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SALEM
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SEVENTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
4
TEN ACRES OF JOBBE FARM THIS
YEAR PRDBUGED 124.105 LBS. CHERRIES
Mrs. Jones Thinks It Pays to Cultivate, Rebuild the Soil,
Keep Bees and Apply Lime When Needed Wonderful
Increases of Crops After Soil Was Limed and Bees
Brought in - for Pollination Purposes Perfect Fruit
Delivered to the Cannery
Editor Statesman;
Id complying with your request
for an article on cherries for the
Slogan page, the time for getting
the material to you is limited, and
then I think that there are others
of much more experience than my
Et If.
The orchard we now have was
set out by Mr. T. B. Jones about
seventeen yeas ago. and at first
comprised twelve acres. Some
were seedlings and others budded
tnvHoyal Anns and Lamberts.
Soon after the orchard was plant
ed thy placa was leased to other
parties and the young orchard
was not given much care Rnd very
few of the; trees that had died had
been replaced, so when we came
onto the farm in March. 1917,
there was a lot of work to be
done.
My husbanc, the late W. Al
Jones, commeiutd by top grafting
lets of the -seedlings and replac
ing the Lamberts with grafts
Irom the Royal Anns, as the black
cherries were a drug on the mar
ket and very hard to sell, If you
could sell them, at all.
After the hard winter of 1918
1S, I had five hundred budded
Royal Ann trees set out to replace
tbe dead ones, the -trees having
been dying ever since that hfcrd
winter from the damage done dn
til 1925, when we had only about
twenty-flve to replace.
So you can see that the fruit
business 4s not all a bed of roses
and we have our ups and downs.
Giving C3ooI Care
hen we came here in
ft. J
ones started to take good
care of the orchard and had it
thoroughly cultivated, pruned and
sprayed, and I tried to keep up
that campaign, but have, been
handicapped by not, having the
proper knowledge for caring for
-the trees. Mr. Van Trump, our
county fruit inspector, has been
ot great assistance. to roe. When
there has been some new pest or
rlieae anncar in the orchard 1
have always called on him and he
has been very kind to give me
advice in regard to spray, etc.,
and I fel that cmite a lot of our
succossful care has been due to
his knowledge with our coopera
tion ,
Thorough Cultivation
We have always cultivated thor
oughly in April, put in a cover
crop late in the summer, usually
vetch and oats, and in 1924 put
on the lime from the state lime
plant at Gold Hill. Applied about
two and a half tons to the acre in
February of that year. And we
believe that that is the greatest
help that the orchard has ever
had, as the crop has been
lour and five times as large since
then.
It was through the advice of
Mr. Bowne that we put the lime
on. and he said we would not get
any material results from it in
1924, but the following years
would show, and the lime would
he good for fte or six years. In
1923 our crop was 10,920 pounds,
1324, 17,725; 1925. 39,184, and
1&26, 124,105. '
For the years 1918-19 the crop
vaa three and four tons respec
i tively, then in 1920 six tons, and
dropped back to three and four
tons.
' Studi?I Problems
I did not know anything about
the are of the orchard, but read
everything I could find or. hear
about that would, be a help to
make tli5 orchard bear more, as I
thought, for the number of acres,
we were not getting returns
enough from the land and there
was something wrong. After it
had had thorough cultivation and
did not produce a good crop, I
knew there must be something
else that had to be done, so com
menced the cover crop, then the
bees and finally the lime.
I must acknowledge a great
dS of assistance from the Ore
rf 4 Agricultural college for their
Articles on pollination and have
tried to follow that out. -
Last year, when wm had such a
-: large crop, with extra fine frnit, I
' thought I would;, And- out how
many bearing trees we tiad in the
orchard and upon ' counting the
same - had 447 bearing Royal
Anns, 142 Lamberts ' and , Bings.
From these 142 trees we had 27,
44S pounds of black cherries and
from the 447 Royal Afinf 96tClt
pounds, which was an average of
2G0 pounds to a tree.
The Bees Help
In 1923 we had three stands of
be's. and now we have eight, and
I certainly think they are a large
factor in the pollination. ' We
also have 69 large seedlings scat
tered throughout the orchard that
are bearing. Each year we have
a "few more of the small trees
grafted to Royal Anns and Black
Republicans, as some claim the
Republicans are the best pollinlz
ers. The past two years the orehard
has had especially good care un
der the management of Fred
Kckengren, who has the farm
rented he has been very thor
ough in cultivation, cover crop,
pruning, spraying for every need
and disease, and of the sixty-one
tons that went to the cannery.
Hunt Bros., we did not have one
pound turned back to us. They
were picked in perfect condition
and taken to the cannery twice
per day.
The Things I.enriietl
From what I ha73 learned, in
lay limited experience of the past
eight years, since Mr. Jones'
death, when I took over the su
pervision of the place, it pays to.
cultivate, rebuild the soil, keep
hoes, and apply the lime. The
second year after the lime was ap
plied the increasi was from 1924
of 17,725 pounds to 124,105
pounds in 1926 and the lime will
do Just what the O. A. C. claims
it will.
I omittea to state that at the
present time our orchard com
prises about ten acres of trees, as
the other two acres were aban
doted when so many had to be re
placed, but each year calls for
some new trees and I do not think
they will bring in much of a re
turn from crop until they are
about ten years old, though an
orchard that has good care and
cu'tlvation from the beginning
mieht do a lot better, as other
people have had better results
from a new orchard.
Mr. Van Trump told me hai
we had the best crops in 1925 and
2C of any one around this part
of the county, and all the other
conditions and cultivation were
the same as before, except for the
lime, and I believe that that was
the big reason for the large crops.
Do not have so much gummosis
in the orchard since then, but the
freeze of 1919 may have caused a
let of it.
I do not know if this article
will be of any value, but I have
told of our experiences on oJnes-
mere Farm as near as I could,
and do not know that it will be
of much heir to any one else.
MRS. JESSIE C. JONES
Gervais. Ore., Dec. 28, 1926.
(The above from Mrs. Jones is
fcurely worth while; interesting;
fniiehtening. The Jonesmere
farm of the W. Al Jones estate is
tn miles north of Salem. Mrs
Jones has her phone and telegraph
a.irfrpss at Salem, her mall ad
dress at Gervais, and her shipping
station at Waconda, on the ore
gon Electric. HM.)
Largest Family Award
Given to Motner ot
BARNSLEY. Yorkshire. Vil
lages In this part of England are
yieing for the largest family.
The first claim was made by
the village of Denaby Main, when
Mrs. William Manchester, wire oi
a miner, oecime mo tut...
ber 19th child.
The villace of Blacker Win men
put up Noah "Bissell and his next
door neighbor, Tnomas ni
wood both of whom are lathers
ot 22 children, and pointed to Mat
Dawson, of the same Tillage, wno
has a family of 17. Bessel organ
lied a football team, among his
anna and challenged all comers.
The record, however, is held by
Mrs. John Austen of Flatts Com
mon, near Barnsley, who is mother
nf 24. and has. in addition, reared
r- .innted children. One ot
Mrs. Austen's daughters has 12
children and two others 11 each.
RICKSHAWS DECBKASE-
The passin c of the : rickshaw.
There were 39.013 rickshaws- in
Tokyo la 1891 and In 1926 the
Dates of Slogans in
(In Weekly
(With few possible change)
Loganberries, October 7, 102A
I 'runes, October 14
Dairying, October 21
Flax, October 28
Filberts, November 4
Walnuts, November 11
Strawberries, November 18
Apple, November 23
Raspberries, December 2
Mint, December 9
Beans, Etc., December 16
Blackberries, December 23
TJherries, December 80
Pears, January 0, 1927
Gooseberries, January IS
Corn, January 20
Celery, January 27
Spinach, Etc, February S
Onions, Etc., February lO
Potatoes, Etc., February 17.
Bees, February 24
Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 3
City Beautiful, Etc, March 10
Great Cows, March 17
Paved Highways, March 24
Head Lettuce, March 31
Silos, Etc., April 7
Legumes. April 14
Asparagus, Etc., April 21
Grapes, Etc., April 28
THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN
DID YOU KNOW that Salem is the "Chery City of the
World, and that she is entitled to this proud distinction
by reason of the fact that she is the marketing place and
headquarters of the best cherry country known with a
cherry industry already large but capable of indefinite
expansion; that, with the proper pollenizer and with bees
to carry the pollen, cherries in the Salem district are
a sure crop; that they are a profitable crop, the industry
inviting men of brains and brawn from the wide world;
and that in sweet cherries this district has what amounts
to a franchise; the only fly in the ointment being the
lack of proper tariff protection, which there is a fight to
have granted by congress?
E BETTER CAN BE PRODUCED ANY
PLACE IN WORLD, SAYS COLLEGE MAN
A Review of Our Cherry Industry by Prof. C. E. Schuster,
of the Oregon Agricultural College The Royal Ann is
Our Great Canning and Barreling Cherry, and We
Grow Wonderful Bings and Lamberts, Suitable for
Fresh Shipments, and These Are Now Being Canned
Editor Statesman:
Sweet cherries are at home in
the Willamette valley, being close
ly associated with the development
of horticulture in this section
from the beginning. When Lewel
lyn brought his stock of nursery
trees across the plains a few sweet
cherries were included. From
that small beginning has come a
great industry, for many of the
commercial varieties, headed by
the Bing and Lambert; were de
veloped here. Seemingly the home
for sweet cherries, this territory
has seen new and better cherries
produced until now NONE BET
TER CAN BE PRODUCED any
place in the world.
While the quality as to size,
color and flavor is satisfactory
with most varieties a difficulty
confronts cherry growers from
the natural climatic conditions
that may affect the fruit after it
is mature. This difficulty is the
danger of rains and wet weather
fbout the time the fruit is ripen
ing. This may cause -the fruit to
c:ack open or else brown rpt and
molds may develop.
With the danger of rains split
ting the fruit, a cherry grower al
ways is in a hurry to pick the
fruit. This green fruit is particu
larly noticeable in canned cher
ries, like the Royal Ann. While
the quality of tbe pack- is lowered
by this kind of fruit, the grower
tannot be blamed for picking-the
frnit if it can be sold.
While the grower plays safe by
picking . tbe fruit early in some
teason, in others he loses decid
edly, for studies have shown that
the cherry makes a decided in
crease in size just before full
maturity. Cherries picked as they
had attained a maturity that gpve
good quaiity had gained from 22 2
to 26.3 per cent in weight over
the cherries that were picked at
the time many growers were rush
Hunt's Quality Fruits
Hani Brothers Packing
Company
Canned Fruits .and
Vegetables
Alain Office:
S Pine Street, San Francisco
; California
": Canneries:
California Hayward, San Jose,
Loa Gatos, Exeter , ,
Oregon Salem, McMlnnville,
- Albany
Washington Pnyallup, Sumner
Daily Statesman
Statesman)
Drug Garden, May fl
Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Etc,
May 13, 1027
Watr Powers, May 20
Mining, June 3
Land, Irrigation, Etc, June 10
Floriculture, Jnnc 17
Hops, Cabbage, Etc., June 24
Wholesaling and Jobbing,
July 1
Cucumbers, Etc, July 8
Goats, July 22
Schools, Etc., July 29
Sheep, Aug. 5
National Advertising, Aug. 12
Livestock, August 20
Grain and Grain Products,
Sept. 2
Manufacturing, September 9
Automotive Industries, Sept. lit
Woodworking, Etc, Sept. 23
Paper Mills, Sept. SO
Summary, Oct. 7
(Back copies of the Thurs
day: edition of The Daily Ore
gon Statesman are on hand.
They are for sale at 10 cents
each, mailed to any address.
Current copies 5 cents.)
iug their cherries to the canne:its.
By this earliness of picking, they
were losing approximately 25 per
cent of the tonnage they might
hnve received. Of course in son e
years they may lose much more
than that if left longer on the
tree, so it is a question whether
to wait and run a chance of ob
taining better quality and more
weight or picking early and' being
cure of a reduced tonnage of low
er quality fruit.
Black for Shipping Early
This same danger of cracking
is present also in the black cher
ries, but with the added danger
of brown rot when shipping them
fresh.
As yet no satisfactory method
has been devised whereby these
ciierries can be successfully can
ned, so If they are to be marketed,
they must be shipped.
In shipping fresh cherires from
this section, brown rot is an al
ways present menace. The fre
( uent rains and the general humid
conditions are conducive to the
presence of a great number of
spores which are ready for Infec
tion of the fruit as soon as con
ditions are right. Added te the
humid condition of this country
being ideal for the development f
brown rot, are the humid condi
tions of the refrigerator car.
While the cool temperatures of
the car may retard the develop
ment of brown rot to a certain
extent, this trouble will work fast
when the cool fruit is exposed to
warm atmosphere, and. the fruit
begins to sweat.
Theoretically, it Is possible to
si-ray for brown rot and hold it
lu control. It is on the same
Oakland
P on t i a c
Sales and Service
VICK BROS.
High Street at Trade
SEND A QOBY EAST
bat-is as spraying for codling reoth
or scab in apples. If everything
is done- at the proper time, in the
proper way and with proper ma
terials, worms and scab can be
practically eliminated in apples.
However, the experience of com
mercial growers has not shown it
to be possible, in all years. If the
same percentage of brown rot in
cl'errie3 develops as does worms
uid scab in apples, it is doubtful
if shipping cherries is practical.
The scabby and wormy apple can
be picked out, but the infected
cl.erry goes in and with its decay
is bound to infect other sound
fruit in the same box. When it is.
demonstrated that spraying for
brown rot is 100 per cent efficient
or nearly so. then can shipping of
black cherries be considered as
feasible from this valley In some
seasons of little rainfall, shipping
fresh cherries will be successful,
but in many others it is very
doubtful.
Districts east of the mountains
end in other drier climates do not
have the menace of brown rot.
When they have crops they can
rhip black cherries without fear
of loss in transit and so are not
handicapped by this possibility.
The prices received by these dis
tricts for black cherries cause
Willamette valley growers to look
with longing eyes on this trade,
but with present day conditions,
it would seem the safe conserv
ative practice to stay away from
future plantings of black cherries
for fresh shipping. There is a
considerable acreage of black
ciierries now in Willamette valley,
and until it has been demonstrat
ed over a .period of years, that
shipping of black cherries is suc
cessful, more plantings would
seem inadvisable.
Hoyal Ann Standby
That leaves the sweet cherry in
dustry in the Willamette valley
confined mainly to the Royal Ann.
While the prices for that variety
do not compare favorably with
those received for black cherries
shipped fresh, yet growers of
Royal Anns who are obtaining a
good crop are by no means going
bwoke. Their returns may seem
siuall in comparison to some
ethers, but still they are making
pood profits. With the large num
ber of canneries there is assured
a market.
Sour cherries are a more recent
development for this valley and
at present are paying well. A few
years ago there was a demand for
these cherries, and it was urged
that large plantings be made. Nov
the cannerymen are holding up
tliejr hands in a helpless attitude
a the prospect -of the crop in the
iu Wire.
With conditions as they are now
the market for the sour cherry is
confined to the west coast. As
$oon as freight rates increase from
the east so that prices for canned
fruit are equal to that of the east
W. W. ROSEBRATJGH
COMPANY
Manufacturers of Warm Air
Furnaces, Frnit Drying Stores,
Smoke Stacks. Tanks. Steel and
Founiry Work, Welding
a Specialty
17th and Oak Sts., Salem, Ore.
C. J. PUGH & CO.
Manufacturers of
Canning Machinery; Grad-
, ers, Trucks, Etc
550 8. 21st St., Salem, Oregon
En; Year Mray in Oragoa Boy
Monamnt Kd at Balsa, Orofoa
CAPITAL MOlTOSiXVTAX. W0KXS
t. O. Jones 0, Proprietor
All Klndi f Konom.ntal Wsrk
Factory a ad Offlc:
2210 S. Com'L, Oppealt I. O. O. T.
Cemetery, Bo 81
Pa one 889. 8AXS1C, OUOOV
GIDEON-STOLZ CO.
Manufacturers ot
VTN'EGAR SODA WATER
Fountain Sapplies
Salem Phone 20 Ore.
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DIXIE
BREAD
ern supply, there is little use of
trying to compete with the enor
mous production of the east. It
is for this section a limited mar
ket only.
So in reality there are two lines
of activities for cherries. Th
Royal Ann for canning is a fairly
safe project with returns equal or
superior to many other fruits. The
sour cherry is good only for limit
ed quantities. The black cherry
is a very uncertain problem as
et.
The cherry maggot, which is
gradually spreading with the later
black cherries, is bound to be a
factor. These are subject to con
trol by spraying.
It is pretty generally concluded
by growers that pollination is
necessary and nearly all new
plantings going out are being pro
vided with pollenizers. This
should obviate some of the losses
incurred by owners of many of the
older plantings.
Another source of heavy loss in
the past has been from cherry
gummosis which girdled and kill
ed many of the trees. By using
Mazzard seedlings for the trunk
and scaffold limbs, the growers
are now insuring themselves
against total losses of trees.
From a study of returns receiv
ed by some growers, it is shown
that where cherry orchards are
well located as to good soil, air
and water drainage, and provided
vith proper pollination, growing
of canning cherries is a very suit
able form of fruit growing.
C. E. SCHUSTER.
Corvallis, Ore., Dec. 22, 1925.
(The reader will note that the
above article is a year old. Prof.
Schuster was either absent or too
busy to respond to the Slogan edi
tor's request for an article this
year. However, the above from
Prof. Schuster, who is our highest
and best authority in this field. Is
very good. He could and would
no doubt have said, this year,
however, had he touched that
I nni n t that enma ff ttio njinora rt
the Willamette valley have suc
ceeded in mastering the long
sought secret of the successful
canning of our black cherries
our Bings and Lamberts. At least
one of the larger Salem canneries
packed a good many cases this
year. And Prof. Schuster would
have said that in the case of our
Lambert cherries, and also in
smaller degree, our Bings, there
is now general spraying, insuring
a wonderful product for shipping
fresh to the big eastern markets.
Ed.)
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charge), for homes, large or
small, all kinds of ornamental
shrubs, perennials and rockery
plants. Landscape work.
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"Marion Butter"
The Best
More Cows and Better Cow
la the Crying Need
Marion Creamery
& Produce Co.
Salem, Oregoa
Phone 2422
CAPITAL CITY
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CREAMERY
BUTTER-CtlP BUTTER ,
"Known for its QUALITY"
Bayers of Best Grade Cream
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STEAMER "NORTHWESTERN" . -
OPERATING ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE Handling Merchandise and Carload Shipments
Between SALEM and PORTLAND and Way Landings
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OF
NUMEROUS M S
ID DEVICES LOCATING I SALEM
M. B. Sanderson Will Make Street Marking and Painting
Machines in This City, Also Several Other Articles
Which He Has Perfected and Put on the Market Has
Invented Thirteen Different Machines andr Devices;
Drawing Royalties on Several of Them
The following piece of pews
reached The Statesman yesterday:
M. B. Sanderson has the most
complete air brush and spraying
machine in this part of the state.
He was in California last sum
mer with his street marker, such
as Salem is using for marking out
parking and pedestrian lines, and
he has developed in a much more
thorough and efficient manner a
mechanical spray and painting
machine. The machine takes Ina
large scope of uses. It can. be
used for the following kinds Of
work:
Air painting, air hammers and
riveting, roof painting, water
proofing with water proof paint
such as Bondex and cement paint.
Spraying trees and shrubbery un
der 300 pounds pressure, straight
water painting and whitewashing,
exterior house painting, inside
calcimining and disinfecting, and
as a labor saving device it cannot
be beaten.
To Operate Theui Here
It can be moved anywhere, and
Air Painting
DONE WITH A
GUN
M. B. Sanderson
1144 North Cottage
OIL-0-MATIC
What Is It?
SEE
THEO. M. BARR
Phone 192
B. STTVaMOOX
Balem Wicker Famltnre
Manufacturinf; Co.
We BeU Ulreet
Steaaiae Battaa KM Quallts
rarnltare BepaUUtf, Xeflnlafclnf, Upnolrterlac
2S1S State St, Salem, Oreffea
T. A. Liyesley & Co.
4-
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Largest Growers, Shippers and Exporters of
PACIFIC COAST HOPS
Offices: Salem, Oregon and San Francisco,
California
Oregon Pulp & Paper Co.
Manufacturers of " -
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WATER and SAVE THE DIFFERENCE i
ROUTE YOUR SHIPMENTS
SALEM
WATER and SAVE XHS DD7F
TV
without a move can ' take In Ji
scope of 550 feet square. ' The
cost of labor on country outbuild
ings is the cause of so many of
them Koinpr for years without
stafn or paint for . protection
against the weather. Now it Ts
not a question of labor. U'ls.
"Can I Ret to it to do it all?" , "
Mr. Sanderson expresses his de
sire to have at least five of these
iti! chines working by July" 1,
which will employ 10 men, and
add another industry to the pres
ent" growing and thriving city ef
Salem.
Still More Interesting T
There is a great deal more to
the news item printed above, and
more interesting matter, too. Mr.
Sanderson proposes to -pi Ms
manufacturing in Salem, not. only
of the painting machines, but of
other of his devices. He is locat
ing in his own buildings at 1144
North Cottage street. He already
has orders for the painting ma
chines that will not be filled for
a long tinie. Last summer, in one
trip throughout Oregon and Cali-
(Continued on page 10.)
That Tiresome
Cold
--
You pride yourself upon be
ing reasonably -healthy, -but
every once In a while you get
a tiresome cold Make tip your
mind that this' winter you will,
not be bothered with it. Ask
your Chiropractor toglve yon a
Neurocalometer reading and, If
necessary. Chiropractic Adjust
ments according to this read
ing. , - m.
Remember this:
The Neorocalometer Lioeatee
Nerve Pressure) -Chiropractic
Adjustment B
move Nerve Pressure)
Nenrocalometer readings
by appointment only
Dr.O.L. Scott, D.C.
356 North High Street
Phone 87 or 82811 .
DOCK and WARLTIQUSS
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