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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1921)
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 21 ; 1921 THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON v . - . -..v-s- ... 77 u m comb . . ' . .' ' . . if - : t "v. , i mm IIJ - P WHITS, BEARING. GOLDEN HARVESTS Sajjem sthe Filbert Center of the United States, and Millions of Pounds of These . . fluts Ought to Be Grown Annually Here for the World's Markets, and Walnut . ; Acreage Ought to Be Indefinitely Increased. - Ths CJty Beautiful irau of The Statesman is i-rintlng some pic tures of filbert trees, with the idea of suggesting the combination of beauty and utility here. i The filbert tree makes a beauti ful tree, fit to adorn any lawn. This is Well Illustrated in the fit. icii. o mo iiwa oi ion. jonn If. McXary, Center and North Sdmmer streets, shown In a cat With this article. It is shown also In tne cuts made from, photos on the farm near Salem of United States Senator Charles L. McNary and Walter T. Stolz, of this city. What Is true of filberts Is also true of English, -walnuts. If all the 'shade trees ' In Salem were Fraagnett and Mayette walnut tree in full bearing, the annual crop of walnuta would pay all the taxes of the property oa or la trout of which they stand. senator McNary was one of the pioneers in the growing of filberts In' this district. . and bis enthusi asm Is still Tcept up. Some of the Advantages ' (JCnight Pearcy. who In Novem ber list, furnished the following article to The Statesman, Is an ex bert In the filbert Industry. He is a member of 'the firm of Pearcy Bros., who are engaged in the de velopment of fruit orchards and nut groTea for themselves and oth ers' In this section; their Salem of fices being In the Oregon build ing.) Editor Statesman; Twenty years ago the first lo ganberries began 'to bear .In the Willamette valley. - Twelve years ago the logan was still compara tively unknown even among Ore gonians. Today It is'4he second most important fruit crop of the taller end perhaps the third In Importance of all the fruits grown In this great fruit growing state. The loganberry's phenomenal Increase In : horticultural Import ance will undoubtedly be dupli cated in the case of the filbert The first ' experimental filbert plantings "began to fruit In west am nnn aHtnt -1A an mm The results obtained during the past 10 years hare been such as to encourage the planting of many additional orchards. The great enthusiasts In the filbert business are those growers who hare been growing this nut the longest. The greatest obstacle to i in creased plantings has ' been ; the shortage of r nursery stock.. We were talking only this week to a grower who purchased a tract of land n year ago that had on It two acres of bearing filberts. This year he harvested 4000 pounds of nuts, end this in spite of the fact' that the planting had never been wen cared tor until f this year and that many or tne trees are kf varieties that do poorly here. This man is now preparing to plant 20 acres to filberts. Many Points In Its Favor There are many points in favoT of thl nut as an orchard propo sition in the " Willamette ' Talley. Frost seems to bare little effect in reducing the crop. The filbert blooms during the winter, at a time when the tree is bare of leaves. Cold 1 temperatures . are the rule at this season. Some of the: best producing groves that we nave are located in frost pock efts! where our other fruits are of ten frosted out Even the past extremely ' cold winter, when the temperature dropped to -20 below filbert than- to most other Tar tetles of fruit and nuts. In some fates the catkins were frozen with he result that no nuts formed and in a few cases a few limbs on a I few trees died, apparently as n result of the freezing, but In a majority of the plantings a' good crop was 'set. the Dorrls grove at Springfield, the Forbis grove at Dtller and the Holsan tract In the Pplk county hills above West Sa lem having produced bumper cross. ! (Kaia'at harvest time causes the filbert grower little or the worry that Is . caused the cherry and nrnna rrnwpr? Thfl nUtS Can He For CuVFlbwers Potted Plants Floral Pieces , Bulbs, Ferns, Palms, etc. Or' For Landscape Gardening Phone 1250W or Call at 1298 South 13th Street Arthur Plant" Florist and Landscape. Gardener YYe will have a supply of nursery stock about .January 1st THE GROWING OF FILBERTS on the ground a week without in Jury. The labor problem, which is an ever present one with the berry grower, causes the filbert grower little loss of sleep. The crop is easy to pick up and a few pickers can care for a relatively large acreage. A few days delay In harvesting the crop will not result in heavy loss, as is the case with so man of our other orchard crops. 'Compared with apples, there is little labor needed in fjroduclng a filbert crop. There 8 no systematic spraying, al though the trees should be given an occasional winter spraying. The pruning is not heavy. There are no expensive and detailed op erations such as thinning the fruit,1 that are so necessary with apples, pears and peaches. Or. dinary cultivations such as should be given the prune and cherry are sufficient to cause the filbert to thrive. No expensive equip ment such as driers, smudge pots, packing houses or cold storage plants are required in producing and marketing this nut. ' American competition is nil. No section of the United States other than western Oregon and Washington and a limited part of California can produce filberts commercially, although certain sections have been trying it for a hundred years. Americans consume around 15, 000,000 pounds of these nuts an nually,' in spite of the fact that there has never been any advertis ing campaign or other effort to make the nut more popular. We may just as well be raising these millions of pounds of filberts in Oregon as to import them from Sicily and Spain. No serious disease has yet ap peared to threaten this nut. We have some insects and diseases, but none that threaten to become very serious. The worst pests are the squirrels and Jay birds and they are not especially difficult to control. Like the prune, the filbert does well on many soil types. Certain of our other trees do very well on certain types of soil, but be cause of the fact that these soil types generally are found in frosty locations . the tree is not heavily planted on them. This is true to a certain extent of the walnut on the sandy loam river bottom soils. It does exceedingly well on ' these soils, but is too often nipped by frost to warrant heavy planting on such soils ex. cept in favored locations. The filbert does not have this frost limitation and seems to prefer the sandy river bottom soils above all others, although it does well on good bench soils or loam soils and even does very nicely on red bill soils, although it does not grow as rapidly or as large as in the latter soils. Growers Should Diversify Even with a crop offering the many advantages of this one,, we believe it to be good business to plant at least one other fruit crop along with it. Then in case something unlooked for should happen to one of the varieties the other would still remain to tide the grower over until another season. ' The filbert enters nicely Into certain combinations of crops, In the hills cherries, filberts and walnuts make a nice combination. Their harvests follow, one another so that the same help can be used through a long season and they are all profitable crops to growl in the river bottom locations strawberries, logans or rasnber ries and filberts make a nice suc cession of harvests. Many other combinations of crops whose narvest seasons are usch that they ; do not compete with each other, for labor, can be had. Barcelona is our principal var iety. It is a heavy producer of nuts that are self husking, and the bulk of the planting will prob ably be of this variety until some new and better variety makes its appearance. The Bar r celona, however, should not be planted in blocks alone. a3 it is more or less self-sterile. When 4 planted with DuChilly it bears much better crops. White Ave line also seems to act as a polien izer to Barcelona, but la in itself less valuable than the DuChilly as a commercial nut. DuChilly Is self sterile, Barce lona will not polenize it, but Da viana and Clackamas will cause it to bear. Hence in our i commer cial plantings we plant largely Barcelona with enough ! DuChilly to pollenlze the former and with enough Clackamas or Daviana to pollenlze the DuChilly. t We have had year old trees to bear nuts, but when they do this It Is at the expense of tree growth. Nuts begin to bear about the third year generally, although it is usually the fifth year before a commercial crop can be expected and this when a grove has been given every attention. From this time on. however, the increase in yield is rapid. We have records of five year old trees that j bore 18 pounds of nuts and of 13j-year-old trees bearing 65 and 70 pounds. These trees are planted 80 to 100 per acre and prices realized last year were 30 to 35 cnts per pound to the grower, so the reader can figure the possibilities in dol lars and cents for himself How ever, one cannot figure yields per acre from the yields of exceptional trees. We know of one grower Who harvested 30 pounds per tree from 50 trees on a half acre of orchard. This is at the rate of 3000 pounds per acre and is one that we can easily expect from 12-year-old trees. Viewed from all points, the fil bert: offers many attractions to the growers of this section. It is frost proof, rain proof, I easily narvested. bears earlr and heavi ly, has little competition! from ptber American sections and has po serious insects and diseases to threaten It. Our own faith In It Is such that we are planting a holding for ourselves this winter, and ! the extent of our planting is limited only by the size of our bank account. 1 KNIGHT PEARCY. Advantages in Brief Salem Is as much the filbert center of the United States as it Is the loganberry center. The loganberry Industry of the world started here; the filbert in dustry of the United States! start ed 'here, and Salem will le the world center of both industries. All the filberts grown commer cially in the United States are grown in the Willamette valley, excepting a few in Clarke county, Washington, which is ' practically a continuation of thi3 valley. Last year, the filbert boom in the Salem district had reached the point where its growth was limited only by the amount of available nursery stock. jThe time is approaching ! when car loads of filberts will go out from the Salem section then train loads. ' 'The expert in this line from the United States Department of Agriculture, visiting Salem not long since, said we have the most promising filbert groves here to be found in this country. iOur filbert growers have been learning by experience pnd experi menting. Pollination is the big 1. 1 Famous Diblbir&FranUln 3 fsni te.V r- VTZU A ..t z- i ?. Seven Tear Old Du Chilly Filbert Trees at the! Stolz-JlcNary Farm Near Salem. (United States Senator McNary in the foreground.) - thing in filtert growing. This matter has resolved itself down to about the following: Plant Barcelona filberts, with enough Du Chilly trees to pollen lze them, with enough Clackamas or Davidiana trees to pollenize the Du Chillys. You can plant 108 trees to the acre, on the be?t soil; more on light soils. Then you may expect: At five years, 500 to 1.000 pounds of nuts to the acre. At six years, 1000 to 1500 pounds to the acre. At 8 years, JMJ00 to 3,000 pounds to the acre. At 10 years, 3,000 to 4,000 pounds to the acre. At 12 years, 4,000 to o,000; pounds to the acre. ' Figure this up for yourself, at 35 cents a pounds, as last year, even down to 15 cents a pound or less. Can you teat it? Then rememlrer that the filbert Frost proof, rain proof, easily harvested, bears early and heav ily, has no serious pests or dis eases And this section has no Ameri can competition. Is it any wonder that Pearcy Bros., orchard and nut experts, who make a business o" cultivat ing orchards and groves for oth er people, are now putting out for themselves all the filbert trees their bank account will stand? Why shouldn't they, when th?y can see better than gold mines for the rich returns for the future. "V": ?s"V, nrrr?& 'T; The Largest Seven Year Old Barcelona Filbert Tree in the United States. (The photograph from which the above cut was made was taken last fall by a member of the photographic staff of the United States Department of Agriculture. The tree was seven years old then. It stands on the south side 'of the lawn of Hon. John H. McNary at his home, corner of Center and North Summer gtrets.) ' Tulip i Field Largest Privately i ;'of Famous and with the minimum of labor ?nd other expenses in the keep ing uk of their groves, end in' har vesting and marketing their crops? One other things The advice of County Fruit ' Inspector Van Trump ought to be regarded, that is, every unprofitable fil bert bush and tree ought to be rafted over to the aBrce lona. with a sprinkling of the Du Chilly vnd the Clackamas or Davidiana t' r pollenizing. It ought to be made an offense against the law to keep an unpro ductive nut tree; of any kind, in the Salem district, where the right kinds ere now so well known. And one other thins: If you Vive anywhere in the United States outside of the Salem district, you should get.to this district at once, and get into oneiof the profitable industries represented here into the growing of loganberries, prunes, flax, hemp, walnuts, rears, apples, strawberries, ever green blackberries, black rasp berries, gooseberries, cherries, "?tc, etc.. and various comercial vesetables and I you should set out at least a few filbert trees, and milk a few fcows, and raise a few hogs and goats and sheep and other live stock. , This is a creat life, here in the Salem district.: And growing greater very last, and the room is here'ajid to spare for hundreds of thousands of more industrious people 5rh0 will U3e their hands and their heads. r: 0vned Tulip Farm in the West.' Holland BiJba , . - -: . - , . An inspiring ouujkui ircctmu hi ui --imyuuty onainiw wj jwi -rft . r-r -17. 7 H Far and Seen Much, ad Who Pronounces Salerp the; Most ipeutiful . l?ity irrf. ; All the West, and Who Knows That Only a EJeginnirt9 Wss. Yet; geeji yade off m the Making of the City V Editor Statesman: Salem as the City Beautiful is an inspiring subject. The ques tion that each one should ask is. do I appreciate the wonderful beauty of my home city? How much do I contribute to the im pression it makes on the behold ers of it beauty? Have you ever stood on Reser voir or Fairmount Heights and bathed your soul in ravishing sun sets? Have you ever seen the plowing ending of a perfect d3y ever the Polk county hills from Capitol boulevard1? Have you realized the wonderful forest set ting of our city, where the vista of every street ends in a back ground of forest? Do you appre ciate the wealth of greenery that lines our streets and makes odr larks resemble the arcadian for ests of Arden? These are some of the charms with which nature has endowed us and which add an evergreen frame and setting of beauty to our city at all seasons of the year. But man has added a great deal more than nature has ever done. Without the wide streets, the spacious parkings, the smooth lawns, and the modern electric lights and front yard and porch decorations, Salem would still produce the effect of a natural wilderness. So it combines the charms of landscapa art with primeval surroundings of forest, hills and mountain ranges pierced with snow peaks and above all a city encircled with state insti tutions just out far enough not to offend and near enough to add their charms of beautified grounds and plantings of flowers and shrubbery as only the unlimited labor supply of the state can af ford to maintain In perfection. Indeed, if you have an esthetic sense developed to the highest point of appreciation you can - ' - :y-U ' A ; A ..r' t Bulbs Grown' Here Are Eqnai rit 4-1 ITAT1T0 SEEASTlfT hu Beautiful that Is to Be and COL. E. HOFEH. thank your stars that you are an inhabitant, not of the New Jeru salem. but of a city that is set four-square amid a heaven of gifts that make it really the City Beautiful of the entire western coast country. Most Popular City. On account of its beauty Salem is the most, popular home and business city in the interior of Oregon. This was attested on Bargain Day recently when, thou sands came . five to fifty , miles from all directions to spend the day in the capital. What fine, prosperous people they were that thronged our wide streets, filled our hotels, theaters, shops and restaurants, and then went homo happy at night. The Auto Transportation. . . . The automobile has exerted a wonderful transforming power. Women who got off the farm once or twice a year ten years ago to Bee the city and do some trading. can now get to town every week Then it took all day to come and go. if you lived 10 or 15 miles out of town. If you lived put 20 or 30 miles it meant stay over night, if you went to the city to trade. In bad seasons of the year it meant stay at home all the long, dreary winter.: .The motor car and good roads have changed all this. . In an hour or two the family covers a dis tance that formerly took all day. The auto has liberated the wo man on the farm. The country women and girls who thronged the streets on -Bargain day were as well dressed and as stylish and "Smart appearing as their city cousins. You could cot tell them apart. Our wide streets were parked with motor cars for miles, and the visitors that blocked the sidewalks looked like bright flowers in the park ings. The country women and girls j added to the gay. appearance of our streets, only they are more substantial and seem to be bet ter fed than the city women.. Not so many of them have the soft drink and nabisco wafer habit for luncheon. . Onr Wide Streets. Certainly those who laid off our City Beautiful with streets. au loo leei wiae, must have had the motor age in mind. Here Is one city that will never suffer congestion of traffic from motor cars crowding narrow streets.. The motor car has doubled and trebled the number of Deople who come to Salem to trade. It has increased the sriietv and animation of our streets doubled and trebled the trade -pf our mer chants, the business of banks) ho tels and newspapers.' ' This city beautiful, with fine, broad pared streets and level highways extend ing Into the suburbs in all direc tions, with wide streets that well accommodate all traffic is des tined to become the popular bus iness, convention and, social cen ter of western Oregpn, because t beautiful location, setting and planning lures the visitor to come again. - The Gladiolus City A few yean agp the public vot ed to call it the Gladiolus City.! Xot enough have acted upon that decision. - j We have not made U the Qlad loulus City. The court houpe square, thanks to the ladies of the Floricultural society, will this year have great teds of these glowing flowers, holding aloft thiir flaming torch es of beauty. This stately flower can be had blooming three months or even longer. The latest bloom ed in November last year. It can be grown as easily as corn, yet re tails at $3 a dozen. j This flower must be more made of. It remains on the stem in bloom for weeks. It is hardy and showy and requires no spraying or protection against peris. Like the tulip, growing "glaO" bulbs is becoming a commercial indus try. Two Million of Them Salem Beautiful attr?cted thou sands of visitors last spring to see two million tulips in bloom. So at this season and until the") state fair is held we should have two million gladioli ia bloom next year. Besides som wonderful Indl " 1:1 i U; a Help Make Salem: Beautiful j - ' "T - . n Keep your lawn in trinv dur lawn mowers, hose, and garden tools will . help you . Paint Phoenix Mixe4 Paintsj RaytLrm I city mww. o Man Whn Was Travelpf! Ougl)Ho Be. f; vlflnsl gardens, where nowem art grown on a lavish scale, the Fail Grounds have made Salem fanu ous for their beautiful flower shows. The great mass.es pf daU las nd, dnhiftluins, sjaiiardfii and sinnlas. heliotrope and holly hosks, wonderful summer and faff Mowers and - the beds . of Bcarlet salvia ' must - hang like ' goldei glowing memories In the minds ef ; I visitors. ; ' i i I The Crowning Glory i 5 The crowning ;glorr of this Cit ,1 f Beautiful is its public plasa, wlt i vi uvnuiuut y u n. UUIIUIUgf $ covering about 10 acres, , arnU i park-)iko settings. These spar clous lawns surrounding - great white temples rand shrubbery i ana nauve and ; imported trees 1 from all - parts of the world; the whole bordered with roses and, interspersed with - flower - bed blooming almost the entire year 4 are a civic ensemble in landscaps i gardening that cannot he matched except br the Golden Gate park at San Francisco. : i i I And then if 70a desire to show TlBitors a still I more beautiful scene, take them la a motor caf 1 over the great steel bridge where 1 the bridges, trees and shores art reflected In the, beautiful blu4 Willamette, and out through West Salem through the' orchards ancf upon ; the heights of - the Polk coupty hills.'. They can sea thi river i winding j below, ; a . cltf stretching over six square mllei punctuated with church stecplei and a panorama of beauty surv rounded by n semi-circle of st&ti Institutions. Out if jroa desire to give tIih tors the most-magical jmpressiof of our City beautiful take thc! put pn Falrrapuni Heights at suiv set. see the mists of delicate la 1 creep .over the Coast Range anf the.yajley TceloT for mUe fllleS with all the tints of the rainbow! As you return in the oncpmlnj wUight there is spread at your , eet the: City Beautiful gemmel with thousands pf twinkling eloos trie lights and row of clustet, T lights crossing the city at right angles, shimmering In' the ven ; Ihg air with that "artificial light that' neyer was on r sea or land? No city In the west can compara 4 with this' in delightful effects, at ! : once soft radiant, charming aad beautiful. " 1 f ,' r E. HOFER i iSaiem, or;, July is. I9il ' v ; i :up Sealing Cprncs Bacl H Off Island of Vancouver VtfiTORIA T. O... 3W 14 J U Fur sealing has ceme back a&4 bn the west coast of. Vancouvel bland alone this summer it is e nected , Indians will : capmrf. around 2,000 fur seals. Pelagic sealing in British Co . iumbia and Alaska waters at on i jtlme was woyen round with , aH ' .the romance of adventure wealth, I land international strife. Then, through greed and lndiscrimwau methods of slaughter practices (by some of the sealers, the Indus-; ; try decJined.-tha sean an vm n?r f lappeared .and their, capture wa Imade Illegal. i: ; : : " 'u'f..l i Last year. It was estimates, tnt waters of the wtst coast of 7ssni ington produced 1.200 animals. ( ; Officers ih charge of the Industry? and its control claim that " ths North Pacific ' herd hlch onci f t contained ' as many : aa 2,500,00 ' fur aeali. wilt inereue TaoldlT. It . is believed to he probable that t 100,000 animals may bertakel ; each1 year, the catch to be made y up wholly of 'surplus males select L ed with 'reference to tneir ecw nomlc value, and Canada may ul timately receive in the neighno i a t hood of $&00,000 annually front the seal flaherjes Eight Thousand ; Americans: Uvindiln Mexico. City mexico' ctff. ?iuiy 14.- There are approximately 30,009 . Americans in Mexico and pr. "-,, number 8000 liv? in Mexico uiy. j according to a recent estimate by ?. the department of Immigration, t , i ! The number in Mexico City rep- ? ? resents a decrease of 65 per cent ' , irrom pre-revolutionary aaya,, Amr f! Orleans outnumber all other for lelgners with the exception of the Spanish. , ' , j It is also estimated, tha sines Carranza was overtbrpwn xopra than C000 American business niea hare visited the republic. , Stray Deer Swims, Into j Seattle Business Section, ; SEATTLE, Wash -v July 14-.' A stray deer, quitting his wood retreat on Mercer Island, in Lake Washington . here, swam almost Into the heart Of the city of Seat ; tl recently. : The crew of a. lake I steamer sighted the fugitive. anf nearly reached a clty dock, a las oo mruwB irom tne boat ,caugnt him. He was tnrnerl nr tn the 1 municipal too here. . . 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