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WELCOME AND ANNIVERSARY EDITION. JANUARY. 1921 6 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON OPPORTUNITY WELCOMES THE NUT CULTURIST IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY Knight Pearcy, Expert in the' Line of Nut and Fruit Orchard Development, Outlines a Great Future for the Walnut and Filbert in the Salem District Biggest Filbert Planting in America Ought to Be in This ViciiHty The Only Place in the United States for Commercial Growing of Filberts, i By Knight Pearcy THE wain at and filbert of Ore gon are, at present, little known in the markets of the country.- However, oar orchards, hating passed successfully through their experimental stages, are just now beginning to break Into commercial bearing and in a short time the trade will begin to recognize In "Mistland" walnuts the same superiority over all oth er brands that the California "Dia mond" brand is now recognized as baring orer the nuts of Southern Europe and of Manchuria. A properly grown and properly cured Oregon filbert excels the European product just as does our grafted Franquette excel all other walnuts. This vallK grows to perfection three nuts: walnut, filberts and chestnuts. There are perhaps 10,000 acres of walnuts in the state. i Half of this acreage Is either in bearing or is beginning to bear. . Perhaps 25 per cent of the plant ings will never bear commercially, due to being planted In poor loca tions, to poor care and to a vari ety of other causes. We hare thousands of acres of prime wal nut land in the Willamette valley and other tens of thousands of acres that are unsuited to walnut growth. With all the good land that Is available there is little ex cuse, -except Ignorance, for plant ing on Questionable tracts. - The walnut is rather exacting in Its demands, requiring, among other things, good depth of soil and air and water drainage; but where the conditions' are met and where intelligent handling is ac . corded the planting, it offers many attractions to the grower. The city man, untrained in fruit grow ing, has a better chance of making good in nut growing than in most other forms of horticulture, pro . Tided he is started off properly. It he is happy In his selection of a suitable tract of land and in get ting his grove planted properly and through the first season, his chances of making good are ex cellent, for a man can make commercial success of a nut plant ing with a lesser degree of hortl cultural training and skill than would b possible with most other AanV a mJt m t rYV a maw rs des not have to meet the prob- wr"niVf cf spraying, thinning and 7A duced two tons per acre and1 we have every Teason to believe that we can duplicate such yields in Oregon when our orchards be come a little older. ?hfMw '.w4fMs " ' 1 - " It - ' i ii i i i ii i ""r--- " " M'J-"' r v --r- I - i i .. -; I Outisde people becoming inter ested in berry growing naturally came to the section that was known to be growing the largest acreage and a little later canner ies, juice and jam works and bar reling interests in the market for logans located in the city that had the largest acreage tributary to its doors. A Great Salem Opportunity. Some Oregon town will, ten years from now, be known as the American filbert center, and mer chants and business men, as well as growers In that section, will profit accordingly. No section of this valley now has much advant age over the other sections. How ever, if a hundred acre planting were to be set out here this year it would stimulate planting among the growers around Salem and Shipping Hogs from Donald. .1 ' ' THE CITY OF DONALD First State Bank of Donald. TIIE city of Donald through the undersigned business firms .of the city desires .to invite any prospective settlers in the Wfl lamette valley to inspect our city and surrounding farming country before locating any other place in the state. "We have the best soil in the Willamette valley at most reasonable prices and our town affords all the accommodations necessary to the farmer and we are on the Oregon Electric Ry., only 20 miles from Salem and 30 miles from Portland. A. J. RICH, Stock Buyer IIOSKINS & DeSART, Tile Factory MOORE & SCnAUBEL, Garage and General Repairing MAYS-CARVER & GROFP, General Merchandise . J AS. P. FELLER, Seed Buyer J. L. GROFF, Real Estate n. N. GOODE, Nurseryman and Brick Factory FIRST STATE BANK A Filbert Tree in the Salem District. wj cjuu i. reg fo' and marketing that tl be met by the grower of aaawav yvitsuawiv sawtavw aava f. does n 'Q01' the amount of equipment and labor needed by the "berry, prune or apple grower. There Js a popular, though er roneous belief,, that the walnut will not bear until very old. This is true of some seedling trees, but our grafted walnuts such as we are planting in Oregon at the present time, eome into profitable bearing at about the eighth year. We can mention a number of plantings that have borne 15 to 25 pounds per tree from the eighth to the tenth years. When a grafted tree of approved variety does not come into commercial bearing at this age it is not the fault of the tree. After this age the orchard will Increase rapidly in yield. - The average orchard at 15 to; 20 years of age should pro duce 11000 to 150 pounds of dried nuts per acre and plantings that are In exceptionally choice locations or that are given care above the average will do better than this. There are records of California orchards that have pro- The filbert is a nut that offers1 even more than does the walnut to the planter in this favored sec tion with the "Mistland" climate. It comes into commercial bearing the fifth year, under proper condi tions. It bears prolifically; re quires a minimum of labor to pro duce and to harvest; is not in- I jured by rains at harvest or by irosts at Diossom ume, is com paratively non-perishable; and is not as exacting as to soil condi tions and location as Is the wal nut. There Is a present American consumption of about twenty mil lion pounds, a demand created without a dollar's worth of adver tising, and yet there Is no .other section of America that can grow the nut commercially. Small plantings scattered through the valley have . demon strated that the filbert can be grown commercially in many sec tions of Western Oregon. Just so with the loganberry.' . Other Oreron communities can grow as good logans as can a lem growers, yet Salem is recog nized as the loganberry center ox the world and as a result thou sands of dollars are passing through channels of trade of this city that could just as well be en richlng some other city. . Salem is the loganberry center simply because chance had it that the first Oregon plantings were made in this section, and local growers were accordingly the first to recognize possibilities in this fruit. would draw to Salem outside cap ital that is already Interested, for a planting of that size would be heralded as the largest in Ameri ca. Civic pride as well as the certainty of good dividends should prompt local business men to or ganize a syndicate to develop such a planting and to thus intrench a new Industry around Salem which will later on bring thousands of dollars to this section. Before the ' war the filbert brought the grower 15 to 18c per pound and went up to 35c in 1919. George Dorris, the veteran grow er at Eugene, says that a number one planting should produce as follows: 500 to 1000 pounds per acre at five years; 1000 to 1500 pounds at six years; 2000 to 3000 at eight years; 3000 to 4000 at ten and 4000 to 5000 at 12 years. Reduce these yields, all of which are attainable, by 50 per cent and still they offer splendid returns on the investment. What other crop offers these handsome returns per acre and what other crop that approaches the filbert in earnings per acre can be produced with the small amount of equipment and labor per acre that will produce this nut? . 1 Nuts work well In combination with certain other fruits and with poultry. The latter can be well carried In the nut orchard to the ' "i V : -; j ...... J M . . - V $ v-; oil; MOOR Ccl SCHAUZL" AUTC ZP AIP:?13 ' ' Mars-Carver A Gogs General Merchandise Store, Donald. Moore Jk Bchanbel Garage, Donald. t t heifF.o oi THE SECRET OF GOOD BREAD F section had- a-climate that was not fit for a white man. Ample Rewards Offered. The nut growing Industry is one of the most promising of the fruit industries of this great northwest, and those who get into the game while it is young and THOMAS B. KAY WOOLEN MILLS Thirty-two years ago 1889 Thomas Kay, senior, established the Thomas Kay Woolen Mills in the city of Salem, Oregon. ; ! Salem , citizens now point with pride to the fact that this city is the home of one of the finest woolen mills on the Pacific coast; that. the Kay woolens are known and sought for by those en gaged In the woolen trade because of their excel lent quality. They point with pride to the fact that the Kay mills have enjoyed a steady growth for the past 32 years and now constitute an important unit in the industrial life of Salem. Thomas B. Kay, junior, has been in active man agement of the woolen mills for over 20 years. In addition he has served two terms as state treas ; urer. He is one of the big men of Oregon, a com munity worker, and his one great watchword Is Development for business; city, state and country. m J 'A m --- - Some of the Filberts advantage of both the trees and the poultry. .The colour noil system where the hens are hauled in their houses from one section of the orchard to another, thus being kept on clean ground all the time. Is well adapted to the nut orchard. WalnUtS niT hm fntm1an with prunes or filberts or sour cherries. The vonnr mtu chard may be Interplanted with strawberries. Apples and cherries make poor companion trees for walnuts, however. At the Head of the Ration. Prof. Reed, thm of nut investigations for the fed eral Department of Agriculture, remarked to the writer thi. summer that no fruit section of ine united States in which he had Tisited. and he has visited most of them, had as much tn ntr in the way of quality of land at such low prices as prevail in this val ley, except one section and that who Dlant and rrow their trarta intelligently, will be amply re- waraea. Tney win soon own prop erties that will return them fine Interest on their investments and will have somethinz realir worth while to leave to their children when ther leave this "MlnMand climate for a warmer and dryer one; in some cases nrobablv a much warmer and much dryer one Knight Pearcy. (Mr. Pearcy is a member of the firm of Pearcy Bros., Salem, with offices in the Oregon building, their business being the develop ment and sale of nut and fruit or chards for themselves and their clients, some of their clients liv ing in distant states. Ed.) : Salem is loganberry headquar ters tor all the world, and will always be. The acreage la grow ing, and it will grow as fast as facilities are provided tor taking care of the crop. I Home of Kinsmen. Virtuola, ElPario and Olympia LINES OF CIGARS SHOWALTER & JACOBS, State Distributors , Kinsmen IONDRES CIGAR A Smoke Without A Regret 5c ANYWHERE l El Pano 1JXE OF CIGARS EL PANO QUEEN I, J j . 1 - . . I I ! r ;l:;J-"!-;i 5c . EL PANO PACTFICOS 10c Olympia LXVE OF CIGARS OLYMPIA Needles 15c OLYMPIA Puritano 10c OLTSfPUL Brevas VIRTUOLA LINE OF CIGARS 10c VIRTUOLA CLASS A CIOABS NEVER BEATEN VIRTUOLA , PERFECT 0 ' CLASS BCIQABS ' Tax Paid to Sell Tor 5c 8c THE VIETUOLA LINE WILL SATISFY ALWAYS VIRTUOLA PEEFECTO CLASS 0 CIQAB3 Tax Paid to Sell For 1212C DRIED FRUITS CIOABS GROCERIES SALEM SHOWALTER & JACOBS Wholesale Grocers OREQON