THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
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Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman
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(In Twice-a-tVeek Statesman Following Day)
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(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.
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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 .
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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 $450,60
a year. Some bad crop j years for
red" clover rather discouraged part
of the growers; but they took
heart in 1923. and put out more!
than) ever. H. O. White, of D. A
White & Son, Salem, leading seed-j
men and dealers in clover seed,
are the principle buyers and ship-!
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The severe winter freezing has
made the prospect for ; a large
normal red clover crop in this dis
trict for this year impossible.
Our growers will get jnot more
than a 25 per cent crop.
There lis a? shortage of red
clover seed in this country, and
the prices are high, running
around 23 to 2S cents a pound.
It is a pity our growers were not
pure, of a bumper crop this year.
It would help them over many
hard bumps. ; I .
, I.ig Voath Crops
The prices received -4iy our
growers for their vetch seed run
around 3 to 3Vs cents a pound;
away below the price of red clover
seed; but the production of vetch
seed is three to four times as high
to the acre as red clover seed.
The Salem district growers turn
off 700 to 1200 pounds of clean
vetch seed to the acre; in rare
cases very much more even as
high as a tori to the acre.
I There is some t-rimson ; clover
also raised in the Salem district.
Other Legumes Here
Our growers produce a con
stantly increasing acreage of the
white clovers; the 'Alslke, , Sweet,
White Dutch, Bokhara or Honey
clovers, etc. This Is very impor
tant on account of the fact that
bees can work In white clovers,
and they need It for late bee pas-
ture. With plenty of late bee pas
ture, this will be the greatest bee
country in the j world. The early
honey flow j here is the . largest
known, excepting in southern Ore
gon. And fruit growers must have
bees forj polin$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.
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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
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jii ivt-. r v uae ranne irum me oest quarries ana use as mucn skiu cui
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Blaesing Granite Company
--J ROY BOHANNON, -Manager
Display rooxa in City View tCcmetery ; ? 1
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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 . .
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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
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Mrs. Elsa M. Pal i ska the ?IOOO : liize Winner
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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-
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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
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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
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The Willamette Valley, Its Physical, Historical, Geographical
!; and General Features.
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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.
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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.
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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
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. 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.
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FoHins Strawberry Ess Cases J
Apple Don Covers
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Orchard Li: Dcnci
Cannery Ccsc 3
Hallocks
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Baskets li
Call and get our pricei.cn cht" cf lIgv
! or! any other materials ycu -niic;!:t r.zzii'
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