Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1928)
Salem Is World's Center In Cold Pack or Canning Of Finest Strawberries Standard Varieties for These Purposes have Narrowed Down to Etterburgs and Marshalls, Experts Announce T HE Salem district la the wide cold pack and canning markets. Oregon Is by far the leading state In the union in furnishing these supplies, and the great nrenonderanee of the tonnage Is and Polk counties, and parts of Linn. counties. S. H. Van Trump, Mar- ion county fruit Inspector, is an authority on strawberry growing. He says the strawberry Is of more commercial Importance to Salem tfcan any other small fruit. Two Varieties Grown Mr. Van Trump ays the varie ties here have narrowed down to two, for canning and cold . pack demands. The Etterburg 121. is now used almost exclusively by our canners, and there is prac tically no new acreage going out to any ether canning variety. The Wilson, that lasted for 100 years, la now about out of the running, though it was a number of years back, the- principal canning berry Jwire, and even up to the present 'time has persisted and done well In the Macleay and Shaw Sections. The Trebla, twin brother to the Etterburg. is now completaly out of faror for canning. The barreling and cold pack berry generally is the Marshall; also called the "soft" berry, dis tinguished from the firm type, suchias the Etterburg. The Mar. halt' type is sometimes called thfe Orega or New Oregon, but ex perts say all three are the same berry. Some New Acreage Mr. Van Trump has &wt noted any increase in acreage of the Marshall type berries. Hi says It is about stationary. But there are sme new plantings of the Etter burgs. especially in the North ' Howell section. Mr. Van Trump aaya that Is the best Etterburg section of the whole Salni dis trict, with its medium heavy choc olate clay loam soil. There were yields there the present year run ning above three tons to the acre, though the average .was perhaps about two tons. Mr. Smith of that section the present year pro duced four tons to the acre on five acres. The North Howell growers do not fertilize. But they rotate; plant on rich soil, and run straw berries three years, then grain, then clover, then corn or potatoes. General Remarks Mr. Van Trump said he had heard of no contracting for next year's crop. Contracting had be gun at this time last year. He said the growers planning to put in new Etterburg acreage are finding it difficult to get enough plants. He says strawberries should have good drainage; good bench or hill land, or mixed loam and sandy .bottom land. In the latter localities they are in more dan ger from late frosts. Strawberries do not much ex haust the soil; do not require ex pensive fertilizers. They are easy to- plant. A lot of new varieties have been .tried out here in past years; but they are all out of the game now; , re iouna unsuitaDie, lor one reason or another. Strawberry Enemies The crown borers need to be watched from the beginning. This est may be easily gotten rid of by cutting the Infested hills out and burning up the vines. This may be said also of the crown miner, a very similar pest. Mr. Van Trump knows no other sure way. They both work above the ground. The effects of their work are, easily seen. Go after them In me beginning keep ahead tf them. Otherwise they wlU eat up . ma crown oorer was n year active nere, in some yards. On one yard they killed 50 percent of the hills. The roof weevil, that theatened havoc a few years ago, is now controlled. It is done with a poi on bait put up by a Washington concern. The basis of the prepar- . atiop Is dried apple pulp. The for mula is an arsenate poison. The .canneries (several of them) put op his poison bait In quantities one year. There is a new ever bearer va- 4 Dates of Slogans in (With a few possible changes) Loganberries, October 7, 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 ,18. 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 1 0. Potatoes, etc, February. 17. Bees,' February 3. Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 8. City Beautiful, etc. March 10. Great Cows; March 17. Paved Highways, March 2 4. Head. Lettuce, March 21. Silos, etc. Ajril 7. Legumes. Apri 14. . v. world's strawberry'Venter for the grown In this district, in Marion Clackamas, Yamhill and Benton riety of-strawberry In faror here. It Is the Mastodon, running to large sizes. It is grown for family- use and local markets. One grower at Brownsrllle is now mak ing regular shipments, in consid erable snpvly: making sacees of this line." He pick the : bloau soms off in Jane and early July, and thus gets a crop lasting from late July to Christmas. The Lange, a former favorite everbearing va riety, is now about out of the running. As has been said in previous years. W. O. Allen, manager of the big Hunt Bros. Co. cannery and packing' interests of the Pa cific northwest, whose home araJ headquarters are in Salem, is ja hard man' to Interview. He is the doyen i cannery circles here. He knows more than he will tell; es pecially more than he will tell for publication. Mr. Allen' is studying the straw berry situation now. Moreover, he -is- having a survey: made of the prospective acreage and crop for next year In, this district. Some growers have been indulging In a "whispering" campaign to the ef fect that there was a combination of the strawberry buyers to stay out of the market this year, and make no commitments at.all; that is, buy or contract no strawberries. Will be in Market Well, Mr. Allen, speaking only for himself, but intimating that he does not believe the "whisper ing" reports, Bays the Hunt people will be in the market for straw, berries during Decejnber. The Slogan editor made the statement in 1926 that the Salem district had produced and market ed 4,000,000 pounds of strawber ries. That seemed like a lot of berries. It was. But the same writ er found that this district had trebled its crop for 1927, and made the statement that the ton nage had mounted to 12,000,000 pounds. . Mr. Allen did not confirm those figures when he was interviewed on Wednesday, but he did say the Salem district this year marketed a larger tonnage of strawberries than last. He reserves his definite estimate for a later date, when there is a checking up. The state ment of Mr. Allen included all marketing channels the Salem district put more strawberries in to the canned pack this year than last, and it put more into the cold pack; into barrels, cans and car tons. As to tha outlook, Mr. Alien definitely said this: "It does not fbok as bad as it looked a year ago, and it does not look as bad as we thought it would look." As to The Markets There is a considerable tonnage or tne barreled berries in cold pack yet unsold, and a number of thousands of cases of canned strawberries, too, yet in the hands or the canners and in the ware nouses of the large buyers. But the outlook in these respects is not alarming. As to the cold pack in 30 and 15 pound cans, and in-one pound cartons, these are practically all im on nana; la cold storage warehouses throughout the coun try. This was to be expected nT are Intended for the late win ter and spring markets. They v lumjieie, oi course, wun me rresh berry markets. They were put up to be taken out In tne season when fresh berries cannot be had in Quantities or of high quality. They are the same Oregon Statesman 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 18. Hops, Cabbage, etc., June 23. ' Whqlesallng, 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 ft Grain Products. Sept. 1 Manufacturing, Sept. 8.,,. . Woorworklng, etc.. JSpt. 15.' ' Automotive Industries Se"pt. 22. Paper Mills, Sept. 29. , - ( Back, copies of the Sunday, edition of The Daily Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 chfs each, mailed to any address. . V Current topics, f cents. STRAWBERRY TOIMBIG PAID $2 FOR 22 BOTTLES OF WINE 7- .- :0 U f Buying an old trunk for $2 without knowing- its contents, Georg Elliott, above, antique furniture collector, of St. Paul, Minn., opened it and' discovered it contained 22 bottles of rare old wines and liquors. During the following night thieves broke into his homa and stole 20 of the bottles. T H as fresh berries, just irom tne vines. If these cold storage berries all go out to 'the consumer, as the canners hope they may, the out look for both the growers and packers will be , very much im-; prqved. If they :go out at good) prices, as they hope, too, this will help to make for remunerative prices to the our growers of "soft berries of the Marshall type. Might Make a Boom If they go to the consumers at high prices, and "like hot cakes," the whole soft berry industry here will take on new life it might even create a boom. The averageprice of soft berries to theg rowers fo rl928 in this district was low; around 4 cenfs a pound for the hulled berry. The success of the cold pack program tn small cans as well as cartons might put this variety on an equal ity with the canning berries. This part of the cold pack program is new here; only got a good start last year. The cold pack berries in cans are intended for the soft drink and restaurant trades, and for the first, class hotels, where they, have FrigMaire and similar facilities.. The one pound cartons are for the family trade. If this This Week's Slogan DID YOU KNOW That the strawberry. industry of the Salem district has become a greatr industry ; that at even lower than recent ruling prices there are good profits in strawberry growing here; that the new acreage has been showing a steady increase; that in the Salem dis trict the tjreat bulk of the canned and cold packed straw berries in the northwest are processed; that the straw berry is standard that it does not hare to be introduced that it brings a constant flow of money from long distances; that this district makes Oregon far and away the premier cold packed and canned strawberry state of the Union; and did you know that the use of irrigation and the employing of head work areroing to make and keep this the outstanding world center of the strawberry industry? OREGON'S CWffl : GOODS RATE HIGH Standards of excellence for can ned berries are higher in the west than in the east, resulting in a superior product from the west in the general grocery markets, re ports George Waldo, formet, Ore gon boy, now with the U. S. de partment of agriculture In Wash ington. D. C. Some of this ' in creased quality is recognized as the result of constant research carried on in the canning indus try in the northwest, part of which is in cooperatieTriwith the horticultural productst&ction at the Oregon Agricultural college. As an example of constant tests being made in thjs field, 60 vari eties of strawberries out of 300 grown in test plots at the experi ment station this year were can ned, with toe hope of finding new varieties which will prove more profitable for growers in the com- Kp Tnr Vnn li Orero - Bay Umamaat Mad iat 8alm. Orasoa OAmAX. MOirXTICEXTAX. woxjui 1. O. Jmmm a Co., Proprietor All Kinds of MonamrnU) -Work Faetorr aad Offiea: fO 8. Coat' I. Oppaaita I. O. O. T. Oamatary, Box 31 Pbaaa 689 Salsat. Oraga Custom Sawing Soft and Hard Wood i SALEM WOOD MANUFACTURING CO. Phone 754 River Street Between Front and Com'l. BRING IN YOUR NEW WHEAT And exchange it for hard wheat patent flour, or any of our long lisfof milling specialties. We do custom grinding. Ws sup ply what Vou need for what you have. CHERRY CITY MILLING CO. SaleBit OrrBjon. .. i 481 Trade Si. . . :r Phone SIS Bq thing "goes over" it will also help loganberries, and our other small fruits. It means that the house wife or flat dweller In any city having cold storage facilities may have fresh strawberries, just like they came from the vines.ln sum mer time here, on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas, or in the spring months in any part of the year when ! small fruits are out of the market, or otherwise hard to get, and perhaps of inferior quality, berries must be considered more and more. It looks like a three erop nystem is here, or coming soon. That Is, the "baby" crop from the vines set out in the win ter or spring, and two more crops the for non wi following years. Then rota- ith other crops. The best growers are practicing this system now. The four crop system Has heretofore been considered all right; but Often the fourth crop has run to small and inferior ber ries, and the market does not want them. The canners cannot force the dealers to take them. The canners and packers cannot make any use of the small berries, with profit. Perhaps a market may open for the smaller berries, but it is not in sight now. mercial canning field. With competition for the favor of the ultimate consumer con stantly becoming more keen, suc cess in : many agricultural Indus trie depends on keening products in most attractive form, say mar keting specialists. Some Corn ! Jack's Beansteck had lfttle on this" fellow. It is phenomenal cornstalk, said te be the tallest la the World. Who aava so? HThv flown in Los Angeles, where this marvel grew in the back yasd ot' N, J. BTesser. It measures 13 feet 5 inches. It received- no spe cial cultivation, bat shot up from a seed purchased at a store. GIDEON STOLZ CO. , Manufacturers of j Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem ' Phone 26 Ore. ; Everything in Building f i I ;;:(' v Materials Cobbs & Mitchell ' A. B. Kelsay, Manager 84 & 12th St. Phone SIS Antiques & Cabinet Work Genuine Antiques or Copies a Specialty. "If are can't buy the, antique you want, we can copy It." . J- vi. .- ' ! YKXT ANTIQUE SHOP Phone 1476J, 23C0 State St: OIL-0-F.IATIC WHAT IS IT? ,'''- ' SEE , THEO. M. BARR .,j,LU Phone 192 v ,' PLANTS TO GO TO CALIFORNIA Salem; to Ship Four Million Strawberry Settings to Southern Growers Four million strawberry plants are to go this year from Salem to te California trade.) These plants are grown mostly i in the hill districts surrounding Salem. The varieties are JrineipaUr Mar shall Nick Ohmers and Oregons; the 'latter of the Marshall type, but a distinct variety. .This. "win mean enough plants -to fill over IS cars, as they run around 300, 000 tq the car. They- goi to the California growers who produce berries , principally for- the fresh trade, as there Is not much can ning of strawberries in that state. - At It for 18 Years! ' 1 W. H. Weeks and L., I. Pear- mine began growing strawberry plants on a commercial jicale in 1910. They began their operations on the bottom lands at the north. ern edge of Salem, on the River road. In the 13 years that have gone by since then, they have shipped a good many carloads of strawberry plants, mostly; td the growers of California. These men are now the manag ers here for the H. A. Hyde Co., with its home office in Watson- 111 e, Cal., and with a commodious brick building and office aqd ship ping facilities at 3090 Portland road, on the Pacfic highwjay. Ths company is one of the largest growers of, dealers in, and ship pers of nursery stock and seeds and appliances on this coast. ' They have already shipped sev eral cars of seed potatoes ! to Cal ifornia, and they will send in all, about 15 cars, the contracted erop having been cut down about hall by unusually dry weather for a long period of the growing; season. They also ship bulbs; i mostly tulips and daffodils. Also they are large shippers of bush fruit plants, like loganberries, blackberries, etc. and in the season they supply growers and canners with berry boxes, hallocks-, box shooiks, etc. They buy and ship about 150 tons annually of green and spagnum moss, the green being used! largely by florists and vegetable growers and the spagnum for packing and for surgical dressings. 1 The potato varieties they con tract for ar emostly Garnet Chill, British Queen, American Wonders and Earliest of All, the last named and the British Queen being round white, and the American Wonder i long white of the Burbank type. Started Small Weeks & Pearmine started Mar snail strawberry plant growing with an original supply of 1,000 plants. These came from Cali fornia. They have bred them up through the years with the result shown above. They are getting many, orders from local growers, who recognize the value of pedi. greed, disease free plants. The Marshall .berries in California are called the Banner. ) They are busy with theiri buying and shipping the whole year with their various lines, excepting from August 15 to September 15. when they rogue out their potatoes, look over their strawberry plant acre age, etc Some Oregon growers ropean and hybrid type of En graves are reporting reduction in yields causea oy powdery mildew which appears as a whitish coating on leaves and fruit. Standard con trol oi mis rungus disease, used with success in this country and curopa, is application of sulfur ausi as soon as the leaves emerge in the spring aad at 10-day Inter vals thereafter well into the sum mer, says tfie o. A. C. experiment station. Waiting- until afw th. disease appears will defeat later efforts. I ' W. W. ROSERRAUGH COMPANY i Manufacturers of j Warm Air Furnaces, Fruit Dry ing Stove , Smoke Stacks, Tanks, Steel and Foundry Work, Welding a Specialty. 17th Oak Sta. Salens, Ore. Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. . Manufacturers of ' ''" . BOND i- LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products .Soecifv "Salem Made ! Office Stationery Capitol Bargairij and Junk House 105-145 Center Tel. 398 . All Kinds of Jxiiik j Bought and Sold j Anything iVom a Needle to a Steam Engre . ' CASH PAID FOR HAGS, BOTTLES, BARRELS, OLD. PAPER, CARPETS, IRON, ' WOOL, PELTS, GRAPE ROOT, . CHITTAM BARK, PEPPERMINT OIL,, ETC. Instigated Dry Law? .V-v-?- v v-::--v;'.;-xv:-x-j:-:4 ' ' fi ' 1 1 " 1 Judge A. R. Webber, above, who presided over the trial of Lewis Cicco, Lorain, 0.,dry agent,' charged with shooting a girl, is said to be the man who fired the first gun in congress of the cam paign that was to result 20 years late in the passage of the federal prohibition law. Judge Webber,' then a c6ngressman, introduced a bill to make the District of Co lumbia dry, something no delegate to Washington up to that time had had the courage to propose. TO TAKE Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore., Nov. 9. Leaving bills pastorate at Albany after eight years to return to this campus. Dr. DI V. Poling, former Y. M. C. A. secretary here has accepted a posi tion as studio director and chief announcer for college radio station KOAC. Dr. Poling will take up his new position January 1 and will work with W. L. Kadderly, head of the division of information and visual Instruction, in preparing tha forthcoming programs from this station. With rebuilt high power broad casting set installed and soon to go on the air on a new high wave length of 535.4 meters, KOAC is expected to' reach every section of the state with ease with its daily educational and service pro grams with special campus, foren sic and athletic events. "The man who presides at the microphone of this only publicly owned station in the state will be comehe voice of the institution," said Paul Maris, director of exten sion in announcing . the appoint ment. "Dr. Poling possesses the fine personality, character and thorough understanding of the state and this ! Institution needed for this position. We are happy to obtain Ms services." Opening of the new station has been delayed for a few weeks through failure of some essential parts to arrive. These are expected soon, however, and opening pro grams are prepared for the first week in November. New 80 foot aerial towers have been erect ed on top the mines and engineer ing laboratory buildings, and new studios in the physics building of latest design are ready to lend quality to Oregon's "college of the air.".. :-f a Ii 1 and Posili a c Sales and Sendee VICK BROS. High Street at Trade - Paper for lYour STATION ra SHAY SALES GOING W Hi The Canned , and Barreled Pack Getting Into Con sumption in Order Robert C. Paulus of the Paulusr Bros. Packing company says thei: sales of the canned pack of straw-i; berries in the Salem district are; going forward in regular order. with prospects for the cleaning up of the supply before the nexj har-i vest: and o Is the marketing oil the barreled paca. Of course, it Is too early to make predictions concerning the; cold pack In cartons and cans. The surplus of the barreledl pack, held over from last year.) has all been absorbed, and the number of barrels of the 1928! pack in original hands or control is diminishing every day; the out- look for a complete wiping of thei slate at no distant day is encour aging. The Paulus Bros. Packing com pany plant uses a good sised vol ume of strawberries, and these same people act as jobbers and wholesalers of the products of other packers. There is nothing discouraging, in fact, about the market for our fruits In cans and cold pack sup ply. Mr. Paulus did not give an esti mate of the size of the total Salem district pack for this year of EDITORIAL ' World Strawberry Center THE Salerri district is increasing its primacy as the world strawberry center for this sent to. the markets in cans and cold pack shipments. We reached the 4,000,000 pound mark in strawberry tonnage in 1926,' and had gone to the total of 12,000,000 pounds last year And this year's pack was larger than last year's in both berries canned and put up in cold processes, in cartons, cans and barrels. ! The industry has settled down to two main varieties best adapted to their uses, the Eiterburg 121 for canning and the Marshall type ("soft" benfies) for processing in the cold pack branch of the business. It is too early yet to say how readily the frozen berries in cartons and. cans will be taken by the winter and spring trade in the cities throughout the country having cold storage facilities The one pound cartons fo the family trade and the ber ries in 15, 30 and 50 pound tans for the soft drink trade. The berries in this form are rejady for that trade, in the same condition as if they had just bieen "picked from the vines here in June and July. If these supplies shall be taken as readily as hoped, a new marketing outlet will have been opened that will have large influence in expanding the industry here, The frozen berries sent iin barrels are principally for the flavor manufacturers, arid these are being taken out. steadily. j - There is a movement for three crop years for vines, then rotation, to get large beirries of fine quality. The prospects for growth here are good and we may move up fast towards the 24,000,000 annual crop mark. That will be the prospect in case trie carton shipments go over as hoped for. There, is a promise of jam and jelly making here, in the West Salem plant, running the year through, witH the aid of cold storage facilities, which would help in the growth of the industry. Keady - to -serve Our fleet of trucks are at your service. If you .want- moving . or hauling work done careful ly and quickly ' Just Call Fuel for Fall! - WE HANDLE FUEL and DIEGEL Oil FOR FURNACES Also Gas & Diamond Briquets Office 143 S. LIbertj fruits and , vegetables, but it is the general expression of men m the industry here that it was larg er than last year; which mean that it was the biggest in the his tory of this outstanding center of the. industry for the Pacific North wes, and in some lines lor the coast and the country. Phoenix To L. A. . Time Record Set Enthusiastic drivers, with a heavy foot for the accelerator pedal, are given a new spee,i mark to shoot at "as the result of Lloyd Groover's phenomenal drive in a Chrysler phaeton over the good, bad and indifferent roads from Phoenix, Ariz., to Los Angeles In 7 hours, 31 minutes for the 490-mile route. This is an average of 63.84 miles an hour. The car. Groover's own, ha1 previously been driven' 110,000 miles. He is shown in front of the Greer-Robbins Co., Chrysler distributors in oLs Angeles, Just after finishing the run. His car is completely equipped except for top and windshield. Though the hot weather is past It Is Just as important as ever and -sometimes more so that the cream be artificially cooled as soon an separated, warns the dairy depart ment of the O. A. C. experiment station. In some parts of Oregon production Is low now, so that cream is shipped less frequently than in the summer. Demand for high grade cream is growing, as it is impossible to make high class butter from poor cream. 2k Warehouse 889 N. Liberty feif; Co