r "10 THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 201923 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON GIfuiJIGElSAK$E jBegtnning Thursday, December the 20th the Damon Grocery" Co., 899 North Commercial street, will start their Annual Clearance Sale ot Groceries. This will be a monster money raisins and stock reducing : event without parallel in1 the history of the Willamette Valley. We must -raise money! We must reduce our stock. In order to do it,- we are going to shoot ; holes through r grocery prices, that -will make you all sit op and take notice and make our competitors come up lor air. : Buy your Xmas supplies now at these low prices; Swiffa White Xaundry Soap, v : Clearance Sale price, 8 bars OPf' st "m 2SC 1 04 cans Pepper, clearance sale price j. j ... . . . .. . .... . . ,5c Lima Beans',- clearance sale - - P.. 9 .,-.Oc No. 1 small white Beans, sale price, 3 lbs. for ......... .25c Carve Cut Macaroni, sale prices '5 lbs. for, . ..J. ..'. , .25c Rolled Oats, sale price 4 lbs. .for .................... 25c Seedless Raisins (new crop), on sale. lb. .... , . .' ..... .... 10c Citrus Washing Powder, clear ance sale price, 2 for .... .43c Onions. Clearance Sale price, i 0 lbs.! for I , j .y .25c Ball Durham Tobacco on sale, 8 pkgs for ........... .23c 81 cans Union Leader Tobacco, 60e Briar Pipe - free. - for V . 5e Lipton's .Coffee, clearance sale ; ; price ........... . . i , , . .40c Royal ClabXof fee, clearance ; sale price ............... .35e 5Q lb. Rack table Salt, sale price .. . . . ... . .. . ...... .70c No. 1 0 Pail Pure Lard on sale ......... V.. $1.30 30c Walnuts (new crop) . 2 lbs. for .V. i . V. . . . . .55c 25c, Walnuts ( (new crop) on . . Bale 2 lbs. for ........ v.. 45c 25c Christmas Candy, sale price. ... ,2 lbs. for .45c Almonds, clearance sale price. , '2 lbs. for " 33c These are only a few of the cany bargains you will find throughout the ehfiretore,.JVatch our ads for more .prices; and doa't forget the sale starts tomor row morning: Park your . car in front of our store and stay as long' E3 you wish. - . ": ' r Dcirncn Grocery Co.4 00 N. Commercial Street mS a FOLK cflu:jTY; it enows Survey, of rthe Situation, In tended for.Last Week, But ' . Good for. This rj tor Statesman: , , Several sections' of Polk county ?i devoted mainly to fruit "grow . :, and these portions are better apted to this branch of agricul tural Industry ? than to J anything el se." The hills' west and north-T-st of .Salem, the region 'about r J.Jas and the elevated lands -rest, southwest and southeast ot : 1 3nmooth are mostly devoted to frait-growbig. c ,. , . ,;'v . The remaining, portions of the c canty, except the -timbered re signs of "the westera-portlon,' are ElTsn imr to diversified farming ny your cleaner as you do your car On FecificattQns&nd "Vafoimanci ' l" '-Z' - - . - IIniltcn-Dcach Electric Cleaners are sold on easy terms " 05.00 down and $5.00 per; month ; An Aprcpriate Christinas Present . r . : -r i v- ', ' - ..... . -.yilHILli in which the dairy cow plays a very important part. The farms, however, that are devoted wholly or for the larger part to dairying are relatively few. Polk has long been known for its tine purebred herds and, on the farms where these herds f are found, dairying and stock raising are - the main features f . Mostly Small Herds Perhaps,1 in the northern part of the county, which is more con venient to the condenser market as well as to the Portland whole milk trade, larger herds and more of them are' found, nearly every fanner keeping some cows. An examination - ot production rec ords of farmers in the county, re cently made by the writer, shows Chat, more than halt the farmers who sell -dairy products keep few er than six cows. Their dairy bus iness is a minor division of the farm diversification and the cows are- milked I through the; winter months when ehoring does not in terfere with the major farm activ ities. ' J t Few Hit High Mark : The .monthly , butterf at . produc tion of 168 dairymen,' taken con secutively 'from' the 'patrons 'of a Polk county creamery, show that 73.2 per cent market less than 200 pounds with -only 7 per cent going, over (be -400 pound mark. With this larger. class dairying Is bat 'a considerable . portion of the industry of the farm. The owner Of a herd of six or fewer seldom takes a dairy paper or keeps a purebred sire to raise the average production ot his Jieifers :or feeds his cows properly or adequately, or has enough to justify joining a cow testing association. , To increase- the production in herds of this class will require some uplift work from farm organizations and others interested in improving ag riculture. .' . . : " While these features of the dairy Industry Indicate that! Im provement will be slow, many oth er factors point-to i a steady in crease in production. MARKETS XEAR HOJIE ; While Oregon has a surplus 'of dairy products for i export, the group , of states west of ; the Rockies do not produce enough fdr home consumption, .and a recent survey of this section reveals that not before 1980 will production overtake home market demands. . The continued agricultural ' de pression is r constantly . turning more farmers' to milking cows as the surest source of income. As one remarked to me the other day, "It is only by milking a few cows, keeping a few sheep and having a little of everything that I can make a living." .. f. Room for, Great Expansion : There is room for great expan sion of dairying in Polk county, as well as in the whole Willamette- valley, and this county Is the first to adopt a law. through the efforts of the county larm bureau, tor compulsory testing of cows tor tuberculosis. ' . : " ' The Outlook Good The farm bureau, the county Jersey Cattle dub, the activities of the county banking association in promoting , agricultural pro jects, 'the progress of cooperative manufacturing and marketing of dairy . products, all . bespeak a gradual improvement of the In dustry In Jhe county. r ; - : , j p. o. powexl. ; Dallas', Or., Rt. 3, Dec 11, 1923. ; - (The above was Intended for the Slogan issue of last week, on Great Cows, j but It - arrived too late for that Issue. Ed.) Reducing the tax on "earned" Incomes ' puts ' It up to your con science.; ' "". sr 7TTTT Ts' Good Fcrnitcre IIDi'J.rSAM BROl'.TJ. tTHE LOGMIBEllBY I rfQlLCIZIZ. KlfJG, WHITES Oil EVEBGREETJ INDUSTRY S V; " i Hi! c s r i "He Says:the rice" Will Likely Nevee Be Yery; High, land He Hopes It May Not l?iere Is No Over Production Yetr and Ttere Is Room ' for Additional Apreage , in Proper Locations, and Where Pickers May Be Had Editor Statesman: I Complying with your request, to give you an article on Evergreen blackberry culture, I will state In ' f W IIOX. SAM BROWN,,,. what I have found from my ex perience with them, also what the future has in. store for ; the indus try AS I SEE IT, and the reader can judge for himself . whether I am right or not. 5 i ; r I have ' found Evergreens to be reasonably profitable rafter they are finally gotten to the bearing point, but they are slow and - ex pensive ' to ? br in g ; to that point ; our yard was planted in the fall of 1916, 1 the first crop that amounted -to anything -waa in 1921.- The yield -that-year was about three tons per acre;. in 1922 they yielded about three and one halt tons, 'in 1923 the yield was slightly' over four tonsi You can readily . see . that as the roots pushed deeper into . the ground, and got more developed, the pro duction was heavier. , Pruning '. and training is the most expensive part connected with their culture (harvesting ex cepted of course), costing in the neighborhood of thirty dollars an acre for this work, as they should be pruned at least three times in a summer, then the cutting out the old canes and training up the new growth is quite slow work. The Picking Problem . While I have not been bothered with a shortage of pickers a yet, I find thte to be one of the most serious things that the grower who mast depend on transient help for the harvesting of the crop has to contend with. - as the har vest la In full swing ' when hop picking begins, the help will scat ter to the different hop yards, thinking they can i there firid the end of the rainbow : which they are as a. rule chasing. , . ., Here we have our noma .pickers that stay year i in and . year out, and are not led ; astray by , the glowing tales of the enormous profits made by gathering hops. V Never a Yery IDgh Price The price "paid 1 for. Evergreens will never be overly ; large, for while the cultivated berry is far superior to the average wild ber ry, there are so many wild ber ries in the country that can and will be picked if the price justifies, and as most of them are canned in gallons what is known as water pack, for. the bakers' trade where quality Is not so Important, I do not "look for the 'Evergreens, or any other blackberry for that mat ter, k to ever bring a ; very " high price, and frankly, I sincerely hope that they will never command an unreasonable price, tor, as sure as EIDOal tr NttrHlT tn any Vanr west aas raflevwl at tua. Tkmsaa as a,urw repertad. M d r ana'sw auftar Aak any rfrwgetel fr "A I Suit's Rhu liiatla Treatment. hi Tak4t Ferm. UH UH, ISest im U AnoaWa, t ... -.:. .....- A USEFUL GIFT 3.95 $4.S8 UMBRELLAS .. Shipley's ... L-2 tjiey do, if it is for only one sea son, it will be a grand subject for newspapers. to' dwell upon,-- and ambitious real estate agents to capitalize, and the result will be exactly the aame .as what we loganberry growers .are now ex periencing, an enormous over pro duction resulting, as it always does when-the supply ot any xdm modity exceeds the "demand, that the price comes tumbling down. ' Xo Over Production How do not ' mean by the above statement that there are .enough Evergreens grown How. I think where conditions are right for se curing suitable, help at harvesting time, and where the soil and lo cality (the locality is an impqrtant factor .to consider) ' is Tight ;Jor their culture, there is room for an additional acreage, but as sure as the people , go wild over them as they did over the logans, just so sure will we see them where the logans . are today,, commanding" A price that Is below!,the cost of pro duction, if they can be sold at all. SAM H. BROWN. Oervais, " Or., Dec. 18, 1923. "(Mr. Brown Is known as the loganberry king; the largest of all the producers of loganberries; and he is also one of the most ex tensive growers of cultivated Ev ergreens., 'He; is the largest berry grower in Oregon. He has about 100 acres in berries besides being a filbert grower and producer of other Intensive cropscarrying on his farming operations in a busi ness way. Mr. Brown is a mem ber of the Oregon legislature ; a senator from Marion county. Ed.) - - ; SALEM ' (Written for The Statesman) Where people meet you with a 'smile,: ." And try to make life seem worth while ' i .That's Salem! Where they see you at your best. Are you sure you cannot guess? Why,. it's Salem! Where work can usually be found, And a man is never down In Salem! There is ONE town that can't be ... beat la keeping up their streets so Salem! There are bad points, yes, you '. bet! ' .; Did you think we would forget : In Salem T ' ' It rains some here, we will admit. But there's only a few months of it ; In Salemt All winter long the grass is green. And people everywhere are seen, In Salem! We go places Just the' same As If it wasn't going to rain ": i In Salem! Peace and quiet reign supreme, In the land of love and dreams - Dear Old Salem! Where the air Is sweet and pure. And shady parks are such a lure Our Salem! V; .: . D. C. NELSON. 780 N. Cottege, Salem. Ore. STATE CONFEREE The agricultural economic con ference is well worth while, be lieves George A. Palmiter, master of the state grange. . He urges grangers to take part. Reference is made to the agricultural eco nomical conference to be held at the Oregon Agricultural college January 23 to 25. " Other leaders of farm groups en dorsing the conference and hoping to take part In it aref Herbert Eg bert, president of , the f armerss union; Fred Falconer, president in Wit Us IT' j M A nri ueHa ,,t . ... V v ..... ' . ' ' . "' - ! i ii A i r. ll! 1 I i tf, 't 4 Sbedal III Special 'Big-Sut Big-Six 7 If ' All prices U o. o. factory With a,000000 ihvected exdixa 'Stuelebaker' w able to build bodies of bishestiuaKSy, o hxy0ssx thus make important savings. ' - :" ' v I: V - It is - a . Stucle baker , policy jiot to jwait ,f or . any. paradar.tiss $2jcsi nbimce lbirTps aHvjnTitr.cb cf:ciz3 facturing savings as soon as they become effective, . These savings are reflected ; in the nsvr Ioiv.- prices if cS tcV ttt Closed Cars, PhoAS 'or caD for a demcsstratksi. ! ! : MM t il h iiii n i i ill if ii If" Phone 362 a .' t . --if of the wool growers': association; and J. D. Mickle, president of the Oregon Dairy council and newly appointed i state 1 dairy and food commissioner, The Oregon bankers association has expressed approval and inten tion to 'participate. The financial Interests are standing back of the program. : . "Count me In," writes C. D. Rorer,. 'president of the Eugene Bank of Commerce and member of the agricultural commission of the American Dankerss association, "I assure you right now that I will be present." Keith Powell,; chairman . of the agricultural committee of the state bankers association, indicates his belief in the conference and his in tention to be present. : The Linn-Benton County Bank ers' association will bold its Janu ary meeting at the college during the conference. -, , ; The commercial interests 'are likewisie joining in the general scheme bf economic betterment of farming by basing production, on market demands. Portland cham- ber and others will be present. The great -difference is that France once had the alliance at her back and now she has It on her hands. . ' , vit n B FOWLS MUST HE The Reasons Why; But They Can Get Along Without Vitamine C In Food We hear and read much about vitamines as . an , important ele ment in the rations "of domesticat ed fowl,: but -most of us do -not appreciate, nor always know the reasons therefor. C1. F. ; "W". Hardy, in ? the Feathered World, "It is now recognized that poul try can, dispense with vitamine C, but A and B are both very impor tant for poultry. Vitamine A is present in animal tats such as but ter," also In v fresh green ; vegeta bles, and on it depends the devel opment f ,of the skeleton and growth generally.' Where birds are Lc rt' coafinsd, ttev.cctt tits Light-Sbf fivepaoGenger Coups LightSix fivepaooenger Sedan - Sui five-pacGenger - Six fivpaGGen ?five-p ceveripaGGenger Ssc5an Mariom ;S T U plenty r of fresh green stuff, and the addition' of a little cod-liver oil in the food ot young growing chicks will aid development con siderably. Vitamine A will stand a certain amount of heating. If not too long, so ft will ' be seen that the boiling or simmering of ;., one IpQXrSGF 237 N. Liberty St. . . Salem, Orccn ; Coupe Tl Salem, Oregon ' - ..Si. ' . D E B A: 'E R Y E A R foods tor hours destroys this prop erty. The lack of vitamine B will cause leg weakness in birds. It is provided in bran and the germs ot grains, , green vegetables in a fair proportion, and in dried yeast very considerably.: .The- chick being hatched in the egg needs a consid We 'Csm'iS: At IVhy not talce advantage of that fact? : . - ' , r . . ; ' A FEW DAYS AGO a woman nsked cur x"V : assistance in repairing a certain electric appliance. v It was an inferior appliance. It had been sold fo her by a salesman who burst into town, worked fast" and disappeared. - : There was no one to reimburse her, no one to make proper adjustment. A local merchant would not have scld her that inferior appliance. vThls ennpany which submits all types of appliances to care ful tests would not hare sold her that ap ' pliance. . . And if Vwe had, ' by error, $he cculi have found u& like your other local xtierchants right here in town, ready and wiiiins to rec : tify.,that error. . . .... If yon baven't an electric vacuum cleaner, you aren't taking roil advantage of your elec-' ' trie service. Let's bring .Eureka men am - cleaner to ' jronr home and (bow 70a how it save your time, your etrensth, your health. No . obligation whataoever for the demonstra tion. - i 014S5 018S3 02SC5 1 r-r orer Co. .. erable proDortion of these vita- mines, and If a hen is laying larga numbers ot eggs she is getting rii of quantities of vitaciines frcn her body.. Unless they are re placed to enable, every egg to be fully furnished with them, the chicks will die in the shell. ! Oa FI:c2 C5