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r 8 " THE OREGON' STATESMAN,. SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING MAY 12,-1927 The Slogan Pages; Are You rsf; Aid In Making Them Helpful to Ybur Wonderful City and Section i RECT MOO ... J V 1. I 1 I I EIGHTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR 2 '6' 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 is your page. Help make Salem grow. EA L EM BIST THESE SCHOOL GIRLS UIEMD THE BENEFITS Fifteen 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 artitcle on the current Slogan subject. The articles are to be in the of f ice (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 m&nv and orreat advantages of the district in which they are to take active part in the future. They are to be the leaders as they grow into manhood and womanhood. There i was one contestant the first week, 7 the second, and 5, 7, 11, 3, 5; 3, 8, 4, 9 and 3 respectively the following weeks. There are five; ihis week. The $5 goes again to Olive Josephine Anderson;' and Jewell Carter, Dorothy Porter and Helen Burk are to each have a ticket to a moving-picture show any moving picture show selected, at the Oregon, Capitol or Elsi nore. Na surprise prize this week. There will likely be sur prise prises most weeks. One other thing. The Statesman wants the photograph of the first prize winner each week. If the winner has no photo, please go to the Kennel-Ellis studio, 429 Oregon building, Salem, and have one taken, at the ekpense of The Statesman. When a few photos (are in hand, cuts will be "made of the first, prize winners, to be printed in The Statesman; and perhaps in other papers. The boysand girls will please write on only one side of the paper. The following are the articles for this week: VJDULD YIELD VERY Editor Statesman: Sugar haa; a very peculiar his tory. The ancient Greeks were .very load of telling legends. One 't.themwas that In India there 'were plants that bore wool without- sheep and reeds that bore .hone without bees. It was later discovered that the "reeds" 4hat Jfeore "honey without bees was su gar. It-waa then very expensive and only "kings and queens could afford It for medicine, for people J-at first thought it was medicine. ;A German chemist in 1747 dls " covered that sugar could be ex tracted from beets. It was not de veloped to any great extent until the iSth century. Sugar has a I large family. The most common ' ones are: maple, beet, cane, corn, ' and artichoke sugar. trill Be Crown Here Beet sugar could be grown here ln the- Willamette valley with a good profit, and will be in. the near. future.;: J t would be profit able -Tor 'many reasons. It is a very good rotation crop and also ' very good for dairymen to raise. ' Sugar beets and cows eeem to Just natnfal!ygo together. The tops and all the waste material are good sfeedfor the cow. In that way ; the dairyman would have good ( feed for his cattle and be making money on the sugar at the same time." It is a crop that will . last forever. That Is, it will ai rways Je used and It is a crop that - one can raise year after year. There Is no danger of there being - too much produced, at least not ' for long time. It Is not. only good for cows but twine, poultry, and animals of all kinds. , . 1 I Another Good Reason ' The soil here in the valley Is ..good and It can be easily Irrigat ed. . Another reason why it should be grown here, and to a great ex tent Is because there Is an insect .called Uhe "beet leaf hopper" which : eats the tops off the beet and kills the rest, but this dis- ' trtct west of the Cascades la im mune from this pest.. J There were la 1926 10S factories In the Unit ed States. Last year 18 of these were clotted because of a shortage. ThU shortage was caused by the leaf hopper. " " v . .' Manufacturing the Sugar s ' .' The factories are usually open from 70 to 90 days. ' Everything needed to manufacture sugar is raised or found here." The beets on reaching the factory are first washed and conveyed to the slicing machine, where they are cut by triangular "'. knives into slices. These 'slices drop through an up right; chute ist6 a diffusion bat tery.-consisting of tall cylinders holding from two to six tons each. Warm water is run, through, ..the cylinders, passing from one to an other throughout the battery, and drawing the sugar: from the cells ef the beeta as It goes.. This "dlf- '- fusioavjuice..as;it'ia called, con tains from 10 to 25 per cent su gar. The pulp left over from this . process Is fed to stock;" : The raw IDU O LVV Jk t UU A W next- purified by being jalce-ia mixed.. with lime and water and GOOD PROFITS HERE OF SUGAR FACTORIES juice is then carried to the evap orators, where heat is applied through steam coils. After pass ing through these, evaporators the thickened juice is conveyed to vaccum pans and heated until crystals form. It is then treated in. the mixer and the centrifugal machine like cane sugar. When beet sugar Is highly refined it cannot be distinguished from cane sugar. Best Paying Field Crop In 1925 sugar beets were the best paying major field crop in the United States except In Idaho where' potatoes .went ahead. This was unusual and due to a shortage In potatoes. ' Some products of sugar beets are: alcohol, kalinzdto, a fertil izer which was Invented by an Italian chemist, molasses. The sugar beet industry is In creasing and we should have more factories here in the valley. The Sorghum Industry Sorghum belongs to the grass family. The class that contains a sweet sap from which syrup is made as saccharine sorghum and the others as non-saccharine. Kaf fir corn and brown corn are the best known varieties of the non saccharine class. The saccharine varieties are cultivated for their sap and as packing' for silos. Sor ghums are tall plants, bearing heads of seeds. Sorghums make a good rotating crop, and furnish excellent feed for cattle. Sor ghum can easily be raised here in the valley. t . . olive Josephine Anderson. 865 Marlon St., Salem, Ofe., May 9. 1927. WE WILL LEAD IN THESE IKIES Editor Statesman: The raising ; of sugar beets is practically a, modern Industry. It Is an industry that will help boost Salem when we get a sugar factory here. Sugar beets can be and are being grown, right here in this valley. I Why can't Oregon be known for i her sugar beets as well as any , one of her hundreds of other famous products? . The augar? beet is a common beet with? the percentage of sugar Increased by cultivation and. se lect ion. i ; , ' . Before planting the ground should be finely pulverized, f The seeds are planted in tows about two feet apa'rt. When ready " to harvest, the beets are' dug j and conveyed to the t storage Z sheds. From here they are run through troughs by mean of water power. This , process .cleans ' them, ana next they are shredded and put into a large diffusion, battery. The diffusion battery consists of sev eral large boiler shaped cylinders. In these cells v or .cylinders - the sugar is taken - from the chips' by meana of hot water. The watery juice, containing the sugar. is passed through all of the charged cells - of the battery., t It JLnext treated with lithe which takes but MMaln-lnrnlfrrttfm 'Nnw'Tt fa fil- I ' . - ' - J tered, evaporated and chrystal- Hzed. Dates o f Slogans in (Also In Wrtikly (With a few possible changes ? ' Loganberries, October 7, 1926: Prunes, October 14 Dairying. October 21" . Flax, October 2 8 Filberts, November 4 Walnuts. November 11. Strawberries, November 18 Apples, November 25 Raspberries, December S " Mint. December 9 Beans. Etc., December 16 Blackberries. December 23 rhnrries. December 30 Pears, January 6, 1927 Gooseberries, January 13 Corn. January 20, Celery, January 27. Kninach. Etc.. Febrmary 3 Onions, Etc., Februavry 10 Potatoes, Etc., February 17, Bees, February 24 - .. Poultry and Pet Stock. Mar, 3 City Beautiful, Etc., March 10 Great Cows, March 17 Paved Highways, Martch 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 Jhat the lands in the Salem district are as weTl adapted to the growing of sugar beets with a high sugar content as the best beet sngar lands of Ger many; that the great Salem fruit district, using and due lo 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 profit; 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 ajnple capital here now, if as sembled cooperatively untfer 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 managed? . . : -t , suitable to eat. it has to bo re fined. Because of this fact the syrup from beets can not be used as a food, as it often is in other kinds of sugar manufacturing. Some of the states having a large number of factories are: Michigan, Colorado,- California, Utah and Idaho. Let's hope that before very long Oregon will be ranking, high among these Btates. Sorghum Making I am now going to tell you how- sorghum Is made with a one-! horse mill. There are- many varieties of cane, some oi wnicn are: . lews Red, Amber and Silver Drip. Any one of '.these is equally good; al though one variety may do better on one kind of soil than on an other. ' The ground should be thorough ly worked and check rowed. All farmers do not check row their fields; but this method is prefer able because it allows each stalk more room In which to develop. This also allows plowing both ways. Cane (planted on' good soil and properly cultivated, usually reach es an, average heigbt of 12 feet and from one and one-half to two inches at the butt. V - To get clear sorghum, the crop should be harvested when the heads begin to turn red or ripen. The stalks are cut about six inch es above the ground, headed, and' put in piles. The leaves are next all stripped from the stalks. . The leaves are often cured and tied in bundles. This makes an excellent fodder for live stock. k " V The stalks are now taken to the mill. This Is usually located In a well shaded spot close to a spring or well. Here we find a furnace built of bricks or. rocks, Thla : is surmounted by a galvan ized pan. -which Is divided Into several sections. , - . The stalks are now brought to the rail!. , which is turned by a horse. - A man stands at the mill and "feeds (ho "stalks " (butt ' end first and a few at a time) In be tween ...... the steel rollers. ' This crushes the juice out leaving the Hunt's Quality Fruits l H unl -Brothers- Packing - ' Company : f Canned Fruits and,, ; ; . . Vegetables J Main Officer "' 2 Fine Street, Ban Francisco -California;.. . Canneries, - v. : California Hayward, Ban Joso,' Los Gatos, Exeter. Oregon Salem, McMlnnville, .: v -Albany 1 . Washington Puyallap, Sumner Daily Statesman Statesman) f" Drug Garden, May 5. I Sugar Industry, May 12. J Water Powers, May 19. i Irrigation, May 26. Mining. June 2. Land, Irrigation, etc,, June 9. Floriculture, Jnne 16. . Hops, Cabbage, etc., June 23 Wholesaling, Jobbing, June 3 C Cucumbers, etc,1 July 7. - ' -Hogs, July 14. Goats, July 21. v Schopls, July'28. 4 Sheep, August 4. T Seeds, August 11. National Advertising, 'Aug. 18. Livestock, August 25. Grain & Grain Products Sept. 1 Manufacturing, Sept. 8. Automotive Industries, Sept. 15 Woodworking, etc, Sept. 22. Paper Mills, Sept. 29. (Back copies of the Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore gon Statesman are on hand. They are- for sale at 10 cents sach, mailed to any address. Current copies 5 cents. stalks in flat strips of pulp called pummies. The juice is ligTxt green in color, and leaves the mill by way of a trough. It la strained and then poured into the front end of the vat. The vat Is not nearly so hothere as It is at the other end: and this allows the juice to commence to cook slow ly. When the juice begins . to boil, a dark green scum rises; this is skimmed off. The juice changes color and Is moved from one section to another. When it reaches the last section, it is a golden yellow, and care must be taken to prevent scorching. The sorghum is now. drawn off through a strainer into barrels and as thia is being taken out, more juice is being put in at the, front end. At night the .vat is filled with water and taken off of the fur nace to cool. When cool enough it is washed, dried and turned bottom side p bn a pile of clean pummtea. Jewell Carter. Turner Ore., lit; 2, May 10, .1927. Salem High, 10 A. RIGHT CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEETS Editor Statesman: Thoroughly fine soil, as. good roots cannot be grown in lumpy poorly . .prepared ground.. The largest, crops cam from' a soil ranging from light to a friable clay loam that has received from eight to 15 loads of manure to tbe acre. This can beiplowed in or half broad. cast and half used in the furrows; plowing in' of fresh manure in the fall is best. It is also necessary to add some com mercial fertilizer, but) any good Soil will -grow a fair -crop- . .. Use 6 to 10 pounds of seed per O a k 1 an d P on 1 1 a c ' Sales and Service VICKBROS. High Street at Trade SEND. A : COFY.-EMT acre, , depending on whether ma chine or hand planting, sowing liberally so that in thinning an even stand can be secured. Rows 19 to 30 inches apart. Level cul ture is best. If planted in dry weather, be sure seeds are In from one to one and a half inches, as it requires lots of moisture to burst the hard shell. A poor stand and weak germi nation is often due to improper planting, and lack of moisture. Transplanting can be successfully done to fill vacancies. Do this before a shower and early, break' ing off topsof large leaves. I am enclosing a clipping from a Denver paper, which I thought would be of some use to you. Dorothy Porter, Rt. 9, Box 123, Salem, Ore., May 10, 1927. Hazel Green School. The Clipping Sent (The following Is the clipping sent by Miss Porter, under the heading. "Stock Feeding Impor tant Part of Sugar Growing In dustry:") 4 DENVER, Colo., March 3. Nearly 600,000 sheep and cattle are being fattened this season, sugar beet by products, alfalfa and corn in the ..Colorado districts of the Great Western Sugar com pany, according to a survey just completed- High prices of feeder lambs last fall caused a reduction of more than 50 per cent in the number of sheep in the. feed lots on beet growing farms, but the cattle pop ulation compared with a year ago is 50,000 greater. Approximately 442.000 lambs and 129.000 catjtle are being fattened this seoson. with present indications of a pro fitable outcome. The survey also showed nearly 14.000 dairy cat tle on the beet raising farms. Incident to the inquiry will be an effort by the company's agri cultural department for more careful conservation of, the feed lot manure and Its better use to increase beet yields. Already fer tilizer is being piled on beet i ground. Disking in of tbe man ure prior to plowing is being rec ommended. Fieldmen are advis ing against undue delay between these two operations. These practices aTe among many illustrated in motion picture which will be shown at principal stops along tours of the Union Pacific and Burlington sugar beet special demonstration trains. CULIATIi CROP Editor Statesman: . Sugar, which was once a lux ury, has now become a necessity in modern, dietaries. In ancestral times it was extracted from hon ey and sold as medicine by apothe caries. This was supplemented by sweet fruits and syrup, until if was finally discovered that it could be extracted from cane. Then, in 1774, a German scientist first discovered that sugar could be obtained from beets, but it was half a century afterwards before it was put into practice. It was not then entered into extensively, and the beet sugar industry in America has but j recently passed out of the experimental stage; but Is now firmly established here. Because of tha importance of sugar as a food' and the great areas of land that could be profit ably devoted to : beets, it seems Keep Tour Money ti Oregon Buy IfoniMaentc JSade at Sklent, Oregon. " CAPITAL MOOTTKEirTAI. WORKS 3. C. Jones M Co, Proprietor v All Kinds of Monumedtel Work - Factory mn4 Office: 8210 S. Com'U t)pp4ait X. O. O. T. Cemetery, ox si Phono S89. - 81XEM, OREGON DIXIE HEALTH BREAD . ; . Ask "Your Croccr EXTRACTING SUGAR that more attention should be giv en to sugar beets here. The beet' is1 a biennial, storing food in the root during the first year and sending up seed stalks the second. The roots of the beet itself are about eight Inches apart if the soil is exceptionally rich and eighteen if it is poor. jTJsual ly anywhere irom eight t$ eigh teen is satisfactory. Cultivation should begin as soon as the rows can be seen jand repeated every ten days until the leaves cover the ground, wihen a final thorough cultivation should be given.. The proper time to harvest beets varies igreatly with condi tions. They should not, however bo harvested until they are fully matured. This state Is indicated by the browning of the lower leaves and the yellowing of the entire foliage. . j There are wo parts to digging: "lifting" and! "pulling." The lift ing Is done bya plow-like imple ment made .for the purpose. As it moves along it raises the beets slightly, afte which they are poll ed by hand and piled. Alter tnts they are topped, usually by hand also, although there is a mechani cal device which is coming into favor now, which lifts the beets out of the ground, lops them and piles the roots to one side. Then the beets are taken to a factory where the sugar is extracted. The tops are made up of a series or rings alternating light and dark. The sugar manufactured by the plant is stored in the root. The conditions contributing to success in sugar beet raising are: climatic conditions, nature of the sell and economic conditions. If these are satisfactory there is bound to be ja successful crop. Beets do not require a special kind of soil .but like all crops do better In some soils than others. Nitrogenous : soil tends to lessen the" quantity of sugar,' also a very rich soil tends to r produce large beets which. jwill be pithy but not rich in sugar. Too much alkali in the soil prevents proper germin ation of the seed. Cantaloupes, cucumbers, alfalfa and potatoes make the besj. crops to rotate with beets. , ' f The soil in which beets are to by planted should be stirred deep ly that the beet may have a mel low soil to grow in. The first thing that should be done after the plant is up is thinning. This i very important. The weakest plants are thinned out, leaving them4 usually, used for silage and thus all of the beet is used. Sugar cane, the . rival of the beet, is distinctly' a hot climate plant, whereas beets require no special climate. The sugar is re moved front" beets by dissolving the cells wth water. It Is re moved from; cane by crushing the juice out between heavy rollers. Sorghum Is another member of the cane family and is mnch like it except that it does not require an extremely warm climate and could be profitably grown here. ' j . Helen Burk. Salem, Or., ;May 10, 1927. Air Painting DONE WITH A GUN M. B. Sanderson 1144 ..North Cottage W. Wi KOSEBRAUCH Company - Manufacturers of Warm Air Furnaces, ' Fruit Drying Steves, Smoke Stacks, Tanks, - Steel and Foundry Work, Welding a Specialty. 17th and Oak. Sts., Salem, Ore. " F. G. tUTZ NURSERY We plan 'and plant free of charge), for. homes, large or small, all kinds of ornamental shrubs, perennials and rockery plants. Landscape work. 1800 Market St. Phone 1GOS.R Ask Any House X- wife About n "BUTTERCUP" Blade In Salem Butter -If Better;Butter" Phone .-' 1 1 LI 'V-N i I SALEM SHOULD HAVE BIG SUGAR FACTORY Editor Statesman: Beets are members of the tuber family. Though there are several kinds of beets, only two kinds are cultivated. The sea beet and gar den beet are cultivated. The sea beet Is cultivate for its leaves, which are an ' excellent substitute for spinach. However, tbe . root is not of much food value, as it is tough and not very good for eating purposes. The garden beet is cultivated mainly for food. Of the garden beets there are two classes, the chard beets and com mon beets. The common beet class Includes 1 S 90.0 ACRE BEETS BEING GROW 11 COLORADO NOW Head of Farm Bureau Tells of Conditions, and He Gives Some Very Sound Advice for Other Sections of the Country and' Points 'Out a 'Policy That Ought to Be Adopted by the United States, to Help Solve Farm Problems and Make Us Self Sufficient in Sugar (The following official report of E. J. Leonard, Fort Morgan, Col orado, president of the Colorado State Farm. Bureau, ought to be read by every far seeing person in the United States. It contains some faots that are Interesting and encouraging, about the sugar beet industry in his state, and ad joining states, and it sets forth a sound economic doctrine for the whole country;. In the last four paragraphs. This report was pub lished in "Western Irrigation," San Francisco, which is also , the sugar industry journal (for this coast: ) r .. With a minimum contract price guarantee of $8 per ton for su gar beets, the largest Colorado acreage in the history of the In dustry is being planted by the farmers in the territory of the 13 factories of thei greatest Western Sugar company, 190,000 acres are contracted and 40 per cent al ready seeded before April 10. Frequent snows and rains' have put the soil in- ideal condition; Early planting is the rule rather Whe-Ta-Lon A Superior, Breakfast Food A trial Will Convince You Whe-Ta-Lon Cereal Co. M. A. BUTLER, Manager Telephone lOOO-W OIL-O-HATIC What Is It? SEE THEO. M. BARR Phone 192 : I B. STTVSMOOB Salem .Wicker Furniture Manufacturing Co. f . Wi SU Dirtrt . Genuine BatUn Beed Quality ' Tnrnltare BpaJrinK, Bf Inishinir. UphoUtertB j 2218 Stat St.. Salem, Oresea Oregon Pulp ; .-- , . Manufacturers of ; ' ' BOND LEDGER GLASSING GREASEPROOF -i. TISSUE . . , Support Oregon Products , ;, . , Specify ;Salem BIade, Paper for Your . : Office Stationery the red beet, yellow beet,1 saigar beet, and mangel wurzel. The; beet requires loose, rirh soil, a'nd as It is a native of tlm Mediteranean region, it is very impatient of cold. The; Willamette valley does not have very cold springs or falls, and the summers here are warm and dry. For this reason the val ley Is ;very well adapted to raising sugar j- beets. . y ., . I Factory Xeodert Here . Salem should have a big fac tory for sugar beets, as it is cen trally! located and has the neces sary jower for running the refin ery. 'Also the necessary transpor tation facilities for disposing of the output. "- ' - 1 ; , Deena Hart. 1192 i Shipping St., Salem, Ore., May, 1, 1927. .', I f than j the exception. And the early beets with alonger season produce more to,ns of beets and also a larger percentage of 'suRar content. Good for both farmer and company. 1926 with a similar contract re sulted in the largest plantings of the crop ever grown. 184.177 acres.' Now for 1927 with much more favorathle soil and weather conditions the new -high recycJ acreage promises the largest also the most profitable boet crop ever grown In the state. ' ' Last year, the average yield ol 14.4 tons per acre waa the high est in the history of the Industry. This year, with a larger acreage, earlietplanting, better soil an$ moisture conditions than a ycat ago growers should produce an, ,: m. . a. (Continued on page 10) GIDEON STOLZ CO. Manufacturcrn of 'Vinegar, Soda Water, i . Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 26 Ore. c. j; pugh & CO. i . - Manufacturers of 'Canning Machinery; Graders, Trucks, Etc. 5oO"S 21st St., Saleni, Oregon To treat the effect of disease will not adjust the cause. The competent' Chiropractor locates the cause of disease, adjusts tamo and thereby eliminates the effect. Remember the Neuro calometer locates nerve pres mre. Chiropractic Adjustments remove nerve pressure. ' Neurocalometer readings' by ap pointment only. , ' DH0.LSC0n,D.C 250 North High Street Phone 87 or 147I-R Kb & Paper Co. oi m Locate the Cause f T f i ! Carbonic" add an. The purified 6iuce raw i beet sugar -la not"