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THE OREGON CTATE3TXA1I, SAKCJ, D?XGO!I GON sr. QUALIHY y.J !P' ODUCTS c PRODUCES PR t This cut is used by courtesy of the Associated . Industries, of Oregon. ' Dates jof Slogans in Daily! Statesman (In Twice-a-Week Statesman Following Day) (WIthV few possible changes) loganberries, October 2 Prunes, October 9 Dairying, October Xt -Flax, October. 23 ..' Filberts, October 30 Walnuts, Nbvember 6 Strawberries, November 13 Apples, November 20 1 Raspberries, November 27 MinTSecember 4 - "eat Cows, Etc.December.ll Blackberries, December 18 Cherries December 2 5 Pears, January 1, 1925 Gooseberries, January 8 Corn, January 15 Celery, January 22 -Spinach, Etc., January 29. Onions, Etc., February 6 Potatoes, Etc. February 12 l Bees, February-19 Poultry and Pet Stock. Feb. 28 City Beautiful, etc., March E.J Beans, Etc.. March 12 Paved Highways, March 19 Head Lettuce, March 28 Silos, Etc., April a . Legumee, April 9 Asparagus, Etc April 16 Grapes, Etc., April 23 Drug Garden. April 30 Tl IE I IEAD LETTUCE I WDUSTfl V OF HIE . SJILEf.l DISTfllCT PROMISES VERY WELL It May Be Developed Into a Great Industry, Bringing Cash Heturns from Vide Distances The Pioneering Is Still Going Forward, Wity Perhaps Thirty Cars to Be Ready .for the Markets During the Present Season . There is being developed on the Labish ileadows beaverdam lands north of Salem what will no doubt within r fewveara "hrnTn bl lead lettncejndastry.; - The ;eelery rrowers om those 3ands, members of th Labish 3Ieadows Celery Growers union, mostly Americanized Japanese .farmers, have been experimenting with head lettuce for some years. The outstanding leader among this group is Roy K. Fukuda, the pioneer celery grower; who, has ; been ? and is constantly carrying i tn experimental work with pros pective crops adapted to that loc amy. -: y , - ! Fair Start Last Year ?'--'v" : They made a fair start in the Industry last year, when they ship ped aix cars of lettjuce to outside markets, and sold a bout ten cars in. the markets of Oregon and Washington cities. - They hope- to hs about twice many cars ior saie iois spring if all their plantings make good heads.. They are putting about 20 acres in lettuce, and they hope jto market about a car to the acre, or better " There are some 25 of the celery growers (of that district , who are also growing head lettuce aad It is likely that they wiU all -produce lettuce as well as celery as the industry develops. There are some 40 of the celery growers now, and the number is increasing. ; The Methods I7sd! : '(:, The La bish Meadows growers nse the New York variety of let tuce. On the market the product -is known as. the I .berg. . They plant the seed in ; green houses about the 1 )th of January. About the last of January they transplant into cold frame hot beds. About the -1 0th of March they begin planting on the out . side. v -y ..7 S About the 10th of May, they advantage of the ! early market, tjid tiey can sell all they can Bupply, up to the middle of June. After that they, have competition from other districts. :t So far, our head lettuceindustry looks like an early crop proposition. The prices are J- to j $8 - a crate In Chicago; two to three dozen heads fn a crate. "Where the heads run large, they go about two dozen tp the crate. The ! Labish lettuce heads do run: large,: . , Fine for Quality Ther Is no -: doubt as- to the taste of the Lablsh Meadows let tneev -Th- flawr is- fine; . There is no better . lettaca.. . . There t Is some difficulty, so far, in produc- tight heads, according to the trade designation. The trade ' wants tight heads, v , ; . ; . The distant' shipments have so far all been of jthe tight heads. Experimenting 'will - likely bring about conditions that will produce uniformly tight heads. -'The La ilsi Ileadowa- gifo -ers . ' will get uniformly tlht heads, If. any one caa. . :'" 1 It 3 Latlh T,rc2i3W3 growers if V:.7 ."3 to'caie a Uz Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Etc., - "May 7'. . ... ... Water Powers, May 14 Irrigation. May 21. . Mining, May ? 8 Land, Irrigatl6n. Etc.. June 4 Floriculture, Jane 11 . ' Hops, Cabbage, Etc.; Jane 18 Wholesaling and Jobbing, ' June 25 :? - . . , -Cucumbers, Etc., July 2 Hogs, July 9 Goats, July 16. - . . Schools, Etc.. July 23 Sheep, July 30 National Advertising, August 6 Seeds. Etc.. August 13 - '. Livestock. August 20 Grain and Grain Products, Au ." gnat 27.1 i- ; Manufacturing, September 3. Automotive' Industries, Septem ber 10 - Woodworking. Etc.. Sept.. 17 Paper Mills, Etc.. Sept. 24. . (Back' copies of the Thursday editions of The Paily Oregon Statesman 'are on hand; .They are for, sale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address. Current copies Bc.'X ' . ,' i success; just the same as they have done with their celery, till they have gained nation wide favor. , ; - . ; The Competition y The head Jettace, groTrer?rtliere in the Salem district have some competition from Troutdale grow, ers, who have river bottom lands and put out a somewhat different product. .There are other com mercial . growers, mostly : In late lettuce, in . Oregon. ' The number of cars of lettuce shipped from Oregon last year was 127. Idaho shipped 537, cars last year, and Washington 648. The Idaho ship ments of lettuce went- forward mostly in October and November, and the Washington shipments in June, July and August. California is an immense head lettuce-shipper and Utah produces a great deal. There has been a very great' ex pansion of this Industry all over the country In the past few years, and there are Indications ; that it will keep on expanding. Lettuce is used in the dietary of the nation more and more generally, and the saturation point is evidently a long way off yet.: - 1 - IV0HLDG1DI1 IS II HI The world's champion dairy cow among junior three-year-oldB for the production of butter in a seven-dayt official ' test is ow Stellacoom - Prilly Ormsby Blos som, a purebred ' Holstein. In the dary herd of the Western State Hospital, at . Fort " Stellacoom, Washington, this cow . completed a test recently under the constant supervision 'of ; representatives of the Washington and .Oregon state Agricultural colleges with a record of. 645.7 pounds milk - containing 32.705 pounds butterfat, equiva lent to- 40.88 pounds -iutter ac cording to 'the advanced registry department of ; the Holstein-Fref-sian association of America. The former world's champion in th is class was. the Holstein heifer Lou ise Alcartra Prilly, owned by the Bridgford Holstein .company at Patterson,' California. . : . The care and feed, given Stella coom,' prilly Ormsby, Blossom' wat similar to that received by her barn-mate, ' Canary Snowball Get tie, the world's ; champion junior three-year-old for ten months' production r et batter. During her dry period she was placed In a fit ting barn where she was. fed a grain ration , made Lup of . ground cocoannt meal and 'cottonseed meal. During the official test she received a grain ration consisting of the sama feeda, with ti.e addi tion of flaxseed meal. LThis ration was supplemented : wlth all the alfalfa ' hay she .would 4 consume together with liberal amounts ct mangel3, cortr IIae3ard toaked beet pulp, s 5ie was fed from 24 to r - ';nda: of grla:,a day. and' er " -.arty ap-etlte tlr: c" ::r:y'-, -I v. . f ' , ''.''... ,1 : : ' I , . ' "OREGON QUALITY" products are establishing themselves in world markets; they make our pay rolls they build our cities; they attract new capital and new people; they provide a market for the products of our farms. Oregon farms" produce a wider variety of profitable crops of "Oregon Quality food than any other spot on earth. A Pierrot Telephone Screen This unique telephone ' screen Is made of cardboard, bits of grey, yellow, white, fclack and orang-e UK and a strip of cold ribbon edg--ing. The cardboard is first cut and folded to the ... desired shape. (Fig. 1) Then . grey silk Is glued over it. CFlT.Z) A moon of orange silk, spray ot leaves of black silk, the rocky foreground of black silk and the Pierrot of black and white silk are next cut out. (Fig. 3) When they are glued into place a rold binding- is attached at tne bottom of the screen.' Best quality liquid slue . should .be used .aad daughter of Cascade Blossom, one time holder of the . world's ; high est butter record for ten months' production as a full age cow. HREFIB FI11TI COLLEGE (Following are excerpts from a current bulletin of the department of Industrial journalism of the Oregon Agricultural college) : i " " A good colony of bees at the beginning of the main honey flow should consist of one selected queen and 75,000 to 100.000 workers. Ther eshould be as few drones as possible, advises, the uregon Agricultural college ex periment station. - Ordinary straw contains as much plant food material as does barn yard-manure, bur this material Is not as readily available : to, the plants as it manure." 'One ton of straw contains nearly 10 pounds of nitrogen; 5 pounds of phosphor ic acid, and 10 to 12 pounds of potash, says the Oregon Agricul tural college experiment station. Heavy pruning of winter in jured fruit trees should be delayed until the extent of the damage has been determined, says the Oregon Agricultural college .experiment station. Promiscuous pruning or cutting back, now "may remove some of the best wood in the tree, which cannot be told from - the damaged wood until later in : the season. Getting spray outfits In shape before the season starts la advised Go ' F.'- BrasieF Caterer to the Public-Demand for . should be applied sparingly with the spreader in the top of the tube. If desired, oilcloth may o vised oa the screen in place of silk. It is easier to clean but not quite so colorful aa the silk. If difficulty la encountered In cutting out the figure of Pierrot, it is well to re member that Pierrot or some sim ilar little silhouetted figure may be purchased in - the art department Of any store,; '. ... : "' ' An interesting variation of .this idea . can be obtained by using; cretonne or say Cowered chint to cover. the, cardboard foundation.. by the Oregon Agricultural college experiment station. .Some or chardists will have to increase their spray outfits due to the growth of the orchard to prevent serious trouble. Jf they cannot get over the orchard in time, the insects may get' a start en them. .. Wood ashes contain about 5 per cent potash and 30 per cent lime. The potash supplies the plant food element potassium, and the lime can be used to neutralize acidity in our soils. " Wood ashes that have been exposed to the rains are leached and are not as valuable as unleached ashes, ' advises the Ore gon Agricultural ' college experi ment station. MAXHART HELD GUILTY SEATTLE, March 24. Elmer Manhart was convicted tonight of first degree murder for killing Mrs. Lillian Helen Morlej of Vic toria, B. C, in a taxicab here on Feb. 1, .The Jury, composed of four women and Ight men, re commended life imprisonment af ter deliberating two hours and 20 minutes. , THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That Salem is the center, of an increas ingly important . head lettuce industry; - that w produce here a head lettuce of - superior Quality as "to size,; and flavor, and are able to ?et it into the market; at a time when there is a demand for the product; that experiments are beingr made constantly with a view- to putting out a still higher quality of head lettuce, with mere uniformly tight heads,, and that with that consummation .the Indus try here will take first place in the whole country and will be due for enormous expansion on lines yielding profits for the growers and bringing annually large sums of money from lenjy distances, adding, materially to. the prosperity and upbuilding of country and city alike? Oil"! 11 0 Hi STORE OF P0THJT1AL flESDURCES '! ' ' - V i - i The Exhaustless Reservoirs of Flamejess Fuel and Poten tial Horsepower of Oregon Streams .Lie' Waiting to Be Capitalized By Human 1 Industry Into High 'Voltage Activity Hitched to Industry THEY WILL Build an , Empire 7 (By EDWARD ,T. BARBER) - J Man's mastery ' of ' electrical energy, primitive aa it more- than likely is at present, among his most masterful conquests over , the forces of nature. It is marvelous to consider bow from the icy cold waters of the far-distant cataract - we conduct oyer tiny wires stretching across deserts, ; mountains and forests, that .mysterious something" which we may convert into heat, light and power 'by . the simple turii of a switch. What the future holds in the form ' of 5 electrical development no one "dare predict! Enough has been learned to enable, us to take a sort of Inven tory of our -potential possibilities measured from our present under standing of the baffling subject. Doubtless . the . next generation will be as free to criticise our ignorant wastefulness in our des Ire to ! develop this mysterious force as we are today to criticise"! our fathers for their great land grants to the railways of their time to encourage building over vast trackless and desert places through and to whajt seemed to them to be valueless sections of the . country. .They , faced the pretoea- f capitalizing those- po tential resources with human In dustry of permitting them to lie as useless as ..they had . been throughout all the preceding ages; Without their vision and courage and assistance the-western half of the continent would still be a wil derness except' a fringe along the Pacific coast. - Federal authorities tell us that 72 per.cenVof the potential hydro eleetrical energy of the United States lies wet of the crest of the Rocky mountains. . Oregon, with a credited .onota .of 6,013.000 horse power stands third in the list of possession of this mighty force, . Washington and California alone exceeding It. Of J this 6. 613.000 potential horse power but 200,000 has al ready been developed. This leaves 33 times its present development still open for the future. There is .Small need far the' young man of the present to sit down j aQd bewail "his after-; of having been born at a time when the great, work, of the world had already been done. . There never was time in all history .when the future held as much possibility for the rising generation as the pre- All Standard makes cl cigars and tobaccos. Jahke's Oregon Blade Chocolates, best in . the market. Bulk or box. Imperial candies have no superior. A Bler and Better UUk Shake made ct pure wholsratlk. Bottled Carbonated Water front the Star and StoLz factories in Salem. ... Weatherly Ice Cream, a food' product of high value. Left of Ccnimc:. Eat privitely owned and pers sent, and right here in Oregon. The germs of future towns and cities are carried in every seething cataract and waterfall " in every stream in the state. 'The white horses in these po tential 'power sites are running wild as any horses ever found on the Oregon' plains, j ' The deserts, of eastern Oregon will be made to. blossom as the roses of the Willamette thorugh the irrigation waters of her streams and the same water will release millions of horse ' power of electrical energy v which will reach every line of industry In its activities. .Electric furnaces will smelt the ores from the mines of Oregon; will operate the machinery of the mines and the transportation of the metal to the markets of the world. ' Already the cheapest power in the United States is the hydro electric power In Oregon. Its av erage cost is placed at 1.81 cents per kilowatt. Oregon has " no ' extensive coal fields. So far no oil deposits have been "discovered. But sup pose coal were discovered, and ei' in as great quantities as in Cali fornia, It is but a short., span of life until these -sources, of power are, exhausted. When once ex hausted they can' never be replac ed. Not so with our hydro-electric power. It goes on forever as long as the 'rain falls and the rivers flow. The population of Oregon is in creasing five times faster than that of the rest of the country. Manufacturing for the loca1 population alone would demand, s like rapid increase In our manu facturing Industries. The world' markets are opening before us more rapidly than our own local market demands. This will Induce still more rapid deve lopment of our manufacturing In dustries. This, . in turn, will de mand a still greater development of our 'potential water power. In the development of the state, however, it must be- ever carried in mind that the ability to supply the raw materials for manufactur ed articles Is a far larger factor In productive Industry than that of power. Oregon, fortunately, has such vast stores of other" re sources, in mine, farm, forest and stream, that she may with confi dence anticipate a development in the near future vastly ,'beyond any thing that has yet occurred in her ilstory. . ; v . ; GET MORE WOOl. - With Oregon wool at a . good price -it.-U impqrtant to, get as heaw a- f leeea as nessiblu from the flock. The buck will be one means of increasing tne rieece weigui. -, tn selecting a buck to head the hock, the-mutton conformation should be the first - consideration," Next comes the wool. A dense fjeece with a good length of staple cov ering - the . entire body evenly efaould be selected. Care Is taken not to get ram with bjack fibres in- tne woov ausises . itja vureaon Agricultural college experiment station.' ' trcet Elntrance . dueted by'xir:: r-d .family .-". This cat is used by courtesy of the Associated Industries, . of . Oregon. Beginning about January. 1, 1935, The Statesman will tiv'l ment its slogan articles on, this page with a series of storiss of Industrial Oregon from., the pen of Mr. Edward T. Barber who Is one of the most accomplished writers along these lines in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Barber is a painstaking and careful Investigator. His articles will be based upon the meet reliable information obtainable and written, from a construct!? optimistic viewpoint. . The following subjects will be Included in these articles: The Willamette Valley, Its Physical. Historical, Geographical and General Features. ; j Lumbering and Forest Products. ; Manufacturing Industries and Opportunities. Market at Home and Abroad. ". - Fruit Growing -Conditions and ' Opportunities. Commercial lIut Growing. .Poultry and It Opportunities. General Agricultural Conditions and Opportunities. Labor Conditions. ' j " Irrigation. .".'k' .'.i-A -.'....." ..Xucational and Religious -Resources. . I Tourist Trails, and Scenic , Attractions. . Taxation and Financial ' Conditions. - -General Living Conditions.. V . Dairying, Milk, and Milk Products. Mineral-Resources. ' .'', .- . C ' . Commerce. . ' ' r ; Hydro-Electric Development and Possibilities. iV V , PD WEB. THE KEV OESTI RED TO OPEfJ """"""S"SSl---1" 1 11 Qrfegon l.1ay Safely Challenge the Vor!d to Duplicate Her Potential Factors of Power, Raw. Material and Trans portation Essential o Commercial and Industrie Eu- premacy Safe, Sound and Profitable Field for U.ztq Men and Money By EDWARD T. BARBER), : Desire 1 to -win in the, mad race for Industrial supremacy plunged Germany and .the , "whole, sorld into war.. The temporay loss -t the military feature of that mad race has in' no wise changed or altered the German desire to control the industrial activities of tne woria. The race .is sua on and going strong. . But the contest has adjusted it self along commercial and indus trial lines. - Chemical laboratories and scein- tific research workeYwere never so active or so potent as . today. Their entire efforts are centered on trvinr to discover better snd rmore economical processes for producing the commodities re quired by i modern civilized man kind; to discover, new uses for old producta or to discover useful things lying hidden in the waste matter of Industry or in the hid' den corners of nature's . store house. . ; ' - a : v : We are at the, dawning of a new . era , in buman industrial development. ; , s i . The world Is weary oC attempts to , settle Its controversies - by physical force and is turning from Its warriors to its industrial lead' ers. f.i Industrial leadership replaces the armaments and tools of war with the machinery and tools of productive-industry. guided by the power radiating from pur research : laboratories . and using for - am mnnitlon the stores of undevelop ed resources nature-ha placed at our command. ." ... - . , In this contest the state of Ore gon finds ; herself occupying " a most favorable ; and advantageous position. . , -.;':: . ". i She possesses three commercial weapons of the "big Bertha"! type; UnUmited cheap . everlasting power. . ,- - Vast' stores of resources from which to draw her raw materials. Transportation .facilities, by land and sea, which give .her ac cess , to the markets at home and abroad. , These are the three mightiest factors essential tp success, and Oregon possesses them each in the superlative degree. . - v A hundred Niagaras. and Xnacle Shoals thunder from her mount ain streams and challenge -the skill of engineers to harness them to th .wheels of Oregon progress. Already the challenge hasjbeen accepted by , numerous organiza tions, and 200,000 horse power of this challenging Giant have been harnessed. "Oregon uses five, times the . amount. .. ml ; ; hydro-eleetrle power per . capita of the average for : the United; States. Bat this development is sovsmallr. sach.a tiny attempt as compard with the possibilities ot the situation, that the Giant smiles In contempt at! our.pany efforts. . , ; ' '-. Uore nea'asd mora ncz:, z.X still more men and more icze;, are neeJii'ts meet tla cLallsre cf th Cls-t power ge-Ii Ur:j.s in Cr 'r-iT.'.i. - ..... i Oregon towns and cities art among the best lighted in thS world. ' . Scarcely a hamlet ot any t'.i Is" wMffat'tti'powef' cosalctU::3. 6o abundant is this mssia "Jics" that hondreds of Individual pla.nU are found where farmers, miners and mill men own their Enall plants and harness the tireless Giant to .the wheels of industry. So cheap is this power that most of our larger eities use it la what to the outsider appears a most extravagant manner in street lighting. It is- made the chore hey .of every -industry end perhaps cl more families in Oregon than acj other place. 4'. It churns the batter, separates the cream, hatches the chlckerj and broods them afterwards, cocks the food, warms the- bedroom and office, hauls the produce to mar ket, crushes the ore in our mines and aawe the logs in, our cIIIs. , Oregon may safely ehallensa tia world to duplicate the conditioss and factors within her -borders which are essential to an in Jus trial development whose zna.2it ude will be beyond the conception of the wildest dreamer. " J. And. thakty io .thU great era of development is PO WE It, BAHAMA riEWS I MEHAMA, Ore.. March ..25 Real farming weather-r every k 3 is busy putting In gardens. - - A." A, Martin had the xzlzt: tnae to-tut a finger of his r'.. hand . Monday. The wouc i w dressed - by r. BeaucI-ar:p Stayton. . oiy It a . The small son of R. Chant c -t off the little' finger of hla 1: hand Sunday while playing v, 1 an awl.- , - Elmer Taylor killed a larsa w! cat last Week. That makes a tct of -eight .cats .in- the last t months. - 't : - ' f. The Oakdale' school, is del: nicely with .Miss i:. Criffea f teacher and - we. hope 1 tefcra f other. term of'scliool the- baillL can be made larger. Mrs. Eilva . Chasada Ld a new. sewing machine. Charley Paulson, of Jir.l' C was a visitor. la .town T!:-:r ..!:..-. .'Mr. ..and. Mrs.; I'cTuI! -Gauch motored to. SlaytDa. , I day on business. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tajlcr c : .3 and It. Criffea atttiiJ t" : at. Gates Caturday . reported a good -tir:?... Myers "Erotfcera fro:! I" were busIneEs visiter 3 i . t week. ;BiU McMullIa tts.rt f' ! ' last week tut 1 3 ill : the. streeoer" -t Grandda.d.Tiylor lit" ed on tie tick Hit. depsrt-: t. ' I 1 - r t: -.-.- : (. t: