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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.
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801510 IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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S50 8. 21st St Salem, Oregon
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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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