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Cd'- AMIhVp I' StOG AN PAGES, GEtiERAC CUg . VyJSmS &m&jg&M$y& .;. . AND glBK. SECOND NEWS SECTION Pages-1- to 4 'W I -. SEVENTY-THIRD YEARv SAI,EM;mEGONrTHURSDAY MORNING; N6yEMBERcV1923 PRICE: FIVE CllirXJ II HIE OKI 11MIT INDUSTRY m e o E GQN WALTJUT ASSOCIATION ! The Walnut Is the Most Consistently Profitable Orchard s Crop in America Today, Says Mr. Bently There Will - Be Marketed This Year About a. Million Pounds of j. .Walnuts From the Orchards of This State--The Con v sumption May Be Rapidly and Enormously Increased ' ' t i f .. ' Editor Statesman: It la,- I- believe, generally con ' ceded" that the English walnut Is i the most consistently profitable . orchard crop in. Am erica today. It is a regular producer in most dis tricts, and is affected by few pests ' and diseases. Its jharvest- is not 'affected by rain, sol that the usual ' lpssatteudant on wet cherryxand "jwTle seasons Is not a feature of I the walnut industry. . , Further, i "the walnut is not perishable. .to f' any marked degree, . and .: where (properly dried can easily be held qver from one season to another. Fortunately this course is not of ten ' necessary as j the walnut en JoysflTeady market as compared with most farm products, and the bulk of the crop is usually cou sumed during the . Thanksgiving and holiday seasons. ; ; ' i '..U ;1,Few;people realize that ver ,80 j per; cent ,011016, wainuisr-jn tne United States are raised , In Cali fornia, and that the- California crop is doubling about every, fooir yers. y There ,are about 200,000 acres' of land jin. California suit able to. valnut planting,, which, it ,ls .thought willl. eventually be set lout.; in addition . to the existing acreage there. However If prop er efforts arei made th rough,- ad vertising to iaduce the American public to consume more walnuts, there need be bo fear of over-pro- dustion At, present the consump tion of walnuts Tin the, "United States amounts to only one pound per person per year. . ,s -j":. 4 Capable of Great Expansion s : This low acreage . is certainly capable of great expansion, and it is interesting tonote that the Cal if ornia Walnut Gorwers associa tion' has had! great .success 1 - widening the ,1 walnut t market through well directed advertising. Their policy jcails for spending i4 per cent of their annual gross s Income on advertising, so that the ' greater the crop the greater ;will be the amount, spent In pushing it I in tot consumption.. Experience has I shown the California- Association tHhat a, good advertising effort ui a community will result in tripled sales for the year. As a matter of ' information, it might , be . stated here that . the! .Calif ornia associa tion ! operates j 42 local packing plants, which; did a business in 1922 of $10,000,000, through sales of some 25,500 tons of walnuts,";-. . ! i-ii-'v- Oregon's Production . Th 'walnut; production in Ore gon this year win probably exceed 500 dry tons-i There are no fig ares on acreage in walnnts, but the plantings are rapidly increas ing, and it is only a question of time before the Willamette val ley will take Its place with. Califor nia, France, Italy, and Chile as one of the principal walnut grow ing Sections In (the world. Some Walnut Advice In developing, the walnut indus try here, care should be taken; first, that orchards are not plant ed where there is danger of winter Injury to the trees,, or of late frost damaging the bloom. Also,) In planting, wain uti should not' be set closer than fifty feet apart each way, and, if fillers are plant ed, they shonld not te allowed to remain after the, walnut trees be- gin to. reach maturity and bear regularly. Further, experience would indicate the advantage of planting nothing but the best j grafted stock. - k''-: :;. V -1 , While production of walnuts in Oregon was limited to a few doz en tons , per year, , the crop was easily : handled .locally and .. was usually sold direct from grower to the retail trade. Now, however, the tonnage is too great to be readily taken up; In this, manner. and It has 'become .necessary to seek a market, outside the state, To this end a . selling pool ' was formed at Dundee in 1921 with thirty members. It sold about 35 tons of nuts that, year:., and the next year its output rose to 120 tons.- Meanwhile the membership had doubled, and at the beginning of the . present 1 season it was thought advisable : to organize from this nucleus.a state' organiza tion for selling walnuts exclusive ly same to be known as The Ore gon Walnut association (coopera- - (At present the association has 100 members and-wilt do a busi ness Jthis year of about 200 tons, or nearly half the state's produc tion. ,; t; t , J ;; - :,. ; Five Full Cars Go J , Five full cars' of , walnuts, will be, shipped to distant markets, four, to midwest points. The Eu gene Fruit Growers' association of Eugene will ship one of these, cars, as they are pooling ttfeir walnuts in .affiliation with , the Oregon association. In fact, it Is the pol icy .of the Oregon Walnut asso ciation to encourage . the. local packing of walnuts wherever there is sufficient . tonnage production "to , warrant, the equipment of a packing house. Such local pack ing, houses should be. under their own local management;, should be subject. to their, own. board of 'di rectory and, should pay their own costs of operation. - However, the product from these .various, local units ought all to be , handled by one central selling organization, which could allot orders to Jhe lo cal .units, and. make collections for them... Each unit would .elect ine ; member, toward V a ceAtral board of directors, and this board would control the sales organi zation, and . set . prices, . etc. ,The overhead of such, an. organization would be very low; and it would be .. in position to. guarantee ; . the trade definite, sized grades and standards of sorting, and .crack ing test, guarantees., ' It, would. In sure a, regular .outlet - for, the Ore gon crop in distant markets, where the. independent grpwer .Is unable to sell because, of high freight on small shipments and risk of loss In making collections. Price Hat Doubled , v It is interesting to note that since the formation of the Cali fornia Walnut Growers' associa tion, the price of walnuts has been practically doubled ( during : the past ten years). In spite of quad rupled production. ' This-has re acted to greatly Increase the value of walnut acreage, until today full bearing walnut groves-in commer cial districts in California com mand from 1500, to $2000 per acre. ; It needs no lurtner, argu ment to persuade, the people of Oregon of the. desirability Of pro moting the walnut industry in this state through careful planting and care of orchards and through co operative packing, selling and ad vertising of our product. Wj H. BENTLEY , Dundee,' Oregon. Nov. 7, 1923. a - walnut- tree ,does, notlike wret feet. A gentle slope towardsth'e northwest, north, -.northeast or east is preferable to .a slope to ward the mid-day and afternoon sun. ' Most any good soil will grow a walnut tree, but it is like any ofiher crop; the better land and the better cultivation you give it the better the, trees will grow and the better crops you wilt get. The walnut industry is a long game, and whoever start's and does not start right will seriously regret that he ever did start. If jrour location has a hard, subsoil, break it up by deep dynamiting in the dry season of July or August previous to tbe winter planting. Then, assuming that your land Is located Just right and that the soil is. fertile, and that you are , a good farmer, the most1 important thing is yet to come. , lont Plant Seedlings Don't plant a seedling tree. The crop from a seedling tree is only worth about halt what it Is from a standard variety. Don't plant any walnut tree in a .perma nent location unless it is the vari ety you want, already grafted on to a black walnut root.' Any other method will bring yon grief and more, grief. . , . Any nurseryman or salesman who tries.,, to ,sell: you seedling trees should be ruled out of the business. If ho , .calls, at,," your house,, point to. the; gate, and; reach for the. shotgun J kyav contam plate planting a. seedling orchard. stay : out .of the business. ( Yool will, have-toipayilrpmto, ,? per tree for .the, rlht kind; then set.; them . verjr jcarefully,.,and , as toon after ' they become dormant, as you can, taking care not to let the, roots get chilled while out of the . "ground. , Do, not , set nearer, than 50 feet each way. Rightly cared ffor you, may expect a few 'nuts the fifth year, and a paying crop at from eight to 1 1 years. , , . . . . "...IIOSES P. ADAMS, Skyline Orchards,:, . . Salem, Or., Nov. 5, 1923. ; I 1 0: OF SJ1FEST, fiCD MOST . MffiBLE IC1STIS; MiS ; - ' ' : : ' 1 i ' ; ' ' ; " iKsrssger of the Largestvlndividua Grafted. Frahf4uette Walnut Planting in trie lldrthwest Gives Some, Pointers ! to Beginners Tha Skyline Orchards;; Sevefr-Miles .South of Salem, Have Grown to a Point tiooking fo : a Big Success.: i . EdU:r Statesman: years ago I: did not know there were any walnuu In Oregon, and, until, three years ago I bad Sltea. the . subject very , little V thought,. Since then, however,. I ! have been tortnntafn having the I orrcrtualty of settling next to all phases of the Industry. ,It looks to me as one of the safest, sanest I nd most profitable Industries that a person could enter. Wanted Cars. Had Tons ! Two years ago.' tn handling the , Oregon crop for '" thej Oregon i f Growers' Cooperative association, I, learned that the large eastern f distributors acknowledged i that the Oregon walnut nal all others backed oft; the map. i Wal had chanees to sell car loads where we omy naa tons. One party fn Pbll- adeK ia. Pa., 'was -sent 'a five- pound' sample, and wired back for three cars. Other 'parties sat up and- took notice that Oregon was putting out a commodity that had all of the good qualities. . According to eensus reports, the number . of people who,; eat; wal nuts is greater than those; who eat prunes, and . this grand old U.; S of A. only raises a small percent of, the walnut , It eats,, and .there is , where we Oregonlans have a chance. , Fqllow Successful One , Whoever .contemplates an . acre age pf walnuts, j wants -to follow strictly , in. the t footsteps . pX ; the successful ones who pioneered the industry, j iti.-,5 ;t4i.: ti.fi: Care should taken ,ln -the selection, of a location as regards air, drainage to avoid ; the . Jate spring and early fall frosts.' Then .(Mr., Adams, . writer of the above . letter, is the manager of the Skyline Orchards, seven miles south of Salem. , The owner of these -orcharda, is Clarence W. Noble, a. civil and construction en gineer.. of Youngstown, Ohio. -. Mr. Xpble bought, the tract, ,242 acres, and , developed tbe orchard., "from the .ground .up,". There are 212 acresin walnuts,; , and they , are interset With prunes. . The prune eronvthis vear Was 49 tons, over ,0 'Meei;-biJi&&'er-SulDai!' an exceptionally, aiu iruuu. crop. A remarkable fact in this con- nectfon is that the Skylfaie Orch ard tfees have never been sprayed, and they have had no brown rot. even this' year, fiut they have been cultivated. The orchard Is in the red hill land section; in the Liberty district.'' The prune trees will be removed in the next five years. ' - . . . This is the largest single Indi vidual planting of grafted Vroo- man Franquettes in the 'north west. The; trees i were all ( furn ished by Ferd Groner of, Hills- boro. . . Four jrears ago the crop was one small sack. . . .. - -. Three 'years- ago it was five sacks. ".' 4 Two years ao it was about 1700 pounds. In 19,22 it was about three tons. Thisyear.it ,waa about 12 tons. The 'oldest trees - are 11 .years old. running down to: 10, 9 and 8 years. r'l'f.t''"-' Mr. Adams ; has a-farm of "20 acres In Polk eoulily, ;oppoeit the tulip - farm, v He has worked- ror the Oregon Growers - Cooperative association-and - the rKIng's -Food Products company, and he was en gaged , early , in Athe - presentj.year to take charge of the Skyline .Or chards. ' Mr. Noble makes a trip a year .to. Salem to look, after his developing a orchard. He has put a pile of money into that , develop-' ment; but he time ., has . come when be can begin to see adequate returns. He has been building up an immensely valuable prop erty, and one that Is and will, for all the .years of the future .be a great asset to the Salem section, to , the it Willamette valley, and to the whole country.- Ed.) A Statesman reporter, in talk ing with Mr. Adams ' on Monday, gathered a piece of ' news that is interesting to tnose who have tractors. There is a Fordson tractor, on the Skyline place. Mr. Adams-- hitched this tractor to three Buffalo forge fans In the prune dryer. These fans use 1 6.'4 horsepower ; each.i That makes 19.2 horsepower; Then ha hitched it onto the traying machine, tak ing. 2.5 horsepower, v That makes 21.7 -horsepower. ? Then. lie -wired the lights, on. the tractor to the house, and furnished the lighting tor the .night work, of which there was a lot..; From, the -18th .f Sep tember .till last Sunday morning. November .4 .this .tractor 1 engine pulled that, load, without a single hitch; without a minute's shut down., , HUthat is s not the rcord, perhaps the man who holds itwiX come.orward and claim hl .dl Unction. . . 5 f(ie . strike ; Is a , memory ,now. but the dealer can still use; it, an alibi when 'he sells you that kind of coaL , , . . SllS GOOD It Isjmportant So Far As Possble for Oregon Farmers to Produce High Priced Crops That Can Be Transported . to Market at a Relatively Low Cost for Freight Editor Statesman: i It seems to me thaf the out look for the development of a suc cessful walnut industry in Oregon is promising, j . i On account of our long distance from the leading market centers it is important that so far as pos sible Oregon farmers- produce high priced erops that can be transport ed to market at a . relatively low cost for ; rreight.. Walnuts . and filberts, at present at least, meet thcpe conditions. We must also grow crops, which can compete in yild and in quality with similar erops grown elsewhere. 'Under fa vorable conditions walnut erch-. ards In Oregpn produce satisfac tory yields of superior: quality. , . With yield aod quality assured, a prospective active demand is important. ; At present the pro duction of walnuts in this country is confined to California, Wash ington and Oregon and is less than the , consumption, .The ; average annual importation of walnuts for the past three years has been nearly" 37,000.000 pounds,, while the total production in ' the three fe-tates mentioned., for ; the year 19 22 was approximately 60,000, fooopounds. If we can by ade quate tariff exclude cheap foreign puts frorii our markets. If we- can by systematic advertising increase the consumption of nuts, it would appear that our steadily Increas ing .population , will create a de mand att satisfactory prices for a materially increased walnut indus ity. Very truly yours, j A. B. CORDLEY. Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, .Ore., Nov. 6, $923. 1 : ' Hundreds Visit Ship i ! MARSH FIELD, Nov. 7. Hun dreds of (people from North Bend and Marshfield visited the huge steamer, jFrangestan, Sunday, tak ing advantage of the opportunity offered "by the. big vessel being docked at the Stout mills, where a lumber cargo was taken on. British officers aboard played the role of hosts in amiable fash Ian and visitors saw , every nook and cranny of the vessel to which (hey wished to go. ' , If the dealer has learned to say art" in that loving, reverential way. you might as well prepare. to get soaked. I - BELATED ARTICLES 0 THE FILBERT imniicmv iFJTrrntn cnn i mi yiw ! IIIUUU I II I 1 III I LItULU I Ull LHU I I1LLII Dr. Wilkens and Mr. Odell Give Some of thb Good Points of the Filbert' Industry Every Land Owner Should Plant a Grove of Filbert TreesGet the Best Trees to Bo Had, and of the Right Varieties : The two articles on the filbert industry printed below were In tended for the annual filbert Slo gan number of the Statesman of last week Through mistakes In mailing, both articles arrived too late s However they - are' very timely yet; and they are appro priate in the annual Walnut . Slo gan number, for the two; Indus tries ara very closely, related, and one will help the other in vari ous ways. Following are the ar ticles, mentioned v-1 ; ,t Dr Wilkins on Filberts ; Edito. Statesman: Apropos the filbert situation, I am still of the opinion that tbe filbert ls TI1E nut for 'practically all soil land elevation condition which we meet In, the Willamette valley.; It ' has been stated . that river bottom, table; lands and hill lands were preferable in the order named, but I,Jtnow of and have heard of orchards in the upper elevations doing as well or better (Continued on page. 4) Ms i V V i UK e2 . . ... . u 1 CAM '-" - i 1 ... v . . ; v 10 Ambitious '1 ; ' ' : -. First' Prize " i if 1 This luxurious $865.00 New. 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