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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
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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'
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IIniltcn-Dcach Electric Cleaners are sold on easy terms "
05.00 down and $5.00 per; month ;
An Aprcpriate Christinas Present . r . :
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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.
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; 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.; ' "".
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Good Fcrnitcre
IIDi'J.rSAM BROl'.TJ. tTHE LOGMIBEllBY I rfQlLCIZIZ.
KlfJG, WHITES Oil EVEBGREETJ INDUSTRY S V; "
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"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,
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A USEFUL GIFT
3.95 $4.S8
UMBRELLAS
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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
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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
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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. . ' ,
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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
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- Six fivpaGGen
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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
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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:
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IVhy not talce advantage of
that fact?
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' 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
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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.
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