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DR. B. II. WHITE
Osteopathic
Physician and Surreon
Electronic Diagnosis and
Treatment
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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.
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2218 SUU Telephone 2230
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The coming rains wftl mean
a busy season for us. Or
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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.
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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.
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Tmrm loans, law or smaU tracts.
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G. W. LAFLAR
410 Oregon-Building
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Phone 725
Salem Nursery Co.
Strictly High Grade
Fruit, Nut and Ornamental
Trees and Plants
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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. His straw
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berries are all under irrigation.
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
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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
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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.
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