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THE OREGON! STATESMAN SAIEM. OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1923 J! n TV I - i K .4 -a- ,9 Hunt Bros. Packing Ccapany X Salem, Oregon Quality Fruita, Proper growing, Proper packing, Intelligent selling,' Courteous treatment, Coininunity service, Are' the steps to business success DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products 7-;- King's Food Products Company Salem PortlandThe Dalles :- Oregon' - TGidebq ;Stol , Co. " Manufacturers, of Dependable Brand Ume-Sulphur Solution Tbe brand -ypu'i dan dependV on for purity and test Prices upon application . . factory near corner of Bummer and - Mill St., !'f- Salem, Oregon . WifcetteYalley Prune : Association Tbe oldest Association in tbs Northwest. T i ; W. T.JENKS - ' Secretary and Manager Trlds it Hfeh 8U. Calsss, Oregon , NELSON BROS. Want Air rrrr plaan&inf atiBff aa4 siet atl work, tin n'4 gravel roofing. garsl iob biag la ti and gWaaid Iron . 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H WORDS OF ONE HAVING AUTHORITY He Says it Is Evident That a Crop Cannot be Expected in This District More Than Two or Three Years Out of FiveExperience of Growers in Regard to the Individual Location of Their Fields Would Form Most Helpful Data for Future Guidance Editor Statesman: ' Of the various natural factors that enter into successful broccoli growing, climate is the most Im portant. There are thousands of acres in the western Oregon coun try that, from 'the standpoint of drainage and fertility two all im portant characters - can grow good broccoli. I Old man winter, however," has been dictating of late that tbe soil conditoins are not alone ..responst ible for a crop, but that it j is necessary that the winter temper ature be" high enough above zero so thaC the plants dVnot continu ally, night after night, have their tissue alternately f r o z e n and thawed. Cold, driving winds, too, have i played ! a- part in reducing what . once looked ' like a very promising patch of broccoli down to a few plants that for some protective j reason or other win tered through. In other words, winter Injury of Willamette valley broccoli has undoubtedly been not only widespread but in many ftidi vidnal fields such as to leave very little of the broccoli fit for mar- Clean-Up and Paint-Up ' See our complete line of Sherwin-Williams House Paints. Falls; City-Salem Lumber Co 349 So. I2th St. - - Phone 813 .A. B. Kelsay,. Mgr. , Ed. CHASTAIN CLOTHING CO. 303 State St. Men's and Young Men's Clothing and Furnishings Use my stairs. It pays SALEM IRON WORKS EaUblUhad 1S0O Founders, Machinists and Blacksmiths ' - A; 1 . . Poraer Front Stat Bin. M(n(cturr of -the Shtnd pn mn for irrieatioa and ohr piMTxtonm. Orreapo'l'-a aolio iA. Irrieatioa iaformatioa sup plied. ( ; Makwra of Salem ' Iroa Work 'Drag Sawa. ...,',.. HOTEL BLIGH lOO ruotna of Solid Comfort A Home Away From zomt and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its Cities and Towns. 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. keting. Some areas have been al most entirely frozen down; while others in a peculiarly well-protected place have been fairly free from injury. The past winters have frankly not been very promising for broc coli wintering through well. This is admittedly so when one con trasts the present successful crop grown in the Umpqua' valley, which does not suffer from a con tinual spell of low temperatures experienced by. the northern val ley. " 1 t ' Two to Three in Five. It is evldenfi tuat a crop cannot be expected more, than, two or three years out of five, and during these years there) will in all prob ability be some ! injury, just as there is not liable to be a total loss during the years when no crop is counted on. ( The locations of individual broccoli areas vary so much that there are growers who probably are doing better than the average named above. These will possibly continue with the crop, but it is evident that two or three succes sive years of a poor crop, or nothing, will bar the average grower both from the standpoint of disappointment and financial loss. i. Reason, Xot PeNssimlsm. The writer is not one in any sense to take a pessimistic view of the situation, but rather to reason out logical conclusions based oil conditions'" as they have existed. Certain'y it is t rue f hat we .can not afford to plant acreage figur ing on shipping out 75 to 12'5 cars and havethe yearly estimate reduced to a paltry 10 or 15 cars. Buy the Oregon Made Furnaces W. W. ROSEBRAUGH , CO. ' rouudry an Machine Shop 17th & Oak Sts., Salem, Or. Phone 888 Wa Ara Out After Two Millioni Wa are sow varinc oer three quarters nf a million rfnlUra a yr to the dairymen of taie section lor milk. Marion Butter" Is the Best Butter Mora Cows and Batter Cows Is the cryiar need , MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Halem, Ore. lf-ne a 188 Salem Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rug Works Hag and fluff rugs woven any sires, without seams.: New mattresses made., to order. Old mattresses retnade. Feathers renovated. I buy all kinds of old carpets for fluff rugs. ? Otto F. Zwicker, Prop. Phone 1154 13 and Wilbur Streets ; to Showing Salem District People the Advantages The reduction thus caused by un profitable broccoli "areas ie too great. '. ' ' AVIiere Greatest Injury. . The greatest injury sro far lias occurred in fields prpducin jather large, rank growing plants Less injury Uias occurred where the plants havs been of , medium fize and well hardened before winter. High waters also. unlookd for. have added to the troubles of 1922-23. Where the plants col lapse due to frost, mainly in the pith, hardly any feed is available to partly make up for the loss of the heads themselves. " i: Some fields have been rankly mongrel and mixed in type, anj even if no winter injury had oc- WILLAMETTE VALLEY STAY IN THE They are Buying Seed Now for the Crop They Hope to Market in February, March and April of Next Year Stimulated by the Success of the Umpqua Valley Growers, Who are Now Harvesting Their Crop and Selling it at Good Prices The broccoli growers f the Sa lem district; 'of the Willamette valley, are aready buying their seed for the crop they hope to harvest in February, March and early April of 1924; the seed they expect to sow this spring to raise the plants to set out in theJr fields the coming summer. Hope springs eternal In the hu man' breast, and it is hard to discourage a farmer. He is used to taking chances on the seasons, the pests, the markets. He has been doing this all the time, on most crops; and he is a stayer. " - i Last year the Salem district had about 1000 acres set to broc coli; the year before about 500. And we have had, two winters unfavorable to the' production ofi a profitable broccoli crop. Stillj our Willamette valley farmers in goodly numbers are resolved to stay with the game; to stick it out. Two or Three in Five There is a good deal .of ad vice in The Statesman of this morning to the broccoli growers of the Salem district from three of the best informed and most successful "of the Umpqua valley pioneers in the industry; from Prof. Bouquet, of the Oregon Agricultural college, the 1 out standing authority on broccoli on the Pacific coast; of the whole United -.States, for that matter. , ' Prof, llouquet says our Willa mette valley growers must not count on more than two or three successful crops in five How ever, he says the experience of growers in regard to individual location of their fields would be most helpful. This ought! to be gathered. The Statesman will be glad to give theN space". If it can be gathered. All three of the , Roseburg dis trict growers writinsr have words of encouragement for the Willa mette valley growers. s One of them says if he were a Willa mette valley farmer it would 'take ' more than two failures or partial failures td make bim quit growing broccoli. One of the Koseburg men says'unqualifiedly Jhat the Willamette valley ought to be able to produce broccoli successfully. One of them sug gests that perhaps: h'Kh land ought to be given a trial in the Willamette valley; and perhaps r late strain ought to bV devel oped. . AnothiT View t -t The reporter yesterday inter viewed a Willamette valley broc coli authority. He says broccoli on high land in the Willamette valley does not do well; also curred would not have produced a profitable crop. Experiences of growers in re gard to the individual location of their fields and the extent of their winter injury would form most helpful data in summarizing the whole situation, iz A. G. B. BOUQUET. Corvallis, Ore., March 27., ' (As most of the readers of The Statesman know, Prof. Bouquet is professor of vegetable gardening at the Oregon Agricultural college. He speaks as one having author ity; he is one of the best posted men on this coast on the broccoli Industry; having studied it from its beginnings here. Ed.) GROWERS WILL BROCCOLI lIUSTRf that the Willamette valley crop must come on soon after the California crop is through, and before the "Florida vegetables be gin to go td the big eastern mar kets. " r He, says our grower must use good valley loam for their broc coli; sHe says, in most years. we can grow in the Willamette valley 250 to 300 crates to the acre, as good as any one can grow; that our growers must make up: their minds that they will " occasionally lose a crop, from freezing and thawing weath er tin December .and January, breaking down the tissues of the plant. One authority told the re porter that, he thought our val ley growers would overcome the effects of such weather when they learn to hill up their plants. Th Umpqua Valley Crop The Umpqua valley crop is now going to market, at the rate of 10, 15 to 20 cars a day. The total yield! will be about' 250 cars, and the market' is good; so are the prices; $1.25 to $1.50 a crate net to growers. Of course, ,the success of the Umpqua valley growers is stim ulating to the men who have been in the industry here; , hence the fact that they are. buying seed. f With a bumper crop, the Sa lem district" growers, would have had all the way from COO cars up; they expected 100 cars up to a few weeks ago. Now they are counting on considerably less than 25 cars of broccoli or a quality that will warrant ship ping to the markets of the big Eastern cities; though some, will be canned. AFPERSON ESTATE TO HELFSTUDENTS Irrecucible Fund-to Loan to , Students Will Grow With -the Years Continually (Following is a .bulletin from the department of industriafjour nalism of the Oregon Agricultural college: ) : Some . 50 additional students may now receive training at the Oregon Agricultural college as a result of the bequest of Captain John T. Apperson. form,er mem ber of the board of regentsi who turned over the residue of his large esl ate a 8 an educational loan fund for tho use of college sta- OM THEM 110 BROCCOLI INDUSTRY IN OREGON Dr. C. H. Bailey Says Broccoli Can Go Through Cold Weather as Low as 14 Degrees Above in Umpqua Dis trict and Still Have a CropHe Advises Willamette ! Growers to Learn Right Locations on Their Farms Editor Statesman: Owing to the fact that we are now In the midst of our broccoli harvest, it will be impossible for me to write anything for you for your broccoli number I believe, however, that it has not been the climatic conditions that ruined the crop in the Wil lamette: val ley this season so much as it has been due to too much water. ' j ' , I understand most of the broc coli was planted on .the river bot toms, which overflowed, drowning out the plants. We can go through cold weather as low as 14 degrees above here and still have a crop, and I do not believe it got that cold In' your valley the past win ter. Growers will have to1 learn the right locations on their farms. Yours very truly, : C. H. Bailey. Roseburg, Ore.. March 22, 1923. (Dr. C. H. Bailey of Roseburg has written for every annual Slo gan issue of The Statesman on the broccoli industry. This is the fourth annual issue. He was the pioneer of the industry in the Roseburg district; the pioneer of the industry in Oregon of broccoli growing on a commercial scale, for shipment to the markets of the big eastern cities. Along In 1913. when Dr. Bailey had been appointed fruit Inspector by the county court of Douglas county, he being a grower of fruit near the city of Roseburg, he conceived the idea of helping the large number of people who had put out new orchards In that district to find a crop that they could grow be tween the young trees, and thus help them to get their orchards to a paying stage. He struck up on broccoli, produced on a com mercial scale. The lecturer of the Pomona grange, Mrs. O. C. Brown, saw the possibilities', and meet ings were held, and the industry started, j It is a long and interest ing story. They "started some thing" that gives promise of be ing one of the biggest things in Oregon; has already brought In each year a large sum of money. though its pioneering stage has dents. After the sneclal minor bequests have been deducted the remainder will be invested by the Oregon state land board, the in come to be used for small loans to students who need additional funds to continue in school. The president of the college and the state superintendent of pub lic instruction are named in. the will as the committee to deter mine the beneficiaries of the fund and the terms of loans. Applica tions will be made to this com mittee which ill in turn make such recommendations to the land board as they see fltjand the loan will be made accordingly. All loans and the interest ac cruing from them as soon a re paid will be reinvested by the land board. Should any unlent surplus interest be on hand it too Is to be reinvested. - Thus tiie fund is irreducible -and will grow larger year by year, to the benefit of an increasing number of worthy young men and women of Oregon. More than three-fourths of all students now In college are In some degree self-supporting. The existing loan fund is aiding 312 of thesw students. Nearly $08,000 has been lent since tbe fund was established 12 years ago, and of this sum only $417 less thai two-thirds of 1 per cent has been lost. More arid Larger Those You Have i Why suffer with Stomach STARTED TOE by no means yet been passed, espe cially in: the Willamette valley. Ed.) Rowburg District Experiecne . R. : A. ' Husenbarle, a successful broccoli grower of .the Roseburg district, in former Slogan Issues of The Statesman,' gave a record of his experiences. lie stressed the importance, of good seed; said the seed selection is as . yet far from perfect; said: "The market is clamoring;' for. more' broccoli than is produced, so why not more broccoli?" Said . broccoli is a heavy feeder, but, taking a rich soil- to staYt, and returning the waste from the trimmings care fully to the soil,, for a soil. fertil izer, the loss of plant food can be reduced to a minimum, and this plan is followed successfully - by some of Ihe growers In the Rose burg district. -- Foster Butner, in a former Slo gan issue of The Statesman, re ported $700 to $800 .an acrre re turns for some of the producers in the Roseburg section; price's realized running from $1.35 to $1.75 a crate. One grower with six acres harvested 3000 crates; and another grower got 800 crate from 8500 plants less, than two acres. , - , - - . . SPRING BEE CARE T Every Fruit Grower Ought to" Head I his Article and - Heed its Advice (Asked for some matter on spring bee practices, C. J. Mcin tosh, of the department of indus trial, journalism of the Oregon Ag ricultural coHege. yesterday sent the .following very interesting and comprehensive article to The Statesman:) "The necessity of having- all colonies strong,, in preference to having a large number of weak colonies, is undoubtedly the one important fact most commonly overlooked in the management of bees when kept, in the orchard Tor pollination purposes." said H. A. Scullen. specialist in bee culture at the Oregon Agricultural college. "The normal ' colony should come through winter with a work ing force early lu February of close to io. 000 bees. In order to bring, this colony's strength up to 50.000 or more by fruit bloom time several fundamental condi tions are to be considered good queens, fiumclent stores, ample VERY Oral To build for permanen cy, strength and beauty use Bur tit Clay Products 1W '4 We Will Give Our Best Efforts At all times to assist la any poslble way the devel opment of ths fruit aal berry ladastries In this t1 iey. , . . - - ' Oregon Paclring Trouble when Chlropractle -. ', . tMmore tbe Cai Your Health Begins Yfhtn Yea Phone 87 . for an appointment Drs. SCOTT & SCOFIELD . P. .fc O. CUraprsatars v Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 V, 8. NatT Ek. . Honrs 10 to 12 a.m. and 2 to 0 p.m. brood rearing' room; good winter ing, swarm control, and .disease control. ? . : "The standard Italian queens, bred for utility rather than color, are the besffor the colony. They produce -energetic workers, lest subject td disease, and are more gentle tcr handle. After . good queens I have -been ' secured ' they should be provided with condi tions favorable for maximum brood f rearing during the early spring-. The queen tends to atop egg laying- when the stores in t$e hive drop to approximately 15 pounds, and it is advisable that a surplus beyond this amount be al ways, present." The queen must; be laying her maximum capacity during lata March, explains Professor Scullen, for the workers hatched from eggs laid three weeks before f ruSt bloom are the bees which will do the bulk of the polllnlzing. For this reason a good, queen wit! sufficient stores and ravorabli conditions finds the one-story, 10. frame hive too small. : - " When colonies have come through the winter in good condi tion, and the weather has per mitted them to gather consider able nectar from the maples, they ate very apt to make preparations for swarming about the second week of April, which, if not pre vented, will greatly lessen tfca number of field workers. It Is cf extreme Importance that the col ony not only be built-up to tLi maximum strength but that it ti kept l r o nr dissipating thj strength in swarming just befort or at the starting of fruit bloom. To minimize the danger of swarm ing, several factors are helpful young queens not over 2 years old, a minimum of drone comb., suffi cient ventilation, a " moderate amount of shade during the hot test part of the day, and sufficient brood-rearing room. Two serious . diseases of tie young bees, or brood, are the American foulbrood and European fdulbrood. . These diseases. will be come a source Of contamination to other, bees in the neighborhood if they are not promptly, prevented or. checked when discovered. . . -Tin locating, the bees In the or chard it-is-best to place them where they will not have to go over halt a mila for nectar,' Pro fessor Scullen says. "They should be placed where the prevailing winds blow toward the hive, for the bees prefer to fly light against the wind and loaded with the wind. -In order that the bees may take advantage of every opportun- . ity to work on the fruit bloom during unsettled weather condi tions it is advisable to have no shade over them during the period of poUinizing, so they will be at- ' trac'ted out whenever the sun ap pears." . - i HCT DID IfK lU'Y SEVERAL? Dill: - Did Dan kill the fatted calf when his prodigal son cams v home? - r x- Sam: lie was goin to. bnt the boy wouldn't let him; he took the animal to the state fair and won a hat full of ribbons and sold him for enough to buy several fatted calves. Farm Life. , , Salem Brick & Tile Co. Halrtu. Orrcon. Fhon 017 c