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THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1924
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Foundry and Machine Shop
17th & Oak Sta., 8alm, Or.
Phone 886
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quarters f a million dollars yaar
to fa dairytnea of tola aectioa
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MARION CREAMERY
& PRODUCE CO.
Salem, Ore. - Phone 2488
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
Is to Patronize Your Home People
Selling Salem District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and
Pep and Progress Campaign
The Surest Way to Get More and Larger
Industries Is to Sunoort Those Jlou Have
DEHYDRATED and CANNED
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Oregon Products
King's Food Products Company
Salem Portland The Dallea
Oregon
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 prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and
yet greater progress as the years go by.
We Wffl
Give Our
Best
Efforts
At all tlmaa to aulat la
any pdelW way the datd
opment of the fruit aat
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Oregon
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Your Health Begins When Ton
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for an appointment
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Bay Laboratory 414 to 419 U. & Natl Bk.
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Manufactureri of
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Tn. brand you can depend
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HE WILLAMETTE VALLEY POTATO
BUSINESS WILL BE A BIG INDUSTRY
T
WHEN THE HIGH
RULES ARE OBSERVED
Willamette Valley Prime
Association
The oldest 1 Association la
the Northwest
W.T.JENKS
Secretary a&d Manager
' Trade Jt High Sta.
: . 8ALEM, OREGON
NELSON BROS.
Warm Air TxmK, ptamblag
aeatiag and ikHt aUi work, tia
4 tt1 roofiag. Ktoarml Job
Slag ia tia aad salruisad Irom
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Selection of Seed, Rotation, Regular Crop, Right Soils,
Varieties That Are in Demand, Storage Facilities,
GradingThese are the Important Things to Make the
Industry Regularly Reliable and Profitable, Says
0. A. C. Expert
(The following article was writ
ten especially for this potato Slo
gan Issue of The Statesman: )
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
THE WILLAMETE VALLEY
SPUD?
DIXIE
BREAD
' Dixie Health Bread
Ask Your! Grocer
By G. II. HYSLOP
Farm Crops Specialist, Oregon
Experiment Station
ORE G OK AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE, Corvallis, Feb. 13.
The "Willamette valley potato has
come in for a lot of discussion and
criticism the last few years be
cause various factors have resulted
in rather unsatisfactory market
demands and returns. The real
potato growing district of Oregon
Is the district extending FROM
MARION COUNTY NORTH TO
THE COLUMBIA RIVER, and this?
district probably suffers more than
any other section of the state be
cause of the inability to sell pota
toes at as large a profit as desirable.
Perfectly Pasteurized
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Phone 725
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CHERRY CITY
BAKERY
Roof Leak?
Ebonal for Felt of Shingles
Elastic Roof Cement for all
Repairs,
Or
A New Roof of
" Cedar Shingles, Malthold
Shingles, Malthold Roll
Roofing.
See
Falls City-Salem
Lumber Company
. 8t Ko. 1 2th St.
Phone 813
A. II. Kelsay, Mgr.
Faulty Methods
The outstanding reasons why
the potatoes have been disappoint
ing to a number of persons are
quite numerous, despite the fact
that indicates a rteady but grad
ual improvement in potato yields.
Reasons why the industry has
been under fire are: too much in
ferior and absolutely poor seed is
used; too many varieties are being
grown; the industry has too many
jumpers they jump in and low
prices kick them out; potatoes are
not grown regularly oi made a
regular part of farm rotation on a
large enough number of farms;
many soils are put into potatoes
when they are unfit for proper de
velopment of the crop; faulty cul
tural operations hinder the crop in
making a maximum of production;
inadequate and even entire, ab
sence of storage facilities limit
successful marketing of the crop;
no grading and improper grading
has hurt the industry very much.
Good vs. 1 Poor Seed
The 1 time is approaching when
folks will begin to purchase seed
potatoes, and a very large number
will buy, or save for their own use,
a lot of the small, "single drop"
potatoes that weigh from half an
ounce to two or two and a half
ounces, and will use these for seed
purposes.
The whole seed is the very best
kind of seed to use, it is conceded,
but growers should know that
these little potatoes that are sorted
out of the ordinary crop are small
because of the presence of disease.
Some disease, like mosaic, or wilt,
or some other trouble, causes them
to stop growth quite early in the
season. Result that they are
small. These small, single drop
seeds will reproduce the disease
and It is but a short while until
the strain of potatoes has "run
out."
Cull iuU Make Cull Plants
We believe In the use of small,
whole seed in cases where the
fields are absolutely free from di
sease, but we know that the sort
ing out bf? culls for planting pur
purposes is virtually certain to re
sult in badly diseased stands of
potatoes.
Your livestock farmer orjrour
dairy farmer does not save out the
Chir IdraJ:
Th Bet Only"
Onr Method:
Cooperation
Capital City
Co-operative Creamery
K non profit organization ewnd
entirely by the dairymen, tiivs
us trial.
IXanufartnrera of Butterrnp Butter
"At your Groeer,r
Phone 299
137 C. Com'l St.
scrubs for breeding purposes. It
is equally true that the potato
farmer should not save out the
culls for reproducing the crop.
Too Many Varieties Used
A large number,' pf "People are
growing too many miscellaneous
varieties. If we were able to drop
out of the agriculture of the Wil
lamette valley all the potato varie
ties except the Burbank, American
Wonder, and Earliest of All, and
possibly a few Giant Chilis for the
California trade, we would be bet
ter off. Many farmers are grow- i
ing Netted Gems being attracted
to the prices of Netted Gems as
quoted in Portland, but it is noted
that graded Oregon Burbanks -are
going right along with the Netted
Gems in every way. The experi
ence of the experiment station is
that Burbanks give more bushels
of potatoes to the acre of equally
good variety.!
Too Many Jumpers; Top Few Re
turns
The potato growing conditions i
of the Willamette valley would be ,
very greatly improved if the pota
toes were grown in regular rota
tion. A rotation should be a cul
tivated crop, followed by grain,
followed by clover, and using corn.,
and potatoes as the uncultivated
crop would make possible a six-
year rotation for potatoes. This
would keep the land free from i
disease and keep it in excellent
condition for the production of
maximum yields. Growing pota
toes in rotation means less loss
from diseases and some other ene
mies, and a better yield of market
able potatoes per acre. .
The industry constantly suiters
from the "jumpers-in" usually
people who do not regularly grow
potatoes. They buy seed, rent land
and put in a large acreage. Then
the total yield is large and market
ing is slow and prices are low.
They drop the crop at once, hav
ing lost money and caused others
to lose to some extent. Potatoes
should be a regular crop.
Good Soils Required
A very large number of people
are attempting to grow potatoes
on soils entirely unsuited to pota
to production. Some are trying to
grow the crop on the very heavy
soils, and these do not normally
make very good yields of potatoes.
Others let the potato fields get so
much dried out before making the
spring preparation that there is
not sufficient moisture to carry
the crop through to a profitable
maturity. Still others are trying
to grow potatoes on fields so poor
in fertility that they cannot pos
sibly make a good crop. The
good soils for potatoes are those
rather mellow, rich soils that are
friable and loose and that hold
moisture well, and that have suffi
cient plant food to keep the plants
growing vigorously.
By selectinK the soil and hand
ling it in a rotation, and. in some
sections, adding some fertilizers,
as sulphate of ammonia and sup
erphosphate, the yield of potatoes
can be rather materially increased.
Plant Early
Cultural pperations have much
to do with the production of pota
toes. We find at the experiment
station that the potatoes give the
test results if .plaijted about the
middle of April. They give the
largest yields if planted at a depth
of about 5 inches and if the seed
is cut to save the blossom end
piece in one piece. Land plaster
on the cut seed has been very ben
eficial in increasing the yield of
potatoes and in developing a bet
ter stand.
' Careful culture to keep the
weeds down is essential, but late,
deep culture and the use of a
planker is probably detrimental to
the crop.
Advantage to lie in Market ut All
Times
Many western Oregon farmers
are greatly handicapped by the
lack of sufficient storage, facilities
go that they can grade and hamlle
their potatoes and istore them ef
ficiently. Better storage houses
are very much needed in many
potato, growing districts. Folks
with storage can grade and sell
wheii the market is good.
Good (irading Important
It was set forth at .the recent
conference at the "college that one
of the big problems solved now is
the potato grading problem. Gra
decL4optatoes are finding a very
satisfactory market at this time.
Lubelcd graded potatoes are in de
mand. As farmers, learn to grow
potatoes to meet th grades and
learn to grade potatoes properly,
the Willamette valley potato busi
ness will agaiiwicjvelop into an
important industry;
38 Miles of Highway
Are Involved in Bids
Bids on state highway construc
tion totaling about, 3 8 miles will
be opened at a meeting of th state
highway commission in Portland
February 27. The projects under
consideration and on which bids
will be opened are:
Uenton county"- Albany-Cor-vallis
section of We Albany-Cor-vailis
highway. Construction of
9.5 miles of concrete pavement IS
feet in width.
Coos county i Glasgow-Hau-ser
section of the Roosevelt coast
highway. 6.2 miles of roadbed
widening and new broken stone or
crushed gravel surfacing.
Jackson county - McLeod-Cas-cade
Gorge section of the Medford
Crater lake highway 10.24 miles
of broken stone surfacing.
Klanjath county Olene-Bo-nanza
section of the Klamath
Falls-Lakeview highway. 6. 7 4
miles of grading and broken stone
surfacing and 7 miles of broken
stone resurfacing.
Cmatilla county McKay creek
Pendleton section of the Oregon
Washington highway. 2.C4 miles of
grading, 3.1 miles of broken stone
surfacing and 2 miles of broken
stone resurfacing. 1
Yamhill county St. Joseph
section of the West Side highway,
l.of) miles of grading.
HOTEL
BLIGH
100 room of Solid Comfort
A Hone Aaay Frca
Home
Salem Carpet Cleaning
and Fluff Rug Works
Rag end fluff rugs woven
any sires without seams. New
mattresses made to order. Old
matu essei remade. Feathers
renofated. I buy all kinds of
old carpets for fluff rugs. t
Otto F. Z wider, Prop.
Phone 1154
13' aad Winmr Streefa
Office Plioue 1260. Residence Phone 1313J
ULEASING GRANITE CO.
ROY BOHAXXOX, Mgr. - . .
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Manufacturers of Motinmcnts Mausoleums and i Statuary.
Works at City View Cemetery , - - Salem, Ore.
Grimm Alfalfa Has Earned Right
To S tate -Wide Standardization
Enough - digestible nutrients tn '
the right ratio will be supplied I j
pounds of alfalfa hny and 30 poun f
corn silage. As this i about as r. .
roughage as a cow of. this ij.wii! ?,
slie needs some concentrated feed to ;
: duce more milk.. I he louowing idij e
tcr 50 pounds nn ncre on Willamette is properly balanced and could c i
AI.FAI.FA is king of forage plants
rind (irinim hns been proved king of
nil Oregon variciies. All evidence col
lrcted by the experiment station favors
slate-wide stnniarli.ation on Grimm.
Tliis variety has ieen standardized in
I'nion, Wasco and Washington counties,
wlicrc station results h"ve been carried
by roun'y n gen Is. Growers in Baker
f oTiriiy placed orders for 6511 pounds of applications usually make one-half to one
irrumn last season. High quality brimm ton more hay to the acre,
has leen Itroua-ht into l$aker. Crook. I
Josephine, Deschutes, Klamath, Ike,
l'nin. Wasco and Washington counties.
I he 1923 deliveries throueh countv
valley soils, and sulfur 100 pounds an
acre elsewhere, help give vigor to early
growth.
Annual applications of land plaster at
100 pounds an acre!are good in Western
Oregon. A hundred pounds an acre of
sulphur every three! or four years does
the work on most irrigated lands. These
fed to higher producing cows as
plment ,to the roughage
Barley, 200 pounds millrun, SO, -3
oilmcal, 20. The oilmesl can be rej : j
hy the same amount of cottonseed t il
or soybean meal, or! by 40 pounds e: o
coantit meaL Tlw; mixture is fed ',je
rate of 1 pound daily to each 5 posdij
of milk produced.
agents wore 43,1 12, Kunds. I fUlS V 0 '
Ten times as much Grimm ordcd 5- I'ST V 4 1 V'h' ' ' )
in Klamath as the common kinds. al fe ' X !
9000 pounds of Grimm in Crook to 710 ff 1 - '
of coimnon kin.ls. Washinpton county ' jfjCS- - -TV1 $ "JM " V')'A ml'
growers have done outstanding work, ' ; :- l V - i & S IK ifi
having made Grimm trials on STfarms . r .', 'fft ' f itsl "-'
with well-drained soils. V-,f . -? V Vf-'W f '?Jti VAlfft
To meet the needs for better feed for " H -oj, i , i f ? . -f K f
the dairv industry the slogan "100,000 r,ri.J jf: Ai g - "T-f ' It
acres of Grimm in the WUIamrtte val- I 'M'-'"? -'vd XYl " jf !
ley" has leen proposed by the experiment 5 X J TV. 1 r - I Xf i iV-Zi7 f
station. "Standardization on Grimm in isf i I '-'j&Mfi"-?
Eastern Oregon" is a further slogan es- ? . Sjr V';?V$k- f -.fcSK- - '
sen. ial to meet the needs of growers for Jjff:., r fo" 1'X ' '
.Griijim was first tried by the station f-'Qf 'f&M;t rJ::tV'xyfX''
ontheit'nion farm manv venrs naro. The VtiJuniSeLxJ&i ,
it?
oripinal planting still stands and yields
well, although the common kinds were
winter killed long ago. It is the oldest
nlfalfa field on any Oregon station farm.
It tins proved best on the dry and irri
gated lands of the Hums station, on the
dry lands of the .Moro station without ir
rigation, and on the irrigated sandy soils
of the llerniiston branch.
Successful planting calls for finely
prepared seed bed. Spring sowing 3s
best in Western Oregon and in Eastern
Oreron Station Dairj Hen! 'Eating Grimm Alfalfa Good Cawa Earn th Best
Roughage and Are Getting U.
BestDairyRationForage
f
at
i
rinirrnwn n-ht alfalfa l.v
Is Alfalfa: Grain Needed farras wiU find a ration made "P ";
iiiriy oi nonic-grown icrua miny hut-
OF all the hays commonly fed dairy
cows in northern latitudes alfalfa is
the best. This is because it contains high
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factory. The average row is fed si' la;
the preceding ration. The higher pro
ducing cow is fed '18 pounds of alfalfa,1
20 pounds of corn silage and I pound, of .
ground or rolled barley for, eact I
pounds of milk up to 40 pounds. ' I. ; -The
'barley should be fed on the tHaga
as it is rather sticky when fed alone, jj j
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Prune Recipes Demonstrate!
.
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TWENTY-FIVE ways of preparing
Oregon prunes for the table will ba
demonstrated by students of home fco
nomics at the agricultural college edwa-.
tional exluhition February 22 and 23. The
work will be directed by Mrs. Jessasina
C Williams of the household science tV
partment, and the recipes used will liter
lie written in bulletin form for react al
distribution. . 1
This is but one of scores of idM
ties to be f eabired by the student! of
different lepartments mi which the
schools combine to give the expostkml
Oregon districts where " freezing and percentages of digestible crude protein ,ucatkmal Tah,e to delegates frwa(th1
thawing heaves out the soil. Inoculation and the mineral elements, especially lime, 0rcn h,Sn schools. p ;i J ,s
is needed for soils of Western Oregon reports Roy C. Jones of the Oregon sta- Among the special lecturers will, he;
not previously in alfalfa. The twst cul- tion. Tliomas Arkle Clark, dean of men at fie
ture can be pot from the station at cost. In working out a ration with alfalfa University of Illinois, and Dr. Glensninej
If overshadowed by weeds the early he bases it on the average cow weighing Snow of the Ypsilanti Normal sclW
crop ,s lest clipped, but if clean, leave a thousand pounds and giving 20 pounds Vocational m.Idanr- !!! K- . u.Ai- :
till it reaches the hay stage. Land plas- of 4 per cent milk. feature of the exposition. t
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i unram AJiaua ai Lnion tirancn u. a. c. Kxprtment Station Uldeat Flantina
THIRTY YEARS AMONG THE BUR
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AND NETTED GEM
III SMI
BANKS
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W. F. Weddle of Jefferson Has for Nearly a Quarter of a
Century Been a Successful Potato Grower, and He
Tells How He Does It, and How Others May Make
a Success of the Industry
Editor Statesman:
For over thirty years I have
been a potato raiser in the gaiiti
am river, specializing in iur
banks and Netted Gems. t'p tq
the present tune many potatoes
have been raised on 'soil unfit for
the production of a I. S. No. 1
grade. In my experiences with
different soils 1 have found that
only sandy bottom soil produces a
good grade and good flavored po
tatoee. lp to the last year many car
loadKjOf potatoes have been ship
ped out of Oregon of such a poor
quality that it has ruined tUo de
mand for Oregon potatoes Mar
ion county is one of the best coun
ties in Oregon for growing i fine
grado of potatoes, if care is laeu
to select proper soil and seed.
Select in- thv Swtt
I select my choice Seed from the
bin while sorting, anil insist upon
a clean, smooth potato from three
to six inches in lengih, free from
any cuts, blemishes or disease. To
prevent sprouting uptil planting
time pour Out the seed in a light,
dry place preferably on a ground
floor, never over six inches in
depth. When seed is put in a deep
pile it will Rprout many times be-1
fore planting time and thereby,
take much of. the strength which"
should be kept in tbo seed, and
when planted will send up a weak
ly sprout and in many cases never
appear at all, " i
Sclcvting and Preparing the Soil
The teed 'and soil are thp - two
main parts in growing good pota
toes. Select a good piece of bottom
ground of either clover or vetch
sod. If convenient the latter is
preferred. The ground should bo
plowed twice. Firfct as early as
possible in the months ct January
or February. Then let the soil lay
as broken up until some time be
tween the 20th of May and tin
10th of June.
Now harrow and disc until It is
in a finely pulverized-condition.
Then reployv and harrow again
and the' ground will be in very
good shape for planting. 1
' The Planting
-E'I3t! the seed must bo dipped
(Continued on page 11)
Tho bargain hunter tempor
arily proud of his 'cheap ma
terial, forgets that repair
, WU ndi depreclatToncosti
are includod in tho bargain.
MILESTONE
Hollow Tile
1403 N. Front SU
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