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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, APRIli 9, 102; i, ' IND IAL ORE 7 PRODUCES QUALITY ti . ' .' II'- ' " ' ' " i ! GON J' j PRO : .": I -! i' ' . : DUG I -This cut Is? used by courtesy of the Associated Industries, of Oregon. . 7 Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman . - " - j ! ' I - H i I (In Twice-a-tVeek Statesman Following Day) 1 1 (With a few possible changes) Ttranberries. uctODeri 2 Prunes, Octobers Dairying, October 16 Flax, October 23 Filberts. October 30 Walnuts. November 6 I Strawberries, November 13 Apples, November 20 Raspberries, November 27 Mint, December 4 j Great Cows, Etc., Dectember 11 Blackberries, December, 18 Cherries, December 25 Pears, January 1, 1921 j Gooseberries. January 8 Corn, January 15 I : ! Celery, January 22 I - 1 Spinach, Etc., January 29 Onions, Etc., February 5 Potatoes, Etc., February 12 Bees, February 19 j Poultry and Pet Stock. Feb- 26 City Beautiful, etc., Jffarch 5. Beans, Etc., March 12 Paved Highways, llarfch 19 Head Lettuce, March 26 Silos, Etc, April 2 ' j .. 1 Legumes, April 9 Asparagus, Etc., April 16 Grapes. Etc., April 23 Drug Garden, April 30 ' Sugar-Beets, Sorghum Etc., May i' 7 . i .: U: I 1 1 ' Water Powers, May 14 Irrigation. May 21 i Mining. May 28 Ml i 1 1 Land, Irrigation, EtcJ June 4 Floriculture,) June 11 1 , Hopg, Cabbage, Etc;, June 18 Wholesaling and Jobbing, June 25 i Cucumbers, Etc., July 2 Hogs,' July 9 Goats; July, 16. Schools, Etc., July! 22 Sheep, July 30 National Advertising, August 6 ' Seeds, Etc., August 13 Livestock, August 120 I Grain and. Grain Products, Au-j guet 27 r ' . Manufacturing, September 3. i i Automotive Industries, Septem ber: 10! 'M ;',!;. r ,-. j :r-:, Woodworking, Etc., Sept. 17 Paper , Mills,: Etc., Sept. 24. 1 U . i U:V. ':!! ;; Uv..,. : (Back copies of the Thursday editions of i The Daily Oregon Statesman are on hand.- They are for; sale iat. 10 cents each. mailed to any address, copies 5c. y Current CiTHE SALEM DISTRICT GROWS KEflRLY 111 THE VETCH SEED FOR THE COUNTRY Red Clover Seed Crpp Has Beeen Bringing Large Annual Sums ISome Grejat and Promising New Legume Crops tor Our District, Irjcluding Grimm Alfalfa . ' '- - ' - f i - ; ! i Nearly all the vetch? seed inon account of unusually severe America Is grown In the Salem ..district. i 1n 1922 our! people j shipped tbout 100 carloads of it. ' In 1923 the sales of ou!r growers dropped down to 60 to 65 cars; on account of an unusual. amount being' cut for hay-. !But ! the acreage was larger last year, and the shipments went up lo around 75 caret again. j j ;." The 1925 supply will be short. winter; freezing , Our dealers ship Chicago, New York, and other eastern points, i They have plied California with her vetch Heed.- A this peed is ' sown vetch seed to Minneapolis distributing always, sup nearly all of good deal of there in the "OREGON QUALITY products are establishing themselves in world markets; they make our pay rolls they build our cities; they attract new capital and j new people; they provide a market for the products of our farms. Oregon farms produce a wider variety of profitable crops of i Oregon Quality food than any other spot on earth. orange groves as a cover crop. 1 It also makes up nearly! ialrthe cover' crop used in the hop yards and in the prune" orchards of this sec tlon, and in all, other fruit plant- . Red Clover Big Crop I In the production of red clover seed, the Salem district has been a leader. In most years, there have been shipped 60 to lo cars, which at around 20 cents a pound has run to. $5000 to $6000 a car. or a total of $300,000 to $450,60 a year. Some bad crop j years for red" clover rather discouraged part of the growers; but they took heart in 1923. and put out more! than) ever. H. O. White, of D. A White & Son, Salem, leading seed-j men and dealers in clover seed, are the principle buyers and ship-! pers.J ' ;.'!:', j ; ! The severe winter freezing has made the prospect for ; a large normal red clover crop in this dis trict for this year impossible. Our growers will get jnot more than a 25 per cent crop. There lis a? shortage of red clover seed in this country, and the prices are high, running around 23 to 2S cents a pound. It is a pity our growers were not pure, of a bumper crop this year. It would help them over many hard bumps. ; I . , I.ig Voath Crops The prices received -4iy our growers for their vetch seed run around 3 to 3Vs cents a pound; away below the price of red clover seed; but the production of vetch seed is three to four times as high to the acre as red clover seed. The Salem district growers turn off 700 to 1200 pounds of clean vetch seed to the acre; in rare cases very much more even as high as a tori to the acre. I There is some t-rimson ; clover also raised in the Salem district. Other Legumes Here Our growers produce a con stantly increasing acreage of the white clovers; the 'Alslke, , Sweet, White Dutch, Bokhara or Honey clovers, etc. This Is very impor tant on account of the fact that bees can work In white clovers, and they need It for late bee pas- ture. With plenty of late bee pas ture, this will be the greatest bee country in the j world. The early honey flow j here is the . largest known, excepting in southern Ore gon. And fruit growers must have bees forj polin$tion purposes, in order to insure their crops. We Produce Hairy Vetch We are also producing here the old-fashioned sand of hairy vetch. A good deal bf new acreage of this old-fashioned sand or hairy vetch, sown in the , fall. It will not win ter kill. It is aphis proof. It Is one of the best of all the vetches for a coyer crop. We are surely "on our way" In the matter :jof legumes and the future looks .big in this -respect. It means many great advantages for odr 8eeti4nj not the least being. the keeping np; and. the restoration of the fertility; of the soil. (And Alfalfa Also There! is a; large new acreage In the Salem district of alfalfa; some has been produced here for 120 years or more; of the common variety. But i here is a "boom on now in me new urimm aiiaua and Salem district farmers have out hundreds of acres of it, and the indications; are that they will have thousands of acres. Seeding is beginning now, and will last throughout this month, and per haps most of May. canaaa field peas arev grown here to some; extent, most for hog feed for "hogging , off. They make a good crop for this S1Q0D PRIZE WfliU BIT FARM WOMAN BEST EAR OF CORN IN U. S. FI The Big Lesson of the I National Com Show: Same Land, Same Work, Same j Weather, Same Overhead, Same ! Cost, and Good Seed Will Yield Twice As Much As Poor J Seed, and This is as True in Oregon as in lllinoi is purpose.; 'Also, beans is; the production of soy 1 r ..... JSf--' I-".! 1 ! ' - . i .i :..'! jjttfplittfwyJsifww-trwy-y'i. J ', '"-T w V - ' : v ;-V ffS- id 5 ?: i It" IlliiSiiSiSa " . x fm mmmm - 4 'y v-' . 't- 3 i The Booth Memorial on State Capitol Grounds was cut and erected by. us' . inn4 ir . - : i i . i . , , , , i jii ivt-. r v uae ranne irum me oest quarries ana use as mucn skiu cui tinff letters pn a small marker as on thefinest monument. f f 1 " - ' ! ' ' ' . ' Blaesing Granite Company --J ROY BOHANNON, -Manager Display rooxa in City View tCcmetery ; ? 1 . ... being! tried here; mostly in an experimental way. -Former ly only southern seed could !be had. Bat of. late Michigan seed is being secured jiere; two new var ieties, and some seed from Can ada. Our farmers are trying theni all out. t ''. ; - I . . - Ilangariaa yet,lv-it-Her - Hungarian! ,vetch, through the initiation of j the Oregon Agricul tural college, has in the past year or two come jinto great popularity in the Salem district. It is aphis proof and j frosjt 'proof, and thrives on white, sour land. makes greatj hay and silage and is an excellent cover crop. It has so far, ijn this district, putyielded our common ! vetch. A number of cars of the Hungarian seed were shipped lout iby cur growers last year. T"he future of 'Hungarian vetch for this district look big. We are M also growing some purple vetch, jfor the California trade. This (variety is used for a cover crpp In the orange-orchards 01 mai siaie TO The Su Shou news bu i IS 6 OD 'I Mrs. Elsa M. Pal i ska the ?IOOO : liize Winner S plus of Former Years d Be All Cleaned Up for the 1925 Crop - America's! best ear of corn has been produced by a womah farmer of Illinois, for which achievement re"wtff the $1,000 prize offered by the National Seed Corn show, held under j the auspices bf the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural! Foun dation. The f eminine champion corn grower! is Airs. Ela M. Paluska of XVaverly, 111., who re ceived the announcement of her victory pver more than ,27,000 farmers of 45 states on her fifth wedding anniversary. The!! judges declared that the test showed the ear was 10( per cent perfect. Five years ago Mrs. HalusXa and her husband started farming in Morgan county, wiih on1! $25, In the, family coffers. Noiv they are workingf a 1,60-acre farjm, and thev are erxid farmers as evidenc ed by the fact that they t;est all their , seed jcorn for germination power and disease resistance be fore planting. :S The winnng ear was a jiybrid, the result ojf a cross between yel low corn arid red corn. . Back In 1846 Jamea E. Reed, an Ohio farmer, movod to Tazmvell county. rrniSbl and began to ; growl corn. It was he who made the crqss and the prize-winning ear wasfa de scendant of that mating.,, j -v! Following, is from a curren lletin of industrial of the department journalism- of he Oregon Agricultural college j Offers for, the 1925 Oregon prune crop' should open at a very fair pride, says C. J. Hurd, rriar keting specialist for the state col lege extension aervice. .For the first time I in j several years f no surplus will be carried over. Both the Oregon land California crops should be cleaned up shortly and since a ; large part of ; the 3.924 crop has! been sold for export, job bers and retailers should enter the 1923 buying season with practical ly empty shelves, j Better economic conditions In Europe, and prospects for conti nuous employment of labor in the United States are other factors that augur well for the prune grower. Mr. Hurd believes. Oregon and; Washington have a near monopoly of Italian prunes, but this variety has to compete with the petite prune produced In California. The Italian has an ad vantage over the petite in size with almost a monopoly on 20's, 30's and.35"sj The state agricul tural economic conference and later Willamette , .valley confer ences urged, Oregon growers to put forth a special effort to pro-duce-these large sixes. - -- "JCeepingj the orchard in -good physical I condition and using, pro per carej In harvesting will far toward 'supplying the 'large sizes and good quality needed If best prices are to be obtained' says IS. f. Hurd. "O wing to the exceed ingly ,drjr.,season Jait yeai, jome gTawers are TeportingUgbfbloom- , - f - i i I i ' i- ing prospects, which shptild.mean fewer. prunes to the tree and con Eequenlliy, ljirger sizes -j! Importance , of God Seiwl The imperative need of testing corn before planting -to insure a normal yieldwas. vividly demon.: strated at the National Seed Core show; i More than 25 per cent of the ears showed poor germlnatlor ana these were the best ear? which; more than, 27.000 corn growers could find. The winning ear, which captured the $1,000 prize, proved up 100 per cent in germination power and disease resistance. The tests were in charge of Joseph Naylor. The big lesson of the Nationa" Seed Corn show to the farmers or America was" tersely told by Sam uel Rj Guard, director of the foundation, as follows:' 'The lesson, of the corn show could be found in almost any county. Take the beet dozen ears and the ; poorest dozen. A dozen ears 'will plant an acre of ground At the end of the season the beet dozen I seed ears will yield ; 70 bushels on the acre, or, maybe 80 or 90. ! The poorest dozen will yield 35 bushels. Same land, same work, same weather, fame overhead, same cost. And yet the 12 good seed ears yield twice as much crop as the 12 poor eats. That 1 is the big lesson ' of the sho." ' S1NESS FOR ! SUliTRODIlGED Weeks anid Pearmine or H. A. Hyde Co. Have New v, Ideas for Fruit Growters I u -: j j . ' " ; j J I Many "readers have seen the new brick and concrete building on the Pacific highway nearly op posite the plant of the Valley Packing-company. j I I Well, that is the Salem head Quarters otj IL A. Hyde !& Co.; 3090 Portland Road, the local business of; which company la lander the management of(W. II. Weeks and) Iester I. Pearmine. the wholesale growers arid shlp-I pers of strawberry plants,! etc. r! The reader will .note the- adver tisement of these people on 'the Slogan pigrf. ' , Theiline they arc pushing just now is' largely that of the Pacific Fruit Package company, . which has its mill plant at Raymond. Wash., where they get a superior supply of spruce veneer, j Thei Salem managers will be' able to offer (o the trad of the Salem i" district some superior styles of crates for cherries and other fruits.. They are specializ ing on hallocks, crates, boxes, etc., for the shipping and marketing of our various fruits. They have of late been special izing also certified , seed pota toes, shipping In car lots to dis tant points. They are : also specializing on wholesale orders Of ornamental trees, etc. ; This business represents . prac tically new lines for Salem. t This cat is used by courtesy ef the Associated Industries, .of Oregon. Found: Fountain pen by woman half full of blue Ink. Jefterson ville Citizen. '. Egg Laying contest for Boys and Girls. Norwich Bulletin. THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DO YOU KNOW that! Salem is the center of a district in Which the lesrumes dot wonderful! v well: that nnrmmtrv Wan field peas; that alfalfa docs well here on most soils; that the orchardist may grow here the finest - of --clover crops in legumes that the dairyman may grow the best legumes for his uses; that the bee Keeper may raise sweet clover and ther legumes for bee pasture t6 his heart's content that, in shorty the farmer )f, this district now has the knowledge in his noodle of the great value of the nodules on the root lets of the legumes; and that he is using this knowledge for 'his-own -good -and -the good -of -this-district -in general? : i Beginning about January 1, 1925, The Statesman will supple ment its slogan articles on this page with a series of stories bf 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. Ur. Barber is a painstaking and careful investigator. Jlis articles will be based upon the moet reliable information obtainable and written from a constructive optimtatitf viewpoint. The following subjects will be included in these articles: I i 1 . ..I: . : . . -H The Willamette Valley, Its Physical, Historical, Geographical !; and General Features. - t Lumbering and Forest Products. Manufacturing Industries and Opportunities. Market ait Home and Abroad. Fruit Growing Conditions and Opportunities. , Commercial 'Nut Growing. i Poultry and Its Opportunities. General Agricultural Conditions and Opportunities. Labor Conditional irrigation. ." .-' -f ' Edcat!oiial and Religious Resources.' Tourist 'Trails1 and Sct.nic Attractiona. j Taxation and Financial Conditions. , '. General Living Conditions, bairying,' Milk, and Milk Products. Mineral Reeources. 1 j' " Commerce.. I- v Hydro-Electric Development and- Possibilities. :"?- . I l LUMBER fiG ID AGRICULTURE ARE j INDUSTRIAL TWINS ST FALLS HIT Lumbering Operations are Gradually 'Laying the Founda tion fori an Extensive8" Agricultural, District of Unusual Value-fCowsJ Goats, Poultry, Bees; Berries, Fruits and Nuts Reward Industry f BARGER BY EDWARD T. 1 Since more than 3 the cost of a manufactured article Is represented by the " raw mat erials, transportation and freight entering jnto it, the, law of. nat ural selection enters into the manufacturing industries of any community. I ' . Falls City is located, in the "big woods," on ihe banks of the Little Luckiamute river wiell up in the foothills of ' the Coast mountains, A1 waterfall of unusual beauty at this point j in the stream indi cated i two factors entering into the! making of lumber. Plenty ofl oower and plenty of timber. So, bafore the -days of steam or elec tricity the riwr started the town of Falls Cit5as a mill town. A saw mill and a jurist mill were among Its first industries. The ;aw mill Industry still survives as thei largest ibuslnes3j of the place. Numerous 'small rh Ills are oper ating, but the lumber Industry is largely represented by the Grls- wbld-Grier (Lumber jcompany and thoi Falls "City Lumber company. The Cobbs-Mitchell mill is idle at present, (but It still owns large trails of valuable tlniber within reach of tha mill, and which will In time bo brought here for work- ins into lumber. I . ' - ' I J r JFhe Giswold-Grier mill opera- Lumber mills is of a high grade and is in demand all It is even 7 per cent of I-18- a Pining mill in connection with Its saw mm. Tne uurerenc in weight between dressed , and undressed lumber Is such that It saves freight charges to dress the lumber before being shipped east. As scientific research advances the time will be not far distant when plants will be established si the fountain head of the lumber business jlo utilize every particle of what is now waste. The stump will be j converted Into useful chemicals, as well as the hog fuel now being-burned.' . i j - i . An adjunct of the lumber busi ness at Falls City is the sale of the cut-over lands. Unlike'-many localities, these cut-over lands abotft Falls City are as productive of agricultural products jas they were of timber. They are a. rich, red aluvlal naturo and rolling enough to give good drainage jfor both air and water. As a result the lands yield un usual quantities of fruit, berries" fend nuts of an , extraordinary quality so that the future of fruit nnd ..berry culture about Falls City , la exceedingly bright. Theso lands are also 'unusually adapted to the dairy industry. Al ready the milk goat industry has been placed on a most promislns and subiiantial. commercial foot ing. Some 400. milk goats are now used In the business -of - mak ing Roquefort cheese. Thl Is the rom the Falls , City over the middle west. Shipped ito New York and ! other eastern cities. (Continued oa ptgt 11) .. J ... . . -. j, , ! ! 3090 Portland Road I -! t Dealers ! Ill- j .- V j i ,'.11 : !.- -" ' - ' s , - - ' A uperior Gradejof Spr-uco Ferieer Box SliddM i - -c- - Including j FoHins Strawberry Ess Cases J Apple Don Covers t - i. . Cherry Dcnco Orchard Li: Dcnci Cannery Ccsc 3 Hallocks Cratca. r r 5 Lb. Tin-Top Baskets li Call and get our pricei.cn cht" cf lIgv ! or! any other materials ycu -niic;!:t r.zzii' ' - 1 ' Telcplicrie 2123 ,