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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM; OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2 1924 nit, .fi 1 v ..... i k ggr SELLING SAiLEiVI DISTRICT ! j t . - ' ' ' . ... I 1 ' . ,100 rooms of Solid Comfort i: . . ! ' : 100 roonu of Solid Comfort A Home Away From ! j Home-. W An Oat AtUt Two Millions We r bow paying o-r Utr quarter of a million dollars year to the dairymen of thia atactica, for aoilk. i 'Marion Butter" la the Best Butter More Cowa and Better Cowa " la the crying need MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 Devoted to , Showing i aimd and Ms Cities, and Towns The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries ; Is to Support Those You Have V j Next Peek's Slogan SUBJECT IS Selling Salem District is a Continuation of the; Salem Slogan and Pep and Progress Campaign Oil PUE INDUSTRY We WO! Give Our Best . Efforts At all times to assist la any . possible way the devel opment of. the fruit and berry Industries in tnia val ley, r. Oregon Packing :Co 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 yars go by. - ; j Why suffer with Stomach Trouble when CMropractle will Remove the Cause Your Health Begins Wlicn You Phone 87 , For An Appointment DR. O. L. SCOTT T : V P. S. C. Chiropractor Bay Laboratory 414 to 419 U. S. Nations! - Bank Building. Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2to 8 p. ru Butter-Nut ' Bread ifThe Richer, Finer Loaf CHERRY CITY I BAKERY Our ,tdeal: Owr Ifatked: Tbi Beat Only" Cooparatioa ; Capital Cify Co-cpsixtire Cremery A aaa-profit org-molxation owned a atirelr by tke dairymen. Gie -, trial. . ; . i v. - : Hiancturn of. BnttfTrup Batter ' At yo4 Groc'rt" 1 1ST . Col 8t PbM 299 GIDEOfJ STOLZ CO. -1 Manufacturers of ' ' ! Dependable Xand' ' Iime-Snlphnr Solution The brand jpu can depend on for purity and test Prices upon application Factory near-corner of Summer and Jlllll St. . Salem, Oregon , Nelson Bros. j - 'Warm ". A i r Furnaces, jplnmblns, heating and sheet metal work tin; and gravel roofing, general Jobbing tn tin and galvanized iron work. 1 353 Chemeketa St. ; Phone 19 S DIXIE BREAD DIXIE HEALTH DREAD Ask Tour Grocer R YEARS AKD YEARS ' The Statesman has been applying the wants of the critical Job printing trade , - Proof . positive, wa - are printers of worth and merit. Modern equipment and ideas are the ones that get by. . . .: i ' ; i ' . , - Statesman Publiching CcmDany Phone S3 or 6S3 215 8. ComT Bt. LOgflTiBERRY WORLD S GREATEST BUSH 1 T. THE INDUSTRY WILL PERSIST This Great Berry Was Discovered by Accident Forty-Three Years Ago By a California Man Now Living at Oakland in That State; But the Industry Has Its Development in Oregon, and. Mostly in the Salem District, and It Will . Persist ! , - : i ' : j : The story of the loganberry has been written many time3; printed f 1923. and a number of yards were discouragement In the industry In in many newspaper and. magazine articles; but it was perhaps best told in 1922. at a banquet in his honor at the Oregon state fair grounds, by the discoverer him self, Judge J.iH. Logan, then of Santa, Cruz. Cal., and now of Oak land, Cal., who will reach his 85th year in jDecember. i ; , The 'discovery- was accidental. It camel from J seed planted In Judge ; Logan's garden at , Santa Cruz in 1881. I He concluded after Investigation that it was a cross between the Auginbaugh (or Tex as Early) blackberry and the Red Antwerp raspberry. . It was something absolutely new in jthe Rubua family, and in all the J 43 years since the logan berry was discovered it has re mained absolutely the same, never reverting in the smallest particu lar to either parent rberry, but keeping' its own identity. There have been attempts to improve upon the loganberry; but they have all failed. Even the great Burbank, the plant wizard, tried it, and brought out the Phe nomenal, which had some vogue in the beginning; bnt time proved the loganberry to be superior in many ways. ' i Greatest Rush Fruit Y . The Statesman has-told of the beginnings of the industry here; the first plants being brought from California by Dr. J. A. Rich ardson, once mayor of Salem, and set but in his garden; then from this garden State Senator A. M. La Follette tried the new berry on I his farm north of Salem and I from that beginning the industry grew and grew and finally be came a great industry. It was a 2,000,000 industry in 1922. That Is, the crop was a two million dol lar crop." ' T It Will Persist f It is hot 'conceivable that the greatest of bash fruits will fall to persist, though there was much plowed up. ' Some men in the In dustry have called it an over pro duction. It was not so. it, was an under distribution. If a few people scattered ' in many cities in sections of the United States would take $2,0 00, 000 worth of loganberry products in 1922, more people in those and other communities, in still more sections and countries, would take $10,000,000 worth, or several times that tonnage, If they were Onlv told ' nf thft mprltn tit the loganberry, and it were put before luon OI re ana oiacx raspDerres fham n ttirtira n4pi-.i1nt. I Kew iors Bw ana oiner dried can hardly be Said to have yet reached the staple commodi ty class and therefore suffered more. ; r i : "But loganberries I are coming to their own and! will eventually become thoroughly stabilized, be cause they possess merit. Can ners are doin much to hasten that time by increasing their pack of syrup grades and by packing less of the water jgrades, and the person who makes juice - should discard in the future all thought of storing loganberry juice either for a short , or j long period in wood or tin if it is intended to be used for beverage purposes. Enormous : injury lias result ed already to th9 juice business. so well started Jn 1 9 1.1-1 6 and '17 by distributing a i protfuct which would not in any sense measure up to the. .original standard of quality upon which loganberry juice was demonstrated and in troduced to' the public. ' Growers should ! also, before destroying a t good loganberry patch, 'study the! growing condi- able shape in the various Ways in Which this Is possible; even In the ways that have, already been tried. ; '-.': There will still be some plowing up of loganberry vines. This oc curred once before. But the in dustry will persist . And it could be established in a single season, if there were 100 organization, and one such as would guarantee adequate and ju dicious advertising and successful merchandising. 1 T , i : Bright Spots Ahead : ; There, are some bright spots ahead' in. the loganberry industry The canners during the past sea son took all the first class logan berries that were offered, and the demands of the consuming public for canned loganberries are grad itally increasing. This increasing outlet alone will justify keeping up air the yards that will produce large tonnages per acre. ,, -'Then the juice and jelly and Jam outlets are looking better and better now. !"AU in all, the outlook is very fair. The industry had to get much worse, up to this year, be forest could get much betteri ' Now it is about down to rock bottom, and there will likely be steady progress and it is to be hoped lasting stability and steady growth along the right lines. New heavy producing districts. ' If pro duction of these fruits is failing permanently and new plantings becomes necessary it will have an Immediate beneficial effect oh, the loganberry market and will great ly assist to stabilize loganberry products. ii y.j.Ai't'i , - We can hardly hope that evap orated loganberries will have more than a limited market, and we cannot expect them to take any very large Volume of fresh fruit. :. ? We must have all these out lets and we must encourage the distribution ot this fruit through all of them. S? j ' f Furthermore 'no! possible new outlet ot distributions should be overlooked, and above all we must encourage and have as the foun dation of the loganberry - indus try a thoroughly; wjll established juice business." ' " ir lias Boon Working Constantly So much for the situation as it was last year,! and in which it has not changed since then. But Mr. Gile and : his associates have not been Idle. SThey have been working constantly.; They have found many discouragements, but there are now -some lights break ing. They are getting some "toe holds," in markets for unsweeten ed juice. "'.They! have been both pleased and surprised at the re turn orders from some of the Lgreate3t concerns in the United States. ' i . The housewives - all over the United States are using vast quantities of a . brand of pectin that is sold under the trade name of "Certo " They are taking a great deal of this i"Certo" from H. S. Gile, One of the Best Posted and Most Widely Ex- th Rtrers ?JJea8t"dS180 penenced Men of All Who are or Have Been Engaged Vo7 Tor in me various Brancnes or me Logannerry inausiry, ueiiy -jeii.-. pectin is what makes Certo" is Just from the peel AGAHJ. WHAT CAN BE SAID OF THE FUTURE OF THE LOGANBERRY INDUSTRY? Gives Some Words of Warning and a Few Words of 3ellf, 3ell and4 Encouragement , i. (H. S. Gile'said he was too busy to talk to the Slogan editor yes terday on the loganberry indus try, but the Slogan' man was! in sistent in intruding upon the time of such a busy man. and so Mr. Gile said some things, between answering the phone and dictating letters, .that are worth reading, by! every one in any way interest ed in the Industry, or in the wel fare of the Salem district. The interview with Mr. Gile publish ed! in the Slogan Issue of 1923 was read to him, and he said the following quoted paragraphs are as true now as they were then:) "The grower' of loganberries must look back to the years of 10 and 13 cent prices to locate the trouble which has this year been so serious to all loganberry grow ers. :, "It was ' that period ;of high prices which killed the promising jam and Jelly business, and de livered a staggering blow to the rapidly growing infant juice In dustry thei thing which more than any other miet be fostered if the growing of loganberries Is to ever have, a solid foundation, . No doubt a lot ot plantings will be destroyed this j season many of them should be--but where a person! has a vineyard which gets him two or more tons to the acre, he Should think sev eral times before he digs them out. We must also brar in mind that marketing conditions in all dried and canned fruit lines has been bad during all of 1923, and loganberries have suffered no more than some of the more standard varieties. "Loganberries cither' canned or to-' 1 v! It '- i i f A.? v",-' 1 'f- " ''.Vi-.V--'' "USE JK 1! 7 -m mrmm lOl Jir : ' 'I a I i - 4 v Harvesting Loganberries in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. It is in this coast section of the Pacific Nortfiwes t that ' th Loganberry has attained the greatest, size and annual yields. In time its superior quality and excellence will be recognized and a market created for jt which will make it one of the big! pfpfitable crops of western pregon and Washington, for all time. I t I WORDS WITH THE Ings of .apples, mostly. It is the same chemical t material that makes' the flbe adhere to the shlve or woody , inside part' of the flax straw, and ! which has to be retted, or rotted loose. , Mr. Gile" and his associates have been working on a! jelly problem for the manufacturing of logan berry jelly. They know they have It solved, with a jtolxture of pec tin. "They can and do make, , with the combination) they have, the most delicious jelly ever put on the table. . But jtheyThave not yet solved the marketing , problems. They are working on these, haw ever. They ; believe" th at there i& a way to put tnis jeiiy iaea oe fore the consumers of the' United States In a way that will take them almostf by storm, and keep them permanently;; and they; are searching for the way. t Cold Pack process .Good. Mr. Gile says the cold pack pro cess for marketing loganberries 1b BARK OFF THESE j i t Paul Wilslow, Successful berry Grower, Talks Out in Meeting ' Editor Statesman: ' In reply to your letter as to my opinion about loganberries No, I do not think', the ;iogan berry market is dead.! It is sim ply following one of the basic laws of nature, the survival of the fit test. The trade demands quality fruit 'in berries and everything else, and the grower : who ' can grow only, one to1 two tons per acre had better close up shop. There are too many others whd also cooxl . Frosen berries are good for: jams and jellies, and they are" good for thef pie traded that' might be developed to great proportions. ; 1 " ' Mr, Gile is not wedded to any one way for the disposition of the loganberry crop, and for lncreas ine the acreage and yield; He thinks very possible , avenue ought to be studied and develop ed; but he believes there can be no such a gigantic industry . built up here as was dreamed of a few years ago .without the juice part of it being fully- exploited and 'months. If we had put our pro- firmly established. v .fits of 1919-20 into an organiza- capgrow four... His little berries, arp not-quality fruit, either.- A four tore crop will cost about 3 cehts a pound, is my experience and the grower who can't raise at least 3Vi tons had better hook up old Dobbin and go down the,. row.! 'Competition is too keen. - - : Another thing anout a quality. Both in berries and prunes. They arp picked by the .box and sold by the pound, so it s anything to fill up. Ripe, greeny rotten and all. Stjiff their liogs wouldn't eat go to', the cannery, and expect them to build up a trade with it. It can't be done. . . . . '"' Then, one the other hand, the canners want, as they say, "firm, red berries." In other words. "green. , A loganberry in that state is-about the poorest thing I know j . . . . - . or; ask any logger now popular canned loganberries are in the cmps. ; The Canners say the ripe berries do not hold their shape in the cans, but as 90 of them 'are uaed ' in' pies, what, in heck, ; has the shape to do with it? We don't use bur finger3. About Organization INow, we hear so much about or ganization. ' That Is like calling the doctor after;- the patient , is dead. We struck some rough seas, these last four years, and we are now on the rock's. We can't wait a lyear for our money. We have to turn our crops into money ,at whatever we can get. Our credi tors won't wait a year or even six tion Instead of Hudson' cars,, wo wouldn't need to holler! now. A merchant can change his line ot business in 30 days, but ft takes a fruit grower from one 1 to five years. i - : It is undisputed, 'that 'some of the plantings must come out. How much we do know. It maybe 25 or .maybe 50. Enough, anyway until the demand is equal to or greater than the supply. "So. the grower who cannot grow tHe ton nage and the highest quality fruit had better get Out of the game, because competition will get him. .. PAUL WIXSIXJW. Salem, Oregon, Rt. 7, Sept., 29, 1924, .! . ' j Box 127 Butler Denies Action -, Taken in Calif err.: NEW YORK. Sept. 29. Wi Ham M. Butler, republican natlor al " chairman, who . reached Ne York today from -Chicago, issue a statement in which it is allege that' his party had no hand I pressing the case which results in the ruling of the CaliforL supreme court refusing the L Follette electors a place on tl ballot as independents. 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