s 0 i l i . ;- 4 SIXTH CONSECUTIVE; YE AR ; ; Ttir n An v hundred basic industries of your. page. HE FIRST HS'l It Is Made Up'of Enthusiastic GUIB 0BE1IZED 111 POLK COM Eola Section Has a Leader wno is txpenenceu in . the Industry aftd Takes a Great Interest in the Work . -of the Members Th Kola Bee-Club No. 1. the ized February 1. 1926, by H. C.Seymow, .state club leader, Oregon Arrlcultural college, with B. I. Ferguson as ocal leader. .The Eola , . . .- .--- ...... I - 1 , - - "V - vf . .. 1 j ' -'- - . . It ' : . ' ' i . ....... rJ'L. ' - "1 the rntA BEBCLUB. NO. 1 boytf and girls bee clnb was the third to be organized in the State. .The members of this club are enthusiastic in their work, and they hare a sympathetic and able Ideal leader in Mr. Ferguson, who ; i. i th JndnRtrv in this section The boys glX T&rto- th.-Mtd work of attending to fhVir apUrteJ. and there is no doubt but they will gire good accounts i. . 4 ..nmnntii inns, and in their earning capacity. ?In the accompanying picture, reading from left to right, are, fjt-t. tmrothr Mead: second. MaxJne' Ferguson, secretary.and treas urer; third. Edward Antrican; 'fourth. Lewis Hal r bo n presi a e ni Tf.MajHtnfl' r fiTe8ident: sixth. 'Curtiss Ferguson, ana seyenth B. I. Ferguson,' club leader. Chas WUson. a member, was wKav thA Tiirtnrft war taken. -r ' u THE USES OF AGRICULTURAL LIKfi IflfflElL Linie HSs Been Used ir Crop Production Since-Early AgrU imi uictnrv -Tho fihiftf Reason. for Use lsTnat t, . of Correcting Soil Acidity the .Willamette Valley ana uoast uouniies. wb-huiu . c(Most readers of The Statesman know that recently -the state lime plant was removed ffom Gold. Hill to lSalanv where it was installed at the Oregon; sUte penitentiary. It Is, now. being ... operated there, "ijxd ft ta turning oat more agri cultural lime than it was first ex pected. The capacity of the plant was supposed to be about 3 0 tons a day.": The. machineryVas gone orer and put ia,"tlMrough -order, with the result-that ' its capacity has beejnr Increased to about 1 0 tons aTday: practically a car of lime a day. VThe prints ol sthe at the DfenTUfttlary hare been lime at fixed, for the time being; at $4.75 a tbn n,blk. tfcod, $i.60 In sacks. the- sacks to be returned. " This makes the cost much less to the ralley ' farmers, especially where they call with their trucks and -haul awayV their, supplies. The cost to them, Including freight, was J6 to $7 a ton when the plant wai at Gold Hill, and they were obliged to buy in car lots, in or der to secure eren such costs. The state " buys the lime rock at the quarry near Gold Hill at $1.25 a toiu jjlt pays $2.0 5 .a ton freight to the 'penitentiary; the' rate haying- been reduced from $2.50 a ton, under an understanding with the state lime board when nego tlatloni ; were 'on wlth Governor Pierce: for .the removal of the plant to? the penitentiary and its operation there as one' of the prison Industries.'';; The response oi : the farmers has been ' gratlty- f I log. They hare been .taking.; the I I lime as fast as it has, been turned i. out; ; and there are many orders i ahead. ' There is another phase of I I the matter that cheapens the sup l I plyJurther- Tha lime at Gold HiU f I wap r SO iper centSpure .That I i turned out1 at the" penitentiary ,1s f sg'per cent: pure,: making a gain lof nearly a fifth In lta potential raise. . Facets are being assembled for " an 'up "to date and authorlta tire circular for general dlstrlbu tion. on the usee of agricultural lime, with' directions forapplylng it,?.In the mean time, the follow ing excerpts from the circular of thB state lime board that was used while the plant was at Gold Hill will be of Interest, pending Ilia assembling of facts for the rrc?5?ed issw circular)! 1 ACniCULTTIUL 4 ' WLy Coils Eecosie Bovr' "Ii!n ta been u;s?4 (a Cjp pro JTATF5MAN Help make Salem grow. BEE Young Bee Keepers, in Jhe first, in Pol county, was organ . . . ' Practically All the Soils of duction since early agricultural history. . The chief reason for "its use is now recognized, to be that of correcting joll acidity. As soils mature and age under, humid cli mates, the degree of acidity tends to increase. Boil drainage bins at the - Oregon experiment station hare, lost a't the rate of from" 50 to 160 pounds of lime per acre a year. Good crops' of legumes such as clover and alfalfa remove 200 to 300 pounds of lime per acre. The decay of" organic matter" Ind the ageing of mineral soirxnater ial also" tends to derelop - acids which require lipe for nu tralization. W. lj.; Powes . ; Acid Western Oregon -Soils rrm-Hfn v ait of the soils of the . WnjametW iraller arhl coast counties are acid J The soils In sputhern.Oregon are also - found to be acid to aome' extent, wniie the soils east -of the Ca8cades,..ex cept in limited aree.5 marsh ttreas, are not acid. Excess isbir acidity will be corrected ' With Approxi mately one ton f ground lime stone an acre applied to the na turally drained lands of the Will amette valley floor or tne river bottoms. Wet soil types that re quire drainage, : like our wnue lands, may need 1 to 2 tons or ground limestone as an initial ap plication.- fled foothill soils may require Stons of lime as an Ini tial application! to 'correct exeess acidity, though subsequent appli- cationa may be lighter, Tbe soils department of the cx- neriment station . or . the county agent can; test representative sam ples of soil taken according, to di rections, to determine the -approx imate lime requirement, upon re quest. ATrough "test can b made with litmus naner i or " by other methods in the'i field. (W. Powers).- ? ,i,f. . . ' , Results From Liming Soilsj1 L. i - :ynfortimately recent jstatementa circulated "in tn eastern agricul tural Jou rnal gave the m islead Ing impression that r western Oregon soils,are. abnormal In that they do not respond to liming." All the exact 'experimentaf' evldence of the Oregon station lias shown that liming is fundamentally important for: acid soils -in -Qregon and that they respond t ; this treatment. Lime is 'found to be helpful on acid sotls of poor ferinily-par tlcularly where legumt-are 4o be grown. At the home station en "wfcH UaJ" Uao -tas. ?ai3?4 w WHcates two tbe Salem district. Letters and articles from people with Increase, of 'one-half ton Alsike clover at ond cutting and lime -and manure have Increased, the yield by nearly, a ton per acre at. one cutting. In the coast hills vetch has failed without lime and has made a vigorous growth on the sane kind of laud when, lime was applied: The lime at the Astoria branch experiment station gave -u gain In vetch hay of 1.15 tons an acre. Limo has paid in a 12-year trial on naturally drained soil at the home station. In liming trials the percentage of clover surviving has-reatly increased. Moderate increases have been noted on the other crops grown in rotation as a result of liming, probably due to improved tilth and fertility.! iTests show that? liming has' corrected. acidity on these iplotef oimproved the soil structure iand- aided -nltrfci flcatlbn; vw. PowersK '"4 . h f KindRate anft AicJhodli1 r; Lime can oe appueo, ai any ciUB- venlent - timp when the surface, is fairly dry. Where clover Is' seed- a on winter grain, ume wj neeu to be applied ahead of the grain seeding. Lime can be hauled di rectly : from the car to the field and applied with a ground lime stone spreader, or with a manure spreader, which is partly filled with dry manure then coated with lime, or with a shovel. Better returns are realized .from lime, and from manure, where these are used together than where used ajone. From one to two tons an acre can be used, depending on the degree of acidity of the soil One year is not long enough to demonstrate the value of liming as the fullest benefit may not de veloo uHftil the second year and will be distributed over many years. Lime will not take tbe place of drainage, manure, ? fer tilizers, or the proper preparation qf the seed bed, nor can, these fac tors; take the place of lime. Lim ing is one of the.-necessary steps in keeping up fertility in our fer tile, humid soils and: in building up our "run down" acid soils ( W. L. Powers). State Lime Board , , To enable Oregon farmers to obtain agricultural lime at the lowest possible cost, the legisla ture of 1917 created a state lime board, the members of which , are appointed by the governor. The legislature also made appropria tions for the' construction of a plant- for producing the agricul tural .lime which has been con structed at Gold Hill, Oregon. The state lime board consists at present of the following members: Sam H. Moore, chairman, Corval Hs; A. B. Cordley. secretary, Cor valli8; John Shimanek, Scio; M. D. Bowers, vjold Hill; C. T. Gilbert, Shaw. From Lime Users I base my experience of the use of Lime-on prune and cherry -trees on. tests made for a neriod of, five years, applying 9 Vfhfxtvr of ground limerock and hydrated lime. I consider flif ej goedfjn vestment for trees, especially cherry trees. The thirty-ton car referred totI had spread v oyer twenty acres -of" my f orVV acres of nine-year old prune orchard with a land plaster spreader. I expect to use another car next year. Gideon Stolz, Salem, Ore. The car -of limerock was cer tainly very beneficial to the land; it has increased the production at least one-third to one-half, and I believe it a very profitable invest ment. - John Benedict. Aumsvllle, Ore. I bought two carloads of lime from the state lime board last year and have secured better re--j suits with lime than from any of the commercial fertilizers Lime is the only-' fertilizer I have ever used from which I have seen any real benefit. - i . - ' Ilomer Gouly, Shaw, Ore. ' : - . 1 The cars of lime that we bought were for our own use as a fertil izer and we applied them all on our own ground. We paid $4.00 a' ton f. or b. cars. Gold HIU. Onf production was Increased twenty five per; cent by the -use of this lime and we consider ; It a most profitable ; investment ' because lime Is the best fertilizer or our soil. v ; . . . . E. demons. Horst Co., -''J ' -Independence, Ore. H. N. Ord, Mgr. We have used between 500 and 600 tons of lime bought' from the Oregon "state lime board. ! This has bees used oa our farm , one mil west of Chaw, red hill solL The price for several years has been f 4.00 per to f,"p. b. wit or more THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW that the lands in the Salem district are as well adapted to the growing of sugar beets with . high sugar content as the besCbeet sugar lands of Ger many; that the great Salem fruit district; using and due to use. vast quantities of sugar annually, can raise its own sugar beets and establish and maintain its own sugar beet factories, and can do it at a prof it that, in the service of a self-contained prosperity and growth, this ought by all means to be done, and done as soon as possible; that there is ample capital here how, if as sembled cooperatively under the right sort of auspices and leadership, to accomplish this very desirable end, and that it would not be a difficult matter to secure sufficient sugar beet acreage in the Salem district to supply a sugar beet factory, properly financed and man - aged ? r-r Dates of Slogans (In. Twlce-a-Week Statesman Following uayj (With a fete. poeefMe rhananO IxganberiHteswOtbber 1, 1935 France 0oJr 51 ,W' -dairying, October "15 Max, October 23 ; Filberts, October 2 , Walnuts, November f , , Strawberries, November 13 Apples, November 19 Raspberries, November 2fl Mint, December 3 Beans, Etc., December 10 Blackberries, December 17 Cherries, December Pears, December 31 Gooseberries, January 7, 19S Corn, January 14 Celery, January 21 Spinarh, Etc, January 28 Onions, Etc.. February 4 Potatoes, Ftc., February 11 Bees, February 18 Poultry and Pet Stock, Feb. 25 City Beautiful, Etc, March 4 . Great Cows, March 11 Paved Highways, March IS Head lettuce, March 23 Silos, Etc., April 1 Legumes, April 8 Asparagus, Etc., April 15 Grapes, Etc., April 23 ' Drag Garden, April' plant, freight $2.00 $6.00 deliv ered at Shaw. We have secured good results from the use of two tons per - acre and consider the money paid for the limestone a good Investment. Clover with us on land not limed is not very suc cessful, but on limed land we grow good vigorous clover and a mark ed increase in grain yields follows the clover. C. T. Gilbeg. Shaw, Ore. I have used 75 tons of the lime rock during a period of four years. Production, especially on' the le gume crops, was Increased on our hill type soil, which is very acid, from almost total failure to very good crops. ' Even the small grain, crops after the first year of ap plication, were increased from 25 to. 100 per centAs't certainly. con sider limerock pi acid soils one of the Very best investments. on re turns the Willamette t'alTey farm er, tan make.1 -The .rock was of gpJd-.qualttyrund crushed to re finement -considered desirable for land distribution. -, ; ' J. J.rTJoerfleV7silverton, Ore. E E This Can Be Done by Adding the-Chemical Properties I Which It Lacks, , jj (Fred Lbckley, the well known staff writer of the Portland Jour nal, who knows everybody,, and whom everybody knows.1 and r whw formerly worked for 4 The "States man and The Pacific Homestead; has been interviewing J. C. Kanp isch, of Canby, Oregon, who is a sort of Oregon Luther Burbank, who breeds Chinese pheasants and does high class gardening, mostly for the love of the work' The work of Mr. Kauplsch is an in spiration to any farmer, bf this section. Following is one of the Interviews of Mr. Lockley with Mr. Kaupisch, published Jn - the Portland Journal of last., Satur day): ' -. " ; Recently. I visited thevhora of J. OjpKatfpisch at Canby. Some men work because they have to. Mr. Kaupisch works because he loves to. .His work is his recrea - ANY SOIL CAN B MAD PRODUCTIVE SEND ; A-' GOPY ; EAST each week r :i - - ' ' i 1 in; Daily btatesfnan; Sugar Beets. Horgnum. Ktc v May 6, 1028 Water Powers, Blay IS Irrigation, May SO ' Mining, May 27 I .and. Irrigation, Etc., June S Floriculture, June lO Hops, Cabbage, Etc., June 17 Wholesaling and Jobbing, June 24 Cucumbers, Etc-, July 1 Hogs, July 8 Goats, July 15 Schools, Etc. July 23 Sheep, July 9 National Advertising, August 5 Seeds, Etc, August 12 Livestock, August 19 Grain and Grain Products, Aug- ust 26 Manufacturing, September 9 Automotive Industries, Septem ber 0 Woodworking, Etc, September 10 Paper Mills, Sept. 23, 192 (Back copies of the Thurs day edition of The Dally Ore gon Statesman are c- hand. They are frr sale at 10 cents eac. iaailed to any address, current, copies S cents). tion. No golf bug is ever more enthusiastic about getting out upon the fairway than is Mr. Kaupisch in getting out into his garden. No fisherman ever whipped a stream more enthusi astically than Mr. Kaupisch works with his pheasants.; "I have eight lots here," said Mr. Kaupisch. "I use six of them for garden. I dug a well 60 feet till it came to the 'gravel. The water . never Changes level, no matter how much I pump. I have a one-horsepower electric pump. I have 14 hydrants on my place, which enables me to control irri gation. It costs me about $2 a month -for electric power. When I took this place the neighbors told me the soil was so poor I shouldn't be able to raise much of anything on it. Look at the soil now; It Is as fine as flour, and wonderfully fertile. I am a chem ist. I analyzed the soil and found' out what it needed. I added lime, sulphur, phosphate, bone 5 meal, nitrate of soda, ' sheep guano-, chicken manure and barnyard manure in proper proportions. No soil, no matter how sandy or how mufti clay it contains, but can be made as rich as this soil, by pro per treatment. Last year at the Clackamas county fair I took 43 blue ribbons and nine red ribbons. I raise beets, carrots, pumpkins, squashes, celery roots, lettuce, radishes, corn, asparagus, onions -r-n fact, several score of vege tables., . ; ! guess the love of the soil Is natural to me, I attended a school of agriculture in Saxony- when I was a boy. I was born In Saxony. August 14. 1852. After attending school I went to the agricultural college, where I took a four years' course. Later I took post-gradu ate work In chemistry and crop rotation. When I was a little boy no higher than so high. I -took care of rabbits and pigeons and had a Shetland pony.- I learned the creamery business in Saxony. From there I went to Switzerland to learn to make Swiss cheese. s I also learned to make ; Hmburger nHlTrrnrh cheese. In Holland I learned ' to make Edam cheese From Holland I went to Belgium to learn to make Roquefort ' cheese. When the czar of Russia applied to the German government to have an expert sent to Kussia I to teach the Russians how to ln- stall creameries, I was selected as the man to go. I went to the ag ricultural experiment station near MrMMiw. 'That .vu In 1872. and l :taught them cheese-making and in the interests also about creameries, - "I served In the Franco-Prussian war but that Is a long story, and has nothing to do with my work: here in the United States. Tes, my face is somewhat scarred. The scars under my eye, on my cheek, on my chin and on my neck were caused by thrusts from swords. In those days in Ger many it was the custom to fight duels and I have fought a good many. When an army officer was challenged to a duel he could not refuse without losing caste among his fellow officers. I do not like to think back to those days. "I Installed the first De Laval separator used In the United States. This separator was invent ed m' Sweden, and this particular one was0 purchased at' Hamburg. I installed 1t at Elin. Ill.J for the Elln Buter''cpmpany, owned by Billy' Hindee and John Newman. I was manager' of teir creamery. tWe also made butter and cheese. Because ' of my knowledge of creamery methods Gail Borden ments in condnsing milk. I start employed me to conduct experi ed the condensed milk industry at Elgin. That was the first con densery in the United States. In 1887 I went to California and started a creamery there. ,Later I owned and operated one in Ne vada. In 1892 I came to Oregon. I ran a creamery at - Vancouver, Wash., for some time and later I operated one at Portland. I start ed the first pasteurization milk plant in the United States. If you will read the dairy and creamery journals you will see I am looked upon as a pioneer along these various lines. I ran a creamery at Corvallis for some time. Later I gave it to my son, who is now with a creamery at Portland. When I came to Canby, 14 years ago, I bought a creamery here and operated it for some years. "With my pheasants, my chick ens, my , garden," my cow and my other outdoor enterprises I keep busy the year round. I can hard ly wait for daylight to come, to get out into my garden, for gar dening is never drudgery to me; it is a keen delight. The alchemy of nature is fascinating. Two of the things that you must mix with the v other ingredients In garden ing, to make a real success, are love for the work and pride In producing the very best product possible." MODEL HEN IN It is time well spent to visit the fine new poultry plant that John J. Roberts is just having complet ed on his farm. First jot all Is the poultry house with a, capacity for 400 hens.; Itjs a modern, OAC laying house. . . .... .. . ;Mr. Roberta f qd Will Pettyjohn, who 'Is1 thq principal carpenter, went, to Corvallis before construct ing the building and got , the plans from the hew laying house Just recently put up there." The one on Mt. no Deris larm is me oniy one in Oregon outside of Corvallis. The house measures 20 by 76 feet and is built entirely of first class flooring. There are three divisions. The first is a room for feed and all poultry supplies, in cluding a desk to keep accurate accounts. The other two rooms have each complete equipment for 200 hens. Many new devices are used for food hoppers, . roosts, nests and green feed holders. A track carrier which is suspended to the height of the dropping boards makes disposal of all clean ings an easy 'mater. An acre of ground around the poultry house will 'be divided into three sections and , planted with green stuff to provide runs that can be used al ternately. . ,. - ' v" : In addition to this equipment for laying stock Mr., Roberts has also had built modern houses for young chicks, built after plans from OAC. A brooder' house with warm pipes and hovers-takes care of 500 little chicks. Connected with this fs a run for the chicks which is 50 by 120 'feet: When the chicks are partly grown they are transferred to movable range houses which have a capacity for 106 chicks. Three- of these are already built. Each one measures about '8 by - i 0 " feet. The roof Is made of flooring and shingled. The sides are entirety of wire net ting. The houses are built on runners so a food clean range can he provided easily., . . All the buildings are painted .white. Itrjr. aeaj in appearance. ROBERTS 0 of onb of the fifty-two to a vision solicited.:; tiu TWO YEARS OF SUGAR BEET TESTS IDE IN THE - . . . . They ShovM That This District ,llv' w . . 11.. n f.h irtnF 1 nnTnrn ny, iom 1 l!'wl".-""7": 1,11 nipn inai imr x 1 1 1 1 .-v High though to Make ine Farrners Tests in sugar beet growing in the Willamette valley have been made over a period of nearly twenty years They have shown that we can produce the beets with the proper sugar content and per centage of maturity to make the industry -successful here, and with high enough jtonnage per acre to make the growing of sugar beets prof itable ' to j our farmers, aside from the culural advantages In rotation crops, and the value of sugar beets t dairying and gen eral stock breeding, with the tops and molasses jfor feeding Indeed, theire were tests some fifteen years ago that showed beets with a BUgar content as high as 25 per cen4 which Is a remark able showing. The past' to crop years made good showing on several of the tracts tested; nd 1924 was a very poor year for Jbeet growing owing to a long dry Jspell In the growing season. j Last year a! better showing was made, on the average, one tract producing beets with an 18 per cent sugar content, 89 per cent pure. I Railroads Fell Down There wasja project to grow this year 500 acres or more of su gar beets in the Salem district, to be shipped to the factory at Bel-? lingham. Wash., belonging to the Utah-Idaho Sugar, company. The proposition was for the growers to stand 50 cents a ton of the freight rate, the company and the rail roads to absorb the rest, the con tract to be the same as offered to the growers iround Belllngham. But, after a lot of promotion work was done, the railroads fell down on their part of the understanding. They would not absorb their share I ,, , TT OF COURSE THE FIRST FACTORY SHOULD BE BUILT AT SftLEWi Prof. Hyslop of the Oregon Agricultural College Says It Should IBe in the Western Oregon Farming District - Where There Is a Large Farm Area and a Large Total Population of Farmers And There Are Other Reas ons, Top j- - From, 4j statement given out re cently iiy G. R. HyslipV agrono mist kf fthe Oregon -Agrieultural college, the following excerpts are taken! Prof. jHyslop being per haps the best Oregon authority in this field: j Sdgar beets were a very Im portant ' topic In agricultural dis cussions in the middle 90's in Ore gon. , The experiment stations at that time conducted a great many trials on the feasibility of sugar beets In different sections of east ern Oregon, in southern Oregon, and in the Willamette valley. , A very few tests were made In the lower 'Columbia and In the coast district Beets Practicable ; These tests! were principally small plantings of the best sugar beet seed available. - In some In stances yields were secured, but principally beets were . gathered and tested as to their , sugar con tent. A great jmany of these tests showed that the various sections pf Oregon were capable of produc- 1 1 . 1 . ins uee oi aigooa enougn suar content for successful ; manufac ture.- , i ne . sugar content was somewhat higher in the eastern Oregon ..districjt than In most of the western Oregon district, but in practically every ; section the sugar content iras high, enough to make ' manufacture commercially feasible, . TThese trials were carried out through a considerable number of years. After that time a factory was located atj La Grande. This factory was situated in. the heart of, saMMg farm country, 'where grain, bay; and -livestock were the principal features.' Practically no farmers had had experience In in tensive crop cultivation. It did not prove to be a satisfactory lo catjorj because I at 119 lmi did th9 SALEM 01 a fr I. . 1U. Onniit tfitl- STHIC uan iTuauce uie dw . s 1 iu. Drama Tact nf.v Pi.,'1'1 viiiii mr: i i uu v. . - 11 ui wn rtw wsj" ... . . C.,Mi.i.e. fA thai inauwy a omuww ..y i of the rate.- Our farmers were They .would have taken ready. the ,5010 acres. and more; likely 2000 acres The flolowing are the records.:. for the tests madehere in 1924i and last year; rAs A The 1024 'Results " 'V ' Ksaw atid .1 rIV .w.C. ;!Bt J-urttyr Address r.CW Pr.CU U O. IpTTOld, RUm..:-1 3.5 ' ' K7.1 Bird Rir4. Jntintv Oity 16.3 ' ;7.4. H. Ik pjMk. Slrinirfield,::. I.T , 7.3 , , Pnol Myr.' BpriniffiHd .. !. H9.7 lpljonjr i& Bonn, Btw4m4 14.2 '.1 H5,i O. O. Hjrshberger. Hubbard 14.5 S.VS O. A. BHar, Turner 15.5 SS.6 H M Briva. Orraia 1S.3 H4.4 G.P.. Hari'wv Grfrw ----- I The 1925 Results IB.O VU. Name SagaT Parity Pr.Ct. rr.Ct. H. M. $tand if er, Balem 13.7 C. P. Bates. Salora 13.5 F. A. Iorfler. Macleaj 15.2 R. E. Jfines, Halera 15.9 C. J. StMpfel, Balrra 15.7 C. W. Jensen, Salem 16.6 San Inngen, Jrfferson. ....... 15.1 M. P. Biiren, Halera 15.7 P. A. Ross, OerraiB..... 15.7 K. C. Ha libera. Independence 14.5 Hitnon Barnes, Gervais. ....... 15.2 Koyce Allen, Salem. 13.3 Harold Clfstrom, Salem.: 14.4 Frank J. Klurk, Salem.... 15.0 A. Schermacker, Salem 17.1 A; W. Powell. Salem 1 6.2 J. 3. Doerfler. SiWerton . 1.0 84.S 84.0 J4.T (5.a 85.5 90.3 85.6 8.4 82.3 83.2 81.3 81.2 83.3 86.2 80. 91.7 89.0 , (There were records of tonnage per acre made last year as high as 24. by C. J. Stupf el, Salem; M. F. Bllven, Salem, and Sam Inguen Jefferson.' Royce Allen, on Labiah beaverdam land, made a record of 16 tons, to the acre. The tests were mkde under the direction of J W,, Timpson ,t , .manager ; of the j factory at Belllngham. After the tests of the two : years, he , was ready to contract for 500 acres or more (as m'uch as the growers . wanted), as stated above. . other effort will be made for year, either to grow beets tor gh Belllngham factory. If the rail roads will absorb their share) of the freight rate, or for one toAbe erected in Salem). V OREGON SUGAR Vt factory, have sufficient acreage to:- :") give it a long: sugar making cam palgn. .. , f n?" ,'y-. - Wrong . Locations : ib " "Some years after Its establish' ment the factorr was moved to an Irrigated district In Idaho where intensive farming was carried out. ' tater on another sugar beet fac tory was promoted - and built in ; the southwestern Oregon district, : Jackson, (Josephine and Douglas counties contributed the beets for ' this furfnrv hnr hora'ap-aln whlla the sugar : content was good there . were not 1 tnough intensive farmers or total land area sufficient to 3 ? assure the factory enough beets tor profitable production. v -' Our District .Best "la order to be successful a su- gar beet factory must' have a;: rather large ' acreage of beets. i The inyestment in the faclory Js ' a large one and It Is in use for a : relatively short" period, of time of during t le year. Consequently ; i the production of beets '. Is only ' .' feasible lu a section where there Is a large enough body of land and l a large nongh ; group of farm-,.. en to ast ure a constant acreage For this reason It appears that probably THE BEST PLACE IN OREGON FOR THE LOCATION of, a; sugar factory is in the western oregon farm ING DISTRICT " where there Is a large farm area 'and large total bopulatlori of f armers; v r,s . Good Sugar Content i w "TTlA Alnarlmniita eanlsil T . the Oregon experiment stMion many years . ago, showed that in the middle 90's the sugar beet produced fairly good yields and a good sugar content, running any where ovet 16 j per cent sugar. The sugar content . was ambly (, Continued on page 9. f, A,