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SEVENTY-jSECOND YEAR
SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY .MUllMNt;, NOVEMBER 30, 1922
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REQUISITES OF THE SUCCESSFUL
PpUCTH illSPBFiy CROP
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There Must Be Favorable. Harvesting Conditions, in Or
der that the Berries May Not Dry Up on the Vines,
and the (Question of Help in Picking and Packing
Time Is (Also an Important. Consideration.
Editor Statesman:
In compliance with your Invi
tation of the 213 rtt inst., I hereby
submit a few thoughts relative to
the raspberry jlndustry in West
ern Oregon, for the Slogan page
of The Statesman:
In a general way I wish to say
that the production -of this tooth
some fruit has a bright future
In certain sections of our state.
But there are many limiting fac
tors to the profitable production
of the red raspberry. Among
them are suitable soil. This fruit
in u fit have good soil drainage to
take care of the excess water of
the; winter season as well as a
soil with good; capillary qualfties
to furnish moisture during the
growing seasoii In response to fre
quent cultivations. The soil must
be : well fertilized, preferably a
light sandy loam with an open,,
porous subsoil Jo afford drain
age, i
Favorable Harvesting Conditions
Another desirable condition is
a location that Is' favored by the
availability of a high sea fog that
the July sun does not penetrate
until ten or ieleven o'clock a.m
during this harvest month. This
condition shortens the heated
period of thej day and prevents
excessive evaporation at this crit
ical period of production (the har
vest period). The Gresham dis
trict fortunately has all of these
- natural advantages, to which we
attribute our success in getting
larger yields c f choice fruit. The
harvest season, here covers a sea
son; of from $0 to 40 days, and
the! fruit of this last picking is
as large and luscious as the first
picking.
Question of Harvest Help
" Another limiting .'factor in
' raspberry production Is harvest
help. We cannot keep pace with
other Industries in reducing har
- vesting costs,, s s the only harvest
"ing device w know of Is 'the
'tbtrmb jflid tuo "fingers of the
: human hand (pf course our bus
iness f of berry harvesting is like
; the fag pickers never depressed
because it is always picking up),
but I am sure the harvest prob
lem will tend to curtail produc
tion and must add materially to
costs and will have a tendency to
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Don't stay crippled! Get a small
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wonder what bjecame of the back
ache or lumbago pain.
Rub old, honest St. Jacobs Oil
whenever you have sciatica, neur
algia, rheumatism or sprains, as
it is absolutely - harmless and
doesn't burn the skin. Adv.
your druggist
moment after
confine the industry to territories
near large centers of population
where hejp is available not only
for the harvesting of the fruit
but ulno for the canning, which
requires many human hands to
sort into tlie five grades that the
trade demands. i
ItarrcliiiK the Berries
We have another method of
saving the berries that we look
upon with much favor: This is
the barreling and freezing of the
raw fruit, which has passed th
experimental stage and is adapted
to the handling of all kinds of
berries. This plan is simple and
cheap and is received with favor
by the jam, preserve, jelly, juice,
extract and pie manufacturers and
will make the handling of a larg
er acreage possible.
In speculating on the future of
the berry business we are forced
to admit that the near future is
none too bright, owing tb many
causes, chief among which is our
narrow foreign national policy of
trying to live unto ourselves and
let the rest of the world go hang,
which has depressed 'values in
farm products, especially in the
middle west (which was one of
our best berry markets),, so that
they cannot afford to buy our
berries. '
This condition is also made
more acute by war time freight
and express rates, which is a
very keen two-edged sword that
cuts both ways. I could also men
tion the fact that the fruit dealer
has not broken away from the
habit he formed during the war
of doubling the price between the
factory and the consumer. These
are great economic problems and
the. farmer must have immediate
relief or go out of business. The
truth is, the agricultural horse
has been stolen in the past two
years and it is a little late to lock
the barn,' but better late than
never. If foreign exchange could
be stabilized aid starving E.trope
could take our surplus forvl pro
ducts at a profitable price to our
farmers, it would surely help our
berry market as well as the mark
et for all other products, boh
domestic and foreign. I may be
over concerned, but have always
figured that agricultural prosper
ity should come first, and if our
farmer population of 32,000,000
people were prosperous all other
interests would be well taken cire
of and prosperity would be gener
al. You will pardon this digres
sion from the topic, RASPBPER
RIBS, but I am sure there is a
very sympathetic connection be
tween the prosperity of our mid
die west farmer and our fruit
market.
I wish to say in closing that
we have built up a purely co-oper
ative association of berry growers
in this district that is now four
years old and has been of material
benefit to its 275 members who
have in bearing nearly 1000 acres
of berries. We have managed to
prevent the slump that has brok
en the price of other truck, fa ;n
products to a price little above the
cost of marketing, and unless con
ditions grow very much worse we
will be able to pay a fair price
for the harvesting of the berries
and have enough left to pay the
taxes and buy tbe baby shoes.
Hoping the worst is past, I am,
truly yours, D. E. Towle.
Gresham, Or., Nov. 24, 1922
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TTndtf IT. 8. Government Supervision
Cooperation
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When you open an account with this
bank you automatically enlist the com
bined cooperation of all our officers and
directors, no matter whether your ac
count be large or small.
We have found that one of the best
ways to make our bank grow is to help
our customers to grow.
MAY WE COOPERATE WITH YOU?
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'You Are Going on a Long Journey."
Mother Graham was ""cominjr
down-1 with it. and I was wildly
anxious to aet her to bed and b3-gin-to
minister to her as soon as
possiM. I knew U-tter. how!
ver. than t. say anything more
about i: for a few minutes. Shie
was in one o: the cantankerous
moods when any insistence on mj
part would have sent her into an
unreasoning rage. That she wais
perfectly capable of going out ankl
gttinpr the fuel to build the fire
if I did not hasten, I knew per
fectly well.
So I roe harriedly and went to
th door, tossing back the protest
I knew f he wanted orer my shoul
der. How perfectly absurd, moth
er." I said. "You know I'm only
too glad to build you a fire at
any time."
On my way out to the woodpile
at Hup hack of the house 1 tapped j
lightly on my father's door.;
where, by a cljancw for which I
blessed .my lucky stars, he had
taken Junior for one of the romps j
the little chap loves.
Mother Graham's Orders
"Father, dear," I whispered
hurriedly when he had opened the
door. "I am afraid Mother Gra
ham is coming down with an at
tack of influents, although she
herself will not admit it. Will
you put on Junior's things and
take him outdoors immediately?
I don't want him to get into the
room with her."
"Of course you don't," my fa
ther whispered back. "I'll take
him out at orce. But my dar
lingbe careful yourself'
I was absurdly pleased as I
sped down the hall that he had
uttered no protest against my
acting as nurse, as so many fa
thers would have done. That he
; understood I could and would do
i nothing else, and that he approv
j ed, I was as sure as I was that
! his heart was torn with anxiety
i for me.
With a basket of chips In one
hand and an armful of li?ht wood
held in the other arm. I hurried
back to the sittinu room, and in a
short tim had a wonderful fire
blazing in the k rate, li made, tbe
room so warm that I felt most un
comfortable, but Mother Graham
moved her chair close to the
blaze, and bent over it with out
stretched hands as if she could
not get warmed even with its aid.
"Wojild you like a cup of hot
tea, mother?" I asked, knowing It
would be useless to propose any
thing more strenuous until she
herself should admit that he was
ill.
''I'd like something," she re
torted tartly. "I'm freer Ing to
death. What are you doing run
ning around in that thin house
dress without your sweater Go
and put it on at once, and then
make me some tea. You'll be
catching your death of cold, and
then I'll have you on my hands
for e sfrepe."
If I had not known from long
experience how loyally and de
otndly my mother-in-law would
nurse me through any illness, no
matter how severe, I should have
felt aggrieved at hr ungracious
ness. As it was, the only emotion
I experienced besides my ever
mounting anxiety for her, was
annoyance at the prospect of hav
ing to wear a sweater In that
overheated room.
If I could only discipline her, I
tenected. as one would a retrac
tory child, the problem of earing
for her would be much simplified.
As it was, I foresaw rn arduous
task before me.
(To be Continued.)
COMES
NEXT MONDAY
Pendleton Man, as Acting
Governor, Will Help Passu
on State Budget
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Adele Garrison's Xew Thase of
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
CHAPTER. 173.
WHY MOTHER GRAHAM
WORRIED MADGE. j
The weather must be changing, j
Margaret. It's very cold in here.
I wi3h you'd start a fire in the
grate." I looked at my mother-in-law
keenly. She had slept late
as, indeed had we all upon
the morning following Leila's
wedding, but ,ahe had appeared
unusually languid and tired at the
breakfast table, and the request
(The association to which Mr. I
Towle refers is the Berry Growers j
Packing company, of Gresham, I
Oregon. )
tor a fire startltd me as the day
was an unusually warm one.'
She was sittinp, in a sort of
huddled position in her chair, r.nd
I observed that the hands with
which she was mending one of
Junior's little suits were shaking.
"I am afraid you are not feel
in" well, mother," I said soiicit
ous'.y. "Don't you think you
would hotter put that up and lie
dc-wn,? I am afraid you havi h
chili!" i
Chill!" she exploded. "If it's
a sigh of a chill for an old woman
to want a bit of fire on a cold day,
why then I nfust have one. You
get along and fix that fire unless,
of course, you do not wish to use
the wood or take the trouble to
build it."
She .had drawn herself erect in
her wrath, and I saw with dismay
that her cheeks were flushed,
while her eyes had a curious, in
flamed, watery appearance, as if
she had been weeping.
Influenza! The dreaded word
.seemed to resound in my ears
from the depths of an alarmed
consciousness from which it had
; sprung. 1 know the invariable
symptoms, for Dicky, Junior,
; Katie, Jim and myself had had
mild attacks of the disease at in-
tcrvals during the winter. Both
I my mother-in-law and my father
I had escaped, something for which
I was profoundly grateful.
, Illness Threatens.
I But I was very sure that
Four Years More Anyway,
Declares Justice McBride
'In intend to stick around here
at least four more years, and I
have no intention of resigning."
was the reply of Justice T. A. Mc
Irrlde of the state supreme court,
I when asked about a rumor to the
'effect that he intended to resign.
As aoon aa Senator Roy W. RU
ner arrives from Pendleton . t
take over temporarily the rein
of the. state government during:
the absence of Governor Olcott.
the state budget commission will
be called into session, to pass on
estimates of needed approprt
Hons that have been submitted to
the' commission by the bead t
fate departments and lnatitn.
tions. ' : f!
All department and institution.
piead have sent in tbcJr fistW
mates and these are now neing
tabulated. What the total wtll
amount to has not yet been as
certalned. U
This is the first year the budg
et commission haa operated, ,-: It
Is .composed ot the governor, the
secretary of state, and the ststp
treasurer, and was created at the
1921 session of the legislature. It
Is la tended to remove from the
ways and means committees of
the legislature much ot the labor
of slashing appropriation ' esti
mates and thereby expedite the
business of the legislative session.
Senator Rltner who, under the
taw, serves In the capacity ot f oV
ernor through' bis having been
president of tbe senate la 1821,
whenever the governor is absent
from the state for a considerable
length of time; has aent word to
Salem that he cannot be here-before
Monday of next week. j'l
Something . else to worry about
tbe Arctic Ocean is get time
warmer.
I
rongheart
I STORE CLOSED TODAY
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back three centuries and with utmost reverence salut
ing those brave Pilgrims of Progress whose Faith was
the; cornerstone of America's noblest achievements
. . . . with as deep a sense of gratitude we ac
cept this opportunity for expressing our thanks and
appreciation for your patronage . . . and so in
the sincere belief that contentment, happiness and
prosperity will always result from a policy of service
to the public, this organization will continue to serve
and achieve.
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PRIZE WINNERS!
MILLER'S DOLL SHOW
After being viewed by hundreds of interested peo
ple, both young and old. Miller's Doll Show came to a
close last night.
Eighteen classifications showing 143 dolls in all,
character dolls, best dressed dolls, brides, kewpies, for
eign dolls, old dolls, etc. A collection of dolls, some
of which were gathered from the four corners, as Ma
diera Islands, Sandwich Islands, Spain, Scotland, Italy,
Holland, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and
Norway. In the oldest class were 51 dolls that repre
sented an aggregate age of 2500 years all prize win
ners will be displayed in window until Monday.
Three prominent Salem ladies awarded the prizes
as follows:
Jeanette Sykes 1st Grand Prize
Dorothy White 2nd Grand Prize
Lottie Green 3rd Grand Prize
Clauda Settlemeier A 1st
Otilla Sevick A 2nd
Lottie Holcomb B 1st
Mildred Smith B 2nd
Eva Klink , Clst
Marie Breckheimer C 2nd
Mary White D 1st
Deena Hart D 2nd
Neva Stolzheize E 1st
Ruth Halvorsen . E 2nd
Esther Price F 1st
Margaret Turner F 2nd
Betty Byrd G
Katherine Hileman K
Jeannette Scott , Kewpie
Mrs. F. Cashman Oldest Doll
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