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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1921)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON The SKipments of Broccoli from Western Oregon. This Tear Have Been bixty-odd run tt t n l c mrrt 0 7" 'm . ! 1 TT .'O.-.w Cars, and l nere is a MarKet ior ouuu ars a n ear; a rroiixaoie money a,i up in Douglas county and whose beautiful home is situated on the banks ot the South Umpqua flyer. W. C. Winston, seconded the mo tion, which, after considerable discussion, was adopted. I am frank in saying that if we had had no organization , of farmers such as . the grange, the movement would not ' hare resulted in suc cess. . Visited Jjocal Grange)!. Mr. Winston Immediately agreed to plant ten acres of his river bottom land to this crop, but only a comparatively Jew of those pres ent seemed to think the move ment would prove successful, so it became necessary to visit the a liferent local granges to ex plain the growing of the crop and to nrge tne members to plant a sufficient acreage to make the movement a success, Many ot the merchants of Rose- OREGON BROCCOLI ' There are few States in the Union that can equal Oregon i- irrowinff of broccoli and certainly none that-can beat her The factors contributing to this superiority in crop pro duction are suitable climatic conditions and an unlimited mount of fine soil which is fully adapted to this vegetable. In the marketing oi me irup, suwa c u-cwumu .uwt careful in grading and packing each year, realizing that if 4n croD is to be sold in large quantities in eastern markets U must bear tne Stamp Ol quamy uu uiut.utuui.jr iiuit icaca no doubt in the mind of the wholesaler. . In the increased acreage which is contemplated at this time there are several things worthy of mention as being iecessary to be considered by every grower. First, this crop, cannot be well grown as a sideline. It must receive proper at tention in all of the phases of production and marketing if utnha successful and. make money. There can be no i hroccoli crown with poor farming, no good broccoli sold by poor methods of cutting, grading and packing. Broccoli turg were skeptical of financial . Vi i.r moTi'o crnn ztrtA cvorv crrnwpr vchn Vina had MC-4 results, some claiming that the S nOk J' - vvj ; knows the crop is well worth his best efforts of production and marketing. Second, first class broccoli de hiirh class seed. I would hate to see any grower this .,. lannchinor out into this crop with a seed strain of un- value. Fully eaual to well drained ground in point of importance is the question of seed. The crop takes nearly a year to grow to maturity and you can't afford to gamble with anything. This question must be very carefully con sidered. Good seed this year is a scarce article. , ThirdOregon broccoli must in the future be standard ized. There is too much difference between the idea of one set if growers in one section as to what is a first grade or second grade. Grades and packs must be standardized in all producing sections. There must be, set a hjgh ideal for this wn and its Quality. '': Airain I say, let no one grow broccoli as a sideline or the lines of broccoli growing. The something to dabble in. We want ordy honest-to J" broccoli growers wno are in me bum3 i for their basis the stimulating of worth, aiming to outdo each other in the quality of their crop interest along these same lines. in overv Ttwnect to nut out a uniform The Rose burs Commercial club jrcfc .w, , ... r was liberal In iU help In financing product. ' . - nnTtAT-rm 1 these institutes, one of two dayV A. U. U. iJUUViUiii duration being held in Roseburg. Corvallis, Or., March 28. 1921. c while the other was of a week's . .... length, the various speakers from a f rPadpra know. Mr. Bouauet is professor of "e J1?" TiSSf - . - - , . isill Tim I " muu ivwui ui iu iuuuij, vegetable gardening at the Oregon Agricultural College, nej whne T went along to act as ad- ? nroCCOll entnusiasi, nas aiueu me muuaujr w i -b.. - w . . J V. !a I 1irrwfnH nlf nr nd It. nnnslMli. one M we ucat .fu irVlTiT At that time I was serving as try. Prof. Bouquet will be with the broccoli growers and presIdent of tne board of dlrec. TrnoTwtivp oTOwers at tne meetine on oavuruajr eemn tors ot tne umrxiua valley Fruit it the Salem Commercial club, to make plans for a large union and one of my most en- - t i niiaiairin in.wnrir an n nvnTnnv-. hscreage in the Salem district.) ACREAGE OF BROCCOLI' IN RDSEBURB DISTRICT WILL BE ABOUT The Matter of Seed is the All Important One Now For The Growers of Douglas County The Market is Clamoring For More, So Why Not More Broccoli7J Asks Mr. Busenbark. results, some claiming that the veretihle would nnt art-lv nn tha eastern market In fit condition I for human consumption. J. II. Booth, of the Douglas National bank, however, was an exception, and from the inception of the In dustry has shown a confidence in its success, and in every way in his power encouraged us to go ahead and make the movement what it is now a staple crop in Douglas county. The lecturer of the Pomona grange. Mrs. O. C. Brown, im mediately saw the possibilities in the broccoli Industry, and she. as part of her lecture hour, arranged ner programs to Include every one who had any knowledge along Editor, Statesman: The broccoli Industry et Doug las county is a growing industry The crop Just harvested is one of the best that has been grown. While not as large as the 1917 crop, yet the quality la exceptional and the price has averaged much higher than the IS 17 crop, so tne net returns to the grower equal that of 1917. The worst setback the industry has received is lack of good seed. Before the war, the seed was imported from Europe (Denmark), and was true to name, since men growers nn been attempting to raise their own seed, with variable results. At present the seed produced by Cha. W. Kruse of Oswego, is the most reliable. Local growers produced about one-third of the seed used locally the past season. The results were not satisfactory- Plants from one grower's seed began to head by the first of January and the bulk of his crop was off by Feb. IS, thus coming too. early to get the best market f lH is I rum uiiniicr svwci seed did not begin to head nntil March 10; this coming rather too late, as the height of the harvest was March 25, is hard to market as there is not enough of it to make car shipments. This long raAge of season is not particularly objectionable if enough of both the early and late varieties are grown to insure car shipments throughout the season.' The type ot plants from both these lots of seed, was fairly good, but not the purchase of a new tractor, to rmUt them in their farming op erations. On account of their ex perience wMh the car of broccoli that was held up in Deliver, and lor other reasons, w. A. Sloper believes broccoli might be shipped to Europe, if there were a call tor our product there; that Is. It BROCCOLI IS AN ARISTOCRAT ID V f TO BE TREATED AS SCH would airire across the Atlantic! . .ru. ii.Mi. in good condition, if proper ship- Comes Strutting Into Our Market in Feoruary, warcn And April, at a Time When We Have No Succulent Vegetables, Except Hot House Products or Some That Have Been Sent From Sunny Climes. eaual to the C. W. Kruse plants. The main crop from' the Kruse strain of seed ripened between February IS and March IS and was ot exceptionally high quality. It is claimed by many that broccoli Js a heavy feeder and takes lots of plant food from the solL This, I believe, la true, as it takes a good, rich type of soil to produce the best broccoli, but If the leavea and waste from trim ming are carefully returned to the field as fertilizer, the loss ot plant food can be reduced to a mini mum. Fields that have produced several crops of broccoli in suc cession, handled in this way. do not seem to have deteriorated. and are atill good producers. As I said In the beginning, the broccoli industry In Douglas coun ty Is a growing industry; and while the seed selection is far from perfect, yet the results ob tained this year are very good. The market Is clamoring for more than is produced, so why not more broccoli? There Is much demand for seed at present, and the sup ply Is limited, but the Indications are that the acreage this year will be nearly double that of last year, ping precautions were observed But it would no doubt meet there the competition of the broccoli ot Norway and Denmark and oth er continental countries. And. thus far. western Oregon haa not produced nearly enough broccoli to meet the American demand. This Year's Crop. Sloper Bros, estimates that they had IS acres in broccoli this year. It was between the rows ot a Uaby hop yard, of S7 acre. It was Interplanted. The rows were eight feet apart. They planted in August, andt they will have easily eight cars; the seventh full car lot was shipped on Tuesday, The Slopers afe mechanically inclined. They took a common kale planter and pot a check row By C. I. LEWIS. Broccoli belongs to the cabbage family. The broccoli Is really an early tprtng form of cauliflower. It haa been said that the cauli flower la a cabbage with a college education, which Is probably true. But If the cauliflower Is a cab bage with a college education, then the broccoli has taken a post graduate course. Truly the broccoli la an arlsto- appllance on It, for planting broe- crat. Comes stmtting" onto our coll.' It worked; fine. They have Invented a hop plow, run with a tractor. It has two discs in front that act aa a middle breaker, with three discs on the side, and it leavea the ground loose and pli able. They expect to patent this device. They expect to ne solid plant ing in their broccoli growing this year; with perhaps about the same number of crates aa last year; but with a smaller number of acres, Ifarvefttiag the Crop. Sloper Bros, have worked out cheap and quick methods ot crat ing and loading their broccoli. The Oregon Growers Cooperative , They have put It. Into crates at Association shipped the bulk of I about 4M cents a crate. They the croo this vear. They are re-lnae wagon with a hay rack. aulring the growera to meet holding 30 or 40 cratea. with ar- thelr standard ot grade and pack. I rangements on the rear for crat- thua putting an article on the Sing. They pack the broccoli into eastern market that can be de-the crates right on the .wagon. market In February. March and early April, at a time of year when we bate bo succulent vege-. tables, except some which have been cent to us from hot houses, or from sunny climes. Is It any wonder that be struts around with an aristocratic air when all he haa for competition la some dried up beets and carrots, with a parsnip or turnip here and there, or some old dried up cab bage ot last year'a vintage? Like the true aristocrat, the broccoli demands the beat ot ser vice. It haa been said that the broccoli la a very eay crop to grow. This we feel la hardly true, because the broccoli Is very exacting In some of Its require ments. First, good seed Is abso lutely necessary. Unusually good and expensive seed, seed running 30 a pound or more. This seed must be planted In good aeed pended npon and insuring the fu- When the wagon is loaded, the! ted in April, and the young plants tare market. - . . R. A. Busenbark. Roseburg, Oregon, Mar. 27, 1921. load is ready to take to the rail-1 transplanted In roaa car. xney eena meir eui-ijniy, ters two or tnree nours aneaa ot the craters and loaders, to have Jane or early From the very start, it must be seen that mis aristocrat nas TIIE ' BROCCOLI INDUSTRY IN DOUGLAS IK . Br THE Ml WHO STARTED IT I -- --. ; j - -,-' -".. SLOPER BROS. OF How it Vas Started and Some of the Obstacles That Had to Be Overcome The Industry was Begun In That County With About Forty Acres Pledged to Jhe , Growing of Broccoli. - ;,By DR. C. II BAILEY. Eight-years ago the county toarlf Douglas county appointed me fruit inspector and I Immedi ately assumed " the responsibili ties of the office. In my travela tmoBgst the orchard men It waa made plain to me that -while in time their orchards would bring tlvem In an Income, at that time their trees were young and pro- luclBg no fruit. Douglaa county kid been invaded by a large num ker of eastern men who had come to the Umpqua valley to embark la the fruit industry, and many of these men had been assured f real estate promoters, that a Urtngjcould be made by growing truck "eroBs between the trees for local consumption. Upon trying to dispose ot their vegetables lowmr, these incipient orchard ! found that the supply was al ready larrer than the demand. Not onlv were many ot the ovaeri of young orchards' finding hard to make a living, but own w of farms ranging Irom 40 to 19 icre were also up against tne fact that the home market waa OTerwpplIed, with no demand from the local merchants except lor butter and eggs. In fact, our Problems were the same that still we ths northwest, except in sec tion! where co-operation haa been thoroughly developed, namely. poor markets. Growiag On Commercial Scale. Uany of these young apple. Pr and prune orcharda bad been thusiastlc co-workers in promot ing the industry waa the secre tary of the union, S. D. Cooley. To prove that the, doubters were mistaken in saying that broccoli would not reach the eastern mar kets In edible condition, he ship ped several crates to Chicago, while I shipped at the same time to friends in Duluth, Minn., both shipments arriving in good con dition, which proved conclusively that if the prodtfet could travel in a warm express car and arrive in good condition it certainly could be shipped under refriger ation and arrive fit. for consump tion. ; We had at this period only in the . neighborhood of 15 to 20 acres signed up to grow broccoli. and it" was realized that at least 35 to 40 acres were needed to make the movement a success During the winter I visited every FARING ME IEPEHCE USE Tl the leaves slightly wilted. In or- p.cnty to drink. He doesn't stand US IN BROCCOLI der to make a closer pack; be cause they had complaints laot I year that the cratea were not well filled. It la hard to fill them prohibition and drought at all well. He will grow spindling. run to aeed. and will refuse to grow at all if be suffers. There to aeed or refuse to head. Neither must he be too greatly alarmed If about 2S per ceat of the crop can be classed, aeeordlag to good grading rulea. aa -culls. Broc coli has been a leading crop in the Roseburg district for a em ber of yeara. In 1914 there were cars; la 1915. 2S cars: 191C. 42 cars; 1$17. 82 cars: lfl. 44 ears: 1919. 42 cars;- 192. 24 cars; 1921. 51 cars. Of the (1 cars handled la the Roseburg district this past year, the Oregon Growers' Co-operative association handled 4i cars. At Independence last year 4 CIO cratea or about nine cars wert handled, which sold for from about f 1.29 to $1.25. This year the Oregon Growers have handled 10 cars out at I a dependence which will bring la about 1 ii a crate. It has been shown la both the Roeebsrg and Independence dis tricts that It paya the growers to get together sad get the benefit ot the wide distribution. adrer . - a Sw timing aaa aaiesmaasai oi nci an organization as the Oregon Growers The -men handling the fresh fruit and vegetable department of this organization have bad a am ber of yeara experience la handl ing broccoli and cauliflower. The fact that mneh fruit had already been sold under the "ilUtland" brand also Helped In moving the tioecoli. Had the attempt been made to sell all the broccoli In small ex press shipments, principally here In the west, or had about all (Continued on page 4.) planted on our richest river bot tom soils, and. wnue me iree were making a splendid growth. the spaces between the trees were! local grange in the county In the an economic waste; In most cases only enough being grown to sup ply the owner witn wnai vege tablea he and his faintly could consume. With these condiUona confronting us It became an ob session with me to promote the growth, collectively, ot some crop that could be shipped in cartoaa lots, that would not come la com petition too much with other sec tions, and a crop that would as sure the grower an .Immediate cash return. Realizing the fact that my ef forts must be" confined to pro moting the growing of not more than one article of consumption, if the movement was to result in success, and having grown broc coli for home consumption for the three years previous, it came to me as an inspiration that the Umpqua valley, with Its equable climate and rich aoils. was ideally situated for the growing ot tnts vegetable on a commercial scale. At this time I had the honor of serving as master of the Doug las county Pomona grange, and at one meeting In the fall, plac ing another member In the chair, 1 offered a resolution to the as sembled grange that we promote and encoukage the? growing of broccoli on a commercial scale. One of the members f the grange who has since become one of the most successful broccoli growers interest of broccoli production. and where the grange meetings were held in the school houses : was particularly fortunate In in teresting the growers, for here blackboards and chalk were ayail- ( Continued on page 4) They Set Out the Plants. With a Common Kale Planter, . Adding a Device Making it Suitable 'For Broccoli; They Cultivate With a.TraCtOr, and They Put Their Jnr the crop that had been cut Umette valleye often plow ti V . . . . ., m I In the field, and it was on theldrag the ground several tl rrOQUCl iniO Urates neauy ror IIIC naillUdU ivcu cu ground for four or n days, m end take c Four and a Half Cents a Crate. with the broccoli right from the I fore the ground ahould be rich hands ot the cutters, because tne land deep and preferably rolling leaves are very crisp and brittle. jor 0f such a nature that it will An hour's sunshine will remedy I not hold water for long periods this, or a few hours or rainy lie the winter. weather. (By the way. broccoli I The slant must not be allowed must be cut when ready, rain or I to dry out during the summer shine.) But. at one time, last! time. The better broccoli grow. year, they were delayed in pack-1 era of both the Umpqua and Wll- twlce. , , . , i I " me iiciu. inn m waa vu iut I arac la a ground sTraj WBitja. PrOdUCt IntO CrateS Ready For the Railroad Car at ground for four or five days. In and take every precaution to hold arencaiUBT riu iuu u wj i me moisture. mis piam loves shipped to Chicago by express and I the cool open winters, such as we sold there at $2.?S a crate. Broc-are passing' through this year. con win stand a gooa oeai oi Mild temperatures and plenty oi waiting, in rainy or cold weather. I moisture are the prime requl- Sloper Bros., In harvesting. I sites. keep three people cutting and alx I it exceedingly cold weather packing Into the cratea. with I comes he will often curl up and three wagons with the hay-raek I die.. unless there Is snow enough arrangement. Ito protect him. He i also aub They have been trying to getlject to chilblains, and If there Is their neighbors to go Into broc-1 freezing and thawing weather. coll growing, in order to facilitate Mr. Broccoli crumples up In the the handling of the crop in car stem or sulk. This can be p re- lots, and they have succeeded in I vented by throwing earth up over getting some of them to grow a the atem during such periods. little. In a email war. The In-1 After all thia rood care lis given dications now are. however, that I him. the grower mutt noi be dis- BROCCOLI E ED The most extensive growers of' broccoli in the -Salem district are Sloper Bros., of Independence. They have been growing broccoli for 10 years. During their first eight years they raised this veg etable in a rather small way. though they had' four acres during one of those yeara; and they sold their product on the local mar kets and produced seed for the seed houses. The past two years they have produced broccoli on a commer cial scale. Their 1920 Crop." I They lost about $1 a crate on A BLUE RIOBOH QUALITY ITU , A SALEM m ILL BE HIS GOAL their 1920 - crop, owing to xne switchmen's strike, but they came out with a good net prolit, never theless. . ' Thev started a car for Chicago. and it was tied np In the strike faV 10 davs in Denver, Notwith standing this delay, that car of broccoli arrived in Chicago in such good condition . that It waa sold at a higher net profit than was the average for the aeasoa for them, for most of their snip mentaftad to go by .express, stand ing the higher transportation cost. They received, that year as high ss $2.75 a crate in Chicago. -3Iight Go to Europe. W. A. and A O Sloper are the members of the firm of Sloper Bros. They sre also members ot the . Independence hardware firm of Sloner Bros. & Cockle. W. A. Sloper runs the farm, and they have, 200 acres, 90 acrea being In bops. W. A. Sloper was in Sal em yes- Thus C. C. Russell, the Father oHhe Industry in the Immediate Salem District, Dedicates His Labors in This Field, and He Has Already Made a High Mark in Quality. ' the growing of broccoli will be quite general ' In that neighbor hood, beginning with this year: And Sloper Bros., who have thus pioneered the industry, deserve all the success they . themselves have secured, and besides grest credit for bringing to their neigh borhood the opening ot a new line In the way of a profitable money' crop that has great possibilities. Former Premier Vlvlanl Is com ing to the United States. Sounds appointed If about 25 per cent ot the plants are spindling, run terday making arrangements for 1 like a new hair lotion. DATES OF SLOGANS IN DAILY STATESMAN Mia Twice-aAVeek Statesman Following Day) Lof.Mberr.es. Oct, 7. drones, Oct. u. -t , , . Dairying, Oct 21. - ttw. Oct. 28. Alberts. Nov. 4. JmU.Nov. 11. vV Strawberries, Nov. 18. Apples, Nov. 25. RpberrteuT-ee. 2. Mint. Dec I. Creat cows, Dec. 18. JJlaekberr.es, Dec. 22. ferries. Dee. 20. , Pearl Jan a in ) ' - Gooseberries and Currants, Jan, Corn, Jan. 20. ry. Jan. 27. Spinach, Feb. 3. On 06., Feb. 10. -Potatoes, Feb. 17. Feb. 24. Mining. March S. Goats. March 10. Beans. March 17. Eed highways, March 24. Broccoli, Marcr 21. fHos. April 7. ' ' ' - " VtTme. April 14. Aparagns. April 21. i Crast April 23. " 13. Drug garden. May 6. Sugar, beets. May 12. Sorghum, May T9. , Cabbage, May 2C. . Poultry and Pet Stock, June 2 Land. June 9. j.r-?'x:U Dehydration, June 16.; iinna June 22.- -i " .' .... f'.- Wholesale and Jobbing, Jone 30. and Cucumbers, July 7Wu - Hogs, July 14. Citr Beautiful, flowers bulbs, July 21. Schools, July z. ' Sheep, Aug. 4. ' National Advertising, Aug. 11. Seeds. Aug. 18.. " ' ' Livestock. Aug. 25. . Automotive Industry, Sept, 1. - Grain and Grain Products, Sept, 8. rannfattnrlne. Sept,-15. - i Woodworking and other things, Sept. 22. .. Paper Mill. Sept. 29. . inapk conies of Salem Slogan tuitions of The Dally Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are tor sale at 10c, each,. raaUad 40 Editor Statesman There has been much said of that delicious vegetable, broccoli, in recent issues of the Salem daily papers, especially The Statesman. The broccoli la a vegetable of the cauliflower family, but. grown as it Is in the Willamette valley, is far superior to the cauliflower. Inasmuch as it grows in COOl weather, and usually the crop is gathered at the time ot year when we have more or less ram. i nave found in my experience that broc coli harvested in such weather is superior to that gathered in the warmer and dryer days, as the coql weather makes It brittle and more tender. - - I believe the climate near Sa lem Is especially . adapted to the growing ot broccoli. While we -may have some winters that would injure the crop. I think it is no more subject to a freexe-out than grain crops. In the seven years I have grown it. It has been more in an experimental way than any- thing else,' and I am sure the ex periment has been a pjeasan one I have learned that It takes good. fertile, well drained sou to pro duce the fancy article, and it is a cron that will stand all the work m . . ta. a you can give it; wnue i m grown good crops when I waa com pelled to partly negieci iu lleuoas oi naming T nlant the seed in a seed bed. either with a seed drill or by hand. Care should be taken tnai me -son la well worked, deep and tine; the seed planted about half an Inch deep in drill rows about 12 inches apart, and it should be planted from the first to the lath, ot May, and reset in the field about July 15 th Snecial care shuld be made to get the best seed on the market. If yon can find an Individual who haa made a. practice of raising seed and ia a auccess, buy ot him. and don't plant anything but the St. Valentine, or a snrout from same. The seed is a very careful, and, one might say. a acientiflc study; to select specimens that will I ra ti rove rather than run out. I see the seedmen still continue to list a variety by name. White French. Any one should be careful to not plant this variety, as It Is no good, and la a disgrace to me broccoli family. There could be much aald re- rardinn- marketing the crop in a commercial way, but for this time will omit this, except to say the east, up to the present time, wants our broccoli, and I am one to put no a blue ribbon qualitty with Salem mark, in big red letters. Yours for the industry. C. C. RUSSELL.. Gervais, Ore., Route 2, March 29 1921. (Mr. Russell has already pro-' rressed far toward a blue ribbon quality in the production of broc coli. -He told the men assembled at the noon luncheon of the Salem Commercial club, a week ago Mon day, that he had already sold ssis worth of broccoli, to saiem gro cers, from three-quarters ot an acre, and waa atlii cuiung me crop. He told the Salem Broccoli aasciatlon crowd, at' the organiza tion meeting last Friday, that the Independence growera ot broccoli were receiving higher prices, tor their product shipped tn ear lota and sold In the east, than he has been rettlne In the Salem market. Mr. Rnssell will be at the broccoli meeting at the Salem Commercial club rooms on Saturday evening. He will himself grow twelve acre of broccoli Jhls XT' - S700 TO S8D0 tlCRE VALUE OF E EDM CROPS IN ROSEBURG DISTRICT BROCCOLI PLANTS We will bare broccoli plants for sale be fin ning Jane 15, and we are already booking orders. One Grower With Six Acres Is Said to Have Harvested 3000 Crates; Another Got 800 Crates From Less Than Two Acres; Prices Running As High as $1.75 A Crate But Such Yields Are Above the Average and Bordering on Phenomenal. C. H. BAILEY & SONS Rosebor?, Oregon :We have mxde a spe cialty of Broccoli seed fer "a number of years- At the. time the grow ers of Roseburg' first started growing- this crop, we supplied the seed and plants. . - .The ST. VALENTINE BROCCOLI had proven the best variety to stow and we had about all the seed there was in the United SUtes at that time. This variety is still the leading: variety -and is used by nearly all the growers as it produces' the finest, largest heads and they are ready for the market at the prop er time to secure the highest price. Our seed is np to the usual standard that we have always 'maintained and our price is reason able. We are always giad to Quote prices. Get in line and make Salem the largest pro ducer of Broccoli. We have the land, the climate and the market. The grower who gets in now will make the bis profits. Try a few acres, as raucn as yon can handle. D. A. WHITE & SONS SEEDSMEN SALEM :: OREGON Editor Statesman: - 1 mo winwr VA7 broccoli aeason Jut completed in tha RoaebnrK district baa been tbe most successful since the industry started nd th roach ours. ,Wnil me oast winter in Oreron waa ao "ri normally mild, creatine eondM Tvi.ltiona farorable to early maturity. IT lDDRiri 1D1L lUV Ksvwvav I applie. not .only to the quality VoT.h of the CP y"ea.X " confidence in baTln a blh-priced price recelred dlBelf Ute market. For. if we hare to growera mm the Cooperative Association claim to bare recelred satisfactory prices. The most notable feature- of the marketinc ena oi me ae . . A lt this season is in me iaci imi " th,t nmcon Interests mlaht compete with California In addi tion to the larger yanety ot treen truck and fruit coin Into east ern markets from various south ern statea It appears to the writ-1 sales were made f.o.b on a atrictly cash basis. While the independent growers do not aooear to have been able to reach the hlrh averace of ll.s to fre better by shipping; at an ear lier period, when this competi tion is not so great. Numerous growera In this dls- "'ZZ v.onnltrict report almost phenomenal mm Lnjk j i . t.w.--l r-M.-M rv. -.. AxJation. yieias. una grower wn i v.w... r : l i. 1 .i . v.. ii.raM i nun .m. ryt C 1 tn SI T S fir A I ft w -' v.py snrnnrsrlnr A little com-1 '" I w . I -A V I. aft.Ftinnil fli.t fSS wTacreVwToye; VK L"rw "V.h . crater Of course, these yield. for our crops ' are far above the average, but for2"fw:. f. ' i .f i. t,. they ahow the fertility of our soil .ww";or mildness ot our climate and VhT;wr oF brccVlI onh ability ot some otour far- quite a large scale. In the past mers. rnrrr nrrrvrw ah .concentrated on callHower. FOSTER BUTNER. which waa harvested daring fall I Roseburg, Or., Mar. If, 1121, : '.L ' - - " - LOWER Seed Prices for 1921 Omt mtHM as TO5T HAND GROWERS niUm wa t srmia mtme mmt cheicw mtrmlmm ! Vf UU 5 fit mt Trm-Wmr Tricm. AM tkr p-lar L2y Uty mrm Umtmd te mr ltZl Sm4 AmataaJ at CAaaoT I fP rvACH ctuxay Hv SQUASH CUCUMSE . TOMATO mcijom U aUrrAA&4 , SPECIALS FOR 1921 Owe VrUVU t4 WKW. art WW la iWlr mmti. iImm THE ACME or rtJLrXCTION. Urn mr 4Am ' W t I T r lnMnii LkVilNIS TODAY fc- SkW-Cirni4l4tC" A pnlittrS mi mm. HW1 ' THE CHAS. H. LILLY CO. B pJl Q SEATTLE PORTLAND T-r tMa CmnUm USyi hK