milton and John Bunyan; but I I read these books s I. read all . lot her books, wit Jl my. critical fax- Boys and Girls Santa Claus Is Coming Just listen little children, 'T ' i Ami a secret I will tell ; . . - - Its sonietliinjr dear old Santa told to mc. Next Fridav afternoon at Font 1 f von visit WOODRY S STOK K Old Santa Claus in tline vou'll urely see. He has a little present For everv Hill and Hoy Hetween tlie tender ace of right and three. llut he has one request. - ' To ask you in return. That vou'll whittle Every Day for WOODRY. Our shdwing bf Silk' Kimonas, Negligee and 7 Japanese Embroidered j lumonas nave .received the recognition they de pth'c. Our sales have been most gratifying but small wonder, when you see the charmingly and "beautifully embroidered styles, and find how reasonably they arc pneeu. 1 1 I 1 1 Vi rs, jf7it i All Ladies9 Blanket Bath Robes Heavily Reduced Shop Mornings If Possible 9 -rr rrrrrr rr 1 , . rp- ; t i