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THE OHEGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OUEGOH GIDEON STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of j. Dependable Brand IJrae-SuIphur Solution , f The brand 7011 can impend on for purity and teat. ' Prices upon application Fiefory r rorner of 1 Summar and Milt St. 1 '" BI, Oregon. W Ara Ont After Two Million! ' ,W are bow paying over three quarter of a. million dollar year t the aairymt-a of thi, aectioM for milk. ; "Marion Butter" ' Is the Best Butter Mere Cows and Better Cows Is the crying need - MARION CREAMER - & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 24 88 West Week's Slogan Subject Is j BIG RASPBERRY INDUSTRV OUR 1 f PLE COiJSilEIIS .IE V. .The Matter of Profit in the l ti i ucuyc tAiciu upun iciiye varieties And, Too Is Growers in the Advertising, and Marketing Methods Of the Competitors of the Editor ' Statesman: ' - During the past few years, the problems of the apple industry have received much consideration, not only. In the Pacific Northwest but In most places where apples 'r are . grown or marketed In com mercial quantities. Considerable attention' has been given to the Butter - Nut Bread The Richer, Finer Loan CHERRY CITY : BAKERY .Owf iJealt, 1 !" Our Method: "Tb Bt Only" Cooperation CtyHd City Co-cperatireCreanery A non-profit orfaniiation wiie4 ntiivly by tha dairy mea. Oif us triI. , j, 1 ,, . ' , 1 f Uannfatarrr of Bntterrnp Batter "Jit you Orocar! Phon S99 'l , 137 S. Cos'I St. OKIE HEALTH OREAD Ask Your Grocer .1 ; For Years i. : ; ' - i-l' ,- . And Years - The Statesman has been supplying the wants of the critical Job printing trade --. f-. . :(-... : - Proof . positive we are printers of worth and merit. Q i Modern ' equipment . and ideas are the ones that get by. 'j ! Statesman FubKshing Company Thone 23 or S83 ' ' 215 S. Com'l St. ' SE LL I NlG SALEM DIS TRICT Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advaetag j , ;and Opportunities of The Way to Build : Patronize Selling Salem District is a Continuation of the Salem Slogan and PI ABOUT TIE i Apple Industry Depends to a I n ; t u- .,tzu riuuuouuii ui iiic myiu a Lesson j for the Apple Apple. I J study of the economics of apple growing and distribution, with the result that certain tentative con elusions may now be drawn. This article is merely a resume of some of these conclusions. j ': The leading points of this ar ticle are embodied In the recom mendations of i the economic con HEH PRODUCERS RECEIVE ference held at the college lastjtnIs method not onlyj will dispose year and joined in by leading pro- jof AAded tonnage. but; will in many ducers, investigators and exten- .sion specialists, dealers and pack-I ers, business man and flnanceers" In attendance,: In accordance with those . recommendations. unanimously adopted, the expert- mental and extension efforts of the Aiiaa a imh nn nrtnciniM tnd nollcles desiened to aid In carry-1 ing the recommendation out suc cessfully. , ; 'An averagej production of the present acreage of apples in the United States Is sufficient to meet tbe present demand. This is Indi cated by the fact that during years of heavy production, the farm va lue of the total national crop is ac tually less than In years of mod erate production, and also by the fact that during heavy crop years It is only the grower with .special advantages who makes a profit. Of course, as time goes on, plant ing to replace the ever declining acreage and to take care of In-1 creases In population will be nec- essary, but, for the present, plant ing of apple trees seems advisable only to complete an economic unit or In cases Where unusual advan tages are enioyed.' Our Important Center The Pacific Northwest, seeming- ly, is destined to continue as an I i 1 important apple producing center, j Fair profits, over a period of years, may be expected by the grower who has his orchard In a desirable location, who has the proper com- mercial varieties, who obtain large yields of quality fruit, and who is not too seriously handicapped by I excessive production costs." wnoie-1 Oregon's industry as a whole, can sale uprooting of the better apple not be made to pay j even though orchards in this section certainly I does not seem advisable at inisiless the yield In many cases can Hm ! , With this assurance, however. I one must not close his eye to the difflculties that the apple business is now facing here and elsewhere. The apple industry is beset with certain rather fundamental pro - biems which must be met or coua-1 teracted before this enterprise can be said to be on a sound foot- lnS- Crop Fluctnates Greatly Croo production figures show mt th iA nf the national annle n,itiitoa rather violently from year to year. The total crop I 1 n 1 ovomnla- -a, a a 1 A K - iiaaaa hnshou: while one year later in 1914J it was 253.200.000 iiiihiK in 1921. the total crop was 99.002.000 bushels, and for son. with the results that the trade th in mnvandinr iKsaAna it waslla demoralized at the start. .Many 202.628.000 and 212.000.000 bus - voi. ,..nn,tici. Thia nt itself constitutes an outstanding funda - mental problem of the apple Indus- past their prime. It Is not un try. Violent ; fluctuations in the common to find Delicious and Jon slze of the! crop militate against athan apples on the fruit stands orderly and systematic marketing a May and June. Is It any won over a period of years. Since the der the consumer loses his appe size of the apple crop la determin- tlte for apples and turns his atten ed primarily by climatic factors, tion to other fruits? Though the there is but little hope of remedy- problem of undesirable varieties ing this situation. - Since 1906, is more acute In the eastern apple the years of heavy national pro- districts, the Pacific Northwest, Up Your Home Town Is to Your Home People This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the j 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. duction have been 1912,, 1914, 1920. tl922.i and 1923. It takes but litti reflectiott' to remihd one mat tnese wjyioutexcepuun, nave been the,' low price years In tbe ap , pie business.' t i , j . The problem of fluctuation In the size of the apple crop is fur ther complicated by jhe fact that in tne reta" '; tptm -V16 consumer, there is bufc little varia- tion n price from year to year. The retail price of Northwest aP- lcr rZ:Z Consequently, in years of heavy production, the demand for apples does not Increase so as to take care ofxhe increased tonnage. The remedy here is j undoubtedly one of education education that tea,ch. the retai &de us prom in ycdi a ui "to , j vv tion, by handling th4 product in large quantities at lower prices. Experiments along this line with other fruits have gifen excellent results. , It has been shown that casea result in bigger profits for tbe retailer Better Yield Per Acre It la no secret among those in formed that the apple, in many cases, fails to returnj a profit be- cangB the yield per acre la too low. Figures obtainea few years ago by investigators of the United States department of ag riculture in Hood River valley, show that for those orchards wherein the yield was 150 boxes, or less per acre, the cost of pro duction was $1.57 per box, wane for the orchards that averaged 400 boxes or better, the j cost of pro duction was only 69 cents. These figures may be slightly out of date now. but, relatively, they are still applicable and the lesson they teach Is clear. Maximum yields reduce the cost per unit and may result In a profitable margin be u " cT,nr inS ner unit may actually show aloss per unit at tne same saiea usurra. head costs such as taxes, interest on investment, pruning, spraying. Irrigation,; tillage,; etc., remain practically the same whether the croo Is large or small, ana it is bad economics to assume that low viei,j3 Can be made jup by main .... a- tainine a larger acreage, wnne individual cases, apple yields in Oregon have been unusually high, the average for the state dUring the past three years has been but 113 boxes per acre; this in BPite of the fact that most of the trees are of bearing age. bo ione as this condition prevails, ivine prices were obtainel. Doubt k motorialiv increased by em- Di0yiK better cultural methods Dutf on the other hand, many ap- lo orchards are poorly located J are of the wrong varieties, or have j een permanently injured by cola l nr disease: and In such in- stances, there is but little hope of securing increased production . ' As to Varieties Th apple Industry suffers con t,iprahlv because growers have used bad Judgment in the selec I tion of varieties. Over 8 per I rent of the apple acreage of the United States is of fall or early I vlntr GOrtS. TbiS: meSOS that I most of the nation's crop has to be thrown upon the markets during the early months of the apple sea lof these early apples are not sold I in due Reason and the markets 1 are glutted with apples which are and Its Cities Pep and Progress Campaign THE BIG USUI IS t THE RIGHT VARIETIES OF APPLES IVe Can Excel in Several Orchards Ought to Be Confined to These -It Is Also A Question of Proper Cultivation and Attention, Looking to Large Yields to the Acre. Young & Wells,' who 'Shipped something like 100 cars of apples from the Salem district during the present season, say to our growers that the red apples are the ones to grow for the fresh market trade; for shipping. Mr. Wells promised the Slogan editor an ar ticle for this issue, but he was called away to Spokane, and the article has not come. The Ryan Fruit company, which has shipped from its Salem and other branches about 100 cars of apples, and has about five more cars yet. to ship from ' its Salem branch, advises in favor oT the following varieties: Rome Beauty, Spitzenberg, Delicious, Jonathan and Newtown. They think j the Newtowns and the Delicious -are among the best, standing packing better than euch varieties as tbe Spitzenbergs and Jonathans, be cause they have tougher skins. Another good! apple authority, who preferred to not be named, toid the Slogan editor , yesterday that for red apples we have "three outstanding varieties: Spitzen bergs, i Rome Beauties and Deli cious. He advises strongly in favor of these three. He espe cially advises in favor of the De licious for the Oregon trade.' Miller Favors Three Only Kenneth Miller of Sheridan, one of the outstanding apple grow ers of this district, and a high authority, talks like this: "Personally, I favor three vari eties for the Willamette valley, and they are: Gravenstein, Winter Banana, and Grimes Golden. We raise a good Gravenstein in the Willamette valley and our only serious competitors are in the Sebastopol and Watsonville districts of California. Their Gravenstein is, much earlier than ours, and in ordinary years is out of the market, before ours are ready. . v "We raise a wonderful Winter Banana, which has a fine color and a keeping quality which far excela any other Winter Banana that I have seen in the northwest. "The third variety which I favor is the Grimes Golden. It is. not regarded as high class1 an ap- i i ii nevertheless, suffers from varieties that ripen at the wrong time, that are low producers, that have poor appearance, and that are unknown to the consumer. The Apple Competitors The matter of successfully mar keting the apple crop has been intensified during recent years by the increased production, of other fruits and competing, products. Prior to 1910, the apple was prac tically the only fruit on the mar ket in quantity during the winter months. Now, however, : such fruits as the orange, the grape fruit, the pear, the grape and canned and dried products are of fered for sale during most of the year and no doubt tend to reduce the demand for apples. In 1917, the carlot shipment of all fruits other than the apple, was 218,183 cars while In 1923 the total was 322,297 cars, an Increase of 47 per cent in seven years. Besides, producers of other; fruit have re sorted to advertisement which in some cases has materially increas ed tne consumption of their pro duct. The apple man,' on the other hand, has done but little in this direction, i HENRY IIARTMAN. Corvallis. Oregon, Not. 17. 1924. (Mr. Hartman is associate pro feasor of pomology of the Oregon Agricultural college, and a good authority on the apple Industry Ed.) " . - ' . Their Owii Coumtry and Towns . The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries Is to Support Those You Have THE: HE OF .a (Varieties, and Commercial pie as the other two, but grows to perfection in this valley and bears very heavy crops regularly. Its. one fault is that it tends to overbear, and, like the Jonathan, must be heavily thinned. It is wonderfully free from scab, which I consider our biggest problem in apple raising here, as worms -are very easily controlled due to the cool nights. . Mast Raise Best Apples "There are of course other vari eties which do very well, but if we stay in the apple business In this valley we must not raise varieties' which are only as good as other districts can produce, but we must strive to raise those vari eties which we can raise better than any other districts. "For example, we can raise a good Jonathan, but practically the whole United States can do the same thing, and Colorado raises perhaps the best Jonathan, which comes about two weeks earlier than ours and, after the skimming off of the cream, invariably floods tbe market. . i "In past seasons, ilt has been nothing to see the Jonathan mar ket drop one dollar a box in ten days after the flood hit the mar Ket, ana tnat is just about our shipping time. - j We also raise a fine Rome Beauty, but it is rarely ready to pick before Nov. 1, which means wet weather and mud. This adds materially to the harvesting cost. You will notice that these three varieties, the Gravenstein, Winter Banana and Grimes, do not bloom or ripen at the same time, but fol low each other consecutively. This allows you to cover more ground with your spray outfit and spread your harvesting over a longer period "Another factor which I consid er very important is' that the lat est of these apples is off the trees and gone before our wet weather sets in. It Invariably costs mor to harvest after the rainy season begins and in times of prices like1 the last few years, . it may mean the difference between profit and losra." E. S. Biehn. of Pearcy & Biehn, well known, fruit buyers (Earl Pearcy being the other member of the firm), declares that the Salem district, the Willamette val ley, produces s the best flavored apples grown ; that I the flavor of our best apples is finer than ran be poducrd in apples prow n in the irrigated Ui.stricts; that the irri gated districts get the size and the color; j but we get the flavor; that God's showers and sunshine and soil, as combined here, give better shades of flavor than man can put Into apples under the conditions of man's making in the dry districts that must have water brought onto the land in ditches instead of "falling on the place beneath" from high heaven. And, in our favorite varieties, we also get the size and, the color, where the apples are grown by real apple, men grown' as a business and not as an incident; not as a side line. ' w ' "w ; ' Make It a Slogan At this point the Slogan editor wants to renew a suggestion. It ii this: Our apples ought to have a slogan, to give them distinction; to help in marketing them. It should be a true slogan. This is suggeeted: ! IT IS THE FLAVOR. Make lit shorter1? t you wish; make it IT'S THE FLAVOR. Or change it any way you like, only use the word FLAVOR, and make that word stand out Such a slogan, hammered Into the minds of the people of the world persistently, will be worth millions of dollars to our Salem district apple growers. And there is no patent on the idea; no copy right; yet. It is free for the tak- . .- - ing. Take it and use it. That;s , that. . - -: . Outstanding Orchards Returning to the interview with Mr. Biehn. He said the outstand ing orchard of the valley is that of the Oregon - Apple company. Monroe, under the management of B. W. Johnson; nearly 400 acres. Markets' under the OACO brand. (In a former Slogan Isaue of The Statesman, Mr. Johnson rec ommended for the, Willamette val ley these varieties: Winter Ban ana, Grimes Golden, Ortley and Newtown; and on the heaviar and richer soila the King of Tomp kins County; for a red variety. the Red Rome. Ho said that while we can grow the Jona;han and Spitzenberg, the white varie ties seem better adapted to our soil and climate and evince a tend ency to more -consistent annual Cropping.) Mr. Biehn mentioned the out standing orchard of the Corvallis Orchard company. The stockhold ers of this company are largely men connected with the Oregon Agricultural college. They are producing great apples. He mentioned the work of Dr. P. H. Jobse of Wilsonville. From S8 trees he picked 102G boxes (bushels) of Gravensteins Inst year, and they netted him at the orchard $777. They were sold loose in boxes; no packing charges. They went to a Portland jobber, who bought them on tho trees, and he declared that it was the finest fruit he had ever seen bar none. In 1921 Dr. Jobse sold the Winter Bananas from SO of hid trees for, $1052 net profit. They went as high as $2.90 a box fwo.b. Wilsonville. ' Mr. , Biehn spoke of. the no.e- worthy orchard operations of Ken neth Miller of the Sheridan dis trict, who is quoted above., 1 He mentioned the orchard op erations of A. L. Page and Son. Jefferson. They raise walnuts. prunes and apples. They always have a consistent crop of Mcln tosh Red apples. On account of thisbeing an early variety of fall apples, their get good returns eveif year. Jl F;v;For?bisr, & Son of' Forest Grofe arq ,1 successful growers. TVeJ produfcet Jonathans. Soitz and iiciousfeood size and quality. A.W. BcHkina and C, A. Jacques Of t EataeadV jre successful anDle Hcrdwers. y TYieir have Hved on their intvea unu iw-yciopea meir own orchards; vraise; Jonathans. SDitz. .Newtown., tA-tfey and Mcintosh Ued rfaJtetleA Jj il t i Tqn j tber $ a heavy .acreage oi appies aa wewuerg. 1L L. and L? L. AmMAhave about 40 acres between ' llifepi.y Billy Sullivan, lorraejyr aruner for the White Sox. fcs there a40 acre apple orchard, wher hevIives.' They raise princi pally the Newtown, Spitz, Jona- tnan'ueucjous, Rome and Stay men varieties. They are success ful growers. I At Brownsville, .on the Oren Stratton place, there is1 a 17 acre orchard thatj is1 one of the best in Oregon; Jonathan. Spitz. Graven st in. Grimes; Golden and Northern Spy varieties. - . Then there are J. E. Goetz and J. A. Becker of the Dallas district: very successful; largely Newtowns and Spitzenbergs. , Senator Patterson, Too Senator 1.1 L. Patterson, a few miles out of Salem, in the Eola district in Polk county, raises some wonderful Delicious apples, They have taken prizes in several apple exhibits.! Mr. Patterson's Delicious apples are each year all taken by the Roth Grocery-company, Salem,! for their fancy trade Mrs. Hammei, on the Dallas road from Salem, raises some won derful apples of the Delicious. Spitz and Newtown varieties. She is successfulj In Alpine District i In the Alpine district, six miles west of Monroe, they get a won derful color on their red apples A car load of Spitzenbergs going from that, district in 1921 showed up the finest color of any received in the New York maret that year, If they had been of a larger size they would have received the pre mium price. L Conclusions of Mr. Biehn In his Interview, of which the above is a irather running and rambling report,-Mr. Biehn con cluded that all It takes to produce the best apples In the world in the Salem district is the best apple men In the world and we have some of them, as the above will Why suffer with Stomaclr Tronble when Chiropractic will Kemove the Cause Honrs: IO to 12 a. MUD APPLE. No Better Apple Grown Than Can Be Produced on Qur Hill or Bench Lands Editor -Statesman: - " I have grown and sold apples on the Atlantic -coast and grown and sold apples on the Pacific coast. I lived several years in the eastern states, becoming familiar with different varieties of eastern grown apples. Many good varie ties '-that are crown there are adapted to that country. I spent some time la the Yakima valley, gaining an Insight of the great fruit industry, there. The past 11 years, I have been connected with orchards at Al pine. Oregon.. When. I came here most of the several hundred acres of orchards had been recently set ! out. I have been working with the trees np to the present date, watching the different methods of pruning, cultivating' and spraying, and development of different varr leties of apples and am convinced that with intelligent care on the hill or bench land where there is proper water and air drainage, apple growing will be a success. The Varieties There: v The main varieties : here" . are Newtowns, Spitzenbergs, Ortleys, Jonathans and Arkansas Blacks. These varieties all do well. - The flavor and keeping qualities of the apples are unsurpassed. I have Itept apples in my; basement until August; Newtowns princi pally. This season I -had Jona thans until the middle of the sum mer and the, flavor was, still good. I have shipped apples from Al pine to California, to Tennessee, Illinois, New Hampshire, to Eng land and to India. Reports from these were to the effect that. they had eaten no' better apples than the Alpine apple. In Illinois dif ferent persons wrote that the Ore gon apple led in price on the mar kets. - . . I. Personally, I have yet to meet with a better apple either In qual ity or size; the flavor of the Mist land apple is unique. ; If the grading,' packing and sell- ' indicate; and they are successful. 1 Delicious apples grown in the Salem district, the choicest,, and fancy packed, are now retailing here at as high as $4.25 a box Other varieties are going at from $1.50 to $3.50. V The packers have been taking orchard runs at $25 to $50 a ton. doing the picking and wrapping and packing themselves and stand ing the losses on culls. The conclusion of the whole matter is that it will pay growers in the Salem district,, year, after year, to raise good apples of the wanted! varieties. It will not pay them, taking one year with an other, to grow poor or cull apples. MMIfc ' '-'CI FLAVOR IS UillQllE TV At mm We Will' Give Our Beet Efforts At all times to assist In any possible way the devel opment of the fruit . and berry industries In this val ley., ; Oregon vVevv- Co. Your Health Begins When v I You Phone 87 J For An Appclntmcait DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C. Chiropractor Ray laboratory 414 to 410 U. 8. National .llanlc Building m. and 2 to O p. m. Ing are kept np with the quality of the fruit, good .returns should be netted the' 'grower.: t W.tA IltJRNIIAM. Alpine, Oregon," 5 " Nov. 15.4924. .. . ; (Alpine Is In the hill district of Benton county, west of Corval-, Us, near Mdnroe. Ed.) 1 SHORTAGE 10 01 ACREAGE OF CUM Some Timely Poultry Point ers, and About Raising More Hannchen Barley . (Following are timely para graphs from a current bulletin of the department of Industrial jour nalism of the Oregon Agricultural college:) The acreage of Oregon clover for 1925 will be snort, reports to the Oregon Agricultural college exper iment station indicate. Many new fields will be planted in February for hay and for seed.Ecspecial'car should be taken to avoid' buck- horn and dodder. Practically na clover has dodder in western Ore gon, but a lot of it contains buck horn. It costs from 60 cents ta $1.25 a bushel to have red clovei cleaned reasonably free from buck- horn. This often is 10 per cent of the cost of the clover, a heavy loss to the grower. Succussful Oregon poultrymen check UP on brooder and Incuba tor equipment now. Spare parts, worn out or broken parts can be conveniently ordered. Thermom eters, thermostats and hygrome ters are often ordered from the factory. . To order at the last min ute needed repairs is a policy that results in poor service and unfilled orders. The experiment station has found that to order earlier saves delay and disappointment. Western Oregon can export and feed many thousands of bushels of Hannchen barley, says the state college farm crops department. The production has never met the consumption, let alone the export demand. .Hannchen barley plant ed in March or early April Is us ually a better ylelder than spring oats or spring barley. ' Colds in the flock-knock egg production and make the fowls more susceptible to disease. Where there are few colds in the flock, individual treatment is practical. The Oregon station has found a solution of tincture of iodine or silver nitrate tobe best for indi vidual treatment. The bird's nos trils, mouth and throat ran be cleaned with a feather or a cotton swab, and the Infected parts paint ed with one of these solutions. Wop! TI 9' Use Burned Clay Hol low Building Tile for Beauty, Safety and Comfort. . MANUFACTURED. ClY'THC ' r. ' s ii"iillG!v:.:. v 1. r A i f r it r