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" ii . " .. - THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 31, 8 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON 1924 i in l'1 I Bay .tbV Oregon Mad furnaces W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17Ux ft Oak Sts.. Salem, Or. Phone SSI W An On! AfUt Two HOUeu Wi cr aw paying OTr tbre arUra of mUlton dollsrra ytr th lUlrrmem of this section lot milk. i "Marion Butter" , Xa tt Brt Battw Hoc Cm and Bitttr Ovwt la Um crylnj BNd - MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 t n DEHYDRATED J and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products King's Food Products Company - - Salem Portland The Dalles ... , ' ; Oregon- - v Gideon Stolz Co. . . . . Manufacturer of i Dependable Brand ' Llme-6alphnr Bolntlon Thi brand' yon can depend i on for purity and teat . Prices ipo application 1 -. factory near corner of Bummer and Mill BU Salem, Oregon Willamette Valley Prune v Association The oldest Association la 'i the? Northwest .re;::;.::!-;- 0 - : , W.T.JENKS Secretary and Manager ' f Tnd A nigh Sts. ."; SALEM, OREGON NELSON BROS. j Want Air TratcM, plamttlaf kwilif and th mtai work, tie aa4 gnrtl raoflag, gtaaral )ak alat la tla aid nlTaaisa. Iroa tU OhaaMkata flt Fkam ItOt DIXIE BREAD Dixie Health Bread Ask Your Grocer V RIDE THE TROLLEY FOB ' SAFETY . I COMFOBT CONVENIENCE) AND ECONOMY Ticket MTe yoar time. Bay them la atrips 5 f or ' 1 80 cent. : S0UTI1ERN PACIFIC LINES FOR YEARS AND YEARS Tka SUtaamaa Vaaa supply lag tba vaato of tta wrtttcal Ja printing Uada f 4 Treof ptdttrt art prtnUra W wartli aaa !.'" v t- . ,. Kodara avilpntBt aad tdaaa ar Uta anas that it fcy. I -, sman Publishing any Tbone 23 or 683 219 S. Com! 8U . 1 -v SELLING Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its Cities and Towns. The Way to Build Up Your Home Town The Surest Way to Get Is'to Patronize Your Home People Industries Is to Support Selling Salem District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Pep and Progress Campaign SPIIllftCH GROWING AMD MARKETING T This Important Vegetable Will Allow System of Two or Three Crops on Same Land Each Year Is. a Good Dehydrating or Canning Crop, and a Good Greenhouse Vegetable to Substitute for Lettuce (Following is Circular 183 of the Oregon Agricultural college on "Spinach Growing and Market ing." the author being Prof. A. G. Bouquet, and the date being Feb ruary, 1923:) Spinach is one of the most im portant vegetables grown for "greens," being of particular value during the spring, the fore part of the summer, fall and winter. There has been a considerable increase In the demand of this vegetable during l.he parst few years. If Iresh, large, clean and dark greeny spinach ia offered on the market. thereta tendency to increase ! the consumption, but small, wilted, dirty spinach, which often appears when shipped in from a distance, causes an unfav orable market condition and cur tails consumption. Dehydrator demand this crop quite largely, as it makes a very fine vegetable for drying. '' Spinach is valuable for an inten sive farm garden In that It can be used as a first crop, preceding lafco vegetables, audi as celery DAIRY Perfectly Pasteurized MILK AND CREAM Phone 725 Butter-Nut Bread "The Richer, Finer Loar CHERRY CITY BAKERY Roof Leak? Ebonal for Felt of Shingles Elastic Root Cement tor, all Repairs, i Or A New Roof of Cedar Shingles. Malthoid Shingles1, Malthoid Roll Roof ins. i See Falls City-Salem Lumber Company , 810 So. ISfh St. Phone 813 A. B. Kclsay, Mgr. HOTEL BLIGH 1 100 rooms of Solid Comfort A Home Away From Home This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prospexity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. ED BY COLLEGE C RCULAR late cabbage, cauliflower, late beans, fall lettuce, etc., or it rai follow as a fall crop such vegeta bles as are removed from the ground by August 1 to September 1. Climatic conditions. Spinach is not adapted to hot weather condi tions, and therefore is most suc ceesuflly grown during the sea sons of the year above mentioned. It has a tendency to run to seed very quickly during warm weath er. Climatic conditions in western Oregon are ideal for spinach grow ing, and wherever cool, moist wea ther prevails, the best quality of spinach will be produced. Soils: There are a variety of 80H3 which can produce satisfac tory crops of spinach. Probably the largest yields are being ob tained from toils which have an abundance of humus in them, such as the muck or beaverdam soils. Rich, sandy loams are also valua ble in that they can be planted early and make a good soil for an early crop, to be followed by an other vegetable later in the sea son. Any soil which grows spin ach must be one that can be pul verized to a fine degree so that proper seeding may be made. The essential characters of any soil for spinach are, abundance of organic matter and freedom from clods, or ability to be finely pulverized. The fall and winter crops must be grown on well drained ground. Land that is nut normally weil drained cannot be planted until sometime during April, which of tentimes brings the crop into a period of hot weather which is not suitable to it. Preparation of the tirouml: Inasmuch as all spinach is grown from seed and sown with a hand dVill, it is necessary to have a fine well-pulverized and smooth seed bed. In order to obtain a good even stand of plants, the land must be free from clods and fine ly worked down. Manure and Fertilizers: The extent to which a spinach field will yield in tons is largely depen dent on the amount of organic mattter in the soil, or on the sup ply of manure which may be avail able. If fine, rotted manure is on hand, it should be applied in the spring and thoroughly worked in to the ground. If manure is some what scarce, a light coating will be better than none. Manure should Onr Ml: "Tta Bet Only" Onr Hothod: Cooperation Capital City Co-operative Creamery A non prof it organization owned entirely by the dairymen. Qira ua a trial. Manufacturers of Bntterrnn Bo list "At your Grocer" ' Phone 299 137 0. Com'l St Salem Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rag Works Rg and fluff rugs woven any sizes without seams. New mattr.88es made to order. Old matt esses rem ado. Feathers reno rated. I buy all kinds of old carpets for fluff rngs. Otto F. Zwicker, Prop. rhone 1U4 11 W and Wilbur Streets SALEM DISTRICT also be applied preparatory "tof seeding the fall crop. During the final preparation of the soil with the spike harrow and planter, an application of 150 lbs., of nitrate of soda may be made, or, as an altcrntive, 6V0 to 800 IL3., of tankage. Varieties: There are a number of varieties of spinach, differing in the shape and color of the leaves, also the crinkly nature of the same. Probably the most wjgly used variety is the" Victoria, hav ing a deep green, pointed foliage; also Thick Leaf with a round thick leaf of rich green color. Another variety which is Sometimes used is the Savoyleaved which has crinkly dark colored green leaves. The variety Long Standing is also usd by growers who are producing this crop for the cannery or dehydrat or. From tests which have been made it is very evident that there is a great difference in the pro ducing power of different strains of spinach of the same variety and therefore one must riot only en deavor to choose a suitable variety but also to obtain a high yielding strain of seed. Seeding: Spring seeding begins as early as the weather and soil conditions permit. The plants are hardy and will stand average spring frosts. A hand drill is used to put in 12 to 15 pounds of seed per acre with the rows 12 to 14 inches apart. Depth of seed ing should be about one-half inch. Cultivation: Inasmuch as the rows are close together, all culti vation has to bo done by hand. The tools most widely used arc the shove hoe and the wheel hoe. which are useful in cutting down small weeds between the rows and keeping a mulch on the Kurfacp. It is especially important to keep weeds out of the rows otherwise they will cause considerable both er later on when it becomes time to harvest the crop. Harvesting: A sharp shove hoe or push hoe is used for harvesting spinach, or the two-wheeled hand hoe with the knives reversed, can be used. If the spinach is not go ing to be washed, it is best to wait until it is thoroughly dry, or the dew is off the leaves, before it it cut; otherwise the spinach will have to be washed before t;oing to market. It is customary to cut the spinach off with about an inch of stem so that the blades of the knive3 should go just below the surface of the soil. If this is care fully done, the spinach will be laid over systematically to -one side of the row and easily picked up and put into field boxes which are open slatted crates or orange box es. raliiig: The following grades are not standard for Oregon, but are used elsewhere and offer sug gestions to growers in this terri tory: Shall consist of spinach which is of one type and (iradc No. 1: free from decay, which is practically Tree from dead, yellow or coarse and stemmy leaves and seed stems and. damage caused by disease, in sects, or other means. The roots should not be more than one inch long. Shall consist of spiuach which does not conform to tirade No. U: the requirements of Grade No. 1, but it must he free from decay and seri ous damage. Added to the above grades is the suggestion that green, fresh, washed spinach is attractive, hut HLAESING GRANITE CO. MONUMENTS Itoy Dohauuon, Mauagor City View Cemetery Salem, Oregon. Tel. 1-80. lies. 13 45-J SPINACH D C E Some Things Have Been Learned in Years Since " .1920 About Spinach ; (Luther J. Cliapin, who was formerly agriculturist of Marion county, and who is an expert on soil and crop condjtions in the Sa lem district, wrote an article in 1920 for the Slogan editor of The Statesman, which Mr. Chapin said to the Slogan editor yesterday needs now some revision. .The ar ticle of 1920 was .substantially as follows) : "Spinach is a cool, wet weather crop. It is grown in the early spring months or late summer and autumn. It requires under favor able conditions, from 45 to CO days to mature. . "it requires rich garden soil to produce a profitable crop for com mercial purposes. "If the soil is poor It produces only small leaves and shoots to seed. ' Since it is the leaves which are used for food, a luxuriant, raiid growth is desired. "It produces on rich garden soil or muck; land ; from two to five tons (!) the acre, t This affords' a reasonable profit at the! present price' of $:50 per ton since the cost of production does not exceed $30 per acre, and it is harvested in ample time to plant corn, beans, cabbage, carrots or .potatoes. "Gardeners in the Lake Labish district are eager to contract at the above" price, as the crop nets them from to $90 per acre and the ground 'isi left in the best condition for their main -rop one of the above-mentioned crops. "Spinach is a very wholesome food and should be euten freely by all. "It contains a large percentage of iron, and for this reason is used that dirty, wilted spinach is unde sirable and causes a glut on the market. Yield: The factors which large ly determine the yield are the richness of the soil and the uni form stand of plants in the .field. Soils which produce an abundance of leaf growth are apt to produce as many as six to eight tans per acre, especially if a good stand is obtained, but 3 to 5 tons per acre is probably iwar the average for a number of areas producing spinach. Value of the Oops: Dehydra tors and canneries usually offer a price of about ?30 per ton. The average market price in cities, etc., varies from T to 12 Vic per pound, depending largely on the season and the availability rof the crop, f'oing a shortseason vege table, one must figure ' that the land can be utilizl soon after the removal of the spinach for -another vegetable, thus making it poss ible to double-crop the ground during the season.' As a Greenhouse Crop: Trials in the growing of spinach, as substitute crop for leaf let tuces in a greenhouse, have shown that this is one of the host vegeta bles that can be produced during th' fall, winter, and early part of the spring. It makes a rapid growth of fine, vigorous, dark green leaves and sells readily 011 the market daring the sCasoijs above mentioned at an- average price of ten cents a pound. Literal uie on Kjiuai;li: Grow ers who are particularly interested in spinach culture should write Tor a copy of : Farmers' Itialletin 1189 of the Deaprtnient of Agri culture, Washingtin, I). C. entit led "Handling Spinach for Long Distance Shipment."- Writo in the Division of Publications, U. S. D. A., Washington, D. C. NEEDS REVISION and recommended by hospital phy sicians. "In the dehydrated form it is convenient to keep the year round in any climate. "The spring crop is used a I present for canning and dehydrat ing, but no doubt the fall crop will also be in demand. "The fall crop may be planted after many of the Summer crops have been harvested, Tlireo Crops in a Year. "In fact, it will be possible to produce three crops in one year on the same soil by growing both a spring and an autumn spinach crop. Such a cropping scheme,4 however, would require the appli cation of the most intensive meth ods of cultivation and the intelli gent use of fertilizers. In other words, it would require the appli cation of the best business methods to farming. - "While three crops in one year are possible on certain oils un der favorable conditions, it is not expected in general. It should be the aim, however, of every farmer to keep his capital work ing to its fullest capacity, as his net returns are thereby increased." Then and .Vow The Slogan editor talked to Mr. Chapin yesterday. He said that while what he wrote in 19 20 about spinach growing here still holds good as a general statement, it needs some revision, in the light of experience. For instance, it has been found that spinach grown on our .beaver dam lands, or at least 011 some of them, is subject in some years to late frost damage, injuirug the quality and citting the quantity below the point of a profitable crop. There are growers, however, on higher land, who are making a success of spinach every year. The Wrights, the market gardeners of Independence, for instance. They use very rich garden soil, and plenty of fertilizer. Mr. Chapin is of the opinion that the spinach industry on a commercial scale may be develop ed here to a profitable basis but that it will re'iuire specialization and experimentation. Haphazard mtehods and haphazard men are likely to suffer disappointments. The Dehydration lira 11 ch Geo. Judd, "in charge of that branch of the operations of King's Food Products company, writes to the Slogan editor that they have "made arrangements to secure our spinach at The Dalles, where the spring opens earlier and we get the crop before the warm weather commences, and we find that growers there can grow it much better and give us a better quality at a lower price than at Salem." Doe Not Knd It This decision does not by any means end the spinach industry in the Salem district. No doubt there willbe further experiments, and that' our growers will learn the game fully as applied to special localities and soils and conditions, and the proper treatment of the soils in the matter of fertilization. Also, there is a prospect that spin ach growiiig may become a green bouse proposition on a large scale here. i;i;pKKSKNTATl i: NA.MKD SPOKAN'K. Jan. 29. Perma nent repnjsentfiiioii jn the national capital for Washington wheat growers committee was held ad visable by the executive commit tee of the organization at a meet ing here today, presided over by State Senator Frank J. Wiitner of Rosalia. The committee, also expressed a lelief in further educational activ ity among Washington farmers who. it was asserted, have given approval to the committee's ex port corporation plan when it bus been possible to explain its detail:! to them. What could be more, daring than a French soldier getting shaved in a German barber chop? More nd Larger Those You Have Why anffer with Stomnch Ill N SPUMES LIS OF New Food Values for Babies Found in Experiments With i This Vegetable, the Use of Which Is Successful in f Restoring the Undernourished Little Ones to Normal I Spinach contains 10 times as much iron as is contained in car rots, and sincfe milk, while it con tains some iron, in the cases of many undernourished infants, spinach is a valuable addition to a milk diet. Spinach and orange juice contain all classes of vita mines in abundance, and a large amount of necessary mineral mat ter, and the supplementing of milk with these ingredients is now prac ticed in numerous hospitals and homes throughout the country. To Save Thousands of Lives. Saving the lives of thousands of undernourished babies annually and raising the type of American' manhood and womanhood is ex pected to result from years of re search by Dr. J. F. McClendon, University of Minnesota, who, a few years ago, announced a discov ery in infant dietetics. Experiments made v-ith under fed infants, whose mortality rate had been high, proved his theory, Dr. McClendon asserted. At the Jean Martin Brown home in St. Paul a baby gained, 23 ounces in one week. The diet has a foundation of powdered dehydrated spinach and dehydrated orange juice. -Experimented for Years Mr. McClendon came to the uni versity in 1914, and since that time has been deeply interested ia dietetics, and has for many years been conducting experiments in de hydrated foods. He finally com pleted his tests and experiments to such all extent that he considered his findings of sufficient complete ness for formal announcement. Dr, McClendon felt that improp er nutrition in infancy and ado lescence resulted in subnormal mentality and physique In adults, and, with the approval of Dr. J. P. Sedgwick, eminent child specialist, and Dr. Jeanette McLaren, attend ing physician, began the study of nutrition Of the infants in the Jean Martin Brown home in St. Paul. Infants in the home were largely orphans and under, 'weight. By feeding them about two teaspoon fuls of powdered spinach and one twelfth of an ounce of dehydrated orange juice a day he increased their growth rate to about three or four times what it had been previously. The prize baby gained 23 ounces in a week. Even a bahfw with marked weight. rickets gainedfin v It is difficult to get adults change their diet," says Dr. Mc Clendou. "It has been proved that bread made of I per cent of pow dered spinach and 10 per cent of soy bean meal is excellent in taste and highly nutritious." Dr. McClendon's experiments with dehydrated spinach in con nection with baby feeding are of momentous importance to every housewife. The iron, mineral salts, and vit amines that makes spinach so val uable in malnutritiiia of infants is equally well adapted for building up physical health in adults. King's dehydrated spinach was used in Dr. McClendon's experi ments in the usual wholc-lcaf form, being ground In au ordinary coffee mill. King'3 spinach con tains all the . elements of fresh spinach. Would Shock Grandmother The feeding of spinach to in fants a year old would have shocked the old-fashioned grand mothers. But this ia what is be ing done, -now, throughout, the United States', in the cases of un We Wffl Give Our Best Efforts At all timet to assist ta any poalhl way the eTet opment of th frmit al berry Industrie, la tJtf Til ler, Oregon Packing Co. Tronble wbem Chiropractic, win Remove the Cawe Your Health Begins When Yon Phone 87 for an appointment Drs. SCOTT & SCOFIELD T. ft. O. Cktrepraeton Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 U. S. lfatl Bk. Bldg. Honrs 10 to 12 nan. and 2 to 8 p.m. ID MOD FOR ADULTS der-nourished infants, and under the direction of reputable physi cians and by the advice of expert dietitians. A Specialized Crop. One thing should be remem bered: Spinach growing on a commercial scale is a specialized industry. Almost any good garden land in the Salem district will grow spinach, and gardeners here often produce surprisingly large yields in small patches, for home use: But in order to produce the tonnage and the quality that will make spinach growing on a commercial scale profitable, there must be special treatment of tho land, and special study of the con ditions generally and expert' work. In this respect, spinach growrng is like celery growing; The merest tyro of a gardener can grow a little patch of passabK spinach or celery every year fot home use. But it takes an expert to grow either crop in a large way of a quality that will command high enough prices in the markets to make their efforts profitable. F FROM THE COLLEGE Tonic for the Fowls; Boot Crops Substitute for Kale; Brown Rot Problem (Following are excerpts Trom a current bulletin from the depart ment of industrial journalism of the Oregon Agricultural college): Epsom salts given to the flock at stated intervals is an excellent ; tonic. It should be given at least once each month at the rate of t about one-half pound to each .lOu' j adult fowls. It may be dissolved h in. the drinking water and put he fore the birds for a few hours in i ? the morning, during which time T no other drink: ts given. Most poultrymen,, however, prefer dis ! solving the salts in water and mixing a moist mash to put before' v the flock. ?! r?t rnrv-aia a .vr r,i tm TMany - peWitry!nen. without a suf- fioient supply of winter green feed, especially is this true when we have cold, freezing weather such as we have had in the past tew weeks. Ask your county agent for information as lo desir abla varieties of root crops for. your section. 2 "The Urown Rot Problem in Oregon" is the subject of a circu lar published by the Oregon ex periment slation. It is now In tho hands of the printer and will be available soon. The bargain hunter tempor arily proud of his cheap ma terial, forgets that repair bills and depreciation costs are included in tho bargain. MILESTONE Hollow Tile 1405 N. Front St. A! M B h V. t 1 r- 1 1 v A I 9 4 pi ct . dl u di re In . di . si m 'rc ft CI K 01 gi ' 0; al t ci J0 b: T tt P B It si E S' b 61 tl -1 j '-j. V f i ' . h 81 h U - I