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TTTURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER ,1. 192V-
Ihe Oregon Statesman
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December. 3 1935
SURE GUIDANCE: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and be
shall directuby paths. Proverbs 3:6. c-rilt : 1
NOW WE HAVE A REAL MINT BOOM . ,
Salem district peppenhint oil is quoted now in the New
I York market at $27 to $30 a pound. At such prices, mint
growing here would be as good as a gold mine "
There would be a small fortune of prof it in each acre
j producing a good crop ; say about $2000 an acre with a crop
r of around 70 pounds to the acre. But oil was selling at this
- ".time last year at $6 to $8 a pound. Half those prices would
' ; make mint growing a profitable crop here.'; ,. ' '
t We have a real peppermint oil boom here and it is likely
to' persist perhaps to the extent that there will in time jbe
an over production, with low prices. - 'h-., f.
J . But these things are to be consideredi I
The finest and richest peppermint oil in fhe world is pro
. duced in the Saleni district ' '.... ti
An oil with 51per cent of, mentbol content, against the
t 36 per cent of the oil produced "in Michigan, Indiana and New
' York, our! competitors In this country
And an oil that ranks at the top for purity of iflavor
il1 So that dealers pay more for our oil than for the Eastern
oil. ,
And the Eastern oil must be mixed with the Oregon oil in
order to give it the proper flavor.
, - Besides, our growers get more pounds of oil to the acre.
All these are tremendous advantages ?
They give our growers what amounts to a franchise in
the profitable production of peppermint oil, for which there
is a rapidly growing demand, especially in the candy and gum
trades of the United States. ; "
. So we can produce peppermint oil' here at lower cost than
it can be turned out elsewhere in this countryi because we get
more to the acre ; because we get a higher quality worth more
, ; per pound;; because our. overhead is. smaller . our. Jan.d being
if cheaper for the principal thing. j
If. ouXf people will prepare for it, they can make-their
boom itf peppermint persist and become solid growth, Natural
condition favor them enough 'id make this' a Vertamty.f ,
' Sa taMhould have a peppermint refinery. . She can have
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one, if all the growers will join the Oregon Cooperative Mint
4 Growers' Association r if they will organizeflOO per cent.':The
advantages would be many. In the Iirst place, the full profits
would be brought' here. In the second place, the product
would be standardized, and higher prices would be realized.
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The writer repeats the following from Jast yearns annual
mint Slogan ijumber: 7 ;
Mint was used in medicine 400 years before the birth of Christ;
nd perhaps a great deal longer, t.
Bat it is only of late years that the demand has grown to enormous
and erer Increasing proportions. . , ; '
.That the farmers of the Willamette valley are destined to supply
the increased demand there. Is little doubt- because they can do this
at a good profit. I
- Every farmer of the Salem district having the proper kind of soil
ought to read carefully all the matter In this issue of The 'Statesman
on th$ .miht Irtdustry, and. he should considerthe'following tacts:
.'Peppermint is a profitable crop: " " ,
Because it Is of hardy growth and lias fewer natural enemies- than
almost any other farm crop; .-Vi
Because it produces a good crop the first year that it is planted."
Because it produces a good crop, for ererayeaj-s after the first
year wan very mtie labor some growers say ten years; ,
Because It does not have .to be marketed immediately but.can be
held without deterioration unUl market prices "are favorable; ' -
Because the crop Is of such smalt bulk that the cost of hauling to
market Is practically nothing and the distance of the grower from
transportation facilities does not have to be considered;! t
Because the oil commands a good price.;taking one year with
another, which affords the grower a good margin where the land is
properlyadapted to mint. "3 i';
-The-mint industry ia not likely to be xoon overdone, in view of the
increasing demand and -the higher production and- quality of the Ore
gon article ..-': "'-' 't'Z' . ' , "
And in Some years it will be a bonanza crop- -,tl .
. ,;,And during a series of years it will pay well, as has been the ex
perience of all the older growers, who have been the pioneers of the
Industry. ', .. . v. " A 2'-:
Another thing, there are three distinct varieties of peppermint, the
Japanese, the Black Michem and the White Michem. White Michem
has. heen'produced successfully only la England. Saxony "aid Syria
and ln.the(Willamette valley. ,It is the;supe.ri6r kind its oil formerly
selling at double the price of the Black Michem. That is one of the
pTiaies of "tho francnlse Nature has glvea our Salem district growers
' . Once more,, the Salem .district will attain its greatest prosperity
when it produces fhe things capable of being grown here to the. great
eat advantage and at greater-profit than they can be produced itt other
sections and there are jnany of these. , Mint is one of them. This
line of production will lift our -people above the dead level, of mero
-competition, fir will put them In a" field all their' own.' Too much
cannot be said about this. Too much cannot bo written about it till
our people are' clear above mere competition, which position' their
advantages or son ana showers and sunshine Jurnish them the. oppor-
luuiues to attain. ... .
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American Students in Paris
Call- on Father's Banjk Roll
.PAHIS. Those Amcrjcan stu
dents In Paris who confidently
,told their parents that living here
was so reasonable they could sure
ly do two years work In one, al
ready aro writing ; home tor "in.
ereased allowances.
In the famous Latin Quarter,
prices of board and lodslag- ha.ve
gone . up appreciably- Furnished
apartments which' once cost -500
francs a, -month now are renting
for thrice this sum.
The long colored glass of ap
petizing mixture that costs - the
French student one francs and 70
centimes- leaving him the extra
25 of his two francs for a- tip-
cost the obviously American. pat
ron three francs fifty, wR the
Implied obligation of tipping the
ooy. -centimes. . .j-,.-
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