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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1924)
- v 1 I V cjl here:: andLno better o7. . cepting in England. Saxony and Syrian The growihe' demand for nien thol Jn the . candy and gum trade, and In drugs, etc., will 2 push the industry forward. The Salem district Is headed towards a na Alton "dollar ' a" year" peppermint oil cropland '.it win'n6tbe'l6ng ip arriving; ,and it will go Just as much farther as there is a de . mand for the oil at remunerative - prices becaqse we have the pep permlnt oil ioll and climate and kjnow how, and organization. The ' acreage will (bq largely Increased lp this district ibis year. . The Country of .Grrat i'ows ' . ' I f tne noses of -Dionysus and LSac-1 f Vi 11 a n am a. 9 41 a . a a 1 I i,.vt jwui, euier ioe bovine goddess wet nurse of the j human race, and in this new era io oaism district win nave me I premier place of all the earth. I f Near Salem, at Marion. Marion cbunty. Ore., Was produced .Vive - La France, the greatest dairy cow I Of any age, any breed, living or f dead. The Salem district has pro- n. cuiced 11 of the 17 world record ' t Jersey cows, and all but one in I Ti ' recent years; and 12 out of the l ol uoid Medal, Jerseys bulls; halt of all the 1000. pound Jersey cows ii ' x in ine woriq: There i have been ' 1 UOId Medal Jersey bulls in all ue world; we have produced 12 or them. There harei been 62 j Silver U edalj1 Jersey balls in the worm, we nave produced- 22 of them. '.' . , . : -. . Western Oregon is the best cow country on earth; because we have the feed and. the climate and the natural conditions that - conserve I I VVi Willi IUV f the highest qualities, and make! tor ine nignest production in the t domain of dairy ins and we have! the dairy brains and the -.dairy I w:JH to excel..;-j 1 The 1200 (annual butterfat nro. i . duction) Jersey cow is on the I , way; and she4 will be produced in ine micd aistrict, and future competition for world's records I win oe oeiween . eaiem distrlctiana .o in ca 191s in. iazy.v. .. . ' Jersey cows. - -The 150 to 200 . pound common brlndle cow is going; the 1000 to 1200 pound purebred cow'is coming; and the V Salem district is leading and will I lead the way j ' 1 The Evergreen Blackberry Induittry . Salem Is the center of the great and evergrowing Evergreen i blackberry industry. Marion coun ty has over (hf It the' acreage of r the state, with Polk. Yamhill anil -A fourthT u me oiicui uisiric-i aas nearly -ti ,ki ..v .. ,1 vrruuu. nuq gnrij 111 ine mar - . . v. . . f " 7"r- A J 1 '. ? c. . t- K JJk i.Th. importance of the Industry - , ifviriava great American appetite ior pie-7na jine evergreen black- tr let ought to raise more goose berry. U the commercial pie berry horrtea. Orowpra hArn htVA nrn- iar excellence; j al80 In the great ifuuuvuuu m; . mo mwt avo been yields of 22,000 pounds ?..lhcf.rraa" T,6w.?nu1 Slplats'of groMdreliing m high as er. are ine,po3ioiuues no one can nThe Evergreen blackberry is anlenced grower says 8000 pounds tp important link in our chain of di- versified agriculture, and who can say what 1 its future in the Salem rdUtrlct may be? The Salem can- nerics packed gw,000 cases of Ev - ergreen blackberries In 1922, and ne Marion county canneries pack - cd 120,543 cases last year. . '1 f ' The Cherry City of the World ! Salem was named "The Cherry City of the World," years ago ythe writer believes it was by A. F. llofcr, at that time . the' secretary of the Salem. .' Commercial ' ejub. Anyway,- she . wasC??tiUe,d io that lfBtlnCtion-t)d has Worn well the title an'Ceaerved.tlie lhonbjr and earned '-Ine emoluments. r" The iherryji Industry here had early be- rgfnnings.7 uounty commissioner ' f ir...i hn li. iir.M lint. 1 1. nuu ia.,.vu.ii.s.j-5mw.iiW f.m m VlufV Tartarian phurV traa is Perhaps -eY yearV oldaW V m. Ivt missed . rron nine, it wMU. h-ar Th three rreateat weet cher- rYes;in the world were originated I th Snirm dlatriet tKn'Rinml n;l Black Renubllcans and' Lam berts; and the "other greatj sweet hVerrv. the TrdVal;Aifne.'Taa been ,fcf"t . i - j LADD & BUSH, """bankers' ' ''. " V tapital Stock $500,00( . Established 1868 : -. .V h Vv. ' 'i . ' UUu v. i . ' -COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS v Salem, Oregon - 1 ; . - - . , i - 1 ' ' ' L . - . . . , , j . ' ' s J THE OREGON STATESMAN SALEM, OREGON . ? " ?T " """"1 ' V f hroug,ht tn!''p,ffre.cUQal hern anl one of the most useful of them all. lheTJbgStemmednKraterfibuse, is of Salem origin; useful because it is the pollenlzer of all sweet cher ries, while itself, a cherry almost equal in quality to the Royal Anne. (And add the honey bee. f6rlhe"cher'ry' pollen fa" uot' ear ried' by wnifls; 'itm'usl be' carried on the wiogs and legs of insects.) Given the proper pollenlzer and the honey bee, and the sweet cherry industry Is a reliable In dustry In tb.e,Saleui district giv en also ample manufacturing' and Shipping an. cq) 'storage facili ties. Then there is the sour cherry the Montmorency cherry wcich t,lA n V. a vol,,., nf .1 7 i --.-v ' V, ha. titr flo.Hnn rnoAa Salem the "Cherry City of the (World;" and man 3s doing more ana;, more m omirm me uue. Maraschino plants are here now, and other manufacturing plants tare coming, and the whole wide world will come, to acknowledge Salem's premiership in the cherry industry. The Salem canneries last year iupIpiI nr an ann rmm nf . k. rles; and thcre'were shipments of barrelled cherries for the maras chino trade making up about the same nnantitv nf th fresh frnn. MiPitirifw lar rnnanmntlnn ItTntli- er ways. Tlic I'ear Industry The Salem district is the world's ve&r paradise. Bartlett's are partly if not .au..J.!V..kv . . . W V A. J WUU MV. where lse. Pears' are free , from blight hers and nowhere else. We nave more pear mends and less pear enemies than any. other dis trk A th9 .w6r.id, 'We iave the cheapest pear land in the world. Our Dose Dears tonned the New York market in 1919 and 1920: at." $$!85xfn 1919 an4'' $J$'4 in. izu. uur Anjou pears topped the Chicago market at $,4,71. a. Our Winter Nells topped the London market at $7.10 a box in 1920. There should be 10 times the present acreage of pears, and they Should be priqclpally the Bartlett, Boca and Clalrgeau varieties, aqd fall nondescript varieties should be i grafted to these. . ' ; The Gooseberry Industry ' From the-standpoint alike of the profits they may have on these bush berries on their - own ac- the scheme of succession which ia 1 iA 3i-TO 1 very important . for the Salem 1. . 1 ia 11 u utuor lucuiiij iu me nunu favorableLio ibft jpjpductioa . of line nignest quality ot goose oer- I h. rwi ttA. iMi the fruit gfowert in the'Salem dis- I duced 9000 to 16,000 pounds to ue acre; and even at tne rate 01 I sk oon nnnnd to th Ar on small 1 cents per pouhd. orat,tbe.rate the acre is a reasonable average expectation. The Salem canneries I packed 7000 cases of gooseberries in 1922, andi the Marlon county I pack bad grown to 25,780 cases last year and it will be larger 1 mis year. . ipis is me leaning gooseberry 'center of. the United States; will remain so. The can neries paid 7 cents a pound for gooseberries last year. leading Corn District Our best farmers have conclud ed, that, t he Salem district, and in I fact? 46; whole. Willamette valley. ll a Trr rnnri corn country, that It; depends vupon the selection and acMmatizatiop of seed, and upon the" preparation of the seed bed and cultivation to hold moisture I . i during. dry seasons I v ?e ."V these? J men. and through other agencies, there ha been a won- derful Increase in corn growing here ,n the Pa8t few years Until' Marion has become the - 1 first Oregon county In the pro- duction of corn, and Polk county I W a close Second" to. Marlon. Tht Balcm. district ia tb,e,Jfia,ding.Qorn I section of the Pacific northwest. "There are reports" of production as high as . 75 and more bushels to the acre, and good farmers say SO to 60 bushels ought to be common. . Jesse Huber has raised corn in Oh iq and., Oregon, and he says that, with proper seed selection, a yield as high as 1 the average crop of eastern corn can be ma tured here.. He has raised 80 bushels to the acre near Salem. The "average , yield for the whole of the United Spates Is 24 bushels to the acre. There is no agricultural Inter est In the Salem district that will not benefit from the production of more corn, which will mean more, cows, more hogs and more livestock in general, and there fore a better .chance to keep up and improve the fertility of the land devoted to tree and bush fruits and all other products of the soil. World's Best Celery The Salem district grows the beat'celery in the world. Eugene celery in 1921 took second prize at the national celery contest; and Prof.. Bouquet of the Oregon Agricultural college says the Ore gon exhibitors gained a . greater victory than the taking of the first prize in 1922 at the national con test : at Indianapolis and it was taken, wHh cejery. that was grown by a man who was a celery grow er before coming to Oregon In the famous Kalamazoo, Michigan, dis trict:" The Labish Meadows district, Just north of Salem, produces as good celery as that grown at Eu gene or Troutdale Produces the best in the world , Produced about $140,000 worth last year on a little over 100 acres ot land;, or about 200 car loads. And the LabTsh Meadws grow ers are ambitious and expect to become the largest growers of celery quality celery in the world. There are 500 acres of the same kind of land as the 100 acres in. celery in the Labish Meadows district; beaverdam land. There are. many more beaverdam tracts In the Salem district. There are scores ot thousands of other acres of good celery land in this dis trict .. So there is a possibility of a $5,000,000 annua crop; or a $10,000,00 or more. J"The world-is "the market; al most it is the market, or will be. for the celery fresh from the fields, with the improvement of shinning facilities.. For the de hydrated celery there is no limit under the shining sun. The pioneering has been done. The proofs are at hand. Our growers can produce celery and make.. it a profitable crop on. wide areas and, what is more impor tant, they can produce celery ot the best quality grown in" the United States: .which means the best In the 'world. " ' .They tent three cars of it to California - last : year, and sold it at a dollar a crate above the price of California's best. They; can beat even Kalamazoo on celery. - . This1' is another case of taking the line Qf least resistance; ot get ting. above competition; of 'pro ducing the things we can produce better, than .any . other, district, or t a. lower cost. or. at a greater profit; of. doing the things at which, we excel . The Spinach Industry The jnanagexs Qf SaifiW'.a dehy - drailon plant say they have never yet had enough spinach; that it has been sold out every year with in ' 60 ( days after the price .was announced. . There Is1 no telling how far this thing may go. It may extend to gigantic proportions. And be cause better quality of spinach can be. produced here than elsewhere, Salem, is due to become the world center of a great spinach industry. !For the iron in it, and for the vltamines and other requisites in dietary schemes, spinach is coming-Into more and more general use not only in the hospitals' but also in the homes of this coun try; of the whole world. Our spinach has 10 times', as much iron as carrots. There should be no question whatever of the supplying here by "our growers of all the spinach that the manufacturers and pack ers will take and pay for. It is one of our best crop's, taking into account that it may be followed by another profitable vegetable crop; - or even a third, on the same land the same year. : Spinach is nearly as important In the dietary as milks and every up .to 'date man and woman now knows that a virile race' cannot be sustained without milk, nor healthy children raised, nor 'old people kept in proper condition. One 'of the gera test arguments la favor of spinach growing' com mercially in the Salem district is the fact that the' spring crop fur njshes a cash return early In the season when money Is heeded for the cultivation of "other crops. &n.d. Injthe jumeTway, it adds ma terially "Jo", the. set t-eturns,.. front ahy'girea number of acres of land under cjuUlvat (on. v V( -. . ...iThe .Onion Industry . ? -Salem .ia the. .market, and man ufacturfrig center of a great Onion industry; the world doea not grow better onions. On our bcaverda,ni lands, 400 sacks,' luO pounds to the sack, can be raised. The mar ket for ten years has averaged $1.75 a sack. A net profit of $100 an acre and upward can be made. Dehydration lends an out let for any surplus crop. So Sa lem, with her beaverdain lands and her great dehydration plant, will always be the Oregon onion center. The Potato Industry The Salem district leads Ore gon in potato growing. Our growers should pay more atten tion to the thousands of possible new varieties. They should con fine their growing to Burbank, Gold Coin and Peerless for late, and Early Rose and Earliest ot All for early varieties. And they should attend to seed certification. Washington, California and some other nearby states cannot grow their own seed stock. Oregon growers can double their income by growing seed for these states. With good seed, and proper culti vation, grading and packing our growers can compete with any market in the United States. Ia fact, we may lead the world in the potato industry. Bee Keeping ,. Salem Is the center of a poten tially great bee keeping industry Average yields of the Willamette valley will exceed those of any known region excepting southern Oregon. This can be made a ver itable bee paradise; by providing Lee pasture for the late summer which can be done, by raising more, sweet clover, and scattering more Scotch broom everywnere. Every farmer here ought to have bees; every orchardist must have bees', to be sure of . proper pollina tion. And there will be big money in bees, for themselves alone, when plenty of late bee pasture is provided. The early bee pasture is abundant now; no better in the wide world. Mining The great undeveloped Santiam mining district is just at the back door ot Salem; 'the Butte City of Oregon undeveloped," and "one of the best undeveloped" silverlead prospects in this or any other country," say good mining engi neers'. The first producing mine the Lotz-Larseu mine has just start ed its concentration plant, and an other producing mine, the Silver King,' say" Its managers." ' wifl be 'In Operation thlsTalT. We 'will ere I long have here a great and rich mining camp. Goats Our breeders have developed a higher type of the Augoraf goat 1 than Asia. Minor can produce; ' larger, "longer fleeced; finer flbered mohair. The Angora is the great standby in land clear ing; but he Is more than worth his board on any of our lands. Practically alf the "chaps" ot North America are made from An gora goat skins tanned in Salem, Oregon. And theh,"'tob, Salem is leading in milk goat breeding, which, is an industry that Is grow ing by leaps and bounds. Beans During the picking season, 5000 bushels and more a day ot string less beans come to Salem, to the cannerIe8 and dehydration plant. jThe big tning ju the Salem district in the line of beans is going to be salad beans. Salem is bound to be the green bean center of Oregon for all time, and there Is and will always be money In growing beans here; and some farmers have made money here, in the dry beau industry. l'aved Iloads Oregon is being made over by paved roads. Oregon's paved road system Is the best in the world It rests upon money received from license taxes paid on vehicles us ing traction other than horse po wer, and upon gasoline and dis tillate taxes. These taxes will re tire all the road bonds and finally pay for all of the paved highways and for extending them and keep ing them in repair. There will never be a direct tax. The State Highway department repair shops are in Salem, and the surplus equipment, and will always be; to say nothing of the administrative forced ot the State Highway de partment making a large and in creased annual expenditure of money here from that source. And Marion county is building county market paved roads, with the county shops here. There will noon be 150 miles of these coun ty paved roads here. So Marion county is being made over. too. with paved highways- getting out of the mud.' Marion county has more miles of paved roads ' than any other county in the racific northwest. Over 200 miles of paved roads are in the Salem mar keting district. Brocroli Indutttry Westcrn, Oregon, raises the best broccoli in the. world. There is an increasing demand " for the pjrodtict, V which can be supplied OXLY' FROM OUR SECTION. t -.(Continued on page C) ?S r. 10 l -1 .. .1 NEW MADE MA?. IN THE i i n WEST 1 1 Portland Branch: East Third and Oregon Sts. . Phone E-5606 Tallman Piano Store Increases Business There are probably more pianos owned in Salem than any other town of its size in the wpst. This fact induced the Tallman Piano More to select Salem as a location for its activities. Anions the high. Krade pianos which they have selected as giv ing the publur the best in quality High Grade Eianos Direct from factory v BALDWIN ELLINGTON f HAMILTON ;BOWAKD MONARCH " lANDTHE NEW MANTJOLA .. PLAYER PIANO , ' ; a .-;. We Rebuild, Repair, v Refinish and .Tune ?H?.Fwnc-.'V-. -A See oar Bargains in Rebuilt and Eefinished Pianos PIAUO STORE 4il"i 395 South 12th . Out of the llijh Kent district.' , .No high-priced salesineu , for US'" "' " DIVERSITY EDITION, n f 01" PORTLAND DIRECT FACTORY "BRANCH ' Drop in and Look Us Over Full line of trucks and busses, perfected products of 12 years experience in building transportation units on the Cdastf or -Coast use. - - . - - , . . r - . . ' t " Five regular truck models, 2 special truck models, 4 regular cioach models meet every possible freight or passenger tians portation requirement of Coast dperation:" " i'-irvrA t a t5- - ! . . . One of the largest Stocks of Trucks Repair Parts in the Entire North west MORELAND MOTOR TRUCK 1 1 i- iii i i i . . .' 1 y "" I " .... j r ? f w rr.-. . ...,-c- WEATHERLY ICE CREAM r . 5 i r f; ii. r, i at i t '-v ri-n I EVERY DAY t . - . w w n r . .... .... " ' I . - A, - . BUTTERCUP, III 210 So. Com'l St. and service for the price are. the Baldwin, Ellington, Hamilton, Howard, Monarch and the won derful new Manuola player-piano, "the player with the human touch." The Tallman Piano store is located-at 393 South Twelfth street, out of the high rent district. The business was established three, years ago and has doubled ir. volume each year. They hire no salesmen, saving the customer the commissions and salaries of salesmen. ' The Ecnior member of the firm, J. J. Tallman, has been actively identified "wfth thpiaiio business for 36 years, holding positions with some of the largest piano houses In the United States. For several years he held the respons ible position of . buyer " for. tlp largest piano house west of " Chi cago. . J. V. Tallman, his son, worked out "1iis apprenticeship - with the best piano builders' of the coun try. le then put In a number of years as tuner. In Kew York he entered one of he largest piano factories there to acquaint him self with the most modern piano bu i Id in g lue't hods. Be f ore retii rri fog1 "to "the vest he was employed bV the Auto' Pneumatic Actlou . FEBRUARY, 1924 it ) .'ii Ctil f. J .-lt 1 1 .i t SOLD MOST EVERWHERE ICE Hi'.; PI fil mm Phones 1101 "Dealers" iii" All Fresh, Cured and rure L.ara, r Sausages of All Eat U.S. Steuslof f Bros. Market ' . ' 1 . 1 Salenv companyf "builders" bf: pTayer pianos. ; Thomas F. Fayf in charge of the tuning and repair, department ot t,hel Tullnuin , Piano . store, has had a piano building experience of more than SO years.; . . N . The. Salem district celery is bet ter than T the '.next ' beat In the United' States - better than the Mamous Kalamazoo celery. Qur LIU I J IIAB UVU II U LUC IvaiUAWU product In national competition. '..3-' ' fl 5'Wff BEST FOR THE WEST CO. SALEM: VICKTBROS. Hii"St.aTRac: tj hi. ! Uii and 1102 Kinds of Smoked Meats, ouiu-y , cu. Kinds a Specialty cM 5 ' $ .- ' Oregon The Satenf dlstrUrpbdiCdd-Jlehr-, !y all the celery . shipped but of Orceon. It will - ship ; over: ZSO carstuis . year a ndsUll, more and wore cveryryear. " Of course Salem Is the Cherry City ot;; the J- World. The" -tqw greatest sweet .. cherries. , of tth world, . wore J born hpee' , Jttm; Lambert, I lllacK Reubllcan" and Ing;temnedVt.eVhoase. Au4 th'e. ItqyaJA'nne .and other" grejf cherries attain grcatesti.erfPV cherries 14 ion here. V - - . - 'if 3 -I. .1... 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