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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1922)
v4 CallOa Vick Brothers for Orcrland Oakland Paige ; f WiUys-KnULt Mason Tires Veedol Oil Vick Brothers Quality Cars - v - i - ! At' : THeNewStcre Worth & Gray DEPARTMENT STORE "Successors to W. W. Moore Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Hbme People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Is to Support Those You Have 177 N, Liberty St. Salem, Or. - Eat a plate a day . . MTHEEY ICE CREAM Sold everywhere BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO. P. M. Gregory, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street S DRY GOODS NOTIONS ,? WOMEN'S READY-TO-WEAR FURS corsets 'iff 455 State SL i. ; vPhone S77 Eyes Tested Glasses Fitted Vinft MtnnUiy taplleau. f" :. " . y ;."(.' ' -y V Hartman'Bros. Jewelers and Opticians - p. I. Save r ;i Your Clothes lm Work t&d Worry , by kovtnf yoM ! , Art work 4oao by tao Salern o Laundry Company ! 13GLiberty St Phone 25 : owpco- Ilroom Handles, Mop'IIan dles, . Paper Plugs, Tent Togglea, all kinds of Hard wood Handles Manufac ' ' tured by the ; Oregon Wood Products Co. West Salem Capital City Laundry Quality and Service Phone 185 Monuments, and Tombstones eMade Ii Salem ThU to tho only wbam work! .la Salm Big Stock on Display Capital Monumental' i Works 8210 . Ooa'I OppodU OuMUry ,-- FfcOM 8 ... Made In Salem by experienced Swiss; Cheese :; i 'V atlter Swiss 'Cheese Cream Brick Cheese Iimberger Cheese 1 Order from the factory " or from your grocer - ;- Szkm Cheese Factory Phone S1P11 ; On paved reform scinroi roai, ottltart tr eeta . Salem THE COST SMALLER A Lane County Farmer Makes a Profit of $263.95 Twenty Hogs on This Is from the June Exten sion Service News, Osteon Agrl cultural college, Corvallts: Wiley Maxwell, Lane county farmer living near Eugene, has demonstrated that ekim . milk . is of considerable value in the prof itable raising of hogs. ; 4 In cooperation with County Agent Ira P. Whitney and Exten sion Livestock Specialist II. A. Llndgren. Mr: Maxwell recently completed the feeding out of 20 V KM m LK US IGNCS FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY .' ' . Dehydrators and Canners Oregon Fruits and Vegetables ' Salem Portland . ' The Dalles Oregon ,.. 5 Wiring -Fixtures , .. - Mazdas Electrical Appliances Salem Electric , Company -If it' electric, come to o-M Masonic Tempi. . PHone 1200 Our efforts will be to assist development of the fruit and .valley OREGON PACKING COMPANY A Licensed Ladj Embalmer to care for women vQd children la neceMity la all funeral home. We are . the only onea furnlablng; ucu 8erTlce. ;- Terwilliger u Funeral Home ' 770 Chemeketa St Phone 724 SALEM. OttEGON We carry the following lines of PAINTS, Sherwln Wllllama - Co. and Bass Hueter Co. , .: .AlSO : '. ETerythlnj; In BufliUna . f ' , Uaterlai " : Falls City-SalemLumber Company A. B. Kelsay, Mgr. t, 349 S. 12th St. Phone 813 Wo Aro On Aftor Two MiUloni Wo or mw thr artra of mllUo 4oIlr yeaf to tbo doirynea o( Uia soctios for milk.- . . . "Marion Butter!' . to tto Bon Auttoi ; ' Hove oow 4 THifr okwo U to :';-,eryiac oo.' ; - . MARION, CREAMERY This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business menmen 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. O. I. C. and Chester White hogs. ai me ena 01 a ii3-aay ieeuuis ieriod they averaged 220 pounds in weight and brought a total of $513.58. The tofal expense oi raising them, including a charge for grain at farm prices, milk at 30 cents per hundred, labor, in terest on investment, and depre ciation on equipment, was $249. 63. The resulting - proLt was $263.95, or $13.20 a hog. A total of 9300 pounds of STaln and 7200 pounds of milk -was fed. It required 289 pounds of grain and 224 pounds of milk to produce 100 pounds of Increased weight. Mr. Undigreii Btatea tlt it is safe to estimate that the 224 pounds of milk saved 100 pounds of grain ra the production of eacb 100 pounds of gain. The aver age daily Increax! tn weight was 1.35 pounds. The grain fed In cluded barley, wheat and corn, with gome screenings. MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Land FIRE INSURANCE on Your Buildings REAL ESTATE LA.HAYF0RD 303 State St. SALpi, ORECiON in every possible waythe berry industries of tb'ii1 Dixie Health Bread Ask Your Grocer G. SATTERLEE ; AUCTIONEER Phones: Residence, 1211 Office, 1177 SALEM OREGON BETTER YET BREAD. It Satisfies , ; Ifade By MISTLAND BAKERY 12th and Chemeketa . - ' Order from your' grocer NEW Mil FOR IE DFIEGDN GROWERS Salem Mas a New Resident, Taking the Place of Prof. C. I. Lewis (The following is taken from the June number of the Oregon Grower, the magazine of the Ore gon Growers Cooperative associa tion: ) M. J. Newhouse comes to the Oregon Growers Cooperative asso ciation, to fill the position of as- 1 - - - imimimi .i tf -r - M. J. XewhoBse tistant general manager left va cant by the recent resfgna'lion -of C. I. Lewis. -' Mr. Newhouse has made an en'- viable record as manager of the Washington Growers Packing Cor-. poratlon of Clarke county, which position he has held since the for mation of that organization in 1920. In fact his ability as an or ganizer, and his keen insight into the problems of the farmer, were largely responsible for the largj -membership which that organiza tion enjoys. Fully 85 per cent of the prune growers are members, and a large percentage of the po tato growers and strawberry grow ers have formed branches of the sameorganization. No boundary line is recognized by Mr. Newhouse in his view of the Italian prune industry of the northwest. He considers the en tire prune producing area as one vast territory that should be solid ly organized to protect and foster the growth of this fruit. Be be lieves thoroughly in organization, and that the Oregon country bhould be as solidly organized a. 3 is Cla'rke county. Mr. Newhouso was born and brought up in the northern part of Holland on one of the most in tensly diversified farms in the country. It is such districts as this that farmers marketing or ganizations have been brought to perfection, and Mr. Newhouse's father occupies the position of president of a successful coopera tive organization in that country. In 1902, when seventeen years of age Mr. Newhouse came to the United States and was naturalized at Colfax, Washington, in 1910. He attended public and high school in Pullman. Washington, and finished preparatory work in 1907. He graduated from Wash ington state college at Pullman in 1911. In April, 1917, he was appoint ed county agent for Pend O'Reille Seamless Hot Water Bottles and Combination Syringes Guaranteed Not To Leak Prices from $1 up Brewer Drug Co. 405 Court SL Phone 184 '. i ' " ' -- . ! -' w. A v i" j1-,-.. A V m - " '- f r : - ' jb . county with headquarters at New port, Washington. In November of the same year he was transferred to a similar, but larger position in Clarke county, Washington, with headquarters at Vancouver. In De cember of 1919, he was appointed assistant to the director of exten sion at Washington State college and served until February, 1919, when he returned to Vancouver to assume the management of the Washington Growers Packing Corporation. During Mr. Newhouse'a service as county agent for Clarke county he won the confidence of the far mers of the county through his earnest and tireless efforts to solve their problems. He organ ised the Farm Bureau, and from this grew the beginning of the Washington Growers Packing Cor poration in Clarke county. Those who know Mr. Newhouse know that he will take to his new work the same tireless and persis tent determination to do for the prune growers of Oregon what he has been able to do in Clarke county. It is with regret that the growers of Clarke county see him leave for his new field, but they feel certain that any measure of success which he is able to achieve fbr the prune industry of Oregon will be reflected in better condi tions In the industry there. Mr. Newhouse has the good will 6f. the prune growers of Oregon to a remarkable degree. He is a splendid speaker on the subject of cooperative marketing and is rec- F" m m . t . 1 . ugnizea as one oi me leaders in the prune industry of the north west. S FROM THE COLLEGE Hints from the Department of Industrial Journalism , of the 0. A. C. (The following is a current bul letin from the department of in dustrial journalism, Oregon Agri cultural college:) Vetch Good Forage Crop Wooly podded vetch makes a good forage crop for rather dry hill land. Where it is not pas tured too closely it will reseed it self. O.A.C. Experiment station. Late Spray for Anthracnose Many growers are preparing to add Bordeaux 4-4-50 to the July codling moth spray In order to contral anthracnose. When ap plied that early the effect on the fruit is not so noticeable as later sprays and experiments indicate that just as effective control may be obtained. -O.A.C. Experiment station. Dust Controls Flee-Beetle Garden flee-beetles are begin ning to get in their work on po tatoes and other garden vegeta bles. A dust made of one part powdered arsenate of lead to nine parts air slaked lime will prevent serious damage. Mix the ingredi ents thoroughly and apply the dutt to the plants by means of a cheese cloth bag or hand duster. Best results may be had by ap plying it early in the morning and at other times when there is no wind. O.A.C. Experiment station. Calves Kept Growing Heifer calves kept growing con tinuously make larger and better cows than those stunted through lack of sufficient - feed during some period of their development. Late summer and early fall is a critical time for them as feed is often limited. It pays to give them as well as the milk cows ex tra feed. Putting up Bummer sil age is the way some farmers are meeting the problem of late green feed. They: find the practice aids materially in working dairy cat tle to the limit of profitable pro duction. O.A.C. Experiment sta tion. i FIRM MB HI HERDS SET NEW PEG More Than 2000 Cows Give Their Weight in Milk in a Mojhl Break Record " (The following Is this week's bulletin from the department of industrial journalism, Oregon Ag ricultural college:) Another cow testing associa tion milk and butterfat record has gone by the board. The May re port of the ' Oregon association work shows that the Tillamook as sociation with 4442 cows got an average of 44.42 pounde of fat per cow. This is a higher yield than any ever before made by an assorlation herd in Oregon, says E. B. Fitts. O. A. C. and federal dairy fieldman. The Tillamook association is the oldest In the state and has many good records back of it. It has recently absorbed the other two associations of the county and has aDout three times the average number of cows per association. The best herd, for May aver aged 62.29 pounds of fat. The cows are all registered Guern seys owned by Edmunds and Fitz patrlck. The second best herd was only three hundredths of a pound behind. These cows are grade Jerseys owned by F. J. Sharp. The best cow in the association and in my association in Oregon was "Pet," a grade Jersey owned, by J. C. George. Her record for May was 114.62 pounds of but terfat. The average milk yield of the 2442 cows was 1099 call it 1100 for luck probably more than their body weight in a sin gle month. The newest association in Or egon, Columbia county, reports 375 cows averaged 30.82 pounds of fat from 767 pounds of milk for the month. The best cow gave 71.56 pounds of fat. There are 36 herds In the association, and every owner has provided his herd with a pure-bred aire. Jack Widows of Rainier is secre tary and A. W. Loy tester. FRUIT 111G The Experience of a Milton Apple Grower Interesting to Our Growers (The Pep and Progress pages of The Statesman of last week had a most valuable article on fruit thinning by Prof. C. I. Lewis. The following showing along the same line is taken from the June num ber of the Extension Service News, published by the Oregon Agricul tural college at CorvaHis:) Ten per cent is good interest on capital. When one has capital in the form of years of labor as well as money involved in a farm, ten per cent is also an important fac tor, but an astonishing number of farmers seem to forget this fact so far as their management plans are concerned, unless it happens that they are paying ten per cent for some emergency short-time loan But there are countless agricultu ral practices which far exceed ten per cent on capital invested in their particular application and in fact, often by reason of their utilization, brin? about a return of ten per cent or more on the entire capitalization of a particular farm For instance, twelxe-y ear-old bearing Winesap trees in the or chard of J. F. Slover, of. Milton varied in average production las' year from $5.87 ' per tree to $13.62 per tree. There is not much doubt that the difference between profit and loss in the or chard was between these two fig IK S MDNEY wit ta.wtu urea. Another block of trees in the Slover orchard ylelUed 1 11.2 5 per tree. Still another block yield ed 115.12 per tree. These trees were all the some age and located under similar conditions. Why the difference? Good Management The reason lies in the manage ment practice followed by Mr. Slover, who. incidentally, is one of the leading orchard men in the Milton-Freewater" district in northern Umatilla county.. "This district is a portion of the famous Walla Walla Valley. Last spring Mr. Slover felt sure that thinning was advantageous In his orchard operations but he did not know the best thinning distances and decided to. determine them. In consultation with C. L. Long, of the Oregon Agricultural college extension service, he segregated four divisions in his orchard, one division of which received no thin ning and produced $5,87 H of fruit per tree or total 'Value of fruit per acre of $305.50. The fruit on another block of trees was thinned down to three or four inches apart and the ' production per tree was $11.25 or- $585 per acre. ,The largest return was se cured on the trees where the fruit was thinned down to six to seven inches apart, which was $15.62 each or $812.50 per acre. The alue of fruit produced on an acre of trees thinned in this manner exceeded the value harvested from the trees that were not thinned at all by more than five hundred dollars an acre. Where the fruit was thinned down to nine and ten incnes tne production was 15.12 uer tree or $786.60 per acre. Here tne thinning bad passed the point of maximum profits. Similar Work In Other Counties Work of this vind is being car ried on by county agents, in Mai heur. Union, Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Lane, Polk, Washington, Clackamas and Wasco counties this year in additon to further demonstrations in Umatilla comi ty. Field meetings were held on Mr. Slovers place on four differ ent occasions in the past year and the methods put into effect there have served as a helpful demon stration to tne fruit growers of that entire community. A similar plan is being put into effect in the other counties above indicated. E POLK' WEBS Knowles Brothers Have Used 30,000 Feet of Tile ' With . Good Effect - The Extension Service News, of the O.A.C. has the following in its current issue: The two Knowles brothers have a larm oi Z3v acres live miles north of Independence, In "that eection of very heavy and Indiffer ently drained soil. On this place these men have a:d 30.000 f';et of drain tl!i, un dermining virtual: the entire farm. That work has resulted in a different soil entirely. Now the Knowles are able to get' their crops in just as early as those farmers who have naturally well drained hill lands, .ot only are they able to get upon the land month to six weeks earlier than before drainage, .but the crops seem to come on fairly with bound, the soil being warm open and responsive. . In draining the IHtle runs and swales they have followed iht plan of miming a line of tile on either side to cut off the supply of water from the adjoining slopes, then a line up the middle to fin ish. This Is one of. the most com pletely drained and profitable farms in Polk county. n - i - ii - 'Murphy says he was in the big gest battle of the war "Aw, he' such a liar I wouldn believe he was there if X saw him there meself.LegIon Weekly. TiMlli wm OuxvyrMtt WSA tain lit Omm Your Health Begins Vtca Yea Phone 87 V for an appointment , .' DR.O. L. SCOTT P. S. C Chiropraetor Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. in. The Original Barrel Man Op- eraung txiensiveiy in me Salem , District At the corner of Hif,h and. Trade streets in Salem. In the Mangls building, an interesting branch of the fruit packing indus try la being carried on. ; . The reporter found 60 women 1 there yesterday stemming straw berries, and R. I. McLaughlin, the . saiem manager tor h, a. Baker said they needed 100; had made an almost house to house canvass 7 for them, but could not set any more women. On Tuesday they bad to put 800 crates of strawberries ' into cold storage, in the plant of the Capital' Ice Cold Storage com pany, Just acrosa the street; be cause not enough stemmers could be had to stem the tide of the her ries from the crf tcs into the bar rels. : ;': . They are "getting 2000 crates a day, ' H. A. Johnson, Jr.. is the buyer. He contracted early for a ot Of strawberries at as low at or lower than 4 cents - a ' bound But they are plying 5 cents f all strawberries delivered. ' An Interesting Process . They put in a layer of straw, berries, then a layer of sugar, in a new clean barrel. When a bar rel Is thus filled. Its contents weigh 450 pounds; -300 pounds of strawberries and 150. pounds of sugar. They lose about 10 per , cent in stemming and evapora tion. They use all varieties of fctrawberries, but are getting per haps more Treblas than those of other varieties. The barrel of berries then go into cold storage: going to Port land by truck right now; but they will go into the new Salem cold storage plant across the street within a few darsl when some finishing work at that plant i completed. " (Then the barrelled berries are shipped in refrigera tor cars to all parta of the east to the big cities; to makers of J?ms and pellles and fruit juices and what not: to such as the Butternut people, and to many others. -"y i - :. m jg i The Baker plant In Salem will use about 300,000 f pounds ' f t raw berries in air this season. ' They hate contracted for 300 tons of loganberries, at 4 cents a pounds, and .they may use more. So they hate a long run ahead of them.' Who Ig If. A. Baker II. A. Baker,-who Is the man back of all this. Is a California man. He is one of the originat ors of the barreling process. He began away back In 1908. He Is the only man who ever put up the sour cherries of Colorado and elsewhere in barrels. He sends them east in barrels for the great pie trade.-. " j'; His head offlee may be said to be at Chicago, though he spends his winters Jn:.Californl 'and his summers at 4 Sumner, Wash., where he has a, big 'cannery and barreling plant,- working - largely there on raspberries. He has . been In that 'field 'there' since Mr, Baker does not make Jel lies, jams, etc! Jle furnishes the raw materials, ,,for the fac ies of that kind. - r v ' He likes to think of himself as a useful man to the grower, find ing a market for his products at good prices. They used to put in a little wa- -ter , in barreling - berries. Mr. Haker uses none now. The ber ries are thoroughly chilled in cold storage before being put Into the , refrigerator cars. ; i That branch of the disposal of fruits lr a great thing lor the In-, dustry here.y It helps : to' take care quickly of a surplus. And It deliver to the eastern concerns their fruits as they need them, In quantities' as they need them, and when they need them.