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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON. SDNDAT UOEOTNO. JANUARY 1, 1923
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Successful Apple Orchard -
Brings in Large Returns
Oregon Apple Company Has 420 Acres of Fruit Near Monroe
Mostly in Apples; Sprays Used In Dost Form; .
v-.'- Recommends Few Varieties' ,
The following article appeared
i the . Slogan edition of The
-jjtesman on Decembtr 1, li 27.
It contains many useful facts and
much valuable, information rela
tive to apple growing. ...
Ed S. Blehn, leading apple buy
er, suggested the story to the ed
itor when he was seeking Information-about
apple growing in this
community. As a result a confer-
v ence was held with B. W. Johnson
manager of the Oregon Apple
company ranch.
"Mr. and Mrs.Johnson have a
bome in the thriving- little city, of
Monroe, in which there is a pleas
ant den used as a sort of office
v bv Mrl Johnston. He told the Slo
gan man to say nothing about the
' personal side of the business. But
this injunction is disregarded
sufficiently to say that he was for
a long, long time postmaster at
Corvallis and 'a good' one? Some
of the stockholders of the .Oregon
Apple company are connected with
the Oregon Agricultural college.
While the operation there is not
officialy so. it Is nevertheless a
sort of private experiment station,
from which all the peopl of the
state, and more especially of west
ern Oregon, receive benefits. The
company began operations In 1910.
The original tract was 4 20 acres.
The company has 0 acres . in
prunes, cherries and peaches;
mostly prunes. In pears, 60 acres,
half of them- Bartletts and the rest
, the Anjou and Cornice varieties,
with five acres Winter Nells. The
rest in apples. 1 .
. "What varieties of apples""aj-e
best for this section, for a com
mercial orchard? This was the
- principal thing the trip was made
to ask of Mr. Johnston, for Mr.
Johnson Is an outstanding author
ity in the apple field, both from
theory and practice Mr. . Biehn
says he is the outstanding author
ity. -
Mr. Johnson said they are grow
ing the Newtown, Ortley, Jona
than, Grimes Golden, Spitzenberg,
and some of the Northern Spy,
.nd a few of the Wagner.
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stead of the red.vThe Winter Ban
ana.Ortley and Gravenstein - are
eood, and the Newtown. He would
?o strong do the early rather than
the latevarjeties ron account of
the uncertain harvesting weather
fc8Ve!-late. -He would avoid the
varAy floor, and south slopes.
Nearly all our red hills soils are
good for apples. "Put the orchards
at 400' to 1000 feet elevations.
A to Marketing
The marketing conditions are
better this year than last, for the
very sufficient reason that this
country has this year. a 24,000.000
barrel, crop, against a 40,000,000
barrel crop for 1926. The apple
crop in this country was extra
heavy late last year. That accounts
in part for the light crop this year.
Weather conditions had something
to do with it, too. The Hood River
valley had more than a 100 per
cent crop last year, and about a
4Q per cent crop this year.
Last year Washington marketed
35,000 cars of apple3, and Oregon
6000 cars, and Idaho 4000.
The Oregon Apple company does
Its own packing and shipping. Iti
has. in the city of Monroe, a pack
ing house and receiving shed with
a frontage along the railroad track
of 200 Teet. The company oper
ates two Cutler graders, using
electric power throughout Its
packing house. The graders have
a capacity 6f better than two cars
a day. The output Is about 50 cars
of apples this year, and 14 cars
of winter pears. The marketing
of its apples and winter pears is
handled by Sgobel & Day of New
York, international! v Vnnwn fruit
distributors. :
In a
for thr
the yeH
: The pears go east, principally,
rand for export largely In ihalf
Voxes. The whole pack of both
V apples and pears Is in oil paper
' wraps. "
f Survival of Fittest
l -Mr. Johnson thinks the com
, ; mercial apple industry is a ques
tion of the survival of the fittest.
He ' believes no jpore apple trees
ought to be planted on poor land,
with the wrong varieties, and im
proper attention. Owners of such
trees simply cannot make the
grade." They are bound to lose.
And he believes no tree ought . to
be retained excepting those reas
onably free from disease, vigor
us, and in the proper locations.
The ellminatiny of the poor orch
ards that are unprofitable, that
are v losing their owner's money
would make the remaining part of
the industry profitable. "
If onehas a good orchard, he
should keep. on,: with top 'graft
2 III ftil uuuv.au.v ,.iv.iti.
ihould retain only a few var-
ieped.
cL, Mr. Johnson said the apple
growers of the state of NewTork,
which is thelargest apple growing
state in the Union,1 next to Wash
ington decided last year to rent
out ISO: non-commercial. varieties
of apples. .rV ,;.
Ought to be Protected :
V s iieaiuiy commercial - pianusr
yVou8ht to be protected against dls-
jsased orchards, or the . occasional
J diseased trA in town, which
spread iungus diseases 10 ib
healthy tfees.1 The exact distance
these - diseases will carry is un-J
known. It la known to bo fPMkU
Every Jmproperty cared for old
apple-orchard or single tree is a
menace- to the Industry, unless
drastic 6praying- methods can be
enforced, especially the Bordeaux
sprays. The diseased trees ought
all to be either Sprayed regularly
or cut down. The great trouble is
to get our present laws enforced;
to get pay for the work they need
in sprayingand,other attention.
- v Unique, Experiments : , . .
-', It should be said in passing that
the Oregon Apple company people
haveMop worked 1000 trees to De
licious and 500 to Red Graven
steins. In furtherance of the idea
of getting early apples. This might
be carried too far, says Mr. John
son. There- must be some atten
tion to length of harvesting. All
the apples of a large commercial
orchard cannot be picked in a few
days, or even a few weeks.
This company is going through
unique experiments; Or it would
be better to say, unique expert
ences. So far as known, this is
the only growing and shipping or
ganization that is marketing ap
ples without either wiping or wash
ing' them. The reason is that all
the sprays are applied In dust
form, excepting for a third of the
trees, where liquid spray was used
in the early or first cover spray.
The Actual Result
. rne actual results are that a
larger percentage of the product
Is extra fancy, and the worm con
trol has been better than normal,
and In some of the orchard which
had no iiquid spray throughout
the season the scab control was
as good as in other brocks where
liquid spray was applied.
The company gets an export
certificate ,"on-every shipment
which means' that it would pass
the British test, without wiping
or washing; that is a test of less
than, one one-hundredth part of a
grain of arsenic to a -pound of
fruit.
Mr. Johnson thinks that as long
as liquid sprays are used, there
will be found an excess of arse
nic, which will require jidping or
r5??s r?!t gthei 'i"""
any event this Is an added expense
which is considerable. The use of
sprays .in the dust form is espec
ially important in the late (cod
ling moth) spraying.
Some Notes
The Oregon apple company peo
ple use cover crops; mostly vetch.
They do not spare expense, to get
the extra fancy grade of apples,
and good fruits of their other va
rieties. - Some 150 acres of this apple or
chard planting have been disposed
Now You
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Only in Shoes Selling from00 to H00
Higher Do You Find These Features
831 Stato Street
of and have private bolder!, but
these blocks are mostly under the
cultivation and" control and mar
keting operations of the company.
Mr. Johnson In considering mar
keting conditions generally, ban
observed that the people; of the
united States are using two bil
lion pounds annually of bananas,
and that all this fruit comes in
duty free. The replacement of this
fruit with home grown products.
or a considerable portion of it.
would solve a number of prob
lems. It would, for one thing, go
far toward making: a good mar
ket every year for our apple crop.
Then, If all the unprofitable
acres in apples In this country
were eliminated, this .would be a
good thing for the owners of the
orchards that are lostnar them
mJgney, and it would stabilise the
commercial apple Industry - and
make it uniformly profitable.
'Some Conclusions;.
One cannot help observing the
thoroughness of the grading.
packing and marketing operations
of the Oregon Apple company, nn-i
der the supervision of Mr. John
son. The 1928 crop of apples went
to 26 states of the Union, and to
lour foreign countries.
- A? large force Is kept busy in
harvest time, and in the picking
and packing operations.1 Besides
being carefully and scientifically
graded and wrapped, neat boxes
are used, with attractive OACO
(Oregon Apple company) labels,
giving the three grades. Extra
Fancy, Fancy- and C grade. The
buyer Is Informed by the label that
his fruit was "grown and packed
by the Oregon Apple comnan
Monroe, Oregon," and the contents
given, -i bushel net: 40 lbs. net.
With pictures of a couple of ap-
tooaing good enough to eat
it all the apples shipped from
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the .Willamette, valley could be
kept up to the standards of this
operation, there would never b
a year in which there would be a
serious lost, and such a reputation
would ' be built up as to stabilise
the 'Industry of this section.
And something like this must
be done, IX this valley Is ever to
regain the reputation as the. great
apple country of the coast that It
enjoyed, with an annual golden
harvest. In the pioneer, days, be
fore we had any apple diseases to
contend with.
As to commercial varieties, the
Oregon .- Apple company people
have made some great advances
over? the Growers of the nloneer
days, who were obliged to grow-
many nondescript kinds, not many
of which have survived to the pres
ent time, nor were worthy of sur-
vivai. . ;-s'--'..
The. apple prices being received
Just now by the ' Oregon Apple
company, run from f 1 to S2.2S a
box. X ear. load contains 75 box
es. The gross turnover ; for the
crop this year will be between
$80,000 and 29 0,0 00, about one-
half of which goes tor labor and
one-third for spray material, shook
paper and ' other supplies.
The dusting operations of the
Oregon Apple company are at
trading wide attention. Hood Riv
er orchardlsts have been at Mon
roe lately, investigating. Making
a thorough examination, and they
will no doubt take a leaf from 'the
book of experience of this com
pany that has pioneered the way.
HIS ONLY LAUGH
A bird we feel sorry for is the
buff cochin with his feet all coy
ered with plumagef It must ben
annoying to have those feathers
(l.lrlln. fit. mt all Ida tlma
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CELERY OF LB
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Wonderful 1800 Acre Lake
Bottom ! Being Developed7
Jnto Regular Empire
Fifteen T years ago . people
scoffed. They looked at Lake La
bish, once the center-of an .elk
and deer stamping ground, and
said "it can't be done."
One owner said: "If you
dredge through my property, you
will have to give a bond against
possible damage ; to my land and
fences." The bond was given, f
Today, those people gaze on an
empire, small in acreage; great in
actual and potential producing
power, "cleaved by what became
this year the "million dollar"
highway. !
For on this 1800-aere lake bot
tom, drained through the vision
of a small ' group of men in 1911,
was grown last year more than
one million dollars worth of crops
celery and mint chiefly. .
In 1912j there were no homes
in that section except two or three
on some old farms; today, there
are more than 60 new homes.
The lake bottom, roughly
speaking, extends in the form of
the letter VT." The part on the
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other 'side of the Oregon Electric
track In the celery fields of M. L
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the latter, the land" extending
easterly tor seven' miles would be
the vertical line, the northern end
of the top bar ending at Parkfrs
ville, three miles east of Gervals,
and the southern end at Hasel
Green. ; '
. Credit for the phenomenal
growth belongs In large part to E.
B. Carnes, M. L. Jones. S. W.
Jones, the Voget Brothers. J. C.
Hayes, and L. O. Herrold. all of
whom were instrumental in bring
ing about drainage of the district.
Celery the crop that has mabe
Lake Labish famous, and lnci-
dently helped to focus attention
upon the vegetable production of
the Willamette valley v from all
part of the United States was
marketed last year, at--.a gross
value of $100,000. The price was
not of the' best, because of
an over-stocked market, or the
cross would have been much
higher. N '
A few more than 5.00 cars went
out from the shipping stations of
Qulnaby and Brooks destined
Chiefly for points In the middle
west, although a considerable lot
went to California markets.
Ronald Jones, sales manager
for the Labish . Meadows Celery
Union, the cooperative marketing
agency, returned recently from an
eastern trip and reported that
sentiment for Labish celery was
good and that efforts to lncreas
production would be made to fill
the demand.
Labish celery Is superior to
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Every drop is purified, every bottle is tested so that even
the tiniest babe could drink it and the mother not have
the slightest worry. MOk that is tested and pasteurized
r is demanded by people who have their health foremost.
You are welcome at any time to inspect our plant and see
how the milk is prepared before being sent to the cus
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that grown in other sections of
the country. This baa been dem
onstrated at national ' vegetable
shows when the local product has
been : given first prise over all
other entries. Il is erisper and of
a better flavor. -
Important, too. Is the fact that
only the first-class . product Is
shipped. The stalks are carefully
sorted, carefully packed' in the
fields, and when tbia crates reach
the warehouse, they are thorough
ly inspected before permitted to
go out under the Labish label.
The celery is marketed between
the latter part of June and the
first of December. Early plant
ings are secured through the use
of hot-houses in bich to start
the tender stalks. Later they
are transplanted 'to the fields.
Celery likes water, and the fer
tile lake bottom land of rotted
vegetation and silt Is moist im
mediately below the surface.
When the seed is planted, it Is
covered by a verir thin layer of
soil over which moistened burlap
Is laid to keep Is from drying out.
The celery production Is carried
on by about 30 Japanese farmers
on rented 'land. They do all the
work by hand, except that recent
ly they have installed electric mo
tors for purposes of irrigation.
Four years ago, cooperative mar
keting was thought to be desir
able, Bdi the celery union . was
formed, and KonaldJ Jones chosen
as sales managers
He took up his work with a
vim. and soon bad Labish celery
known all over the - states. On
his trip east last November, h
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spared no effort in advertising
the product, and the responsewas
pleasing. ; : t-
The future of Lake Labish,
even in its present state of devel
opment, cannot be .accurately
foretold. Prominent farmers in
the district see It as barely hav
ing a good start toward, the em
pire it will be come. One hundred
and fifty acres are yet to be
cleared, and .the remaining acre
age has not yet reached its "great
est potential production.
SOCOLOFSKY AND ,
SON WELL KNOWN
Socolofsky son, real estate
dealers of Salem, have been in
business since. 1912. The Soco
lofsky family came to Salem from
Marlon, Kansas, -where Mr... Soco
lofsky 'had been In the name line
of business. ' W. A. is the son in
the business and when - he grad
uated from the fcorversity of Ore
gon In 192C he went into part
nership with his father. .
Their first of flea was at 341
State street. When the First Na
tional bank building Opened in
January, 1927, they moved to
their present quarters on the
third floor of this building. They
deal in real estate, make loans,
mostly private money, although
they have a loan company connec
tion. They write al kinds of Iir
surance: Socolofsky & Son are well
known in Salem and have a large
clientele of satisfied customers.
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