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Tim OREGON ''STATESMAN -SALEM, OREGON.-, . THURSDAY? MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1D23 iLLING R I CI Bros. Paclring Cczpany Give Our Effdrfe Salcin, Oregon Devoted to Showing Salem j District People the Advantagesr and Opportunities of Their Own Country and It SALEM D1ST 9, Quality Fruits, . , :, Proper growing, , Proper packing V ) . Intelligent selling, ' Courteous treatment, i Community service, , . ! ' Are the steps: to business . . ' , . . - ... . - - j -. At all times to assist ia any poslble way the devel opment j. of the fruit anl berry Industrie in this ral- ir ; 1 1 : .r lhesandrfowns. J- - f"' ; - . t ) ; ... ,;.-. j -- ; ..- : A ' ,; ? : ::,if - v ; , .: A i : . V.i".:-", ' ':. : ".. '.' I ' '-' -: ; K : ?V . v. 'V :.:...--'-"' :': I: -r v - . ' - - x,:-- The Way to Build Up Your Home Town i v i j The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Is to Patronize Your Home People ; Industries Is to Support Those You Have ley. i success- ,; r- -" .j DEHYDRATED FRUITS AND Oregon lmfs Food Products Company Salem Portland The Dalles I . - ' ' ' ' Oregon ' . . . G:d:cn Stclz Company ; Salem . - Oregon - - if r - Pare Cider ',VInegafV Carbonated BeTcragcs ' . Hme-Salphar Solation Track delivery t U pMtf f ti . ' , WHUaett Vmllef v 7L?Irz::::Vc!l2yPiTj:2 The oMest Association In tbe Northwest. ? . V.T.JENKS t Secretary and Manager Trade' & High Sts. feil-a Oregon " r .' .1'. 2JELSON BROS. AVna Air l"orBce, plumbing a nxt;n tod sheet metal work, tia I end gravel roof lac general job- bin? ia ,tln and galvanised iron work. 355 ClieBMketa Si. . Fkona 1906 tolxh Hcullli Dread . T Ask Your Grocer; When going on business or pleasure -.take the street car for comfort, safety and -convenience. , j Aways at Year Service 'AMD YEARS v Tbe-SUteemaa Baa brea aupply lag the waota ! U critical job . priatiag trad - ' , t. , ' Proof positive we are printer f worth and merit. t " Modem eqnipraent and ideas are the ae that get by. STATESUAN PUDLISIIEIG ' cc:;?aiiy ; nc;i 3 153, ti' S. Coat'l f-i-,...-t.. and CANNED VEGETABLES Products ' PEAR CHill VfiLLEY. i DV A 'RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY Kenneth C: Miller -bf Sheridan Has a Message oj Advice anu tncouragemeni 10 to Be Engaged in the . LiKeiy.io oe uveraone. -Editor Statesman J . .; It is certainly an honor to be -asked . to . write something about the pear industry, for your paper. I hare tried' ': to write something which will 4)e of interest and hope that it meets with, your approval. My remarks have Been confined to Willamette valley conditions. It has been written hastily and in a disconnected way, and I am sor ry that I coul not : give . . more time and thought to it. J i;i However, if it is along the lines -which you wanted, I am glad to . haver t been . of aervlceLl " Yours p trulyr '' .s.-9ic .M"-Hfc.f-: KENNETH C. MILLER, v Sheridan. OreTan 2 19 2 1. k 7 (Mr. Miller is president of the Oregon wsm Packing corpor ation, working j in conjunction with, the Oregon -I Growers Coop erative -associate oft.t-Hels a suc cessful pear grower, 'and, 1s con sidered, an ; authority on tall branches of, the 'industry. His article ia a most Interesting and valuable contribution, nd des erves wide atfi,1 careful reading and preservation in 1 the Salem district. The article follows:) PKAR GROWIKCflN THK , AVILliAMETTB VALLEY Pear growing in the Willam ette valley Is certainly to ; be' classed as one of .the successful Thed.lhBarr PIu ibing. Heating and Tinning v : 161 S. Commercial SALEM, Ore. St. Ed. CHASM CLOTHING CO. 303 Staie SU 'Men's and Young Men's dlothins and Furnishings .Use my stairs. It pays SALE!:i IRON WORKS EaUbliehed .(860 Founders, Machinists and Blacksmiths . ." i. . Corner Front k. State Sta. Maraetarr , of v Uie ' ihnd pump for irrifretio and other purpoaea.- Correapoodimro soiie itfxl. ' Irrifatioa informatioa eirp plif. . Maker of . Balei . Ia Work Irag Saw. ,. HOTEL BLIGH ICO rooms of Solid Comfort A Hczit Avsay Fron llc.b : : SelKng Salem ii t-i. 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. ; ' THE WIUflETTE Men tngaged or wno Ought Industry Pear Growing Not t lines of the fruit industry of Ore gon. ..... , Like everything else, some fail ures f have been recorded, but these have ' been due .largely to lack of Judgment on the part of the orchardist. ! This lack of Judgment may have taken either the form of the wrong variety on the right soil or the right variety on the wrong soil, j : ' . , Also one other cause for fail ure 'was that s formerly Bartlett pears were, planted without any thought. for a canning outlet, at a time when Oregon1 had! few can neries, j This I consider; also a Jack of Judgment on the part of the orchardist, at that time. ; Not Enough Ttaftletts h At-the present time, however, the Willamette valley-; -does not produce sufficient iBarUett pears to- fill bur cannery;1 requirements. Upon investigation you' will find that Bartlett pears are shipped in here from our neighboring state. This is an economic waste, espe cially under ' the high freight rates existing today. ; Canner Xot to Blame : ;. " The canner Is not to blame for this.. In order to operate econ omically and successfully, and to avoid a shut down of his plant, he is forced to can pears during that season' bf ,: the- year. To avoid this economic waste and also to hjelp our canneries, we should ;raise this . required : ton nage here, at home. ; ! i - r ' In. other words', hefore the pear grower sets out his; orchard, -he should give these things, a very careful and intelligent study. J " Looking back over a period of years, t think that we can safely .say that the pear Industry has not suffered .from -over production nor over planting or any of the ills which beset most of our var ieties bf ' -fruit today. Nor does r r . Buy the Oregon f ' Made Furnaces J Y. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th & Oak Sts.. Salem, Or. - v m Phone 88S . n -4W Ont After TweMiUJona W are bow payior over three quarter of a miHion dnllara year to the dairymen of Uii section , for -milk. .. -if "Manon BnttcrT: i la the Beat Batter More Oowa aad Better Cows is , . tie erring seed . ; MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. : Salem, Ore. : Phone 2188 Salem Carpr Clean tn and RUFF RUG ' . - works . AIL, sizes of TUkg and Fluff Ituss Woven t Old Mattrem Steaming and Itcnnaktng Otto Z wicker, Prop. rhone 115ft . 13 H & Wilbur Street. I District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Pep arid Progress Campaign , - ..: - ( ' .... 1 ' . . . ' - the pear industry of the Wlilam ette valley face these troubling conditions in the near f uture. Iln fact soil and climatic conditions are certainly with the Willamette TOiieJuPear, grower today) Fire Blight NegUgibleHere' . Fire , blighy which wiped a but the peafi industry in the! cast; .'has ween successfully lougnt and con trolled? in Qregou and, as yet, xT hrtjs inr the Willamette vafleyt least, ttfe, negligible dpgrqeJ lt is possible our seasonable con ditions are not favorable to the growth of the fire blight. . j; ; ; Then, too, I think that is the canhers come to understand ; pur present cooperative organizations better and the cooperatives forget tnat trrey have a quarrel with the cannery man, : the marketing proDiem ror our :BartIett pear growers will be solved. L i -'. For Growers to Consider 1 1 In going Into the pear business, one snouiq first of all determine the varieties yon : w(sh to 4 raise. After this has been determined next select i your tvoe- of soil. t The different, varieties adapted to our conditions will not all.be at their best on exactly the same types or soli.. : it iai true.hew ever. that , all of them will do well on our bench lands. ' ; - i ; Bosc, UartleU and Clairgeau i ; From our experience and ob servation , the Tarieties which should be planted In the Willam ette valley are thA Hour. IlariWr ana uiairgeau; giving a prefer ence in the order named. . ' The Patrick Barry we also find "does exceedingly well and is growing in favor la our eastern Bear mar kets, and also . particularly in England. ; The. , D'Anjou and Cornice are both high class ' win ter snipping and marketing pears, but - from okur ; experience 1 we would place them secondary. :'; ; The Bosc we 1 find does narflrn larly well fight out on top of our1 red hills and should not be plant- on on tne heavy wet lands. ; Ori these hill conditions. " the Bosc makes a wonderful tree growth and bears breaking down' crops. The D'AnJoil. on the other hand does not do so well where the. Bosc thrives, but . likes' a heavier, darker clav and wilt stand more wet than any of the aoove. . The Bartlett does not Show these deHderf . . ... . but does equally well on either. providing the heavy soil has proper drainage. This will serve to point out the chances for mis takes In soils for the different varieties; but Mlon't overlook one other thing in your matter of lo cation. It is this: Look back to our freeze of a few years ago" and see where . the orchards ! were planted that survived and ..where those were planted that did not survive. .There was, a large acre-, age lost at that time, . and we should not fall to take bur j lesson from that unfortunate disaster. ; All of the above varieties are winter shipping 5 pears with the exception of the Bartlett, rhich ia a 'late summer 'or eariy fall variety. They, are also, j when properly handled, regular;!; bear ers. - - !'' ' -);' ' ; fj ; ' The! Bartlett fo Canning -f s The "Bartlett is very successfuU Iy shipped to our eastern mar kets, under refrigeration, -but- at the present time stands alone as our best canning peari'Hff -r 1 ,f 3 You might wonder at includ ing the Clairg'eau. It is net con sidered a high class pear and does not sell like the Bosc1 or,.Df An jouj, for example. It docs, jhqwsveii commence to bear at the" young est age of them all and Id a con sistently heavy bearer, 'producing a,vem light wood growth. It tends both to overbear " and to grow fruit of too large a size. , It must be regularly thinned," arid it Is quite hard to; thin, so that your tree will support the crop and not have your pears too large , for marketing conditions." In' our case We must regularly resort to propping the' trees;' Because It bears so early and -. consistently and because, considering the TraJ iety; we raise It to perfection, I ! ' f t- k m would not plant a Dear orchard In the Willamette valley without including them.. One other reas on for makings planting of these three varieties fs that you can .spray, - thin, and harvest the. Ir-ait consecutively. That will . exlen'd our work over a longer period, which is W decided, advantage compared Iwith, having the w.hjpe ncreage, oivom, ripen, eic., at tne same; pme7: : 'x til'.l"V.' ;lebvrs May He Too Large . " In his connection U is interest ing to note the fact that to get the $est price, pears must not be too large.!- This is a distinct mar keting difference between . pears and apples. Vi Almost invariably ninety to the box will sell for less than one hundred or One hundred and ten. Usually one hundred - and twen ties and even smaller will bring as much as the nineties. This is due to the fact that most of our pears are sold from fruit stands. Take theBosc for example; you can readily see,' that if they sell on the auction for $5 per box, the wholesaler pays five cents apiece for 100 to the box. It is almost Impossible to" retail ' the larger sizes at a profit, but if there are bhe hundred and twenty nears to the box the margin of "profit is materially increased. l The Patrick Barry also bears regularly and heavily and Is a jwonaeriui shipper and ; keeper, whiCn is rapidly growing In favon due to the fact that it can be held pin storage and brought out in the !ate spring to prime I condition. Its one objection Is that it ripens very late, not being ready to har- fvest! until late October, which carries us Into our; wet,,: rainy reason. - J.,:' f:,'r - The Cornice and D'Anjou. have been discouraging to most . pear growers, both because of the late age at which they come into; bear ing ana because of the fact that they are somewhat shy or Irregu lar bearers. 'In the Dast It has jbeen thought "that thTsnault is due to lack of pollination, but It saems more' probable now that it is a. pruning problem ; and... bids fair to be solved in the very near future. '.: ; : -vv - , v- ' Iust Work and Fleht f It goes without saying that' to be successful in pear crowing. .you must follow proper' up to date cultural methods., The prun ing of the pear, while similar to the apple, must Ibe widely varied for the different varieties. Sorar- Ing must be practiced, but not so intensively as for the aDDle. ' The worms are very easily controlled, but scab, thrips, blister mite and Ieafc roller must be religiously fought. j Tlhe cultivation of r the ' oear: does not vary from other orchard practices, but the handling must be more carefully done and the picking must be done with more regard to, exact time, than is the case with the apples.' , ! -. :- L-f-tj A Wonderful Future 'From the above facts. I think thaO we can safely draw the c6n elusion that the pear Industry has a wonderful future I ln the Wil lamette valley, and to be success ful it Is only necessary to follow the experience of others, which can be summed up under three :lieadsi:T4----5i t i' A ' a ; FIrst--Plant the proper vari eties on the proper soils. r aecosa r roper care, -i wnicn would 'include! cultivation, prun ing, spraying, picking and .hand ling. .-M T v-.v"t !:;?v ;:r... TblrdJ Get , behind some , suc cessful marketing aniv which will properly j merchandise and sell your product for you. If,.-as growers,, we. ? exnect to reap f the reward which Ms iustlr ours.! we must interest ; ourselves in this marketing problem: other wise ail our Investment and years of work will avail us but little. "I bear that lTrm)rii'a lf. has run away with his chauffeur." "Yes, poor fellow t "Poor fellow, lndeeil It won't feet snch a chauffeur again! Stockholia Strlx. ' 1 r:.,r. i; : t i , . . . , rf . . " . ; ; : i tuc n Din n IIIL IHLLLI iHUIVlliU .. OFJIElTi BER It Is Also of Great Help to the Surrounding Country, De veloping' Swirie Breeding on a;f.arger Scale m This ! , District Words ,o ' F. W. Steusloff.J, . . (Some weeks ago, Hon. I. L. Patterson, known to his familiars and to his brothers of that organ ization as! 'Ike,w spoke to the Sa lem Rotary club on marketing conditions here. On account of the fact that Mr. Patterson brought In 'the Valley . Packing company In his discussion, F. W. 9tensloff. who Is. also, a Reparian and is president of the ; Valley Packing company, was giyen! tim by the club a week ago yesterday to explain some of the points raised. .-. Substantially Mr. Steus- loff sald: if ? .. 1 "First, I wish to s take this op portunity at this time to express my appreciation for having; been asked to become , a' member : of this Rotary club.!. I have enjoyed these: weekly meetings, the lunch es, the songs and the fine speak- . "Those of. you who .were pres ent when 'Ike' made ' his speech will , remember what he said what great personal - friends we were and when In need or trouble he would come to me for relief, sooner than anyone . else: And I consider this quite an honor. ! I "But before Ike got through with his speech before this club he attacked the methods and prac tices of the Valley Packing! com pany, a company which J am prominently Identified with.! His chief! argument was that the company should pay the farm ers the Portland market price for hogs. ';: -,, "Now, let me briefly review the past and present Salem hog; mar ket: When I came to Salem, over 30 years ago; there were between three! and four thousand I hogs raised tributary to the Salem mar-J ket annually, or about sufficient to supply the local markets In Sa lem. Now this brines us I down to about 19lfc, when (the farmers commenced to Talse more! corn and produce more hogs. The far mer was long sighted - and took advantage of, the opportunity of- lersa oy tne great demand r for pork on account of the .World war, when the price reached about 21 cents per pound on foot. At the close of the war in 1918 the increased supply of hogs contin ued! d at that time the shippers were sending the surplus hogs. to they Portland market, and! wero paying the farmers 1M cents un der the Portland market price, and this was fair, because it! takes 75 cents per 100 pounds ; to land a shipment in the Portland yards. This is covered by shrinkages, J freight, commission, feed, i yard-1 age and loss In transit, thu lcav-J ing the shipper an average of a J halt cent a pound profit, or about I - , . Encourage protection - 0. , . PPi ' ' ' VTV s of the Lome ly. , -' , St?' . S3.! . . Imildin- fire-proof : O ; .. f J houses. Let us help ' VV -y'iy with your estimates y . r ALL SIZES ( ? Why : suffer with Stomach ". n 950 per car for his labor, the use of his automobile and; the capital necessary to The Va handle the business: ley Packing Co. ;! The Valltey Packing Co. began tbuildlng . its present plant in the spring of 19 L9, and completed the same by J nuary 1,. 1920, and started operating on that date, and ,from ' the ' start commenced paying! the farmers for hogs half a cent a .pound under the Port land market price,- or three' quar ters of a cent more than had ever been paid in Salem and in round numbers a saving to the farmers of about" $25,000 annuaUy,1 be sides a ready market for hogg six days a" week? ;!;.Ji' ?'ff a' i I - .-! ! Salem. Is Benefited' X'-- " ''On -account of. the plant hay ing been built, there is an annual pay roll of about $65,000; $24, 000 for Incidentals; employment for 40. employes, and over, a half million dollars paid annually the farmers for livestock. ; ! "And ' another great benefit la that this has United States gov ernment inspection, and every ani mal ! slaughtered ' In this plant Is Inspected by a United States -veterinarian, educated for that pur pose, and paid by the government and all animals i found Infected with' tuberculosis or other disease or found unfit ' for human food are ' condemned ! and '"placed In a sealed; tank and steamed and cooked for soap grease and fertil izer. I The loss to the plant :; by condemnation' amounts to about $100 per month.' .'' "The 'plant is producing some of - the finest quality of hog pro ducts 'possible, and is second to none In the United . States, , and this is--a great advertisement to the city. of Salem. -The Cascade BrahcLis In demand. T it took some nerve to build this plant and compete with the -larger packers who have a great selling ! organi sation and invade all of the ter ritory! covered by the" Valley Pack ing company.. " ;:. '., ... . .. j . ' , "To ona of Salem's great fin ancial:; institutions belongs the credit; that helped to make-this plant possible and a success." ! Earnings, of Parking Concerns . Mr. Steusloff read the: follow ing extract troman article! in thi "National Provisioner," Chicago, the official publication of j the In stitute ct American Meat Packers, giving a summary of an investiga tion -into the profits of the lead ing manufacturers of the: United States, as follows: ! ' :! ! 1 Earnings on Stockholders'! Invest ' f menta, . -. . analysis undertaken. The .laiuiailjl IUJS WU u tirst EFlTVIB THIS CITY ' Salem Brick &;TiIe Co. '4 ' . - -' Salem, Oregon - . . . . Trouble when Chiropractic RemoTe the Cause vYour Health Begins Wfcsa Yea Phciie87f : . for an appointment Drs. SCOTT c SCOFIELD O. Cnlrepraetora , - Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 U. S. Nat'I Ei. Bldg. , U Hour 10 to 12 aun. and 2 to 0 pjra. ure used was the amount of flxui net profits earned annually cpoa the Investment of the stocktcli ers,; meaning. Capital stock, cur plus, and appropriated surplrn. We found thar for the nine yean ended 1521 the group of pack:, companies s&owed averajo r-1 naal earnlngi on their fstockhc" erg'jinrestaaerit ctl 6.2: per cc. as compared, to an. average of a: I of tti&K available; tcoiipanles of 8.Z per s bent. Thq j earnlnrs cf ty four ' war ' years" of the pack! . : companies averaged per year v,-; : 14.4 per cent, which compares t the average of all companies f tr year of 14.0 per cent. "On this basis we can assur e that the earnings on stockholder.' investments in this industry :. quite comparable to the earnlci of other manufacturing inias tries. ! At least they are not grct. er. :-.;'. -;-"-..!,.. '. t ! - Margin Earned on, Sales " , "The next analysis undertaken was "the margin earned on talc 3 in? different lines of business. This information was obtainat ! -for a smaller number of compan ies, as many do not publish sales There are, however, sufficient U the group to give representatirs averages. , .- ,.- , j ; iWe found the paking comran- ies earned over a period of nlm years an average margin on Eak i of 1.3 per cent, which was tka narrowest margin shown by any industry. ; The. average margin cf all companies over the period of years was 6.6 per cent. That is, the margin on sales earned by packing companies was approxi mately one-fifth the average mar gin retained in manufacturing an3 merchandising industries.f - Mr. Steusloff, In the course of his remarks, called attention to another tact that is of very gen eral interest. Referring to the fact that tuberculosis in the hu man family in the United State3 has ; been' reduced 50 per cent front 1907 to the present time, he said that there is no doubt that this showing, is due .In - part to meats.- '. . . SAIiCI DISTRICT es nio i;is Hanson's Eight White Leg horns Win Over AH Foreign - Pens in World Contest J. A. Hanson, the CorvallU" poultryman, has just been noti fied that his pen of eight While Leghorns, which he shipped to j England a year ago and were a month en route, to be entered in the London Pally Mall egg-laying contest, had won over all foreign' pens with 22 points to their cred it above their nearest competitors'; and with 4653 eggs' to their credit! for the. yeari This Oreeon rjen of White Leghorns racked 24th: meas- ' (Continued on nut s !