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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 27. 1921 P(B aii pD3 IPg 11 Itev -Motor .. fcnij , a anir i " : ; ' ;.M'7: -f - : . - 1 S OF HUT TIES NHK-I CITY LIMITS OF SALEM This Ought to le Called the Walnut City, Because Salem Has More of These Trees Than Any Other City in This Section the Walnut industry for Oregon is Becoming More and More Centered in Salem Many New Growers for Salem District. Earl Pearcy Is tbe field man of the Oregon Growers Cooperative association "who has especial charge of the walnut department of the activities of that institution. A Statesman reporter caught Mr. Pearcy on the fly, by phone, yes terday and succeeded in setting a running interview, resulting as follows , The new plantings of walnut trees in this district for the com ing year will be many. They will be mainly in Marian, polk and Yamhill counties. They will be , mostlty Franquettes and Mayettea. These nuts bring the highest ' prices in the markets.' And they will be largely grafted trees. For mer plantings have been largely seedlings; but even these are be ing gradually grafted over, in or der to get the wanted varieties and make the trees more profitable. . Kalem IlecomlnK the Center . Salem is becoming the walnut center of Oregon very fast. One of the largest orchards in the state Is the Sky Line orchard, in the Lib erty hills district, south of-Salem. There is a solid block there of 200 acres of Franquette walnut trees, and they are Just coming into bearing. This orchard is owned by Clarence W." Noble,, of Madison. Wis. ' ' Chas. Heinz of Silverton has a very fine walnut orchard of 14 acres. Sam Ames, the Silverton hard ware man. has a 20-acre walnut orchard just coming into. bearing. His .brother is a large walnut ' grower in southern California. J. R. Chapman has a large wal nut orchard planting about four miles west of Salem, in Polk coun ty; a very fine block of young Clyde La Follette has about 60 acres in walnuts, down Wheatland way. ; - - . . There are many - others, and they will i grow fast in number in the country i immediately; sur rounding Salem the coming year. Oldest Walnut Orchard A. L. Page hai at Jefferson the oldest walnut orchard in the state; the largest walnut trees. In Oregon; In a solid block. He haw about 12 acres, in walnuts, and he will get this year about eight tons of nuts, and they will aver age about $500 a ton. The wal nuts in the Salem district will run from $400 to $600 a ton for this year's crop. Mr. Page lives In Salem. Sixty Acres in Salem A cursory count of the walnut trees in Salem has revealed the fact that if all the trees were planted in a solid block, the prop er distances apart, they would make up an orchard of 60 acres. There would be still more, if all the eastern black and California black walnut trees were grafted over into Franquettes and May ettes, as they should be. ' Salem ought to be called the Walnut City; though McMinnville has ap propriated that name. No other city has-as many walnut trees as Salem. They are planted along ! the curbs and on the city lots, and their number is increasing fast from year to year. A Lot of Blacks The largest number in a body of black walnut trees is found around the grounds of the Ore gon state hospital (insane asyl um). These trees are 25 years old, and they tower to the skies and bear large crops; but their prod uct would be worth about five times as much if they were Fran quettes and Mayettes instead of blacks. These trees were planted from seeds, it is Baid, By John O. Wright, when he first went to work at that institution, and who is still employed there. United States Senator Chas. L. McNary is a large grower of wal nuts in the Salem distrjet, as well as one of the pioneer and largest growers of filberts. Salem Market Center Salem is becoming the assem bly and shipping point for all Oregon walnuts; Just as Los An geles is the marketing center for the industryin California. The grading and sorting operations of the Oregon Growers Cooperative association will be in full swing next week, at the packing plant on Trade street in Salem. OREGON il ABOUT 600,000 POUNDS OF FINE WALNUTS THIS YEAR There Are 8000 Acres Planted to Walnut Trees in Or egon at the Present Time, Possibly Slightly More " Than Half in Full or Partial Bearing The Yield Will Increase Fast Every Year. (The following facts are furn ished to The Statesman by a Sa lem man well posted on the wal nut Industry in the Willamette valley: ) Until recently the Oregon wal nut Industry has- been in an ex perimental stage. - Growers have been engaged in learning the best methods for growing and handl ing the crop, and the market for the nuts has received little -consideration because of the ready local demand. A turning point has been reached with the pro duction of this year's bumper crop. t : , An estimated 600.000 pounds of walnuts in this season's yield makes it necessary to begin to consider broader fields than the local market, even though the northwest will readily absorb more nuts than have yt been produced in the state. It has become advisable to adopt poli cies upon which the foundations of a'rapldly growing industry can be laid. ' " :" j Looking forward to the time In the not far dlHant future when It will be necessary to seek broad er markets, walnut growers have this 'year adopted four standard grades under which more than half of the walnuts of the state will -be" marketed this fall. , The advisability of this ttep Is at once seen when it Is considered that the entire tonnage of nuts handled by the Oregon Growers Co-operative association was sold as closely as could be done al most immediately after they were , placed on the market at 2 cents . a pound above the opening prices of the California .Walnut Grow ers' 4 association. Though tk . higher price was obtainable solely through the merits and superior quality of the Oregon nuts, yet this ; would, have been impossible without uniform and standard grading. "Z Nor could It have beea dona without an organized mar keting system. , . A' standard walnut grading ma chine is being Installed in the association's Salem - warehouse, and this point will be made " the asssembly point for halt of the state's production of walnals. The nuts will be graded, sacked and distributed from this point., -:, ' It has been estimated that there is a total of 8000 acres of walnut trees in Oregon, taking in all of the small plantings; and probably about half of these trees are eith er in full or partial bearing. Each year will see many of these young orchards coming into bearing, and the production will as a consequence go up at a rapid rate for a number of years. Ad ditional plantings are being made constantly. Dundee is one of the producing centers of the state, and the districts around Salem, Silverton, Amity, Sheridan, Yam hill, Forest Grove, Newberg, Wil sonville and Eugene carry their share of the acreage. Production on a commercial basis in the northwest is confined largely to the Willamette valley and Clarke county, Washington. though the industry is in its Infancy, it represents n invest ment of nearly three and a quar ter millions of dollars, and but a small portion of the land suited to the production of nuts is in use. have gone to tbe limit in standard ization; standard designs for years without a change, standard gauges, standard prices, so that one can get repairs almost any where on earth, and they can't help but fit. The Ford price-fixing plan for repair parts is a won derful Golden Rule innovation in manufacturing. A j uniform scale of selling prices, with the freight estimated as the same for either the com pleted car or the parts, makes it possible to figure exactly what these repairs should bring to re turn; the standard agency and factory profit. The Biggest Item Probably this repair or re placement policy i3 the biggest item in the Ford and Fordson success. The Ford plan of mak ing it easy to repair the car, and so stimulate wider buying, is the Golden Rule that has kept the Ford; factories growing every minute of the time while so many othets' chimneys hare gone dark and become bat-filled and busi ness monstrosities and both work men and owners have walked out of town to hunt jobs at any wage. I'owvr Farming Methods The adaptation of power farm ing methods to the western farms has made possible tha short farm day,; the larger production, the holding of the boys on the farm. The lure of the motor car was for a time almost fatal to farm content; the boys wouldn't stay in the fields under the old horse conditions. But with motor pow er and transport and travel, the farm looks attractive to ma4y thousands of young men who otherwise inevitably were headed for the city. A $500 car, a $600 truck, a $700 tractor, and $1000 worth of power machinery, will make many a farm prosperous that hereto fore, has not paid for its keep; and it will save a $10,000 boy to sane, progressive farm life, where otherwise he was headed surely for the demnition bow-wows of city; fever. A New Vista Opened Power farming is the solution of the farm production problem, both as to the per-acre yield and the;bringing of the boys back to notipnly keep up but to increase the number of producing farmers The: Fordson and Ford products, and. the other great line of me chanisms based on them, are real national assets, for they have opened a new vista for the far mer a vista roseate with both pleasure and profit; and, certain ly nore than any other single manufactured product in the his tory; of mankind, are jvorking for the betterment of humanity. There are ideas, like steam, or the i telegraph, or the telephone, or the adaptation of electricity, or iven the principle o'f the internal-combustion gas engine that are j far bigger than the Ford, which is but one of many of Its own; kind. Ford was years be hind the discovery and first adap tation of gas to car or farm mo tor propulsion; but he has spec ialized on the idea of "making it wiork," until his individual pro ductions and policies tnow over- snaaow even the original inven tions. j Extending Ford Service . Recently the Valley Motor com pany boght some lots adjoining its office buildings and now main tains an open parking place for all Fords from everywhere. It will store 200 cars. They have just added a roof to part of this enclosure, making day or n'ght parking space for 40 cars, fori Ford users who care to use it. j It Is but one more extension of the Ford idea of service. ; Ve carry nccesories. such as stet clisc and wire wheels, and a gHd many other things that can be idded to the Ford," said one of the; company officers. "But how ever good they are. they get a little out of the beaten path of Ford service. On the standard cari standard wheels, standard everything, one can get repairs in almost any community in America ;-Uiie need never be tied up longer than the t me necessary to- go to the! first village and get what he needs. Some of these new things K 01 TIE DEBT STATE IF THE NUT in HE T There Is a Revival of Interest, and Many New Groves Will Be Planted This Winter Trees Are Cheaper Than for Several YearsPrices for the 1921 Crop Are Good; Oregon Nuts Starting Higher Than the California Product A Big Walnut Grader in Salem (Knight Pearcy, of Pearcy Bros, whose principal business is to set out and attend to walnut and filbert groves and to develop orchards for non-resident8; and whose office i3 in the Oregon building, Salem, was asked ty the Pep and Progress editor of The Statesman, on Monday, to give some notes on the present condi tion of the walnut industry in the Salem district. Mr. Pearcy Is a busy man, and h s work is espec ially rushing at the present time. Bui he kindlv took enough time in his rush hours to prepare the following, which shows a very well ordered bird's eye view 01 matters in this interesting -held: ) Walnut Notes The effect of the big freeze ot December. 1919. was to check the planting of new orchards of Eng lish walnts We are now Hav ing a revival of interest, ana many new groves will be planter this winter. Trees are cheaper this year than they have been for several years, due largely to the fact that the past summer has been very favorable in the walnut nurser es. many of them getting as high as 90 per cent stand in their grafts, whereas tha same nurseries the year before obtain ed 10 to 20 per cent. Cheaper trees and a plentiful supply of labor that can te had at a lower fienifi than for several years is making this a good year to make plantings. The big freaza served to empha size which locations should be planted to walnuts and which should not. Orchards planted in the more favorable locations cam. through with little or no injury. Most of those plantings wmcii were badly injured were located in districts wlrch have always been regarded with suspicion by the best informed growers. almost totally missing. The past spring was a favorable one for blight, apple scab, peach blight and other fungus diseases. will be interested in giving the apple the top place in the day which will b observed through out the entire country. This day was observed by the larger cities in all sections ot the country last year and it is ex pected that the apple will receive even wider publicity this year. Apples Are Shiped "by Water Large quantities of apples are being shipped by water this sea son. In anticipation of this trade several large steamships have I been equipped with refrigeiator space during the last year and it is now possible to make a saving of nearly 25 cents a box by ship ping the apples direct from the Pacific coast to Europe by water. The Oregon Growers Coopera tive association has already sent several cars ot apples by the wa ter route and more are scheduled to follow. Many of the large ap ple shippers oC the Northwest are 260 North High Street Phone 1995 Prices have been very agTeeable rates in makinz foreign shin- to the nut grower this year. The Oregon Growers Coopers tive as sociation have set a price of 2 cents per pound above California Walnut association on prices for similar grades. California prices opened at 2 8 cents for No 1 bud ded and 244 cents for" No. 1 seedlings, f. o. b. cars at Los An geles. The Mistland prices were made at 2 cenrs above this, and. according to reports, a laige part of thein tonnage was immediate ly contracted for. After, a rew days the Califorria growers with drew ibeir prices and increased 2 yt cents per pound on all grades. It ij an encouraging condit on to Oregon growers when they can demand a 2 cent premium for their nuts above that offered for brands which have been known to the trade for years. The Oregon Growers Coopera- tiva association have installed a big walnut grader at the Salem plant. By the use of this machine they expect to turn out a product as uniform as that of our Cali fornia competitors. ments. Harvesting: Practically Over The harvest season has been an ideal one and the packing in the Willamette and Umpqua val leys is nearly completed. In many districts the work rfs completed and the fruit all shipped, but 'In a few localities some of the later varieties such as Yellow Newtown, Ortley and Baldwin remain to be packed. It is expected that the work will be finished by theJirst of November. ' Boost This Community by Adver tising on the Pep and Progress l A bronze tablet commemorat ing the services of the horses and mules in the late war has been unveiled in Washington. This line should be in it: "Remember the Mane " The California crop this year is (short, while Oregon is produc ing the biggest crop in her his tory. Due to the fact that new plantings are continually coming into bearing in this state, the in crease will continue for years to come. "I TAKE YOU THERE AND BRING YOU BACK (Continued from page 2.) most like buying an artificial leg with one joint left off, to buy any car without a starter, the way they sell nowadays" Standardization the Big Word The Ford and Fordson machines are! fine indeed, and add to me machine very materially. And yet for j sheer indestructibility and ease of replacement, the standard machine still holds the boards Half World's Cars Fords ; Maybe some day they'll add Pullman berths aud vacuum clean ersjand self-cookers and telep hones and marble baths to tbe standard Ford equipment; wnen they do. these appliances will be - tea a produced m million lots sopiai they can be sold cheaply for ev erybody to buy. Perhaps the seltl-starter and the closed models have done more to popularize the machine than even its rugged au rabilitv at least, with woman dri vers who had not theretofore felt like Investing. If the public is really needing or demanding i 5, i Good Equipment Means Well Kept Fields This has been a bad blight 1 1 1 1 II C" t year. some orcnarus uavu heavily. However, Diigct is v seasonal disease. One year when rl'fnatic conditions are favoraoie it will cause considerable loss and then for several years it may De Now is the time for owners of seedling trees to examine the nuts to determine whether they pos si;s a seedling which has super ior merit. Among the thousands of seedling trees growing over the Willamette valley there are probablv a few trees producing nuts which are superior to our grafted varieties. When such trees are discovered they should become the source of grafting wood from which may be propa gated a new variety. 1 - ilrtfr Six-wheel Truck built in Valley Motor Co. shops now hauling. three cords of wood a aay in oaiem these additions. theVord is pretty sure to get them too. Just now they re not neeaea, the Uttle old Ford that rambles right along is enough to fi'l the bill. It now furnishes almost one half of all the cars in the world; and its proportion seems to be growing every minute. It might even be true that it's "as common as codfish." But if codtish feed more people than any other sin gle fish product In the world, 't isn't an inapt likeness. "I take you there and I bring you back." The Valley Motor com pany is selling almost a tbousana machines a year, on that slogan. Old "Johnny Appleseed," the; strange geniou3 who used to tra vel through all the Ohio and up- ner Miss's.iri' valley states, scat tering the gospel of orchards, and planting appleseeds by the minion that later grew into orchards that have fed millions of otherwise friutless folk, talked In much tne same way about the apple in wh'.ch he believed He brought fru't to hundreds of thousands of otherwise fruitless or ignoranu tr.rren tables. So does this " take you there and 1 bring you back" car carry a vast, unnumber ed host of people who iignt su" be afoot or traveling the ox-can route, but for its coming. A tie-up with a plain necess ty I ke apples and Fords offers a lot of pleasure in life. from Portland to New York as National Apple day. Last year's observation of the day, and the week devoted to giv ing publicity to the apple, acord ing to an oftical of the Interna tional Apple Shippers association which is sponsoring the movement there is no question but that the widespread publicity thus given to the apple was one of the prime factors underlying the continual 6trong demand for th's fruit throughout the year. It assisted in moving the largest apple crop on record. It i3. expected that every city and comunity in the Northwest ITIOML APPLE DM NEXT MONDAY Apples Going by Water from Oregon; Harvest is About Over 2P Eyesight Specialists MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Building Salem, Oregon A call today may save need less pain and suffering In the future. Statesman Classified 9 Ads. Cost Little But sPay Big HOTELIiIARION i SALEM, OREGON The Largest and Most Complete Hostelry in Ore gon Out of Portland Furnace for yiur home Buy the Ore gon Made. W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th and Oak Sts., Salem, Or. Phone 88$ Dodge Brothers SEDAN ; Bonesfeeev Motor Co. 1848 S. Comi St Phone 4 Build your modern home with burned building blockscheapest and, best for durability, absolutely fire-proof. j 1 - i ! ! Drain Tile of All Sizes Manufactured by VI SALEM TILE & MERCANTILE CO. r . Phone 917 Salem, Oregon OREGON PULP & PAPER CO. SALEM, OREGON ' Manufacturers of r,, High Grade Wrapping Papers and Paper Specialties A. C. Bohrnstedt Realtor Life, Fire, Health, Acci dent; Auto and Indemnity Insurance. Bonds and Mortgages, City Building i Loans 407 Masonic Bldg., Salem. Or. FAIRMOUNT DAIRY i Schindler Bros. Prop. Dealers in Milk and Cream Wholesale and Retail ; Phone 725 Salem, Ore. "Where The Crowds Always . i . Shop" t PEOPLE'S CASH STORE SALEM- OREGON i Monday, Octoher 31st Hallow e'en day. This is the big day, for It is the day which will be ohserY. ed from Seattle to San Diego, and Qntty in roofing is what gives it resistance to nra and rain the two worst enemies of roofing. Quality in Mal thoid is built-in. That't why it lasts so long why it's the cheapest roofing you can bay. There is no better protection for house, barn, shed, fruit warehouse, shop, garage, etc Comes in three thicknesses. Cement, nails and directions in each roll. Ah 9 ask tm.t MaJtkeid Skiiihs. rid and grttn Spaulding Logging Co. No paint necessary for ten years. - OUR TREES Carefully Grown Carefully Selected Carefully Packed Will Give; Satisfaction to the Planter SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Building Phone 1763 Additional Salesmen Wanted. Plumbing A Supplies l At Sacrifice Prices I W. COHEN 220 North Commercial Street Formerly Patton's "S1BLOCO" ! Pipeless Furnaces ; $79.60 X And Up : fc Send for circular Silverton Blow Pipe Co. SILVERTON, OREGON Peerless Bakery Makers of Peerless Bread 9c 13c J Try Oar Doughnuts 20c 170 North Commercial St. USE BUTTERCUP BUTTER Capital City Cooperative Creamery 137 S. Cora'l St', phone 29 J Our Idea: Our Method; The Best Only Co-operation Webb & Clough Co. Leading Funeral, Directors Expert Embalmer Cor. Court and High Sts. Phone 120 DRAGER FRUIT CO. Dried Fruit Packers i t ! 221 S. High St Salem, Or. j Always in the market for dried fruits of all kinds Silverton Foundry Co. Iron and Brass Castings i Sawmill and Logging Re pairs, Hopf and Fruit Stoves, I Castings of" all f kinds - SILVERTON, OREGON . Phone Green 931 THE CAPITAL I BARGAIN HOUSE I i i- Buys and Sells Anything Associated with ! CAPITAL JUNK COMPANY : 215 GitecJ3C:. Phone 398 W. T. Rigdon S Son Progressive Funeral Directors SALEM W. H. GraDenliorsf & Co. 1 REALTORS I' Farm and Fruit Lands Small Tracts and Invent ment Telephone 515 275 State SL, Salem, Ore. THE 1 BOY SCOUTS . deserve the support of . everyone who wishes ; to inculcate high prin- ' ciples of manhood into : the youth of our land This space paid for by 1 Thielsen & Rahn i