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Th IjTew Oregon Statesman Salem, Oregon, Sunday jiorning, Kqvembef j?T 21 n i I I 5i j I XL 14 High FUbert Authority Gives Salient Points on Care of Valuable Trees prof. C. E. Schuster of Oregon's Agricultural College Writes for New Oregon Statesman Re garding Pruning and Planting Slogan paa of tha Yaw Oram Staaasan, la pntnw f pomotoCT J0 A Cultural eoUas. Ha Is tha kits ata.artty at tha Uto la at fUM Ed.) By C. JE. 8CHU9TKR , mHR enecta.tiona of a treat number of filbert growers are being 1 jl realised this season from the yields of filbert plantings through- cut the Willamette valley. A large number of orchards, four, five, Y lsWx and seven years 7ld. are yielding at a rate that is returning m W7jwners good profits at current prices. Filberts apparently are well ftCl Adapted to this section; and under conditions such as we hare had r hls year, are returning yieias inai has been expended on them, Traveling through the Wfllam- tta valley, one cannot neip out otlce a few points whlcn are 01 articular interest particularly o beginning growers. Fertile soils, whether naiurauy fertile or built up after long years tf use, are the ones on which the Orchards are doing exceptionally Vrell. While the filbert stands a ood deal of abuse and makes a ood growth even under adverse ondltlons, In those soils where ertlllty Is being maintained at a high level or where the soil Is nat urally very fertile, the growth Is fcuch that it is making a large bearing surface that under proper 'conditions will set a large amount of fruit. We find our dark green foliaged orchards at this time are the ones that are returning the best yields. Those orchards in Which the foliage has a tendency io turn a little yellow or golden uring August or the first of Sep tember, are the ones in, which re-, suits are not satisfactory. Too ot- ten this Indicates lack of fertility of the soil or sometimes a lack of thorough cultivation and care to antain the moisture content , of the soil We find It quite a general prac- e among the growers of the bet ter orchards to cover crop annu ally. The use of the rover crop Is a great aid in maintaining fer tility. It opens up the soil and allows the work of bacteria in the soil for the liberating of plant food and also has a great tenden cy towards increasing the mois ture holding content of the soit AU of these combined tend to fur nish plant food at the optimum amount for the trse'a needs. Some are supplementing he use of straw and similar traterial. These are probably not staled as cheap ly as the green manure on cover crop, but are used wherever prac ticable In furnishing additional plant food to the young trees. To date them aMma tt i lit tle diTference In the types of soils. proviaea these smis are fertile, deep and fairly wall drained. The fertility has been mentioned be fore. The depth has quite1 a bear lug upon the size of the tree in some sections. Where the soil Is deep Its moisture holding fcapacity i relatively large and we find the trees are making a good growth, forming large trees with fairly large bearing capacity. Qn other hand, where soils are. unawow. we rind small tres -struggling along, not dying bu aerely holding their own. Such ees can never be Broductivol Boils acting this way are usually three foot or Jess In depth. Where the trees have been planted on heavy soil with poor drainage, their reaction Is not the best. This may not be so notice able the first three or four years of their life, but it comes to a head along about the eighth or ninth year. We fsrvo few "6-1 cnards reacting to that now If they have been well eared for. If not well taken care of they often react sooner. Filberts la soil where they have their roots In water a good part of the winter are taking on a stunted appear ance. Filbert trees will nndombt edly grow and survive with poorer conditions, so far as drainage? concerned, than will most of out fruit trees, hut the resulting trees will be far from satisfactory to the grower. The filbert Is aatnr ally a hardy tree, under all con ditions, hut it is dbobtfnl if plant ing on such soil can ewer be con sidered commercially profitable as compared to planting on deep, well-drained soil. Where land has bees. Brained o take off the excess molstare. he result lias not been the Kt u piaees wnere int la necessary o drain a small traet I- law ian-wr-ii- prooaDiy la advisable. But where the- whole tract needs draining m order-to grow the flt berts the- result would not seem satisfactory enough to justify the expense, - -, One thing that Is quite notice able now Is the bearinr of yonntt- er trees where older trees are be ginning to fall Kaap Tour Vvmmj la Orasaa Bay Ifoaamanta Ma da at Sal am. Oraaaa OATiTAii MormcrjrTAX. woaxg J. O. Jaaas Oa Propriatar U Kind at MMaaanUl Wark raetory aad Offiaa: stlO a Coaa'l. OppoaiU L O. O. F. OaaiaUrx, Box at Pkaaa SSt Salam, Orasa Custom Sawiiiff i. Soft and Hard Woodr SALEM WOOD MANUFACTURING CO. Phono .754 River Street' Between Front and Coml. YOUR NEW- WHEATS And exchange it tor hard wheat, patent flour, or any of our long list of milling specialtiear We I ldo custom grinding. Wo sup VI dIt what yon need for what you hare. CHERRY CITY MIIJJNq fX . Balem, Oregon. -.' 481 Trade St. PboaeSIS Oil jumj m? ciyo KUU In the younger trees It is note worthy that many of the shoots are bearing from the outer tlpa back to the attachment or to the main branches and many of the main branches are bearing and producing nuts near the crotches. This same area In the older tree is often dead or dying, or so weakened that it bears very little fruit. With the younger plantings during the coming winter would be the time to correct this condi tion. If the filbert tree is allowed to develop naturally It will be- j come so bushy that light cannot ! nenatrata the inner nart of the! tree, so that the inner bearing sur- j faces will gradually be killed out.? Although the filbert in its bearing I can stand more shade than most! fruit trees, nevertheless, sunlight in a greater or lesser degree is necessary in order to have the fruiting machlnry function. '' Pruning each winter is a good Insurance against lessening the productivity ofthe tree in the top. The trees are of such a type and so vigorous that they . can well produce fruit throughout the whole top, rather than limiting production to a rim around the outer part. Thinning out the top so that the light can penetrate will not reduce the crop appre ciably, but will maintain good productive machinery through out the whole of the tree. If this machinery is not kept vigorous In the interior of the tree, too often the nuts produced there are small and inferior. Matter of Drying It has generally been the' opin ion that filberts require little or no drying. Although for the sea son of 192S little drying was nec essary, results in -1927 were not always best when nuts were not well dried. ' In a few cases they developed a moldy condition when piled in stacks or heaps, causing considerable loss to the packing houses. Filberts take relatively Uttle drying, but that little is of ten essential. The adoption of definite filbert grades is general and "has aided ntlterialiy in disposing" of the crops. The filbert crop-can be expected to increase rapidly in the future as new plantings come Into bearing. New plantings can also' be expected to follow the suecess of present planters. ' The success of a good many people win induce still more people to Plant filberts as long as the price is as satisfactory as it Is today; The largest Individual planting of grafted Vrooman Franquette walnut trees in Oregon is that of the Sky Line orchard, in the Lib arty district, about five mllse from the Salem elty limits. It Is owned by Clarence W. Noble, Youngs- town, Ohio. It contains Sit acres of walnut trees. At S years it had a few sacks of walnuts; a ton and a half at 10 years; 11 years, x tons; at Is years, 11 tons; 13 years, 22; l 4 years, 20; 15 years. xi it, 25. The crop of the pres ent year will run beyond CO tons. It would have been 100 tons but for the long dry summer. Last year, the Slogan- editor said that at 28 years it aul4 bear at least 7 tons.' The present Indications axe mac u mu -M ll tons or more so the Slogan writer was ultra-eoaservatlva. - . i . Mannfaetswers -Vbsegarr Soda Water, Fonataln SRrfpnee r -Salens Phone SO ' Ore. Everything in Building . Materials - . Cobb & MitcheU A. B. Kelsay, Manager 849 S. 12th St. Phone 81S Antiques & Cabinet Work Genuine Antiques or Copies a Specialty. "If wo can't buy the antique you want, wo can copy ft." ' ., ; VENT ANTIQUE SHOP Phone 1470J. 2S60 State St. 01-0-LlATID WHAT IS IT? . , SEE" -v. " SKY LI ORCHARD EREAT SHOW PLACE HO PROGRAM I TjiEO. M. BARR f: Phone 192 PIN MONEY FOR I l irrtrf? 1 If ' - rf k r .... -, . --i 'V t j Mrs. Grace Sample Burllnaham, Missouri National Commltteo woman, gives cheek to John W. OT-esry, vlee-treasurer of the ao.P, covering contributions without personal eolleltatlen, of en dollar each from 1281 Missouri housewlvts. Mr. 0Lsary la I chargo of the "nickels and dimes" campaign, by which he hopes to obtain at least tOOrOOO subscribers to the Hoover fund. . ' E MAKES DIG GAIN It was predated in these col umns a few weeks ago that the Oregon walnut tonnage reaching commercial channels this year would approximate 1,500 tons, and filberts perhaps under 100 tons. But the present estimate for the walnut tonnage is slight ly less than that; some authori ties say as low as 1.200 tons. But the filbert tonage will be arouna 12S tons. Our walnut tonnage for last year was about 750, and of filberts we marketed commercial ly around 60 tons; probably less. Local consumption In small lots here of filberts Is large; the same is true of walnuts. There is no way to estimate the amount of this. " Salem Big Market Salem Is the principal market for both nuts. The Salem Nut Growers co-operative. N Front street, a part of the North Pacific Nut Growers co-oDeratlve. will HUT lie THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN 'DID YOU KNOW that Salem is the center of a great - n n a . . . ana growing wainui inausiry; mat me super not Is grown here the highest quality and the highest priced wnlntrt VtrrwftMMl in (ha wnrM haf p- jrww,.ai u v w ava superior flavor and texture: are perfect as they come from the trees, needing no ;.; bleaching, and will never need any; that Oregon is t marketing an increasing annual crop of quality wal- nuts; that our first grade walnuts bring net to the ; grower 2 to 5 cents a pound more than the California walnuts; that plantings are being made and will be ; 'made indefinitely, as fast as good nursery stock can be supplied; that this is one of the most substantial of all our industries here; and that the returns of this district will soon be for our walnut sales, millions of dollars annually? VVALTJUTS FILBERTS The farmers hour schedule for the season over the KOW (Port land .Oregonian) broadcasting station was opened at 1 Saturday afternoon with a talk by Moees P. Adams of Salem, manager of the Sky Lino, orchard here ad a lead er in the nut Industries. H said that up to 25 years ago any man la this section who would have taken up either filbert or walnut growing seriously would have boon railed at by his neigh- bora- as following a folly. Now the; are becoming major Indus tries on the land. - , W. W. ROSEBRAUGH ' OOMPAXr 5Tarm Air Furnaces, Fruit Dry ing 8toves. Smoke SUcks, Tanks,. Steel ' and Foundry Work, Welding a Specialty. 17th Oak Sis. Salem, Ore. 51 Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. v . 4 ' - Maanfatarers of , ,...,- BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Prodnets Specify "Salem Made" Paper for Your 'Office Stationery Cap itol Bargain and Jiihk 1 03-145 Centelr j I T Tet 338 AU Kixids of Junk Bought and Sold Anything from a Needle toaSteamng-"ae f- CASH PAID FOR RAGS BOTTLES, BARRELS, OLD PAPER, CARPET3; IRON" WOOL, PELTS. GRAPE ROOT, CHITTAM BARKPEPPSRMpfT OIU ETC. HOOVER FUND handle about 200 of the total of 1.000 tons handled through that channel. The Salem branch may handle 00 tons of filberts. The capacity of this Salem branch U around 20 tons a day; on a .24 hour run. It will be Increased; probably doubled next year. And made five or six times as large in a few years. .... This Salem branch shipped a car of nuts several days ago to Spokane, and rolled a 20 ton car to Denver yesterday. The Rosenberg people are handling nuts at Trade and Win ter streets; cleaning and grad ing and shipping them. Buying them, including a supply of black walnuts. Earl Pearcy is Salem manager. The Willamette Valley Prune association (Gile and Jenks) is handling about 60' tons of nuts this year. In the old Salem Fruit union plant, High and Trade streets. All these operations are bound to grow fast here. Black walnuts will become a major operation. So will chestnuts. The nut center of -the United States is moving to Salem. It Is bound , to come. tt VU1 TV OUlUUg liATC that most of our walnuts He told of the Sky Lino or chard. After looking about two years, the originator bought the raw land for the present. 212 acre planting. It is In a thermal belt that has 40 days longer killing rrost immunity than most local! ties. It la 800 feet higher than Salem. Cultivation lasts till Aug ust, covsr crops follow. The orchard was never sprayed. It Is of Vrooman Trahquettes grafted on the California black. mar a m A mt. Amni proatetea that Our walnut acreage will double in five yoars. 4i 4, O a tit an C Sales and Service VIOC -BROS. V High Street at' Trade House nruninmr mmmiv i if t ISSi Oregon Senator Joint t in What Amounts to Experiment Station Senator Chas. Ll McNary and Walter T. 8tols grow walnuts as A. Dorris of Springfield and u- gene. Senator MeNary Is a pioneer in the filbert Industry of Oregon. He wrote the first series- of arti cles for the Statesman, when fil berts were considered a fad here. He has been a consistent helper ih promoting the Industry. f eNary and Stols have 30 acres of walnuts on their farm near the : river road paved highway, about five, miles below Salem; the an cestral acres of the MeNary fam ily. As with filberts, this wal nut plantng Is something of an experiment station. Like his school mate. Herbert Hoover. Sen ator MeNary is doing something la a major way In practical dem onstrations In agriculture. This is. extended on the MeNary and Stols farm to prunes and other crops. This Is Encouraging MeNary and Stols find mach encouragement for the walnut in dustry here from the fact that trees In the Willamette valley atifeet apart should be made on the 10 years become a main stay' In farm incorme. And after that age they tend . to double ther crops. Their orchard this year doubled its crop over that of 1927, with something to spare more than doubled. They have several varieties. They have 100 trees of the Gil lette selected Mayettes. Of coutse they ,hae a large proportion! of grafter Franquettes. And thev have a number of varieties of seedlings. They believe a seed ling will one day take the lead.l At the present time, they are havjnp tried out nine of thelc developed varieties of walnut seedlngs. un der the direction of the rj. S. de partment of agriculture, to deter mine their value for propagation. They are following the Burbink principle of trying out many, jva- neues, to get tne one best. ' Of course, as the reader knows, every planted walnut tree from the seed brings a new variety, so the range or selection Is beyond calculation for number. MeNary and Stols hope to get a walnut better than the Franquette that will mature slightly earlier than the Fran quette. Beginnings Old Here Sixty to eighty years aito. four pioneers brought eastern black and California black walnut trees to this valley. And a few brought English walnut trees, as at Auro ra, on the Frank Diem farm : be low Salem, aad elsewhere. About S5 years ago.Phellx Gil lette of Nevada City. California, the founder of the nut Industry of the Pacific coast, began to sell trees of known quality and variety to the northwest, and the first plantings were made for shade trees and home orchards. The productions from these plantlnrs of seedling trees of many types brought about increased Interest In the Industry, and two varietee were selected as most adaptable. Franquettes and Mayettes. The Grafted Trees State, Senator Vrooman of San- STROPPING IS ESSENTIAL TO THE A JJiXD Uil C0L. ;:iiin!fii: : v ' .- - - - ' . : . -1 - : ; . .- V ; T . .-r , . t " ! ' I". If you were a barber and : ' ( Also a Net and Finer Shaving Cream ' rmtm "W W KaVan a TlMValat 35 C HUT A TUBS dollar - ta Rosa, CaL. after careful study of the nut Industry, selected wood from the best Franquetts trees he could find In France and grafted this wood onto fifty acres of black walnut seedlings. When this or chard came into bearing the qual ity and uniformity of Mr. Vroo man's production broueht into favor what Is now known as the - ?2Jy - ing in Oregon. Ferd Groner of Hlllsboro. Ore gon, has spent a great part of his life In study and work with wal nuts. With his associates he has total plantings that are the larg est in Oregon. The! Sky Line or chard, near Salem, is one of the large plantings of Vrooman Fran- quettes. 212. one of the largest if not the largest grafted orchard In the state. The following have orchards, of from ten to fifty acres; Fred Blake. R. F. D. No. 8. Louis Lashmund. Wm, Walton. J. J. Koberts, Henry Crawford. Gid eo Stols, and MeNary and Stols They are Increasing; their walnut orchard to 60 ocres or more. Eventual Large Industry This with the small plantings of from one to five acres will event ually produce a large Industry that all Oregon wilt be proud of. The past and nresent of the in- jdustry are satisfactory and the fu ture seems bright. The United States is importing pearly half of Its walnut supply of shelled and unshelled nuts. There should be no over production for many years. Mr. Stols says that planting of ' acres or rrarteri rA. it best piece of garden land on every good farm In the valley and given me oesi 01 care.. DORIS TALKS OFIBEBTS (Geo. A. Sorrta la h J... r .1. ,;, rt.lBBtrT tW ettoa, which meant the WllUmetta ralley aad ciarka county. Waahiagton. Ha vaa fha flrat man to stow filberts here on a commercial scale, and ho haa done mora than any other one man in Hading and developing the right varieties and polllnixers, and he Is still working along these lines. In associa. tton with his nephew. Ben F. Dorris, be has developed the largest filbert narsery In this section. They have about 20.000 trees for the present season's planting. mr. jj orris nas been on all the filbert and walnut tonrs. He has constantly spoken and written about filberts. The Dorris people have exhibited filberts at the fairs aad at national gatherings. Bo the words he writes Im tha form of i anestlon at tha end of 1 tha following ar tide are from a man: speaking as one having authority, and they ax very en eoaraging. Ed.) By GEORGE A. DORRIS SPRINGFIELD, Ore., Nov. 3. In the early stages of the filbert industry In Oregon every avail able tree was planted on the as sumption that all ame from the same source and : that all were alike. Neither of ; these assump tions was correct. As a result to day there are a number of dis tinct strains of the so called Bar celonas. ranging from small grow ing trees bearing small nuts to large growing trees bearing large nuts. This difference lis apparent In our own groves, as many people have observed. In one of our ear ly plantings both! the trees and the nuts are uniformly small. In another planting, from another source, both the trees and the nuts are . uniformly large. In still another planting several strains occur, ranging from trees 4i IN every barber shop in the world since having first began every barber ha stropped bia blades before each shave he gave. That Is because after the first shave no blade that has not been properly stropped is in fit condition to touch your face. It is absolutely essential ' that the rough, jagged needle points of the cutting edge be smoothed out and rrallgned. You.can do this in a Jufy with the new Valet AutoStrop Razor tlxe. only razor with aa automatic stcoppLag device which ' rjuickly sharpens he; blade without, re Bnovlns trom the holder. Vy i: AutpStrop Safety Razor and nuts as largo as the best to trees and nuts as poor as the poorest. Under conditions practically Identical the 25 year old large strain trees are nearly twice as large as the smaller strain 28 year old trees, and 14 year old trees of the large strain of our own propa gation are larger than the smallj strain trees twice the age. This season a large strain 25 year old Barcelona ' tree, having a spread of 35 feet, yielded over 100 pounds, and a large strain 10 year old tree having a snread of 25 feet yielded oyer 60 pounds. bow trees yielded practically the same two years ago, which was a particularly good crop year. j Best in the World A ramble through ths groves' of Oregon will show this same dif- EDITORIAL The Case For Walnuts WALNUT growing in the Salem district is coming into the stature of a major industry, as it should: by decrees of nature For this is one of our important franchise crops That is, we can turn off a higher grade and higher priced product than is possible elsewhere in this country; and we can do this with less cost than other sections; and less initial outlay; thus with less "overhead."! The only competitor, of this section, including western Oregon and Washington, is California. In the Salem district suitable walnut land"ia cheaper in price than the same kind of land in California; much cheaper $75 to $200 an acre here against $500 to $1000 or more there. We need no irri gation for walnuts here, as they do in most sections of California. Here the walnut tree with its deep roots gets its own irrigation; especially when the tree is mature. We turn out a better walnut, because we escape the extreme hot wather m harvest time, which in California melts the oil inside the nut, and tends to give it a rancid taste. Through the efforts of Senator MeNary, we are to get a government farm for experimenting with and improving the conditions, of walnut and filbert growing here. Every farm in our valley should have some walnut trees. Grafted trees. All inferior treesi should be grafted over The same with most black walnut trees here. Eventually one walnut tree will support a family. It will live 1000 years; no telling how much longer. Our walnut industry should some day bring to us hun dreds of millions of dollars annually. We should speed up this increase. We have vastly mare walnut land than Cali fornia. - This is bound to become the English walnut center of the world. . Dates of Slogans in Oregon Statesman (With a few possible changes) Loganberries, October 1, 1923. Prunes. October 14. Dairying. October 21. Flax. October 28. Filberts. November 4. Walnuts, November 11. Strawberries, November 18. Apples, Figs, etc., Nov. 25. Raspberries, December 2. Mint, December 9. Beans, etc., December 16. Blackberries, December 23. Cherries, December 30. Pears, January 6, 1929. Gooseberries, January 13. Corn, January 20. Celery. January 27. Spinach, etc., February 3. Onions, etc., February, 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, March 24. , Head Lettuce. March 31. Silos, etc., April 7. Legumes April 14. Asparagus, etc., April 2 1. m ' PERFECT SHAVE nsaBan :M)S i 1 T used anunstropped-blade But that's not its only advantage. Twenty one years of research and the eapenditare of over $L00p,000 have resulted in many distinctive improvements which make this really different razor even better than before. - " With the new Valedte-fwocessed blades it is a marvel of shaving ease. Try the new Valet AutoStrop Razor. Youll quickly learn to like it. And never again, as long-, as you liver will you stropped blade. J i - . mm improved ttrep Jn hanJassssT cases t $IJOO fteo.ua. pat. opr" JL,.. ; Intv 656 Tint Ave, Ne CompanVj fere nee. some; havng 'only one ; strain, largo or ; small, and some ' -having several strains. ; This is a matter worthy of the. earnest consideration of planters of new groves. From our observation, art strains when properly pollinated1 appear to be equally prolific, but not equally profitable for the lar ger strain will bear larger crops' ' of higher grades. . Recently, R. E. Colisnfo, foreign T ' purchasing agent for Bennett. Day i,H A Co., of New York, who ha spent twelve years abroad in the ' service of his firm and claims to have personal knowledge of all the best groves in Europe, after visiting our groves stated that In all his travels he had never seen trees as large or vigorous as pur compare with piir 25 year old trees.k tiWret Grapes, etc., April 28. Drug Garden, May 5. Sugar Industry, May 12. Water Powerr, May 19. Irrigation, May 26. Mining, June 2. Land. Irrigation, etc., June 9. Floriculture. June 16. Hops, Cabbage, etc.. June 23. Wholesaling. Jobbing. June 30. Cucumbers, etc., July 7. Hogs, July 14. Goats, July 21. Schools, July 28. Sheep. August 4. Seeds, August 11. National Advertising. Aug. 18. Livestock. August 25. Grain Sc. Grain Products. Sept. 1 Manufacturing, Sept. 8. Wloorworking. etc., Sept. 15. Automotive Industries Sept. 22. Paper. Mills, Sept. 29. (Back copies of the Sundsy edition of The Daily Oregon Statesman are on hand. 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