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Hunt Bros. Packing ompany Salem, Oregon ;r Quality; Fruits, Proper growing, Proper i packing, I Intelligent Belling, Courteous treatment, Commnjnity service, Are the steps to business success DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products King's Food Products Company Salem Portland Oregon fit:- 1 Gidetfn Stolz Company . Salem Oregon ' Manufacturer f Pore . Cider' Vinegar r Carbonated Beverages I ., V;., and -, . f' . .; j. . Ume-Salphnr Solution Truck delivery to ell of tho j V Willamette Valley : J. L. Busick & Son GROCERIES Stores: " SALEM ALBANY V WOODBURN ' "Eventually Ton Will ? t Buy at BUSICK'S" mLS0N:BR0S. ! ; .., V-:,: : -A - ' i , Warm AW faneeM. -plnmblnc. beating end aWt notcl xrork, tim',( nd travel roof I nr. teneral Job bine in tin. ud galvaaUed Irom work..;":.;Tf-,f.'i ' .K-' .i" A'- -.H 1 ' ' '' ';'. " ''U.";' 95 Cbomeketa It. Phono 1906 ; Dixie Health Bread ;i Ask Your Grocer At Yoar Service Salem street railways j convenient, safe comforts able and economical. i Buy Tickets by the Strip! They save time and I speed up service. i Southern Pacific Lines FOR YEARS :T1i fltitMmaiT bit ba nttrolT- In lha wants of tho critical job 4 printing ', trad Tfot potltlTo w ara prtatsr of worth and tterii. ' Hodeni oqaipavat aad idoaa ara tbo on that get by. STATESMAN PUBLISHING " us. a. 1 at. IP ; AND YEARS HBBHHnlBniBnlnnHHniBHnnw "L The Way to Build Is to Patronize The Daues s SALEM USES ABOUT OIUE FOURTH OF ALL THE CIS USED FOR PUTTING UP FRUITS 1 OREGON AND WASHINGTON The Pack in Salem in 1922 Is 677,400 Cases, Making, if Filled With Two Pound Cans, 24 to the Case, the Immense Total of 16,257,600 Cans Comparison with Pack of 1911 The Industry Only Getting a Good Start in Growth. W. G. Allen, manager for the Hunt Bros. Packing company, made a remarkable addrcs3 to the Salem Rotary dab at Its noon luncheon yesterday, reriew-i ing the canning industry for the Salem district, and for Oregon and Washington. He eaid that he himself was astonished at the showing made in 1922, for the.-six Salem can aer'es. T ' ' Their pack tor 1922 will show about 677,400 cases, valued at about two and a halt million dollars, against about 415,0.00 cases ot salmon for the whole Columbia river, ' pack; . .j valued, however, at- about the same amount. ; . ? Of this two aCJ a half mil lion dollars, the growers get about one million; there goes for labor and boxes .about $500,000. and the other mUUon goes for sugar, cans, overhead, deprecia tion, investment, and other sup plies. , Mountains of Cans, If all these- 677,400 cases'' be divided into two pound cans, of Ed! CHASTAIN CLOTHING CO. 305 State St. Men's and Young Men's Clothing and Farnishins Use mf stairs. It Jyst SALEM IRON WORKS EatabUabod I860" Founders, Machinists and Blacksmiths Comer Front 8 tale 8t. . Manrfactorra of tho Shand pnmp for irrigation and other purpoaea. Corrcapondenco aolie-. itd. Irrigation information aop. plil. Maker of Salem Iron Works Drag Saw a. HOTEL BLIGH rooms of Solid Comfort'" 4 Home Away From Home ' .: F. N. WOODRY Salem's Leading Auctioneer . ' ' ' Sells Everything That Is Loose or for Sale 1010 Worth Summer St. Salem, Oregon . L I N G Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its , Cities and Towns. Up Your Home Town Your Home People Selling .Salem Pep and Progress Campaign . 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. .which 24 go into a case, they represent 16.257.600 cans; against about 60,000,000 cans jused for fruit in the whole north west or something like one- fourth ot ,all the fruit in the northwest be'.ng put into cans in Cola m TVii'a H naa not tnlfA In- to consideration Che dr'ed or de hydrated or barreled product, or that osed or vinegar, Juices. shipped fresh, etc., etc. ; ; Startling -omparLon9 Mr. Allen showed that in 1911 Salem had one cannery, and it packed 40 tons of strawberries. 10 of gooseberries, 11.78 logan berries, 7.39 raspberr'es, 10.29 white cherries, 10.44 black cher ries. 1.34 raspberries, 216 Bart- Jett pears,' 2.68 overgreen black berries, 10.37 prunes, and 7 b tons of apples about 30,000 cases of fruit alt: told Against 677,400 cases for 1922! How They are Divided 1 Mr. Allen showed the 1922 pack of the six Salom cannery to be d'vided about as follows: Gooseberries, 7000 cases. Strawberries, 60,000 cases. Royal Ann cherries. 80,000.. Theo:M. Bart Plumbing, Heating and Tinning 164 S. Commercial St. SALEMcOre. Buy the Oregon Made Furnaces W. W. R0SEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th & Oak Sts.. Salm. Or. Phone 886 We Ara Out After Two MiUioni We a,rfno' pajinit ower..thrf2 qntr'rs -oa aaiUion dollitra a T"r. to the dairymen of" thie aectioa for milk. "Marion Batter" Is. the. Beit Batter. , i. & - " bio re Cows and TSettar Covi la the cryinj need MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 Salem Carpet Cleaning; and FLUFF RUG WORKS All sizes pf Ra and Fluff Rags Voen Old Mattress Steaming and ' Remaking Otto Zwicker, Prop. Phone, 1154 13 H & Wilbur Street Ijj? ADE S District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Black cherries,. 4000. ' I Black raspberries, 1200 Red raspberries. 1200. Loganberries, 150,000. Blackberries, 85.000. Bartlett. pears, 145,000. Prunes, 60,000. Apples 70,000. Squash, 13.000. The Percentage Thrse figures show that the Salem canneries, taking the fig ures of this year agamst the total figures of last year, put up in cans of the total pack cf Washington and Oregon the following: Strawberries, 83 per cent. Cherries, 39 per cent. Black raspberries, 14 per cent. Red raspberries, 1 per cent. Loganberries, 60 per cent. Blackberries, 16 per cent. Bartlett pears, 3 8 per cent. Prunes, 60 per cent. Apples, 7 per cent. The comparatively low per centage on red and black rasp berries is due to the large packB ,made pf these berries, e"speclal- j lv the red raspberries, in me Puyallup and other western Wash'ngton berry growing dis tricts, j Compared With California f Mr. Allen made another start-1 line statement, that Oregon and: Washington in 1921 put morej fruit into cans than did Califor-, n'a, If -peaches and apricots be Dut out of the recicon'ng. in i peaches and apricots, California looms large, while Washington , and Oregon grow and can few of these frr. ts. The Conclusions Drawn Mr. Allen drew tie conclusion, from the showing already made, that the Salem district can do a great deal better in the future, especially on fruits in which our Krowets' specialize, and ought to specialize by using better meth ods in growing; by specializing still further. (Mr. Allen did not venture any advice as to the exact things tUft ought to be done. But there are many things, in the way. of selection of varieties, choice of land, cultivat'on of the soil. fertilizing, pruning. thinning, etc. And, in the case of tho berries, especially, irrigation. The Salem district now leads the ;entire world in strawberries; led it last year, for canning berries, n a very unfavorable season a sea.oon of lone dry days in ripen- jlng and picking time. This -die- trief can increase its la, three fold, ten fold, by irrigation. This subject is now uppermost among Salem district growers. It must be kept uppermost. If this is drnie. the Salem canneries will rre long put up not only H3 per I cent of the canned strawberries jot Oregon and Washington they will put up 8.1 per cent ot the strawberries 'n cans in the whole t'nted Slat's; Resides making great shipments in the "resh state and putting millions of pounds into the barreled pack. SOl-t Orefcon BJdg. Salem, Oregon A call today may save needless pain and suffer ing in the future WiDametteYaBcy Prune Association The oldest Association In the Northwest. W.T. JENKS Secretary and Manager - . Trade & Hfeh Sts. j:, Oregon v . Ij Eyesight Specialists y V MORIUS OPTICAL CO. j M ill E BLACKCAP RASPBEI BE PRODUCED BY OUR FRUIT GROWERS They Thrive and Yield Well on Moist, Wejl on Moist, Well Drained Soil In Some Localities They May Be ; Depended on With Proper Attention to Give Larger Yields than the Red Raspberries Favorite Varieties (The following article was con tributed by W. S. Brown, of the Orepon Agricultural college, to the February issue of the Oregon Grower, tho magazine of the Ore gon Growers Co-operative associa tion, and it deserves careful read ing and wide attention in the Sa lem district) : At the present time growing of the black raspberry is confined to a comparatively small number of sections in the state. The Spring brook and Newberg districts lead all others by a large margin. Blackcap Deserves Wider Atten tion Tha blackcap raspberry is un doubtedly worthy of more atten tion than' it has received in the past. It makes a splendid pro duct for the tab la in any one of several different ways; the fresh berries are fine either for sauce or pies, the black raspberry, when properly canned, is one of the richest and finest flavored sauces that can be obtained from fruits. It lends itself especially to the making of excellent jams, and dries to the bast advantage of any of the small fruits, drying out from 20 to 25 pef cent of its fresh weight. The blackcap is easily cared for and requires less hand labor than many of the other small fruits. On the whole, this industry should ba encouraged by being more widely advertised. When the merits of the black raspberry be gin to be known to the average housewife in Oregon, the prices of this delicate and delicious fruit will increase. The statement is often seen in literature bearing upon bramble fruits, that the black raspberry does not produce as, well on the Pacific coast as does the red raspberry. This is true as a general rule, but when careful selection is mada of soil and Blope, coupled with good cultivation, careful pruning and protection against pests and enemies, and when in addition the fertility of the soil is carefully maintained, the black cap will in fact regularly outyield tha red raspberry. In the east the black raspberry is regularly counted upon to outyield tho red Taspberry. Varieties Recommended In a state which has be?n grow ing small fruits successfully for iso many years we are safe in rec ommending four or five leading varieties that have proved them selves especially good. From time to time many varieties are brought forward, some of which have considerable merit; others of which will not do well under our conditions. The best thing for the grower to do is to try a few of these many varieties as a sort of a local experiment on his place, and to couple with the in formation ho obtains any further advice he may g-t from the state experiment station or from other growers who'may have-grown and tried out the variety in question. Karlj to Mid-Season Plum Farmer vigorous, heal thy and productive. Munger moderately vigorous, productive. Cumberland strong; grower, healthy and productive. Late Varieties , Gregg vigorous and produc- Our growers have the vis'on, too, and they must follow it. They must got water onto the land at the time when it is needed to make larger berries aad extend liha. picking season.) DISTRICT The Surest Way to Get Industries Is to Support MUST live, but somewhat Render to cold, and somewhat crumbly for a can ning variety. Of the four varieties mentioned above, the Plum Farmer and Munger are the leaders in some section of the state, while the older varieties Gregg and Cum berland, lead in other sections. Purple Canes are crosses be tween the red and black rasp berry. The best of the purple canes are undoubtedly the Colum bia and Schaffer. The growing of purple canes should be encour aged in some sections of the state, especially those near 1. ije fresh fruit markets. Moisture is Xeoded 'Te black raspberry requires a deep, rich, cool, moist soil, very well drained. When sufficient water can ba added by irrigation. the black raspberry will do its best on sandy loam soils. Under Willamette valley conditions, however, the plant does best on a light friable clay ldam that is fairly retentive of moisture. Un der no conditions should the black raspberry be planted on poorly drained tight clay loams. They will soon die out and will be unprofitable from the start. The slope should be to the north preferably because the black raspberry should be kept from being shriveled up, from the heat of summer and becoming too seedy. The north slope is cooler and can ba kept more moist. In ?ome sections north slopes. have deeper soils than do south slopes. Good air drainage is necessary al so to protect the plants against winter killing, and to avoid dam age from late spring frosts. The more humus the soil con tains the greater will be its water holding capacity. There is noth ing that fills the bill better in thif, respect than stable manure con taining more or less straw. Tha cover crops make a very good sub stitute for stable manure, espe cially if a leguminous crop is grown. Oats and vetch sown to gether in proportions of 30 lbs. of vatch to 20- pounds of oats, and then plowed under as soon as plowing reason arrives in the spring makes a very satisfactory coyercrop. In we-stern Oregon careful and frequent cultivation must be re sorted to if the moisiure content of the soil is to be conserved. This means a frequent shallow cultivation rather than deep cul tivation, because the roots of the plants are relatively shallow, and if the cultivating tools are set deeply more harm may result by cutting off roots than good may be accompHshedw by the cultiva tion. Most commercial plantings are set 4x8 feet so as to permit thorough work either with horses or with tractors. Fertility of Soil It is coming to be generally un derstood by the growers of all Irinyln It ... .. . .. viuua ui Milan iruus mat it the soil-is not rich enough for the fruit they must supplement the fertility of the soils in one Term or another if they are to get max imum results. The bsst treatment for the berry patch is to give it a lib eral dressing of stable manure the year ebfore planting. If 10 to 12 ,tons of manure to the acre can be worked into the soil throughout tha fall preceding planting In the spring, the growth of the vines Is usually such thai ny the second rear there is quite a crop upon Ihera, whereas, if the vines are pot fertilized, it is usually the More and Larger Those You Have Why Buffer with Stomach Trouble when CbiropractW wta Remove the Caua , " third season before . they pro duce sufficient to pay for harvest Ing. ! ( In rase stable manure is not obtainable, commercial fertilisers combined with green manures is often profitable. It Is a fact that nitrogen content wears but faster In the soil. Hence the Job of the fruit grower is to build up the nit rogen content so that he will g?t a well balanced ratio of nitorgen, potash' and phosphoric acid. He will know when this is accom plished by the vigorous appear ance of the leaves and shoots. As a rule in this valley, we have enough phosphoric acid and pot ash to provide for ordinary yields, but if maximum yields are produced, they can only bo brought about by increasing the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and pot ash in a sort of a balanced ra tion in the soil. In other words. It will do you little good to increase the n Imo gen application beyond a certain point, unless the plant also has enough phosphoric acid and pot ash to build into its tissues, to balance the nitrogen. The terry fertilizers put out by Swift and other companies are usually good when . maximum production is wanted. If one chooses to make up fertilizer, he can do so by us ing a formula of 4 per cent notro gen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 2 per cent potash. IS THE THING HEEDED i j. ii a p a i i- i ii iviusr Be naa, 100, in Much Greater Measure, for the Apple Industry (The following Is rurnished by the department of industrial journalism of the Oregon Agri cultural college, and it calls at tention to a condition and a need that must have attention:) Car fchortage is chronic and will continue for years, in the opinion or w. F. Gwin, vice pres Ident of the North American Fruit exchange, who SDoke at tha last session of the Oregon State Horticultural society convention. he d on the college campus. "Fully 95 per cent of everv transportation dollar is tied up in government bureaucracies," Mr. Gwin declared. -'RalJToads are mortgagd to the hilt, and cannot expand with the production of the northwest. "Millions of dollars will be lost this season to growers In the We natchee and Yakima valleys, and transportation wi!l be at fault more than markets. "Cold storage is the answer to this loss. The fruit wasted could have been held Tor delivery until the demand opened a market and transportation facilities opened. Fruit is now reaching the con sumer in disgusting condition. ''Approximately 85 per cent of a!l apples grown in the northwest are intended for cold storage." RASPBERRIES VS. MJMBEBIIi Costs More to Pick , But the I P I. . r a nrgner rnce More I nan Absorbs This Editor Statesman: A peculiarity of the fruit in dustry In the northwest is the manner in which the various vari eties group themselves in small districts. For instance, the black cap) industry centers about the city of Newberff; goosebcrriesre- COLD STORAGE We Will Give Our Best Efforts At all times to tnist ta any poslble way the 6tJtU opment of the frilt tJ berry Industries ta liU ul. ley., , . Oregon Go, rackin Your Health Begins When Yn Phone 87 for an appointment : ' Drs. SCOTT & SCOFIELD P. 8. O. CMropractora Ray Laboratory 414 to 410 V. 8. Natl LL . . Bldg. .. ' Honrs 10 to 12 aau. and 2 to p w, TI0.i,f, Improved Farm - Practices the Greatest fnlectlcidcs; Keep Bees! Quiet, (Following are items from i current bulletin of ; the depj. ment of Industrial journalism the Oregon Agricultural collet ) bowing or fall grata or &i and vetch is . unsafe after Kot ember 15. Sowing after Korcr. ber 1 is not generally si go d as early spring sowln.r. OA r. Experiment station. Improved farm practices the greatest insecticides' yet i 3 covered for the control of grs. cal field cron ncets. v Fall ?1 winter plowing, a well prepan seed bed, cleaning up and truction of crop remnants, burn ing over, plowing or other; ! cleaning up fence rows, and d'U banks, and practicing gam xi surface cultivation are ' all ot first Importance In the control of our insect pests. The -pro' gressive farmer who practice! the most -important farm meth ods has fewer Insecjs and insert pesis man nis less progress;. a neighbors, O. A. C. Experiment station. dominate In the F-oik county t!"s, across from this city, and the red raspberry industry seems to ca ter in eastern Multnomah count?, near Gresham. It is not easy to explain tt.'i condition, aside from tha fact that the early growers ot tbef fruits in these particular 'locali ties profited so well that tbe!r immediate neighbors took op tie culture of those same fruits. TU result has been that small com munities ot specialized fruit frw ers have been built up in varioui districts In the northwest,, , ., Perhaps the best example tl this is in the Puyallup valley, sear , Tacoma, which is devoted almost entirely to the red raspberry. Should RaJe More Here There are several, distrlcti la Oregon which -are adapted to . excellent berry. As the raspberry Is primarily a cannery crop, it H the opinion of those who ire i t miliar with its culture that tt proximity to canning centers b most desirable. ! Salem is the canning center of the northwest, having sit larS Plants. The canning Industry i Salem has not yet reached R fullest development. The city ot San Jose, in California, occuplc the same relation to the fruit in dustry of the Santa Clara val'tf as Salem does to the Willnet: valley, and has over 40 cannerici and packing plants. There are several locations neir Salem which are adapted to l peculiar' needs of the raspberry No better location could be Re tired than the Mission Bottom country north of the city."' Tts rich, to olst soil of tuat section i In every way the equal of thePof allup connry.t Rrown's Island'and the land tributary to the Willam ette river between Salem and !' dependence should prove to be ex cellent raspberry regions, ; , . ... ue raspnerry win not ao wc, si however, on wet. heavy or poorty I flralned soil. . - While it costs more to harvest the red raspberry than the !o?n herry crop, the fact remains that the price is much higher year a , and year out, and more than, sh iorbs this difference in cost, I With the expanrion of the can- t "ing industry and with the rn" structlon of cold storage plants l this city, growers should f'Y ' more thought to the production cf. the red raspberry. ', s ' j Earl Fearcf. Salem, Or., Nov. 29, 1922. , r' ; i ... i i . a I i f f it r