THE OREGON-STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
THURSD AYMORNINGi NOVEMBER, 1 5, 1923
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PLANTS
Starting in a Very Small Way in 1910, Weeks & Pearmine
Have Become Large Growers of Plants, and They are
; Branching Oiit and Preparing to Materially Extend
Their Great Business V
.Weeks & Pearmine, - Salem,
'Route 8. are. growing and will on
the first of December begin to
ship 2,000,000 strawberry plants,
grown on 22 acres of Salem dis
trict land. The members of this
firm are W. H. Weeks and Lester
I. Pearmine. They are Salem boys.
They lire on the pared River road
last at the northern edge of Sa
lem. '' -' ' '.
'These young men began their
'operations In a ' very small way
back in 1910, and they have been
Increasing their output and add
, tng to their lines ever since
And they, are by no means
through - making improvements
and additions. They will grow
more strawberry plants, and other
t 1&4J ItttWA
A,,tubO, n x v A Y iu.au i. u v. j unv2
produced this year, and they will
make improvements of various
kind, nnrl V wn nn makln? them
and extending their business in
definitely. It they are not now
the largest strawberry and bush
berry plant growerg'on this coast,
their ambitions are to reach the
top, in both volume and service.
I The Varieties They Grow
They grow principally the. Mar
shall,: New -Oregon, Magoon and
Nick Ohmer strawberry plants;
the latter being called the Cali
fornia shipping berry, though the
growers ol that state use other
varieties besides for shipping. The
great bulk of the - strawberry
plants produced by Weeks &
. Pearmine go to j the California
growers, though they also supply
Ettersburg 121 plants and other
varieties to the local trade to
Oregon.. Washington and Idaho
.; growers', and they keep a few spe"-
. cialties like everbearers.
These men have also added all
Uhe bush berries to their lines.
They supply plantings of logan-
. berries, p h e no m e n a 1 berries,
j blackberries, raspberries, dewber
ries, gooseberries, currants, etc-.
in short, a complete line of bush
limits. ;. '
2,000,000 Asparagus Plants
- This year they are supplying
,3.0ff,00 asparagus plants, grown
.oa 18 acres of Jand here, to the
California trade on contract.
These asparagus plants go to the
. delta section of the Sacramento
j valley, where asparagus canning
Ihaa become a great industry- This
S part of the business of Weeks &
Pearmine may conceivably reach
' huge proportions. iTWs is their
first year with asparagus plants. .
The "$."50,000 Ktrawleri-"
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SALEM mUCK & TILE CO.
Saleiu, Oregon. Phone !
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Dates of Slogans
(In Twice-a-Week
Loganberries, Oct. 4.
Prunes, Oct. 11.
Dairying, "Oct. 18.
Flax, Oct. 25.
Filberts, Nov. 1.
Walnuts, Not. 8.
Strawberries, Not. 15.
Apples, Not. 22.
r Raspberries, Not. 2 9.
Mint, December 6.
Great cows, etc, Dec. 13.
Blackberries, Dec. 20.
Cherries, Dec. 27.
Pears, Jan. 3, 1924.
Gooseberries, Jan. 10.
; Corn, Jan. 17.
Celery, Jan. 24.
Spinach, etc., Jan. 31.
Onions, etc., Feb. 7.
Potatoes, etc., Feb. 14.
Bees, Feb. 21.
Poultry and pet stock, Feb.
; Goats, March 6.
Beans, etc., March 13.
PaTed highways; March 20
Broccoli, etc., March 27.
Silos, etc., April 3.
Legumes, April 10.
Asparagus, etc., April 17.
, Grapes, etc., April 24.
INCREASE IB
It will be remembered by some
readers ol The Statesman that Mr.
Rockhill, the Iowa plant wizard,
was last year paid 150,000 for
the rights to his newest4verbear
ing strawberry, the "Rockhill"
Everbearing. This sum was paid
by y. E. Beatty. manager of the
Kellogg Company, Three Rivers,
Mich., the well known' nurserymen
and plant! dealers." -The news of
this purchase was widely pub
lished. Weeks & Pearmine se
cured , some plants at oncet But
they were recently paid back their
money, because this new everbear
ing berry jd'd no good here, and
Mr. Beatty and Mr. Rockhill have
acknowledged that the plant
does not run true that it reverts
to type. So Mr. Rockhill will have
to resume his patient and life
long search for the ultimate best
everbearing strawberry.
. The ThoriUesn Illackberry
,Weeks & Pearmine have also
experimented with the' Cory thorn
less blackberry. They have se
cured no satisfactory results here,
though some California growers
have seemed to find it a success
there, with vines loaded with
fruit. The two items above are
mentioned to show the ceaseless
search for improved varieties; and
the fact that our growers are up
on their toes with the best ot
them the wide world over.
Right Strawberry for Us
In a talk over the phone yester
day morning, the reporter asked
W. H. ' Weeks what strawberry
varieties he would recommend for
the Salem district. As the reader
has no doubt gathered, or already
knows, that 'is an important ques
tion here ' in the Salem , district ;
and Mr. Weeks hesitated; natur
ally. I - -
But he said this: ,
The Marshall and the New Ore
gon for the barreling trade, which
is increasing. -
He said the Ettersburg 121 is
the ideal berry for canning. But
it comes late, at a time when in
most years the, moisture runs out.
Irrigation! to help over this period
in such years would be the thing.
lie said that if growers cannot
Irrigate, they must fall back on
the varieties the can success
fully grow.
He said it was hto opinion that
irrigation! will become general
here. In their plant growing.
Weeks & Pearmine have employed
irrigation. They should have had
more of it this year, but their
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Drug garden, May 1. j
Sugar beets, sorghum, etc..
May 8.
Water powers. May 15.
Irrigation, May 22.
Mining, May 29.
Land, irrigation, etc., June 5.
Dehydration, June 12.
Hops, cabbage, etc., June 19.
1 Wholesaling and jobbing
June 26.
Cucumbers, etc., July 3.
Hogs, July 10.
City beautiful, etc., July 17.
Schools, etc., July 24.
Sheep, July 31.
National advertising, Aug. 7.
Seeds, etc., Aug. 14.
Livestock, Aug. 21.
Automotive industry, Aug. 28.
Grain and grain products,
Sept. 4.
!S. I Manufacturing. Sept. 11.
Woodworking, etc., Sept. 18. ,
Paper mills, etc., Sept. 25.
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plantings as their business has
grown hatfe beeij necessarily scat
tered. They do not plant two
years on the -same land. They
ontract with growers widely sep
arated. They thus avoid plant
diseases.
Matter of Fair Price
Mr. Weeks remarked lhat the
matter of the production of a
great tonnage of strawberries in
the Salem district is one of a fair
price , to the growers that the
growers will produce the berries,
and of the right qualities, if they
can be assured of remunerative
prices. '
He said their shipments of
plants this year will be largely in
car lots; and they will ship some
by steamer. Many small ship
ments, of course, will have to go
by express. . : "
The California strawberry grow
ers are coming more largely to the
using of Oregon grown plants.
They find that-they can pick a
year or two years longer! from the
plants they secure from this sec
tion, and this is a big item, in the
extensive plantations of that state.
The conspicuous success vZ
these two Salem boys with a vision
goes to prove, if the fact needed
further proof, that the big oppor
tunities are not all gone. They
are thick. They are especially
numerous in this land of diversity,
this country of opportunity.
THREE VARIETIES
F
Mrs.' Bernd Had Success
With Ettersburgs Under
Conditions Unfavorable
Editor Statesman: .; . , . ,
Four years ag6 we' planted wo
acres of Ettersburg No. 121 among
the prunes. The next year they
bloomed freely, but a dry spell
C2me and these did not mature.
What. we. had were fine berries,
but there was no market. The next
year they were not worked, but I
sold some, and this year, in spite
of a patch of weeds to contend
with, I sold a ton and could have
done better if I had had enough,
pickers. I consider the Etter
burg 121 the finest canning berry,
and it holds up and sells well, but
unless it can be made more de
pendable and produce heavier is
not as profitable to raise as others.
It is a late berry and blooms about
the time we often have a. hot dry
spell. Blossoms developing at that
time seem to blight, and this cuts
down the yield.
It seems to me that irrigation
might overcome that fault. If so.
we could not have a better berry
for the canneries. My idea would
be to have an earlier berry, such
as Wilson, if for the cannery, or
Oregon, if for the market, fol
lowed by Ettersburgs so as to have
pickers all through the season. To
bo profitable, one should raise two
rons to the acre and such a crop
is far better than any other crop
a farmer could raise, and it is har
vested before the busy season with
logans and prunes... Don't dwnd
all upon one crop. Raise straw
berries as a -side line to logans
and prunes and in that way we
will have some produce, that , the
public will buy. "
-.MRS. SARAH BERND,
Turner, Ore., Route 2.
Nov. 12. 1923.
laziness is ; that quality that
makes a husband think the drying
of dishes an undignified task-for
a man. . . . - "
0
GROWER
SALEM'
THE WORLD'S STRAWBERRY
CENTER
Marion is the leading strawberry county
in Oregon.
Polk county is next.
The berries of both counties are nearly
all marketed in Salem
As are also the berries of parts of Yam
hill, Benton, Linn and Clackamas counties.
Last year Salem canned 83 per cent of
all the canned strawberries packed in the
Pacific Northwest.
Increasing quantities of strawberries are
also barrelled here, and shipped to eastern
factories. .: ' ' ;
The men engaged in the strawberry in
dustry, here are searching for better varie
ties, or for better development of varieties
already discovered.
Irrigation will be more largely employ
ed in the future and this will be an aid in
making Salem the center of the greatest
strawberry industryrin the world.
"''CASCADE' BR AD HAMS,
DEVELOPING 1 MEW STRAW B ERRY 1
SM SECTIOI BEST OF THEM Mi
E. M. Bailey, Pioneer Ettersburg Grower, Is Trying Out
. Seventeen Varieties, and He Has Found a New Straw
berry Grown Only By Himself and a Neighbor Which
He Pronounces the Best Berry of Them All Has
Grown Strawberries Seventeen Years
Editor Statesman:
In response to your request, I
will give you some of my experi
ences in the strawberry industry,
I have been growing from one
to 10 acres of strawberries for
the pas 17 years, and I do . not
kuow all about the business yet;
however, I find they pay me thft
test of any crop that 1 grow, tak
ing it one year with another. Sev
eral years ago I could make good
money at five cents per pound,!
but conditions have changed
somewhat, as it costs me a great
deal more for labor, planting the.'
crop,- cultivating, picking, etc. ,
We growers should at present I
get seven or eight cents per pound
so as to bring us anything like
good returns for our labor and
money invested.
Pioneer Kttcrbuifi (irowcr
When growing strawberries it
is always rather a puzzle to know
the best varieties to plant. I have
perhaps been growing the Etter
burg No. 121 longer than any one
else in Oregon, and have advised
planting them for canning pur
poses for several years past; how
ever, they are not suited to all
kinds of soils. I would not ad
vise planting them in the red
soil. I have had very good suc
cess with them where I live, north
of Salem. Some years the yield
has" been immense, having had an
average of two pounds per plant.
This yield has been when we have
had fains and the weather was
favorable.' I ' think if we could
irrigate them they would be an
ideal variety to plant, especially
for canning. One fault of the
Number 121 is that they ripen
about 10 days too late, this mak
ing the last pickjng ripen when it
is very warm, consequently the
berries are small.
Trying 17 Varieties
I am constantly trying out new
varieties. , I have at present 17
different varieties. Some of these
CALLED FOR IN
A BRANCH FXPERIM
The Tremendous Investment in the- Small Fruit Industry
Here Justifies a Demand for This Aid From the Ore
gon Agricultural College: A Trained Expert Might
Do More in a Year Than Twenty .Years of Chance
Might Bring Forth
(The suggestion in the follow
ing article will have the hearty
support of all the strawbeny
growers in this section, as well as
of the b.ush and tree fruit grow
ers, and of the canning and com
mercial interests generally; Mr.
Pearry is one of the managers of
the Oregon Growers Cooperative
association: ) ,
Sale in 11 htrawlM-t-ry Center
(EARL PEARCY)
' Marion county is the center of
the strawberry industry in the
Pacific: northwest. Its numerous
canneries early absorb the avail
able tonnage grown. The straw
berry pack could be extended con
siderably, and atf the canning in
dustry expands in Salem so must
the production increase. ..TUe. dif
D
BACON AND LARD
salem;oregon
are very promising, while others
are not at all promising, especial
ly for canning purposesi I grow
strawberries- almost entirely for
canning; however, I ' have some
splendid table berries. ,
lH-velopinn Promising Rerrjr
'I have a new canning berry
which I have had for two years,
and I think it will be the winner.
They have been thorouhgly tried
out as-a ca'nner. Thy are a very
dark' red in color arid remain 'so
when. canned. I have, one acre of
them -that I planted last year, and
next spring I expect, to plant five
more acres of them. 1 They ripen
a week earlier than the Ettersburg
Number 121. I picked my small
patch of this new variety four
tiriies this' year, and when 'the ber
ries were picked for the last time
they were practically as large as
they were when they Were picked
the first time. They run very
uniform in size and are very easi
ly picked, fully one-third of them
leaving their husk on tUe vine.
Being free from husks and so uni
form in size makes them a very
desirable berry . for the canners.
as they can handle so many more
berries with less help. The plant
is a dark green and remains so
ail winter, making it easy to cul
tivate them in the spring. They
do not die down in the winter like
many . other varieties. )' They ... are
perfect flowering and self pollen
izing. We have neyer. given them
a name. A neighbor of ours tells
me he found the first plant eight
yt ars ago. He says ,that he .had
a very good crop this year, lie
also states that from this plant
he has saved the runners until he
has row four acres of them. 'He
and I are the only ones who have
a very large amount of them, and
from my past experience I con
sider this berry the best of them
all. E. M. BAILEY.
Salem, Or Route 9, Box 53.
Nov. 12, 1D23. ' '
EIMT STATION JS
THE SALEM DISTRICT
ficulty in the past hi.s been that
no one variety has been grown
which is entirely satisfactory eith
er to the producer or to the can
ner. ' F?r a ' Ilranrfi Station
With the trejnendoua invest
ment iu the . Mniall fruit industry in
thin district a "'branch experiment
statmn should be established for
the purpose of solving the pollin
attion and varietal problehis. It
it time that the local cannery in
terests', Salem .Chamber of Com
merce arid county Granges unite
on a drive for such an experi
mental farm operated by the Ore
gon, Agricultural college as a
branch station in . this county,
i; ranch experiment stations at
Hood 'River auL Medford assir.t
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Valley MotorCb.
260 North High Street
Boost This Community '
by Advertising on the Slogaa
DID YOU KNOW That the strawberry industry of the Sa
lem district has become a geat. industry; that there have
been sales of $1000 an acre for a single season's crop, mak-.
ing $600 an acre net; that growers have shown' the produc
tion of strawberries at the rate of 12 tons to the acre here;
that the acreage in this district more than doubled for the
year 1921 over the year 1920, and Jhas been growing ever
"since; that in Salem last year 83 per cent of all the canned
strawberries of the northwest were packed; that is standard
that does not have to be introduced -that brings a con
stant flow of money from long distances; and did you know
that the' use of irrigation and the employing of head work;
are going to make this the world center of the strawberry
industry? ' "'
the' apple and.,Jia Wennd the
great berry inif ty etotiUed to
state aid in developing and "solving
ifilPVnnf Ircfuntf Hariety of
strawrberry were' discovered, for
instance, which produced heavily
every year as the Trebla does, of
as excellent quality for canning as
the Ettersburg or Wilson, and of
the size of the Marshall 'or Ore
gon, the wealth of the Willamette
valley would be Increased tre
mendously. The trouble in the
past has been that a' perfect vari
ety for our peculiar soil nad cli
mate has not been perfected.. Wait
ing for a chance find is a losing
proposition.
A trained expert with a few
acres of ground could do more
to locate the perfect canning vari
ety in two or three seasons, than
20 years of chance might bring
forth.
t What Can 11 erics Require V
The canneries require a deep
red berry - of medium size which
is easily bulled and tirm during a
reasonable period until it gets in
to the can. The growers want a
regular bearer. of fair size, which
likewise withstands1 the tempera
mental weather conditions of this
vicinity.
The Statesman can So the
lem district inestimable value by
sponsoring a branch experiment
station in time to bring it before
the next legislature. There are
hundreds of acres adaptable to
strawberry culture, awaiting the
right berry.
There are only five varieties
grown commercially in this dis
trict. The Oregon and Marshall
bear well, of a large sized berry.
These, varieties are soft and do
well only as table or barreling
stock; Some waterpacked goods
are put up from these two vari
eties, but generally speaking the
canneries do not care to can any
great quantity.
Experience with Treba
The Trebla is a prolific variety,
introduced four or five years ago
by W..G. Allen of the Hunt Bros,
cannery, as, the ideal variety. It
has proven,,., a. semi-failure since,
d'ue to, its tendencyto turn black
before it caa. be handled iu the
cannery. . . (Tbjs-is f. a. seasonable
characteristic ,, and does not in
variably occur, .The variety main
tains a, satisfactory color in the
can if it can be handled in time.
Probably 50 per cent of the straw
berry pack in Salem is of this va
riety. However, it is no longer
being planted as the growers have
had too much, grief in harvesting
und selling the Thebla.
Ettersbui-g Good Berry
The Ettersburg 121 is an excel
lent variety. It has one vital de
fect in thai it does not bear heav
ily, and some seasons is a very
shy producer. It is firm and is
we?f liked by the canneries. In
fact, a premium' of one to one
cent aud a half a pound is paid
for It.
OUR diplomatic, po
lite services meet
with public approval.
The beautiful dignity
that characterizes the
accomplishment - of
this organization Is a
symbol 'of respectful
regard.
Webb & dough Co.
FUXKItAl' DIRECTORS ,
499 Court 8W Sataa. Pbon 120
e
Phone 1995
rgeri:'-
The old time Wilson Is still
favorite, 1 and, i whefe it can
a
be
grown medium large in size, is a
very profitable variety. It bears
heavily and is a good canning va
riety. Its - great weakness is in
size. New soil is better adapted
for this Variety than old land. ,
Summing it up, the Wilson and
Ettersburg are the, two best can
ning varieties, although the need
is very apparent for a still better
variety combining the character
istics of these two varieties.
A big work Tie3. ahead of the
community interests in bringing
about a local experiment station.
Financed by the 'local canneries
and the county, it would still fe
pay" the investment."
LS
" Lutber. 3. Chapin was formerly
county agriculturalist for Marion
cbunty., He knows the soils of
this district very well, and what
they are good for.
He . said yesterday that many
types of soils hereabouts are good
for strawberries,, and that they
are a good crop to. grow. And he
spoke especially of the excellent
strawberry land, in the red hills.
He says that lancl is a little warm
er than the average, and there
fore brings on the berries early,
which is desirable.
Mr. Chapin thinks irrigation
will help in bringing the straw
berry industry into'larger produc
tion, and that it will no doubt
come 16 be employed to a larger
extent,: There 'are places, how
ever, in his opinion, where this
will not pay; the cost will be too
high. Mr.- Chapin .believes,
though, that all the loganberries
ought to, be irrigated; all that can
'be, and that their increased crops
from the use of Vater will In most
cases much morcthan justify the
extra expense. ". -
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NOW IS THE TIME! f
To; look after your heat
ing; plant! and see that it is
in, good order, or If you are
going to need a new pne.
Thia Is the
'time to buy it!'
appropriate'
THEO M. BARR
164 S. Com'I St.
to be the strawberry
will grow.
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