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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1925)
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12. 1025 akes .em The following advertisers are representatives and boosters of the fifty-two major industries of Salem district who are contributing to the campaign of selling the advantages and proven superiorities of the community THE OREGON STATESMAN SALEM. OREGON Makes b a 1 em ' T. A. Liyesley & Co. Largest Growers, Shippers and Exporters of 7 PACIFIC COAST HOPS Offices: Salem, Oregon and San Francisco, California HOMEWETWASH LAUNDRY Clan take the Wash 1ay oat of year home Call 171 Price 75c and up 1356 B Street DRESS SHIRTS With or without collars, $2'.50 values special at 75c and 95c Cotton Worsted Pants $1.73 Capita! Exchange 342 North Commercial - 60S V- S. National Bank Bldg. Phone 859 Res. Phone 469-J DR. B. II. WHITE Osteopathic Physician and Surreon Electronic Diagnosis and Treatment (Dr. Abram's Method) I Post System Salem Oregon For Feet HAS ETTERBURGS 0NM0CAT1S Grows Thern Successfully on Both Red and Black Soil, Near Jefferson- Editor Statesman: I certainly think the strawberry industry is a very good industry and has grown quite a bit and will certainly continue to grow, a9 the strawberry is a fruit that nearly everybody likes. I also think that the growers should try to raise tne oest nemes icej can. Of course every grower does. What I mean by that is the kind and variety that . tha people de niand. I have been raising Etter burg 121 for the past five or six years, and have had very good success. I have some planted on both red and black soil. I do not see very much difference in the berries, except that they do not do so well on the red soil as on ; : The industrial center of the United States is us like the first pink of an' opening rosebud. VALLEY PACKING COMPANY SMSiSfi WILL PUT SIX JOHNS Mr. Alien Thinks They Make a Superior Barreling Fruit; x Other Merits Editor Statesman: . Your letter of Nor. 5th relative to the strawberry Industry. I am not prone to take i any definite standpoint of view. However," I am ' satisfied "we should always look forward to quality as well as production. Just at present most farmers are at a loss to know just what varieties are the best adapt ed to this locality. Canneries seem to favor the Etterburg 121. While they are splendid ; canning berries and possibly will yield sat isfactorily in some localities. I don't believe they are reliable in all sections, as some years they are a short crop and do not ma ture as well as other Tarieties. Wilsons do well on well drained rich land, but are hot profitable on poor or wet land. I am satisfied "that strawberries require good, rich and well drained soils. This, however annlies , to any herry crop. It is a mistake to -depend on making berry crops profitable - on oit that will not nroance gooa ; grain without the use of fertiliser. S DUNSMOOR BROTHERS 2218 SUU Telephone 2230 Painters and Decorators Interior or Exterior Work Wo specialise on Interior work. Let at snow you some work wo hare done. Keep Tour Mouey In Oregon Bay Monument Made at Salem, Oregon CAPITAL MONtTMEKTAi WO&XS r J. C. Jones a Co., Proprietors Ail Kinds of Monumental Work Factory and Office: 2210 S. Com'L, Opposite L O. O. T. Cemetery, Box 21 TOone 689. SALEM, OBEOOX BE READY The coming rains wftl mean a busy season for us. Or der now to insure early de livery and choice slock. Fruitland Nursery A. J. MATHIS lroprietor Route 6, 1 H Miles E. of Salem lies. Phone 11 1F21 Office 1718 Office 169 S. High St. In Xew Salem Hotel Bldg. the black for the first year or so. Now I will tell what I believe is the best time and way to plant them. I believe that through the fall and winter the best time to set them out, planting them out, planting them quite deep. They should be watched and cultivated as early in the spring as possible, the first cultivating and hoeing being quite deep, the rest of the cultivatings medium deep and the rest of the hoeings light. I do not believe it is a very good idea to cut the runners from the plants until after harvest,-as it weakens the plant. I think they should be out from two to six weeks after harvest, according to the maturity and variety of the plants. The way I cut the runners from mine is by first raising the guard on the mower so the cycle will miss the crown of the plants good and mow the tops off, then cut the runners as close as possible to the plants, then take the rake and rake them in windrows and haul them out ,and the patch is ready for cultivation. C. RAMSEYER Jefferson, Or., Rt. 1, Not. 9, 1925 Cascades Locks Contract 'let for new school building, to cost 215,983. 2,000" men working on Southern Pacific Natron cut-off, with only 25 miles of track still to lay. Estacada. Snyder sawmiH opens, to cut 15,000 feet a day. I am under the impression that the Improved Oregon, in the soft or table berries, will come as near to quality as aay variety grown here. However; they are not a cannery berry, as they grow too large for grade canning. I am setting out six acres this spring of Johnsons. Just at present the canneries ' are not recommending them. I have kept in close touch with them for three years, and I believe thev will grow in demand. There Is no better barreling fruit. and they are perfect for preserves, and better adapted to all soils and more, reliable in production than any variety I know of. I have never seen a plant crown wilt, which is auite common with the Trebla. At present I am experi menting with crude sulphur as a prevention of insects, such as root grubs and diseases such as mold. While I am not sure of the results. I am confident 300 pounds applied to an acre In the late winter or early spring, after the ground Is plowed and worked down before setting. plants, will be profitable in more ways than one.. It forms a chemical action in the ground that is destructive to small insects and also increases production. Yon can consider this for publica tion; or as personal information. O. B. ALLEN. Salem, Or.', Rt. 4, Nov. 10, 1925. Roseb,urg.-Broccoli yield from 4,000 acres should be near 2000 cars, a record crop. . f Cottage Grove. New garage, 100x100 feet, will cost $20,000. "" : i i ii " - - ' J MORE THIim 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN eHOWlKG STflAWRERRIES HERE Mr. Southwick Says in Conclusion That if There Is Any Secret in Growing Strawberries It Is This: Have Your ' Patch in Good Shane for the Late Summer and Early Fall, for It Is in This Time That the Plant Gets Its Strength for Next Year's Crop Editor Statesman: Having raised strawberries for more than twenty years, I feel qualified to Offer a few opinions on the strawberry game. Being in touch with the raising of strawberries for such a period of time has brought -to me the realization of how this industry has grown in the territory sur ounding Salem. When we first began to grow strawberries there were few patches planted and tended on a commercial scale. A yard containing eight or ten acres was an exeptionally large acreage of berfies. The market was as undeveloped as the acreage. The Oregon packing company was our first and only canning market for a number of years. Many of our berries we sold right at the patch to people who came sometimes as far as fifteen miles to get them. Finally people began to set out more berries, not as a leading crop, but mostly as an expansion of the whole fruit industry in the valley. New markets opened up, and finally the strawberry indus try began to open up as a distinct and leading crop in the fruit game. Third of Nation's Supply The teritrory adjacent to Salem now markets at least one-third of the canned and barreled straw berries in the United States. Plantings of from twenty to forty acres are now considered common. It is here that I would caution growers to remember what hap pened to the loganberry industry. If the plantings continue too fast S1HAWBEHRY CROP OF ALREADY MOSTLY SOLD ON GONTRAG The Prices Are Such as to Make Large Profits for Growers With Right Locations and Knowledge of Cultivation Is There a Chance for Over Expansion in the Next Few Years? Talk With the Dean of the Industry W. G. Allen, manager here for Hunt Bros. Packing company, may appropriately be called the dean of the strawberry industry of the Salem district. He introduced the Etterburg 121 and the Trebla here, along with about twenty other varieties, which were discarded as not offering advantages for this district over old varieties. I ; ; . rapidly gravitating to Oregon because of the marvelously favorable conditiomMM prodigality of resources. World markets Every dollar spent for "OREGON QUALITY" products stimulates it into full-afnd refulgent bloom. LOANS Made Oa Good City Property Low rata, easy payment plan; all paid tj end of year. Tmrm loans, law or smaU tracts. Private money. See me first; rra will jo no fnrtsar. G. W. LAFLAR 410 Oregon-Building Perfectly Pasteurized Milk and Cream Phone 725 Salem Nursery Co. Strictly High Grade Fruit, Nut and Ornamental Trees and Plants - - v rhone 2365 Office: 210 Oregon Bldg. J Portland. Oregon Life Insur ance Co., with 140,000,000 insur ance in force, bays new business home, : , we may find ouselves with a weak market. Leading Varieties There is a lot of difference in variety of strawberries and straw berry soils and methods of cul tue. This is caused mostly by lo cation of plantings. In the hills in which I live the successful var ieties are the Wilson, Oregon, Marshall and Trebla. These ber ries, and all others for that mat ter, require well drained soils. A strawberry that has a great deal of water around .its roots soon dies. In the . hills most of us plant our rows from three and one-half to four feet apart, and the plants from fourteen to twen ty inhes apart in the rows. This only allows us to cultivate one way, but allows us to plow to the Plants i nthe late fall, for drain age and the covering of weeds and other vegetation. In the spring we plow away from the row and hoe and cultivate in the best manner possible to hold the moisture. In the lower lands with their heavier soils, the Ettersburg 121 is the chief variety raised, and it commands the highest price at the canneries. They plant differently, generally in squares of three feet. If there is any secret in grow ing strawberries. "I would say that it Is this. Have your patch in' good shape for late summer and early fall, as it is In this time that the plant gets its strength for next year's crop. A. R. SOUTHWICK Salem, Ore., Nov. 7, 1925 1926 HERE IS TS Mr. Allen is also himself a straw berry grower. He has 40 acres in strawberries, in the Mission Bottom section, nine miles below Salem, and he is putting out still more strawberries. He has 30 acres of Etterburg 121 berries and 10 acres of Marshalls. and his new plantings are of these varieties, with some Treblas. 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What of the Future So much by way of introduc tion. But Mr. Allen is not an easy man to interview. No, not that. He is approachable and genial and easy to interview. But he does not like to be quoted as posing in an oracular manner as telling the growers just what to do and what not to do. In fact, while he is optimistic about the strawberry industry, and knows we have a great strawberry district, he also sees that the in dustry needs direction; supervis ion. It needs expansion, but it might be over expanded, to its ul timate injury. Mr. Allen said yesterday that the canners here used to buy, Wil son berries at 3 cents a pound. Now new plantings are being made of Wilsons. The almost exclusive canning berry here now is the Et terburg 121. It may be that if the merits of this berfy as a canned product could be properly stressed with the trade, a higher price than for the ordinary straw berry in cans might be realized, to the benefit of the industry here. The same might be true as to the Marshall berry for barreling. The east does not produce a blood red berry like the Marshall, and large buyers are turning to the west for quality in strawberries. So Mr. Allen sees the need of constructive supervision. Rig Acreage Going Out This is growing to be a big strawberry district. The acreage is being increased very fast. Mr. Allen contracted for his company a few days aso with a certain grower for 125 tons of strawber ries for 1926. and 150 tons for 1927. J. Q. Swink of the Lebanon Eat a Plate Day Weatherly Ice Cream Sold Everywhere Western Dairy Products Co. P. L GREGORY, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street SALEM Salem 50,000 by 1930 RICH L. REIMANN Real Estate and Insurance S07-308 Oregon Bldg, Phone 1012 district has 90 acres in strawber ries. Large yards are becoming common, and small yards are in creasing fast in number and acre age. The past season the prices were 6 and S cents for barreling and canning berries. They started off for 1926 at half a cent above that, and the prices being offered now on contract are 7 cents for barreling berries and 9 cents a pound for canning berries. Those figures mean large profits for growers who have the risht loca tions and understand strawberry culture. The ultimate consumer fixes the price finally. He will have to pay more for berries in the barrel or in the can. Will he do it, and take all the berries that are offered? Mr. Allen believes in good prices to the grower, in order to stabil ize the industry. And he is not an alarmist. He thinks he sees room for expansion, gradual ex pansion. But he also knows ex pansion might be overdone. Probably or SO per cent of the prospective strawberry crop for the Salem district for 1926 has already been contracted for. MARION COUNTY FRUIT INSPECTOR GIVES TALK (Continued from page 8) on 30 different plants. A lady from Aurora sent a sample of in fested rhubarb .and it was found that it had the strawberry root weevil. The way to fight the weevil is to keep it out. The root weevil has completely destroyed strawberry patches in in Hood River and Freewater disticts, and some near Portland cultivated by the Japanese gard eners. If the weevil once gets started, the only thing to do is to change NEW SALEM HOTEL Where Hospitality A waits You New Building, New Equipment, Best Located Georgm Crater, Manager W. C. Culbertson, Proprietor Blaesing Granite Company Roy Bohannon, Mgr. City View Cemetery Salem, Oregon Ik B. DUNSMOOS Salem Wicker Furniture Manufacturing Co. Wo Sell Direct Genuine Rattan Reed Qrtllty Furniture Repairing, Heflni&hlng, Upholstering 2218 State St., Salem, Oregon F. W. BLISS AUTO TOP SHOP Removed from 311 N. Com'L to 245 Chemeketa St. Septic Tank that save more dirty work and doctor bills ready to install, proper ly designed, and reas onably priced. We make this kind, Oregon Gravel Co. Hood at Front Street Salem 100 Service 100 Auto and Tractor Repairing We Know How Welcome to oar Serrlc Station Te Old Tiau Gaa Once More GENXKAI, OAS, OILS AJTD ACCESSORIES SEXVICE -A staple line of Groceries, Oonfeetloa ery. Meals and lanckea anytiae. The Caef KNOWS HOW . . nortii commercial garage & grocery AJTOSaSOK, ADAMS ft SZrTKA " lelO-m V. Commercial Sfc nose JS77 crops entirely, and, to cultivate such crops as potatoes till the weevil pests are completely starv ed out. This may take some years. However, the strawberry root weevil has not proven itself the pest that we feared it might "become, in the commercial yards.' This may be because, we have large acreage of lands, and we change plantings often. Plant rags ought-not to bear more than four crops. Then there should be rotation. Do not plant on clover sod. After a crop of potatoes or grain is a good rule. New land Is especially good fo- strawberries say after a potato .crop for the first, year to get rid of the roots. EIGHTEEN ACRES OF STRAWBERRIES (Continued from page 8) There is a good local market for the Marsnall.'as it is early and j quite Jarse, beautiful red. fine! flavored, a great favorite in ho-j tels and restaurants. Also, it com-j mands a good price, generally $1 per crate above canneries' prices. It is noat a very heavy yieider; is a soft berry, must be picked often and handled with great care. Hope this will help, - ARTHUR GIROD. Salem, Qr.; route 8. Nov. 10. TO SHIP MANY PLANTS -FROM SALEM DISTRICT (Continued from page 8) and diseases. This condition seems peculiarly common in the hill countrv around Silver Creek Falls., It is the straw berry plant land par excellence. And it is a fine strawberry pro ducing district, too. The patches there come in about a week later than those in the lower valley, and persist longer, usually. H. Peters, Sublimity, route 1, whose place is in that district', last year produced four and a half tons of .Marshall strawberries (9. 0GO pounds) from a single acre. Telephone 2120 Se(1 n?in!f h bhe"7,Iant fertilizer, certified strawberry . Plants, bush frnita crona-oi 11 . vj Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made" Paper for Ycni Office Stationery PHONE 934 for Cherry City Cleaners 231 NORTH HIGH DIXIE HEALTH BREAD Ask Yonr Grocer . We Axe Oat After Tv. Millions . We are now jpayinf ,orer tare, qnarteri of a mUlion dollar a year U tat dairymen of tklt section for milk. : . . ! . , "Marion Butter" IS the Best Batter llore Cow and Better Cows is the crying need Marion Creamery & Produce Co. ' lalcmV Ore.' 1 ' Phone 2122 AFFECTS PERMANENT RESULTS This science is like a vast searchlight or L-ray. It locates the causes of .disease primarily and then eliminates them by adjustments. Relief of a last ing nature is what we can promise to those who seek health. Phone for consultation Dr. O. L. Scott, D.C. 256 North High Street Phone 87 or 828-R If You Want A Home Built To Your Notion . In a restricted residence District Consult John Williamson LONE STAB SERVICE 8TATX0 N. Capitol St. Phone 620 , . Hill Candy Company Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of High Grade Candies 1204 Leslie Street Salem La Grande. Local grower ships eight carloads of potatoes to Cali. fornia, at $47 a ton. 3000 Portland Road -nw I nw jav ... I ., - , BuE.oi nuc ui nursery stocK. are opening before Odorless Cleaning 6 Hour Service Free Delivery; PHONE 934 Overland Willy. Kriight Oakland Sales and Serrlce 1 VICK BROS. High Street at Trade . Gideon StofCo.-' manufacturers Dependable Brand Lime-Salphnr Solution Tb arand yea eaa depend ra for parity aad test. Prices upon application -''-- raeterr near eoraer a-1- -'-: ? jBamaier aaa MiU gta " -v ftalem, Ores on