TIIE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY -MORNING, OCTOBER SO, 1924
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EY
MDI1T WITH PROMISE 15 FILBERT :
IBM IN THE
N. E. Britt of Newberg, a Grower of Nuts and Trees With
Experience Lasting Over a Number of Years, Is Con
vinced of the Bright Future of Filbert Growing Here
Gives His Reasons
: Editor Statesman: .
Yours of recent date 'asking
for Information on filberts at
band. So many have written and
Tisited me for information about
filberts that I had a leaflet print
ed; a copy of which I enclose.
Observation and experience since
then fully confirms all that was
then said, and I am thoroughly
convinced a - filbert orchard in
- the Pacific Northwest is ' radiant
with promise."
i i N. E. BRITT.
Newberg, Or., Oct. 23, 1924.
(Following .. is the circular
which Mr. Britt mentions:)
The Filbert Orchards as an
" i ! Invest men t
' Any property is always worth
and usually ; salable at whatever
gum it will return 8 per cent on.
With this in view, let us con
sider an acre planted to filbert
trees twenty feet apart.! six years!
after planting. Let us assume
the cost to be $300, made .up
about as ! follows: Cost of land
200; 108 trees. $54; preparing
land and setting trees $46; in
terest on money and cost of car
ing for trees six years not con
sidered, as j corn, beans, berries
' or other hoed crops between
trees will take care of these two
Items. ! Do not plant potatoes or
other root crops as they are
likely to bring in gophers or oth-
. or rodents. ! ' : M
What May be Kxpoctcd at End
of Sixth Year
Data as to yield of nuts at
different ages is quite scarce. In
an address before the Oregon
Horticultural society, Mr. George
A. Dorr la of Springfield, Oregon;
said: "I have endeavored to keep
an accurate account of the va
rious trees of different ages with
the following results ,foril914:
Four year old trees averaged
four pounds per tree; six. year
old trees averaged ten -pound?
- per tree; eight- year old trees
averaged twenty -: pounds per
tree; Individual trees did better
It should be borne in mind that
Mr. Dorris's trees are on excep
tlonally good land, being an al
luvial ' deposit caused by over
flow of river.
Filbert trees have not near
reached their growth at eight
years of age. I have trees about
! fifteen years old ' that are still
'growing and are , how producing
more than twice as many nuts as
a Ready
Market jSt-
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Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman
(In Twice-a-Wcek Statesman Following Day)
(With a few possible changes.)
Loganberries. October 2, ; - j 1
Prunes, October 9.
Dairying, October 16. !
Flax, October 23. i 1
Filberts, October 30. i
Walnuts, November 6.
Strawberries, November 13.
Apples. November 20.
Raspberries, November 27.
Mint, December 4.
Great cows, etc., December 11
Blackberries, December 18.
Cherries, December 25.
' Pears, January li 1925.
Gooseberries, January 8. , '
Corn, January 15.
Celery, January 22. j
Spinach, etc., January 29.1
Onfons, etc., February 5.1
Potatoes, etc., February 12.
1 Bees, February 19.
Poultry and pet stock, Feb. 26.
Goats, March 5.
! Beans, etc., March 12. :
Paved highways, , March 19.
Broccoli, etc., March 26.
Silos, etc.; April 2.
Legumes, April ( 9. '
, Asparagus, etc., April 16
Grapes, etc., April 23. j
PACKING CO. I
PUCIFIC IBWJEST
they did at eight years of age.
Last year produced at rate of
2350 pounds per acre. From my
own experience and observations
of others; I am confident that we
can 1 produce i a ton to the acre
from trees twelve to fifteen years
of age. Much heavier yields are
already being produced here.
Some' 'Characteristic f ' the
"No danger of injury from frost
in spring as they bloom in De
cember and f are immune from
frost. No fear may be entertained
from rains j in the fall as they
may be exposed to the weather
all winter with little if any dam
age. Barcelona and f DuChllle
nearly all, drop clear from the
husks about! October first and
these I consider the best varie
ties to plant. Filbert trees ap
pear to be practically free from
disease or pests. Should any dis
ease or pest appear it could be
easily controlled as the trees are
small and easily reached by spray
or other means.
Overproduction need not wor
ry the grower of filberts. United
States reports as given in gov
ernment year book of 1918 gives
tbe importation of filberts from
foreign countries . at shelled 3.-
279,807 pounds, unshelled 17.-
366,979 pounds; total 20.646,-
786 pounds.! !
Cost of trees varies. Nurseries
charged last year from 75c to $1
per tree. I and other growers
have been selling ; equally good
trees at forty and fifty cents for
the last two years and I expect
to have a number for sale this
fall and next spring. ' ' . ; i
Filberts are Long Lived Tree
A friend 'of mine who visited
England' tells me he was shown
filbert trees known to be 150
years old and might be older,
still vigorous and producing hea
vy crops. From, all information
I, am able to obtain, the Pacific
Northwest is unsurpassed and I
doubt If equalled for yield and
quality of filberts. Prices have
been a little lower than walnuts
but I am Inclined to think when
enough are; raised to attract buy
ers, they will sell as high as
walnuts, as many prefer them to
walnuts. j ' "
In view of the above facts it
seems to me a filbert orchard in
the Pacific: Northwest is radiant
with promise.
! I N. E. BRITT.
Newberg, Oregon, July 22, 1922.
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Water powers. May 14.
Irrigation, May 21.
Mining, May 28. j j
Land, irrigation, etc., June 4.
Dehydration, June 11.
Hops, cabbage, etc., June 18.
Wholesaling and jobbing.
June 25. . ;
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Hogs, July 9.
City beautiful, etc., July 16.
Schools, etc., July 23. , j
Sheep, July 30.
National advertising, Aug. 6.
Seeds, etc., August 13.
Livestock, August 20.
Grain and grain products,
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Manufacturing, September 3. j
Automotive Industries, Septem
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Woodworking, etc., Sept. 17.
Paper mills, etc, Sept. 24.
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S. Inspected
FILBERTS TOUGH :
ITS, DIE IBB
Make a Hardy Tree, But
Need Care,, and They !
Have Great Future j :
Editor Statesmna: :
Every section of the country is
adapted to some special things in
the way of agriculture or horti
culture, so I think your boosting
of filberts for the Willamette val
ley is a good thing. According
to horticultural authorities, the
Willamette valley- seems better
adapted to tho growing of this
valuable nut than most any other
portion of the United States. This
does not mean that filberts will
not grow in the east or south, but
that the western Oregon climate
is especially favorable to their cul
ture. !
' Pennsylvania is famous for its
chestnuts, Texas and the south
for pecans, California and Oregon
for English, or Persian, walnuts.
If the filbert Industry grows as it
is believed it will grow, Oregon
will Boon be Justly famous for a
large tonnage of this delicious
nut, and with a quality far super
ior than obtained elsewhere. And
the industry is growing; new
plantings are made each year.
Vast Market Opening j j
It Is a safe! prediction, "because
of evidence now in hand, that
where once were loganberry patch
es and fields of grain there will
soon be bearing filbert groves
This is because of a growing real
ization of the importance of the
nut industry. In past years, men
of foresight and vision turned
their grain fields into orchards
and jberry patches and reaped a
rich reward. Chemists in the great
food laboratories are testing nuts
more than I ever before for their
food value and they are! finding
undreamed of possibilities In their
various uses. This fact alone Is
opening up vast markets for both
walnuts and filberts, i
Filberts are. comparatively new
as an important food factor, ; but
the fact that they are not a per
ishable crop makes them invalua
ble for distance shipments. The
nuts keep well and because of
their high nutritive quality fare
finding more favor every year, not
only in the dainty confections
which thev adorn but from the
housewife in preparing substantial
things to eat. Yet, filberts are
old as the hills, and they are often
spoken of in historic annals, j .
Kasy to Care for
Compared with other kinds of
fruit, filberts are Quite easy to
care for. Apples must be sprayed
many times during the year to
keep the crop from being ravaged
by insects; prunes and berries and
walnuts-must be sprayed, ) but
thero is practically none of this
labor connected with filbert grow
ing. It is true the Daviana vari
ety requires an application of
spray in the spring to control a
bud mite, but this labor factor is
negligible, as the average grove
contains only a sprinkling of
these trees. : i '',
Filberts are hardy and they re
sist frost. Compared with other
fruit trees, they are slow growers
and sometimes hard to start; but,
once started, they are r said ! to
flourish for as long as a hundred
and fifty years. So planting a
filbert grove may be quite a per
manent thing. ; , i J
From the standpoint or returns,
personally as yet I can say notu-
THE FILBERT IN1 A NUTSHELL
Salem is ithe filbert center of the United
states"!:. ; ; i: 'j. t-i-r -r'-'
It is a franchise.
The filbert cannot be grown commer
cially on this continent excepting in west
ern Oregon and Washington, and perhaps
a part of northern California.
The filbert acreage here keeps increasing--
. n .' i - - 1
And it will no doubt increase more and
more from year to year : ;' - . :
Will run into the 10,000 acre class, and
be then only started. ; j 1
The filbert is a safe crop ; it is profitable ;
it takes little capital to develop.
7 The Salem district will supply the Unit
ed States with filberts; the world with
quality filberts. ; -H . j
The father of the industry in this district
says filberts are the safest and most profit
able of all orchard crops here. ' ,
CASCADE BRAND HAMS,
Tt?m
inr. for my trees will not be in
bearing for two more years. But
as a grower of filbert trees, I find
it decidedly interesting.
I find it necessary to keep watch
constantly to keep suckers from
springing up from the roots and
taking strength: away from tne
main stem. This is a natural ha
bit of the filbert, and it neces
sary to keep cutting them off in
order to force it into tree form.
It is also necessary to keep the
crass and weeds away from the
growing whips for the be$t results.
But if some promising young tree
suddenly dies back, do not rush -in
with a shovel and dig it i, out.
Watch and wait, and generally a
new shoot will spring up when no
one is looking. Filberts are
tough nuts and they die hard. Sin
cerely, i
PERRY P. REIGELMAN.
Salem, Oregon, :' 1 r
Oct. 29, 1924. i
FROM THE COLLEGE
A Number of Items of Inter
est to People Engaged
in This Industry
; Putting all the; pullets into the
laying house at one time is not so
effective as putting an advance
guard of one-fourth the total num
ber fn first, says the OAC experi
ment station. These pullets if
placed in the house two or three
days in advance of the main flock,
will learn to use the roosts. When
the rest of the flock is put into
the house, this advance guard will
show the others how to use the
roosts. ' The Oregon station has
found that if all the flock is put
ini' at once, crowding In the cor
ners even with mature pullets is
not uncommon.!!.
Litter that is too 'deep is not
ideal for the flojck. For a house
20 by 40, three bales of straw
or 350 pounds Is sufficient. The
Oregon station has found that ex
tremely "deep litter becomes damp
and soggy and makes scratching
by the birds difficult. Using less
litter to promote exercise, and
cleaning oftener, keeps the flock
in bettdr condition.
:, The laying fowl needs an abund
ance of mineral matter. An un
limited supply! of grit, dry cut
bone, oyster shell and charcoal
before the birds at all times helps
keep production at a maximum.
The layer does not get enough
mineral from the grain part of the
ration.
Plenty of green feed Is also es
sential to high production. Some
poultrymen consider too much
green feed harmful in that birds
will not eat - enough grain for
high production if too much green
feed is" fed. The high producing
flocks at the Ort-gon station have
at all times access to unlimited
supplies of green feed.
Overfeeding Pullet?, Mistake
Overfeeding pullets just coming
Into production is a mistake to be
avoided, according to the findings
of the Oregon Agricultural college.
If the pullets have free access to
dry mash, then! the grain feed
should be divided and fed morn
ing and evening. Feeding four
pounds per 100 birds In the morn
ing and 8 pounds per 100 at even
ing, or better still, all they. will
clean up in the morning in "two
hours and enough at night to leave
a little in the Utter when they go
to roose, is about right. The busy
pullet well fed ! but not over fed
is the pullet that lays.' , . ,
POULTRY
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". SALEM, OREGON
TO BE THE TBE
Annual Meeting of the Ore
gon State. Horticultural
Society, Nov. 5-7
Marketing Oregon specialty
crops, one. of the biggest agricul
tural problems will be the special
feature of the next annual meet
ing of the Oregon State Horticul
tural society at Portland, Novem
ber 5 to 7. The sessions will be
held in the pavilion of the Pa
cific International Livestock ex
position, h.j
The meetings of this society are
the only! Ones. In which the fruit
growers, cannerymen, college spe
cialists arid market experts get
together 'to discuss the fruit Indus
try. ( The needs, plans for devel
opment and othef problems of the
fruit business are considered in a
way to unite all Interests on a
common program of betterment.
: ,The president of the association
Is C. D. Minton,' Portland, and the
secretary, Clayton L. Long, horti
cultural specialist of the Oregon
Agricultural college extension
service. ! '. - " .
Marketing is' made more diffi
cult by the fact that Oregon pro
duction of leading horticultural
crops far outruns local consume
tion, leaving large balances for
export market. - The state annual
ly produces about eight times as
many apples as it uses according
to figures assembled for the agri
cultural!) economic conference.
Pear '. production is still more in
excess of local consumption, while
the annual prune crop averages
50 times the prunes consumed lo
cally." i ' .;.; . i -The
prune surplus is enough to
supply 38 million persons' for one
year. Finding the shortest way
to the surest market is the prob
lem to be thrashed out by the so
ciety. ' f V- ,! i' i
FILBERT BROWING
A Thumb Nail Sketch of
What Fruit Inspector
Van 'Trump Finds
(S. II. Van Trump, fruit Inspec
tor for Marion county, knows fil
berts, and he knows the Salem
district. He' I3 no boomer; he
wants always: to be conservative,
but he told the Slogan editor sub-
stantially the following yester
day:) ; ,
The filbert is a crop that. is
4made to order" for our climate
conditions. , i ;
The filbert bears young, bears
large crops of high priced prod-
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DID YOU KNOW That Salem is permanently the filbert
center of the United States; that this district now grows
more filberts and has more young trees and more prospec
tive filbert growers than any other section of the country;
that this is the only district of the United States suitable .
for filbert growing, excepting parts of western Washing
tqn and northern California; that there is sure money in
filberts; that this is a crop that has a number of very im
portant advantages, and that there is vast room here for
more filbert growers, who will take none of the risks of the
pioneers in the industry; and
in the Salem district
should
time be limited only by the supply of suitable available nurs
ery stock?
ulcts, requires little special equip
ment, little spraying, no! thinning,
and. is easily harvested. There is
little danger of any severe com
petition that cannot be met toy.
ojur growers with Intelligent mar
kjeting methods. I
! While the filbert will succeed
a great variety of soils, and in
greater variety of locations than
e walnut and most tree fruits,
ypt it thrives best and yields most
pjrolifically when planted on good,
fep, rich bottom soil, providing
e soil has good air and water
ainage. it will succeed splen
didly on good deep fertile soil of
t ie second bottoms or first bench
1 tnds, and in the first range of
t ie red hills. .
Authorities differ on prompt dis
tince of planting; but most grbw
ers agree on 20 feet each way for
t ie larger growing varieties like
I arcelona..' ',
Filberts make a good walnut
f Her. !
Though cultivation is essential,
f lberts will dowell when used as
a pasture foT sheep or hogs.
Cross pollination is jnecessary.
The Barcelona is by far! the lead
ing commercial variety iln this sec
tion. It is perfectly pollinated by
the Du Chilly; and as! not more
tjhan 20 per 'cent of this variety
Ip required and as the Du Chilly
bears fairly good yields when so
used, commercial planting might
be limited to these two varieties.
The bud mite is practically the
only insect that does the crop any
Injury in this sectionj and this
pest confines its attacks mostly
to varieties that have little com
mercial promsie. we have here a
tacterial twig blight of the fil
bert which some seasons is quits
i erlous, killing back to he ground
or to the main trunk of the tree
Iie vigarous young shoots. These
lighted branches should be care
illy cut onCThis disease rarely
:tacks a bearing tree.)
There is in the east and middle
est a native fungus j -blight of
ie filbert-which has peen death
all plants, of the European fil
ert ever ' introduced I into that
;ction. ! : i
The earlier useless! plantings
ught to be grafted (over into
...arcelona and Du Chilly. This
would bring these trees into profi
table bearing. j
I The; filbert of commerce can be
(grafted onto the native hazel.
rrhis has been very successfully
done by a number of
trict growers.
Salem dis-
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Washington Is when a politician
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that the acreage in the filberts
and ho doubt will for a long
STRE
PROFITABLE FIELD
So Says J. J EJoerfler, a
Grower at Silverton, Giv
ing Some Good Advice
Editor Statesman:
Being a beginner In the grow
ing of filberts, I jshall not at
tempt details ..of "the science of
filbert culture. Upon observation
of trees growing in good soils at
all ages over ithe Willamette
valley and southwestern Wash
ington,, we find our climatic con
dition especially adaptable to the
growing of filberts.
Roles to be -Observed, -The
beginner I contemplating
planting filberts must apply sci
ence and not merely theory , un
supported by f acts. In this new
Industry- In the valley there are
many " problems yet to be ; solved :
a good many, however, have been
worked out at the present time.
It is possible forP a better com
mercial nut to be found and also
a better pollenlzer for our good
old 'Barcelona. -The first thing
to be considered is the planting
of only good tree In good soil
with the proper pollenlzer work
ed but by our experiment station
and old growers.: After this step
comes good cultivation and then
the constant removal of sucker
to prevent the forming of a
bush. This is easily done if done
In time, and soon the tree is
sucker less. The many trees grow
ing in bush form . over the coun
try could have made good trees
if taken care at the outset. .
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Salem, Oregon . -
Always in the market for
dried fruits of all kinds
Till
The filbert industry keeps on growing to
the limit of suitable available nursery ctoc!:.
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I f i Is! Paylrij? Industry,
lythere is no !4bubt that filbert
cnlture is a paying proposition.
Th work-is intensely interesting,
and! even la moderate average at
one thousand poiindsper acre at
ten to fifteen cents per pound is
profitable. - This number Is con
servative, as many old growers
average far more. It is not likely
that the growing of filberts will
be over done for many years to
come, as we are importing nuts
of an inferior quality. Our qual
ity of nuts in the Willamette
valley and. southwestern Wash
ington is unsurpassed. Organized
marketing and the education of
the public to the food value of
this nut will Increase consump
tion and thereby increasing our
profits. We can. rightfully boast
that we grow the best filberts In
the world here In the Willam
ette valley,' as well as numerous
other products.
J. J. DOERFLEIt.
Silverton, Or., Oct. 27, 1924.
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