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Salem
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IIGITI IS nEEDED EVERY YEAR
III EVERY PART OF SALEM DISTRICT
Some Years More Than 0th ers, Of Course Yields of
. Some Crops the Past Season Under Irrigation in
'!, the Santiam Country Loganberries and Beans That
' Made Remarkable Yields A Study t)f the Accom
'': parrying Table Will Sho w the Reader Why Irrigation
Is Needed Every Year in the Summer Season.
What would it hstve meant to
the loganberry grower of the Wil
lamette valley who saw his ber
ries drying up on the vines dar
ing the 90 days drought or 1922,
to have at hand, ready for hi3
shovel to direct it, an inexhaust
ible store of water for the thirsty
plants?
It would have meant thi3:
Three times as many berries,
twice as fast and efficient pick
ing for himself and his family be
cause the fruit was no much larg
er and closer set, a longer seaso.i
instead of a feverish ripening of
all at one time and not enougn
help to pick the staff, and pick-
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Glasses Fitted
Hartman Bros.
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j Salem, Oregon
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136 Liberty St. Phone 25
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Toggles, all kinds of Hard
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Phone 16S
KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS
COMPANY
DHydrators and Canners
Oregon Fruits and Vegetables
Salem Portland The Dalles
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305 State St.
SALEM, OREGON
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development of the fruit and berry industries of this'
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OREGON PACKING COMPANY
A Licensed Lady Embalmer
to care for women and
children la a necessity In
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the only ones furnishing
uch service.
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Funeral Home
770 Chemeketa St. Phone 724
, SALEM, OREGON
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Also
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Material
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349 S. 12th St. Phone 813
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W r now pylBjf Of tit br
rtn f miliio doHan rr
to tb diryiB of tkig toetioa for
milk.
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Order from your grocer
ers clamoring for jobs in his
heavily laden fileds because they
could make real money where the
crops were worth while.
It would have meant the possi
bility of turning loss nto profit,
c'iscourasement and hate into joy
and decent regard, the slavery of
women and l'ttle children inta
seif-respecting work that is paid
for at a decent wage. It would
have meant hope and satisfaction
and better clothes and an honest
appreciation of one's business as
a farmer, instead of ragged, glow
ering or despondent drudgery.
The p'tiful thing about irriga
tion possibilities in the Willam
ette valley is that assured crops
hpfve always been right within the
reach of the valley farmer, and
an almost perverse, willful ancestor-worship
has kept the varley
from xeaMzing on its natural
riches. Worshiping the ancestral
pioneers who found the country
without irrigation and still lived
to good old age: worshiping the
ancestral hunting dog and fishing
rod and the coast vacation;
clinging to the( habits of the long
ago as to sacred fetiches; refus
ing to te9t the bounties that lay
around them, and trqstfng fatalis
tically that the drought demons
would pass them by western Or
egon has certainly contributed to
her own agricultural downfall
whenever there is a real crash
like that of 1922!
The Irishman's Pigs
There is a story of an Irish
townsman who transplanted him
self to the country, and essayed
to grow pigs. He knew what con
stituted good bacon: fo he start
ed to feed his p?gs for this prize
quality. "Sure an' it's a sthrake
av lean an a sthrake of fat that
we want," he said, sagely; so hf
fed the pigs lavishly for one week,
and then gave them nothing a
all for the next week. When they
up and died, during the lean week,
he thought that Nature was treat
ing him rough lik? the Tans
corps in No Man's Land.
If he had studied biology, he
would have found that equalized
feeding was the only way to grow
pork of any kind. Life must have
a continuing supply of the ele
ments that make it. Take away
any element water, air. food
and life of every kind fails. Sup
ply any one clement in excess, or
in a less quantity than is needed,
and any kind of life R'ows mor
bid or fails utterly. Cut off the
'upply of bone in'.kir.g foods from
the ehild, and it will Mot he!p him
a bit though he b hair-combed
or battered over w'.th bones or
p'eces of lime he will have the
rickets because the bone-making
materials are not supplied
continually, and in the right
manner. Deprive the man
of water for a week, and
then shove him. fathoms deep, in
to the sweetest, coldest spring
water and he " ill drown like a
rat. where a liUI.-j to drink each
day would have kept him in splen
did health. A nerson is not
clothed, wearing only an Artie
fur cap, or a pair of impervious
rubber or leathern boots; one
might freeze, or burn, or be mosquito-bitten
to death, with this
form of attire, even though there
was enough material in cap or
boots to fully nd rationally
clothe and protect and adorn the
whole body.
Water When Needed
A study of the accompanying
precipitation chart cught to show
to the most ardent stickler for
"Nature as she stands," that the
distribution of rainfall is the one
big" factor in raising crops. It
will be noted that of ail the local
ities represented, tha coast, in
cluding Oregon, li33 the least pre
cipitation durin? th crop grow-
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ing season. Orn&ha. Nebraska,
has more than six times as much
as the points in the Willamette
valley during July and August;
Hismark, North Dakota has four
times as much, Topfjka. Kansas,
has six times aj nuch. All of
these other : tatas have a consid
erably smaller total annual pre
cipitation than does the Willam
ette valley; out where they have
rain during the growing season,
they can produce crops that make
Orecon look like a piker.
This last statement, perhaps
should he explained. The Oregon
soil and climate malre for tremen
dous crops of most kinds. It has
never happened hat the total an
nual precipitation was. insufficient
to produce world-record crops, if
it had been carefully distributed.
But crops are aomwhat like liv
ing with a rope around one's neck,
and the rope tied to a limb of the
tree above. So lon as one keeps
his feet on the ground, he's all
right; hut if ihi rope would
shrink and hoist him a quarter of
an inch above the ground, the
coroner and the undertaker would
have certain jobs wth him as the
chief topic of conversation. "Av
erage" precipitation means exact
ly nothing worth a rickel; it's the
rain-when-it's-needed that counts.
The Crons Suffered
This year, there vas practically
90 days without a dron of rain,
in this section or the Willamette
valley. The gravelly sells, under
laid by a permanent stratum of
water, usually at very shallow
depths, do not dry out too read
ily; S'ant roots grow a long ways
to find water, and eood cultivation
may even serve as a siphon to
bring the water to th surface for
plant use. Rut even the best cul
tivation can't always actually
produce water where it Isn't; and
hundreds of thousands of acres of
crops sufferel. Some of the grain
crops, especially the spring sown
grain, were failures Some of the
berries produced only about a half
crop; pastures have produced
about a quarter crop.
Plenty of Water
And yet there is water coming
down from tne rxeat Cascade
range, that would water most of
the fields of th valley; water
that can be had fo- email cost
can be instantly, always ready for
service; water ilia will give the
"sthrake av lean an" the sthrake
av fat'' on the ribs -.f every Ore
e"on farmer, water that the Ooo
Lord put there in the hills Just
as He put the r'.it. fertile acres
in the valley, intending mankind
to use them together, water that
will keen the farmer's feet alway?
on the firm ground and not leave
him dangling in the noose of
drought.
A Wonderful Crop
The story of "thiee times as
many loganberries to the acre."
may sound aoochryphal. But it is
n't. The Statesman reporter writ
ing this article 'ast veek visited
the only field of tctuaily irrigated
logans that he knows in Marion
county and they produced four
tons of berries to the acre; the
average yield way less than one
and one-half ton.i. Had this one
field been properly irrigated, and
properly bro'ight up to the pres
ent bearing season, one or even
two more tons would have been
almost certain.
The field nelongs to Bruce
Howne. near West ftayton. The
farm has been cultivated for al
most 60 year?; to wheat, a good
deal of the time It was good
soil, once, though it has become
somewhat lopsided. i:ke a grass
hopper developing hi-, Ugs and his
petite by us:ng them most.
It cannot nw be called
gooa '.arm, any more
than a man or a horse or a car is
good after having lived 1 0 or
30 cr 70 years on a starvation
diet. But It rroduced four tons of
logans to the ace. this year, and
Mr. Bowne sold the terries to tho
Stayton cannory and has the
eheiks to prove it.
The Statesman has written fre
quently, thi year, of the great
ein possible for the Willamette
berry grower, if be could grow
'arger, easier -ricked berries.
When others wer-s anguishing
about not getting enough pickers
to harvest the'r fam'shinr hrrfe
for 2 cents a pound, the Bowne
field was turning theia away by
the dozen and still It paid only
DIAGRAM SHOWING DISTRIBUTIOh OF RAINFALL
AVERAGE. RAINFALL PER MONTH FOR PERIOD OIVEM.
COMPILED rWOM U 8. WtATMM BUW1.AL DATA.
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MILWAUKEE, WIS. MlfiriEAP0LIS,rtrlrt OMAHA, KEBR.
The accompanying chart, while
not giving the figures for the pre
cipitation at the points named, is
accurately proportioned from the
official precipitation figures. It
shows that while the Willamette
valley points have considerably
the heaviest total precipitation
for (the year, the rainfall here dur
ing the growing season is practi
cally nothing. Wichita and To
peka, Kansas, for instance, with
an annual precipitation of a lit
tle in excess of 30 inches, havo
respectively 12 and 15 inches of
rainfall during June. Uuly and
WICHITA. KAN. 03HK0SH.WI3.
BAAA AMD CUHNriKAM
August, where there is lesa than
two inches in the Willamette val
ley points. The diagram shows,
graphically, the distribution that
makes for regularly large crops;
only by irrigation can the grow,
ing season deficiency be made up
for such sections as the Willam
ette valley.
a cent a pound, with a quarter
cent bonus. Tncy made more
money on those wonderful berries
at that price, fian almost any
where else in the valley at the
higher price. 'Je difference to
the owner if he paid the bonus
on every pound, would be exactly
$60 an acre; that wa his profit.
PoKKibK (Jaidon of Kdon
How could Oregon sit down and
piously fold its hands to the summer-water
question, with the
rivers running bank full and the
crops sizzling in the fields and
the dust deviU dancing down the
parched road and then accuse
Trovidence or "the capitalist" or
the government or "they" of
damming up tahe road to prog
ress? And of oppressing the
down trodden producer?
There is a vast tract of land
in the Stayton section, several
thousand acres of the most beau
tiful looking country In the state,
surrounding this Bowne farm that
raised four tons of logans to the
acre; most of that land, this year,
is as barren and as profitless as
the sagebrush desert east of the
mountains. It is virntently. pois
onously bad; it rob3 men of their
strength and their morals; it
robs children of their happiness;
it robs women of theJr hope and
their good looks, and mortgages
every life that stays with it. And
yet all that land should "be a veri
table garden of Eden an irrigat
ed garden, a savings hank for
every one fortunate enough to
live within reach of 'a bounty.
Irrigation Projects
Two Irrigation projects have al
ready partly materialized to cov
er this land. One of these, Wil
lamette Valley Irrigation, com
pany project, usually known as
"Fullacres," proposed and
ntarted by W. L. Benham of Port
land, and designed to cover about
20,000 acres, fell into the hands
of the Hartman & Thompson
bank of Portland. The first glit-'
tering plan to make a great kill
ing by its development failed,
partly because of the war that
tied up so much industrial money;
the Case is now in the courts, and
the lands lie idle, though several
miles of canal have been built and
the water for this Itowne farm
was taken from this company's
ditches Bowne paid $10 for the
water for 10 acres this year.
Another project, the Willamette
Valley Irrigation company, also
initi-ated by Mr. Benham, covers
6940 acres adjoining but forther
up the valley. Water for both
projects is taken from the same
diversion point cn the Santiam
river at Stayton. This diversion
is below the Stayton power plant
and is an inalienable right, as the
wr'tr understands it, nnder the
Oregon laws. The water supply
is adequate for watering both
projects, a total of about 27,000
acres, without any storage in the
river;. However, It is planned
that j storage will he provided
eventually at Marion lake, the
headwaters of the Santiam, and
at some other mountain lakes,
where by building retaining dams
at the lake outlets a great stor
age can be secured, for especially
dry seasons.
i Why Not?
Why baa not Oregon utilized
this water for raising crops? But
why, Indeed, didn't somebody
write the Declaration ot Indepen
dence a thousand years ago; and
why didn't Napoleon have a fleet
of steel tanks, to wipe out the
British squares at .Waterloo? If
Washington had had a few regi
ments armed with the new Spring
field rifles he'd have cleaned up
the British in jig time! Perhaps
the best answer la, that mankind
wouldn't use the things laid bo
close to band, for his own good.
The water has always run down
the hills of Oregon; the summers
have always been dry, and the
winters filled with rain; but man
refused to co-ordinate the sea
sons, and he richly earned thi
disaster that the dry summer al
ways, brings.
Plenty of I "all
There is a remarkably Tapld
fall in the alluvial Santiam val
ley; even in what looks like a
dead-level plain, the grade being
about 20 feet to the mile. This
grade prevails over the three
quarters of a township that Is nn
der the two ! projects mentioned.
Indeed, it is almost a troublesome
grade; the water has to be
"stepped down," because it would
'have too much current in straight
ditches, and would seriously erode
the banks. This treatment, how
ever, is easy; the country will Ir
rigate magnificently, and it has
enough drainage to keep the soil
sweet and cleant Only gross otver
waterlng would ever "alkali" the
soil. It would be a hard soil to
damage in this way, because of
Its gravelly nature; with prudent
f
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