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We are now paying over three
quarters of a million dollars a year
: to the dairymen of : this section
for milk,, -
"Marion Butter"!
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More Cows' and Better Cows
is the crying need
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FOUR LKLLIOrJ STRAWBERRY PLANTS v
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Starting in a Small Way, Working Together Since 1908,
1 . Weeks & Pearmine Have Developed a Large Business,
and They are Branching Out and Preparing for Much
' Greater Things Fine New
Weeks & : Pearmine, Salem,
Route 8, hare orders for four mil
lion strawberry plants for this
4 .season's delivery. They ' will : he
able to fill only half their orders.
They had expected three million
plants from their contracted plant
ings, but the long dry spell of last
spring and summer cut them
! down. The only thing that saved
them from more damage from the
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Bread
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And Years
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drought was the! fact that plant
ing was early .
; Two .Cars December First
j They will soon begin shipping.
Two cars of strawberry plants will
be started to California, Dec. 1.
Weeks &. Pearmine do not grow
any plants themselves now. They
have growers all over Marion coun
ty who contract to deliver plants to
them. This year they had 22
growers under contract, with 40
acres of plants, j Most of their
growers are in the Silver Falls dis
trict.,. I i- '
. Fine New Warehouse
A new warehouse is being built
on the Portland road north of the
state fair grounds, for Weeks &
Pearmine. It is the property of
11. A. Hyde &. Co., Watsonville.
Cal., and Portland, Oregon. Weeks
i to Pearmbie will be their local
managers and supply tnem wun
strawberry plants. In j addition,
peed potatoes, i growers ; supplies
and general nursery stock will be
carried.- ' ' I ; f
Fifteen to" 20 women will be
employed in the warehouse In
packing. !
Who They Are
The members i of the firm of
Weeks & Pearmine are W. H.
Weeks tond Dester 1. Pearmine.
They are Salem boys, j They live
on the paved River road Just at
the northern edge of Salem.'
These young men began their
operations in a I very small way
back in 1908. and they have been
increasing their 'output and aaa
ing to their lines ever since
And they are by no means
through 'making j Improvements
and additions-' They will grow
more strawberry; plants, and other
plants; in 1925 than they have
produced this year, and they will
make improvements .of various
kin&3. and keep on making them
and extending their business inde
finitely. If they are ; not now
the largest strawberry and bush
berry plant growers on this coast.
their ambitions 'are to reach tne
top. In both volume and service.
The Varieties They Grow
They grow principally the Mar
shall, New Oregon, Magoon and
Nick Ohmer strawberry 7 plants;
the latter beng called the Calif
ornia shipping berry, though the
growers of that state use other
varieties besides for shipping. The
great bulk of the strawberry
plants produced by Weeks &
Pearmine go to the California
growers, though they also supply
Ettersburg f 21 j plants and other
Varieties to ithe local trade -to
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
growers, and they keep a few spe
cialties like everbearers.
;These men have aLso added all
the bush berries to their lines.
Thev suDDly nlantings of loganber
ries, phenomenal berries, black
berries, raspberries, dewberries,
gooseberries, currant3, - etc. in
short, a complete line of bush
fruits. -
2,000,000 Asparagus Plants
Last year they supplied 2.000,
000 asparagus plants, grown on 18
acres of land here, to the Califor
nia trade, on contract, i These as
paragus plants ; went to the delta
section of the Sacrameno valley.
, where asparagus canning Is a great
industry.
! Riehr, Strawberry for Va
In a talk with him last year the
Slogan editor asked W. H, Weeks
what strawberrr , varieties he
would recommend for the Salem
o Showieg Salem District Peopfe ftlie Adyaimiages
' audi Oppoirtenities of
Up Your Home Town Is to
Your Home People
This campaign of pubKcity Has been made
possible by the adverements placed on these pages by bur public
spirited business j men men whose imtiring efforts have builded our
present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater a
yet greater progress as the years go
district. As the reader has m
doubt gathered, or already know;
that is an important question here
in the Salem district; and . Mr.
Weeks hesitated; naturally, ,
But he said this:
The Marshall and the New Ore
gon for the barreling trade, which
is increasing. f
He said the Ettersburg 121 is
the ideal berry for canning. ' But
it cornea late, at a time when in
most years the moisture runs out.
Irrigation to help over this period
in such years would be the thing.
He said that it growers cannot
irrigate, they must fall back on
the varieties they can successfully
grow. ;: !-
He said it was his opinion that
irrigation .will become general
here. In their plant growing.
Weeks V Pearmine have employ
ed irrigation. They believe this
is the only safe system They
hope to get their growers to use it.
But as they do not plant two
years on the same land, thus
avoiding plant diseases, this ' is
rather a difficult and sMwpro
cess. . . T;
Matter of Fair Price
Mr. Weeks remarked that the
matter of the production of a great
tonnage of strawberries in the Sa
lem district is one of a fair price
to the growers that the growers
will produce the berries, and of
the right qualities, it they can be
assured of enumerative prices.
He said their shipments cf
plants this year will be largely in
car lots; and they will ship some
by steamer. Many small ship
ments, of course, will have to go
by express.
The ( California strawberry
growers are coming more largely
to the using of Oregon grown
plants. They find that they; can
pick a year or two years longer
from the plants they secure from
this section, and this is a big Item,
in the extensive plantations o5
that state.
The conspicuous success , of
these two Salem boys with a vis
ion goes to prove, if the fact need
ed further proof, that the big op
portunities are not all gone. They
are thick." They are especially nu
merous in this land of diversity,
this country of opportunity
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TOTMllMS
FOR TWO BIG DAYS
The Western kut Growers; as
sociation will meet In Newberg,
December 11 and 12, says C. E.
Schuster, assistant horticulturist
for the Oregon Agricultural col
lege experiment station. 1 :
The culture and marketing; of
walnuts will be stressed this year.
Culture will be considered t;from
the standpoint of beginners,!) with
many instructive ; talks by ;s men
who have made a success of the
walnut industry. Dealers will al
so tell what the market demands
and what takes the high prices.
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Amateur Actors Prepare
To Invade Real Theaters
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LOXDDON, Oct. 7 (AP)-j-L.on-don's
20.000 amateur actors will
try this winter to get .into the
nrofessional class. The 300 so
cieties to which the amateurs be
lonsr have banded together and
rented a West End theater where
they will stage the best they can
prodnce. i l
They will open the "season
about the first week in November
with a eala performance organized
by many different societies. Aft
erwards the societies will each
take over the theater for a week
and. should any of the produc
tions prove popular; arrangements
will be made to produce them at
another theater. . ;
It sometimes takes a lot of fic
t!on to explain the truth. ;
and Its Cities and Towns
Pep.and Progress Campaign
THERE IS RENEWED
11
HE SHBERi IKTRY K
Prof. Schuster Says Strawberries as a Steady Crop Year
in and Year Out, of a Limited Acreage for Any One
Person, Seem to Be a Very Good Crop for This Valley
Some Valuable Pointers From an Expert
Editor Statesman:
In strawberries we find special
ization or adaptation entering in
to a very large degree, especially
with the strawberry varieties them
selves. - By this we mean that
with no one variety have we yet
found that it has been developed
as a general "purpose variety in all
section, or that it is profitable in
all sections.
Strawberry varieties seem 'to
have various local adaptations in
that one variety Is often of value
in a very limited area only. We
findlhat.even in the Willamette
valley, varieties will varV from
profitable returns to entirely un
profitable returns within a short
distance. One district may be en
tirely suited with a certain variety
while another distrlctjrlll find it
entirely unsuitable. Just because
a variety is highly prized In the
eastern part oftJhe United States, ia
no Indication that it will be suc
cessful in 'western Oregon, or be
cause a variety Is successful in
western Oregon, that it will be of
use in the eastern part of the
state. As an illustration of that,
we have on the station grounds at
the present time, a variety that Is
very highly prized in the easteth
part of the United States" by those
who have been able to obtain it
for its canning qualities. , It Js
reputed by federal and state au
thorities in the eastern states, to
be the most successful canning
berry yet developed. However, in
our test gardens here with a few
fruits that matured last season.
we found ittb be a light colored
berry, with a hollow center, not at
all desirable from the canning
standpoint. .
!.lioeally levelooed Best
Whtiii a Ktudv is made of the
varieties now in use in this section
we find that those developed lo
cally' axe in most cases the best
ones. . Some Introductions are De-
ing used, but these are not gener
ally satisfactory. Without ques
tion, solution lies in obtaining io
cal seedling of superior merit. For
the Willamette valley. It will Invs
to be a variety bearing heavily, of
medium size to large berry, ana
of a superior canning quality.
When this is developed, then we
can properly expect the strawberry
industry to develop still more rap
irllv1, this country.
.With' the question of use3 or
adaptations of a" variety to a par
ticular market, comes still more
specialization Sbme varieties are
particularly valuable for one mar
ket or use," while another ( might
be entirely unsuited to It, but still
valuable fdr'something else. ''-
For instance, the ; Clark Seed
ling Is the best berry that-Hood
River valley can grow for the sha
ping trade. This berry seems par
ticularly well adapted for that
business, and as yet no other var
iety has been found to surplant it
However, under our Willamette
valley conditions, where, shipping
of the berries Is a very minor In
dustry, the Clark Seedling has lit
tle or no place. The berry" itself
is very good for canning, but, from
the grower's : standpoint, the va
iety is, unsuitable, due to;its no
toriously light bearing. Contrast
ed to that, we have the Oregon, or
New Oregon, which will bear ve:y
well, with production'of large ber
ries, but a berry too- soft for an
ideal canning berry, and therefore
seldom used except in occasional
seasons.' The berry is too soft for
distance shipping, so that it can
be. used satisfactorily only in tha
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Their Owii Gditotary1 :
The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries
Is to Support Those You Have
IHSTiW
local . fresh trade. Thi3 berry
makes an unusually fine berry for
this trade and also for the home
garden. ' ; .
The Ettersburg 121 is Just
about the ideal berry according o
the canners for the canning trade.
In some cases it has given entire
satisfaction to the grower with the
heavy yield, and in other cases hai
been entirely unsatisfactory. This
berry was developed in the higher
foothills of t western . Humboldt
county of California, within a few
miles of the ocean, and in a rela
tively light soil. Albert S. Etters,
who developed this berry, claims
this land is not a rich soil, and
thus the Ettersburg 121 shourtl
not be planted on the richer heav
ier lands. In many cases, it seems
as though the Ettersburg 121 is
particularly susceptible to exces
sive vegetative growth, with light
yield of a poor quality berry,
where the nitrogen content . in tne
soil is a little above the average.
The Marshall comes near being
our general purpose variety whe.-e
it is successful, but it is one of
those varieties that is very partic
ular as' to soil and general conair
tions. ..- It makes a very good fresh
trade berry, and , is used by sorne
canners. The Wilson is one mat
can be listed as a pioneer straw
berry, as it demands soil of high
fertility, and -succeeds best' on
the newly cleared land. There
fore this variety will hardly be
found, adapted to the average
farmland." The Cold Dollar, be
ing the early strawberry, with rel
atively light production, has only
that limited use. It could hardly
be listed as a variety for anythin?
else but the one trade, and that is
the early fresh trade. So in sur
veying thevarieties we find that
they have their own peculiar adap
tations, both as to locality and as
to uses, and the prospective grow
er should naturally make a care
ful study of the adjoining markets
available, and then choose the var
ieties best adapted for those mar
kets. Many other varieties might
be cited as to their peculiar uses
and adaptations, but these; listed
are the commonest examples we
have. . L
Grows In -Many Places
In a general way, th straw
berry js not so particular as to the
exact type of soil on which it is
put. Strawberries will live and
grow on soils where other fruits
will not live. Especially will they
live on soil where the water table
may be too high for other fruits.
With their .shallow root systems
they ; are not so easily affected.
This allows of a more general use
of the strawberry for the home
garden than possibly any oth-i?r
fruit.
At the same time, the commer
cial production In this valley will
naturally be limited to those plac
es and those soils where produc
tion is the heaviest.. Thiswill be
on the fertile, deep, well drained
soils, usually of a sandy loam type.
However. we find that many plant
ings of 'strawberries in the foot
hills are producing very fine
strawberries 1 with very good
yields. It does not seem to be so
much the - question of the exact
type of soil, as it does to the fer
tititr and the ability of . the . soil
to hold moisture throughout the
late part of the fruiting season,
"fertility ia the soil should be
at a good, level before the. plants
are planted. With the strawber
ries, there, will be little opportun-
1 . . - . i 1 m .lit... , I, A
itv io increase tauuur i u
planting'ms it remains in the
ground tor such a short time. For
this reas"oi, the land should be lo
cated some time in advance, and a
program At cultivation jand fertili
zation inaugurated that, will bring
the soil to the best fertility possi
ble before r planting occurs. , For
this purpose, it has been, found
vajuabto by growers to plow under
a heavy green manure crop a year
Or two before the strawberries are
planted. With sod, especially clo
ver sod, it should be in a cultivat
ed, crop two years before the
strawberries are planted, due io
the''7 grubs that are in the soil.
Get Them In Early
One thing, in establishing a
strawberry planting which seem
ingly cannot be emphasized too
much, is the necessity of getting in
the plants early in the. spring or
the late winter. Fall planting is
hardly desirable, due to the weed
growth that will develop through
the winter, necessitating an extra
amount of hand work in the
spring which is doubtful, dne jto
its cost. ; However, late winter
planting or early spring planting
is especially desirable in giving
the plants' a chance to establish
themselves before the dry weather
comes pn. If we have the roots
well developed, the plants will da-
velop thriftily throughout the
summer, giving a large, healthy
plant for the first year's full crop
Another reason has been par
ticularly brought to notice from
the experience of some planters
and growers of this, past season.
With a soil that would hold mois
ture well throughout the summer.
the planting was delayed until
very late. The plants were pro
cured from an old patch which
was heavily infested with the
crown borer. Apparently, the
adults were out laying eggs before
the plants were, taken up, with the
result that the eggs were laid on a
large part of the young plants.
The new plants at the time of
planting were badly infested, and
for the first season, a loss of over
50 per cent was incurred. The
plants brought from (a field free
from infestation, although taken
at (be same time, showed practi
cally no infestation of the crown
borer. This- could bej taken la
two ways; first, as an I argument
for early planting, and second, as
an argument to get the plants
from the best fields known where
the fewest insects ana diseases are
present. , '
Thorough Cultivation Pays
Thorough cultivation and keep
ing down the runners will pay
well the first season. Any plant
growth ' expended ,'fn runners by
the young plants, which will later
have to be taken off, mean that
much of a depletion of the plant
food supply in maintaining . the
large hill. It is reputed that the
Ettersburg 121 is especially sus
ceptible to the effect of allowing
runners to develop throughout the
summer, tms variety is especial
ly prone to develop runners, and
needs an extra amount of work to
keep them down, but apparently
it pays well in the following crop.
-i Irrigation Is. Needed
For the past few years, the
strawberry crop has very Often
been cut short for lack of mois
ture in the soil during the latter
part of the fruiting season. In
some cases, it has been a case of
lack ff careful cultivation. In
other -casesjB it has been entirely
due to the inability of ,the soil to
hold moisture enough for the lat
ter Part of the season
seem possible that where a grower
is so situated that irrigation can
be put to the strawberries, at a
lowjnltial cost, that It. would pay
handsomely' in ' developing large
size berries at the end of jthe sea
son. The-crop In, this district 13
not what It could be if the later
berries were developed to the nor
mal size. Without doubt, this val
ley is going to see MORE AND
MORE .use made of Irrigation, es
pecially with the small fruits,
where the response is so rapid and
so heavy.
In the few nlantlnss where thedelivered to their slants. I ship
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Why suffer with Stomach Trouble when Chiropractic will
. Remove the Cause
Hours: 10 to 12 a.
Everbearing strawberries are be
ing used, irrigation is' almost es
sential; except in a verbr" few" fav
ored soils. These berries must' be
kept growing vigorously through
out the summer; and unless mois
ture Js available? the growth - ia
not satisfactory. Theses berrijs
will fruit . very . well t until frost
comes in the fall. Apparently,
though, there is but a limited mar
ket for this type of fruit as the
prices being received by those
growers handling them are not
such that would induce a targe
number of growers to plant them.
If the relatively small acreage at
the present time does not make
gi eater returns than is evident
from the way the berries sell on
the market, it will hardly be an
industry .for a- large number of
people. j
Renewed Interest Now ; ,
The strawberry Industry is one
in which the people can set up or
can establish plantings in a rela
tively short time. This, was evi
dent by the heavy rush to plant f t
ft he time of high prices immediate
ly after the war. Following that,
came a depression, in which large
lEJOHBJRIKSinTOTIIE
ETTERSBURG 121 in ITS QUALITY
And This New Variety Promises to Bear Well Under Con.
ditions Not Favorable to the Ettersburg There Will
Probably Be 100,000 Pants of the New Variety Avail
able for the,Coming Season's Planting It Cans and
Preserves Well
Editor Statesman: . . V ';
I will try to-give you some, of
my ideas of the strawberry grow
ing industry.' ; In the first place,
when one is thinking of planting
strawberries he ought to try to
find out the best varieties for can
ning and preserving, as it wlll. not
pay o ,'grow a very large acreage
for shipping to be used fresh at
present.- There . are only two
varieties grown;1: to any. great ex
tent that are suitable for canning,
These, are the Trebla and Etters
burg, No. 121. i. . ,. . ;
, At, It 18 Years
I have been growing from one
to 10 or 12 acres for the last 18
years. I am continually trying out
new varieties that look at all
promising for a canning or preser
ving berry. I have discarded the
Trebla because they have to be
picked too often, and. won't stand
up long after being picked. How
ever, they are a wonderfully heavy
producer, but I think I am safe in
saying that inside of four years
the canners will not take them. I
don't think they would buy them
now if they could get berries with
the quality of the Ettersburg No.
121. This is supposed to be the
best canning strawberry on the
market today.
, Growing Johnson Berries
T am still growing a few acres
of them. . I am growing more
acres of a new variety we call the
Johnson. I believe this -to be the
best berry to grow. I have been
growing them for two years. They
produced big f crops both years.
Last year they; ou,t yielded any
kind I had, after growing a big
crop of plants i from them. , They
ft irff wI So several days without pick
It would I. . i . t.
ing. Xjan. year w iucw tu u"
week between pickings and , they
were in , good shape. The plants
grow very vigorous- and .will live
a long time. ; Mr. Johnson: tells
me he has the first, plant he set
eight years ago, and last year it
produced a big crop. The vitality
of a plant, is to be considered.
Husks Stay on Vines
Another good point about, them
is that fully a; third of the husk
stays on the vine, making its very
easy for the'eanners to take care
of a large amount of them when
Effort:
At all times to assist In
any possible way the devel
opment of the xrnit and
berry Industries in thia val
ley. Oregon
Packing
I Your Health Begins When
You Phone 87
For An Appointment
DR. O. L. SCOTT
P. S. C. Chiropractor '
Ray Laboratory 414 to 410 U. S. National
. Rank Bulldlns
m. and 2 to O p. m.
numbers of plantings ' were de
stroyed: Since then the prices
have not-been any too favorab.'e
until the,past3;a,Qji. 'Apparently,
from the Inquiries being made,
there will-be--renewed interest in,
strawberry' gtowtfi3Sr--rw1th - the;
canning? pack cleaned up as it,wa?.
there 11 probably be fafrf prlcr.4
another season, with renewed in
terest by many people in straw
berries, and with an increased
planting. Those people who hav
maintained their patches througii
the periods of years, holding
strawberries as a regular crop,
will undoubtedly have good re
turns. But the people rushing in
for a short time, then out again,
are usually the ones losing the
money,' Strawberries are a steady
crop year in and year out, of a
limited acreage for any one per
son, seem to be a very good crop
for this valley.
C. E. SCHUSTER.
Corvallis, Ore., Nov. 12, 1321.
(Mr. Schuster is associate pro
fessor of pomology at the Oregon
Agricultural college, and he is one
of the best authorities we have la
the whole country on the straw-
berry industry. Ed.)
ped J. O. Holt of the Eugene
Fruit Growers association some
of these Johnson berries. He
canned them and sent me a few
sample cans. He said he thought
I would find them to be a good
canned berry, and it they produced
well, and, can up consistently, as
those which I shipped, they ought
to he a money maker. He wants
to get . some plants placed with
his growers to.. try out .in their
ground,. . .(f , ; '. (
. Will Have 100,000 Plants
'I will"; have 'peThaps 100,000
plants for sale this year; Have a
good many thousand spoken for
at present. If the canners will
buy them I think they are the best
berry to grow that I know of. The
Ettersburg No. 121 is the best so
far, and the Johnson is a close sec
ond. Conditions" have to be Just
right to get a crop of Ettersburg
No. 121, while with the Johnson
I think we will get a good crop
any year under normal conditions.
Prof.-Wiegand of Oregon Agricul
tural college came to my place
last June and got a crateof these
Johnson berries and preserved
them. I also Bent him some sam
ple cans. He" pronounced them
good for canning and preserving
and ' said they ranked very close
to the Ettersburg No. 121.
Following is the letter he wrote
me: ; i '
Prof, Wit Rand's Letter
"Oregon Agricultural college,
School of Agriculture and Experi
ment Station, Corvallis, Nov. 9,
1924:
"Mr. E. M. Bailey, Salem. Ore
gon My dear . Mr. Bailey: We,
have examined, samples, of the
Johnson strawberry you sent us
for examination. This berry as a
canned berry ranks very close to
the Ettersburg 121. Its firmness,
uniformity, flavor and size are the
outstanding features. The color
characteristic is similar , to the
Ettersburg and is not quite as pro
nounced after canning as some
other berries. The'solid center is
characteristic of the Ettersburg,
and a feature , which strawberry
growers should Btrive for.
"'From the peservlng standpoint
they have exceptional value.. They
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