The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, May 05, 1927, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON STATESMANSAiaaf; OREGON 1 r' THURSDAY MORNING.-MAY KX: Fho Slogan Pages Are You rs ; Aid In Making Them Helpful to Your Wonderful City and Section 4 I EIT. EM 1MB EIGHTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR THE DAILY STATESMAN dedicates two or more pages each week in the interests of one of the fifty-two to a hundred basic industries of the Salem district. Letters and articles from people with vision are solicited. This, k your page.w Help fhake Salem grow. 8 v 801510 IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Fl ID DRUG GARDEN HARD SUBJEG Fourteen weeks ago it was announced that The Statesman would pay $5 a week, till further notice, to the high school or grade school boy or girl in Marion or Polk county who would submit the best article on the current Slogan subject. The articles are to be in the office (or mailed) by noon of Tues day of the week of the Slogan subject. All articles submitted to belong to The Statesman. The editor to judge as to the best, in deciding who shall receive the $5. The idea is to fur nish an opportunity to make the rising generation acquainted with the many and great advantages of the district in which they are to take active part in the future. They are to be he leadters as hey grow into manhood and womanhood. There was one contestant the first week, 7 the second, and 5, 7, 11, 3, 5, 3, 8, 4 and 9 respectively the following weeks. There are only three this week; they found Drug Garden a hard subject. The $5 goes to Olive Josephine Anderson,' and Jean L. Graham and Dorothy Burke are to each have a ticket to a moving picture ' showany moving, picture show selected, at the Oregon, Elsinon? or Capitol. The surprise prize for last week, for Olive Josephine Anderson, is a $2.50 bottle of Courier d'Air?perfume, a new odor; a French perfume, one of the finest known. If Miss Anderson will call on J. H. Willett, proprietor, at the Capital Drug Co., State and Liberty streets, 1 she will be presented with this surprise prize. There will likely beurprise prizes most weeks. One other thing. The Statelman wants the photograph of the first prize winner . each week. If the winner has ho photo, please go to the Kennel-Ellis'' studio, 429 Oregon building, Salem, and have one taken, at the expense of The Statesman. When a few photos are m hand, eutaf will be made of the first prize win nersto be printedin The .Statesman; and perhaps in other papers. - The-boys arid girls will please write on only one side of the paper. The following are the articles for this week: THE PLATfTS THAT RE D IN DRUGS Editor Statesman: . Mint has been raised very ex tensively in the Willamette valley the last two or three years. It is raised especially "along" the riv er ' bottoms and it is very profit able. It is- characterized by , its creeping root stocks,, square litems, pleasant smeHing, and spikes of small, bluish or pinnisn two-tinned blossoms. The best known, species are peppermint i aoA tnr medicines, spearmint used for medicines, poultices and warm baths.. .The ou is taseiurom but : it must be cut while the sun is shining or the oil goes back into the stem, catnip or catmint also" belongs to the nin familvr Cats eat it very greedily and it therefore received ita: name. It grows erect to a height of two or three feet, with rose-tinged, whitkih ; flowers, and downy -heart shaped-leaves. The xnltitn too c marla frnra f ha leaves wmiiiji - - and U 'sometimes given to babies. Hyssap'is one of the: mint ramuy. It is' used for, medicat, purposes. It is a "bushy plant, grows about nun and one-half feeT high,: has a square core stem, and little stiff pointed Reaves. Tiny blue ' now ters grow in clusters' veYy close to the stem.v Other plants belonging to the mint family are horehound, which grow from one. to lene and tone-half feet high and has. a. whit ish appearance. It. is used for jir.ediclnw,' principally for relief of jrougas or throat trouble. Tea is jbrewed from the leaves of sage. It Is used, as a tonic to aid diges tion ... " The castor oil plant is grown In i his valley more for ornament loan for medicine. The oil Is ob tained from the seeds, by bruising ind pressing. When .the, oil is inre and fresh it should be clear, nlorless and sticky. They are ho longer Used to a great extent or the medicine, but it Is used or other purposes! Other plants used for drugs are; -nTnAr. which is : an herb be- ongVng to the. parsley ; family. It ;rows . three feet tall., with- rery inelr divided. Reaves, and a very iisagreeable oaor. h u ubu m ases of ehronlc dyspepsia. It can e grown 1 temperate climate, o although, it Isn't grown here uuch It 'could be. . Fennel. Is an ther plant which1 belongs to the arsley family. It baa a pleasant dor and taste and is used to give pleasant taste to medicine. It rowrwlld and there, is a little In bis valley. r Chamomile ls a daisy fke plant belonging to' the com posite family. It ia a perennial, Hth slender trailing stems: The over is wane wun .yewws r. Oil is taken Irom the plant .d when first extracted"! light ne. , It sr used for poultices la S3 cf .' earache and also in the rn of . a tea. It has to bo-cum- 5ited in gardens. " . ' X Ji-isoa wee'd is a, poisonous "art r?ed for makingthe drug ramcalum, which is-used princi lly for asthma. ; The plant "often aches fire. ft la height, ;and T bas sharp pointed leaves and heav ily scented, white trumpet shaped Cowers. Ginsing Is an herb grown prin cipally In China. The (Chinese believe it to cure most any dhv ease. It is now exported from China. The price per pound is from 52c to $10. Many of these plants, could be raised in the val ley but are not as yet to any ex tent. Olive Josephine Anderson. - -865 -Marion St., Salem, Ore., May 3, 1927. Age' 14 years. HIT AILS YOU Editor Statesman: A number of vegetables, besides being used for food, have a great medicinal value. Foremost among these, I think, would be the toma to. It contains certain' mineral salts not found in others. Spinach and carrots contain iron. Rhubarb and celery contain medicinal properties and red pep pers may be used for nervous dis orders and sage grown principally for seasoning is good for the blood and-is used in hair tonics. ' Pafsley grown for garnishing meats, .fish and ' flavoring soups and stews is one . that should not be forgotten for keeping the blood pure, and, cabb&ge made into kraut is one of the quickest to re act on the system for general ton ing up. Onions will greatly relieve liver troubles - and sometimes cure them; They are also valuable in treatment of goitre. Among the wild things that may be grown in the garden for drugs are hellebore, fox glove, mustard, mullein, dandelion, hore hound, penny royal, catnip and burdock. ' One, of the most; extensively used drugs is ginseng. This is not grown, in gardens, but may . be planted on hillsides, east or north, must have rich ' soil and dense shade." The dried roots sell from 14.50 to $5 per. pound of the cul tivated stock. This is a .source from which much money can be made, and," so far, it is not culti vated very extensively. jean U Graham. Salem, Ore.; May 2rUJ 27, P. 0. Box 20. IF .ME COlllO M G BATTLED Editor Statesman: - 1 think rou cave us a' hard tonic this time. f - 1 Do von mean for us to tell the people of Salem and Ticlnlty that if they set out bottles in . their garden and lable them and hoe around them and water"them thai they will find? theirs bottles full of drugs? Maybe plant rot nnwder-boxes or- perfume -bottles and teach the' ladles to grow their. own complexion ana touec waters Well, now certainly inere ar PUTS GOOD FOB Dates of Slogans (In Weekly (With a few possible changes) Loganberries, October 7, 1020 Prunes, October 14 Dairying, October 21 Flax, October 28 Filberts, November 4 Walnuts, November 11 ' Strawberries, November 19 Apples, November 25 Raspberries, December 9 Mint, December 9 Beans, Etc, December 16 Blackberries, December 23 Cherries, December SO Pears, January , 1027 Gooseberries, January IS Corn, January 20 Celery, Jan nary 27 Spinach, Etcu, February S Onions, Etc-, February lO Potatoes, Etc February 17. Bees, February 24 Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 8 dry Beautiful, Etc March 10 Great Cows,- March 17 Paved Highways, March 24 Head Lettuce, March SI Silos, Etc April 7 Legumes, April 14 Asparagus, Etc April 21 Grapes, Etc., April 28 THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU K&OW that Salem is the principal market of the crude drug supplies for Oregon; that every farm in this district ought to have a drug garden; that we are already leading in peppermint production of first qual ity; that cascara sagrada has to be cultivated or it win run out; and the world must have more and more of it; that the Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Oregon Agri cultural College, has repeatedly said that drugs can be grown at one-tenth the expense and with twice the yield that they can be produced in Michigan and Minnesota, and Prof. F. A. Gilf illin of that department says Oregon must eventually become the drug garden of the world, and that the possibilities are here for the development of a great drug garden industry, which ought to be done quickly Z flowers enough to supply a dozen drug stores with perfume if we could only get it bottled. Would a garden planted with tiny little pasteboard boxes raise pills enough to cure our ills? I'd be careful not to plant a box or bottle with this horrid laTbel on it. (Miss Burke here draws a picture of the skull and across bones so often seen on bottles containing poisons.) t But really, I, know ' there are a lot of things grown in this coun try that we do find on the drug store shelves all right, so I am just going to tell what they are and let others tell how to get them from the garden to the shelf. First there is catnip, . good tq use in colic medicine fov babies. r tnaiAii USE OF 1 It MSN nnTinnmin U Vb IE EXPLAINED Is Absolutely Necessary . for -Some Crops, and Can Scarcely Be Dverdohe for Them; Others Need a Small er Amount, While There Are Some Which Will Thrive in a Soil More or Less Acid Soils Should Be Tested ' Editor Statesman: After having talked, with farm ers in various parts': of Marion county, it is my opinion there is considerable misunderstanding re garding the use of Hate, and this opportunity Is theref ore being taken to state a few facts regard ing lime and Its relation to the various crops. ; t The primary -purpose of using lime is to sweeten the soil. It is a soil amendment-and not a plant food as in the case of the elements furnished by' fertilisers such as phosphoric acid, potash' or nitro gen. - There is a great .variation t in the lime content of the various types of soils, due to the kind of rock ; from; which the soil i vas formed, the method of formation. the length of time un4er. cultfvjc' tion, the kind-of crops grown and the amount of rainfalC , Acid-soil conditions frequently are due to poor : drainage: but! it should, be Hunt's Quality FruiU - Himt Brothers Packing ' .! Company , Canned Fruit fcnA , . Vegetables: Mala Office! :. 1 Pine Street San Francisco v California ' J ; Canneries: " California Haywa rd. Caawoaa; Lcr Gatosv Xlceter ; . Oregon zlm, HeHtanTlUs, J ' ' - H. -2y . .' : rWashlr Hup, Summer in Daily Statesman Statesman) Drug Garden, May 0 Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Ete Slay 13, 1927 Water Powers,, May 20 Mining, June 3 Land, Irrigation, Etc, Jane 10 Floriculture, June 17 Hops, Cabbage, Etc, Jane 24 Wholesaling and Jobbing, July 1 Cucumbers, Etc, July 8 Goats, July 22 Schools, Ktc, July 29 Sher-p, Aug. S Seeds, August 12 National Advertising, Ang. 19 Livestock, August 26 Grain and Grain Products, September 2 Manufacturing, September 9 Automotive Industries, Sept. 16 Woodworking, Etc., Sept. 23 Paper Mills, September 30 (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.) You find It (or at least I did) In blackberry rows, Just growing wild. Yes there are blackberries themselves. I'm sure I've seen blackberry cordial and blackberry balsam on drug store shelves. And peppermint, I don't believe a drug store without peppermint would be much of a drug store at all. I have seen it growing in the garden here, and other mints too along the creeks. And sage grows both wild and cultivated here, and along the creeks we find licorice toot and chittam bark. .AH of these would make a good drug garden, but I can't tell you how to get it into 'bottles and boxes. Dorothy Burke. Salem, Ore., May 2, 1927. Age 12. REGARDING THE By EXPERT remembered, that liming will not take the place of drainage. i Should Test Soli It is impossible to judge accur ately whether land needs lime ex cept by means of a careful test. It (a therefore advisable for each farmer to have his soil tested to determine if lime is needed, and. If so, how .much per acre is nec essary. The poor growth of le gume crops, particularly of red clover, is one of the best' general guides that soil needs liming. The abundance of weeds, such as sor rel, sour dock and plantain, are also an indication of acidity. ; v': .; ..- :i Greed ..for Lime ... f r Some crops grow'much better with the presence of plenty of Ume whereas there are' "some that are Oakla n d -: P.o n t i a c Sales and Service ; yiacBROS. : : IHjh Street at Trad but little affected, and even some that succeed better In acid soils. As a group,, legumes are greedy consumers of lime. Alfalfa and sweet.clover thrive best with much lime. These two crops, together with red clover, are very sensitive to acidity in the soil. Vetch, al sike clover, and white clover, have a much lower lime requirement, and will grow on soils that are too sour for the other clovers or alfalfa. It has been interesting to note that while alsike grows well, on sour soils, it will grow better onsoilsthat are well sup plied with, lime. . Beneficial Indirectly The non-legumenous crops such as grains, grasses and some of the vegetable crops afford small di rect returns from the application of lime. These crops respond more to the proper use of fertiliz ers. As a general rule, lime is beneficial to the non-legumenous crops indirectly in that it aids in the raising of clover, the value of which is well known as a soil builder. Crops .like corn, rye, wheat, oats, potatoes and red top grow equally as well in acid soils as in those containing plenty of lime. Barley, however, carries a high lime requirement, as red clover is very tolerant of soil acidity, and in fact it will do better on a slightly acid soil, and the same holds true with potatoes. Where potatoes are grown in the rota tion, lime should be applied to the land following them, rather than just previous, because the potato scab organisms thrive best in a sweet soil. These Need Lime Cauliflower, onions, spinach, garden peas, beets, celery, lettuce, parsnips, asparagus, and musk melons are highly sensitive to acid soils and are benefited , by liming tc the same degree as alfalfa and sweet clover. Carrots, turnips, rape, and radishes are moderately sensitive to acid soils and are comparable to red clover in this respect. Corn, soy beans and rhu barb are only slightly sensitive to acid soils. Potatoes, squash, wa termelons, strawberries and bush berries are not sensitive to acid soils. Land for the production of tree and bush fruits does not or dinarily need lime, except for the production of legumes for cover I crops. Enough, Not Too Much In figuring on the lime propo sition the . most acid-sensitive crops in the rotation should be protected by a sufficient amount of lime. The reaction of the oil should be brought nearly to 'the neutral point, or at least reduced until it is only faintly acid. A lime requirement test might show a soil to be very acid, but the ali important point' is to match or balance the reactipn of the soil to suit the tolerance of the particular crop to be grown. It should be re membered that it is unnecessary to more than neutralize' all of the acid in the soil for any crop, and to do more than that is uneconom ical liming. This then necessitates that every farmer know his land from an acidity standpoint by ap plying an acidity test: to samples of the soil or to lime a small strip across the field in question and measure results. ' Ivan Stewart. Salem, Ore,, May 4, 1927. - (Mr. Stewart is manager of the farm information department of tte Chas. R. Archerd Implement company, Salem, and he is one of the very best authorities we have. Ed.) " ELIZABETHS MANY Since the Duchess of York chose, Elizabeth-for the name of her princess-daughter, hundreds of British mothers have followed her example.1 Km Tsn Konay u OTffoa Bay Uouumtmxa Mad a Sal, Ongoa CAPiTax, icoiroiriarTAZ, woxxa I. O. Jobm Oa, Proprietors an Kinds f KMUMital Wsck ' - r sa Offlcst 210 g. Com'L. Op posit X. O O. 1 . . OBwfcwTyn' ftox. ., neas est. fcaxxx. OUOOI DIXIE HEALTH DREAD A3c Yccr Grocer 1 We buy Cascara Bark Oregon- Grape Root Oregon Peppermint Oregon Balsam Fir Write for Prices Daniel J. Fry Wholesale Dealer in Oregon Crude Drugs and Botanicals 280 North Commercial Street Salem, Oregon DJ1N1 J. FRY OF THE CITY BIGGEST CRUDE M IN OREGON We Should Have a Peppermint Oil Refinery to Stabilize the Mint Industry of the Salem District Time Will Come When Cascara Bark Will Have to Be Cultivated Crop, and This Is the Place Where It Is Native and Will Flourish As has ibeen said and repeated in the annual Crude Drug Slogan number of The . Statesman for eight consecutive years, Salem has the right to the claim of being the crude drug center of Oregon, partly on account of the fact that the largest crude drug buyer in this state is. in this city in the person of Danl J. Fry, with head quarters with the Fry Drug com pany, 280 North Commercial street. He buys cascara1 bark, Oregon grape root, Oregon balsam fir, oil of peppermint, blue poppy seed, and other Oregon crude drugs and botanicals that are offered. The country is about out of Its supply of eascara bark, and the price has been ruling high. Mr. Fry has a .warehouse at Salem and one at Tillamook, and he has agents all the way along the whole of the Oregon coast, from Clatsop county to the California line in Curry county, and over that line in California, buying crude drugs, and especially cascara bark. Most of the peel is from the mountains In the coast region, but some of it comes from the -Cascades. The market price today on dry Air Painting DONE WITH A GUN M. B. Sanderson 1144 North Cottage Wi W. BOSEBRAUGH ' COMPANY Manufacturers of Warm Air Furnaces, Fruit Drying Stoves, Smoke Stacks, Tanks. Steel and Foundry Work, Welding a Specialty 17th aaoTOak Sta Salem, Ore. P. G. LTJTZ NURSERY We plan and plant (free of charge); for. homes, large or small, all kinds 'of ornamental shrubs, perennials and rockery plants.' Landscape work. -1809 Market St. Phone 2608-R Ask Any House v wife About i BUTTERCUP" Made la ' Salem Butter tIta Better Butter" Gr:ry . ' "Phone S99 . Before You Sell Vf cascara bark, delivered. Is 7 cents a pound! The average price last year was around 8 cents. The peel of 1926 is now bringing Scents. In some former years, the ; prices have ruled much higher. j' The Mint Industry . . . Tere was -a boom iii the mint industry of the Salem district in 1925; a price boom, owing to a scarce crop in the Illinois, Indi ana and Michigan districts, due to a severe freeze there at the wrong time. The peak of the war prices wis $9; but pepper mint oil went to $12 a pound in 1924, and in 1925 it went up to $20 ,a pound, and even, at the) peak, to $28 to $30 a pound. Pepperniint oil was being con tracted for last year at $6, $5 and $4 a pound, on, three year con tracts, which makes it a bonanza crop, , for the' cost o.f producing Whe-Ta-Lon A Superior Breakfast Food A Trial Will Convince Ypu Whe - Ta - Lon . Cereal Cov t M. A. Bu x jLEIt, Manager Telephone lOOO-W OIL-O-MATIC 1 What Is It? " , THEO. M. B ARR Phono 192 b. stntsifoom Salem Wlckea Fandtsre Ifannfactnrinj Go w gnpif c .. . ' Satiu JUttaoJ Km4 ttaatttr f rmnlikmr 'Xwlxtns, XtnUIilaf. Vphltcta ! - J Oregon Pulp a , ' - llanufactBxeri ot , - BOND LEDGER GtASSrNE JJ I I w I tREASEPROOF TISSUE 7 Support Oregon VProdocU IT; JSpeclfji "Salsa Taper tot Tear . . Office SUtfonery; tho oil is only $1.50 to $2 a pound, and farmers still have tho hay; a good hay with little moro cost than producing any other hay crop, except for the distilling of it, - ,-; - '!- ' v We have been enjoying a mint boom in the Salem district for some years, and it is still going on this year with a very large in creased acreage. The acreage in western Oregon and Washington (mostly in the Salem district) , in creased in 1926 over 1925 from about 600 acres to about 2500 acres, and it will be at least 4000 acres this year. The oil of pepper mint which we produce -here is high grade in menthol content; the highest produced in the Unit ed States. It Is also the purest oil' produced In the United States. There Is bound to be a steady increase In our acreage of pep permint, in the Salem district. We will ere long have a milion dollar annual" crop, the way things are going. , Mrs. Fry is a, believer In the eventual growth into Immense proportions of our drug garden industry. Cascara wll eventually run out. as a forest production: there Is no suitable substitute, and it will have to be cultivated. Here Is the place to raise it, along with hundreds 5 of other crude drug trees and shrubs and plants and flowers and seed3 and roots. , For An Oil Beflnery Mr. Fry has for several years been advocating the building of an; oil refinery In the Salem dis trict.- He hopes we may have one soon. " It would be a great sav ing for those who use the refined oil in manufacturing on this coast, as all our distilled oil ha to go east to be refined. A refin ery would also help our growers. It would give them better prices for their distilled oil. It would do as much as any, other one thing, perhaps more than any other, in stabilizing the mint Industry her,x helping It along towards the mil lion dollar annual crop It should be,"and"wlli eventually become." Around the World Mr. and Mrs. Fry are now on a trip around the world, having goiraby the way of the Orient, and they are to attend the Interna- -tional Rotary convention at Os tend, Belgium, this month, and be home the latter part of July. Mr. Fry Is one- of the oldest business men in Isalem In point of service, and has many interests ,here, Among other, activities, he ii president of the First National bank of Salem. GIDEON STOLZ CO. ' Manufacturers of VINEGAR. SODA WATER Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 2fl - Ore. C. J. PUGH&CO. Manufacturers of Canning Machinery; Grad ers, Trucks, Etc -- S50 8. 21st St Salem, Oregon HARMONY Nature and the Chiro practor are in perfect accord. All that the Chi ropractor does when he - adjusts the subluxated vertebra is to make it possible for Nature to heal. Remember the Neu rocalometer locates nerve pressure. Chiropractic A d j u s t m ents remove nerve pressure. 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