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2.. ' THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 21. 1922 - . ' . , s '. . i. I I n n ir tt t t jt r a it tt" ft I .irx IT O TP 1Tn lTiO IP Himt Bros. Packing , Company - i Salcm, Oregon Quality Fruits, Proper growing, Proper packing, Intelligent selling, Courteous treatment, Community service, "Are the steps to business rl success- DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES . . Oregon Products King's ood Products Company --v SalemPortland The Dalles Oregon i Gideon Stolz Company . Halern Oregon Mannfartarerii of Pure Cider Vinegar . Carbonated Beverages and . ' f " , Lime-Sulphur Solution Truck delivery to all parts ot the ' Willamette - Valley I J. L. Bnsick & Son GROCERIES V s 3 1 Stores: : SALEM ALBANY WOODDURN "Eventually Ton Will Bay at BUSICK'S" ' NELSON iBROS. Warm Air Furnacea. plumbinc, llieaUag and ahect matol work, tin and travel . roof Inc. fOBoral j!: ' bla( im tla and galvanisod Iroa work. - ' ; ' a. i i . ' ; ? ; . V;: . I t(5 ,Chanckta St. fbona 190 ! Dixie Health Bread t. ... Ask Yoar Grocer : i Coming or Going? .. . If X t t. : -J ' When 'going On business I or pleasure take the Btreet car for comfort, safety and J convenience. r I A ways at Your Service Southern Pacific Lines FOR YMRS AND YEARS TW Btalnamaa bat beon aapplv. in th wast ot tha critical job " printing trad j irroof poJtWa ara prlntora f ot worth and morit. '''.' ' ' ' - y Modaro oqaipnoat and idaa art I tha oaea that get by. : STATESMAN PUBLISHING tyram x a3 a. a. cn at. I z . ; ; : 5 Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its .v Cities and Towns. The Way to Build Up Your Home Town The Surest Way to Get Is to Patronize Your Home People . Industries Is to Support -. ' ' Selling Salem District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Pep and Progress Campaign ' PROF. LEWIS WRITES 1BEK LETTER FDR THE GROWERS OF OREGON He tells What Thinas He Finds in the Markets of Chi. cago That Refairid Him. W a a a .am i-nenas, ana He uives "a Good of the Fruit Men of (Toe December number of the "Oregon Grower" contains an in teresting letter from C. I. Lewis, formerly editor of that official or gan of the Oregon Growers' Co operative association and one of the organizers of that association, whd is now managing editor of the American Fruit Grower Maga zine,' with headquarters in Chic ago. Following is the letter:) ' " This has been a rather hard tall for the green fruit shippers of the Pacific Coastl The railroad and coal strikes have made . a great; shortage in. cars; .Uptakes much "longer 5 for bears' "tot tratel across the continent than Is cus tomary, and someone, always has to pay the bills. In this case, ft will be the producer on the one hand or the consumer on tha other. Considerable of the west ern fruit has also arrived in mis erable condition because it pos sibly was fairly ripe before load ing in the cars and then was de layed In transit so long that it arrived in te market in a very overripe cadition. Tha east has had a big crop of melons, peach es, plums, pears and similar fruits.. Most of tne' deciduous trnltsln the" country ate still not fully organlzedandSre' dumped in large centers, such as Chicago. Ed. CHASTAIN CLOTHING CO. 303 State St. Men's and Young Men's Clothing and Furnishings L'e my otuirs. 'It pays SALEM IRON WORKS EtUblifcbed 1860 Founders, Machinists and Blacksmiths Cornor Front A Stata -Sin. Manufarturora of tha- Hhaad pump for irritation and other nunmri. Correapondenra aolin itrd. Irrigation information aup piied. Makers of . tUlem Iron Worka Drag Sawa. HOTEL BLIGH IOO rooms bf- Solid Comfort A Home Away From Home F. n:voodry Salem's Leading Auctioneer Sells Everything That Is Loose or for Sale 1610 North Summer St. Salem, Oregon - 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 whgfcare pver striving for greater and yet gijeater progress as the years go by. of His Old Home and Many ' m a. Lot ot suggestions tor the This Section. The banana, orange and most of the dried and canned fruits, how ever, are fairly well orKaizod and do not seam to suffer as much as the unorganized deciduous fruits. Business conditions on the whole in the county are beginning to get better and everyone who makes a survey always returns ra ther enthusiastic. I enjoyed hav ing a chat with Manager Coyken dall of the California Prune & Apricot Growers when he came through the south and the east and ha was very enthusiastic over the outlook for dried fruits feel ing that everything was cleaning up very nicely ths season. I have watched for Oregon Growers fruit on the market and it was with great p'rlde that I no ticed the splendid pack. ' I would say that the best packed pears ar riving in the Chicago market this year were "put up by the Oregon Growers; that is, when it comes to grading and pack. A few priv ate packers have added fancy paper inserts and trimming, which have added to their pack ing. The Oregon packed pears are vastiy superior in weight, grade, etc., to those which have come in from the valleys of Wash ington and are, on the whole, ful ly equal to the very best Califor nia pack and far superior to most Theo. M. Barr Plumbing, Heating and Tinning 164 S. Commercial St. SALEM, Ore. Buy the Oregon Made Furnaces W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th & Oak Sts.. Salem, Or. Phone 88(5 We Are Out After Two Millions We are now paying: oer three quarter of a million dollars yeir to the dairymen of this aertion for milk. "Marion Butter" Is tha Best Butter , More Cows and Better Cows la the crying need MXftlOf creamery PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 Salem Carpet Cleaning and FLUFF RUG WORKS All sizes of Rag and Fluff Rugs Woven Old Mattress Steaming and Remaking Otto Zwicker, Frop. Phone 1 154 1SK Wilbur Street 5j3 of the packs from that state. However, one can always see where pears have been pre-cooled and put in storage before arriving here and many of the Oregon pears are rather yellow by the time they reach the market, owing to the fact that they have not been pre-cooled. California pears arrive in a good, firm condition and even though slightly yellow they seem to held up very well. Oregon I'cars f recently in a fruit store right near my o'fice ttaw quite a big sign in the window. "Rogue River Mistland Bosc Pears." They were evidently some pears which the association has been handling from Grants Pass. In another fiuit store near here I saw a very pretty card from the Ore gon Growers Coopeative associa tion of MJedford, Oregon, which the fruit vender had placed on the piles of fruit. The small Oregon Bosc is sometimes down as low as two and one-half cents ap'ece but that is rare. Tha medium hiied Bosc retails at five cents and the large Boscs re two for a quarter. .PrarcticaUy every fine fruit basket one sejea ic the windows has a tew Boec pears, and it is only a, question of time before the Bosc is going to become even more popular than it is today. I was very much interested in seeing berries which came in from the Pacific Coast this year. They came in from Western Washington in 84 hours and they arrived in splendid condition, es pecially the red raspberries, but I was astonished to see how r.ic'ely the loganberries came through and how well they held up after they got here, holding up in some of the windows sev eral days with seemingly little or o breakdown. Both the loganberries and the raspfierries retailed at a high price, often be'ng up to as high as 30c a basket. Can nod Goods Cheaper There is one mighty hope'ul sign here in the East which you growers in Oregon should take a great deal of comfort from and that is, people are buying freely :at this t'me canned goods, jam j and similar products. A few years I ago the price was out of sight. For 'example, a good can. No. lxk of I Bartlett pears or raspberries used !to bring 65c. In the cash stores you can buy these cans now lor from 27 to 33 cents. The logan berries are being featured in a number of stores and they run from 22 to 25c a can. In a little store right nfcar my home I was browsing over the canned stock the other day and lo and behold, the loganberries on the shelf were the Mistland of the Oregon Grow ers of Salem. Oregon! It seemed mighty good to see that kind on a store shelf. Jam is getting very cheap. One can buy a two-quart glass jar of pure fruit and sugar red raspberry or strawberry jam r. Eyesight Specialists MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 301-5 Oregon Indgf. Salem, Oregon A call today may save needless pain and suffer ing in the future.'' L. Willamette Valley Prune Association The oldest Association In. the NorthwestTj W. T. JENKS Secretary and Manager i Trade & Ififch Sis, fct-a, Oregon - 1 .,N ft m- lit i m 11 1 ' t '' rl ? I V I it ,;" j A am n in 1 mi w k, 1 C. I. LEWIS Managing Kditor American Fruit Grower for $1.07, while pum jam can be bought quite freely for about 89c for two quarts. I find loganber ries being used quite a little but not near as much as they should A large Ice cream factory near my home makes a great specialty of ice. creams and sherbets, making about a dozen flavors each Sunday. I went in recently and had a talk with them because I found that they were featuring loganberry sherbet. I asked them where they got their flavor and they told me it was Phez. Several of the cash stores in my neighborhood have Phez In stock on the shelves. Prunes, Dried prunes are retailing in the cash stores from 17 to 27 cents a pound and I found some of our Oregon prunes in some of the stores, although they are not free ly offered and practically are nev er advertised. Santa Clara prunes are advertised, and the California prune and apricot growers have attractive cards, beautiful cartons and are doing some very effective advertising here in the East; in fact, advertising of co-operative bodies has been to the front here In Chicago. The North American Cranberry exchange, the Michigan grape growers, the Wenatchee ap ples, Sunkist oranges, blue dia mond walnuts and Sunswcet prunes are all being advertised Terj extensively to the consumer. and these brands are all known and very well thought of. It i in teresting to see how the co-operatives have taken the lead in food advertising in our big cities. The co-operative movement Is becoming very popular every day. I have frequently attended lunch es here in the East when bankers and leading business men have been present and it has been very gratifying to see the recognition they are giving the co-oierative movement. Practically all busi ness men are becoming more and more to feel that the salvation of agriculture lies within the co-operatives and that the big problems of agriculture must be worked out by the co-operative movement. 1 have been making a special study of some of the large groups of co operatives here in the east. I re cently visited a very large sroup in Western New York, where they are very sucessful. A member of a co-operative needs to take a great deal of pride when he hears that at the present time there if almost a billion dollars' -rorth of farm produce sold through the co operatives, and it is only a ques tion of a short time before mor agricultural products will be sold through co-operatives than those sold on the outside. The move ment is growing lice wild fire here in the east. A big conference !s ting called in Washington in the relatively near future when rep resentatives of all the co-operatives in the United States will be Ltalled tocether. The first prob- flem they are to take hold of is to work out some satisfactory form of rural credits. Possibly they may take up the export question and others of great interest to the co operative mevemenf. On the whole, fruit growers ot the country this year are doing very well. The berry growers ro- j ct ived very satisfactory prices and I on the whole pears sold well. It was one 01 me Dest cnerry seasons whicn we have had for wherever cherries were grown they have brought in good money. The earlv pearlies did amazingly well, but some of the northern peaches here in the tv-A rotted on the ground, because ol car shortage, and there was a great loss. Very early sum mer apples brought splendid mon ey, but the later summer and early fall apples have not brought as good a price. However, the crop ot high-grade commercial apples is not xa large as government and other figures seem to indicate, and if the car shortage is not too se vere, so as to slow down consump tion, there is every indication at this time that apples from New Year's on will sell better than they are Belling at the present time. The market should stiffen very mater ially and nearly everybody han dling fruit has that feeling. The late keepers are not as abundant as the late fall and early winter varieties. Fruit Dumped on Market. One cannot help but realize liv ing back here in the eaat as I do, however, that some very construct ive work has to be done in han dling our deciduous fruits. They are simply dumped indiscriminate ly in cities like Chicago, New York and Boston. The consuming pub lic does not know that the fruit is coming. It arrives here and is greatly sacrificed. There is alto gether too much concentration of fruit in these big centers and not enough f. o. b. sales and small car load market sales. That seems to be a class of work which only a co-operative will develop thor oughly; in fact, some ot the big gest distributors of the United States sell most ot their fruit in three or four of these big markets and are doing little to develop car load markets In various parts of the' country. There are distribu tors, ot course, who aredevelop ing some carload markets, but many of them are not doing it and they are following the lines of least resistance. It may not be possible to get the deciduous fruits in relatively few hands, but I believe a great deal can be done to bring the growers of deciduous fruits together under some form of organization, which will in crease distribution and advertis ing, which will promote standardi zation, which will increase con sumption and will carry on a cer tain educational program which is vey necessary to the consumers here in the East. There has been tremendous building activity all summer and fall in these big cities. One won ders when they are going to stop bullditfg stores and when you go Into a residence district in a big city like Chicago, you simply won der how so many retailers can live The facts in the matter are tha probably some of them are not really living, at least they are not making money. If it keeps on, we are going to have as many men back east wholesaling and retail ing fruits and vegetables as there are out In the country growing Encourage protection 'it TMl) "S 1 i . yL'S. of the home Ity fr i 1 Q9? building fire-proof V-iV . f (al5 I houses. Let us help "if raffc)TW witlt yur estimate J O sBBll sizes '4 More and Larger Those You Have . ? , ' Why suffer with Stomach This Is the Opinion of Jos. HO Hi FiM COMPLETE WITHOUT 1 Eira weh mm- Says That of AIUhe4Crops He Grows; the EvergreV Blackberry Is the Best Paying Has Grown Thcnv since iyiz. Editor Statesman: Being a grower of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries and Bar celona filbets, I naturally sought a 'crop that would till In the omission of harvesting betrecn he raspberries and filberts. Th vergreen blackberries answered the purpose. With the addition of this crop,' my harvesting sea son lasts from May till, the mid die of October. In 1912, after; preparing the giound by plowing It very deep, I set out three-quarters of an acre of two to three year old plants that had been gathered from the woods. These plants' were set 8 by 10, but a few years after I discovered that i had them too close, and that V by 14 was the right distance. them, and that is a sad state of affairs when that happens. That condition will only be changed by the fruits and vegetables getting into less selling hands so that they are organized and Intelligently distributed as Is true today of ba nanas, organges and walnuts. Walnut Prices Good walnuts range all the way from 33 to 50 cents a pound and imported Mayette meats are sell ing in the better stores as $1.35 a pound. Filberts will range from 30 to 40 cents a pound. The French walnuts seem to bring the most money of anything offered on the market, especially if they sre large and well graded. The Pa cific Coast Budded Is also a great favorite. Very little Is known to day, however, of Pacific Northwest walnuts and filberts, but we hope that some day they will be known. I always take ocasion whenever I have the 'opportunity to sing the merits of the Oregon and the Pa cific Northwest fruit. I still meet from time to time brokers who represent the Oregon Growers Co-operative Association, and almost invariably these men are very enthusiastic concerning the association and Its future. It is very gratifying to meet these keen, alert men back here and to know that they have been pretty well sold on the association Ideas, that they ielieve In It thoroughly and that they are doing all they can to foster the Idea back here. Ocasionally some member of the Oregon Growers Cooixrative asso ciation writes me a letter and it goes without saying that I am al ways delighted to receive a word from some of my old friends and associates back in Oregon, and if ever 1 can be of any service in sny way to the Oregon Growers Cooperative association, or Its memfbers, I shall be only too glad to render this service. Salem Brick & I - - -. i ; Salem. Orrrmn WeWill Give Our Best Efforts At all times' to assist ta any poeible way the dcvsW opment ot the fruit ail berry Industries In this v. ley. Oregon Co. Trouble when Chiropractic wQ Itemore the Cause. Packing Your Health Begins When Yea Phone 87 for an appointment Drs. SCQTT & SCOFIELD T. 8. 0. Chiropractor Hay Laboratory 414 to 419 C. 8. Natfl Bk, Bids. Hours 10 to 12 a.ni. and 2 to 9 p-m,v'J Nibler of Woodburn. V.'hi Vith intensive cultivation' U rammer and favorable ; weather, the canes - made a vigorous growth, many of the canes grow-1 ing 12 to 14 feet long of coursi' this ground had been highly fer tilised with barnyard' - manure In February, 1913, these cand were all cut back and remove from the patch. With thorouir cultivation In the summer of 1913, the canes ' made ; a good ' growth. In - March, 1914, I ie posts I and wired the patch, put' ting the wires 3 feet 10 Inches from the ground, one wire ol each side of the post. I the trained 6 canes from a huA . three each way--- on crosa piece, 8 by 10 Inches long, notcket 'about one inch from each ( 1 into which the wire fit. TC vaucn wpre woven 00 una cros ., pieces which were about . thret f feet apart. . ; The yield In 1914 from ill ; patch was a ton and a half, for j which I received 2c a pound. !l, the fall after, the crop vweiV harvested these canes, were re, moved from tha patch. . In Feb-i ruary, 1915, the new canes werj trained as they had been herc-( tofore. The yield was 3 tm '. and a half. In 191 S we receive 6 tons from the three-quarter! of an acre, receiving for them , z i-z cents a pound, uy intent slve and thorough cultivation , and fertilization this patch yielded about 5 tons each seasoi . since 1916. The costs of harvest- ; Ing are about $30 a ton. ' The patch Is fall plowed about h three inches deep, plowing tha . ground to the plant. Ia the' spring the ground Is plowed' ; away from the p!ant. The ground! is- cultivated immediately atf plowing to prevent, the -moisture j from escaping. The Implementi, used are one-horsn harrow ant clod-masher. After the ground has been worked down I use the ' 5-ehovelcd cultivator, but thll cutters axe attached in the place i ot shovels. This method remove) ; all sprouts and weeds betweaa the rows. lTh natch la . rone ever every week with one ot thetij implements. J One ot the many good features of the evergreens is that they. do not deteriorate quickly afte'j being ripe but can be left on th ; vines a week or 10 days. There has been a good market j 'or them every year since I have teen growing them, and of all the crops that I grow, the blaci Ix.rrv Is the best Daring. ' fit. berry farm In onmnlata wrtthOSt ? . , , of evergreen blacKt . ar. acreage berries. -JOS. NIBLER.. Woodburri. Or.. Dec. 18. 1Z' Tile f