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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1926)
One cfrop of water does not make a waterfall""' K f One maii' 8 effort will not build a immunity '.. MAKE .Hon? reaf fAi8 community may grow, how prosperous and compMe it may (V A-I I 1 anrl 'A 11' fatw (TblXTF become; depends upon us our willingness and our desire to work together . 1NJuj lUi -.1iJi dlltl .raJLii-i 1UI jaIJLi FATEOMEZI STORES LOLLS : AMD EMDUS1 FREES; PAYR f t 4 Jl111 S. iSBSoSm hebe USSR? He Expects, to Build a Country rtome on His Land, Cess Than Fifteen .Minutes by Automobile From the Heart of Salem, But in a Quiet and Secluded Spot Surround ed by the Surpassing Beauties of Nature; and Away .-From the Noises of the City . -r . - The Slogan editor h as for-seT- ral yeas been malting reference the annual Grape Slogan nam ber of The Statesman to the Tine- yard of J. R- Linn, to ma famil iars "Jim Linn," and so known by a wide circle of friends. Mr. Linn is one of onr most consistent boosters of the grape Industry. He believes -thla" Industry has a big luture here. He sees much deTel-i opment from year to year.,. He pives mnch care to his four, acre grape vineyard on hla farm-In the Liberty district, four miles south of Salem though he is interest ed in manyother things,, Includ ing Hotel Marion, hops, loganber ries, general farming and, stock raising, etc. Mr. Linn is already making plans for a comfortable . country home on bis grape farm. He ex pects to build this home with wide porches, with an outlook oyer the sweep of bis vineyard and other fruit trees. He is already assist ing nature in making a beauty spot out there. He expects, to have other kinds' of fruit, and he plans trees, shrubs and flowers. A. He la aireaay Keeping some ot nis "registered Jerseys there, especlal- f if the young stock. Mr. Linn, jwun easy armng oy auiomooue. can reach his Tineyard home in less than 15 minutes, from the Marion hotel, in the heart of Sa lens. When he is there, he is off the main road. In a quiet place surrounded by his acres, away from the noises of the city; in a spot already beautiful with natur al growth, on land that has gen-j tie Hv8-and rolling hills. So Mr. LiJMas a dream home, and he expects to make his dream come true. He is already making Improvements and laying plans and carrying out schemes of cul tivation looking to that end. When Mr. Linn '.was a number of years younger than he is now, he was on the payrolls of the state of California, working at the home for the -feeble minded children at Glen Ellen, In the Sonoma ralley. He then had the care of the Tine yard of that institution, and the vineyard that he attended was across, the road from the one the farm . of Jack London, the great novelist, -and near one owned, by Dr. Donnelly, mayor of San Fran cisco and who. was a candidate for governor of California. There was a good deal or rivai between Mr. Linn and Jack London, for .the great story writ er thought he Knew an aooui prape growing, and he took great delight in the arts of "ritlcuUnre. But - Mr, Linn made a study of the science, .too, and he worked hard, and -e thinks he put it all over Jack London in the quality and quantity of grapes grown. r -Like Polk HiDs :. Mr. Linn says the grape land of the Sonoma Talley district is like the Polk couhty hills, only Tough er." ' . ; -y. K, . He says the rough rocky land of the Willamette Talley, with south slopes, to get . the best ad vantage of -the sunshine, is the v&t for cranes In the eountry arckind Salem. Mr. Linn's ownr Tineyard Is a patfh of t land that was 3 formerly groVn up to oak grubs and wild thirirs of the woods. iK set out his grape Tines in t heaving of 1915; Concords and IA Yof . .. The woraens are 01 . me "3fVk.-k- famllT: onlT larcer and finel He set his Tines eight feet L anae- ut them like hon Tines. ww ". ffk rn1. tival grapes: the stump system the ftellUIng system and the lay eringvystem. The - grower - can producf more grapes to ..the acre with. t layering . system .than eitner o ine iwu , iana and Germans in Marion conn ty are p'oduclng -lt'toas to the acre wlthVhe layering system. But that systfi takes the most labor of alL vf ThTtre Is the trelllsing iys- ibxu 4i. .iueu 1U . , several f-ers. ' . - uses the stumplns sys- ils is the system used for large acreage easy cultivation and harvestlnl The sec, year tie up the nrst sear's grol h to a stake 18 tncnes hlrh whlft mnVPH the StUmP OZ the Tine. I Ich year after that cut back the'sUon's growtli to about two eyes, "jius the new growth Mr. LT tem. i 1 He sai V in Callfl It makes! r'"i will branch out and make a bush high enough to.carry the fruit oft the ground. ', When the tines pro duce fruit,- to . get perfect, fruit pinch back the Tines aboutv the first of July to two joints In or der to throw the growth into the fruit. Another advantage, this will make the winter pruning much less. Mr. Linn sars that, while he ' set hts . grapes i., about like hops, I deeper holes, are better. He says that a grower here may I safely, .count n . an average of three tons of ,'the acrei under the stumping . system; a. well-tended trellised vineyard Mwill produce live tons to the acre, and a lay ered Tineyard may bear 10 tons to the acre. The price should be at least 1100 a ton in normal years. The Layering System The layering system Is rather hard to describe without a pic ture. - But the principle is the growing- the year before of two or three Tines about six feet long, from the parent stump;' then the coyering of these Tines with soil for about two feet, supporting the rest of the Tines with stakes. The part of the Tine under the soil grows rootlets and gets sustenance from the soil to put growth into the grapes on the part of the Tine exposed to the sunlight , on the stake and the result is a great crop. Mr. Linn has been gathering, a larger crop of grapes" each suc ceeding year. Some of the above facts haTe been given concerning this little Tineyard and the methods and de scriptions of Mt. Linn . ip,. former slogan issues of The Statesman; but there are many new people and new readers to whom they will be new 'and Interesting; who may -profit from their perusal For there is a distinct growing interest in the grape industry in the Salem district, and there should be. Mr. Linn says California grapes haTe Bold as high as $200 a ton in recent years, but there is money in grapes in the Salem district at S100 a ton. One may expect at least three tons to the acre, and the "harvesting Is not expensive. Mr. Linn himself, when he' first went to California, picked grapes at $1 a ton, and .he picked two tons a day. The scale of wages Is higher than that now, but, even so, the expense of harvesting grapes is low compared with al most any other fruit crop. I Good Property He says this little Tineyard Is getting to be..,the . best piece of property, he has, . foxthe - size of the original yeatment. When it gets to be fifteen .yeara old, and with good attention, it will bear five tons to $h& acre. And it will go on bearing that tonnage and more during all . the years of his life, and for ,1000 years longer; perhaps, with Just a little care each year. Grape vines, or rather grape trees, or grape stumps, nev er grow old,' any more than a walnut or filbert tree grows told. They renew themselves each year, and only the heart wood of the tree grows old. Mr. Linn says he hears more and more inquiry con cerning grape growing in this sec tlon. Scarcely, a day passes that he. does not haTe some one com Ing to make inquiry concerning getting a start in grape growing. And growers are giving their grapes good attention now; tak ing care of the Tines and keeping up the soil fertility.. . What is fln- r, he asks, man a grape aruor, giving beauty and affording shade, while making a good return for its care?-Mr, Linn says not to set but the European i Tarieties here. They are all right in California. where the summers, are hot, but they will not ripen properly" here Set out : the v Concord, Worden, Campbell's ? Early; j Niagara, etc. the American Tarieties; the Con cord Tarieties: " the kinds : that make the grape Juice of com merce: the Hudson rlTer Tarieties, They will do Just as well here as they do in the ' districts where they are grown OTer , the '.wide areas for the leading grape Juice factories. Grapes also make very fine Tinegar and they are largely used in Jelly making in both do mestic and commercial YOlume. Mr. Linn beiieTes, w should hare grape Juice factories here,, and that we will get them If we keep on sTowtoX larger Quantities ot the right Tarieties." ' Why not? Ton can pick grapes for - 2 a ton; while it cost4J"40 a ton and more to pick our berries. And grapes now sell for around". S cents a pound, of $160 a ton. They .can be produced "at a profit here at lower prices. There are a number ot growers in the Salem district who make their livings from grape growing.'- Their vlpeyards dfe becoming more valuable with erery passing year. Mr. Linn says grapes are prac tically immune from pests and diseases, that is, with proper prun ing and cultivation. Everything depends on pruntng and cultiva tion. He says grape vines are more pleasant to work with than the frtrit vines that have thorns, and the picking of the fruit, too. Is a more pleasant task with - vines without briars, Mr. Linn also grows some grapes on Willamette river bot tom land, on his hop farm five miles below Albany, on the Ben ton county side ot the Willamette. He also grows there' some won derful Bing and Lambert cherries, and some asparagus that Frank, the Marion hotel chef, says is the finest he ever prepared; .better than the . best he can buy in the markets from either local or dis tant, fields. TIMELY HINTS OF OAC SPECIALISTS The Asparagus Beetle; and btrawberry uulture: Ap hid Control, Etc, Etc. (The following timely hints are contained in current bulletins of the department of industrial jour alism of the Oregon Agricultural college : ) Asparagus beetles, recently in troduced in Oregon, are causing serious damage to the new aspar agus shoots at this time, reports Don C. Mote, entomologist of the Oregon Agricultural college exper iment station. A few plants left uncut . attract . the beetles which are then controlled with lead ar senate spray, one ounce to one gallon ot water, or with dust. Aft er the cutting season is over a spray or dust of lead arsenate, two or three applications at 10-day in tervals, gives good results. Deep plowing and thorough working' of the soil ., to a good depth before planting are essential on permanent plantings of straw berries in Oregon, as the first deep plowing will be the last time deep cultivation can be had. A loose, friable soil, which can best be ob tained by planting after a rotation of crops and immediately follow ing a cultivated crop, has been found by the Oregon Agricultural college experiment station to be best suited for strawberries. Says an Oregon Agricultural college bulletin: An aphid today may mean 500 tomorrow. Care ful spraying with nicotine sulfate three-fourths of a pint to 100 gal lons of water and four pounds whale oil soap or three pounds. laundry soap helps prevent in jury. For smaller "amounts use one-half tablespoon nicotine sul fate and a piece of laundry soap about one inch square in one gal Ion ot water. The white eggs found among the' aphid colonies are . the gardeners friends. A3 soon 'as these eggs hatch the re pulsive looking larva of Syrphid flies eat from 10 to 20 aphlds a day but do not feed on the plants. If live aphis are still found 24 hours after applying the first spray a second spray is advisable. The pink and green aphis on roses are hardest to kill. By Increasing the amount of nicotine to one to one and one half pints per 100 gallons of water, effective results are ob tained, , Fewer .aphis are killed after they have curled the leaves and are settled cpmfortably on the inside. Nicotine dust applied In warm ' weather . aids in their con trol." : . , i Sixty graduates in agriculture from this college are teaching in Oregon high schools, 23 of whom are In Smith-Hughes agricultural work, e The college employs 45 graduates including 13 county ag ents, nine experiment station spe cialists; nine extension service spe cialists and .14 men ' on the in structional staff. Farming Itself, however, still absorbs the greater portion of the agricultural gradu ates. ' - ; Ks TW , GarXTAX. XOyVXZXTAX. woxu JT. O. Jim m. C Froprtr . -AH XimiM C tfcawratal Wsck ' fMUiy m4 Offloti me s. o'L, ovrotf i. o. o. w. ' OMItllT, Bo 1 999. BATJPM, OBItOOW MOST EXTENSIVE i IIS SECTION. Should Have Better Than Seventy Tons to Harvest This 5 Year, t)f Table Grapes, -to Be Sold in the Markets of the Pacific Northwest The Fialas Have Been Pro ducing Grapes Here for Twenty-seven Years The Fialar family has been growing table grapes for the mar kets of the Pacific northwest for 27 years.. First it was Frank. Fiala, since deceased, .who started the vineyard. Now his son, Ar thur J. Fiala. carries on the busi ness. Mrs. Frank 'Fiala, a fine refined southern lady, born in Alabama, -ably assists. Mrs. Ar thur J. Fiala Is an efficient help er in the work of the Flahv opera? tlons.' The vineyards 'are' some thing! of a family affair, like a close corporation,, with each mem ber contributing a share ot sym pathetic work- They are the "Fi ala Vineyards," and have been all along. That is the trade name, the good will name, established by the furnishing of a superior product throughout ' all - these years, and with an increasing vol ume almost every year. The Filala farm is located just three miles from the Salem end ot the steel bridge that spans- the Willamette. It is just a mile east of the Wallace road, in Polk coun ty, and it Is near the river; rich bottom land. There is in all a fraction over 32 acres of land on the Fiala farm. It . is the third farm south of the big Wallace orchards. Their Own Variety The Fiala vineyards produce on ly one variety of grapes. It is a sport of Campbell's Early. It is produced no where else on earth. It was originated on that farm and has been kept there. Big prices have been refused for cut tings, but no saled have ever been made. The "Fiala Vineyard" grapes - are table grapes. They are blue black, and they have . a delicious flavor that is all their own.v They make a fine appear ance in the markets. They are largely -sold in fruit stands at Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and all up and down the northwest coast, as far as Coos Bay and father. They are sold by the growers di rect, a goodly portion of them. Some of them go to commission houses, like the Pacific Fruit com pany and the Ryan Fruit company. They go to market in 24 pound lugs, packed at the farm, and ev eryone Dranaea, "iaia vine yards." The same trade takes them year after year, and prizes them for their delicious flavor. Starting with a small number of vines, the acreage has grown till it is now about 16 acres of grapes. At nrst mere were sev eral Tarieties. But they have all been discarded, excepting the one Fiala kind. With the exception of two or three old vines. The Fiala plantings represent all ages of v vines, from 27 years down. ing the present season. An adap Some new ones were put out dur- tation of the' Kniffen system of training and pruning is used. But there are many variations, of this system, and the Fiala way is a thing of itself. Only one wire is used, and the vines are trained high; as high as an average man's head, in order to get the maximum of sunlight. The Fialas like that system, for their location. In or- 17 Tarieties Baby Chicks Cniton Hatching .' LEITS -" -HATCHERY " noma 32M1V galea - - Oregon W. B. Holcomb . Electric Store HotFetn sua UbItwmI Appliance SOSS . Capital raene 22 AS " : ' 0 a k 1 a n d Pontiac 1 i Sales and Serrie - "VICICBROS. Hlffh Street at Trade THE F der to get the most delicious and marketable grapes. Looking For a Good Crop They are looking for a good crop-this year. It should be" bet ter -than 70 tons. The, prices start in. at about 10 cents a pound. and wind up at the end of the sea son at about 6 cents. Does this pay? The answer is that the Fi ala vineyards are being increased In. acreage and production every year. There is a good deal of ex pense. , Help must be kept the year through. There must be constant cultivation, training, pruning, fertilization. At picking time, labor is supplied from the nearby-farms and from Salem. The pay is by the day. The old vines are, of course, the heaviest bearers. A grape vine keeps oil: getting bigger and bear ing more Jruit, every year, almost indefinitely, o'n the Clyde La.FoL letta place at Wheatland, a few miles below the Fiala place, on the same kind of river bottom land, there is a grape vine over 50 years old, as big as a man's body at the base, and bearing nearly two ; tons of grapes each year. There are grape vines known to be 200 to 300 years old. The Fiala grapes are not wine grapes, in the common acceptance of that term. They are table grapes. But they make a won derfully fine quality of grape Juice. As fine as any one ever tasted; finer, experts think, than the grape juice made in the lake states and sold In . the markets out here. There" are possibilities here; a chance to build up a great grape iuiee business, centered in Salem, and supplying our coast markets, and outside markets J too. Capital should be enlisted in this project, or it might be started and carried on cooperatively. It will come. Ten Ares Asparagus The" Fialas are also asparagus growers. They have 10 acres in asparagus and they are supplying now a fine quality of this delicious vegetable to Salem and outside markets, though their patch is new. That land seems well adapt ed to asparagus growing. There is something to think about here. With; a small tract of good land, in a quiet out of the way place surrounded by the beau ties of nature, here is a family es tablished in a business of its own, producing a commodity that is SPECIAL LOW PRICES ETSBT TUESDAY SAXEM CHICKEBXES PHONB 40O mm 8 Leading Vazlatiea 264 Morta Cottage Street Electric Supplies FIXTURE INSTALLING. WIRING VIBBERT & TODD Ferry and High St. IUDIO LIGHTING MOTOR SERVICE GIDEON-STQLZ CO. Manufacturer of VINEGAR r: : SODA WATER Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 26 Ore. DUNSMOOR BROTHERS S81S Stt TeUpaas tSSS Painters and Decorators , Interior er Xxterlor "Work We tpodanso oa Ixtrior work. Lot a show yoa ooate work wo aavo aoao. DIXIE HEALTH GHEAD 4 A& Yoax Groeer ranis commanding a wider market every year; a business built oh quality, rooted- to the soil; giTing inde pendence and" an annually Increas ing competence. It la an enter prise that- may oe duplicated in definitely; Hbat is, being--duplicat ed in this land of diversity and country of opportunity, 1st many specialty lines; destined to make of the Salem district - the richest and most contented section of all the world. The Fiala vineyards are the most extensive in the Salem dis trict, so far as is known to , the Slogan editor. They go to show that grapes will do well in nearly any location of the Salem district; on most any kind of soil we have. ftPAPPC FOR TUP UflMP 1 BY GOOD AUTHORITY (Continued from page 8) . is ijbt serious, it is not a good plan to prune when the sap runs from the', cuts. However, if the vines have not been pruned until that time, or even until the buds have started, it Is better to do it than not at all. The removal of foliage from the growing vines is not to be rec ommended. Grapes ripen best where the fruit is in the shade. Besides, the leaves are needed by the vines the better to carry on the growth processes necessary for the maturing and ripening of the fruit. A thing that can be practiced to good advantage, how ever, is thinning of the fruit, for, with any system of pruning and training, a vine often produces more fruit tha'n it can mature properly, in which case the poor est bunches can be removed as soon as the berries are well form ed, resulting in a decided im provement in the remaining fruit especially as to size and appear ance of the remaining bunches. GORDON E. TOWER. Salem. Ore., April 20, 1926. (Mr. Tower is orchardist for the Oregon state hospital (asylum for the insane), and he is" good authority on grape growihg or other orchard methods. Ed.) - iaon COMMERCIAL SI ORDER NOW FRUIT AND SHADE TREES, SHRUBBERY From our splendid assortment of varieties for spring planting. SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 216 Oregon Bldg. - Phone 2365 Is Your Well Properly Lined? Use our sanitary well pipe, that keeps out surface water, and lets only deep ground water in. Made of strong ma terials, ' and reason-, able in price. OREGON GRAVEL : COMPANY ifc"" Hood at Front Street Saleia ' " " . : SHIP BY SAL EM 2Eia3 OPERATTNQ ON A REGULAR 6CHEDTJLB-.HandlIng .Merchandise and cirloid ShlnmeaU Between SALEM and PORTLAND and Way Landings. - SCHEDULE . - - ; - , - ' ' r . Leafe PORTLAND : 00 A. 1L Sundays. Tuesdays and ThursdaTS ' BALE! : lOO A, XL-SIondavi) WnMul. t,v':" -- Care SUPPLES DOCK k : SAXISl DOCK and WARSnOUSE - PORTLAJTD i ,3 - i FOOT OP COURT STRECT rcoaa. bast iSIin BY Rubber Situation Now Kr Worrying Jree Fancier CARPINTERtA. CaL Thomas W. Ward, 91 ea"r old tree fancier, la not worried boy the rubber situ ation. ' 1 An immensef rubber .tree with branches and trunks'fairly ooxing rubber, stands in his yard. It is 70 feet high and has foliage so dense that . it Is almost impene trable. ! . . The yard about his home is a field for scientific study. Many rare varieties of shrubs and trees thrive there. I n usual species of trees are an Australian she-oak, a beef wood, a Norfolk pine 75 feet tall and a Lagunaria,' whioh when loaded with pink bloom, attracts WELDING ELECTRIC j ACETYLENI3 TRACTOR SPROCKETS Tracks etc., built up good as new for less! than half price. General welding of all kinds Steel, cast, iron, aluminum etc An Oppen Weld - Has Always Held REMEMBER THE PLACE 695 MILL ST, C D. 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Oj ; : Notable In the tree collection Is a Torrey pine, 100 feet tall with a clrcnm f erence of 1 2 1 feet , at t be base. Mr. Ward planted the tree In -IB 90- when ft - was - only six inches high. McaltH ; Consider what Is claimed for Chiropractic methods and you will easily realize what com mon sense science it Is. It alms, by removing causes, to eliminate disease, and does sa successfully. Phone for an appointment Dr.O.L. Scott, D. Ci 266 North High Street Phone 87 or 82&JI: Oil-O-Matic What It It? SEE THEd. M. BARR Phone 192 ?' . NEW SALEM HOTEL Where Hospitality Awaits! Yon New Building; New Equipment, Best Located . George Crater; ManaSjer- ' W. C Colbertaon, Proprietor tiro. Blaesiiig Granite -J ! Company j f j Roy Bohannon, filgrl i City View Cemetery 1 j 5 Salem Oregon i f - '. a. ' , ?' X. B. DOVSJCOOB Baton- Wicker Fursrftars Manufacturing Cow . - ; Wo oa Dteeot ' 8nlao Xattaa Km4 ToMy Fuattste Kapalrfac, XeflnU&iaf. 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