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THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16. 1922 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON mem a- tlore Bargains Etcij i u it I fi Daj -At A tteNcw Store Worth & Gray DEPARTMENT STORE Successors to W. W.' Moore itcj SOUND TIRES SOUND ALL Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones AROUND The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Is to Support Those You Have VICK BROS. Trade and High . 177 N. Liberty St. Salem. Or. i . : r ,i 1 , ' t" a. U$r t Eat ablate a day VEATHERLY ICE CREAM ' ' Sold ercrywkerf BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO. ' V - . M. Gregory, Mgr. 210 South Commercial Street Salem This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men-men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. Your Health Begins When You Phone 87 for an appointment DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C. Chiropractor JUT rtontorr 414 to 41 U. . TftX'l Sk. Hag. -Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. DRY GOODS NOTIONS WOMEN'S ready-to-wear "fur! CORSETS 4ff 8Ute St. Fbone 877 1HE FEEDING IS 1 am OF IMPORTANT SUBJECT NOW The Practices and Instruct ions of a Successful Breeder, Arthur C. Smith, Who R aised Single Comb Brown Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks and Is Now A Member of the Faculty of the Minnesota University. an on MM TALKS LOGANBERRIES Tha Statesman is often in re ceipt of requests for back numbers of the Issues of th.9 saiem biogau numbers that ran for two years on Thursdays, and of the Pep and Progress numbers that are running now on Thursdays, tak ing up the same kinds of subjects. For instanne. there is now in hand a letter, just reoeived, ask ing for one of the Mint numbers, which cannot now be supplied; of His Experiences though this subject will be taken ud again in order. It is suggested to interested subscribers of Tin Statesman that they file these numbers, or clip and file the articles refer ring to special matters that con cern them, as some subscribers do. Ther-3 have recently been in quiries concerning the proper feeding of baby chicks. The prac- Eyes Tested Glasses Fitted Haxtman Bros. Jewelers and Opticians Salem, Oregon Save Your Clothes m Wtra aae Wmf , y saving yo Itjn; $iy work eoae fty Salem Latfndry Company 136 Liberty St Phone Z6 OWPCO. Ttronm Handles. Mop Han iilM. Paner Pluzs. Tent Topples, all kinds of Hard- wood uanaies xaanuiac- :? lured, by me Oregon Wood Products Co. West Salem Capital City Laundry Quality and Service KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY Dehydrators and Canners Oregtm Fruits and Vegetables Salem Portland Oregon Wiring Fixtures Mazdas Electrical Appliances Salem Electric Company lt it's electric, come to us." Masonic Temple. Phone 1200 The Dalles MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Land FIRE INSURANCE on Your Buildings REAL ESTATE L A. HAYFORD 305 State St. SALEM, OREGON Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the development of the fruit and berry industries of this valley OREGON PACKING COMPANY (At the berry growers' confer- I enees in the offices of the Oregon ! Growers Cooperative association in Salni. December 20-22. Hon. Sam Hrown of Gervais. the larg est berry grower in Oregon, spoke of his experiences a.f follows, as reported in the February number of the Oregon Grower, the maga zine of the Oregon Growers Co operative association:) My first crop of loganberries was in 190s, from a 15-acrc yard. Fortunately, yes. very fortunate ly, it was a very small crop. The less we had the less yc lost. The enameled can was not known at tices of Arthur C. Smith, now a member of the faculty of Minne sota university, but for year3 a very successful breeder of S. C. Brown Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks, as told by him self, will furnish valuable sugges tions to many readers. The value of this article lies in the wide range it covers and the specific -ru i d r instruction it gives. I The Largest Berry Grower For the benefit of day-old chick , m (JregOll Tells 0T SOIIIC Duyers ana omsrsj mere is pinn ed below the portion of the ar ticle dealing with chick feeding: Give sharp, dry sand as soon at hatched. Feed the healthy ones j thirty-six hours after hatching. weaker ones twelve hours later, j First period: For two or three days feeds may be one or a com bination of the following rations, one only at a meal: (1) Eggs boiled hard, or mixed with crumbs of stale bread: (2) Stale bread crumbs and sweet milk; (3) Pin head or steel-cut oatmeal, dry; (4) Finely cracked wheat, dry: (.") Finely cracked, well-seasoned corn, dry; (fi) A good commernial chick feed. dry. Feed lightly-and often and keep the chicks active. Feed chick fed, or finely cracked grains in a fine, dry, light litter, until two weeks old. If stale bread, cracker crumbs, milk (sweet or sour), are handy, feed for variety. Feed gra'ns after three or four days; if not on range, use cabbage, lettuce, man gels, lawn clippingc. apples or clipped ends only of sprouted grains. Second period, two to six weeks of age, grains and seeds: Fetod whole wheat and cracked corn if wholesome. Only the sweetest and soundest grains are fit for the young sto-k, any moul dy, bin-burnt or tainted feeds will 14 1 11 1 - reuu in Dig losses. i ,,nv Q.XT nfr,,v v Dry mashes: These should j provided and are essential to the! that time and the loganberry likes best conditions of health and i to eat itself out of the tin as fast Phone ICS Monuments and Tombstones Made In Salem Tfcia U tt Ml? mmmM w Biz Stock on Display Capital Monumental -Works 1219 t. 0M Optt CwifUrj . A Licensed Ldx Embalmer to care for women and children la a necessity in all funeral homes. We are the only ones furnishing such service. Terwilliger Funeral Home T70 Chemeketa St. Phone 724 SALEM. OREGON Made In Salem bf experienced Swiss Cheese ' maker ;";t";-- 0 Swiss Cheeper " Cream Mck Cheese v Llmberger Cheese Order -from .the factory or . : from jrotir fcrocer V Salca Chccjs Factory On rvd rtfonn scboi roaA V 'tlast e? Bales : We carry the following lines of TAINTS. Bherwln Williams Co. and Bass Hueter Co. Also Everything In Building Material Falls City-SalemLumber Company A. B. Kelssr, Mgr. 349 S. 12th St. Phone 813 DIXIE BREAD Ask Yonr Grocer SALEM BAKING CO. G. SATTERLEE AUCTIONEER Phones: Residence. 1211 Office. 1177 most rapid growth. They mnv consist of corn meal, bran, mid dlings, sifted or finely ground oats. " per cent by welehi of sweet, clean beef sorans. 1ft to 15 ner cent of hone meal for lighter breed, but ' to 10 oer cent for the larger breeds. Supply clean water and milk at all times. Third period, eight weeks to maturity. ot free range: Both rrains and dry mah should be fed in hoppers. Grain: Crarked corn, wheat or both mixed. Mash: Ivran. wheat middling, corn meal. cround pats, equal pa-ts by weight. A half ponnd of sa't to 1C0 pounds of mash: 5 ner cent as it is put in. Canners vere shy. Drying, juicing and other methods of preserving were not known at that time not known commercially. The only way we had of disposing of berries was through commission merchants. In 1909 we were cleaned prop erly. Fortunately in 1910 the en ameled can was past the experi mental stage and canneries began to take the berries. I went to th"? Oregon Packing company in May. 1910, and my knees shook so I could hardly stand up. an.l asked them if they would buy them. He said. "Yes;" finally "I will take a shot at them and dv weient or bone meal: o per , K;Ve you 2 Vi cents, and vou fur- cent by we'gllt of good beef I nish vnnr own rr.1lps " Ymi het scraps. M lk in any form is a j i jumped at it. Didn't wait i good substitute for heef scraps. SALEM OREGON W kt Oat Ailw Tw Millions W r M pay iojt over tbr qotrten of S million aollart y.ht t th dirj Of thi rlioB lot ilk. "Marion Butter" ; , 1 tao 9m ButUt ' , llr cw so4 itr. caws is th cry lag' ao4 . .- . r.IARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO 8alem Ore. . Pion 24 S3 BETTER YET BREAD It Satisfies - Made Bf MISTLAND BAKERY 12th and Chemeketa Order from your grocer If rapid growth is desired, fed beef scraps in a reparate hopper or box. A constant supply of both milk and dry beef scraps tends to rapid r. in. Confined quarters: They in crease the amount of woijk requir ed to rais chicks. If attempted. the care differs from that of range chicks, in that green and arimal foods must be provided. minuto. The crates were to be returned to us. In 1910 I made a little money because labor was cheap. I got the berries picked for a cent and got some money back on my investment. In 1911 and 1912 we left them lay on the ground and the d'eback killed so many that we got a very small crop. Pruning Improves Quality d,- , . . . i ... u.i.'.. . i inui until also exercise. If too clo-ely i , f , , ... plant and we iipv-r aim to train confined, it is almost impossible to grow chicks at a profit, even with the most constant and faith ful care. Specialists of the United States department of agriculture advise poultry keepers to feed about one qnart of srrsitch grain and an enal weight of mash (about l'i quarts) daily to twelve mature hens of the general purpo.-e breed, such as the riy mouth Rock. Rhode Ii'and Ileis or Wjandottes. or about sixteen hens of the small or eg? bre?ds. This would be about 7 Vi pound-? each .f scratch prains and of mash dnili to 10. Leghorn3 and about 9 V pounds of each to 100 generil purpose fowls. It hens have C.-oe rane or large yards contain ng grorn fcd a general purpose hn will oat about seventy-five pound of feed In a year, while a Ia-: horn will consume about fifty five pounds in aidition to the grcn stuff which she eats. to Bell the crop on? year and lose it the next two or three. Bus'ness is not an experiment any more. We have had exceed ingly high prices and exceedingly low prices. I hope we will never see either one of them again. We are entitled to fair prices for our investment and trouble, but not entitled to the exorbitant prices received in the year 1920. or the very low prices in the year 1921. Thare should be, and there will be, a happy medium and nothing is gring to bring that about soon er than this organization. Inv 'ntenl Own Machinery As to the method of cultiva tion. We bought a little Holt caterpillar seven years ago and it has proved a most excellent ma chine, backed by an excellent company, whose interest only be gins in you when you buy a trac for. I am not an agent for the Holt : people, but 1 have given everybody his due. We are run ning that tractor yet. When we started out in the tractor business there were no tools made to use with the tractor. We had to de sign our own tools. We invented some and improved others until we have a nice line to work with. Now we keep only two horses on our ranch of 2u0 acres. We use a very intens've but shallow method of cultivation. We have found by experience that wp can do a lot of harm by cultivating-too deep. We make drain age ditches in fall and : ow vetch for a cover crop. We would just as leave think of going without cultivation in the spring as of, doing w'thotit sowing vetch in the loganberries especially. We got vetch in about one-third of our yard this fall but did not get It all done. Our vetch grows about three and four feet high. It is a wonderful crop an-J fertilizer. WV sow it every year. Wp use nitrnl) of soda and super-phosphate as commercial fer tilizer, and also what barnyard manure we have, and from o;ir experience and study we have ciirae to the conclusion it pays wonderfully to intelligently fertil ize your loganberries and ever green blackberries. We use the same fertilizer for evergrens as loganbrries. We are trying sul phur this year and under the ad vice of the Oregon Agricultural college. I am also trying a little nitrate of soda at the rate of 170 pounds to the acre in our vetch. They claim it has proven very successful and asked me to try it this fall, which I did. I also tried some sulphur, but do not know if it will do any good. I have obtained some wonderful re sults from the use of sulphur on alfalfa. Fert'lizer is getting to be the chief point of interest now among growers, and it should be. too. In 1919 we put nitrate of soda on six rows. I did not let anybody on the ranch know where I put it. Soon after we started in picking the man who has been my yard foreman for seven; years, came in and said: "1 .don't know what the devil is the iratter with those NIMH IN SISTER STATE Seamless Hot Water Bottles and Combination Syringes Guaranteed Not To Leak Prices from $1 up Brewer Drug Co. 49$ Court St . rhone 114 rows. I have got mv !e.-.t nick- up every cane that grows, having ers on them and they never xet found through experience that itiul of them. I don't know what is the matter. ' I asked if the berries- looked nicer than the other berries. "Do yv ufl more berries?" ''Yes. but I can't un derstand it." he Paid. I told him then what I bad done. While we nitrated all of our yard this year yet those six rows that we put year before berries this is a bad proposition. I do not care to have any great big rerord breakint; crop. We do our train ing in the Tall. At the same time n pruning out your berries as in pruning out your apple or pear trees, a better quality of fruit is obtained. Berries are going to b paid for according to quality ! the nitrate on the the same as any oth"r lines of 1 bore one-half more lruit. app'es or anything else. I want to say to touch on the value to you now of what I think of sticking to one firm or cne marketing organization. U yon are a member of ths organ ization, stick to it, stay by it with all the energy in you. Not only give it your berries but your moral support. It has its trying times just as well as any other organization. Stay by it. Cooper at'on means exactly wh;t it says. If you do not stay with the associ ation, sooner or later it is bound 10 go uown 10 taiiure ana ruin. If you stay with them it means success. Cooperation Is F.fscntlal T believe right down In my heart that without cooperative or ganizations like this, small grow ers can not exist. By combining your crops you have a sufficient quantity to make it an object for the buyers to come after them. They will come arter them if the demand is more than the supply, but what yon want to know is that they will take it when the supply is equal to or greater than the demand, xfe can not afford Ijear than the others dd. So that convinces me that the nitrate of 1 soda is not only good for that j one year, but you will also receive 'the benefits from it the following ! years. How many is more than Know. we apply it as soon as we caii after the first of 'he year i the f.rst of February it the i weather permits. Today our yards are practically I free from the cane borr, due j priiic'pallv to the ihel that we ; train our berries in the fall. o not know about the otlv.-r ard.s in the country, b-it 1 am ! convinced that our yards would i be almost wiped out within a few , vars wiin me cane bore? it we . did not cope with the little rasca and keep him down. An effort ; is made to locate all infested I canes and the borer killed hv means of a wiro thrust down into the cane. Then wc got mixed up with the anthracnose. By spray ing we got rid of it. Then we kot mixed up with the raspberry sawfiy. He is a little animal that if you don't get him first he will get yon. By spraying we are ablo to bold film in check also. (At the berry growers' confer ences in the of fices of the Oregon Growers Cooperative association n Salem, Iecember 20 to .22. Frank B. Bill, manager of the Se bastopol Berry Growers associa tion, of Sebastopol. Cal., delivered the following address. pubHshea in the February Oregon Grower, the official magailne of the Ore gon Growers' Cooperative associa tion:) If I can. in giving you a short history of my association, the Se bastopol Berry Growers, bring to you any information that will as sist you in solving any of your own problems I shall be-greatly pleased. And if I can, as I expect to do learn something from tMs convention. 1 shall be both pleaseu and satisfied. I shall have borne idea of your conditions here and some of the problems fac'ng you. They do not differ much from out own. We have a marKet tor fresn berries which you do not have. Our success consists principally in this, that we have been able to eain and retain the confidence ot growers mainly through getting them better prices for their ber ries than they could otherwise get We have also built up a good shipping trade which has proven very profitable. We do not regard you Oregon and Washington growers as com petitors, in the sense in which -hat word is applied to business gener ally. It is true as matters siann now that we are competing vmn you to a certain extern, uui are looking forward to the aay when this small amount of compe tition can be removed. Markets Mut Be OeTolopod This is no serious problem ol iroduction. nor am I ready to be--eve that ther is yet a prob'em of over-production There Is J market for all we produce but cooperative orgsnizat:on alone an develop it. Your problem and our problem is to find a protitabie- market for that which , we pro duce. We in California have learned that the grower xnut not only produce the best quality of commodity possible, but he mnst also through proper cooperat'on and organization f'nd and develop a market also. Dependence must not. can not be placed on those dealers, brokers and canners, too. if you please whose sole interest in the business is prompted ny the profit they, themselves derive from its conduct You will understand that our whole district is in one sect'on about 20 m'les Ion? by 10 mi'es wide A country of rolling hills and with much clayey soil resem bling in many ways your Salem district here. The Gravenstesn apple Is our best money maker nd the principal reason we are in the berry business is that berres. offering as they do. quick returns. were the best crop to interolant with, so that an income might be had while the trees were com'ng to maturity. We still have many acres of, undeveloped land so that we will be in the berry business for som" time yet. In addition to handling berries as a cooperat've association our Joint stoek companv of grower stockholders engaged at the start of our organization in a retail hay. gram. fei. box shook, spray material and fertilizer business. This enables, us to keep a year 'round organization. Many Berrien Shiptl Fresh We have developed a market lor approximately one-third of our production which without cooper ation would never have been de veloped. And it has always been a profitable market. I refer to our middle west shipping trade. In normal seasons we ship about 12." carloads of 600 21-pint double deck crates, or about 7."0 tons, of which one-third to one-half are loganberries. This business has paid from $20 to $80 more p-er ton each year than has our can nery grade. We have markets for three times as many loganberries as we are now shipping and we are urging our growers to plant lo ganberries to take care of this trado. In normal seasons we can ship SO per cent of our loganberries, but we have had seasous when weather conditions Interferred to such an extent that 50 to 0 per cent of our logans were forced in to the cannery. In 1916 when the demand for logans was not equal to the supply we put In a logan berry Juice plant and leaaod It to a san rancisco iirm, or jn berries crushed that season .wj received $50 per ton as compared j with $38 tor canning grade: Our association has made hun dreds or thousands of dollars for, our growers in the 13 years , we have been operating. Let me give you some figures to prove this , statement. In 1917 there was still i a considerable tonnage of berries outside the association. We urged these growers to join the associa tion that year, as we had been do ing every year, but without much success. The majority of them wanted to se'l their own crop and wanted to know what they werj going to get for It. Kvamplc 1'iove Value Our own growers delivered to us that season 2200 tons of ber ries. Had there been no associa tion the offering prices would in all probability been lower than the $50 to $55 a ton, but usin those prices for a comparison and our profit on the 500 tons aa a basis for figuring, our growers re ceived because of the association that year, $79,200 more tor their crops. . Here is another example. On of our growers who had a cfop of 50 tons of loganberries in 1919 ; decided that he could make a bet ter sale than the association so ht withdrew his contract and' aoltl his entire Crop of 50 tons at $13! per ton. Had he remained In th association he -.vou Id have Tecelvi ert $2f8 per ton. He consequently received $143 per ton elsa, or thfl neat sum of $7150 teas, than ht would have been paid bed he re mained loyal. , j These examples prove conclus ively that cooperation pays and that the Sebastopol Berry Grow ers, association has justified , !t existence and that it has done something for the berry growers of the Gold Bidge section. What our association has done, your, as sociation can do. ' j Your problem Is bigger, rthan ours. You have many t'mes more berries and you do nol have the shipping ontlet. However I be lieve that the fact of our shipping so many loganberries fresh will serve to create a demand for the canned berry, the evaporated ber ry and for loganberry Juice. It Is up to your growers to organize and help create this demand by judicious advertising and by put ting out your products manufac tured by yourselves and- under your own brands, fill the demand with profit to yourselves.- National advertising campaigns universal grades and brands, to say nothlnr of distribution ot highly perishable products, aa well as those rendered less perishable but none the' less seasonal by proper preservation, can not and will not be developed or carried on by private firms It Is true that certain of our larger packers have done snd are doing eom? very good advertising of-our pro ducts, but their efforts do not have the "pep" and push behind tnem mat the growers' own cam paigns have. Neither does Jt hav the appeal to the ultimate con sumer that the growers' own ef forts have . . HtrJvMifc Toward Goaja The ultimate goal of our Cali fornia Growers association Is the placing in the hands of dealers our prooucts prope-rly graded, packert and branded In our own plants, and under our own supervision. Tart of this program Is now being realized by several of our larger assoclat:ons. My own organization ha. much to do before wa reach this goal. P. ZZ ,ar nre,y worftlng toward t. Th's goal we know can only be reached by the thorough or ganization of the producers The producers most organize and tay organized through thick and thin. Your own association. your Mstlnd" and other brands, the general plan and conduct of your organ'zation points out the same goal. Your Oregon Growers must organlwj as we are organized: otherwise you will peopardlze our sduccess. We may be selfish in our interest in you; but selfish or not. we want to heln you. The Sebastopol Berry Growers association organized about 13 years ago has achieved some mea sure of success. Beginning with oniy a small percentage of the berries of Sebastopol section un der contract and with only a small membership, about &' growers out of about 250 we have gradually gained through, the years until we bow control about 90 per rent of the' tonnage and our membership numbers iT5; ol whom about 44)0 are active grow ers. The total tonnage of berries handled in 1920 was approximate ly 3.000 tons, 400 tons being lo- (Continued on page 7) ' 4