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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON
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GREATER SALEM DISTRICT NUMBER, MARCH 1923
suitable for filbert growing, ex
cepting part of western Wash- J
ington tna northern California;
and that there j la big money1 In
filberts; that vthls is a crop ihat
has a cumber of very impo.'taut
advantages and that there is
rast rt oin here for mere f inert
gro were, who will take nopn ot
tne risks of pioneers in the in
dustry?" : : v 1
So substantially runs th. Sa
lem Slogan in The Statesman of
four annual editions. ..
The Salem district Is the- only
section of the United State3 tui
has so far developed the filbert
industry on a 'commercial "c "i.,
- Mr. Reed, of the bureau o: nut
culture. United States l?;-art-roent
of Agriculture, Washington
D. C, virlted the Salem duiriet
recently and: he stated tha we
have here In. the Willamette val
ley the linest filbert soils; also
the most promising filbert groves
anywhere in the United Stairs.
- United States Senator Cbas. L.
McNary of Oregon,? whose home
la In Salem, Is a pioneer grower
of filberts here," and his enthu
siasm !' undimished, and he
predicts a great future for the
Industry. .
The filbert Industry has ?n
outstanding : number of ad tart
ages in this dstrict, r for Instance'-
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- The filbert is frost proof; the
trees mature young; the harvest
ing Is easy crop falls off and
all. but harvests itself; is a , "lazy
man's crop." needing little ' at
tention fter v trees mature.
In rears of high "prices, it, wW
be a bonanza crop, yielding f-otn
3000 to 5000 pounds to the acre
here for mature trees, and sales
nave in the past lew years ben
as h'gh ; as 35 cents a p-rusd.
Firur it out for yourself.
Filbert trees are being t
Out here : as fast as the ' proper
rursery stock can be had. ,
capable, of earning interest on a
large sum, it grafted over to a
pure Vrooman j FranquetfJ ' or
Mayette strain. Large walnut
trees In California' have sold for
13000.
From the above, the readers
may get an idea of the intrinsic
value of a large walnut orchard;
or. even of a ; few trees, in the
coming years, fit will commence
bearing the sixth year here, and
increase Vapidly thereafter.
It has been ! stated that if all
the shade trees In Salem were
bearing English walnut trees ot
the right varieties the sale ol
the nuts would pay all the taxes
of the i owners of city property-
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The reader I is referred to a
special article in this edition on
walnut growing, i
The Walnut Industry
-Did yon know that Salem hf
- the center of a great walnut In
dustry; that the Franquette ftil
Mayette walnuts . produced here
are the world's best -walms
with a nutty flavor found in no
ether; that carloads and then
tralnloada ot walnuts will go out
from Salem, the market . center
tor walnuts; and that there is
last room tor more Intelligent
walnut growers?"
; The; above wordV are fanv:Vtr
to readers who follow .'the Slogan
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' The walnnt tree comes into
bearing early In this district, but
It attains great age, and becomes
more valuable each year. undT
the proper conditions found her.v
ind lth the right va?'jres.
. Black and other ,; walnut tr.s
slanted here by our pioneerj are
Kwerlng giants and every , one
The Strawberry Industry
This is a great strawberry dis
trict. For some growers, straw
berries have been a bonanza
cop. There have been yields
here reaching as high as 24,000
pounds to the acre, but the aver
age under the old method has
perhaps been a ton and a half
to the acre. It Is expected, with
new methods and varieties, to
bring: this up ; to two and four
ions to the acre.
The Salem canneries packed
60,000 eases of strawberries last
year; ', 83 per cent of . the straw-
terries canned In the Pacific
Northwest last year. Besides,
great, quantities were sold fresh,
cold packed, and disposed ct In
other ways.
' The Salem district is going
fast towards a 10.000,000 pounds
annual crop of strawberries, arid
our manufacturing and market
ing interests must prepare to
take care of such a crop. Ore
gon produced 5 per cent of the
strawberries grown in the Unit
ed States in 1919; Marlon county
' the leading strawberry county
in Oregon, and Polk, adjoining,
is a close second. Salem surely
has the true i strawberry mark ;
and her premiership , as the
strawberry center of the wor'ld
will depend only upon the facil
ities for properly handling them
keeping up; with the- - growing
of them in this district. THe
Salem M'strict also produces an
nually great quantities of straw
berry plants for sale at home r.nj
for shipment to outside mark
ets. . i
center stem SO .feet high; 0 t
limb spread; bears SO bushels ot
apples a year. Nearly; all : var
ieties of apples do well In family
orchards here. But, for com
mercial purposes,' nothing should
be grown in which we do not ex
cel. We can excel in the Ort
ley, the Rome Beauty, the Winter
Banana, the Grimes, the Delici
ous and others, and we raise as
fine Gravenstelns as the world
can show.'
Speaking from the commercial
standpoint, it would be well for
the Salem district If nearly every
apple tree in all this section
were a one of the bove varie
ties. We can' top the market
with these and that Is where the
big money is in any industry.
Indiana, and New York; and an is going; the 1000 to 1200-pound
oil that ranks at the top in fia- purbered cow is coming; andutbe
vor. Besides, our 'growers gel 1 Salem district is leading and will
more pounds of eil to the acre, head the way.
acre, and 50 pounds to the acre
The Apple Industry
Apple ' growing has been suc
cessfully carried on . in tha Sa
lem district since the .settlement
of the country. There have
been many apple booms.. There
Is an apple tree ' on the Egan
farm below Salem, of the Deli
!ous variety, that is 74 years old;
The Raspberry Industry
The Salem district Is a good
raspberry country. ; It produces
as good red raspberries as any
grown.
But it has a franchise on the
black raspberry; , or what
amounts to a franchise; for the
Munger black raspberry can - be
successfully and persistently
grown here. This is not true ot
any other district in this part
of the world. It is not true of
western Washington,' the great
red raspberry country. The Jam
and Jelly trade demands a lot
of black raspberries; and there
i no bush fruit line that is more
certain of continued success here
in the Salem district than is the
raising of Munger black rasp
berries; the blackcaps of com
merce. I
Is common. (
Mint is as good as clover for
the, soil some say better; and
the mint hay makes good feed,
and it is a safe crop.
The White Michem variety
does well here; and no 'where
else excepting in England, Sax
ony and Syria.
Only one thing is needed, and
that Is to protect the Oregon
standard; to see that no inferior
product is raised here, from the
wild varieties, or full ofweedsr
But the association is calculated
to see to 'this, and the growing
demand for menthol in the can
dy and gum trades, and in drugs,
etc.. will do the . rest. The Sa
lem district is headed towards a
mlll.'on dollar a year peppermint
oil crop; and It will not be long
in arriving; and It will go just
as much farther as there is a de
mand for the oil at remunera
tive prices because we have the
peppermint o!l soil and climate
The fcvergreen Blackberry Jn-
Salem is the center of the
great and evergrowing Evergreen
blackberry Industry. Marion coun
ty has over ' half the acreage of
the state, with Polk, Yamhill and
Linn, second,? third and fourth
so the Salem district has nearly
all the Evergreen blackberries in
Oregon, and nearly all the mar
ket for these great pie berries of
commerce.
The importance of the industry
l es in the great American appe
tite for pie and the Evergreen
blackberry is the commercial pie
berry par excellence; also in the
creat production to the acre
There have; been yields of 22,
000 pounds to the acre and how
much greater are the posslblli
ties no one can guess.
The Evergreen blackberry is
an important link In our chain
of diversified agriculture, and
who can: saywbat its future in
the Salem district may be? The
and know how. and orranlza-! Salem canner'es packed 85,000
tion. The acreage will be cases of Evergreen blackberries
largely increased in this district
this year.
Tho Rooming Mint Industry
The mint industry is on a
boom and Salem, Is going tp be
headquarters for ' growing ; and
marketing the crop of pepper
mint oil. Dan J. Fry, the Salem
druggist, the largest buyer: of
crude drugs In the state, says he
is in touch with one firm that
will want 50,000 pounds annual
ly and the Salem district, from
present indications, wil soon be
ready to furnish that much;, and
a great deal more.
The Oregon ; Mint i Growers Co -operative
association 1s active,
and it proposes to build a refin
ery, to secure a larger benefit
and a better standardization ot
the Oregon product, which now
stands very high, and which sells
to what amounts to a premium
of $1 or more a pound over the
eastern product, owing to Us su
perior quality... -'.'l '
So Salem is bound2to be the
center of the leading' peppermint
oil district of the world because
the finest and richest mint pit
In the World is produced here;
an oil with 51 per cent o? men
thol content.1 against the 36 per
cent o'l produced In Michigan.
The Country of Great Cow
The noses of Dionysus and
Bacchus are oiA of joint; enter
the bovine goddess, "wet nurse of
the human race, and in this new
era the Salem district ' will have'
the premier place of all the
earth.
Near Salem, at Marion, Mar
Ion county, Oregon, is Vive
La France, the . greatest
dairy cow of any age,
any breed, living or dead. The
Salem district has all the world
record Jersey i cows in the world
except one; and is going to have
all of them. There are 21 Gold
Medal Jersey bulls In all the
world; we have nine of them
There are 29 Silver Medal Jersey
bulls In the world, we have 11
of them. We have half of all
the 1000 pound butter fat Jersey
cows In the world.
Western Oregon Is the hest
cow country on earth; because
we have the feed and the climate
and the natural conditions that
conserve the highest qualities
end make for the highest produc
tion in 1 the domain ot dairying
and we have the dairy brains
and the dairy will to excel. "
-The 1200 (annual butterfat
production) Jersey cow is on the
way; and she will be produced
n the -Salem district, and fu
ture .competition for World's rec
ords will be between Salem dis
t't Jersey cows. The 150 to
f-00- nound common brindle cow
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D-. PRODUCTS 'CO
Dehydrators, Canners and Evaporators of
Fruits and Vegetables
Originator! of Conmercial Dehydration, the King Company is the
leader in the Dehydration Industry. . . . King's Salem Plant is the
largest Dehydrating Plant in the world. . . Oregon Fruits and
Vegetables packed under the King label are distributed to all parts
of the globe. . . . King's Advertising to the Trade Designates
Salem as the Capital of Dehydration. ... To the American House
wife King's magazine and newspaper advertising features the high
quality of Oregon's Fruits and Vegetables.
last -year.
The Cherry City of the World
Salem was namedV'The Cherry
City of the 1 World" years ago-j-the
writer believes it was by A.
F. Ho'er, at that time the- secre
tary . of the Salem Commercial
club.' Anyway she was entitled
to that distinction and has . worn
well" the title and deservedMhe
honor and earned the emolu
ments. The cherry Industry liere
had early - beginnings. County
Commissioner J. T. Hunt has on
his Waldo Hills farm a black
Tartarian cherry tree that is per
haps 65 years old, and it has
never missed a crop .since it be
gan to bear. s ' . .
The three greatest sweet cher
ries in the world were Originated
In the Salem district the . Bings
and Black Republicans and Lam
berts; and the other great sweet
cherry, the Royal Anne, has been
brought to. perfection here and
the most useful of them all, the
Long Stemmed Waterhouse, Is of
Salem origin; most useful be
cause it Is the pollenizer of all
sweet cherries,- . while Itself,
cherry about equal in quality to
the Royal ; Anne. (And add the
honey bee; for the cherry pollen
Is not carried by winds; it must
bo- carried on the wings and legs
of Insects.) Given the bong
Stemmed. Waterhouse and the
honey bee, and the sweet cherry
industry is a reliable industry
in the Salem district g'ven also
ample manufacturing and shlp-
e4ng-rand cold storage facilities.
Then there is the sour cherry
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iae iuomiiiurency cuerry wuitr
'dds to the value ot the indus
try here.
Nature has by election made
alem the "Cheery City of the
World;" and man is doing more
md more to confirm the title.
Maraschino plants are here now.
and other manufacturing plants
re coming, and the whole wide
world will come to acknowledge
calem's premiership In the cherry
industry. i
The Salem canneries last year
racked 80,000 cases of Royal
Anne cherries; and there were
Immense shipments of barrelled
cherries and of the fruit shipped
fresh to distant markets as far
away as and farther than New
York;'
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cVoVce
of
a million
American
housewives
Grower?, Please Note!
We ar now" contracting for Spinach and Stringless
Bean Crops. Growers who are interested should call, write
or telephone our Salem office. Seed furnished at cost.
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KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS CO.
1 ;l Front and Market Sts.,
. SALEM, OREGON
Telephone Salem 830.
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The Pear Industry
The Salem district is the
world's pear paradise.
,Bartletts are self-fertile here
aedv nowhere else. Pears are free
rrom hiignt nere and nownere
else ,We have more pear friends
and less pear enemies than any
other district in the world. We
have the cheapest pear land In
the world.
Our Bosc pears topped the
New York market in 1919 and
920: at $6.85 In 1919 and $7.38
in 1920. Our Anjou pears top
ped the Chicago market at 14.71
a box and $4.54 in car lots In
1920.
Our Winter Nells topped the
London market at $7.10 a box in
1920.
There' should be ten times the
present acreage ot pears, j and
they should ' be principally the
Fartlett, Bosc and Clairgeau var
ieties, and all nondescript -varie
ties should be grafted to these.
In fact, the whole Willamette val
ley, ia a very good corn country,
that it depends upon the selec
tion and acclimatization or seed,
and upon the preparation of the
seed bed and cultivation to hold
moisture during dry seasons-
And under the leadership of
these men, and through other
agencies, there has been a won
derful increase in corn growing
here In the past few years
Until Marlon haa become the
second Oregon county in the pro
duction of shelled corn and per
haps , the first corn county when
her 1000 acres of silage corn
of last year Is taken into ac
count; and Polk county is a
close second to Marion. Also,
Marion has become the fifth
corn county in shelled com m
the Pacific Northwest.
Under the same kind of lead
ership, Marlon will in a few
years exceed all Pacific North
west counties in corn production,
to the vast benefit of this section
in very many ways.
There are reports of produc-.
tion as h'gh as 75 and more bus
hels to the acre, and good farm
ers say 50 to 60 bushels ought
to be common.
Jesse Huber has raised corn
in Ohio and Oregon, and he says
that, with proper seed selection,
a yield as high as the average
crop of eastern corn can be ma
tured here. He has raised 80
bushels to the acre near Salem.
The average yield for the whole
of the United States is 24 bush
els to the acre.. '
Perhaps of sfll more impor
tance to the Salem district is the
production of more corn for sil
age, for in this respect corn is
the great stand-by; nor is there
latent to detract from the im
portance of silos in preventing
loss of various forage crops in
cases of unseasonable rain; of,
indeed, from the importance ot
any other crop that is commonly
used or may be used for filling
the silo. In whole or In part.
There is no agricultural Inter
est in the Salem district that will
not ' benefit from the produetlon
of more corn, "which will mean
more cows, more hogs and more
livestock in general, and there
fore a better, chance to keep up
and improve the fertility at -the
land devoted to tree and hush
fruits and all other products of
the soil.
World's Beet Celery
The Salem district grows the
best celery in the world. Eugene
celery in 1921 took second prize
at the national celery contest;
and Prof. Bouquet of the Oregon
Agricultural College says the
Oregon exhibitors gained a great
er victory than the taking of the
first, prize in that, contest. Trout
dale celery took the first prize
last year at the national con
test at Indianapolis and It wti
taken with ceiery that was growa
by a man who was a celery grow,
er before coming to Oregon In
the famous Kalamazoo, Michigan,
district.
The n Labish Meadows district,
just north of Salem, produces as
good celery as that grown at Eu
gene oc Troutdale j -
Produces the best in th
world (
I Produces $100,000- worth a
year on 100 acres of land
And the Labish Meadows grow,
ers are ambitious and expect to
become the largest growers of
ceiery quality celery In ths
V-orld, f
Do you realize what this will
n-ean what the full development
of the celery Industry here will
mean?
There are 5000 acres of tb
same kind pt land as the 100
acres in celery in the Labish
Meadows district; beaverd&m
land. There are many mors
reaver dam tracts. In the Salem
district. There are scores of
thousands of other acres of good
celery land In this district
- So there is a possibility of a
$5,000,000 annual crop; or a
$10,000,000 or more.
The world is the market; al
most it is the market, or will be,
for the celery fresh from the
fields, with the improvement or
shipping facilities. For the de-
I Oregon Packing Compimy
Canners of Fruits arid : .
4 Vegetables :
j In the development of diversified
1 fruits andberry,cultute of this valley 9
I this organization gives its hearty
II cooperation.
jj 1 'K ; ; ' Salem, Oregon
The Gooseberry Industry
" From the standpoint alike . of
the profits they may hare on
these bush beriies on their own
account, and because they mesh
Into the scheme af succession
which is very Important for the
Salem fruit district; and because
there Is no other locality in the
world so favorable to the produc
tion of the highest quality of
gooseberries, with large average
yields, the fruit growers in the
Salem district ought to raise
more gooseberries.' Growers here
have produced 9000 to 16.000
pounds to the acre; and even t
the rate of 25,000 pounds to the
acre on small plats of ground;
selling as hirch as 15 cents per
pound, or at the rate of $3750 to
the acre. An experienced grow
er says 8000 pounds to the acre
is a reasonable average expecta
tion. The Salem canneries pack
ed; 7000 cases of gooseberries
last year. '
GRAVES CAMMING CO., Inc.
Main Office: Woodburn, Oregon " ,
Canneries at:
Woodburn, Sherwood and Sheridan, Ore,
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Packers of the famous GRAVES brand
fancy fruits '
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Our Motto: "QUALITY FIRST9
i W- slgnilZ term contracts for all varieties of fruits,
including plantings of this year. If you are .thinking of making
some new plantings, see us before you decide as we can give you
some very valuable information as to the best varieties to put in,
and will help you to secure good plants. . '.
We are also prepared to make you an attractive cash offer on
your fruit, for the coming season. V .
It Will Mean Money Saved to See Us
First";
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:- A Good Corn Country 1
Cur best if arm ers have conclud
fit
ed that the Salem district, and
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