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T1IE OURGON -STATESMAN. 8ALIEM, OftEGOff ' TimRSDAY MORNING, M . The Great Salem Fruit District Should Grow Sugar Beets and Establish a Maintain a Beet-Sugar Factory, and This Can Be Done WithJGood: Returns :, - " nd 1 II E SUPPLY OF fffi BEETS GROWN IN THE Prof. Hyslop of the Oregon Agricultural College Said Over the Phone Yesterday Afternoon That This Has , Been Successfully Done Here in the Willamette Val ley, and The Statesman is Promised Data on the Matter for Future Issues. - t im fc1AiIk " Fanners' Bulletin 823 of the i .. . ci.tui nensrtmpnl nf A r-! VBiiea Dl ' ' rteoltare tell how to grow sugar beets from the garden and de Kribes a simple process of mak ing from them a ia:atable and nutritious Utle syrup with a pleasant flavor. The Salem slogan editor has at tempted, in the past week, to llnd ome one ho has done this suc eewfully In the Salem district. A letter to the Oregon Agricultural Culled fained no response; pro- Ublr weal astray. go, yesterday afternoon, the Sa le slogan editor phoned to O. R. Hyslop profesHOr of farm croi-s it that institution. Prof. Hyslop Mid over the phone that there tTt been some successful experi ments hr Willamette' valley peo pl in the making of beet syrup. Ha said be would make Inquir ies sad get data at once; so that is the Salem slogan issue of next week or the week following mors Uaely the Utter there will be something more along this line. -. : The Statesman will be glad to set any Information on this sub ject from any reader from any soiree. lit is Important ' If .our people can make their ova iyrap at home from tugar beets grown In their gardens, they ibould do so, by all means. It ihonld be done generally. It will lead to' the building here of a beet sugar factory, perhapssoon er than such an enterprise could be secured otherwise. ' Aayvay. the sugar beets should be planted, for there can be ho loa. si turar beets are as food forknman food and stock feed as any other variety 01 peeis. U - . -s - mreular 101 of Oregon Agrl ealtsral college, on "The Prepa ration of " Syrup from ; Sugar TtMts.w.lnr R. H. Robinson, assist sat chemist, referred to the above mentioned U. S. Department or At rknlture . Farmers' . Bulletin 82J. is In part as follows: ) T1i nrinaratlon of syrttO frOPt Tiff ht rrovn In the state of Oregon has In the. past been unsuccessful, due to the fact that tbe produet obtained had av strong beety flavor which maue n sUble and unfit for table use. These attempts." however, have been made by various individuals 11 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ' OiJ SUGAR BEET GROWING HERE I. Our Farmers Need Such a Crop to Keep up the Fertility I Of the Soil, and Sugar Beets Fit into a Proper Ro I tation Very Well, and, With Factories to Furnish a Market, Would Be Profitable for Our Growers. ? (Following Is Circular 23. be ing the regular bulletin on sugar Beet growing in Oregon by the Oregon Agricultural college, the lutnor being O. R. Hyslop. profes sor of ;farm' crops, and the date being April of last year:) f Sugar is one of our Important articles of diet. According to sta tistics of 1810, the average per capita consuuTtion In tbe United States was 79.9 pounda. From in terior roots having 2 to 4 per ent sugar with a low coefficient of parity tbey have been develpp ed to as high as 25 per cent of sugar with a coefficient of purity above 80 per cent. Comparative world total pro duction of beet sugar and cane agar in metric tons is as follows: la 1830 beet 50.000 cane 1,100. 000; In 110, beet 8.503,970, cane 8.(68.814. Germany. Russia. Austria Hungary, France and the United States are leading produc- DATES OF SLOGANS IN (In Twjce-a-Week Statesman Following Day) loganberries, Oct. 7. Prunes, Oct. 14. Dairying, Oct, 21. flax, Oct. 28. Filberts, Nov. 4. Walnuts, Nov. 11. Strawberries. Nov. 18. Apples, Nov. 5. Raspberries, Dec. 2. Mint, Dec. 9. Great cows, Dee. 18. Blackberries, Dec. 23. Cherries, Dec. 30. Pears. Jan. 6. 1921. Gooseberries and Currants, Jan. 13j Corn. Jan. 20. Celery, Jan. 27. Spinach, Feb. 3. Onions, Feb. NK Potatoes. Feb. 17. Bees. Feb. 24. Mining, March 3. Goats, March 10. Beans, March 17. Paved highways, March 24. Broccoli, Marcr 31. Silos. April 7. Legumes, April 14. . Asparagus, April 21. Grapes, April 28. . u StTIUP en throughout the state of OregoF In which tha Uni .liui. in which the sugar beet was sliced or ground and extraction of sugar made by boiling lv water. Up un til the present time no experimen tal attempt has been made in Ore gon to prepare the syrup free from this beety, acid flavor. Owing to the great neec. caused by the recent World war. of util llzng all available foodstuffs, the bureau of chemistry and plant in dustry, co-operating, has devised a method of obtaining the Eugar by extraction of the sugar beet and favorable results are publish ed in Farmers' Bulletin 82 J- U. S. Department of Agriculture. Summarizing brle-Ty, this bul letin states that the sugar beet may be grown in any locality which has tillable soil that Is cap able of producing a good crop ot vegetables. A small piece ot ground Is sufficient for planting a few rows of beets and a success ful crop may be obtained by even tbe most amateur gardener. All sugar beets, if properly handled, will produce syrup. After the sugar teet has grown to maturity, the method of ex tracting the syrup Is as follows: The first step consists of topping and cleaning the sugar beets. Es pecial care should be taken that all soil and foreign material should be removed from the "beets by scrubbing them well. The crowns are then cat off at 'se point beneath the lowest leaf -scar. This Is very important and the reason for so doing Is that tbe crown or upper part of the beet contains a larg? part of tile salts taken from the soil In the process of growth which, i! not entirely removed, will Impart to the syrup the strong beety flavor. The beets are then sliced very thin and allowed to aoak in hot water for several hours., maintain ing the temperature at near bon ing as possible. The water is then drained off tho beet slices and boiled until the syrup is or a desired thickness. While tne boiling is progressing, a scum will rise on the surface of the liquid: this scum should be -carefully re moved by means of a skimmer as it also contains some ot the sub stances that Impart that strong beet flavor. The syrup thus ob tained should be a wholesome and palatable product, fit for table use. ers of beet sugar in tbe order mentioned. Here in this section, we have for a long time needed some cul tivated crop in order to give the benetlta derived from inter tillage on the lands which have been producing little but cereals and certain types of hay. Suc cessful beet sugar culture means tillage and that the crops must be rotated, because sugar beets grown alone rapidly decline in yield, while on the other hand various crops grown in a rotation with sugar beets are usually greatly benefitted by the care- fut culture wmcu mu, uu a paying crop of beets. The.16 that tbe land is carefully hoed and cultivated throughout the summer, that it Is occupied by very deep rooted plant, and that the soli Is deeply stirred in the DAILY STATESMAN nmr garden. May 5 Sugar beets. May 12. Sorghum, May 19. Cabbage, May 26. Poultry and Pet Stock. June 2. Land. June 9. Dehydration. June 18. Hops. June 23. Wholesale and Jobbing. June 30. Cucumbers, July 7. Hogs, July 14. otv Beautiful, flowers and bulbs. July 21. Schools. July 28. ok a ati A nr. 4. National Advertising, Aug. 11. Seeds. Aug. 18. Livestock. Aug. 25. Automotive Industry, Sept. l. Grain and Grain Products, Sept 8. Manufacturing. ?.. Woodworking and other things, Sept. 22. Paper Mill. Sept, 29. IBack copies of Salem Slogan editions of The Dally Oregon Statesman are on.bspd-Tbef for sale at 10c each, mallei to any address.) fall in harvesting the beets makes the crop a particularly desirable one to includein a rotation. Sugar beets fit into rotation very well. Systems may be used, usually consisting of sugar beets one year, followed by fall-sown cereal, such as wheat, oats or barley on which clover is seeded in February. The clover may be left one or. in some cases, two years and then be plowed up and the field again put into sugar beets. We need, in the Willam ette valley, cultivated crops for our rotations; yet there are but few cultivated crops that can be grown on an extensive basis that will yield cash and give desirable results. We have a few crops which are ordinarily cultivatd and these include corn, kale, man gels and potatoes. There is only a limited use for each of these as cash products, with the possi ble exception of the potatoes. It is, therefore, desirable to Intro duce some deep-rooted root crop capable of improving tbe physical condition of the soil and at the same time giving a valuable cash return. About the best crop that presents itself under these cir cumstances is the sugar beet. As a plant, it is adapted to rather warm, sunny sections that are well supplied with moisture. It has long been known that the success of sugar beet culture de pends to a considerable extent upon the sunlight of the locality and it is therefore usually not a good plan to attempt to grow beets In sections where there is a large amount of summer cloudi ness. It has also been stated that sugar beets are great removers of soil fertility, and it is true that considerable amounts of nitrogen and potash are taken away but, if on the other hand, the sugar beet pulp is brought back from the factory and fed to the stock there Is practically none of this fertility which escapes. Also, if sugar beets are grown in a good rotation with clover, it is very likely that the fertility conditions of the soil will Improve rather than ran down as a result of the culture of this cropt The other and most desirable feature of the sugar beet crop, aside from its being a cultivated one. is that it means a coniderable cash return for each acre In beets if (hat acre Is properly handled. The- yield of beets varies from ten tons per acre up to, in some cases as much as 16 to 20 or more tons, when grown under very favorable con ditions and if yields of 12 tons or better are secured, there Is money In the culture of sugar beets. On tbe other band, there are certain obstacles to overcome and certain factors which may appear to be disadvantageous to this In dustry. In the first place, it re quires a considerable amount of capital to build and to operate the factory and to provide work ing capital for growers of the sug ar beets. This large amount of capital is in active use only for a relatively short season as the sug ar making campaign does not nor mally extend over from ninety to one hundred and twenty days. However, numerous factories at places where beets are produced successfully, have amply demon strated that the investment Is a paying one so the principal ob stacle to be overcome Is that of securing a sufficient acreage of beets for a long enough period of time that the plant may be as sured of raw material on which to work. The difficnlty is to secure enough farmers Interested in tbe culture of beets on a small scale who will bring up the total acre age to about 5000 or more acres for the factory. It Is not advis able to have a few with extremely large acreages for the reason that the crop is one with which most farmers are not familiar and one who has had no experience with the crop is in great danger of fail ure if a large acreage is under taken. Five to ten acres the first year is enough while one is gain ing experience. After having learned the ins and outs of sugar beet culture the large acreages may be safely tried. The crop is an intensive one re quiring a considerable amount of careful hand labor and this is a type of work which many grain and hay growers are not accus tomed to. It will mean tne se curing of a considerable amount of transient labor for such periods as the thinning and hoeing and the digging and topping of the beets. In order to grow the crop successfully and without friction and labor troubles, it is necessary to have a considerable amount of working capital so that help may be paid off promptly. It probably costs from $60 to $90 per acre to produce the beets and a good deal of this must be paid out for thinning and hoeing and the harvest time for the crop. Our climatic conditions in gen eral are very fevorable for the cul ture of sugar beets In that we may get them seeded rather early and we have excellent growing conditions for them during the summer. It Is true that our long, dry periods on the unlrrigated soils will limit to some extent the yield of beets unless very good cultural methods are practiced. unK.r m the fall. It will be nec essary to get tbe beets dug mod erately early In order to aroia se rious second growth. The fall ra'lns which come on are likely to atart the second growth of the beets which will lower their sugar content and if this is carried on to too great an extent It will make them less valuable for manufac turlng purposes. However, it will be distinctly to the advantage of the farmer, as well as the manu facturer, to have the beets dug reasonably early. Our season y the middle of September la cool enough that tbe beets will keep very satisfactorily and If we leave them in tbe ground until it gets muddy, it will add materially to the cost of harvest. Under or dinary conditions, the beets should be harvested by the first to tbe middle of October not only from tbe standpoint of avoiding serious second growth but also to avoid the expensive digging in the mud. As far as climate and soil condi tions are concerned, I believe var ious parts of Eastern Oregon, the Willamette valley and the South ern Oregon section will success fully produce them, provided prop er cultural methods are used. The preparation ot the soil for sugar beets should, if possible, in clude the turning under of a clo ver sod which has previously been well manured. It is tbe desire of the sugar beet grower to produce a large number ot the medium sized beets and in order to do this it is necessary to have a rich soil. The clover sod should be plowed under in tbe fall or early in the spring and then a good, heavy ap plication of barnyard manure may be applied at the same time. If you are in the section where there is some necessity for re-plowing, the application of the barnyard manure should be made in the spring and be plowed under later. The sugar beet crop responds very well to a good, rich soil and this allows a considerably heavier stand of plants. Ordinarily, the seed that is supplied should be passed over a grader which will sort out the exceedingly large and small seeds and which gives a small, medium, and large sise of seed. It Is always a good plan to screen out the exceedingly large seeds because they frequently clog op the drill. Also, by eliminating these large seeds. It is possible to so regulate the drill that it sows more nearly the number that are desired. Usually fifteen pounds per acre of common, ungraded seed are used. Fifteen pounds per acre of the large seed and about ten pounds per acre of. the medium seed and about eight pounds per acre of the very small seed will provide an ample stand if the seed is good and thus grad ed seed will save several pounds of seed per acre The land must be s?t har rowed and should be carefully leveled up by going over it with a float before the seeding ot the beets. The sugar beets are ordin arily sown early but not so early as to be caught by cool, wet grow ing season in the spring. Sugar beeta are usually sown in rows from sixteen to thirty inches apart, although the common dis tance apart is about twenty-one to twenty-two inches. The seeding should take place as soon as the ground warms up well but should not be while the land is still cold and wet nor should the seeding be delayed until the dry season Is ad vanced. Usually, the seeding in various parts of the southern and western Oregon sections should take place from the first of April up to about tbe tenth of May. When the fourth leaf appears. workmen with hoes pass along tbe rows and cut strips of beets as long as the width of their hoes from the rows and leave the s.'n gle plants of beets where possible or blocks of beets sometimes as much as two inches In length, then cut out another strip and so on. This leaves the single beets or blocks of beets at intervals of about ten to fourteen inches and usually small boys or girls, work ing on their hands and knees as tride the rows, pull all but the strongest beet. This leaves the thinned beet in the row at about ten to fourteen inches apart. Great care must be taken to avoid palling all ot the block ot beets and also to be sure that the entire beeta are removed by the pulling process. If the tops only are re moved, the roots will again sprout up and thinning will not have been accomplished. The thinning must be done before the beets get large as the cost of thinning after the fourth leaf has appeared' very rapidly increases with the devel opment ot the roots. Immediately after thinning, the land should be carefully cultivat ed, using a fine tooth type of cul tivator which will stir up the soil without covering tbe beets. In many instances. It is necessary to use fenders to prevent the soil covering up the small plants. From this time on, as frequently as necessary to maintain a good mulch, and to keep the weeds in check, a cultivation should be given until the leaves get so large that tbe cultivator and tbe tramp ing of the horses will break them off. As the season advances, there will be some weeds between the rows which cannot be gotten by the cultivator and these will ne cessitate more or less hand hoe ing. Late in the fall, experts from the sugar factory examine the beets and determine their sugar content in order to find out if they may be profitably manufac tured. Whenever the content of the beet reaches that point that profitable manufacture may take place, notification is given the farmer to begin digging. Tbe beets are lifted by a beet digging machine and are usually packed up and thrown into piles where they may be topped by band. The beet is grasped in one band and tbe top is cut off at the lower edge of the leaf scars, by means of a short, rather heavy knife. Tbey are then thrown in-piles on pieces of ground that have been raked smooth and free from trash. The beet tops are usually piled up also to that tbey may be available for feeding purposes. Beet forks are used to scoop the topped roots off the ground into wagons and they are then hauled to the dump or to the factory. At tbe loading station or at the factory, the beets are examined PRESIDENT BELL BROCCOLI T1 HAS MESSAGE He Tells the Members That Get Out Their Seed and Care Properly for it A To Talk About Setting Editor Statesman: A 8 tbe time is now at hand for sowing broccoli seed, too much care caan6t be taken in the planting and care of this delicious vegetable. I have disco verd many vital points of the culture and value ot broccoli, and It is ail free for the asking, and surely the editor of The Statesman is deserving of much credit for the way he has handled the business through his paper. Now It is up to every member of the Salem Broccoli association to make good. It you haven't called on Secre tary V. J. Lehman, 267 South Church street. Salem, for your seed, do so at once, as I would advise all seed to! be sown before May 20. t Care should be taken to have the ground raked fine, and it should be firm but not packed. Care should be taken in selecting a place to plant your seed that chickens or any stock cannot pos sibly get at your seed bed. Also, in case you wanted to plant in or near the field where you in tend to transplant, scarecrows should be put up to keep the Chinese pheasants away, for they will clean your young plants be fore you are up In the morning. Also, where seed is planted away from the bouse, you will have to combat against tbe rabbit, which is also a great lover of broccoli. Now it is up to each and every as to topping and for the amount of dirt. Usually a sample is tak en and retopped, if that is neces sary, and the dirt scraped off and weighed. This gives the dirt and topping tare which is applied to the load as a .whole and that amount is deducted. - Beets are usually paid for on the sliding scale or by the flat rate. In the case of the flat rate, a definite sum is paid for each ton of beets regardless of their sugar content, provided they are THE HISTORY OF SUGAR AND SUGAR AND SYRUP III GENERAL BRIEFLY TOLD Sugars and Syrups As We Know Them Now Are Com paratively New, and the First Beet Sugar Factory Was Built in France in 1801; But There Are Many Kinds of Sugars. Sugars and syrups as we know them are comparatively new. Beet sugar is newer than potatoes, and cane sugar only a little older, to the people of Europe and America. Sugar from the sugar cane was probably known in China 2000 years before It was, used in Eu rope. When merchants began to trade in the Indies, sugar, like spices, perfumes and other rare and costly merchandise, was brought to the western countries of Europe, ans for a long time it was used exclusclvely in the prep aration of medicines. An old say ing to express the lack of some, thing very essentia was ' Like an apothecary without sugar." Sev eral centuries before the Chris tian era Greek physicians knew of sugar under the name of "Indian salt." It was also called "honey made from reeds." and was said to be "like gum, white and brit tle." But not until the middle ages did Europeans have any clear idea of its origin. It was con. founded with manna or was thought to exude from the stem of a plant, where it dried Into a kind of gum. When in the fourteenth of fifteenth century the sugar cane from India was cultivated in northern Africa, the use of sugar greatly increased, and as its cul ture was extended to the newly discovered Canary Islands and later to the West Indies and Bra zil, It became a common article of food among the well to do. By many the new food was still re garded with suspicion. It was said to be very heating, to be bad for the lungs, and even to cause ap poplexy. Honey was thought to be more wholesome, because more natural than the "products of forced invention." The sugar industry in what is now the United States dates from 1751. But the sugar consumed In this and other countries up to 1850 was nearly all derived from sugar cane. At the present time half the sugar crop ot the world Is ob. tained from the sugar beet. It would once have seemed In credible that the kitchen garden should furnish a rival for the "noble plant" that had made tbe fortunes of Spanish and English colonies, but tbe cultivation of the beet for sugar has in one genera tion shifted tbe center of the gi gantic sugar industry from the tropics to tbe temperate zone. This growth has been fostered by strange vicissitudes in tbe for tunes of nations, such as the com. mercial embargoes and sugar bounties of the Xapoleonia wars, OF 1 SALEM it is Now Up to Them to to Make Every Effort to Meeting to Be Called Later member to do his best on the growing of plants. I wilt call a general meeting later, when I hope every member will be present, and will have a representative of Swift & Co. to talk fertilizer, and there will be a demonstration of plant Betting. The date of the meeting will be eet later. C. C. RUSSELL, President Salem Broccoli Associ ation. Gervais, Or.. Rt. 2. phone 3F3. (Secretary Lehman has some extra seed yet on hand, which will be supplied, as long as it lasts. to men who will plant it. There is not a great deal of this extra seed; and it would be well for any reader who has not yet en rolled, and who intends to get into the great broccoli Industry tbls year, to go at once and get bis supply. The writer believes that there will not be an ounce of Valentine broccoli seed left in Oregon, or available in time for this year, after the end of the present month. There is not going to be anything like an overproduction this year; for the last ounce of seed to be had. planted and germinated and ma tured Into broccoli, will not make enough to begin to supply the demand. What may bappen next ?;ear, or In the years after tbat, s another matter; but there is a market for 5000 cars, against tbe 75 to 100 cars marketed In Oregon in February and March of this year. Ed.) above the medium of 12 per cent. On the other hand, with the slid ing scale, tbe amount paid for the beets is proportional to the amount of sugar which they con tain, although beets having less than 12 per cent sugar are rarely used for manufacturing purposes. There are many advantages to tbe sale of beets on the sliding scale basis. In proper hands, there is money in the eulture of the inten sive cultivated crop of sugar beets. and the aeolitlon of slavery In the British colonies. The real creators of the new in dustry, however, were men of sci entific training who solved certain botanical and chemical problems. In 1747 Marggraf, a chemist of Berlin, discovered that beets and other fleshy roots contain a crys talllzable sugar IDENTICAL with that of the sugar cane. In 1799 the subject was brought before the French Academy, and in 1801 the first manufactory for beet sugar was created. A new stimulus was given by the sugar bounties of Napolieon in 1806, and methods improved rapidly, especially in France. There were two great difficulties; the small percentage of sugar Irf the beet (5 per cent), and tbe difficulty of separating it from many other constituents, some of them acrid and having a very un pleasant flavor. In 1836 it took 18 tons of beets to produce one ton ot sugar. Now 12 per cent beets are considered necessary for profitable manufac. ture, and the Oregon Agricultural College bulletin quoted in this is sue says the sugar content runs up to 25 per cent. The term "sugar," as used in this article without qualification. means tne ordinary sugar of com merce, the chemical name of which is sucrose. But there are many kinds of sugars and syrups. Milk contains 4 to 5 per cent of an Important sugar milk su gar or lactose. Honey is a natural sugar the most ancient used as human food. Sinco early times the Japanese have made a sort of sugar, called ame, from sweet potatoes, gluti nous millet or elutinonn ri- .nH other products, by converting the Biarcn tney contain Into maltose, by the, action of an unorganized ferment called diatase; malt or sprouted barley being generally used to furnish the ferment. Then there are malt sugars and syrups In this country; called "malted." "predigested," etc. There is also glycogen, or ani. mal sugar, found in small amounts in muscular tissue, and more abundantly In the liver. Saccharin, sweeter than sugar, is not sugar at all. but a benzene compound; commonly prescribed In cases of diabetes to satisfy the natural craving for sweets. The glucose products are about half as sweet as sugar. Then there Is maple syrup and surar: and It fa mai f mm sap ot tbe butternut and birch and many other trees, as well as from the sugar maple trees. Then there are tbe dextrose or grupe sugars; many kinds, and ex isting in and extracted from many kinds of fruits, but of late made mostly from grapes; and made in many forms, as sugars and syr ups. There is some sugar or syrup in nearly all fruits and flowers; and in nearly all the sweet vegetables; even turnips. Near Harrisburg, Linn county, Oregon, there is a colony of Rus sian Mennonites who make the sugar and syrup for their own use from carrots. HUSBAND AXI) WIFE BOTH SICK Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Comer, Shenandoah, Va . were both ill. He writes: "Rheumatism and bladder trouble was our trouble. My wife had rheumatism in her arms so she could not use them. She has bad no trouble since tak ing Foley Kidney Pills. I don't have to get' up at night so much since taking Foley Kidney Hills, nor have I a weak back." Back ache, sore, swollen or stiff mus cles or joints, tired languid feel ing yield quickly to - Foley Kid ney Pills. Sold everywhere. Adv. L SITE IS National Commander of For eign War Veterans Sur veys Cemetery Following the convention for the. establishment of a state' de partment of the Veterans of For eign Wars, at Portland Monday, Captain Robert Q. Uoodside, na tional commander-in-chief, wuh his staff and guests, inspected the Mount Scott cemetery donated for a soldiers' memorial. The groonds comprise five ac res valued at $150,000, and the state of Oregon at tbe last legis lature appropriated $15,000 for putting the place In shape for a fitting memorial. Tbe city of Portland guarantees their ade quate maintenance on a scale com mensurate with the great service THE MAN WHO HIS THE difference and the home MM saving ability. L ' . Practically every real estate purchase entails a considerable payment d6wn. Systematic saving enables almost any one to assume and meet such ark obli gation. . . Do YOU want a home? A savings ac count at the United States National Bank will make it possible. . 1AIXM Summer Excursion Rates ; To Eastern Points Through CANADIAN PACIFIC RQCKIES Tickets on sale June 1st to August 15th inclusive. Limit three; months from date of sale, with final return limit October 31st. For full particu lars write, telephone, or call at office. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY E. E. Penn, General Agent, Passenger Department,? 55 Third St., Portland, Oregon V23 rendered by the nation's defend ers. Work was begun Tuesday morning in fitting the cemetery for use. A banquet was served at the Hotel Benson to about 150 mem bers and delegates, at which Col. , George A. White, adjutant general of Oregon, and Col. Carle Abrams, -both of Salem, were speakeri. Bolton Hamble, H. O. Miller and G. F. Hagemann, commander ot the Salem post, were also dele gates and visitors from Salem. Lumber Industry al Baker on Increase BAKER, Or.. April 9. -Lumbering In the vicinity of Baker In eastern Oregon la on the increase and local mills are rapidly em ploying crews to operate at full -capacity. Two of the largest mills here are now operating, a third Is expected to open soon and another is said to be contemplat ing starting operations again on full scale. ' ' Eastman Kodaks and Supplies We have just added thii Jine of world renowned , kodaks and supplies to our stock. . Bring Your Films , ;. to Us J .All developing and print ing work absolutely guaranteed. . : : . K- Commercial book h STORE; 16S N. ComT St., Salem--PJiona -II - 1 SAVES MAY OWN HOME V between the renter ; - owner, is largelyin "r . ty i i. ! 7. it 14 1 1 V " l A I r