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THURSDAY MORNINO, MAY 5, 1921
Salem Should Constantly Increase Her Lead as the Crude Drug Center
Market of Oregon, by Giving Every Possible Encouragement to fthe Growers
and
SALEM MAY SECURE THE PROPOSED
OREGON PEPPERMINT OIL REFINERY
The Oregon Mint Growers Cooperative Association is
Now Casting About for a Site, and the location of
This Very Important Manufacturing Plant Here Would
; Fix Salem for All Time as the Crude Drug Center.
Oregon drug plants. From the;
toxglove cornea digitalis; and the !
plant is also called digitalis. In'
the count countries or Oregon j
enough of this plant grows wild to ;
heal all the broken hearts of the i
world. j
The t'nited States Department!
of Agriculture said officially away
back in 1914: 'Leaves from the
wild American plant have been as-
Salem to the erode drug center
ef Oregon, and the peopie of this
ttLf m,T DY tak,n thought and
following It with intelligent and
frerilttent action improve this lead
constantly and make the honor
tnd distinction a bigger thing
Mmmtrclally and in the way of
manufacturing. merchandising
and Shipping, year after year.
Dan J. Fry, the Salem druggist
it the leading Oregon buyer of
..tfr& bark. Oregon grape and
balsam fir, and he also handles;
other kinds of crude drugs, and
is helping in every way the deveH
opment of these lines.
t. Fry is now paying 5 cents
a pound for new cascara bark, and
from to 7 cents for eld. He la
paying $t ta $22.50 per ijarrel
for dear and clean balsam fir; 48
gallons to the barrel.
market for peppermint oiL He re
cently told the members of the
Oregon Mint Growers Co-operative
association at their annual
meeting that the mint growers of
the Willamette valley need not be
alarmed about a .overproduction:
tost be is tn toach with a firm
lilt will wait 50,000 pounds a
inally. fteflneryfar fcalrm.
Tbe fficlala of the Oregon
Hint Growers' Co-operatlv asso
ciation are now casting about for
a site and plans for a peppermint
oil refinery, to taae care oi me
whni Oreron croo. The Salem
" . . - . i .
Commercial ciun enouia uo
attir committee appointed and
set to work to co-operate with
these Seopl. The refinery should
14 la or near Salem, it it is not
already the-most central point for
most of the mint Industry of Ore
gon.' Salem will be that point ere
--j t. m k rt'rrnw
1UUS UU At win tro w o -
tag Industry, brtnging bl sum
ot money annually to this dls-
' Salens snould.tiot negleet this
matter for day. Oeaa Adolph
Ziefle of the 'department ot phar
macy of the Oregon .Agricultural
rollers Is working with the mint
growers. O. J. Moisan of Gerraia
it secretary of tha association.
. Oresro Grows Bert Mint
; - The Willamette ralley raises
Us best mint in the world; mint
having jibe highest, menthol con
tent of any . grown In. the whole
worldvand producing . the most
onnfM and nonnds to the acre.
Our people tin grow the White
Kkhem mist successfully, and our
SPtpenBtat ett is weed to grade Bp
ie oaalitr ot the oils produced in
astern sections where this variety
esslot ft grown.
! It la very Important that our
peppermint on anouia oe sain.
. iaralxed and the standards pro
tected, and a refinery will be of
great assistance in this. This will
' mean 7 i cents. to 11.50 more a
Bayed and found to be equally as I "wild" foxglove.
good as the European article "
There is a question about the
origin of the foxglove of our coast
counties the same as there is
concerning our evergreen black
berries. Some authorities think
the evergreen blackberry comes
trom some seeds scattered by some
seafaring wanderer many years
ago. from Europe: and that the
same may be true ot tne uregon
pound for our oil, for all the years
of the future, compared with the
lower grades produced elsewhere
If Salem will get fully awake
to this. It will mean big things for
our growers and for this city as a
mint and a crude drug center.
Cascara Sagrada
cascara sagrada. so far our
most important crude drug plant
the bark of which is constantly
going in car lots and smaller lots
to the big crude durg supply
dealers., has so far not been culti
vated but the native supply is
running low and it will be
grown extensively in the future:
must be, for the druggists of the
world must hare a supply always
on hawd. It w now being cultivat
ed la British Columbia.
"American Medicinal Harks,
Bulletin No. 139 of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture, has the
following, among many other
things, to aay of cascara sagrada:
. "Cascara Sagrada Other com
mon names: chittem bark, sacred
bark (a translation of the Span
ish name 'cascara sagrada'). bear-berry-tree,
bearwood, etc.
"This indigenous tree occurs on
the aides and. bottoms of canyons
from the Rocky mountains to the
Pacific .-coast, extending- north in
to British Columbia. It belongs to
the buckthorn family. The collect
ing season is from the latter part
of Slay to the end of August.
"One tree furnishes approxi
mately 10 pounds of bark, and
granting a crop of 1,900,000
pounds a year, 100.000 trees are
thus annually destroyed, and the
world's consumption is siad to be
2,000.000 bounds a year.
"Cascara sagrada is a most val
uable laxative, differing from
other drugs of this character in
that it tones up the entire intesti
nal tract, making long continued
dosing or gradually Increased dos
age unnecessary."
Oregon Crape
: The following are some excerpts
from "American Boot Drugs
Bulletin No. 107 ot the C. S. De
partment of Agriculture:
"It is especially abundant in
Oregon And Northern California:
(s a low-growing shrub resembling
somewhat the familiar Christmas
holly ef the eastern states,
j "The root has long been used
in domestic practice throughout
the west as a tonic and blood
purifier, and is now officially in
the United States Pharmacopoeia.
"The berries are used In making
preserve and cooling drinks."
As all Oregonians know, the
Oregon grape is the official flower
of this state; and it has appropri
ately been so declared by legisla
tive enactment.
The Oregon Foxglove.
Some of our people put the fox-
glove as the first in importance of
ICTS TIT MINT Will TIKE
PUCE OF Oil IN LAKE L
The President of the Oregon Mint Growers Cooperative
Association Has Been Raising Mint for Ten Years, and
Will Continue, as He Does Not Know What Would
Pay Him as Well.
The following communication ' but do not wish to advise plant
and answer appeared in the Pa
ciflc Homestead of last week
that paper being the official or
gan of the Oregon Mint Growers
Cooperative association. It gives
a fair idea of the present status of
the mint industry in this district:
Editor Homestead:
I have been interested in your
articles on peppermint and would
like to get some more information
if you can give it to me. I have
about 12V acres of beaver meadow
ng mint wnere conditions m
not be right. I have been grow
ing mint 10 years and am not go
ing to quit. as 1 dcm"t know whet
would pay me as well.
It is time to plant In fac.
mint should le planted not later
than May 1 to be sure of a crop.
Mr. Prichard's inquiry in regar-1
to roots for planting: I can furn
ish some roots at $2j for enouj?a
to plant an acre, f. o. b. Albany.'
Mint planting in Linn county
is almost finished for this seasoi
Dlue fla;.
Honeset.
Burdock. ,
Calamus, or sweet flag.
Calendula, or pot mangold.
derman camomile.
Roman or English camomile.
Camphor tree.
Cannabis, or Indian hemp.
Caraway.
Cascara sagrada. In cultivation.
the trees are pruned annually, and
thus a crop of bark harvested each
year, instead of kill.ng the whole,
tree, as is done in the wild state,
which is making it necessary to
make plantings, which is now be-
uit done in British Columbia, and
will no doubt be done in Oregon;
for there is nothing "just as
good."
Castor beans.
Catnip.
Conium. or poison hemlock.
Coriander.
Dandelion.
Digitalis, or foxglove.
Dill.
Echinacea.
Elecampaine.
Kennel.
Gentian.
Ginseng.
Goldenseal.
Henbane. ,
Horehound. 1
Inaect-powiler flowers.
Larkspur.
Lavender.
Licorice,
Lobelia.
Lovate.
Mel:ssa, balm, or lemon balm.
Orris.
Parsley.
Pennyroyal.
Peppermint. (See several arti-
ties in this issue.)
Pin,k root. '
Pokeweed.
K.fflnwor A'moriran saffron, or I
false saffron.
Saffron, or true saffron.
Page.
Seneca snakeroot.
Serpentaria, or Virginia snake
root. Spearmint.
Stramonium, Jamestown weed,
! or iiiasom weed.
Tansy.
Tbyme.
' Valerian.
I Vetlver, or cuscus grass,
j Wintergn'cn.
American wormseed, or Jerusa
: 1cm oak.
Wormwood.
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OUR FARMERS
OREGON ABRiCULTURAL COLLEGE
TO POINT WAY TO
That Institution Proposes to Establish a Crude . Drug
Garden for Experimental. Purposes "Tenth of the
Expense, TwiceVthe Yield' Says Prof. Ziefle.
and wild mint grows two fret tall
on it. I am 2300 feet above sea . and I believe most of the member's
level, ahd some time we have ! of the association have about fin
light frost in June and Septem- Uhed. Mint is somewhat late
ber. Do you think it could te ; this year owing to the cold back-
ETown, at a profit on such ground? ward spring but most roots are in
What Is the best time to plant,
and do you know where I could
get some roots, and at what
price?
R. G. Prichard.
Sandpoint. Idaho, April 1, 1-'L
geod shape and I believe Oregoi.
is going to have a bi crop or mint
this year: S25.OO0 I believe is not
too high to estimate the "21 crop
at $4 per pound. Won't be hard
to divide with about 25 growers,
though a great many of them on-
ly have a few acres.
E. R. Wallace Answers I We have just reorganized our
I will give a few points in aa-! association. We w i are
.f . ., in a poa tion to accomplish even
swer to Mr. P.rtehard nui on f Iu than we haTe ia the
W'S LJ 'iS ipa't The Lake Labish country
chard has some good mint land. , v known as the fam-
frooxinir frost would OJ J- Mo san. our . ec"?'"
thnueh 9 freezine frost would n
doubt be very damaging, and
would be the same in September.
My advice would be give it a tritl
with about one-hall acre, and ii
it does well, then he would knov
what to do. Now I am not trying
to discourage Mr. Prichard. I
have always encouraged planting
mint for I believe it is the best
crop a man can grow on good land
around 50 acres of mint on me
lake and it has proved a great
success, and when the onion
growers become acquainted with
mint you will begin to wonder
what has become of the onions.
E. B. Wallace.
President Oregon Mint Growers'
Cooperative Association, Albany.
Or.
THF LIST OF THE DRUG PL
m m ana - ' -
NOT UB CULTIVATION IS L
01
DATES OF SLOGANS IN DAILY STATESMAN
(In Twice-a-Week Statesman Following Day)
Loganberries, Oct, 7.
; Pram Oct-14.
I Dairying. Oct. 21.
i Flax, Oct. it.
5 rUbtrts. Not. 4.
f Walnuts, Not. 11.
Strawberries, Not. 18.
; Appits, Not. S.
t Raspberries, Dec 2.
j Mlat, Dee. f.
'-Great cows, Dec. 1C.
" Blackberries, Dec. 21.
I Cherries, Dee. 10.
ft Pears, Jan. 6, 121.
Gooseberries and Currants, Jan.
n. .
Corn. Jan. to"
Olery, Jan. 27.
Spinach, Feb. 3.
Oalong, Feb. 19.
I Potatoes, Feb. 17.
V Bees, Feb. 24.
!, Mining, March 2.
V Coats, March 10.
'I Betas, March 17.
i Pared highways, March 24.
1 BroeeolL Marcr 31.
, aaot, April 7. .
? Lemmes, April 14.
, Aiparsgus, April 21.
L Wa.' April ait.
Drug gardes. May S.
: Sugar beets. May 12.
Sorghum, May 1.
Cabbage, May 26.
Poultry and Pet Stock. June 2.
Land. June 9.
Dehydration. June IS.
: Hops, June 23.
Wholesale and Jobbing. June
30.
Cucumbers, July T.
Hogs, July 14.
City Beautiful, flowers and
bulbs, July 21.
Schools, July 28.
Sheep. Aug. 4.
National Advertising. Aug. 11
Seeds. Aug. 18.
Livestock, Aug. 25.
Automotive Industry, Sept. 1.
Grain and Grain Products.
Sept. 8.
Manufacturing. Sept. 15.
Woodworking and other things
Sept. 22.
Taper MiH, Sept 29.
(Back copies ot Salem Slogar
editions of The Dally Oregon
Statesman are on hand. They are
for sale at 10c each, mailed tr
anv address.
(The United States Department
of Agriculture publishes a number
of bulletins on drug plants in this
country. Notably among them
are No. 107. on American Root
Drugs: No. 188 on Weeds Used
in Medicine; No. 26 on American
Medicinal Flowers, Fruits and
Seeds, and No. 139 on American
fliHat Barks. Space will per
mit only the naming ot the things
thus listed but it ts tun oi in
terest to the people oi tnis sec-
i a V
tion suggesting many unu
may prove profitable to follow
op. KOUOWing are ius
Roots.
Male-fern, couch grass, wild
turnip, skunk cabbage, sweei
flag, chamaelirium or neioui.
American hellebore, aietris, Dem-
root, wild yam. blue flag, laays
slipper, crawley root, canaaa
seroentarla. yellow
dock, pokeweed, soapwort. gold-
enseal, goldtnreaa. niaca cohosh.
Oregon grape, blue conosn, iwm-
leaf, may apple, canaaa moon
seed, bloodroot. hydrangea. In
dian physic, wild indigo, cranes
bill, seneca snakeroot, stiilingia.
wild sargaparilla. ginseng, water-
rvnro. American Angelica, yei-
low Jasmine or Jessamine, pins-
rott. American colomDO. oiaca
Indian hemp, pleurisy root, com-
IV
EBUY;
Cascara Bark
Oregon Grape Root
Oregon Balsam Fir
Write for our
Prices before
You selL
DAN J. FRY, DRUGGIST
280 N. Commercial SU Salem
oheoon's crude drugs helped
WIN THE WAR
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DFJOCICY
We Sent Foxglove From Which to Make Digitalis to
Cure Broken Hearts, and Spagnum Moss for the Use
Of the Surgeons in Dressing Wounds Many Crude
Drug Plants.
Piof. A. Ziefle. ian of the
i-choo! of pharmacy. Oregon Apri-,
cultural college, wrote The, States
man over a year ago:
' I am in position to ;tate tha
drug? can be grown atlone-tenth
I he expense and with - twice the
; ie'.d that they can beHjiH Michi
gan and Minnesota " :
Prof. Ziefle has badTco asider
abie experience in eastern states
with dms cultivation. "The prin
cipal crude drug state i now are
Michigan and Minnesota.
For a Drug Gardfti.
Prof. Ziefle has. for seWral
years been recommending that
Oregon Agricultural college es
tablish a dms garden, for experi
mental purposes to derijonstrati
to the farmers of Oreeon the feas
ibility and value of tffe crude
driiK Industry In this plate.
This should by all means ba
done, and no doubt It wilt bo "
done.
This will give records to prove
th? practicability of the different
arieties of crude drug plants'
grown on Oregon farms.
The United States fiepartment
of agriculture in its bulletins ts
constantly calling attention to the
fact that in our country ought to
be produced many of the crude
drug plants the supplies of which
have been coming from foreign
countries.
This is in line with the self
sufficiency for which our people
should constantly strive. It is not
good business to send money to
foreign countries for the things
we can produce at home and the ;
Willamette valley should take the
Had In the crude drug industry,
and our school of agrlculturo
should point the way.
Oregon crude drntrs helped win
the, war.
First, her school children gath
ered vast quantities of foxfelove.
from which to make digitalis. This
was mostly in the coa.st counties.
where the plant grows wild on
vast acres and Oregon is one of
the four states where it is native,
the others being Washington,
California and West Virginia.
School children earned as high as
$5 a day in the Toledo district.
The Labish Meadows district north
of Salem has'a great deal of the
wild foxglove, and it is easily
raised In gardens.
Second came the great quanti
ties of spagnum moss, found In
our salt bogs, which our people
shipped to France during the war,
tor surgical dressings.
frey. stonerott. Culver's root, dan
HpI ion. aueen-of-the-meadew, ele
campane, echinacea, burdock.
Weeds.
Burdock, dandelion, dock (yel
low) dock (broad leaved), dock
(yellow rooted water), couch
grass, pokeweed, foxglove, mul
lein, lobelia, tansy, gum plant,
scaly grindelia. catnip, horehound.
blessed thistle, yarrow. Canada
fleabane, jimson weed, purple
thorn apple. American wormseed.
black mustard, white mustard.
Flowers. Fruit aad Seed.
Juniper, saw palmetto, worm
seed, pokeweed. black mustard,
white mustard, raspberries, prick
ly ash. smooth sumac, American
linden, poison hemlock, Jimson
weed, mullein, elder.
Barks.
White pine, tamarack, aspen,
white willow, bayberry, butter
nut, ironwood, sweet birch, tag
elder, white oak. slippery elm,
magnolia, tulip-poplar, sassafras,
epicebush. witch hazel, blackber
ry. American mountain ash, wild
cherry, prickly ash. wafer ash.
black alder, wahoo. false bitter
sweet, horse chestnut, carcara
sagrada, cottonwood bark, dog
wood, moose wood. white . ash.
fringe tree, bittersweet, button
bush, cramp bark tree, anl black
haw.
''Some very familiar contribu
tions from the Salem district to
the crude drug trade are the fol
lowing: Yerba Buena, a vital in
gredient of liniment; licorice, a
fern like plant growing in the
moss on trees: flag, a blue flower;
dandelion, a garden pest but an
effective liver "flopover;" Oregon
grape, cascara (or chittem). these
two having been shipped out in
car lots for years; peppermint,
plantain, burdock, tansy, wild
cherry, wild blackberry, and even
the despised poison oak is listed
as a purchaseable drug by a mail
order house. These, of course.
are all wildlings. while, with little
care in every garden tn the land
there ran be produced the follow
inc medicinal herbs: Rhubarb,
tabsy, hort-.ound, catnip, ginsenp.
poppy (opium), sae, anise, cara
way, pennyroyal, chicory, rose
mary, hyssop, wormwood, rue,
flax and hops.
Jves, Perfumes and Oiomicals
Hut Oregon's contribution to
the drug trade does not end, even
with this list, for the gum from
the fir trees is being utilized, and
from the cedars, healing mud is
coming from some of its southern
springs, while there are mineral
waters galore. To the dye maker
it has given dog wood, and to the
perfumers, orris root, which Is
none other than Iris of our gar
dens, while we have been told by
leading authorities that our roses
have the requisite sweetness for
the valuable attar of roses.
But while every phase of the
dru? industry was affected by the
war shortage, photography suffer
ed a blow that has brought still
another of Oregon's resources to
the front. This time it fs the pe
culiar, warty growth on oak trees,
known as galls, occasioned by the
sting of an Insect and rich in tan
nin, some 15,000 ounces per week
being used by a leading manufac
turer of photographic supplies,
and called pyro. China had pre
viously been the source of supply
and is still the most important
one. but with picture making ad
vanced to such proportions. Ore
gon's oak forests promise unex
pected revenue.
wertiskm
Oil and Gas Syndicate
Will Do Business Here
The Equitable Oil & Gas syndi
cate, an Idaho concern capitalized
at $200,000 has been granted a
permit by the state corporation
department to Operate in Oregon.
S. T. Comer of Portland is named
as attorney-in-fact for Oregon.
The following articles of incor
poration have been tiled:
Portland Construction company.
Portland; incorporators. H. M.
Kancher. A. R. McLean. R. M. Mc
Calley; capitalization, $25,000.
Apostolic Lutheran Congrega
tion of West Astoria; incorpora
tors, Henry Reinikka, John Sev
erson, E. O. Erlckson; property
valuat on. $750.
on the amount by the state. The
two state officials are also mem
ber of the Irrigation securities
commission.
UNDER
DRUG PLANTS
AS LISTED BY
CULTIVATION
UNCLE
SAilEL
Slide Irrigation Region
Is Under Investigation
Perry A. Copper, state engi
neer, and F. C. Bramwell. state
superintendent of hanks, have
Koiie to Weiser, Idaho, where tbey
will Investigate the Slide irriga
tion district, which operates in
I finrnn Tlie reason for the in-
qoirv is that the district has ap
plied for certification of $95,000
bonds and guarantee of Interest
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STANDARD Oil COMPANY
There is ? New Bulletin, Issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture, Which Gives Directions
Concerning the Growing, Harvesting and Treatment
Of the Plants Needed in the Crude Drug Trade,
Which May be Grown and Supplied by Our Farmers.
(The United State. Department drugs, and prices in
ua v -
ot Agriculture, in August 01 last , M ew bulletin.
vear. revised its Farmers' Bulletin j Following is a list of drug
"3 which was issued five years : plants, made up in this bulletin
2?asss2-DrBi PUnu un-;ieitrar
"Infirest in the possibility of ; Ml to persons who are considering
derSnV'rom from he.grow j the prodon o drug pUjta on
. .nti fa inrreasina yci-
ui ume " -
" - , - -Li j . ..t,in. Kiit a hare
lv" savs this dui etm. 11 iaeu- .v,. , --- ; .
iy, s . ,, , . mant-nn nf the olants.) Following
tlons the tact mat anuuuy u-"
sums ot money are expenaea tor .
crude drugs Imported from for- Aletrls. sUr-grass
eign countries where they are , corn root
produced unaer conu.nuu. u ACOnite.
or true uni-'
and climate resembling those
.... t . W T"ntArt
many localities in m -States;
and increased attention Is
being directed to the home supply.
"At the close ot the year 1919
there existed a general and wide
spread shortage tn botanical crude
Althaea, or marshmallow.
Angelica.
Anise.
Arnica.
Belladonna, or deadly nightshade.
MARUNY'S
Plant House
Plants For
Spring Planting
Tomatoes, 3 varieties
Zinnia all colors Asters
Marigold French and
African Geranium . all
colors Petunia Pink and
purple Salvia Salpi
glossis Scabiosa Ver
bena all colors Phlox
annual Marguerite Japs
Porch boxes, Jap kegs
fend hanging baskets
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