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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1924)
THE OREGON" STATESMAN, SALEM,4 OREGON ' THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 192 i i' K i 71 i : ! : 1 : ' ' ' " : " . 1 1 II ' il GIDEON STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of ' ' " - Dependable Brand . ' Urne-Sulphur Solution Tb brand 70a can depend on for parity and tent. Trices upon application f - !' -. -. V ! Factory near corner of ; . ' Summer and Mill St.- Z Saletn. Orcron. W Ar Out After Two Millions '. W are 1 now paying over tare : quarter of a million dollar a year to the dairymen of tbii section 1 ur milk. , i. "Marion Butter! .Is the Best Butter 'Mora Cows and Better Cows Is toe crying need MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 5 GREATS IROTEGT THE OREGON .' .1 . IS THE ADVICE ubje - I ;- . : : I The Association Must be Supported and There Must bela , k f-4 a a mm . . . - lanaaraizanon ana unnormity of Methods of Grow i 1 ing and Distilling, Giving the Highest Possible Quality, 5ays rroi. Bouquet ? (The following is in full Circu lar 17? of the Oregon Agrlcul 'iira college extension service, the author being A. G. B. Bouquet, of the department of vegetable gar 'flenlng, and the date being early 1921:) : ' ; ' There is undoubtedly much in terest being taken In mint growing in the northwest at the present time. This is due to various things which have had a tendency to publish the high value of Ore gon oil, and it is very evident that .there are numbers of people who Butter-Nut Bread u -,..4 ....... -. "The Richer, Finer Loaf CHERRY CITY BAKERY Dir ld-l: Our Method: "Tba Best Only" - Cooperation J - : I Capital City Co-cperatire Creamery " ."', -! : A Bon-profit organization owned jntirely by U dairymen. Gie u trial.-' j , Haaataetorers of Bntterrttp Batter "At your Groerf Phon 299 137 S. Com'l Bt DIXIE' HEALTH BREAD Ask Tour Grocer For Years And Years .-.,; . . The Statesman has been ' supplying the wants of the critical job printing trade ? Proof posilire we are printers of worth and merit. J- r i- -- j ; Modern 'equipment and Ideas are the ones that get by-- I Publishing any Fhoiie S3 or 583 15 S. Com'l St. Gomp SELLIN G S ALEM DIST RICT ll i -i - r : -.. .. . r . : Devoted The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to I Patronize Your Home People Selling k's Slogan ct Is MINT IfUSW OF O. A. C. AUTHORITY are becoming; interested in , grow ing mint, who have; but a small idea concerning the nature of the crop and its care after, it has been grown. Correspondence to the State Agricultural college -has been quite extensive during past weeks asking for information about growing mint Especial attention Is called concerning the following factors relative to spring planting In 1921. f ; First of all? it is known that Oregon oil now commands as good a market price; as any peppermint oil that is offered from any other part of the country. This means that Oregon mint oil has a reputa tion that must be maintained and preserved. Nothing should be done to soil thi3 reputation in the eyes of the trade who" purchase the oil. Oct The night Plants This being true, it is important that no mint should be grown commercially In the state that is not grown from plants coming from a field of standard strain of mint, which has already proven the quality of the oil previously produced. Mint fields from which plants are obtained for future planting should be certified as to their value in producing oil of a high quality, so that future grow ers of mint may get plants of the very best strain possible. Don't lUiw Wild )Unt Letters are constantly reaching this college and experiment sta tion concerning the, question of wild mint growing on the farm, and whether jit is suitable for growing commercially, and worth distilling. To all of these inquiries the reply, i3 that no mint In any wise should be cultivated and re ceive any attention whatsoever, but that which is planted-from some known strain having pre viously produced oil that is of the best market value. There is more or less danger in wild mint grow ing on the place, which might ac cidentally get mixed up in the cul tivated kind and the two distilled together with the result that the good oil may be tainted, and its value would be considerably de preciated. "' , ..' T " " SnpKrt the AvMM-iatiou It is to the interest of every grower of mint "at the present time, and everyone who Intends to grow. mint, to become a' mem ber of the state association and to lend aid, to it in any way, so that it may n sthe biggest factor In putting the mint Industry on a high plane and in keeping the business standardized. ; The officers of the mint asso ciation are as follows: E. Ii. Wal lace," Albany;, Oregon. president; Bird Ilickard, Monroe, Oregon, secretary - treasurer. Inquiries concerning where to get roots and other matters pertaining to the association work can be taken up with either of theso two officers of the association. i Oregon mint oil 13. of too great value to have la few individual growers growing some kind of mint and distilling oil of . an un known quality and offering It as Oregon( oil. On I the other hand, there must be a . standardization and uniformity: of methods of growing and distilling, so that the quality of the oil which is offered for sale may be as high in market value as possible. , The Bccretary-trcasurer of the Oregon Mint Growers Coop erative association is now O. J. Moisan of Gervais, Oregon. Bird Rlckard is now one of the direc tors of the association. The ad dress, of Mr. Wallace Is Rural Route 6, Albany, Oregon.- Ed.) IN OUR DISTRICT to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunity Their Own Country ! and Its Cities and Towns ! Salem District is a Continuation of the Salem Slogan and This campaign of publicity for community upbuflding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men men whose' untiring efforts have- builded pur present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by: rf -f'-f - x L. Mint field of Manning and i THE PIE OF PEPPE1II OIL IS BOOMING; AS H1BH AS S8 A POUND J . " j . ' , The Secretary-Treasurer of the Oregon Cooperative Mint Growers' Association Thinks the Profits of That Indus try, Taken Over a Series of Years, Will Show Up Well in Comparison With Other Money Crops Editor Statesman: The yield of peppermint oil for the season of 1924, on the Lake Labish lands, was' quite smaller than formerly, and the same con ditions prevailed over the entire state. i I However, the price for oil off set the shortage in yield. 1 Commonly the yield of pepper mint oil on our lands will produce fifty pounds per acre, but the past season was very dry, and the Lake Labish lands suffered the drought as well as up lands; hence the Lake Labish lands produced only' about forty pounds per acre this year, and the river bottom lands about twenty pounds per .acre. , The Irir is Booming ' The price for Oregon; mint oil WILL BE fit CIH E Town Lot Boomers in South ern California Are Tear- ii a 1 1 . i r in? g up All me rarms (The following is the leading article in the farm and 'orchard part of the Los Angeles Times of last Sunday: ) ; t The Subdivision Crazn Rural Los Angeles county lost 8262 acres of orchard of all kind. to the town-lot subdividers In the twelve-month period ending July V, according to the annual report of County Horticultural Commis sioner Harold J. Ryan, recently issued. To offset this loss8 to hor ticulture. 2611 acres or new orch ards were planted to fruits aud nuts during the year. That leaves a net loss of 5C."1 acres taken out of commercial fruit and nut pro duction. The total acreage to fruit alone in the county, Mr. Ryan points out, is now (or was on July 1) 130. 6CG acres as against 134.524 acre3 On June 30, 1923. Needless to say. the multicolored pennants and flags that suddenly bloom along the highways every time a new suburban tract! is laid out have increased In number dur-v Ing the past few months, marking the doom of still more bearing orchard acreage. And one can only imagine (without available figures handy) the Inroads made by the town-lot merchants, on the general farming acreage, j There is no doubt whatever that a lot of good farming and orchard land around Los Angeles has been JO CD Itfii' I!!E(i spoiled to make poor and un need Pep and Progress Campaign Typical Salem District Mint Field ," v V J i " . atxi 4 4 Moisan iocated on the Hayes land three miles east of Brooks on the "Million Dollar Highway" ! J , at this time is nearly up to war prices. It Is $8 per pound. ' Onions and ' celery have so much better returns per acre com monly, that it is difficult to get growers interested in mint produc tion; yet if one would take mint glowing for a period or years, he would be surprised to note the. difference in net income, as the mint once planted and cared for carefully will last for seven to ten years, and consequently the over head expense is so much less that the final profits are much greater than on onions. G. J. MOISAX, . Secretary-Treasurer Oregon Co operative Mint Growers' Assn, Gervais, Or., Dec. 1, 1924. ed subdivisions in the, mad scram ble of owners and real estate pro moters to cash in on every home building boom, and the same un doubtedly applies to somei other cities and towns in the county.rIt seems almost a crime sometimes to ruthlessly destroy old bearing fruit and nut trees to make way for gridironed streets and other so-called "improvements" far out from the developed urban residen tial areas and such destruction causes genuine mourning in the ranks or the auto , owners who yearn to get out into the peaceful countryside , for rest and change. That, however, is the penalty that the racific Coast metropolis and its surrounding- territory have to pay for growing so fast in popu lation and material resources. There Is a compensation, too, from the agricultural producer's point of view than cannot be lost sight of, however, much one may de plore the destruction of beauty and the loss to agriculture of pro ducing trees and crops. ; Cities and towns that reach out and grab the farms and orchards make money for the owners of the agricultural land thus appropriat ed, putting almost fabulous values on farm and orchard areas situat ed in the lines of developments. The thing doesn't always work out so well from the point of view of the town folk who are led by the eloquent real estatersilnto buying the fifty-foot lots created out of the great open spaces.- but even the latter generally win If they can hold out long enough, so inevitable is the onward march of ;! an ex pansion, i The thing In the situa tion that Is so significant to the land owner 13 the fact that land lying near the rapidly growing. city always has a potential value as a unit in a future subdivision area. This fact constitutes a sort of In surance policy against any even tual disaster In a farming enter prise on such land, a policy which, it is true, is calling for ever high er premiums la the shape of land The Surest Way to Get More and Is to Support Those You stir's. X 1 1 Si' I cost3, but! which- is a real factor to reckon .with,' after all. Just the same, one might wish that more farmers and orchardists wonld hold off longer before yield ing good producing land to the flag-wavers with their blue-print maps and their spell-binding elo quence. It is a temptation indeed to the average hard-working grower when he has an opportuni ty to sell! out and ease down in his labors, but many there are who have found out too late that they could have realized far more from the subdividers had they stuck by the plow; or the faithful old trees and waited for the city to come to them, "ffhe plight of the grower who sells out and then wants to get back' in the farming game is also one tthat should be consider ed by those inclined to be too precipitate in letting . their- land go, for itj is a foregone conclusion that they will not feel like paying the prices , they themselves " have helped to create for more farm land in their own territory. , Doggone it all anyway ! One would like to be able to see some real farms without having to take a long journey Into the so-called "country.?' s - HE MADE $100 'HI II Easiest Money He Made Last Year, and Wished He Had t More! Good Land for It (The following appeared a year ago in The Statesman. The Slogan editor failed to ,get in touch with iir. Van Cleave yesterday:) 1 j A. T. Vaq Cleave and son have four acres! in peppermint on their farm down on the edge of; Labish Meadows, on Route 9, Salem. A. T. Van Cleave was among the growers to whom the "Slogan editor wrote last week, ror infor mation concerning "the mint in dustry. He did not answer, and whpn the Sloean man Dhoned him he said he! had intended to write. but had been too Dusy tni ii was too late. WisliOM He Had More Mr. Van! Cleave told the Slogan man that they have on their farm four acres in peppermint, and that they get 40 to 60 pounds an acre annually of oil. They belong to the association. Mr. Van Cleave thinks, the j average yield per acre r,u the kind of land they .have in peppermint Is about SO pounds of oil. He said their net profit is about $100 an acre and it Is the easiest money they get. '- ;;, Is Little Trouble j The cost! of distilling the oil Is about 25 cents a pound. ,The har vesting is about on a par with the harvesting of elover hay. The ex pense in cultivation and general attention is very email. Mr. Van Cleave regards the growing of peppermint: as a good industry for this section: but thinks the grow er must ka.ve- suitable ground; H ON MIT RAISED' CljICKffi 0 m This Man Refuses to be Crushed Out by the Crowd ing of the City's Life (The following Is by Robert T. Lyans, in the farm part of Jhe Los Angeles Times or last Sunday: ) After nearly , half a century's experience in raising chicken3, J. H. Thompson of, Pasadeni is still "going strong" as a poultry fan cier, and is today numbered among the southland's boosters for standard-bred stock, i While much of his experience was gained in east ern states and under climatic con ditions somewhat different from those he is enjoying in southern California, Mr: Thompson has al ways found the poultry business an ; interesting one. . Today, al though seasoned! in judgment and well along in years, he has all the enthusiasm of the novice who has just won his first blue ribbon. Nearly fifty years ago,, Mr. Thompson began his career as a poultryman at Concord, New Hampshire, his first choice of breed being what he declares was then termed - the Cochin China. About that time the American Poultry association was organized and a movement was started to standardize the various Hinds of poultry then existing on American farms, the Cochins" being admitted to the, standard in 1874. Mr. Thompson took up the raising of Partridge Cochins, Black Cochins and Brown Leghorns on quite an extensive scale exhibiting his birds at the big eastern shows of that time. Later he adopted the White Wyandotte, sticking by thisi popu lar variety for approximately twenty years and shipping birds to all parts of the country from his eastern poultry establishment. During that time also -he devoted a part of his poultry activities to the production of Rhode Island Reds. In 1912, he came to Cali fornia and purchased four acres near Pasadena,- on which location he has. since resided. Upon coming here, Mr. Thomp son became interested in Rhode Island Reds, Barred and White Plymouth Rocks and White Leg horns, but soon gave these up and became firmly attached to the Ancona, a breed which he has been raising for the past ten years. When asked why he had turned to this breed. Mr. Thompson de clared It was because he felt that it combined the' useful with the beautiful to a greater extent than any breed which he had ever rais ed, his experience having: proved to his satisfaction that this breed was an economical producer of eggs, as well as one appealing to the fancier spirit. His present flock of Anconas consists of about 200 birds that have been carefully bred for standard qualities. Mr. Thompson exhibits his choicest specimens at all of the leading poultry shows .of the southland, and generally manages to carry off his share of the ribbons. When Mr. Thompson establish ed his plant on North Allen ave nue, in. the Crown City the region was mostly in grape vineyards and he felt that he was living in the country, as he had no telephone, lights or gas in hia neighborhood. Now he is surrounded by homes and has all city facilities. In the comparatively short time that he has been in Pasadena he has seen some wonderful changes, with property values doubling several times, as various subdivisions have gradually enveloped all of the ter ritory around him. He has manag ed to "sit tight." however, with his flock of Aiconas. and together with his'Wire. ( who shares the pleas.uro derived from the keeping of a good flock of chickens, he can i land with a good deal ofmolsture; the beaverdam land is ideal. There are three or four distil leries for the peppermint around the Labish Meadows district. One of these distilleries can handle the peppermint from about two acres; of land each day; depending on the abundance of the crop. , i Larger Industries Have THE GREATEST STEP FORWARD IN CHIROPRACTIC HISTORY Neurocalometer For Further Information and Service Call Upon Dr. O. 416 U. S. NATL. BANKiBLDG. PHONE 87 look back upon, the day when chickens were just "chickens," add can' rest assured'that he has at least had some, part in the im provement of many breeds. Some of these breed 3 are even more popular now than they were! in the hey-dey. or the poultry fancy, 'be fore poultrymen began to get the craze for higher egg production. In many instances at the expense of breed requirements. i Having participated in' the ups PVW r iff. THE DOUBLE ALARM THE BANKER'S CREED 1 (believe no man cao be a good banker who is not first a good citi zen in all the term Implies. I believe good i citizenship rests on ability and willingness ; to pull one's own weight with capacity not only for. sturdy pelf-help but also dua regard tor the rights of others. - - -.:'.! j . ' i - 1 believe that the more points at which we touch human nature and human interests the more alive we become and the longer we stay so. 1 believe we cannot prosper by applying' yesterday - obsolete methods to today that each man is in 1 some . measure master of his community's destiny that good government is a j matter ot busi ness not politica that to assist in all material, moral and. spiritual upbuilding, is the fundamental of enlightened selfishness ! I believe we need more men of every class who i will appreciate this who will stand for eon fining besides themselves. ' I believe in efficiency service an. fraternity In a close-anit community of interest and hopes in a sane, broad-vlsloned stand that shall make fojr the banker-citizen.' the banker-business man, the banker farmer and the banker evervbody. State Bank Division, American Bankers Association. . Mat MANUFACTURED We wm Give Our Best Efforts At all times to assist In any possible way the devel opment of the irult and berry Industries In this val ley. Oregon Packing Co. Competent ' I L. Sett and downs of the poultry industry for a half-century, Mr. Thompson' believes the' future holds mut!i promise for'poultrymen who cater to the dictates of present demand, which lie declares, combines a lik ing for both type and production. He who has published an in jurious book sins in his very grave corrupts others while he Is rottinc himself. Robert Smith. Bean Farming Old Si Silver was peculiar duck, ! Farmed with his bean and had darn good luck; The folks "round about work- J ed and tried,- But here's Si'g secret he ,i diversified. - B a n fc r Fartntr, BANKERS FOR f -. BETTER FARMING The Arkansas Bankers Associa tion was recently presented with an- object lesson on the value of good live-stock and the worthless ness of the scrub stock common un too many farms. The Arkansas College of Agriculture had three cows comfortably quartered m a corner of the lobby at the conven tion hotel in Little Rock. One cow displayed was a pure-bred Jersey which made a profit of $S5 last year, a second was a high grade cow, the product of a purebred bull and a scrub cow. She made a profit of 53. The third cow was a common scrub cow. declared to be a detriment to. Arkansas farm ing. Worlds rial Use Burned Clay Hol low Building Tile for Beauty, Safety and Comfort. tW'THE n i i I i i ; 4 4 . 4 4 4 v 4 4 f 3 i v.