2.. ' THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 21. 1922
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Himt Bros. Packing
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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
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Pure Cider Vinegar
. Carbonated Beverages
and . '
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Truck delivery to all parts ot the
' Willamette - Valley
I J. L. Bnsick & Son
GROCERIES
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Trade & Ififch Sis,
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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
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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 &
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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 ?
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of evergreen blacKt .
ar. acreage
berries.
-JOS. NIBLER..
Woodburri. Or.. Dec. 18. 1Z'
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