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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON .THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 2. 1922 . 1 ? DREGOiJ MINT GROWERS EXHIBIT A SPIRIT OF COHMBLE OPTIMISM The Prices of Their Product Are Low, But They Are Ten ' Per Cent Higher Than Last Year, and Most of the Producers Intend to Stay With the Industry, in a Test of the "Survival of the Fittest' Annual Meet- : ing and Banquet of the Association. The mint growers rot the Salem district are not down ' hearted. They know this Is the best mint country on this continent and they propose to stay with - the game. The following report of the annual meeting and banquet of their association is furnished by Prof. A. O. B. Bouquet, of the this week's Issue of the Pacific Homestead of this city: , The Oregon Wint Growers Co operative association held its second-annual meeting in the Cor valllt Commercial club rooms, Saturday, February ,18. Fifty growers were In attendance. The members who attended the meet ing enjoyed a banquet In! the eve ning. ; -.y ... i : - ',' " Officer's of the' association ra E. B. Wallace ot . Albaiv. prc:i Wnt: T. t ilieen of Co'i ik, vice provident,; and i O. J llo'an of Gerrals. secretary. These men to gether with Hird Jllpkard of Junc tion City and Adolph Zlefle, dean of the O.A.C. school of pharmacy, constitute the board of directors. Ylelti Lust Yrar Mr. Moisart reported, that. 8500 pounds of oil of peppermint were produced by v the association mem Mrs In. the last year from Its 28 S acres of mint. The oil Is being disposed of through the W. j. Bush Citrus company of National City California, which guarantees to sell all of the oil by July 15. Their price Is' $1.48 a pound,: 10 per cent higher , than the associa tion was able to obtain on the New York market. The price last year was IS a pound. The causes of the present low prices are that the foreign market has been con siderably reduced, the yield of oil In other producing states, such as in Michigan and Indiana was high and people are not buying so largely products In which pep permint oil is used. ' Make Fair Profit v Statistics were shown that the T HE HOME ?JAlnLJ. I .nnai w name (The following matter Is fnrnlshed by the National Garden Bureau, - headquarters 431 S. Dearborn street, Chicago, Ills.) , Tli How and Why of Hotbeds , When a gardener installs a hotbed for the first time, he has made a joyful discovery, wonders why in the world he never had one before, and it is safe to Bay that unless he is badly cramped for garden room he will never be without one again. A hotbed gives the gardener at least a month's lead on the sea son, a chance to get all his vege tables and flowers going in ad vance of the outdoor planting sea son, and when It is time to plant the seeds, in the, open ground he may. set, sturdy seedlings In the beds ready, to go along. and give him a crop from two .weeks to a month earlier than usual. j . Theie Is nothing difficult about the management of a hotbed, and a little experimenting - will soon render a gardener as expert as it is at all necessary to be, with the most that' can be lost during the experimenting being a little seed, which can be replaced read iryenough, or seedlings that have not advanced very far. - The principal trouble nowadays in making a hotbed is to secure a supply of fresh horse manure, . wh!tt la ttiA niMr malarial f nr furnishing the heat, the fermen tation of the manure furnishing' the bottom heat, which is the greatest spur to germination and growth. Oil stoves are some times used with success where wianure is lacking. A notoea is merely, a wooaen frame, or, it permanent, made of concrete, to carry glass sash. They may be, made of, any size to suit a gardener's convenience, but the standard size of frame and sash is the 3 by 6-foot unit A hole is dug la the ground slightly larger than the frame. This Is filled to a. depth of from IS to 18 Inches with fresh horse manure, a strawy, manure being the best, which has been stacked up and turned from time to time for several days in order to dis tribute the fermentation more evenly. "This Is packed down by tramping it. the manure extend ing a few inhces beyond the walls of .the Iframe on all sides. ; The , frame la then placed upon the manure and four to five Inches of good garden soil are spread over the manure. - At first the manure will f er rrent quite violently and will be altogether too hot. for planting.. The sash should be raised fre quently to lower the ; tempera- ature and to permit gases to es cape. A thermometer should hang on the side of the frame where St can be seen easily. Sow the seed when the thermometer shwos the temperature to be 80 or 85. Close attention to watering-and rentl profit per acre from mint is as good as, if not better than, the value of the average farm crop There was a general spirit of optimism at the meeting, despite the comparatively low price pre vailing. The history of mint grow ing and mint prices has always fluctuated considerably and there Is no reason to believe that there will not be an improved market price In 122-23. One thing is certain, Oregon peppermint oil, under analysis, has shown that It has the goods. Dean Adolph Ziefle of the pharm acy department related how tests at Corvallis as well as New York and elsewhere had justified the previous assertions that the qual ity of the Oregon oil Is high In essential characters for the trade. The yields of oil per acre have greatly varied due to soil condi tions. Some fields of rather in ferior fertility and moisture hold ing capacity have produced about 25 pounds of oil. white others such as Borne of the lake lands around Brooks have produced from 60 to 70 pounds of oil per acre. Survival of Fittest Some previous mint growers, apparently dissatisfied wltb mar ket conditions, signified their in tention to plant another crop than mint in 1922. Possibly these same parties will be ready to plant more mint again If the current year's prices are good. Like almost every other farm drop,' It is a question of survival of the fittest, with some staying with the game continuously being permanent mint growers, . while others aro temporarily mint growers. "In again and out again." The indus try Ilea In the hands or capable officials who are satisfied that Oregon has the real climatic and soil conditions to produce mint oil equal to the best. r out.aJ3arden ? lation must be given. The boII should not be allowed to dry out nor yet to become water soaked. It Is best to water early in the day, so the plants will dry off by night and minimize chances of damping off. Hotbeds are sometimes started as early as January. Usually March is the month to start hoi beds. It is easy to make home-made hotbeds, but there are also fram as knocked down, with the sash, all ready to be shipped and set up, on the market. Early June Peas of Quality The very finest early peas, at the present time are neither, strictly speaking, dwarfs, nor are they tall. They are intermediate and while they may be grown as dwarfs and without 'brushing, they bear better when given the support of low brush, or a narrow strip of chicken wire. These are the Oradus or Laxton types of pea, which vary from 30 inches to al most four feet, according to va riety. All do better with support, although commcnly grown as dwarfs. They give a heavier yield when held upright. Of the very early peas of the wrinkled type, which is much su perior to the earliest smooth seeded type. Little larvel still holds a high place among really dwarf pees, the vines being only about eighteen inches. It matures in eight weeks and is very hardy and of the finrat quality. A much earlier is Market Surprise. Alas ka' and Maud S., smooth-seeded peas, still remain the earliest of all. . of good quality when , taken very young, but not eqnaL to the wrinkled rarieties, which are not so hardy and cannot be planted or cropped so early. ' Jt la possible with the yariety of peas now on the market to plan a good succession planting, start ing with Alaska, Surprise. Little Marvel, Gradus, Laxtonlan and Thomas Laxton. However, it is better to depend upon a successlonal planting a week or. ten days apart, as the season; may be such as to bring METWOO CP UattHlNG PEAS. the cropping of different peas too close together at maturity if planted at the same- time. The nlanfine' rf twa in doable rows ir inrhM anurt thftu dou ble rows to be three feet apart, is about right for th more dwarr v riot ftir If Ha ms& I'lrniui. growing dwarfs are to be planted iney win neea at least rour ieei between the rows unless they are given brush or wire. The round seeded peas can go into the ground as soon as it can be dug, but it is best to wait a week or two for the wrinkled var ieties to De on toe safe side. The peas should not be planted this year in the same position they occupied last year. Neither should they be, placed in ground occupied the previous season by beans tor best results. A garden, er should study bis garden plan each year with an eye to moving the peas and beans across the garden, so that they will not oc cupy the same space in succeed ing years. Of course, heavy fer tilizing partly makes up for the exhausting of the soil, but it can not whollv do so. TIura t vn veg etables tak more out of th soil than the others and it is more nec essary to see that they rotate. A Handy Garden Incubator Perhaps for a majority of home gardeners the cigar box or "flat" in a south window answers the purpose of a hotbed or cold frame. It is a thoroughly-tried and tested deviee of century-long use. If boxes have not been stored Jn advance with a supply of earth, it will be necessary to "acquire them now and to en oat with a Diclcave or mattock and pry loose sortie frozen clods of earth to place In the cellar to thaw. Plenty of pebbles, broken flower pots, crockery or rough fi- SlfT THE EARTH TO BE UStD IN STARTING SIZOS IN POTS OR. FLAT. IT IS EASILY ONE ANf WELL WORTH THE EFFORT brous earth should be at hand to provide drainage, for a good drainage is one of the sacrets of success in indoor boxes. Bore holes in the bottom of the box. Over these scatter the pebbles or pot shreds and upon this place the coarser soil. The surface soil must be sifted carefully through r. sieve, levelled down and firmed. The soil used here must be lea! mould or its equivalent in texture. Plant the seeds in rows, cross wise of the box. Broadcast sow ing in window boxe3 is wasteful. A large portion of the plants are destroyed in watering and trans planting and often they are so thick ttoey never have a fair chance to develop. A cloth over the surface of the soil, or better still, a pane oi glass, will help to keep a more even temperature and retard evap oration. The cloth must be re moved with the first sign, of ger mination and the glass shoould be lifted and the moisture which has condensed upon it, wiped off from time to time. Care In watering should be ex ercised, as careless sprinkling will wash seeds out of the ground and uproot newly germinated little plants. A fine spray or sprinkling with a whisk broom or a similar article is the best way. The boxes should never be soaked after ger mination starts, but just keep moist. Science SIiowr Home Garden i Bert Among the profits of the home garden is one which is seldom counted, but which would alone be sufficient to justify the txou? ble and expense" of growing one's own vegetables. It lies in the huge advantage of serving things frosh, within a short time of being picked from the plants on which they grew. It has long been known that the ex quisite flavor of fresh peas and sweet corn, to cite notaoie exaiw nlM. bee-an to deteriorate if they were not served within an hour after they were gathered. Tnis opinion has now been fortified by uicn throurh experiments con ducted by Messrs Straughn and CAurch na puDiisnea Dy ine our eau of chemistry of tbe depart ments agriculture Professor Charles A. Appleman of the Mary land experiment station has pub lished a full report of chemical experiments of the same order. The experiments establish that the sugar content of sweet corn will range in the neighborhood of 5 per cent. This in proportion of three spoons of sugar in a cup of coffee. In a normal summer tem perature, even with the husks still on, the sugar content will begin to fall in an incredibly short time, Tver ha n In the first thirfv minutes after picking In scientific lan guage the cause of this is the con densation . of polysaccharides, chiefly starch. Respiration is, in directly, also a factor. In the first twenty-four hours after corn has been picked, thir ty per cent of its sugar will have disappeared and in the next twenty-four hour, twenty-five per cent more. Ahnut thlrtv m. rent of the sugar remains fixed in the corn dui aner ninety-six hours au evidence of the delicious corn flavor has disappeared. Wr&DDiner the corn In' rw!ld paper does not help. The only thing which will prevent the loss of sugar is refrigeration. In a freezinc temnerature. only seven ner cent loss nccnrrnd In twentr- four hours, and in a temperature oi iiny, &Doui nneen per cent In general what is true about sweet corn is true about all vege tables, especially all those which depend upon their sugar content tor their tlaTor The experiments explain why vegetables which are displayed for Kale in the hot sun hours after they have left the garden, never possess the flavor of the borne garden product. They teach a lesson for both the green grocer and the housewlie. First, that If vegetables cannot be served immediately after picking, they should be placed in the refrigera ator, and second, to enjoy the vegetables at their best they should be picked in the garden not more than half an hour be fore they are placed on the fire for cooking And one moral of this is' that full enjoyment of that great Am erican dish, "corn on the cob." is reserved for th? fortunate fami lies that "grow their own." TESTS ON The 0. A. C, May Carry on Fertilizer Tests on Labish Meadow Lands If satisfactory arrangements. now being made.' are completed. a series of fertilizer tests or trials on onion lands in the vicinity of Lake Labish, Marion county, will be conducted to assist growers in determining what fertilizers are of value in increasing yields of onions or in assisting onions to have better keeping; qualities. If the arrangements contemplated are completed. Prof. , A. G. BL Bouquet of Oregon Agricultural college, will direct the general layout of the application and the details connected with the work. The problem is a big one and of immense importance to the varied vegetable growing interests of the lake lands. The latest fertilizer trials con ducted in a definite manner were those carried out several years ago in Washington county on the beaverdam soils. Information of considerable value was obtained p.s a result of the work. Any grower of onions or other crops should check up as closely as pos sible on the. yield obtained from fertilized areas contrasted to those from unfertilized land. Land for feiftilizivy .trial work should of course be as uniform in charac ter as possible. Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE CHAPTER 309. WHAT HAPPENED WHEN LEI LA "TOOK CHARGE" AT THE DURKEES. "Leila, dear! How good of you to come to me!" This was little Mrs. Durkee's greeting to her son's fiancee, and no one could have told from ner manner that she cherished any other feeling save Joy at the pres ence of the girl at her bedside. "It was good of you to think of me and wiant me," Leila returned shyly. 'And now won't yon please tell me what I can do .for you?" "Absolutely nothing just now," Mrs. Durkee returned. "I have had my supper, and my ankle is very comfortable. You must have something to 'eat, and Madge will show you where you are to sleep in the room adjoining mine. I am ashamed to have you go Into it 1 haven't cleaned there this week, and it's a perfect hovel!" "Yes. I am terribly sorry for you, Leila," Alfred Durkee said gravely, shaking his head dole fully. "Mother rented that room last week to a vaudeville artist with a troup of performing pigs, and they naturally left it in a per fectly awful condition." "Why! Alfr " "And wasVt it the week be fore," Dicky interrupted with a face as solemn as that of the tra ditional judge why is it, I won der, that no one ever imagines a jurist smiling "that the 3nake charmer had it?" "Dicky Graham!" "Yes. ma'am." meekly. "What will Leila think? You know I never rented that room to anybody." f Mrs. Durkee Understands. We all shouted with laughter at the little woman's angry be wilderment. Accustomed to her mental processes, her habit of taking literally every things Alfred and Dicky said at the first hear ing, we knew that It would bo sev. eral seconds before she would realize that the boys were ridicul ing her Invariable custom of dep recating her own possessions and nabiu. The most particular oi housekeepers. I knew--for I had been in it fthat the roVm rext to her own which was intended for Leila's occupancy was In spotless order, as inviting as perfect clean liness and tbe reflected daintiness of Mrs. Durkee's tastes could make it. But no matter how care fully she had prepared for guests, she always uttered the same little formula about being ashamed of LIDS Nlf HEART ID MY HUSBAND her rooms And her beds and her cooking and all the other details of housekeeping in which she was so adept. Get along with the whole ot you!" she said pettishly as the sound of our laughter brought the jest home to her. ' Leila. I'm glad you've come. These boys sin.ply pester the life out of me. and they're too much for Madge to keep in order. I hope you'll be able to help her straighten them ouL Now. run along, dear, and get settled in your rooti and have something to eat." "I won't be long." Leila" prom ised. "And when I come back" archly "I'll talk over the best methods of discipline for thsa bad boys." Alfred Is Tactless. To mv rreat relief she had said nothing about having had her din ner oerore coming to Jim. unr- Kee s oeasiaev I anew tnat my little neiehhnr vu in that state of nervous invalidism when Just such a small occurrence would an noy her, make her thmk her ni ture daurhter-fn-lnw wintim in eagerness to see her. That Leila nad seen this and had deftly avoided the pitfall augured well. I thought, for her success in the delicate task before her. The first two weeks of Mrs. Durkee's confinement tn her rnom confirmed rhe in my opinion that tne gentle Virginia girl hv.a rare tact and discretion, founde.1 .gen uinely UDon kinrilv- feeline and delicate instincts. She managed her future mother-in-law beauti fully with jnst the right note of deference in her manner and ff tt had not been for Alfred's own short-sightedness there would nave been no hint of discord. I had wished to dron her a word of warning concerning XIrs. Dur- Kee s jealous cherishing of her canning prerogatives, Out feared to do so, for fear the girl's sensi tive nature would read Info the warning something of the truth of her nndesired presence which had been so carefully kept, from her. But I soon saw that she needed no such admonition, lor she never obtruded her own view or recipes upon her prospective mother-in-law, and listened pa tiently to the showers of instruc tions tbe older woman gave her concerning the different varieties of "preserves" she wished made. 1 knew, however, that besides following Mrs. Durkee's instruc tions, Leila had made a number of the southern dainties she loved for Alfred, and with a man's ob tuseness and a sweetheart's fatui ty, he one evening after supper put some especially delicious con serve into a dish and brought it to his mother's bedside, where Leila and I were sitting. "Mother." he began, "you're an acknowledged authority on canning. -I've never seen any body like you, but here's some thing that beats anything I ever tasted before. What do you think of this for a little southern girl?" (To be continued) PERHAPS LITTLE. MARY DIDNT FIB ON STAND (Continued from page 1) Wait a minute, dear," she said. Tnat seemed to tickle the crowd just as though they had been wondering all along what Mary caned her husband. EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE Ho Heard Knaer Editor Statesman: We enjoyel hearing Mr. Kuser at the meet ings informing man the three ambassadors sent out on a iunketintr trln hv the board of control last summer to get dope" on the boys' training SChOOl Droblem at tha state's t. psnse. iouna to take charge of tois institution. However, when It eomes to the board Of control nr that nart nt the board that functions in this matter sending Mr. Kuser out Buy Your Lumber and building material in Salem, and. keep., your money at home. We can f Ornish all your requirements except Builders' Hardware. Courteous treatment and prompt delivery. Spaulding Logging Co. Foot Ferry Street over the state to "speachify" (which seems to be his specialty) we want to know and shall insist as taxpayers on our right to know whether Mr. Kuser was engaged at a salary and "keep" surpassing that of a U. S. senator, to run the boys' training school or was he hired to do political work over the state? INESTIGATOR. BONUS WILL BRING BETTER CONDITION (Continued from page 1) payment, the same as other claims against the state. "With a view to promptly paylns all claims approved by the com mission up to this time, they have been audited and warrants drawn in advance so that immediately upon the money from the sale of tbe bonds becoming available to day, no delay may occur In the payment of any approved claims for the bonus. It will be the practice of tho department to con tinue this policy, so that when a claim is-approved by the bonu commission and transmitted to the secretary of state for paymedt prompt action can always be tak en and a warrant for the amount immediately fsued and forward- to the claimant. Within the next few days there will be another group of substantially 800 war rants going out from the depart ment covering the second Install ment of, bonus claims approved by the commission and turnej over to the secretary of state f"r pay ment. , : ' tTas Stateaua OltuaOU lis " Eyesight Specialists MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Building1 Salem, Oregon A call today may save need less pain and suffering In the future. OREGON PULP & PAPER CO. SALEM, OREGON Manufacturers of 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 Loans 40T Masonic Bldg., Salem. Or. OUR TREES Carefully Grown Carefully Selected! -Carefully Packed Will Give Satisfaction to the Planter SALEM. NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Building Phone 1783 Additional Salesmen Wanted. 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