One cfrop of water
does not make a
waterfall""' K f
One maii' 8 effort
will not build a
immunity '..
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.Hon? reaf fAi8 community may grow, how prosperous and compMe it may (V A-I I 1 anrl 'A 11' fatw (TblXTF
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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. ' - ;
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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
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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
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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
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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.) -
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- Phone 2365
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and lets only deep
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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
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Teritable ; swarms of ; humming
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; : 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
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266 North High Street
Phone 87 or 82&JI:
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What It It?
SEE
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Phone 192 ?'
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Where Hospitality Awaits! Yon
New Building; New Equipment,
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tiro.
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