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t Bay Ut " -; Oregon """" . . SELLING AL OIST.RI.G1 We Wffl Give Our Best Efforts . I furnaces W. 17. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th Oak Sta., Salm, Or. Phone 881 Devoted to Showing Salem District People; the Advantages i. and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its At all tlmaafto aatict : any poalble way the 6t opment of tbe fruit t. berry lndsitriM la UJj r 17. Wa An Out Mm Tw KUUsaa w r aaw paying arar thras .aartara of BiUioa dxt1ara a year tha cairraua af this saetlaa ; lot aulk. - .;- j ... , "Marion Batter" Xs tha Bast Bottat Mat Caws aa4 Battat Cava to r- . . Um crrtaj aaaa MARION CREAMERY mes and towns. The Way to Binld UpYour Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People I The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries Is to Support Those YqjuHave Oregc Pacld: Selling Salem District is a. continuation of the Salem Slogan and & PRODUCE CO. Pep and Progress Campaign . Salenv Ore. , Phone 2488 c T EM it r DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products I King's Food Products Company SaJem Portland The Dalles - : ' r . Oregon ' I This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by pur public spirited business men men ..whose untiring effbrtk have f builded L our, Present recognized prosperity and who. are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. " '' ' - - . , -v - - i .IP- - i , 1 - I 1 . : . Gideon Stolz Co. J Manufacturers of - i - Dependable Brand , ; Lime-Sulphor SoIatloB The brand you can depend , i on tor parity; and test .- "jPrioea opoa application Factory near corner of 'Summer and Mill St. ' 8alem, Oregon Wfcstte VzEsy Pnae Asscciafiia .. Tke oldest Association In the Northwest y.t.jenks , Secretary and Manager . ' ' Trade nigh 8f. : ' SALEM, OREGON NELSON BROS. ' ' L ." ' Warn Air Faraaeaa. plaaiaing , aa4 .aba aiaal vark. tia a ' mflii, aaaaral , JaV tag 4a 1 aad calfaaisaV Iraa SSft Okaaakata St. raaaa ltO DIXIE DREAD Dixis HediL Dread 1 Ask Your Grocer RIDE THE THOLLEY. ; SAFETY ' 'COMFORT CONVENIENCE " AXD ECONOf r Tickets me your time. ' iZy thrm In strips S for . ... -'SO cent. ' ' SOUTHERN PAQFIC LINES FOR YEARS AND YEARS Tfea StatcantK. h baaa inpply. tag tfca waaU af Ua critical )oa adnUag uada-. ' ltlTi w ara anaUri af vartk ana aiarit. tCodra rgtilpwaat aad Mai ar tta aaea Utat gat ay. ; J Statesman Pulishing Company Xhonm S3 or IM3 sia 8. comi st: - Why suffer with Stomach Trooble when Chiropractic i BetnoTO the Casae Your Healtb Begin Wbea Ycr ;!Hxoae 87 '.;- - - v - for aa appotatment ... Dr. SCOTT & SCOFIELD : 1 ... O. Oklrapraatara Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 U. S. Rati ES. i . Bldz. Hoars 10 to 13 am. aad a to 0 pja. SOMEWU T OIIFSTKIIUS ifiKFIl RYl sv aaSl p agr a aa mgW a aa a a aa IDE BEEira, DVERED Bf PH i i- O! tree. - Cost of caring for seedlings planted 40 to 50 feet apart in the orchard Is much, greater than car- ing ior tnem in the nursery row. Where nursery grafted we plant onJCPjUtose treesj which are Ujgrtt field grafted va hava to Soil Is Important, But theocatibn?of;fhi1i inA ic -rWm iTp v Mnro lmnnpfQnfJluAU m-t-L J 1Z J?."u W"H ra. 'ere are many auch: Ai. o H Y,U Pf.,,l9 eeOlingS 50mesome seedlings refuse absolutely u.iwo yui uciiimy nuers me Beginner May Learn totalcea srari Jjj "r"; Ul .u ne uugni icrnow By 'Attending the nut dduwaiiuii meeting in caiem uecemDer 5-6 plant Editor Statesman: Is walnut growing a success In the Willamette i vallev? r . . " ' ics and no. ; The walnut in more particular as to soil and lo cation than is any other tree crop grown nere. Under proper . con ditions Its culture is paying good money, and the walnut Industry promises to be one of the leading horticultural industries of the valley. However, where orchards have been planted In unfavorable locations poor results have been had. . . ; c i- . r What soil does the walnut fa vor? i It la not ao much a question of what soil as It Is how is the soil located.The soil should be deep; five feet and up for very, best re sults, it should be fairly fert ior tne walnut ; tree, Is '"a-'-neavy feeder and much fertility Is used rip in producing,, good-crons of lrge sized nuts. . . - What about drainage? ' t The soil should be well drain ed. The walnut is very particu lar tt this respect. It will tol erate no standing water about Its roots. Poor growth and die back of the terminal growth; are results of poor soil drainage. - is air drainage Important? It Is probably the most import ant single point to be considered In selecting a location for a wal nut orchard. Frosts occurring eir ther in late spring or early fall may do much damage to the niU rrop For this, reason the slon- Ing hill sides are considered the oest walnut lands. It is hot tha hill soil that Is necessarily adapt ea 10 tne needs of the walnut tree "e i that these hill soils happen to be so located that aren- are. protected from erally thsy frost injury Is it advisable' to plant seedlinr orcnarasi Seedling trees vary greatly tin OVA S anr.Sh.'a ''j i nere are some very flue seedling -trees, some that produce better nuts than do most grafted trees. Seed line nrhaafl vary. Some produce better andl dea of removing diag How .far apart shall we walnut trees? ins micr trees sucn as prunes or sour cherries are used to get returns before the walnnt tree Is in full bearine the nut trees should be planted 50 to 60 feet apart.! At this spacing the fil.'er trees will have to be remov ed when 12 to 13 years of age. Where hq (fillers are planted the trees are usually planted about 40 feet apart-i 27 trees per acre- more uniform nuts than other but none produce crops anywhere near as uniform as the better graued varieties. ? Invnsfltinn will show that most of the owner. of paying seedling i groves have worked oyer some 25 of theii poor seeanngs by tonworklnc them to good varieties". This ton. working has cost money and "has ayea the orchard In; gettins In to ion bearing. In seedling or chards In California where the trees have been,'trapnested (performance-records kept on each in- J 2 t j a uivtuuai tree tor a; period of years), it has been found that on an average 25 of the seedlingt in a given orchard do not pay ex penses. Inother 25; Just about pay their way and the remainire ,50 pay what profit that is paid oureiy such records do not war rant the planting of seediinr Grafted walunts are todays selling wholesale in Oregon at 5c per pouna over the1 best; grade ol seedlings'. i " " Are grafted tfees always to be preierrea to seedlings? " no. i ne mere operation of onal rows iof trees when perhaps o years jold so as 1 to prevent crowding I ':. : v t :- f;- ; : What filler, trees are best for walnut planting? :.' 0" ; Prune,; peach and sour cherry are among; the best.1 These come Into bearing young and . do not grow as large as some other var ieties. - ; ! : ;.' " - . :.. Filberts; and sweet 'cherries do not make good fillers. Both have pollination problems which make solid planting desirable. ' Both become large t trees and both are long lived j and increase In profit with age so that, it is hard 'for the grower ever to bring himself to turthem out to make room, for the walnnt. What varieties should be planti ed? Proba bj0: -HJre-walnat planting in . this state -during the past ' five yeafs has been grafted and 90 of the grafted trees have been Pranquette. Frananettn l necessary with this variety. How can ; the ' beginner learn more of nut culture? ' By attending the, annual con vention of the Western Nut assoc iation which meets in Salem De cember 5th and 6th of this year. You will have the opportunity of hearing full programs devoted to nut culture problems discussed by tne leading growers of the state. KNIGHT PEARCY. lem, Oregon, Nov. 7, 1923. sell them to the Ignorant and un miormed. You ought to . hear Jkp. t tha progaganda that some or these agetits pass out. The vic tims of tens bring It tq me and ask me what I think about it. No '$WEV$$$5&Qf tn concerns whopnt-these seedling trees on the market -know as well as many others of us do t Just what these trees will producer but as there Is the best varfety which has beaLno law Ka,nst their sale, It Is widely tested. No pollenizers are (The writer of the above is a member of the firm of Pearcv Bros., horticulturists and nursery men. 237 ; state street, Salenu They make a specialty of walnuts and filberts; The Pearcr Bros. hare developed' a number of the large plantings of this section. They developed the famous Sky line Orchards, south of Salem the largest individual planting of grafted Franquette walnuts In the northwest. Ed.) j a THE SO CALLED SECOND GENERATION WJlfJOT. By FEBB BBONFJI. EXPERT just a question of making monev. regardless of consequences. As there have been between one and two million of these trees sold In the northwest. $10 or $12 average loss would be putting it low, so you can see that the loss can eas ily, be -from 10 to 15 million dol lars on trees already sold, and thousands more will be planted this season. "Last season one of me oig mail order bouses had ED FOR A 50 IVioTUT 11 C It Is Practically Impossible to Get a Grafted Grove in 71 State for $2500 an Acre, and $3000 Is Scarcely eW",SAiMan Ca" Plant 7en Acres the Salens District to One Acre in Recognized Va!r. Growin.ionsJn ;qalifomaAhd Our Walnuts r Better ajd Higher Pnced ; Editor Statesman: ' J Walnut culture in Oregon. Washington and In California Is on a different-plane than else where. Grove are neatly kept, fertilized and well them listed In their catalog and i Varieties are standardized and the ia quite a tew in our own coun- nuts-, are sold according, to size try. - and variety; whereas in Europe The Kirk walnut belongs to this walnuts are principally a by-pro- clats. . I have spent much time du.ct- The trees a set out In a and money experimenting with it rather haphazard manner In a a . - I . ior it years, ana nave absolutely helm and Puente districts are t great walnut producing sectic of the United States at the presr lime, but some day Washingt and Oregon are going to step i the fore with their, greater arc age production, lower, costs a better quality nuts.' . -' . High In Washington Already a walnut orchard nor of Vancouver,' Wn., changed han at $2000 an acre, and H consist tures as road&idA hnrHM I.-lv. condemned It, cut it .11 off and otherwise worthless hillslopesj Ir somefled trel wh grafted he trees to Franquette. rigation Is unheard of. Little xr '181 treea ?taiiie? rhVr . I would consider Mt as Doorln cultivation .Is inracticed ' and 1 Judgment to plant these seedlings f bout the onftHt is the harvest- an acre for his 130 acre hill r as It would be to plant seedlin Ing cost. It nem aa L , acre nUI c appIes. Beaches or nr- " iZ shouW h .1 .-1 r"" " 5?noiIS- Oregon, whl - - - - - -- 1 .. a uo aa a warning to all would-be plant ers of walnut trees. W M tut inese warnings are often Perfectly' Pasteurized MILK AND CREAM Phone 725 Roof Leak? Ebonal for Felt of Shingles Elastic Roof Cement for all Repairs, ;.;!; Or . :.: - A New Roof of Cedar Shingles, Malthoid iShlngle. j Malthoid Roll Roofing, j i T . i Sre Falls City-Salem Lumber ; Company . 319 No. 12th St. rbone.HIS A. B. Kelsay, Mgr. grafting does not insure that the resulting tree will ' be a worth I Editor Statesman : while one. ; IT the f parent f tree I Tne name second generation Is frbra which the graft was cut Is Mt8e,f a niisnomer, as the tree is a producer of high grade nuts it I seedng pure and simple, and follows that the tree which is may be the hundredth or thous graiiea rrom it wiir likewise Tro-lanain generation of some tree -fduce similar huts.' iWhere a seed-1 tnat might have been In existence ung tree is found that is!a'pro-.r)fore man inhabited this earth ducer of desirable nuts it can be J It is , claimed that' this second propagated by grafting and; the generation 'is grown from a nut rrouiung trees win produce a nut I frpm a grafted tree, bnt the ad- 01 me same quality. ? vocStes of this tree forget that the Why not plant the seed of the (tree from which the original graft i. Piace in the or-1 was cut was a seedling tree that ... uu mier on topwork the cnanced to be a good one; likely resulting tree to the desired var- by cross-pollenatlon. By this ,ety? : ! ' method nearly all the superior Many costly experiments have Cypes of nuts hOAfl n 4 . .A - 1 - . a. I m . . " 0y growers an overt aucea. outjttie chance of Improve Oregon. These growers tell us I raent is exceeding v maii- k - - 1 - p 1 u tfea m Bu;u a metnoa or estab- oiy one In millions pi. seedlings. ums a nui orcnara aione. . Un-I which la proven by the fact that even sianas usually result. Con- the Franquette is more than 100 .. .... .u SiB,uus i8 necessary I years oia, yet today it is one of e gras iaii op prt i the tne most 'popular. If not the most Mr. Groner Gives Figures and Facts to Show That Sperfi ling iWalnut Planting Will Be Unprofitable Compared ISfaXlaL AlU. . 11? a a ai aa a mm um me veiling uux or uraitea Trees of Good Stock ana ngni varieiies wny are Seedling 7rees Sold? TUa Bekt Only Our Methnd: Cooparattea Capital City v':j Co-operative Creamery A ana profit orftin'-txlinn o'nrj anUrvljr hj tlie d.irirairn. . Uiwm a. a trial. -I- M.aurtirr of Bntterrhp Butt 'At yonr Urocerfr Fhon 299 137 C. Com'! St. HOTEL BLIGH IOO ronaw, of Botld Coesfnrt A Uoae Away From Home Salem Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rug Worts Rag and fluff rugs woven any sizes without seams. New mattresses made to order. Old mattresses remade. Feathers renovated. I buy all kinds of old carpels for fluff rugs. Otto F. Zwiclcer. Prop. . Phone 11S4 13 M - and Wilbar Streets f popular, walnut in the United States, and at least 80 of all the walnut orchards in the northwest are now ncing planted of this variety. I have spent many a day walking up. and down rows of sec ond generation tcees eatimatlng tne production. J. placed them in four classes Tan3 . marked each riass hy the crop it produced In quantity and quality, alb d I have reached the conclusion that one ialf of the nuts were produced on --v of lire trees, and one-half the balance was produced on 25 of what was; left. The rirst 25 paid a profit; the second 25 was little above the boarder class: the third J23 was a little below the. boarder class, and the fourth J'e v a dead loss. 1 Thr Figures Confirmed Prof. Hatchelder. of th nut In rnigauua aepartment of the University of California, who has made a"n extensive study of seed ling orchards, while addressing a gathering of walnut rowers a r. days a ro gave figures almost ex actly the same as mine, showing that the work must have bm carefully; done or the figures of each could not have been so near ly alike. wnen one of these seedling trees .is later grafted, the loss will continue, because the tree craft ed on a northern California black walnut; will produce enough more and of 'better quality, than the one grafted , on an English, seedling, so that it will pay for itself every year, arter the tenth or twelfth year. This was proven in our first orchard, which are seedlings i ue larger ana stronger trees were grarted and the weaker and late starters were replaced. j- , More. Than Double Value , Ahoth?r conclusion I have drawn !s that .an acre planted with Franquette trees grarted on northern California black "roots will bear as much net income as two acres of second generation trees under the same conditions. I no not believe the grafted Fran- M.AfM M. Ill 1 . . huvvo win war rtwice as many nuts. Dut placing the grafted acre production in full bearing at 1000 pounds, which is conservative, we tind they have been selling at 5 cents per pound more than seed lings for No. 1 grade, with aa average of 75' firsts, -while the average second generation orch ard where the poorer trees have not been weeded out will not run more than 60 firsts. With these deductions and the care and cul tivation Of tWO acrea lnntant t one. I doubt very much. If the net income of the Heed line- rh-Jr (which means second generation 1 will be one-half of that of . tha grafted. , ! Why Are Tliy- Sold? V may ask. why are theaa trees sold They are raised hr 1 ... . . . . - Himpiy, planting the nut and let- a la ta u 11 giow in tne nursery row two or three years, and sold with out any other operation whatever. They can be raised very cheaply. I would be glad to raise them for 25 cents apiece for two year olds.1 As they are sold for from thro. six times that amount,. large com-! "c oongea to import so I cost him isnn jajny nuts of the kind that are treesW planting, cultivation ar n.Cv2a-- Ch"e an ,n taxes op until the time of profl fcurope. Each vear wa imn i.u k 1 ... . z taken like the child who was told from 40 to 5.0 million pounoi at .enl exper eice k ' V, not to touch the hot stoVe. In these Inferior nuts. J nl? !!e COU!d be consld this case it will not only burn for regttal to all. the walnuts grown j- ' ( the present, but all your lifetime. I in the United State?. In the .r Cost hs, Brin-j More adn also that of your children and 1920 we . imported 27.91f.270 j 1 wI11 try and explain why f their children, as walnats growlPonds of unshelled walnuts : nri I walnuts srown hen rmM... . 1 rery 01a. i.ui.07d pourRla of shelled w.i. onng PERD GRONER. Hlllsboro, Oregon, Norv. 2, 1923. HURD SPEAKS 0 I F EMMKETIi more, than they do fart. nuts, equivalent to 36.150.150 80uth- To begin with, it must t? pounds of unshelled nuts, or a to-1 understood that Encliah walm tal importation equivalent to 64,- are found in an evidently thrivk 064,420 pounds of nutsVfor the condition all over the northe year 1920. It. J? time we ! were beIt of the United States and t growing some, walnuts of our lnto Canada, although after yc own, and especially is this' true Ret away from the Pacific coa right here in the northwest where tfae plantings are few, small, at we grow the best wain lfts of the on account of the rapid chan; world at a price that gives us Iron summer heat to freezlr wonderful profits. California temperatures, are not as succe? cannot grow nuts as; cheaply as ful as on the coast, where, tl w can nere, neither can the nuts I temperature Is more uniform: f Must Be a Grower Owned grown there Compare with, ours I the excessive heat of the inlat -beuing Agency Handling 1 T HU"iy' - 75 Per Cent of Crop L paftwl Wa,nuU p1 - : y . V I we have one great disadvantage n. -sun - toi a rapid spread of walnut rw ( The following is acurrent ar-lns throughout the northwest. MVtfnna n . . .1 , EU.wus iohwj me nuts to su: burn rendering them unfit f market, and where the heat l. been uniformly hot but not gre euougn to sunburn the nn tide uent out by the department and that Ja -the fact that 85 of tne "Ic,e to turn bro of ffldustrial journalism of the aU the- walnuts planted out now 7 . ! renaer8 " . nf Oregon Agricultural college:) In this section are : practically nu is grown In the nort urn v a - . - I ai cbl. - seeaungs. it nas taken luese seeaiings a long time . i o i i- t it i i . 1 the Oregon Growers Coooera- it , a " ... nve Association, to protect its to come Into bearing, and some are members, has withdrawn tern nor- ""t yei Deang. The.nuts are all , I buape arily from the prune market. Sa em oispatcbes indicate. This withdrawal, it is said, is caused by the appearance on the market of other growers' Dm ne offered by -private corporations at rtower price than the sunolv and demand justifies. "This to my mind." said r. j Hurd. specialist in marketing fnr the O. A. C. extension service, "is evidence that the prune grower will never receive a fair market price for his prunes until he has a grower owned selling agency handling at least 75 of the prunes of the northwest." s and sizes, thoueh mnar nr them are fairly Urge sized, but the filling qualityof the kernels is not what it. siould he ont while the price S.two cents per fneces8ary "'for them to Irrigate ' pwuna ntgner tnan the California ls,, -ttna' irrigation co seeanngs there is not the rmfi. California loses from 10 to 2" of its crop eachear by sunbur and practically alt the nuts gro? there have the dark pellicle. I California gets 6nly from a thi to a fourth as much rainfall t we do here in the northwest.it money as you will find out if j priced in growing seedlings that there is g, to ,nvesgate it. Again. L ""' nign on account or ( great diversification of crops a the prices they receive for lis thfAn.li , i . .. wu operation or their c operative organizations, making in growing the ".higher grauea vroomau Franquette 7 ,ucauon or which brings as much as 60 cents' .I?" pr,ces they receive a pound retail in - the east -''.and ..wm io ow cents locally. . The grower gets from 25 to 33 cents "f ces8ary 'or: them to get a ra : ...feucr price man' necessary ! the growers here before they pay the interest and taxes on i great valuations. , V 'T V Ten to One A man can plant out 10 a of -walnuts In tithor Orcg uiuoiuii ior What I ft a a pound in ton Ints High Valuettfn California In Catifornia'drrB; average val uation ol producing 9in., .u o VII Jl Til A nrrisi lira I .auM ..m . victlmof such price cutting. J LS to Ve Mr. Hurd. No buyer. h nin. "f 5a,ifo.r.n,a Experiment 1 Station out. will care to buv nnmo. tt i.- is confronted with a nossibilitv nf his competitor buvinr .t,nn Th is brinN.ahmt . . .. (business in which fn Zni1 In Prln- g . move to. the consuming centers as 111 .L??"U 8" sections and fl "u,reuu s si, 477.05 an acre. Last winter Mr, r. Ferd Groner of llinsborol Orejro,,' C08t Wra f lnt one acreMn . were In California looking at var- ed wa,n,,t Krowlng sect . I ho in n. and ech acre wt . I K've a much greater nroflt t a. ' . " nilVj I A. ? rapidly as thev shm.M " ?r?u,ll-ck the following hial.lv Brre so located ' In the s aV 1 CT- I lna.nB.. . a - -wt-Biiug aaia on the valn.iin. Often QnnlkA. . carryover nr Vl. suit Is wnicn should be ; unnecessary thii L-.-uT 7 , roT- It certainly year, as neither the California nor Zr'I , K, U" some encourage the Oregon crop 8 a, large as es- ."i ' f" ' a walntrts of flmated a few months ago. r imi ? Ur mQrc favored 'o- Others than the producer are ttl Z '' ' ' Cr6ner. found that interested in .hi- . " E" tho cheapest grove, a '-wiHn . - this price cutti;7resuTtr,rgVow! " Tl era receiving one cent per pound ? 5?' an 'mpossiblllty less than they might otherwise grafted grove for $2500 missions are pak to agents , who the northwest. have received, they will T have !" '1 that 0,o was auvu.uvu jess for bank deposits offer of nnoi g Va'"atIon; An or to epend on the r.a.i. u OIier .:r S4wan acre for a r.n .va. m a r a i in. ..-.a . , v au.uoo.Ron t...j . . i "-caiot -:.u v u crop in refused: r wahiut orchard was (Continued on page 4.) It costs rr lirrause jou'l" . tor It fnly ourr! MIL EST ONI Hollow Til OnEGOX CUAVEIi CO. MM .. Front St. The nvhlttier. Sauta Ana. Ana- )'