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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1921)
1HUUSDAY MOilNLWi.-JULY 7, 1021 The Salem District Ought to Be a Cucumber Center, - d' Every Eed Bloode C; I Mah; Woman "Siiel Child Should Unite in Supporting the Salem Commercial CltiM 4 - r I 4 ! $ i V. IS. ( I f i IKE SALEM COMMERCIAL CLUB; SUPPORTED ABOUT I HALF AS WELL AS THE (IK Ff CIHS AWAY f ; ABOVE THE AVERAGE IN REAL COMMUNITY SERVICE '''' 1 ' ... nmmmi '1 7 ,'-.J;.' - "' ... '.. , - t Has the Facts and Figures to Show That Salem Is an Honest Man's Town; Has Its Possibilities JCharted, So That Men Coming Here to Invest and Engage in Any Branch of Endeavor Do Not Have to Guess We Have 256 Firms Doing Business, 98 of Them Manufacturers, and We Have a Payroll .of About Five Millions Annually, the Best Per Capita Showing of Any Oregon City 229 Meetingsin Five Months Everybody is Interested, and All Should Help in Support." ' . . r;kc-. . i ' f; "How in the world D'ye find that out?" "She-told-me bo!" That'll the song that the young man sings, from. His head, from his heart, from fingertips and toe- ttps and rrom every atom or "nia being. "She" told him sd; and he's got j the, figures to prove it? She's all the world to him, and hp couldn't; live without her. . i Salem ha gome figures that are 'jo." and It took some kind of rea divinity to find them all out. Maybe Salem could live without them, or without the divinity that gathers them; but Salem would If, a pretty hard liver' if they were tjiken away! Mftny facts are so, Jmly because there,, was a some thing that Bet Saleiri 'properly be fore r' the -.In vesting; world, and.lnr duced the facts to settle here and and make this jthejr home. . . t ': For instance: X'.-' . I .snm has '256, firms doing business; 8 of -them real manu facturers, (employing up to several hundred hands apiece.., The mau n'acturing payroll laBt year, was $1,8 C$.776 70; r the state payroll was $876,800, total of $2,837. RY6 70. The re tail business1 paid lb wares. 12.130.620.60; a tdtal wage payment of $4.C8,202 v almost $5,000,000' In wages.' -: On the basis of the assumed present .population It made a wage payment of $248.40 per cap ita for everyOiie lit Salem, or 41242 for vry average family ot' i pirwuB, luuii ms - Jrnta and - three children or .twq children and-one,, grandparent m pveryamlly. Jt ls the best per-i capita wage payment of any city 'In Oregon. 'rl;i t'1 . : f What's It worth to know these things? ; WVll, it means that man ufacturers tor the first time in their history, really know the In dustrial conditions of. Salem; what there is fa the way of labor, what the wages are, what are the living conditions, when ' the seasonal Jobs begin, bow r many, employes -they "requireV 'what will be the : chances for newcomers In this I field? t ' " " An Honest ifan's Town. '. ; One man wanted, to establish a factory wherein he would Invest a considerable amount of capital. . But he was going It blind; he didn't know" that because of cef tain conditions of labor, and sup ply, and transportation, the cards were stacked against him, and that he'd broke and have to walk out of town or die here of disappointment The figures paved him his money, and the city a des perate failure that would have brought ; ten times as much de pression and loss as all the money i&e might -have been allowed to squander. He . isn't yet.a:big Sa-. Jem manufacturer but he's one of the hottest converts to the Sa rlemlan that ever was. He will invest, some day; meantime, ho jMings. the praises of. Salem as an Oionest man'a town. I Pon't Have to Guess. ' ;.! Hut most Voi them; seeing the cards on the tajble, face up, have picked their hands and plunged to the limit; they opnld ee what was here, and they didn't have to guess timorous way: for a few years ; before they got i their bearings, -they say that th getting of these .figures is the best Investment a ;;ity ever inad4; .That makes it unanimous bdthl the man who los not Invest, and the man who i.does, say exactly the same thing. Salem Ik Chartered '; Well the fCommercial club gathered the statistics, tabulated I tbem, sorted them, analyzed them and made them ready for the in? 'quiring Investor. There is no city I In the west, better charted as to Its Industrial capabilities, better prepared to show- hard-headed Hlg Business why they Bhould DATES OF SLOGANS IN DAILY STATESMAN (In Twicer-Week Statesman Folio vTlaj iky) Loganberries, Oct 7. Prunes. Oct. 14. Dairying. Oct. 21. ! . Flaa, Oct. Zf . Filberti, Not. 1. Walnuts. Nov. 11. -' Strawberries, Nov. 18. Apples, Nor; i&'.V' ' Raspberrios. Dec.' 1.' ' . Mint, Dec. 9. i Great cows. Dee. 16. v . : . Blackberries, Dec. 21. 1 j.' Cherries, : Dec. 30.. , Pears Jan. 6, 1921. - Gooseberries and Corranta, Jan. 13. : it Com. Jan. 20.' , Olery, Jan. 27. S Spinach, Feb. S. , . -Onions, Feb. . 10. ' Potatoes. Feb. 17. ; Bees Feb, 24. Mining, March I. . Goats, March 10. f; ' Beans, March 17. , Paved highways. Marco 24. Broccoli, Marcr 31. SIloa, April 7. . ! I Asparagus, April 21. i Grapes, April J. , . . . KJf come In here. They're sbeen com ing, too, haven't they? Consider the Salem of three or four yearn ago, and see If they lhaven't fair ly flocked in? Audi every man- jack of them has gone to the Com mercial club for its industrial in formation that was rvltal in es tablishing a business! Foiyr Bits Per Capita. Now it is to laugh at the com parative cost of doing commert clal club work in Salem, and In other western cities of approxi mately the same orof less popu lation. '"'!''' Yreka, California, its spending $3.03 per 'capita: Santa Rosa, $2.81; Reno. $2.73; Boise, $2.11; Missoula, $1.47, J :l , Salem is spepding only font bits per capita on Commercial club work! Hi " I Klamath Falls Is speeding $28, 000 for Commercial cltib advertis ing, i r- i v The -average of 61 cities, be tween 8000 and 30,000 ipopnla- tion is 98 cents per capita. Sa lem la just a shade above one half as much as "normal. i Boise, a city of very nearly the same population, much the same Industries state capital, saw mills, dairying, wholesaling spends $2.11 per capita for com mercial club. Thf y have one of the most notable organizations of the kind in the northwest; they ,t J! worth paying forthough they haven't as good industrial survey of their city and com muntty resources as Salem has. Hut the commercial club is one of the, city's, best investments.! 220 ileWings in Five Months: - Some idea of the incidental ac tivities of the Salem Commercial club miay be gathered from 'the list of 'conventions, and meetings hold" In tpe Club rooms between the first of January iand the first Of June, 1921. In 1 January, ?7 meetings of a public nature were held; In February, 42; March hid 4 1, April 41, and 3fay'36. a total of 229 in five months. With an average' hall cost ofj $15, which is a low minimum for an outside hall, these conventions would have cost in rentals $3435. But many of these had the services of a caterer, and $2dfr0 would be a beggarly price to j pay for; his services And 'the use of the prop erties; and some of the organiza tions had the place tor more than one cession. The mere hall ren tal and aervice for these public gatherings, in five months would come close to paying every dol lar that Salem has paid for the whole club activities for a full year. j I : '..Eyerybody Interested f Everybody In Salem, has been vitally interested in some one r many of these public meetings that have been Commercial cluo charities. The list is worth read- in; of the following organiaa tions tnaf Tiate been 4'at home" in the Commercial club hall Regular meetings: 1 Aloha (Bachelor) club. Automobile association. Baby clinic. " , L , Broccoli growers, f Boy Scouts council. Boy Scout leaders. Boy Scout masters. Business Men's league. Cherrians. I Commercial club members. Creamery association. County federation. County road committee. County Y. M. C. A. County Telephone association Fancier and Breeders' assoc tion. "- I 1 i Flax Growers' association. ; Floral society." f , Fruit growers. ; j Grocerymen's association. . Drug garden; May-6. Sugar beets. May 1 12. Sorghum, .May Cabbake. May 26. r Poultry and Pet Stock, June 2. Land, June 9. f I Dehydration. June 16. Hops. June 23. S 'Wholesale and Jobbing, June Cucumbers,1 July t. Hoes. July 14. I City Beautiful, flowers and bulbs. Jaly i l. --v-Schools. July 28. - ' Sheep, Aug. 4. f - J.-v . National Advertising, Aug. Seeds. Abe. 18.4 1 Livestock, Aug2$. i Automotive Industry, Sept. i.. Grain j. and a Grain Products. Sept. 8. Manufacturing, Sept. 15. Woodworking and other things. Sept. 22. . Paper Mill. Sept 29: : (Back copies ' of Salem Slogan editions of The Dally Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are I for sale at lOo eaiS. mailed ! to J any adoiesi. V A n ifi. Hemp growers. Ilolstein Href-ders" association. Illahee club. Jersey Cattle Breeders associ ation. ?' . Loganberry : growers. Medical association. Mistland Field and Stream cluo Nurserymen's association. Prune growers. Pig club. ' Salesmen's club. Salem Women's club. Shoe Dealers association. Tennis club: War Mothers. - Special meetings Realty board. Rotary club committee. " Pacific Telephone company. Taxpayers' league. Standard Oil salesmen. Marion Realty association. Art league. Poultry association. Marion Auto , Film,. -(Studeba-ker). Conventions Electricians' convention. Co-operative creamery, all day. Waldo lecture. Symphony orchestra. University 1921 club. City clean-up meeting. Agricultural meeting. . Farmers' Loan association. Albertlna Kerr baby home meeting. Dentist convention Regular meetings , Some One Must Pay There is a certain reluctance on the part of many a one who grabs every free thing that comes alone:. even U he can't 'use It. to making taxable public charge of the things he wants to enjoy. There was the man who pried himself from a two-dnllnr htll in tha rl,l days when that would buv a Pull man berth, and in the mornine be went to the dressing room for a bath at the lavatory. He found his neighbor's toothbrush on the rack; he. never -bought ' tooth brushes of his own, but this one he grabbed as It was a legacy from home. The neighbor protested. The two-dollar-bill-prier had an answer: "Why, I thought they furnished them brushes with the tickets. Ain't we paid enough for em?" Commercial ; clubs have to be run with an eye to Just such ar guments "thought they were furnished free." They realy are free, however; only, that it's up to someone to provide for the freedom. One can't charge for evervthlne done in the name of the public. Meetings must be held; there is no money available for many of tnese things that must be done in the name of the public and yet they can't be passed up, even luuugu mey cosi money, some form of semi-public financial plan is imperative if .Such work is to be done. V : - Public's neponsibUty Until the general public real izes its responsibility for all ben eficial community enterprises, and votes freely to tax itself for such things, commercial clubs where those grateful souls who realize some of their citic obligations that the law does not impose, will have to carry on in the public in terest, some men have made for tunes in business In Salem; some nave made a competence; many have made quite comfortable bank accounts, of five or even six fig ures, and thousands 'have got good Jobs through, the city's pro gress, i - V i i .... . . . iownere m .nature is there a provision for getting something for nothing but society requires it since society will not place cer tain such , burdens as these of municipal advancement on all whom the municipalities benefit. Am! There You Are well, there you ai it's up to those who can, to support com mercial clubs and churches and lodges and colleges and a thous and other : things that make life worth living; or let them die. There are wage workers far more deeply obligated to support these city activities that make a wage scale possible, than even their harassed employers. There are retired capitalists who liye quietly, hiding their money, who are at least as deeply Interested as the man who works with either money or; muscle; more so, per haps, because the worker could go to another Job, where the in vestor has atrophied-hls power to wotk, ana must depend upon others to make his investments good. j : Everybody Shonld Chip In Oh, everraody ought to chip in something for a commercial club that so well serves the whole pub lic. Salem has been paying only one-halt the average of - all cities of tne Northwest. She s basked In the state - capltol glories and revenues,! taking the easy money and fearing to get Into the game on her own book. , Outsiders have come In, and a few of the progres sive insiders, to make the city in- to a real manufacturing metrop-'s'ducers. oils. 4 Neetfe More Bumiwh But the city is '"between hay and grass," as the stockman ; would say in early summer. It needs more business to bold what 1 it already has started, to hold its f vaiues. us aspirations, us peopi l he; commercial club is trying to s get the added business, and JSi getting it. It needs enough motley to live on. nowever, ana iunc-; lion properly. iou can tr mate a pie out of imitation flour and i picturcs of fruit and the written story of a wonderful grease--it takes the real stuff to make a pie worth tfce eating. The Salem pie. that has been constructed out of . 0 cents per capita subscription, is a really wonderful production but just think what it'd be if it really bad adequate support? Adequate support!. Many, Many Activities The Commercial club has serv ed as the advisor for farmers, for fruit growers, for fruit buyers, for broccoli growers, for flax pro THE CUCUMBER UNDER GLASS, BULLETIN SUBJECT OF PRDF. BOUQUET OF 0. A. G. The Grpwina of Hot House Cucumbers and the Product tion of the Field Varieties 1 Are TvVo Distinct and Different Professions and processed and the Varie ties, Too, Are Different j " (Circular 106 of .the Oregon Agricultural college, under date of April, 1918, by Professor A. G. 1. I'.ouquet, professor of vegetable Kardeuing, on "The Cucumber-Binder Glass," is as follows:! - i Cucumbers grown under ,g!a;sH require usually 65 'to 75 days lof growth from seed time tolbe har vesting of the first cuke, but tijls time will vary according to te time of the year and. the temper ature of the greenhouse." . - Greenhouses in which to grow cucumbers should bo wide and high at the eaves for the most ec pnommical handling of the' crop, although in some narrow lower houses the "A" training may be Ubed und some good cukes pro. duced. Starting tlie Plants.- There are two ways of growing cucumber plants. First, by sowing in a plant box and then shifting the seed lings to three or four inch . pots (come growers use even five inch); secondly, the seed may be sown directly in the above sized pots and. the plants thinned to one or, two plants, depending of tne size or the pot. lloxes suitable for starting plants are about 3 inches deep, 16 inches wide, and 24 inches long. These should be filled with nicely pulverized soil. A soft black soil sifted, containing a quantity of sand to keep it loose, Is best. This should he smoothed off after it is pushed down in the corners and along the edges to settle and pressed smoothly and gently with a ma- , ' MAn.n II 1 1 avu a uunei ui email uoaru, aiuer the seed is planted. Water lighKy with fine spray from SDrlnklincL - .1 r ' ucms icyiu ftttier. xujlc should be set perfectly. level 3 so uia bp. set nerfoctiv lovoi . n that seed will sprout evenly. The seeds will require very lit tle water to keep them moist un til they sprout, and as soon as the plants are an inch or so high, or are beginning to show their ,trne leaf, they should be carefully picked out of their bed and trans planted to pots, placing tnem & little deeper but high enough o that the dirt will not be washing onto the crown in watering. Most growers use inch pots, some with the soil about half an inch from' the top of the pot. The seedlings can be potted ten days from the' day the seed is planted, and the plants then remain in the pots two and a half to three weeks. Then they are carried to the house where they are to grow to matur ity, knocked out of the pots and planted in the long beds. Where wo plants are grown to a pot, no less than five inches should be used. The Plants. Cucumbers, like melons, will not do as well after they have been checked as they will if they are "kept on the jump from seed time "to harvest." If the leaves are of normal size and dark green, and the growth Is rapid, the plants should be O.K.; If the leaves are yellowish or stunted and slow to grow, the ad dition of nitrate of soda -in smalt doses will help to right thenu again. Plants should not be al lowed to get too large before be ing set in the permanent beds or benches. The temperature in which the seed should be germin ated and the plants grown will be from TO to 75 degrees in the day time and no lower than 60 to 65 degrees at night. i ' SiK It is much more econom ical to handle cucumbers on solid ground bds raised about 12 or 14-1 inches above the level of. tne' walks than to handle llfese in raised benches. Cucumber' soil should be rich, and a soil com posed of one-third rotted sod. one-third compost and one-third rotted horse or cow manure. The soil should be deep and well pul verized, and; previous to setting the plants should be raked off smoothly, removing all coarse ma terial. , . r -: Spacing i Training. The distance between the rows and the plants in the row will depend up on method of training of which there are two kinds; the "up right" of "erect" method and the. for s ockmen, indeed, for almost every iint- oi cunurai ac tirity. It ha inliebd school. churched. Jot: of pro&pfcts. ;es, witk thousands and with many hun dreds of actual settlers who have teticved in Ls statistical exact- nets and mofai standards of pre- setiting comdinnity standing. It has had on ts agricultural com- mfttee L. J Chap,in, former who lias given farm eopnty agent prospects adtiees that was worth Jnfrally mil! iona. and has brought manv snlendfti burpn tn th mm. milnity throd ;a his unselfish en- deavors as part of the club. Other capabib advisers have beea available in t other4 Jines of busi nejfcs. endeavor, so that through this one organization there has beii a cqrp of unselfish experts always at th4 command of any In terest that ijiisht seek advice or co tinsel. It ias been a splendidly functioning public enterprise that the few have kept up without cost to the. many for whose benefits it s .maintained, flnt it needs more support! "iivered V" or "A" mebod. Both off these . are used commercially In houses that are built low on the sides upright training cannot bo used. Thhs the "A" trellis will hfi necesarjy in such houses Growers who train on the "A trellis spacelthe rows six to eight feet apart aiid the plants a foot to 18 inches apart in the rows Taoso who train upright set the row from three to three and a lirMf feet apart and the plants two leftt apart ia the rows. Varieties.- The White Spine or Davis F'erfect are the two leading varieties of forcing cucumbers Otte of the most important char acters of the variety is that it i productive and meets the market demands as to size and color. Se- Llefcted seetl jof a good strain will give, with proper feeding, a nice lot of cuke.s that are of a des:r aljle color and length. j atering. As soon as the plants are set they . shouold he given, a liberal supply of water The root system of the plants is confined to i a small area at this time arid it jis necessary that. ut ter no available where the roots can get it. I iAJucumners wm mate use or iarge amounts of water, particu larly during the fruiting period artd will suffer for lack of suffi cient water at any time iUucumber! foliage seems to thrive best when it Is given an oc casional shower bath. It is best td' make such applications early in the day and son bright days bo taa the foliage Will go into the night d?y. If the red spiders make their W W V - " uiv - vuftvnu niiu i r.irro t tt n inst t nnHur clXoa A v 1 a a.n. ti . i fife leafes yill usuauy vanquisn tho intruder. 1 Feeding Cucumbers are rank feeders, and on that account must be well supplied with available plant food. I A3 a rule the appli cation of manure to the surface or tne soil after the cukes are planted in the form, of a mulch will help thfe growth of the plants very materially and will help to decrease the number of small or ill-shaped dukes. The mulch is especially Valuable In preventing the soil from drying out quickly as well as I supplying a constant amount of available nitrogen With an abundance of plant food arid water in the soil the watering properly dope and the ventilators used judiciously, little trouble should result- from cucumber diseases. j -Pruning-!-1 has been found that it pay to prune cukes sys tematically I and severely. The Qfcuai plan (is to allow only one vine to develop on each root. As son' as a lateral on the main vine is sufficiently .developed to show the location! of the first cuke, it irf cut oft just beyond this fruit. This first oint invariably bears a. cucumber,; but if not the lateral ia allowed to grown several joints .which will produce no pickles. The second and tbird laterals are treated, in, the same way as they djeVblop ah4 this process is con tinued for the full length of the vine. Theiie are usually a few fruits on the main vine. The lab or of pruning Is "offset largely by the less amount of tying necessary to, keep the! pruned vines In posi tion " as cpip.pared with ' that on unpruned ; vines. The dense growth. !fj apruned Tines makes gathering the fruits more difficult than when he vines are carefully pruned andj more open. i Pollination Cucumber blos soms can Ipf pollinated to the greatest aUiount of satisfaction and eoonoiny by placing a hive of bees in the house. The bees are usually puit f n the. bouse when the Vines are beginning to show their first female and male blossoms. The bees ftbpnld be fed with sugar arid waterj frequently for the pol len from thf cuke, flowers will not be sufficient food. f Khailing the Houses In the hot stunmer mobths, the greenhouses niay get Entirely too hot in -the day time, :and a cheap and quick way to shade where one has quite an area to i cover s to take air slaked Time! which has just been siakedVdry jby. spriakltng lightly. i ! : " THE SALEM DISTRICT Wi I BIG CUCUMBER IIISTIIT The Hot Houses That Have Been Devoted to Cucum bers Are Novy Being IJsed for Other Crops-Ought To Be Pickle Factories Here. ' ! Last year the Salem slogan pag es told of ihe operations of Jrt. Field, who was successfully pro ducing large quantities of cu cumbers untkr s.las!. H. Field is woman, daughter of the late iexter Field, who Carried on gar dening and fruit: growing opera tions for many years on the same place, just east of the state hospi tal. Miss Field has about a third of an acre under glass; but she taj this year raising tomatoes only. She is giving the usual space de voted to cue ambers under glass a rest, on account of the pest, the red spider. She may go back to cucumbers Inter. The Savage Jardens J. W. and Ben H. Savage, who "n-Mict the well known Savage market gardens, out on the Gar den road, in the northeastern sub- with water occassionally, and spraying it on with a spray pump. Skim milk thickened with whit ing also-, makes a good shading material to put on with a brush. If fresh, new lime is used it will be next to impossible to get it off at all when not needed. Hut lime just air-slaked will stick a good while and will rub off easily. Disease and Injects Growers should be on the lookout for leaf diseases. Proper management ls an important factor in controlling these troubles. Lack of ventila tion and over watering favor their spread. Powdery mildew;- attacks the leaves and Is noted by the' spots Arhich are of a brown bih color and ippear on the lower sida of the leaves. They soon appoar on the upper side, taking on a yellowish :ast. If the growth of the dis iase Is not checked It will coqo .ause the entire plant to become sickly and eventually die. Downy mildew Is caused by a parasitic fungus and'?s sprout by spores. Anthracpose causes round uead 3pots from one-fourth inch to half m Inch in diameter on the leaves, and somewhat discolored and shrunken areas on the stems. The disease is also caused by a fun gus and ia successfully controlled by Bordeaux mixture. Spraying with Bordeaux is to be advised if any of these diseases appear. The weaker form's h6uld be used and it is important that the leases be coated on the lower side as well as the upper side and applications made weekly. High temperature, accompanied by excessive moisture or draughts TBnVIOEBIHM SET FORTH IN Only the High Spots Can Be x paper Article the Camp Grounds The Potato GradingThe Road Signs---The County TerJersitiqh the Broad and Brotherly Spirit. 'The Salem Commercial club J saved me $5,000 cash," was what one appreciative newcomer said as he reviewed what the club had done for him in advising, him ae to soil3, products, labor condi tions, and other important bus iness .conditions pertaining to his investment. That's a pretty good encorse- ment; it's worth .investigation. The Commercial club has main tained an agricultural department under the direction of L. J. Cha in. Mr. Chapin was formerly agronomist for the Western Wash ington experiment station at Puy allup; later he was county agent for Marion county, and then be came connected with the King's Products .company as a field ex pert He really knows 1 soils by heart'; and he ir.ows men, and he follows the Golden Rule of the Salem Commercial clul "A club with a heart." i There are said to be 16 separate types of . soil In Marion county; every ope good, but not all good for the same kind of production. The man who wants to raise ber ries may need an entirely differ ent soil from the corn farmer; tne prune grower and the bop raiser might exchange farms, with ruin to both. Land is too high priced to take a guesswork chance and lose several, ears of hart-break-ing work trying , t do what Na ture forbids doing. V The Commercial club Is trying to lit round farm men Into round farm holes; and trying to keep the square or - triangular, f men away 'from thesi round pole, fas well as keeping the round men away from the other shapes that they can not possibly fit. Sixteen kinds of soil, i .sixteen , or, 4slxty kinds of profitable crops if they are planted rfghtlyVand enough men to fit every farm to every crop If they can only be brought together! The - Anto Camp Ground.' A 'Last year; "ZQ" Tisltors to' the OUGHT TO urtas of Stalem. -which gardens have bea supplying Ba:em with vegetables and fruits for 44 years, have usuailv pieoduceci some hoi house cucumbers, as their Tath?r, H. AV, Savage did before them. They have raised no cucumbers this year, however --or at least none under glass. Tfeejr aspect to renew the soil Of their hot houses this year, and they will be back in the cucumber game next year. J. W. Savage says this is a good cucumber country; that there .19 none- better, for cucumbers pro duced either under glass or in the open; and they are two separate industries. . i He says the- beaver dam land In this districf, especially, could b-a made to produce Immense eup plies of cuetiinbers, afid he says we should have pickle factories here In Salem. r:vi:'" '' and sudden temperature changes should be avoided. , - Harvesting," Grading, Marketing It Is customary for most grow ers to pick every other day. and sometimes every dar vTh fruits will make rapid growth in warm weather ; and .wuat... be carenuly watched, Each cuke should be eu t and -never' pulled. "A ' good method lf jrbich to fell whether the cucumber Is of the proper .. : 1 1. 4 t . r ' . t. ter with'-the thumb and second finger. lf these do not meet by about one-fourth inch to one-half inch the enke iatt a desirable diameter.- Cukes marked "firsts" should be fairly uniform in length, diameter and color. ' One. or two abnormal specimens will spoil the appearance of several dozen. The "seconds" should be shorter arid thicker and slightly off in color. They should never go with the "firsts" and likewise should never contain any nubbins. These should le sold to a certain class of people or, thrown away," It never "pays to strip them. ' Each grade should be plainly marked so that there will be no, mistake by the' salesman. ... ". The expense In growing cukes is usually greater than lettuce, due to the work of pruning and training, increased amount of heat required," and extra watering. Good plants produce on an aver age of. three to four dozen No. l's and one to two and a half dozen No.'rs, but' with very pro lific plants this may be greatly Increased. Good strains of seed and high feeding,' coupled with proper pruning,-will give benefic ial results and reduce the number of culls to a minimum. 1 . A VERY CURSORY If Touched in a Short Newsr Salem Auto; Camp" grounds, an enterprise founded and fostered by the Commercial, club, bought farms In the vicinity of Salem; men brought here' largely through this civic boosting organization, men who almost to a mah came to the club experts for counsel. There may bave been many others who bought- here through the same original inspiration; but this many are known and tagged. The club tried to fit'them to Just what they wanted; not selling any land, not . boosting " any particular agency, but first furnishing them a list of all the listed realtors, and then giving them expert ad vice as to just what land quali ties they would need, to meet their particular desires. It was one of tbes&'btyers who said. "You've saved me $5,000." . It wasn't "saved" by not allow ing him to spend his cash; for he did spend it. but he got what he asked for ia bis particular field of cultivation. Now he's an asset to the community ; instead of a soured, .draggled pessimist, hating Salem, Salem enterprises, Salem aspirations. He's . worth a mil lion of the discouraged kind.. ; Because the Salem Commercial club has skipped jauntily along on an. annuity of 50 cents per capita for all the people In the city, where Boise, a city of much the same standing In every .way, pays $2.11 for her splendid Com mercial club supports It doesn't follow, that the local club is inef ficient. It simply means that It has done, exceptionally well with the resources of men and money at its disposal like a. game little lad struggling-along, ragged and only half fed. but determined to be glad and to grow blg.pever thetess. . ''.little more mopey, however, would allow t' to do big tbihgs that just now It can hard ly dream because It hasn't the price. ' That AptA Camp Ground is be coming, nationally -famous.' Last year. It arttacted 2SSO cars, be tween lis opening on May ill and . October 1. The report for Jane, 1921. shovs three times a many as Tor June a year ago. (At tbe same rate. Salem would have ful ly 300 visiting cars this summer. Statistics 'i of the s Northwest Tourist Association give the . av erage .expenditure oX traveler as i a day; with an average of three pa?sen$ers to each tourist car. This would mean a revenue of 145,000 for the summer., from tourists. , But in such splendid grounds as the Salem camp, the average stay is longer; fully two days Instead of qnir one. The To tal estimated revenue from the tourists runs up from $7,0OO la $100,000 a year. Thla 1st one of the direct fruits jot the Commer cial club activities. f . Also Grtjr rjropeHjrJ Besides the 30 "men who are known to Jbavw , bought: farms through ihH auto camp Invita tion, at least 12 have bought city pioperty through the samp chan nel. They are good clttseqs, com ing in under the best possible conditions, and the trpla of friends who will follow thiem Is a never ending progression of profit to the community. 1 1 should t said that splend U credit It due to the local automo bile assoclatiop, that has worked unceasingly to make the . camp grounds a success; but the orlgi-nat-impetus came from tlje Com merclal club that has carried oa the consultation features that have clinched the first Impres sions of those who wanted to buy. xn nnnners too. v The great"' Shrfh'eTs1 pilgrimage last year, brought to mtle or car avan to Salem; Counties letters have followed thai historic visit, and the city bah become nationally well known through' this one visit. Some day, they'll come in la reg iments. ' ' i " For Wtcr Potato. Through the agricultural de partment, ithe -Commercial club haa established a potato standard isation bureau that Is functioning in spite of :tbe hard time.- Last year. Manager UcCroskey drove 3500 miles with the inspectors, visiting Marlon and adjacent Polk county potato fields. They start ed with a 500 acres for examina tion; -they wound up the season with hardly an acre of approved potato seed In the whole lot. They round 42 varieties most Of thru bad ; just as cynical bid Tom Ca r lylo once said of Kngland "Kng land has fifty million people mostly fools!" sTo meet any kind of a, market except the home patch ; woere tneyre grabbled out or the hill and, slung on to the table no matter what they look uiet'yml,?' toes must be standardised, so th . buyers can knowf what thejf jtet Over In the great potato jgrof Ins state of Idaho, where they ship spuds by the tens of thousands' of ears, they know practically only two varieties the . Russet ts and the Idaho Uurals... l - ; Some growers raise better sr lected strains than olbers; ' but they're all of the standard kind and they top the world's mar. kets. The Commercial iclub. heartbrokf n. the Inef ficJe&t multiplicity of 'varieties here in the Willamette valley, has started a campaign to establish some stan dard potato and make a real po tato market for the wonderful possibilities here. It has been hard, slow work but It ia pro gressing. One bank in th county this spring, brought In n ear of fine, certified -potatoes and placed them with their patron to en courage better spud growing. This Is one appreciation of the Salem club's efforts; it could be made .worth flOO.OOO every year, to the small farmers- of the Salem country, If they would 1 support the moyefneflfcf i ' ., Ikiat lffns. Too. ; Travelers' on the splendid auto roads of 'Marion "county may give only a grunt fpleased :surpris at the texeeUeat ilgn.s'that make It so hard .tic. Aak the wrong road to any Important place 1$ the county, fese steel iilgnsara the insplratiol of the Salem Corof merclal clab- ,iting wlth rl county cour . .. . , On the Pacific highway st Aurora, coming south, isi a hupe sign, telling the names, dlstancp and directions of all the towns of the county; a similar) sign at Jefferson informs the northbound traveler just what Is ahead and to either side of him- The signs at the Important crossroads are all of steel, wiUr brated-on letters and figures; there are 120' of (Continued on paaai 41 To seal In tho . delicious LJurley tobacco flavor. D.4'o."ircc':cc ' h - i t i